Cole County News

Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said.

The News Tribune reports that Alyssa Bustamante, 15, has been certified to stand trial as an adult.

The Cole County Health Department will hold a public H1N1 flu clinic from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Russellville High School.

On an Internet site, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante listed her hobbies as "killing people" and "cutting." It may have sounded like a teenage exaggeration, but authorities say she fulfilled her words.

A TEENAGE girl in Missouri will be charged as an adult, her lawyer said, for allegedly killing a nine-year-old girl because she "wanted to know what it felt like". The court in Cole County, near Jefferson City, charged the 15-year-old as an adult with strangling and stabbing to death last month nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten, lawyer Kurt Valentine ...

New voter id cards will be mailed out to Cole County residents starting today. Once you receive the new yellow card, the county clerk says destroy the old blue one.

A judge has entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of a 15-year-old-girl charged as an adult in the strangulation and stabbing death of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten because she did not have a lawyer present.

A Missouri grand jury has indicted a 15-year-old on a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of her 9-year-old neighbor.

Mid-Missouri has waited for court proceedings to begin in the Elizabeth Olten murder case to shed more light on the murder.

A trial judge says Missouri's auditor doesn't have the authority to audit a retirement system for prosecutors and local government employees.

A Kansas City. Mo., man has been arrested in connection with a mid-Missouri home robbery in which one of his alleged accomplices was shot to death.

Police have arrested a Kansas City man on a murder charge for a mid-Missouri home robbery in which a man who entered the home was shot to death.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:34 a.m. Read more: Local , Crime Another arrest has been made in a Cole County robbery gone bad.

Police in Jefferson City confirm no hostage has been found in a search of the Governor Office Building at 200 Madison St.

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - The St. Charles County Ambulance District is one of two public entities being sued for allegedly violating a Missouri law that prohibits union-only project labor agreements.

Christmas is still a month and a half away, but that didn't stop parishoners from celebrating the season.

Saturday, November 07, 2009 at 7:40 p.m. JEFFERSON CITY -- H1N1 or swine flu vaccines were given out for free in the community room of the Capital Mall in Jefferson City Saturday for those in priority groups.A A A A 60 volunteers vaccinated 361 people against the virus.

Adults head back to the classroom By Mallory McGowin Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 6:14 PM This week marks national Non-Traditional Students Week.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 4:42 p.m. Cole County Health Department will hold its first public flu clinic for the H1N1 vaccine on Saturday, Nov.

Residents voted on four school bond issues across mid-Missouri. Read the proposition as seen on the ballot and see the results.