Month: February 2013

The unseasonably warm weather will continue through Sunday and Monday. Highs on Sunday will be in the upper 60s to near 70 under mostly sunny skies and light southerly breezes. Clouds will begin to increase late Sunday as our next cold front approaches. Highs on Monday will still reach the low 70s, likely breaking or

Jefferson City police are investigating a shots fired call early Saturday morning downtown.Police told ABC 17 News three shots were fired behind the Family Dollar on Monroe Street around 1:27 a.m.No suspect descriptions were available Saturday evening, but the case was still under investigation.Stay with ABC 17 News and abc17news.com for updates on this story.

A Sunrise Beach home is considered a total loss after burning leaves got out of control Friday morning and spread to the home.According to a news release one Weems Drive resident was inside trying to put the fire out and suffered burns to the face. That resident was still being treated Saturday.Sunrise Beach crews were

A Dense Fog Advisory has been issued for Chariton and Saline counties through 9 AM Sunday. Patchy fog will be possible across all of Mid-Missouri through early Sunday as clouds begin to clear tonight. The fog will clear after sunrise with mostly sunny skies and highs near 70 by the afternoon.

A Columbia man is behind bars Sunday morning following a high-speed chase in Boone County.Sheriff’s deputies say they attempted to pull over a car for speeding near the 5000 block of Clark Lane around 1 a.m. Sunday.The car, driven by 47-year-old Henry C. Wilson, failed to stop and a high-speed pursuit followed before the car

Some Fulton residents said they though their apartments were going to explode, as a car crashed into a duplex Sunday around noon.It happened at Bluff Creek Apartments on Bluff and St. Louis, when an elderly female driver hit the gas pedal instead of the brake when pulling into a parking spot.Police said she wasn’t injured.

***UPDATE 5:14 P.M.***A suspect remains on the loose tonight following an overnight standoff after Columbia Police decide to leave the scene.For more than three hours early this morning, officers tried to convince Stephen Mitchell to come out of his home on 1427 Bodie Drive. Police say Mitchell choked his pregnant girlfriend, and after the family

The state has finally paid off a $600 million bond issue passed 30 years ago, but lawmakers may come back asking taxpayers to approve another loan next year.Columbia representative Chris Kelly told ABC 17 News he hopes to get a bond issue on the April ballot to take advantage of low interest rates.Senator Kurt Schaefer

Monday will be another unseasonably warm day as high temperatures climb to the low-to-mid 70s ahead of a cold front which will approach the area in the afternoon. Ahead of this front a few showers are expected to form in the afternoon but will be spotty and light. As the front moves to the southeast

More downtown parking could be coming to Columbia if a city council proposal gains footing Monday night.The plan calls for a 410-spot garage to be built at the corner of College and Walnut, across from Stephens College and the new Brookside apartments. Staff has prepared for Council consideration a report concerning whether it will have

***UPDATE 7:46 P.M.***Police confirmed Monday two men broke into the home on Carol Drive near Rice Road and Ballenger. They demanded valuables, but only escaped with a bottle of liquor.One man was shot in the leg and later released from the hospital. ABC 17 talked to one of the victims, who said her 3-year-old daughter

At around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, a deputy with the Callaway County Sheriffs Department tried to stop a black Mercury Cougar for a traffic violation. The car was on Old Highway 54 south of New Bloomfield when the driver, Colby Stuart, failed to stop and led the deputy on a chase.Stuart drove through various County

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A friend of the woman killed by Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher says the couple briefly lived apart last month.But Brianne York said Sunday that Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra M. Perkins, had gotten back together by Thanksgiving.She said they had argued about “normal couple issues” and Perkins had gone to

Leaders from Lincoln University and Linn State Technical College announced Monday morning an agreement to buy the current Jefferson City High School campus if taxpayers allow the district to go ahead with a new construction plan.The agreement sells JCHS and the Simonsen Ninth Grade Center to Lincoln University for $8.39 million. Linn State would purchase

***UPDATE: MONDAY, 1:55 P.M.***The University of Missouri football team announced David Yost has resigned his position as an assistant coach, after spending the past 12 seasons on Gary Pinkel’s staff. In a press release statement, Yost cited personal reasons for his decision, which is effective immediately.Yost had many titles on the Tiger staff: Assistant Head

***UPDATE 12:34 P.M.***Fire officials said a piece of equipment in the middle of the facility caught on fire. Employees tried a fire extinguisher on the cord dryer inside an oven, but called crews after it failed.***ORIGINAL STORY***Crews responded to the scene of a commercial fire on Monday in Columbia.Firefighters were called around noon to the

Highs reached into the mid 70s ahead of a cold front on Monday. The front moved through Monday evening and temperatures cooled into the mid 40s Tuesday morning. Highs on Tuesday will be near 60 degrees with clouds clearing out for the afternoon.Highs will be in the upper 50s Wednesday and Thursday with lows in

A man was seriously injured after he was hit by a car in a parking lot in Ashland Monday afternoon.Officials were still trying to determine what caused the wreck that happened just after 3:30 at the McDonald’s/Fastlane convenience store, 602 E. Broadway. Police roped off the scene and cleared it just before 5 p.m.

Two empty mobile homes were destroyed in a five acre fire on Kings Bluff Drive in Eugine around 1 p.m. on Monday.About 20 Cole County firefighters worked the scene for four hours. The windy and dry weather made it difficult to get under control.”Some of the flames were about 20 feet high. Our biggest problem

The University of Missouri football team announced David Yost has resigned his position as an assistant coach, after spending the past 12 seasons on Gary Pinkel’s staff. In a press release statement, Yost cited personal reasons for his decision, which is effective immediately.Yost had many titles on the Tiger staff: Assistant Head Coach, Recruiting Coordinator,