Crime

A man entered the store and pressed a hard object into the clerk's back. He ran away with an undisclosed amount of money.

A suspect robbed the mixed martial arts store Saturday evening and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Officers discovered four shell casings in a parking lot at Gateway at Columbia Student Apartments after they responded to several reports of shots fired.

Chris Koster calls the effort unjustified and a waste of judicial resources. The appeal is Ferguson's 14th attempt to get his conviction overturned or his case back into court.

Rudy Perez Jr. is facing a charge of first-degree murder in the beating death of a patient at the Truman Veterans Hospital.

In their defense of Sandra Plunkett — accused of killing her husband two years ago — her attorneys will present evidence that she was battered by her spouse. She will undergo a psychiatric evaluation before her trial.

A driver was arrested on charges of resisting arrest and suspicion of possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, careless and imprudent driving and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. His bond is set at $10,145.

The victim was stabbed several times and has been taken to a hospital.

Taken as groups of crimes, both property and violent crimes decreased in 2012 from 2011. 

Police responded to the shots by setting up a traffic stop at Parker Street and Vandiver Drive.

Curtis Smith is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Kristi Murphy.

Varnell Bradley faces up to 30 years in prison as a persistent domestic violence offender. The jury found him not guilty of a charge of felonious restraint.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Cooper County Sheriff's Department and the Boonville Police Department assisted with the chase.

Thanks to Missouri's growing DNA database, DNA matches in Missouri have grown from 30 to 40 per year in 2004 to the current rate of nearly a thousand per year.

Samuel Haley, Lashanda Marine and Whitney McKee were arrested at 2939 Leeway Drive around 3:30 a.m. after police spent several hours trying to get the suspects to come out of the residence.

Police received a call regarding a fight involving a knife, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. By the time officers arrived at the scene, the incident was over.

The victim and the suspect, who were not named in the news release, were both patients at the hospital.

Ferguson's petition alleges errors and bad judgment on the part of the Cole County judge who most recently denied him a new trial.

A crowd gathered in the bottom floor of MU's Hulston Hall to hear J.R. Hobbs, defense attorney from the Shakir Hamoodi trial, give a speech on his client's sentencing.

Boone County Sheriff's Department deputies found an active methamphetamine lab inside a vehicle stopped outside of Crossroads Shopping Center.