Boone County Sheriff’s Regional Training Center opens Some reporters tried to avoid “crashing” a police vehicle, others checked out the inside of a jail cell, and they witnessed a jiu-jitsu demonstration for subduing an uncooperative suspect, all as part of a media tour of the new, $20 million Regional Training Center at the Boone County […]
Addressing a municipal court fee schedule that’s confusing not only for the public but also for professional court staff and attorneys, the general Assembly has made judicial reforms a priority for the current legislative session.
Boone County treasurer Nicole Galloway has announced that unclaimed property returns have grown 33 percent, to $19,856 in 2014 over 101 returned accounts, signifying a new record. Boone County operates Missouri’s only county-based online unclaimed property system, to which Galloway credits the improvements. About $55,000 of unclaimed property remains in Boone County, including uncashed checks
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Oh, how times have changed! Remember when you could get a candy bar for just a nickel? Well, we aren’t going that far back, but how about 40 cents? Here’s a look at 1985 and now, by the numbers.
Airport to build second taxiway Columbia received a $702,000 federal grant to build a second taxiway, a windfall that Robert Selig, airport superintendent, says will cut down on crowded runways and make Columbia Regional Airport a more attractive spot for the aviation industry. The grant from the Federal Aviation Administration will fund 90 percent of
Now just another university dorm, 50 years ago the eight-story Manor House apartment building at 306 Hitt St. was strictly off limits for most students. This was the first significant addition to the city’s profile since the Walnut Street water tower was built in 1945. A project of St. Louis developer R.T. Crow, who also
Let’s talk about love. There’s family love and romantic love. There’s trouble with love, jobs related to love troubles and jobs that take a lot of love and compassion. Take a look at some statistics that try to quantify love in Columbia.
Where do we go when we die? It’s something people have been trying to answer ever since we could ask the question. Many people think we go to an eternal paradise of many names. Others think we are reincarnated into another form. And still others believe we simply cease to exist. A soul is intangible,
