The festival moved up its date in response to Treeline Music Fest's cancellation

MoDOT will close the Truman Boulevard overpass over Highway 50 in Jefferson City for 10 days starting Oct. 9.

Columbia and Jefferson City each will receive $300,000 for safety upgrades.

Nationally, the blood supply has dropped 25% since August. There is an emergency need for platelet, type O and other donors.

Spectrum offered free STI testing, part of its efforts to reopen.

Law enforcement captured Jonathan O’Dell of Warsaw, Missouri, around 5 p.m. on Sunday night. O'Dell broke out of the Rolla jail later Friday night. His federal indictment alleges he planned to shoot immigrants crossing the border illegally.

The suit was brought by Edward Blum, the man behind the case against Harvard College that led to the Supreme Court dismantling affirmative action in higher education in June.

Washington Post columnist and tech journalist Taylor Lorenz chronicles the history of the internet in her new book, Extremely Online.

As hard-line House Republicans move to oust Kevin McCarthy from his speakership, Democrats say they won't help him. "Let them wallow in their pigsty of incompetence," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

"It has been an amazing year for wild plums" at Lincoln University in Jefferson City according to native plant specialist NADIA NAVARRETE-TINDALL. She says, in total, a thousand pounds will have been harvested! See for yourself at this year's FincaFest - details on today's show! October 3, 2023

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

MU's Department of Black Studies (and its Peace Studies department) are co-hosting a free, two-day, in-person and online conference next week called 'Peace and Security in Africa and the African Diaspora'. Professor DAIVE DUNKLEY is here to tell us what to expect and how you can take part! Also, Broadway Christian Church minister TERRY OVERFELT and Central Missouri Humane Society associate director MICHELLE CASEY invite everyone to the 13th 'Blessing of the Beasts' event this Sunday at BCC in Columbia. (4:52) October 2, 2023

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