Overcrowding at the Boone County Jail is costing the county, with officials now housing more inmates in out-of-county facilities than in the jail itself. According to Cpt. Brian Leer with the Boone ...

An inmate is accused of attempting to hire a hitman to assassinate a Columbia Police Department officer. Another inmate cooperated with investigators, helping to set up a call between the suspect and ...

A man who was charged with rape earlier this year and was arrested in St. Louis last month is now in the Boone County Jail. Antonio Bates, 58, was charged in June with first-degree rape. He was ...

Boone County Clerk and Recorder Julie Bliss was sentenced Sept. 2 to four years probation and 180 days in the Boone County Jail after pleading guilty to one count of theft of government property and ...