Month: June 2014

Throughout the world, one child dies from a preventable injury every 30 seconds. In the United States, 9,000 families lose a child every year. Nine million children are rushed to the emergency room in the United States every year just for preventable injuries. Some of those injuries are serious enough to disable children for the

ABC will air the FIFA World Cup starting at 10:30 Saturday morning on KMIZ. Expedition Wild will be aired at 9:00 Sunday morning.

An 18-year-old was killed in an Audrain County crash Friday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol report states Michael Cunningham of Mexico, Missouri, was killed when the car he was riding in went off County Road 355 just north of MO 15. The driver, 20-year-old Jesse Smith, also from Mexico, was flown to University Hospital

Friday, the Mizzou Athletic Department released the men’s head basketball coach Kim Anderson’s five year contract. Anderson is set to make $300,000 annually and guaranteed to make $1.1 million in his first year. With incentives Coach Anderson can make $2.45 million dollars. Here is a link to his contract from the University: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/miss/genrel/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/contract-anderson.pdf

Friday, Mizzou wrestling announced their adding Alex Clemsen, a Moberly native, to their staff as the new head assistant coach. Clemsen spent the last 5 years at the University of Virginia. MU wrestling head coach Brian Smith is familiar with Clemsen from his first years at MU when Clemsen came to camps. Clemsen’s coached 38

A series of minor accidents backed up traffic on eastbound I-70 between mile markers 150 and 158 near Kingdom City in Callaway County early Friday evening. While traffic was backed up, a woman driving a car rear-ended a semi-truck. The woman was life-flighted to University Hospital with critical injuries. The scene was cleared after 7:00

A small Mid-Missouri came together Friday to help a 7-year-old boy who is fighting an incurable disease. Ashland residents held a bake sale and raffled items to help raise money for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. The family of 7-year-old Connor Brotherton organized the event. Connor was diagnosed with the disease at 4 years old.

MODOT continues to push for your approval of a proposed sales tax hike to meet more than 12,000 structural improvements across the state. ABC 17 reported earlier this week that MODOT wants to expand I-70 to six lanes to deal with heavy traffic. That’s just one of thousands of projects MODOT plans to commit to

A few parents with students at Two Mile Prairie said they were concerned that the alerting system from the school was not working. Michelle Baumstark with Columbia Public Schools said, “We sent out a mass alert to all of the parents who had children on the bus. One hundred percent of the messages were received.”

The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri is in desperate need of volunteers to help process food, after receiving pallets of potatoes and meat that will expire soon. The call for help comes at the same time as long time Food Bank Director Peggy Kirkpatrick announces her retirement. Kirkpatrick intends to retire on December

A line was wrapped around Iron Tiger Tattoo Friday as customers awaited their $13 tattoos for Friday the 13th. Whether it was a first tattoo or finishing up a sleeve, heading to one of the busy tattoo parlors in town Friday was a lucky deal. “You’re never going to see a tattoo shop like this,”

A Fulton woman was arrested for breaking into a home and having drugs. Fulton Police investigated a call of a verbal dispute at 225 Sycamore Street early Friday morning. Police found 35-year-old Jennifer Murphy breaking into the home. Murphy was charged with 1st degree burglary, 2 counts of felony stealing, endangering the welfare of a

A Mid-Missouri man is charged after he allegedly kidnapped and held a woman hostage in Miller County. On Wednesday the sheriff’s department got a 911 call about a woman who was being held near Buechter Bridge Road in St. Anthony, just north of Iberia, about 30 minutes east of Osage Beach. The suspect was described

A Kansas City man was found guilty of robbery, murder, and armed criminal action by a Boone County jury Thursday night. The verdict came down at 8:30 p.m. after more than three hours of deliberation. The trial began Wednesday for Domionte Cheatum. Cheatum, who grew up in Columbia, was charged with killing Anthony Unger of

Boone County deputies arrested a Columbia woman for intentionally hitting someone with her car. Deputies went to Bethany Drive Thursday evening in response to a disturbance. They learned a group of people had stopped Kor’janae Carter in her car in connection with an earlier incident. The group and Carter got into a fight, during which

The driver of a Ford Explorer, 67-year-old Lawrence Ferguson of Auxvasse, was killed at the scene of a head-on crash with a school bus in Boone County. The crash happened in the 5400 block of Route Z near Judy School Road. ABC 17 News has confirmed the bus was coming from Two Mile Prairie School

With the start of the 2014 World Cup, popularity of the sport is increasing in America. This year, the US bought more world cup tickets than any other non-host nation. Since the last world cup, attendance at soccer games has gone up eight percent in America and viewing, listening and attendance combines has gone up

“We have a zero tolerance policy. If you come in contact with one of our officers and you’ve been put through the process and we determine you are impaired, we are going to arrest you,” said Captain Dave Williams of the Jefferson City Police Department. Williams said, “We tend to come in contact with an

The trial began Wednesday for a Columbia man indicted last year on second degree murder charges. Domionte Cheatum of Columbia is charged with killing Anthony Unger of Jefferson City on June 23 of last year near Robinson’s Cleaners on Conley Road during a drug deal gone bad. Unger was found in a car in a

A deadly balcony collapse at a University housing complex prompted the University of Missouri to change the buildings it inspects on campus. Now all residential and dining halls will be checked on a regular basis. MU’s spokeman’s Christian Basi told ABC 17 News after inspecting all of the buildings after the balcony collapse they realized