Month: December 2013

Columbia hosted its annual New Year’s Eve festival Tuesday evening and hundreds of people filtered in and out. This is after a weeklong crime spree; including five shootings in and around the city since Christmas Eve. Police are not doing anything different, but said they had the downtown unit out patrolling the area while the

ABC 17s Sports Director talks with James Franklin as he prepares for his last game with the Missouri Tigers in his home state before the Cotton Bowl.

Camden County authorities said on Tuesday they are searching for a man who has been missing since Sunday. Donald Erwin, 59, of Camdenton, disappeared after he told relatives he was going to the grocery store. He was last seen driving a silver 2002 Hyundai Elantra with the license plate MKTE3P. Erwin is described as 5’8″

This year mid-Missouri lost a lot of jobs, but it also attracted hundreds of new businesses. This year brought nearly 300 new businesses to Columbia and almost 400 to Jefferson City. The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the local economy did better than most other states in the country. The chamber says the

Three men wearing masks escaped early Tuesday after a home invasion robbery and shooting in south Columbia. Several residents were asleep when their front door was kicked in off North Cedar Lake Drive near Southampton Drive around 5 a.m. A guest was also sleeping on the couch. While the suspects searched through the residence, the

Columbia police arrested an armed robber Tuesday after he allegedly got away with cash from a Dollar General Monday afternoon. Officers said they found a blue puffy coat and pellet gun used by 47-year-old Kenneth Malone. Police were called to 3700 Monterey Drive around 4:10 p.m. Monday after a man with a pistol walked in

Fulton police have arrested a woman for allegedly shooting at her son. Tuesday, around 1 a.m. police were called out to the area of Essex Drive and Canterbury Drive for a report of shots fired. Police say Laura Perkins had shot at her son several times during a domestic disturbance. Investigators say no one was

Holts Summit police spoke out for the first time Monday about an incident that happened one week ago. On Dec. 23, an officer responded to a call from a man who told 911 operators he was going to jump off an overpass on to Highway 54. The officer arrived on scene a short time later

Officers across the state are getting ready for extra patrols on New Year’s Eve, and Columbia is no exception. The DWI counting period for New Year’s Even begins in Columbia on Tuesday night. Ahead of the extra patrols, ABC 17 News looked into the price tags of drunk driving. “Just imagine not being able to

ABC 17 Sports Director talks with senior offensive lineman Max Copeland before Cotton Bowl.

A Columbia man was arrested Monday, accused of a string of child sex abuse charges. The investigation began in early 2013 and was conducted by Columbia and Centralia police departments. A probable cause statement has been submitted to the Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s office and police are requesting 22-year-old Tony Jones Jr. be charged with

Prosecutors in southern Illinois have charged an East St. Louis man with murder in the shooting death of an MU student. Madison County prosecutors charged Deneshion M. Swope, 24, with three counts of first-degree murder on Monday. They accuse him of using a 9mm handgun to shoot and kill Jarrett Mosby, 21, of Collinsville. Mosby’s

Two people went to the hospital on Monday after their car slid over a gravel road and rolled into a creek bed in northeast Columbia. The accident happened around 2:30 p.m. near Wyatt Lane and Hinkson Creek. The two people inside the car did not have life-threatening injuries and got out of the car when

The American Red Cross is helping a pair of Mid-Missouri families whose homes were damaged by fires on Sunday. One fire destroyed a mobile home on Highway 50 near Loose Creek in Osage County. And a second happened on County Road 428 Steedman in Callaway County. Fire officials say the cause might be related to

Three shootings in 48 hours, four shootings since Christmas Eve and the shooter or shooters are still on the loose. The week of violence in Columbia started on Christmas Eve, when was a woman was shot while inside her home on Benton and Forest roads. Then on Friday night, residents of Greensboro Drive in North

A man was sentenced to 53 years on Monday for sexual exploitation of a minor north of Columbia and first degree statutory sodomy. Gary D. Foster, 53, of Linneus pleaded guilty to both counts in November. Foster was arrested in June for taking sexually explicit photos of a 13-year-old boy. The Boone County and Kirksville

ABC 17s Sherree Burruss talks with former ABC 17 Sports Director Beau Baehman about the 2014 Cotton Bowl and the last time the tigers played in that bowl game.

Columbia police were investigating a shooting in the north part of town Sunday evening. One woman who lives on Murell Drive reported that a bullet came flying into her apartment around 7 p.m. She was not hurt. Detectives on the scene told ABC 17 News they found evidence of multiple shots fired on nearby Rice

Jefferson City police are looking for information about a business bomb threat that happened late Saturday night. Police said it happened at the Walmart on Stadium Boulevard. Police and Walmart employees never found anything, but the store chose to evacuate as a precaution.

The trial for the former CEO of a failed artificial sweetener plant in Moberly has been delayed until the summer. Bruce Cole was originally scheduled for trial in mid-February, but prosecutors in Randolph County confirmed for ABC 17 News this weekend that the trial has been pushed until at least June 16. The reason for