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

Monday, April 29, 2013  Man vaults pews and lashes out at New Mexico choir, sending 4 churchgoers to hospital with stab wounds

Thursday, April 25, 2013  More tough choices ahead for farmers, cities as New Mexico grapples with third year of drought

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  New Mexico slaughterhouse becomes ground zero in emotional debate over horse slaughter

Thursday, April 11, 2013  Authorities arrested a Mexico, Missouri man Wednesday night for possession of methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Sunday, April 07, 2013  One man is dead and another injured after a single-car accident on Mexico Gravel Road early Sunday morning.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013  Mid-Missouri authorities arrested two people after they found drugs and a gun inside their home.

Monday, March 18, 2013  Federal wildlife managers look to New Mexico pilot project in battle against feral pigs

Friday, March 15, 2013  The Missouri Division of Workforce Development will close five career centers on April 30th.

Friday, March 15, 2013  About 700 employees will be affected when NORDYNE relocates its manufacturing lines to Saltillo, Mexico.

Thursday, March 14, 2013  A fluorescent green-colored discharge from the Mexico waste-water treatment plant was observed in the Salt River in December 2008.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  A 71-year-old Mexico man recently uncovered an $88,000 prize on a Missouri Lottery Scratchers ticket.

Monday, March 04, 2013  SSM plans to form a Mid-Missouri Region, since SSM's St. Mary's Health Center in Jefferson City is so close.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  About 1 gram of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia were found.

Friday, January 25, 2013  On Friday, family and friends will gather at the church to mourn the deaths — a tragedy that just doesn't make sense to surviving family members or the church community that has watched the accused teen grow up.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013  After his family, the boy's plan was to randomly shoot people at a Wal-Mart on Saturday, which happened to be "Guns Across America" day, until he could be killed in a shootout with law enforcement.