Month: February 2013

Only 24 hours after a man is shot while driving on Highway 63, and less than a day after scattered shootings plagued Jefferson City, bullets fly yet again in Mid-Missouri.Police are investigating two shootings that happened in Columbia early Sunday morning.Witnesses first heard shots at Rangeline Street and Lakeview Avenue around 1:45 A.M. less than

An Osage County man is arrested and charged for having drugs. On Saturday night the Sheriffs Department, assisted by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Lake Area Narcotics Enforcement Group, and the Belle Police Department executed a search warrant for a home on Long Horn Lane near Bland, Missouri. Officers found several drugs including a

The Missouri Tigers have had a fair number of skilled shooters walk through Columbia throughout the years: Kim English, Clarence Gilbert, Anthony Peeler.The best of all, however, may just be a lady. Sophomore Morgan Eye scored 33 points Sunday hitting 11 threes in Mizzou’s 82-76 win over Auburn, setting a new school and SEC records

Mizzou point guard Phil Pressey can be all together breathtaking and frustrating in the same basketball game. Perhaps no player in the nation, though, shoulders the burden Pressey does with his role on Mizzou’s 12th-ranked team. For more on this interesting dynamic, whether Pressey has too much to do and if he’s being unfairly judged

***UPDATE 5:35 P.M.***Crews were on scene for about two hours. Captain John Metz said firefighters had to shore up the building before taking out the car, because everything could collapse.The damage is anywhere from $8,000 to $10,000 according to the owner Paul Prevo.Prevo said, “We used to have all of our infants in here, we

(AP) – An education advocacy group in a new report is critical of Missouri’s policies for its schools.The report released Monday by StudentsFirst gives Missouri an overall grade of D-minus.It says the state should require school districts to make teacher effectiveness the driving factor in decisions about pay, tenure and layoffs. In addition, it urges

Mid-Missouri educators say local schools will likely never have armed guards.Weeks after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut school safety remains a hot topic. Some schools in Florida and California brought in armed guards to help protect students, and plan to keep them for the rest of the school year.But as far

Officers will be on hand Monday night training for an active shooter inside the Columbia mall.Police are running through their emergency protocol. Things will start at 9 p.m. and last through midnight.Extra patrol cars lined up Monday evening, but authorities aren’t going inside the building until it closes.Management says it is not the first time

A Belle man remained in critical condition at University Hospital in Columbia after a grisly pursuit played out Monday afternoon. The drama played out before horrified neighbors.Joseph Thompson, Jr. and Susan Koelling both ran from a Highway Patrol trooper trying to serve a warrant, while using knives to slice their throats.MSHP troopers tell ABC 17

In a lawsuit filed toward the end of 2012, a former JeffTran bus driver claims she was fired because she had “severe morning sickness” and migraines when she was pregnant that year.Catrina Davis filed a complaint citing the Missouri Human Rights Act against the City of Jefferson and Transit Director Richard Turner on December 21.According

The deadline for proposals for a long-discussed conference center in Jefferson City is drawing closer. So far, though, no one has stepped up with a plan.Mayor Eric Struemph told ABC 17 News Monday afternoon the city hadn’t received any proposals yet, after it made public a Request for Proposals (RFP) a couple months ago.But, he

Monday night the City Council killed the year long push to create an Enhanced Enterprise Zone, but that wasn’t the focus of the night.More than a hundred people showed up at Columbia’s City Council meeting ready to debate historical preservation only to be told to come back in two weeks. Most of the crowd planned

Southerly winds will continue to send warm air into Missouri, making it feel more like spring the next few days. An upper-level low pressure area drifting through northern Mexico will move east into Texas Tuesday night, picking up gulf moisture as it takes a sharp turn to the north. The system will bring rain to

***UPDATE TUESDAY 8:12 P.M.***A future toll-road doesn’t look likely, according to the 22-member citizens committee appointed to look into the needs of Missouri’s transportation system.The Blue Ribbon Citizens Committee presented their findings Tuesday afternoon at the State Capitol after holding seven regional meetings with hundreds of people throughout the state. The consensus was formed that

A Lake Ozark woman was killed in a single-car crash on Highway 54 in Cole County Monday.According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 20-year-old Leah Schauf’s vehicle went off the left side of the highway around 10 a.m., struck an embankment and became airborne. Troopers say the car then collided with bank of the Moreau

Columbia police made an arrest in attempted robbery case.Officers were called out around 9:24 p.m. Monday night to the Break Time on Nebraska Avenue for a report of an attempted robbery.Investigators say Larry Brown, Jr. allegedly entered the store holding a tire iron and demanding money. The clerk refused and Brown left. He left in

On Tuesday night, the Mizzou Tigers will welcome Alabama in the Tigers’ first conference basketball game as members of the SEC.Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. at Mizzou Arena.The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.These two teams have played just once since 1996. That game was at the 2001 Guardians Classic in Kansas City.

The Columbia Fire Department announced Tuesday it was awarded a grant that will allow for the hiring of several new firefighters.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security approved a $658,120 Staff for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (STAFF) grant. The money will be used to pay for salaries and benefits for five new firefighters, pending city

The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of man who had been sentenced to life in prison for the 1990 slaying of a woman on a neighboring farm.Mark Woodworth was convicted twice in the shooting death of his neighbor, Catherine Robertson. He is serving a life sentence. The state’s high court ruled Tuesday

For over a year, the City of Boonville and Union Pacific have been trying to finalize ownership over the Katy Bridge, which was once on Missouri’s Top Ten Most Endangered Historic Places. “The Save the Katy Bridge Coalition” is no longer being called that, as they have rightful ownership to the bridge. That ownership was