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At 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Grady Dortch, 29, was laughing, leaning back in a leather chair and eating potato chips.

Grady Dortch could only shake his head in disbelief Thursday when a Callaway County jury returned a guilty verdict on charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action after an hour and 45 minutes of deliberation.

The defense's first witness told the Callaway County jury Wednesday that Grady Dortch Jr.

Funeral arrangements have been scheduled and a trust fund set up after a young Callaway County mother and her infant son were killed in a propane explosion at their home.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5:23 p.m. Read more: Local , Education , Community , Fire Callaway County investigators said that a house explosion Saturday that killed a woman and her infant son originated in the kitchen.

The teen accused of killing another teen in the parking lot of a Columbia liquor store pleaded guilty Monday in a hearing that exposed the emotional toll the case has taken on the families of both the victim and the defendants.

City councilman Steven Moore is in the Callaway County jail for DWI charges. The State Highway Patrol found Moore Sunday night after he got into an accident.

A deer hunter has been wounded in mid-Missouri on the first day of the firearms deer season.

COLUMBIA The bodies of a young woman and her infant son were found Saturday afternoon after a house exploded in Williamsburg , according to a news release from the Callaway County Sheriff's Department.

A Callaway County house explosion has claimed the lives of a 20-year-old woman and her infant son.

Fulton police are searching for a man who led officers on a short car chase yesterday in Callaway County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a 30-year-old man in a shootout with a sheriff's deputy.

A 30-year-old Holts Summit man died in a shootout last night with a Callaway County sheriffa s deputy, Sgt.

A suicidal man who had been "acting aggressively" has been shot by police, according to highway patrol.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 4:55 p.m. Read more: Local , Crime , Education , Community A Fulton man has been sentenced to 40 hours of community service and restitution for vandalizing the Churchill Memorial and four other properties.

A man charged in a chainsaw attack at a homeless shelter in New Bloomfield has been committed to the custody of the Missouri Department of Mental Health.

The man accused of a brutal chainsaw attack at a mid-Missouri homeless shelter has been found not-guilty by reason of mental disease.

Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 5:43 p.m. After picking up trash and recyclables at the first 2,500 homes Monday, Allied Waste services reported a 45 percent reduction in the amount of refuse going to the landfill.

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