• University of Missouri officials in Columbia pulled lettuce from all of its dining halls this weekend. The campus is responding to a national lettuce recall over a parasite that causes widespread diarrhea. There have been over 200 documented cases in Missouri, but no source has been identified in yet. Boone County health officials have confirmed 37 local cases.
• A cement truck overturned and shut down St. Charles Rd. in Columbia for about two hours this morning. Firefighters had to extricate the driver. No other vehicles were involved.
• A southwest Columbia family of four is safe after a house fire Saturday afternoon. Columbia firefighters responded to the 4900 block of Craydon Drive around 3 p.m. Crews blame roof-mounted solar panels for the electrical fire.
• A 26-year-old man suffered minor head injuries after gunfire at a Columbia apartment complex early Sunday morning. Columbia police responded to Old 63 South and East Broadway around 2 a.m. Deputies arrested 22 year-old Lorenzo Toledo of Columbia shortly after the shooting.
• Another record set at Columbia Regional Airport. It was the busiest June ever at the airport. Nearly 20,000 departing passengers is almost double last June.
• Boone Health plans a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday morning at its new clinic in Glasgow.
• A pair of Boone County parents nearly fell victim to a terrifying extortion scam on Friday. Scammers used artificial intelligence to clone their daughter’s voice. The caller claimed she was kidnapped at gunpoint and demanded a ransom. Boone County deputies tracked down the daughter safe in Jefferson City. No suspects have been identified yet.
• The Boone County Fair in Columbia gets underway Tuesday and runs through Saturday evening. The fair dates to 1835. The popular Boone County ham breakfast is Saturday morning.
• Cooper County Fair this week Boonville will take place without a carnival. The company that provides the carnival rides shut down their operations last week over rising insurance costs.
• A man from Huntsville is in critical condition after being shot Friday morning by a Randolph County sheriff deputy. Officers responded to a trespassing complaint on Huntsville Avenue. They say 36-year-old Thomas Crewse Junior pointed a gun at law enforcement while exiting a camper.
• Missouri Task Force 1 deployed 45 members to San Antonio Thursday to help with flash flooding. The crew is bringing along more than 100,000 pounds of specialized water rescue equipment to help flooded communities.
• A 56-year-old man who spent three decades in prison for causing the historic Great Flood of 1993 faces his first parole hearing next week. James Scott was 24 when he was convicted of purposefully tampering with a levee near West Quincy.
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