Boonville

Officials say a plane pilot who crashed last year in Missouri, killing himself and a passenger, was under the influence of drugs and was nearly blind in one eye.

The brewing company says the horse training facility at the Merrimack brewery is being relocated to a state-of-the-art breeding facility near Boonville

Authorities say two people have been killed and two others hurt in a head-on crash in mid-Missouri.

A 60-year-old Boonville man was killed on August 12 after he was ejected from a 2001 Dodge Ram that rolled over on Route U in Cooper County.

Vanvickle has been working in the Boonville Correctional Center’s restorative justice garden for a little more than a month. Each year, eight to 10 inmates volunteer to work in the garden. Inmates fund the garden through commissary purchases. All of the produce is donated to local food banks and charities, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. Crops not suitable for eating become compost for the garden.

The Cooper County Sheriff's Office says that a citizen with a concealed firearm thwarted an armed robbery Friday in Boonville.

Early Tuesday morning (June 26), Cooper County Sheriff's deputies and investigators with the Missouri State Highway Patrol executed a search warrant in Boonville, where they arrested a 49-year old woman in reference to child sex crimes.

A Missouri man faces several charges accusing him of aiming a gun at a deputy before being caught with dozens of stolen firearms.

Hannah Fay Painter, who grew up in Blackwater, is the new director of the State Fair Community College Boonville campus. She takes over for Kinsey Dona who left SFCC in August. Painter recently moved back to the area from Henderson, Tennessee, where she was the Retention, Advising and Dual Credit coordinator at Freed-Hardeman University...

A 55-year-old Columbia man was sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for his role in a meth conspiracy.