Boone County

Mizzou Cops: Gavin Stark, Drunk Baseball Player, Damages Alum Center, Assaults Student

Gavin Stark, a University of Missouri senior and baseball player, is accused of drunkenly causing quite a commotion on campus Monday night -- allegedly smashing a rock through a window, shouting profanities at officers and throwing a fellow student's computer to the ground. Around 11:30 p.m. on Mo ... More >>

Photos: Top Twelve Craziest Meth Busts In Missouri, The Meth Capital Of The U.S.

In case you missed it, Missouri is, yet again, number one in the nation for meth lab busts, new data shows. This is not much of a surprise to law enforcement officials in the state who deal with this every day -- especially those in Jefferson County, which has the second highest concentration of met ... More >>

Violence Against Women Act: Why Is Senator Roy Blunt Still Opposing? LGBT Protections?

One of the more heated battles in D.C. this year so far centers around the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a measure that provides protection for victims of domestic violence. Congress failed to extend it last year, but it's now under consideration at the House -- after it passed ... More >>

RIP Betty Anne McCaskill, Missouri Politician and Advocate for Women

Betty Anne McCaskill, who is now most famous as one of the chief campaigners for her daughter Claire but who had a long career of her own in Missouri politics, died yesterday at home in St. Louis after a long illness. She was 84. Claire McCaskill, who had last week suspended her campaign for re-ele ... More >>

Republican State House Candidate Called Out for Support of Marijuana Legalization [UPDATE]

Update: We just heard back from Chairman of the Boone County Republican Central Committee C. Bruce Cornett. Meet Mitch Richards. He's the crazy young Republican candidate for the 47th House District in Columbia. He's pro-gun, he's pro-life, he thinks big government should butt out. But he also has ... More >>

Red Roof Inn: Free Local Calls, Continental Breakfast and a Meth Lab

So, in addition to worrying about who's effluvia is all over the bed sheets and if there's a spy-cam under the sink when you check in to a motel, now you have to be aware that the folks in the room by the ice machine could be running a meth lab.

Ken Henderson Wants Surprise Witness at his Trial: His Pet Alligators

Ken Henderson's van was searched at the Boone County Fairgrounds last June, and police found some unusual contraband -- seven alligators. The gators were seized, and Henderson was charged with 17 counts of animal abuse. The gators were returned to him in August, because a judge banned them from the ... More >>

Corbin Bergstresser, Mizzou QB, Arrested After Leaving the Scene of an Accident

Corbin Bergstresser, the University of Missouri Tigers provisional number two quarterback next season, was arrested early this morning by Boone County police. According to KOMU-8 in Columbia, Bergstresser hit a parked car around 3:15 p.m. and then drove off. He was arrested for leaving the scene of ... More >>

Missouri Grand Jury Hands Up Major Indictment Following Robo-Signing Scandal

​The nation's foreclosure crisis has officially entered its newest chapter -- criminal allegations against the various players involved -- and Missouri is playing a leading role. Last Friday a Boone County grand jury handed up a 136-count indictment accusing an Georgia foreclosure-services c ... More >>

Confirmed E. Coli Cases Increase; Other Outbreaks Reported

Screenshot via​Since last Thursday, the confirmed cases of E. coli in the St. Louis area have increased from 16 to 30. Investigators still haven't found the source of the contamination. Four cases of E. coli have been reported in Boone County, Missouri, and aren't thought to be related to the ... More >>

"It Was A Complete, Complete Bust." What Happened At The Missouri Muzic Festival?

An early poster for the Missouri Muzic Festival. Nicki Minaj was removed from the lineup months ago.​On Saturday afternoon, the organizers and operations management of the Missouri Muzic festival stood watching a weather forecast for Sunday predicting more storms. It was raining hard and the w ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do On Labor Day Weekend In St. Louis

​Welcome to our favorite Commie holiday, where we celebrate the laborers by taking Monday off and no longer wearing white. We'd say something about the coming of Fall, but our landlord just announced they've decided to keep the pool we share with a nearby apartment complex open until the end ... More >>

Knockout King: Kids call it a game. Academics call it a bogus trend. Cops call it murder.

Got Kiddie Porn on Your Computer? Here's A Cautionary Tale

image viaClark​First of all, you definitely shouldn't be collecting kiddie porn in the first place. But if you do, don't be like 52-year-old Joseph Clark, who lives in Columbia. Clark neglected to delete, or back up, his cache of kiddie porn when he took his computer into the shop for repairs ... More >>

Citizens of Columbia Finally Atone for 1923 Lynching of Mizzou Janitor

image viaThe Old Stewart Road Bridge in Columbia, where James T. Scott was lynched.​Back in the spring of 1923, someone raped fourteen-year-old Regina Almstadt, the daughter of a professor of German literature at the University of Missouri. Regina told Columbia police that the rapist had a Cha ... More >>

Urban Hunters Kill 45 Deer in St. Louis County; 91 in St. Charles

Image ViaDeer hunting in the St. Louis 'burbs isn't confined to Big Buck Hunter.​Missouri's four-day urban deer hunt ended Monday with more than 587 deer harvested in the metro areas of St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia-Jefferson City. Boone County (home to Columbia) led the countie ... More >>

Mizzou Football: A Third of Players, Two-Thirds Coaches To Be Arrested at Current Rate

Roar! I'm in jail. ​Wait - ANOTHER Mizzou football player got arrested? Before the season has even started?Yes: Derrick Washington -- the senior tailback who scored 10 touchdowns and rushed for 865 yards last year -- turned himself in to Boone County authorities yesterday right after being charged ... More >>

Tausha Fields: Missouri Woman Sentenced to Life After Ex-Lovers Testify Against Her

Tausha Fields: Sentenced to life w/o parole.​She was described as a seductress, a manipulator and a murderer. In total, some seven former boyfriends and/or husbands testified or were mentioned during the murder trial with similar stories regarding Tausha Fields, a 34-year-old woman convicted of pl ... More >>

Next Year, Jury Duty Will Take Even Longer

Image source​Jury duty, that beloved civic rite known to eat up as many as three days even if you're not selected to serve, is about to get even longer. Starting January 1, Missouri judges will have to allow lawyers extra time to look up the litigation history of potential jurors on Case.net, ... More >>

Man Angry Over Weed-Whacker Noise Tries to Mow Down Lawn Worker with His Car

Wright: Or was he wrong?​Once again, don't f--- with old people. And especially don't f--- with them when they're out antiquing and their shopping trip gets interrupted by someone calling them up on one of those dagburn cell phones with all them tiny little buttons. A lawn worker in Sturgeon, Miss ... More >>

Skeletal Remains Found Outside Columbia Identified, But How Did Ronald Elic Die?

Ronald Elic​The skeleton found outside Columbia this weekend has been identified as Ronald Elic, of Overland, Kansas. A 13-year-old discovered Elic's remains Saturday in the woods outside Boone County Jail. Authorities say Elic was a prisoner in the jail last summer, serving a seven-day term for p ... More >>

MO Midwifery Bill: Stillborn Again

Feed the Beast

Everybody wants Hazelwood Central's Kalen Grimes and St. Louis' junior class of hoopsters. But recruiting in the city is a courtship dance and a high-maintenance affair.

Solitary Man

Lifer Bill Herron knew exactly how to get out of jail -- until 16 years ago, when the Missouri Department of Corrections locked him in solitary

Death Man Walking

Dozens of patients died on nurse Richard Williams' watch, but he was never charged. Did authorities do too little, too late?