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

Friday, May 03, 2013  The first marriages will take place Aug. 1, when the new law takes effect.

Thursday, March 28, 2013  US sends B-2s to South Korea for military drills; North's moves at plant suggest limits to rhetoric

Tuesday, February 12, 2013  "One of my biggest surprises was finding out that "Survivor" is very, very, real," Hope said.

Friday, November 02, 2012  Authorities assigned MO Task Force 1 members to search five areas in the City of Long Beach, Long Island, New York.

Thursday, August 30, 2012  The $204,000 project will replace the bridge with a concrete island, a pedestrian crosswalk and stoplight.

Thursday, August 02, 2012  The St. Louis-based utility company Ameren Missouri is seeking to place a coal ash landfill at its Rush Island power plant in Jefferson County.

Thursday, July 05, 2012  A yacht full of fireworks watchers capsized on the Fourth of July, killing three children and sending 24 others into the Long Island Sound, where many were rescued by fellow boaters, police said Thursday.

Friday, February 24, 2012  Actor James Woods to testify on Rhode Island bill to allow doctors to apologize without facing liability

Thursday, January 26, 2012  South Korea staging live-fire drills from front-line island shelled by North Korea

Friday, November 18, 2011  After 30 years mystery surrounding Natalie Woods' death remains; detectives re-open case

Wednesday, August 24, 2011  Evacuations begin on isolated North Carolina island ahead of Hurricane Irene's approach to East Coast

Tuesday, May 10, 2011  Update: Two Stover residents were arrested for insurance fraud and filing false police reports.

Thursday, April 07, 2011  A former environmental activist said nuclear power is safe, clean, and critical to the nation's energy future.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011  New York police return to beach after 3 more corpses found in probe of possible serial killer

Wednesday, March 16, 2011  The crisis in Japan stands to make it harder and costlier for US nuclear industry to build reactors