Month: June 2015

A well-known downtown Columbia restaurant building is slated to be demolished next week. The former downtown location of Shakespeare’s Pizza on 9th Street is set to be torn down on Monday. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is asking the contractor to hold up demolition. Columbia Building and Site Development Manager Shane Creech told ABC

A homeless man is in the Boone County Jail Tuesday after lighting a trash can on fire. Columbia Police said Timothy Banks flicked a cigarette at a Walmart employee Monday. Officers used video from the store Monday and discovered a man with a cigarette started a fire at the downtown bus station on 10th street

Sewer work is causing some unexpected delays for drivers in Columbia Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon crews had to shut down both sides of Rangeline between Smith and Wilkes Boulevard near Columbia College. The road blocks should be gone by 7:00 p.m.

A woman was arrested in Camden County early Monday morning for DWI and numerous drug charges. Camden County deputies responded to a call for a car parked on the side of Eagle Drive in Four Seasons. Medics arrived and examined 24-year-old Krista Clement of Grandview, who was in the driver’s seat. Clement was then arrested

More than a dozen grams of meth were seized after the Jefferson City SWAT team and MUSTANG Drug Task Force served a drug search warrant Monday. Officers searched a home in the 500 block of Holiday Drive and found 16 grams of meth, one pound of marijuana, and $12,000 in cash. Investigators also found several

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday arrested a Columbia man in connection to an April shooting on Demaret Drive. 27-year-old Eddie Holmes was wanted for two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action. Holmes was arrested Tuesday morning on Highview Avenue. Two people were taken to the hospital

The Turkey Creek Golf Center will soon be home to a new course specially designed for the disabled. Danny Baumgarter, owner of Turkey Creek, donated 20 acres to the Missouri Golf Association to build the nine-hole, par 3 course. The National Guard is doing the groundwork for the course as part of a service project.

Right now authorities are investigating after two people are injured in a shooting in Boone County. It happened in the 700 block of Demaret Drive just after 8 p.m. A detective with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department said there was a type of gathering outside the home when two suspects described as black men with

The Columbia Board of Education approved the purchase of 26 acres of land east of town Monday night. Columbia Public Schools plans to build a new elementary school in the Vineyards neighborhood. Board president James Whitt told ABC 17 News he liked the location because of its walkability for nearby residents in the growing part

Periodic heavy rainfall episodes across the Missouri river basin over the past couple weeks has caused flooding. The Missouri River at Glasgow, Jefferson City and Hermann is in moderate flood stage and is in minor flood stage at Miami, Boonville, Chamois & Gasconade. Drier weather through Wednesday will allow the river to recede, bringing it

The Columbia School Board Monday night will vote on next year’s budget. In its projection, the school district is expecting to take in more money. The school district receives most of its money from property tax in town. Budget director Linda Quinley assumed a 2.5% increase in the town’s property value for next year. While

A man convicted in a deadly Columbia burglary was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday. She’aun Prince pleaded guilty to first degree burglary in April. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge against him. Prince is one of three men charged in a home invasion that left one person dead. The burglary happened last year off

Sunday night’s thunderstorms brought heavy rain to several parts of Mid-Missouri. Emergency management crews in Randolph County worked through the night to remove fallen debris and several cars swept up by flooded streets. “We had several underpasses here in Moberly that were flooded for a period of time,” said Emergency Management Director Robert Creed. “We

Authorities in Columbia are investigating two deaths in the last five days that appear to be overdoses. Last Tuesday police and paramedics responded to a possible overdose on Hyde Park, in south Columbia. Family sources of the 21-year-old man told ABC 17 News the drug was heroin. The medical examiner said it will take weeks

A Columbia motel with a troubled past is now getting a new look. Renovations are underway at Providence Inn and Suites near I-70. Monday, ABC 17 News talked to the owner, who said he started the work last September. He thinks all of the renovations would be complete in a few weeks. The motel closed

The Cole County Sheriff’s Department Monday is investigating a death in rural Cole County. A white woman was found dead in a home near Henley on Saturday afternoon. Not all of the woman’s relatives have been notified, so her name, age, and address have not been released. An autopsy was completed by the Boone County

A West Plains man was sentenced last Thursday for assaulting three people with a fire poker. 30-year-old William Sanders pleaded guilty to the crime in August 2014. The court granted Sanders probation, but by December he had already violated probation. Phelps County prosecutors argued Sanders was a danger to the community at his revocation hearing,

The closing date for a Boonville company has been announced. Last fall, ABC 17 News reported that Nordyne is shutting down in Boonville. Nordyne has confirmed its last day of operation is officially June 19. The company already laid off about 50 workers last January. This comes three years after Hostess and Indeeco also closed

Boone County officials are stepping up efforts to find drunk drivers in Columbia and Boone County. The Boone Co. Sheriff’s Department announced it’s holding a DWI checkpoint sometime overnight between Thursday and next Monday. The checkpoint is funded through a grant from the state.

Work to raise barrier walls on bridges along Highway 63 in Boone County continues Wednesday. The work will close the north and southbound passing lanes on the Highway 63 Bonne Femme and Gans Creek bridges starting at 5:30 a.m. Depending on the progress made, the work may continue on Thursday. There is still work to