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

Thursday, May 02, 2013  Friendship with bomb suspect, complex chain of events leads to 3 being charged

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider whose clinic was called a ‘‘house of horrors."

Saturday, April 20, 2013  Attorney: Scant evidence linking Mississippi man to ricin-laced letters sent to president, senator

Friday, April 19, 2013  A St. Louis man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the beating death of his 2-year-old son.

Thursday, April 18, 2013  On Thursday, a judge approved a motion for a new trial on the grounds that new evidence from a hotline call was not provided to either side in the case.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013  Police have been seen carrying several large bags from a suburban Boston apartment that authorities say was searched in connection to the Boston Marathon bombing.

Tuesday, April 02, 2013  State prosecutors seeking a Chillicothe man's third murder conviction in his neighbor's 1990 death will have to pursue the case without vital ballistics evidence.

Saturday, March 30, 2013  The Missouri Attorney General's Office is heavily criticizing the legal tactics by attorneys for a Chillicothe man facing a third murder trial in his neighbor's 1990 death.

Friday, February 08, 2013  Two studies published Thursday in the journal Science better explain the Earth-shaking consequences of a catastrophic cosmic collision 66 million years ago when a comet or asteroid smashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012  A 56-year-old man imprisoned for nearly three decades for a 1982 rape and murder walked free after a judge ruled that St. Louis police hid or destroyed evidence that cast doubt on his guilt.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012  Evidence left online, in home of 2 teenage brothers accused of murdering 12-year-old New Jersey girl

Monday, September 10, 2012  One woman's car had bullet holes and was seized as evidence

Wednesday, August 22, 2012  The Callaway County Sheriff's Department got results back from a crime lab for two robberies, linking the crimes to the same person.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012  Cape Girardeau County judge on Monday bound Clay Waller over to circuit court for trial. He's charged with first-degree murder and evidence tampering.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012  The man was arrested six days after the attack that sent a man to the hospital