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Thursday evening crash on I-255
Columbia police responded at 5:18 p.m. Thursday to a single-vehicle crash on I-255 near mile marker 8. Initial reports are the vehicle spun out, hit a guardrail and stalled in…
Crash on Route 158 in Columbia
Columbia police, fire and EMS personnel responded at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday to a three-vehicle crash on Route 158 at Centerville Road. Initial reports indicate there were two persons transported…
Smoke seen at Merle Norman in Waterloo
Waterloo Police and Fire responded to a report of smoke coming from Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio at 742 N. Market Street at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday. The cause of the…
Hope Food Pantry gives in abundance
The Hope Food Pantry continues to maintain a strong reputation for generosity, giving food and personal products to upwards of 150 families every two weeks. “We give in abundance,” Hope…
LifechurchX has space to call home
Since the Waterloo church’s rebranding in 2016, LifechurchX’s reputation has been marketed on the concept that it uses unconventional methods to serve the community. Cleaning gutters in the dead of…
ICS breaks ground on new school
Exactly six years to the day after breaking ground for a new church on Palmer Road in Columbia, Immaculate Conception Parish reached another milestone Saturday when Father Carl Scherrer blessed…
Waterloo man breathes new life
“When I got the call, which surprised me, I was taking inhalers and sipping coffee,” Maurice Kleyer, 67, told the Republic-Times, describing the lifestyle he had succumbed to over a…
Levee project has goal in its sight
A regional effort 10 years in the making to strengthen river levees protecting the metro-east should achieve a major goal by next year, attendees of last Wednesday’s Columbia Chamber of…
WPD responds to incident at Lakeview Park
A Waterloo police officer responding to a report of an unresponsive male subject at Lakeview Park on Tuesday evening was apparently struck by the man he was trying to help.…
Police Blotter | 6/21/2017
(Editor’s note: Information in this report is gathered directly from area police agencies, county courts and emergency radio dispatch. The public is reminded that defendants are presumed innocent until proven…