Month: January 2014

JOB DESCRIPTION: The duties for this position include co-anchoring and reporting for weeknight newscasts. Daily work includes anchoring, reporting, writing and copyediting. Employee will be called upon to produce from time-to-time as well as do live reporting, web reporting and other duties as assigned. SKILLS: The right candidate must be an effective communicator, strong writer,

JOB DESCRIPTION: The Morning Meteorologist’s duties include anchoring and producing forecasts for morning newscasts and extended coverage of severe weather. The position will be responsible for maintaining the station’s website and social media pages. Other duties as assigned. SKILLS: The right candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively, have strong organizational skills, comfortable on

Missouri head coach Frank Haith meets with the media to preview Tuesday’s game against LSU. The Tigers are working to continue the defensive momentum they gained against Alabama. The Tigers held the Tide to 17 percent shooting in the second half. But LSU is coming off a dominant win over Vanderbilt, a team that beat

Click the video link to watch Sunday Sit-Down with John Rooney and ABC 17 Sports Director Austin Kim. The Cardinals broadcasters previews the 2014 St. Louis Cardinals season while also recalling his radio days in Mid-Missouri.

Jacob Wadley is in his first year as Helias wrestling coach, and he is trying to bring his Crusaders back to glory. Wadley wants his team to return to its glorious past. But ABC 17’s Sherree Burruss shows us why a history lesson is not in the books for the Crusaders.

Columbia police are investigating an assault and attempted robbery near Coats Street. Officers were dispatched to an assault at 5:40 Sunday morning to the 1000 block of Coats Street. When they arrived on the scene, the 30-year-old victim told police he was walking from downtown 30 minutes to an hour earlier when he was approached

A 24-year-old Sturgeon man is in the hospital with serious injuries after being assaulted with a knife Sunday morning. Columbia police officers were dispatched to 1101 E. Broadway at 1:36 Sunday morning for a disturbance involving several males. When officers got to the scene, they saw a white vehicle possibly involved in the disturbance leaving

Another scam was reported in Maries County this weekend, this time with an elderly victim. According to the Maries County Sheriff’s Department Facebook page, an older woman reported she nearly wired $1,540 to a phony caller last week. The would-be victim was told her grandson was in jail in another county and needed the money

The flu has reached epidemic levels nationwide. Forty states are considered at a widespread level of outbreak. The amount of people sickened is causing hospitals to take extra precautions to protect their patients. Boone Hospital in Columbia is taking what they call the “droplet precaution.” That means that anyone going into the room of a

Several local organizations teamed up this weekend to bring fresh food to area homeless shelters — in the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Missouri Rivers Community Network organized the drive. Shoppers could buy fresh produce and grains and donate it at the Farmer’s Market and Clover’s Natural Market the past couple of

Managers at the Jefferson City Petco store said it is closing. The last day of operation will be February 22. Managers told ABC 17 News they are closing because their lease wasn’t renewed. The company is looking for a new location in the city, but managers said it could take up to a year.

More than 1,000 Columbia Water and Light customers experienced off-and-on power in central Columbia Saturday afternoon. Connie Kacprowicz with Columbia Water and Light told ABC 17 News one of two Saturday outages had been restored as of 4:35 p.m. According to the city’s outage map, the other outage ended sometime around 10 p.m. The largest

Due to FCC requirements and a large outage Friday and Saturday, ABC 17 KMIZ will rebroadcast Saturday’s mornings children’s programming block beginning at 11 a.m. The schedule is as follows: 11:00 am- Jack Hanna Into the Wild 11:30 am- Ocean Mysteries 12:00 pm- Born to Explore 12:30 pm- Sea Rescue 1:00 pm- The Wildlife Docs

A University of Missouri basketball fan with close ties to the team pleaded guilty to federal drug charges Friday. Levi Coolley was charged in March 2012 for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and five kilos of cocaine. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of money laundering. According to the Western District Attorney’s Office, Coolley forfeits

Jabari Brown tied a career high with 24 points and Johnathan Williams III grabbed 14 rebounds to help Missouri defeat Alabama 68-47 on Saturday. Missouri (14-3, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) entered the game having lost two of three, including a 78-75 setback at Vanderbilt on Thursday. The Tigers only led 31-30 at the break against the

Repair work has been completed on the KMIZ-TV transmitter for Saturday morning, restoring service for those watching ABC 17/KMIZ, MyZouTV/KZOU and/or Me-TV. Technical problems caused by Thursday night’s strong winds had resulted in the three stations being off the air to much of Mid-Missouri Friday. Most ABC Network programming affected by this outage can be

A New Florence man is dead after a single-car crash Saturday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 39-year-old Anthony Penn was driving on Route F around 4:21 a.m. when his car crossed the center line and hit a driveway culvert, causing the car to overturn. Penn was thrown from the vehicle. He was pronounced

ABC 17 News has learned that the Lincoln University nursing school could be moving to the current location of St. Mary’s Health Center in Jefferson City. Gov. Jay Nixon is scheduled to make an announcement at Lincoln University Monday morning. His office said he will discuss his plans for his fiscal year 2015 budget. Scott

A Missouri death-row inmate scheduled for execution this month says the state prison system is improperly storing expired doses of a new lethal injection drug provided by an Oklahoma pharmacy that’s not licensed to do business in the neighboring state. Attorneys for Herbert Smulls filed a complaint with the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy on

Two people died after a rollover accident in Columbia Thursday night. The accident happened near the Lake of the Woods exit off I-70. According to police, 31-year-old Jeremy Tremblay from Columbia was driving west when his car left the road and hit a ditch. The car flipped several times, throwing Tremblay and his passenger outside.