(AP) — The family of a 5-year-old girl left in a coma following a crash involving Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid says the girl is now awake. The news was delivered Monday in a post on the GoFundMe page for Ariel Young. The girl has been hospitalized since the Feb. 4 crash. Reid …
Local COVID-19 Update (Feb. 16)
Boone County reported its 74th death from COVID-19 Tuesday, a patient between 10 and 19 years old. Health officials say it’s the first time someone younger than 40 has died from the illness in Boone. There were 30 new coronavirus cases confirmed Tuesday. Active cases went down a little, to 141. Hospitalizations dropped, to 33, …
(AUDIO) Councilman Pitzer on local vaccinations
Columbia city councilman Matt Pitzer had the latest on local coronavirus vaccinations and more during Wake Up Columbia on Tuesday:
19-year-old shot and killed in southwest Columbia
A 19-year-old is shot and killed in southwest Columbia. Deputies learned about several gunshots at about 7:42 p.m. Monday near Millbrook Drive and Essex Court in the Georgetown subdivision off Scott Boulevard. They found Jakob Cole lying in a driveway, shot several times. He died from his injuries less than an hour later at a …
Local utilities ask customers to limit usage during historic cold
About 4-6 inches of snow has fallen in most of mid-Missouri since Sunday. We should be mostly dry on Tuesday, but roads are still slick and the epic cold will continue. It hit minus 8 on Tuesday morning, breaking the record for that date set in 1958. The high temperature on Monday at Columbia Regional …