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Boone County voters will decide Nov. 3 on a three-eighths-cent sales tax for a new 570-bed jail, three months after Columbia narrowly approved a tax to hire more police.

The Boone County Commission voted to add an expiration date to the proposed tax to fund a new county jail.

Boone County spends $2.5 million a year on housing inmates in other counties because its own jail is overcrowded.

The public will have an opportunity to tour the center on January 10.

The bomb squad will now only involve the Columbia Police Department and the MU Police Department.

Although the team has been investigating the mid-Missouri area since January, the decision to launch “Operation Brightside” was made several weeks ago after the death of a Stephens College student in a downtown Columbia shooting.

Sheriff Dwayne Carey said Missouri "didn't have the number" of people detained on immigration charges that some might assume.

As of Wednesday, Jan. 22, Boone County Jail had 289 inmates on its books - 79 more than the jail says it can "comfortably house".

Carey beat out his challenger, Charles Blair, by about 82% of the vote.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating Damion Linder's death following a nine-hour standoff.