Month: April 2014

A bullet went through a window on a home on Ludwick Boulevard late Saturday night just outside Columbia. According to a news release, witnesses reported several shots fired toward the home. Ludwick Boulevard is just west of Scott Boulevard and north of Chapel Hill Road. No one reported injuries, including the woman and her boyfriend

Mizzou football’s director of football multimedia, Kat Lucchesi, joins ABC 17 Sports Director Austin Kim for Sunday Sit-Down. Kat recaps the first major scrimmage for Missouri football this spring. She also gives some insight into the team’s social media campaign, and how Gary Pinkel is reaching out to his fans more than ever.

Have you received any mail marked “US Airlines Award Notification”? The Better Business Bureau said a company called Access Travel Deals is sending mail with thisnotation that includes vouchers for round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S. Access Travel Deals (www.accesstraveldeals.com) appears to have ties to a Scottsdale, Arizona business called American Travel

Sunday afternoon, Eric Anderson had a career night leading the Missouri Tigers to a 4-2 win over Georgia. Anderson set a career-high of 12 strikeouts and threw his first career complete game with six hits on the day. Tiger got on the board in the first two innings of the game. Anderson scored two of

A Columbia man told police late Saturday night he had been shot at a gas station in central city. The unnamed man had non-life threatening injuries and went to University Hospital, which alerted investigators around 11:50 p.m. According to a news release, the man told police he had been shot at the Midwest Petroleum convenience

Columbia police arrested a third man in connection to a weekend robbery at a student apartment complex. Brian Collins, 21, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. Saturday as part of the investigation into the armed robbery at The Reserve on Old Highway 63. Police had not released Collins connection to the case on Sunday morning. Two

Multiple law enforcement agencies raided homes and made arrests in Osage County on Saturday. According to a news release, three men were arrested for having drugs during the investigations. Osage County Sheriffs deputies, Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers, and the Lake Area Narcotics Enforcement Group were involved in the searches. Keith “Tuffy” Lansford was arrested

Softball: The No. 16 Missouri softball team clinched their weekend series on the road against Mississippi St. Saturday. Game one on Saturday, the Bulldogs beat the Tigers 9 -3. Second game Missouri rallies, winning 8-1. Tigers now 5-5 in conference games with four non conference loses. Baseball: Missouri baseball hosted Georgia at home this weekend.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri running back Morgan Steward finished the Tigers’ first scrimmage on the shoulders of offensive linemen Evan Boehm and Connor McGovern after going 58 yards for a touchdown to give the offense a 19-11 win over the defense Saturday. A 6-foot, 210-pound sophomore, Steward rushed 13 times for 117 yards and

Hundreds of families and friends packed Columbia’s Town and Country Lanes Saturday afternoon for the 11th annual Bowling for Autism event. The fundraiser, which also featured a silent auction, raised money for Easter Seals Midwest to provide scholarship support to families of children with autism. The scholarships could be used to send kids to camps

Saturday afternoon Tolton Catholic boys basketball coach told ABC 17 News his contract was not renewed after taking his team to the 2014 State Championship quarter-finals. In an email second year coach Tyler Clark said: ” Yesterday I was informed my contract as Tolton Catholic’s Head BoysBasketball Coach was not be being renewed according to

A warning about a different kind of “storm chaser.” They show up after storms like we had this week and promise to fix damage to your car or home. One insurance company set up a temporary catastrophe office in Fulton because of the huge number of claims coming from that area. It’s heavily-damaged areas like

A gunman shoots at officers before turning the gun on himself. It happened on Wednesday around 8:45 p.m. Hermann Police Department responded to call of domestic assault on 201 Schiller Street. A 51-year-old woman had fled from her assailant she identified as her 58-year-old boyfriend. Officers went to the home to locate the assailant and

Softball: On the road at Mississippi State, No. 16 Missouri shuts out the Bulldogs 6-0. Tori Finucance pitched seven innings with 12 Ks, a season best for the freshman. Taylor Gadbois had 3 hits on four at bats in today’s victory. Baseball: Friday night, Mizzou hosting Georgia. Tigers on the board first with a run

Suspended Mizzou basketball player Zach Price was arrested again by Columbia Police Thursday afternoon, as confirmed by the department’s public information officer. This is Price’s second arrest of the day. He was arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of third degree assault and domestic assault of the third degree. Friday afternoon, police records show Price

With a 16-year-old girl dead and talk of heroin being involved, ABC 17 asked the question of how prevalent narcotics use is among local teens. The Phoenix Health Programs in Columbia would not say it is common to see teens that are addicted to narcotics, like heroin. However, Prevention Specialist Heather Harlan did say she

ABC 17 News confirmed on Friday a 16-year-old girl was found dead at a Columbia motel. Police are investigating the case as a homicide. Morgan Myers was found unconscious at around 5:45 a.m. Thursday at Providence Suites, formerly America’sBest Value Inn, at the corner of Providence Road and Vandiver Drive near I-70. A man called

Some Mid-Missouri residents are still picking up the pieces after last night’s storm. Meta, a town about 30 miles southeast of Jefferson City, is one of the places that got hit the hardest. Kenny Kolb works for the Cole County Ambulance Service in Jefferson City, but lives on a Meta cattle farm with his son.

A Jefferson City man pleaded guilty in Gasconade County court Friday for the deaths of twoand injury of three people in a September 2011 boating accident. Winkler was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second degree assault. He pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter, and the other was

A judge has dismissed the city of Columbia from a lawsuit filed by Ryan Ferguson, who was released from prison in November. The lawsuit seeks damages over Ferguson’s arrest for the 2001 murder of Kent Heitholt. Ferguson was convicted of murder in 2003, but that conviction was overturned. He is suing eleven people involved in