Boone County News

Four local public safety agencies are planning to establish the Mid-Missouri Bomb Squad to fill the void left in April when the Boone County Fire Protection District's bomb squad lost its FBI certification.

' At the end of a long day of grueling cross-examination Wednesday, a woman who was beaten and kidnapped by her boyfriend last fall cried quietly as a jury found him guilty after almost three hours of ...

Many Americans are probably excited that the Fourth of July falls on a Friday this year, allowing for a three-day weekend.

All Karen Sapp wanted was to carve out a few 5-acre tracts so her three sons could build houses on her 108 acres southeast of Columbia.

A fire last night that destroyed an apparently unoccupied farmhouse at 21500 Ponderosa Road just west of Sturgeon was visible to motorists on Highway 63, more than a mile away.

The Boone County Sheriff's Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Route B and Hwy 124 arresting ten people and issuing three summons.

A sobriety checkpoint by law enforcement officials overnight Friday resulted in one arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated among nearly 200 vehicles stopped in Hallsville.

The father accused of causing his toddler son's death earlier this week in Columbia was arrested last night in East St.

Missouri property owners seeking to create their own village will have to do it in the next two months.

' An all-dance day will be new to Columbia's Festival of the Arts in September. In its 17th year, the festival will be held on Boone County's Courthouse Square at the north end of Eighth Street and surrounding ...

' The Boone County Fire Protection District has given up its bomb squad. In a split decision Wednesday night, the board voted not to attempt the process of ending the FBI's suspension, which began April 9 ...

The Missouri River in parts of Boone County is expected to stay above flood stage at least through the weekend.

Jim Pauley, a longtime state legislator and community fixture in Ashland, died this morning.

' The people of Columbia have spoken. Ivan Doig's novel "The Whistling Season" has been selected for the 2008 One Read program, beating Oliver Relin's nonfiction work "Three Cups of Tea" by a vote of 299 to ...

Published Thursday, June 12, 2008 Clark is burning. T.J. Greaney photo Randy Neeson is pictured in late May standing next to a monument to Gen.

Published Thursday, June 12, 2008 Police arrested three suspects yesterday and continued seeking two others in the shooting death early Tuesday of a man in his southeast Columbia duplex.

As communities along the Missouri River face flooding, water is creeping higher in Boone County and cutting off roads.

Tall weeds such as these last week at Worley Street and Garth Avenue and elsewhere can be a summertime nuisance across Columbia.

Parker Naylor, on his property Wednesday, talks about the tires that have been illegally dumped there.

Missouri is having its wettest December-to-May on record. That's what University of Missouri climatologist Pat Guinan concluded after checking records and monitoring moisture.