Month: March 2013

After a recent crime spree in Osage County, a suspect is now behind bars and police are crediting Facebook for help in solving the crime.Paul Herman, 25, is accused of stealing iPads and laptops and has been accused of similar crimes before, but has never been caught. Osage County Sheriff Michael Dixon says Herman was

Former neighbors and churchgoers reacted to news that Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements had been shot and killed Tuesday in his new home, more than 700 miles away.Clements, his wife Lisa and their two daughters spent years living in Columbia’s Highlands subdivision. At the time, Clements was working for Missouri’s Department of Corrections.

A major road construction in southwest Columbia will impact where city and county firefighters will respond to. The roadwork on Scott Blvd. is slated to start sometime in the fall, according to Columbia City Works Director John Glascock, but it will impact Boone County Fire Station 14.Station 14 sits between the corner of Scott Blvd.

Columbia police are looking for two men who robbed two victims at gunpoint Thursday night.The robbery happened on Santa Rosa Court; the victims were returning home when the suspects walked up, each with a handgun, and stole property from the victims. The suspects, described only as two black males, then fled on foot.Officers have not

The director of the Missouri Department of Transportation is resigning effective immediately.Kevin Keith announced his resignation Thursday, taking a medical leave of absence with plans to retire on July 1. An interim director, MoDOT Chief Engineer Dave Nichols, has been named to take his place.Nichols will remain the interim MoDOT director for at least one

Possible cuts by the US Postal Service may mean a longer wait for people to get their mail and a loss of jobs in Mid-Missouri. A plan by the government could close the mail processing and distribution center at the Columbia Regional Airport and force people’s mail to go through either St. Louis or Kansas

The tower at Columbia Regional Airport is closing because automatic budget cuts to the federal government.Jefferson City Memorial Airport got a warning letter on a potential closure, but it was not included on the final list announced Friday. Columbia Regional was part of the early proposal but did not get a similar notice.FAA officials said

***UPDATE 10:24 P.M.*** According to the Denver Post, the suspect in the police chase has been identified as Evan Spencer Ebel, 28, a paroled prison inmate. The AP reports legal records show Ebel was convicted of assaulting a prison guard in 2008, and several other offenses dating back to 2003.***UPDATE 7:20 P.M.***ABC News confirmed investigators

***UPDATED SATURDAY 5 A.M.***Winter Storm Warnings and Watches have been issued for most of Mid-Missouri from Saturday night through Sunday evening.We are watching the development of a storm system that will bring snow to Mid-Missouri Saturday night and Sunday. A strong low pressure area is forecast to track from the Texas panhandle to near northern

Residents living on one central Columbia street want changes because they say their street is not safe. The residents are on Garth Avenue, south of Broadway. Over the past few months, there have been several close calls including one hit-and-run accident ABC 17 News told you about back in November where an 86-year-old woman hit

Columbia police made two arrests after the suspects tried to run from a crash scene.Police got the call at 10:35 p.m. Thursday about a one car rollover crash at I-70 and Business Loop 70 East. When officers got there they learned about another crash in which someone was struck by a vehicle while trying to

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that 149 control towers at airports across the country will close beginning April 7, as part of the agency’s sequestration plan. The list of towers to close include those at Columbia Regional Airport, and Branson Airport in Missouri. However, the tower at Jefferson City Airport will remain open. The

The government is warning doctors about a new mysterious virus called the corona virus. It is in the same family as the common cold but is also related to the SARS epidemic that swept the nation 10 years ago.It is similar to the common cold but can be fatal, and the symptoms are similar to

A man is staying with family after fire damaged his Columbia home Friday.His neighbors on Clinkscales Road called 911 after their dog barked. The husband looked out the window and saw smoke pouring from the roof.Crews got to the scene and made sure the man was not still inside. He had left about 30 minutes

DENVER (AP) — Attorney Jack Ebel testified before the Colorado Legislature two years ago that solitary confinement in a Colorado prison was destroying the psyche of his son, Evan.When Jack Ebel’s longtime friend, Gov. John Hickenlooper, was interviewing a Missouri corrections official for the top prisons job in Colorado, he mentioned the case as an

On Thursday the Center for Disease and Control issued a new warning about the coronavirus. Right now there are no reports of the virus in the U.S., but experts are watching it closely. So far, the only reports have come from the Middle East. The SARS epidemic in 2003 was a form of the coronavirus

***UPDATE FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 9:04 P.M.***On Friday a judge reduced Bruce Cole’s bond from $500,000 to $100,000.That means if Cole comes up with $10,000 cash, he could move out of the Randolph County jail and return to California. In exchange, Cole would sign an extradition order and agree to stay under house arrest in Beverly

A fire at a Columbia laundromat Friday night caused minor damage to the business.Firefighters responded to Robinson’s Cleaners & Laundromat on Conley Road around 10:25 p.m. for a report of a structure fire. When fire crews arrived, they found heavy smoke throughout the business.Customers told firefighters that a clothes dryer had caught fire and they

A Portland man leads Callaway County Sheriff’s Deputies on a high speed chase before crashing outside of Fulton. According to the Sheriff’s press release Friday, the man, Keith Smart, got smart with deputies and threatened to blow up the courthouse and kill a judge when deputies put him in jail. Smart also allegedly told a

The attorney for a Columbia man convicted of the 2001 murder of Columbia Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt has filed a response to the state attorney general.In the filing, defense attorney Kathleen Zellner argues recantations by key witnesses and certain Brady case violations offer enough new evidence to cast doubt on the original rulings. The