KBIA Newscast

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Continuing updates on a new hearing for Ryan Ferguson.
• Columbia schools placed on lockdown.
• MoDOT wants input on a billion dollar plan for state-wide rail service.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Charles Erickson recants his previous testimony in the Ryan Ferguson trial.
• Legislation that would tweak Missouri's K-12 funding formula stalls in the state Senate.
• Cole County's court circuit clerk resigns after today's state audit release.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Ryan Ferguson hearing continues in Jefferson City.
• More on confirmed e. coli. cases in Missouri.
• Missouri House endorses law making undercover filming of agriculture facilities a crime.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA news room, including:

• More skepticism in the Ryan Ferguson murder trial -- this time from a forensic expert.

• A Columbia hotel group supports a tax hike that would improve the Columbia Regional Airport.

• A bill that would outlaw undercover activism.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Day one of a hearing reexamining Kent Heitholt murder evidence
• Columbia ranked as hardest working city in U.S.
• Missouri public office candidates file quarterly finance reports.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon raised $1.7 million this past quarter, helping build a campaign account of more than $6 million for his re-election bid. 
• Council to discuss Westwood Avenue trees issue.
• Ryan Ferguson's evidentiary hearing starts Monday in Jefferson City.
• State representative push bills to help seniors living on fixed income.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• A hearing reviewing new evidence from the Kent Heitholt murder trial starts Monday.
• Severe weekend storms batter Oklahoma and other plains states.
• Less than one-half of one percent of Missouri voters showed up for the last GOP caucuses.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Massive cleanup in Columbia by way of volunteers
• Bill that planned to aid higher education may not be too helpful
• St. Louis lawyer joins Fmr. Governor Roger Wilson in indictment
• Supporters of USPS rally in Columbia
• MU students lost over the past year are remembered
• Army Corps of Engineers say bigger reservoirs would not have mattered
  

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• A former Missouri governor is indicted on money laundering charges
• A state Senate committee endorses its own version of the 2013 budget
• Controversy surrounds a policy requiring  Columbia police officers to wear their uniforms while performing off-duty security work.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Missouri Senate Committee approves $24 billion budget plan that cuts funding for social services.
• Gov. Jay Nixon appoints St. Louis trial judge to serve on state Court of Appeals.
• Legislation allowing Missourians to place their cell phones numbers on No Call List moving forward.
• State Department of Health and Senior Services confirms seven cases of E. coli.