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

Friday, September 28, 2012  A manufacturer of the anesthetic blamed for Michael Jackson's overdose death says it won't allow the drug to be sold for use in executions.

Monday, November 14, 2011  Gilenya is a first-line treatment for relapsing forms of MS and the first taken in pill form.

Thursday, October 13, 2011  Florida lawmaker wants to end lethal injection and bring back the electric chair or firing squads

Friday, September 30, 2011  Local parents said it's a bigger problem than most realize and a mom and dad are speaking out about how the drug has torn their family apart

Wednesday, September 28, 2011  Local authorities said they've seen more people arrested for heroin use over the last year.

Friday, May 20, 2011  'Botox mom' recants story she injected daughter, says newspaper helped her to fabricate it

Friday, March 04, 2011  A material made from a chicken comb helps to lubricate painful joints.

Thursday, January 13, 2011  Update: lingering questions remain about why Nixon commuted a death sentence for a 45-year-old inmate.

Thursday, January 06, 2011  Sodium thiopental is the first of three drugs used in executions, an anesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious.

Tuesday, December 08, 2009  Ohio prepares to execute condemned killer in 1st lethal injection in US using single drug

Tuesday, May 19, 2009  Skillicorn received an injection shortly before 12:30 Wednesday morning at the prison in Bonne Terre.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009  Six relatives of the two slain women watched Scheanette take his final breath. He never looked at them.