Missouri Highway Patrol: Thursday and Sunday will be big travel days
Missouri state troopers are expecting heavy traffic on the roads during the Christmas holiday weekend, especially Thursday and Sunday. State Highway Patrol Captain John Hotz says ten people were killed and another 310 were injured during Missouri’s 2020 Christmas holiday counting period. “Losing someone anytime is very tragic, but we know around holidays it’s particularly …
BREAKING: Westbound I-70 is closed just east of Columbia
UPDATE: Boone County assistant fire chief killed in I-70 crash near Columbia
Boone County Fire Protection District officials say an assistant chief was killed in this morning’s horrific I-70 crash involving a tractor trailer near Columbia. Fire district officials plan a 10:30 press conference to discuss more details about the collision that killed assistant chief Bryant Gladney. Assistant Chief Gladney was working a previous crash along I-70 …
November Fulton murder remains under investigation
Fulton’s new police chief Bill Ladwig tells 939 the Eagle that the investigation into a mid-November homicide has made some progress. No arrests have been made in the case. 26-year-old Donald Simmons was murdered last month: his body was discovered in the Stinson creek on November 15, not far from the Westminster campus. Simmons had …