Grand piano donation and new spokesperson on tonight’s Columbia city council...
Columbia resident Susan Clark wants to donate this grand piano to the city of Columbia (2024 photo courtesy of Columbia spokeswoman Sydney Olsen) Columbia’s city council is set to vote tonight on a...
View ArticleUPDATE: Hallsville storm damage appears to be from straight-line winds, NWS says
There was extensive storm damage in mid-Missouri’s Hallsville from straight-line winds (June 14, 2024 photo from 939 the Eagle listeners John and Wanda Darby) Utility crews from Boone Electric and...
View ArticleBroadway Brewery owner jailed, charged with domestic assault
An owner of the Broadway Brewery in Columbia, Walker Claridge, was being held without bond Monday afternoon in the Callaway County jail on domestic assault charges. Police were called to a residence...
View ArticleUPDATE: High-profile Columbia child murder trial delayed
32-year-old Staffone Fountain is jailed in Boone County without bond (2022 mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff Department’s website) A high-profile Columbia murder trial that was originally...
View Article(LISTEN): Missouri’s governor praises Boone County charter school bill,...
CPS Superintendent Dr. Brian Yearwood (file photo courtesy of CPS website) Missouri’s governor is praising legislation that he’s signed that allows charter schools to operate in Columbia Public Schools...
View ArticleConstruction underway at Columbia Area Career Center
A groundbreaking ceremony hosted by Columbia Public Schools celebrated the beginning of construction on a $15 million dollar expansion and renovation of the Columbia Area Career Center. The project was...
View ArticleAutopsy reveals Riley Strain drown
The death of Riley Strain has been ruled an accidental drowning. An autopsy report was released Tuesday. An accompanying toxicology report found that his blood alcohol level measured 0.228, which is...
View ArticleUPDATE: Power Restored to about 1,000 mid-Missouri residents
UPDATE: Boone Electric Cooperative says 41 customers are currently without power this morning, down from the approximately 400 on Tuesday evening. ORIGINAL STORY IS BELOW: Utility crews from Ameren...
View Article(LISTEN): I-70 expansion project praised by mid-Missouri lawmaker, who says...
Missouri’s governor was joined by state Department of Transportation (MoDOT) employees at Thursday’s I-70 groundbreaking ceremony in Columbia (June 14, 2024 photo courtesy of Governor Parson’s Flickr...
View ArticleFive illegal immigrants accused of trafficking 14-year-old girl
Five men believed to be illegal immigrants were captured in Macon County last week with a 14-year-old runaway from Indiana that police say they were trafficking to California. The men are from Mexico...
View ArticleCity employee compensation remains a top priority for Columbia’s city manager
A GoCOMO bus operates in downtown Columbia in 2022 (file photo courtesy of Columbia Public Works spokesman John Ogan) Columbia’s city manager is calling for the city to lead the market in employee pay...
View Article(LISTEN): Slay and Seewood credit bipartisan support for Missouri’s massive...
Missouri Highways and Transportation commissioner Francis Slay, a former St. Louis mayor, joins Governor Mike Parson at the June 13, 2024 I-70 groundbreaking ceremony in Columbia (photo courtesy of the...
View Article(LISTEN): Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey discusses President...
A jury in New York convicted former President Donald Trump in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) recently testified on Capitol Hill before the...
View ArticleMizzou athletic director Veatch to brief reporters in Springfield today
Here is another rendering of Mizzou’s planned $250-million Memorial Stadium improvement project in Columbia (rendering courtesy of Mizzou Athletics senior associate athletic director Ryan Koslen) The...
View ArticleUPDATE: Overnight storms cause large trees to block busy Columbia road
Crews have removed large trees from Columbia’s South Rock Quarry road (June 26, 2024 photo from Columbia Public Works spokesman John Ogan) UPDATE: Columbia Public Works says South Rock Quarry Road has...
View ArticleMonday arraignment set for suspect in Columbia double homicide
Boone County prosecutors have charged 51-year-old Randall Fox with two counts of second degree murder (May 2024 mug shot courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department website) A Columbia man...
View ArticleUPDATE: Martinsburg-area farmer killed in Tuesday’s storms
The National Weather Service (NWS) in St. Louis issued severe thunderstorm warnings for Audrain and Montgomery counties on Tuesday evening (June 25, 2024 graphic courtesy of NWS St. Louis Twitter) A...
View Article939 the Eagle’s presidential debate watch party is tonight at Lakeside Ashland
Spectators watch a movie on Lakeside Ashland’s massive screen on October 1, 2022 (file photo courtesy of Lakeside Ashland’s Facebook page) The first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden...
View Article(LISTEN): New Mizzou athletic director Veatch says football is key to keeping...
This is a rendering of what Mizzou’s planned $250-million Memorial Stadium improvement project will look like (rendering courtesy of Mizzou Athletics senior associate athletic director Ryan Koslen)...
View Article(LISTEN): Chiefs Super Bowl Lombardi trophies on display at the Missouri...
Missouri Governor Mike and First Lady Teresa Parson pose with the Lombardi Trophy at the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City on June 27, 2023 (file photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page)...
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