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Woman charged with a violent and disturbing crime has yet to receive mental health care
Despite being committed by a court order to the department of mental health 26 weeks ago, a Columbia woman accused of killing a University of Missouri sophomore and burning his body, is still a resident of Boone County jail. At the age of 20 Emma Adams was charged with second-degree...
Historic downtown Sturgeon building collapses, no injuries reported
STURGEON — The Boone County Fire Protection District responded to a Sturgeon building collapse Thursday afternoon. A portion of the Greenwood Brothers Building on North Ogden Street started to collapse from the rooftop. Officials tell KOMU 8 that the cause of the collapse is unknown, but no injuries have been reported.
Former University of Missouri frat member pleads guilty in hazing that caused brain damage
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A former member of a University of Missouri fraternity has pleaded guilty in the hazing of another student that caused blindness and significant brain damage. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Ryan P. Delanty of Manchester, Missouri, pleaded guilty Friday in Boone County to supplying liquor to a minor and misdemeanor hazing. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend a six-month jail sentence followed by six months of house arrest. Sentencing is May 24. The hazing in October 2021 at a Phi Gamma Delta fraternity event left freshman Danny Santulli unable to see, walk or speak.
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