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Tuesday, June 11, 2013  A Columbia man was arrested early Tuesday morning after authorities found him with a crack-pipe and stolen bicycle.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013  Jefferson City's Department of Public Works will close Southwest Boulevard Thursday, June 6th, between Stadium and Cedar Hill Road.

Saturday, June 01, 2013  Missouri State Highway Patrol said one man was carried downstream in high water caused by recent heavy rains.

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.

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

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.

Monday, November 19, 2012  Southwest Airlines says a flight from Kansas City to Dallas lost cabin pressure, forcing passengers and crew to wear oxygen masks until the plane had descended to a safe altitude.

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

Saturday, September 08, 2012  At 8:15 a.m. Saturday morning, the Columbia Fire Department responded to a reported residential structure fire at 3209 Crawford Street in southwest Columbia.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012  Columbia PD are still looking for him

Tuesday, August 28, 2012  Southwest Airlines will add nonstop daily service to one city but drop direct flights to another when it begins flying from Missouri's Branson Airport next year.

Friday, August 24, 2012  A teen girl reported missing more than two years ago tells police she escaped a home in southwestern Illinois where she had been held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted.