The latest local news, weather and high school sports in and around Columbia and Jefferson City

Thursday, May 30, 2013  Eight fire departments in southwest Missouri are working together to identify and counsel children who appear prone to setting fires.

Thursday, March 21, 2013  A southwest Missouri sheriff says the deaths of a husband and wife in a home north of Joplin appear to have been a murder-suicide.

Sunday, February 17, 2013  Over 200 cattle have been stolen in just 200 years.

Saturday, February 02, 2013  Slick roads on Saturday morning caused two fatal crashes in southwest Missouri.

Sunday, January 13, 2013  MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) -- Livestock producers in southwest Missouri are confronting an outbreak of cattle rustling that one sheriff says appears to involve organized thieves targeting a cluster of counties.

Saturday, November 17, 2012  Twenty-three-year-old Blaec Lammers of Bolivar was charged Friday with three felony counts, including making a terrorist threat.

Sunday, August 19, 2012  Southwest Missouri authorities are investigating two reports of possible attempts at child abductions.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a salmonella outbreak that has sickened dozens of people has been linked to a mail-order poultry hatchery in southwest Missouri.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012  Call (417) 637-1911 if you see this man

Friday, July 06, 2012  A large fire in southwest Missouri prompted the evacuation of six homes, including two that were in immediate danger.

Monday, March 26, 2012  A 15-year-old boy is in custody after he turned himself in to police in the shooting of a 12-year-old girl.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012  The founder of a Wyoming company says she is determined to build a horse slaughtering and processing plant in southwest Missouri.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012  An apparent twister rolled through Branson, Mo., just before 1 a.m. and seemed to hopscotch up the city's main roadway, ripping roofs off hotels and damaging some of the city's famed music theaters.

Saturday, January 07, 2012  The Humane Society of Missouri is taking temporary custody of 18 horses and donkeys found starving at a property in southwest Missouri.

Saturday, December 17, 2011  Two men are charged in the stabbing death of a southwest Missouri teenager.