Cole County Cornhole Tournament to Benefit United Way of Central Missouri

Cole County's 2nd Annual Cornhole Tournament is scheduled for June 16th, 2023!  Join in on the fun by submitting the attached registration form to dseidel@colecounty.org by June 14, 2023!

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Severe Weather Preparedness Month

Being StormAware means that you and your family not only know how to protect yourselves in the event of a tornado or severe weather, but that you are aware whenever the weather forecast calls for a chance of severe storms; that during those times you moni...

Judge Sentences Man to Twenty Years

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (July 12, 2018) A Jefferson City man was sentenced to 20 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections following his guilty pleas to domestic assault in the first degree, resisting arrest, attempted disarming of a police officer...

Judge Sentences Man to Thirty Years for Sex Crimes

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (July 12, 2018) A Jefferson City man, Robert Taylor, 33, was sentenced to fifteen years on enticement of a child, fifteen years on sodomy in the second degree and fifteen years on rape in the second degree. A Cole County jury foun...

Judge Sentences Man to 10 Years for 2016 Robbery

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (April 20, 2017) – Judge Patricia Joyce sentenced Kane Carpenter to a ten year sentence on April 18, 2018. The sentence comes after a jury trial held in February of 2018. In that trial, a Cole County jury found Carpenter guilty of...

Judge Sentences Man to 40 Years

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (April 19, 2018)

A Jefferson City man was sentenced today to two 20 year sentences for sexually assaulting a three year old child. A Cole County jury found Kevin Struempf, 33, guilty of two counts of first degree statutory sodomy o...

Jury Finds Russellville Man Guilty of Domestic Assault and Armed Criminal Action

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (December 21, 2017) – Following a four-day jury trial, a Cole County jury has found Brett Michael Bergman guilty of domestic assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. Judge Jon Beetem presided over the case....

Judge Sentences Woman to 7 years for DWI

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (January 3, 2018) – Judge Patricia Joyce sentenced Jeanne Capozzoli to a seven year sentence on January 3, 2018. The sentence comes after a two-day jury trial held in November of 2017. In that trial, a Cole County jury f...

Judge Sentences Man to Two Consecutive 25-Year Sentences

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (December 26, 2017) – Judge Daniel Green sentenced Bobby Dean Bishop to two twenty-five year sentences on December 13, 2017. The sentence comes after a three-day jury trial held in October of 2017. In that trial, a Cole ...

Jury Finds Man Guilty of Sex Crimes

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (October 5, 2017) – Following a three-day jury trial, a Cole County jury has found Bobby Dean Bishop guilty of statutory rape in the first degree and statutory sodomy in the first degree. The jury deliberated for approximately sev...

Judge Sentences Man to 25 Years Following Jury Verdict

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (March 20, 2017)—The Presiding Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce sentenced Maurice Hogan to twenty-five (25) years today. This sentence was the result of a jury trial held February 14, 2017. The jury deliberated for approximately seven...