Month: August 2015

A motorcyclist has been taken to a Columbia hospital after a crash Monday evening on Highway 63, near Grindstone Parkway. Joint Communications says part of the highway, which was closed, has since reopened. The crash happened just after 8:30 Monday night. It happened in the northbound lanes of Highway 63, just south of the Grindstone

It started Thursday night when some students received an MU Alert text message saying there was an active threat near campus. But the text had no information about the threat and no location. The location was added a short time later, and the location was changed shortly after the first location was released. ABC 17

September usually starts off with warm temperatures with the average 30 year high on the first of the month at 84. We will lose an hour and 12 minutes of daylight this month with sunset by the 30th at 6:53 p.m. Temperatures cool quite a bit by the end of the month with an average

Residents of a west Columbia neighborhood say someone’s snooping through their trash –possibly digging for identities. “It’s pretty disconcerting that we would have someone rummaging through our trash and looking for identity information,” said Edie Hickman a Bellwood resident. The Bellwood neighborhood association put out a Facebook post last week that said multiple people in

A three-car crash on I-70 eastbound in Columbia caused delays Monday afternoon. The crash happened near the Rangeline exit, or mile marker 127. Several other crashes were reported across Columbia, including one that caused backups at I-70 and Stadium, and at Chapel Hill and Chapel Plaza Court.

Business Loop Community Improvement District board members decided to postpone a proposed half-cent sales tax election during a public meeting Monday. Board members were surprised to learn a single registered voter was living within the CID’s boundary lines. Jen Henderson, a 23-year-old University of Missouri student, lives on Business 70 West. She would be the

A Jefferson City woman is charged with 2 counts child abuse after officers saw her throwing a 5-year-old girl to the ground by her hair. Neighbors called police when they heard children and parents yelling. The caller told police that it sounded like a belt was being used. Court documents said 24-year-old Dmitria Price was

The Mexico Public Safety Department responded to a report of shots fired early Monday morning. Around 12:45 a.m., officers went to the 1500 block of North Clark. Passengers in a brown car shot at least nine times at a person in a white SUV,Mexico Public Safety Department said. Bullets damaged a house, a parked car

Eldon Police have confirmed a school bus accident in Eldon Monday afternoon. Highway Patrol told ABC 17 News the crash happened around 301 E. 4th Street near the Hardee’s restaurant at the intersection with Business Highway 54. The school bus was stopped to drop off students when it was rear-ended by a pick-up truck. Corporal

The Columbia Police Department has released new totals Monday from its latest DWI checkpoint. It started just after 11:00 p.m. Friday and stopped around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. The checkpoint was at Creasy Springs Road, north of Business Loop 70. 65 drivers were stopped, and one was arrested for drunk driving. Three people had felony

A Columbia man is back on the streets after police said he crashed his car through someone’s backyard. Daniel Peek was arrested last night after running away from the scene. Peek bonded out Monday. His car caught fire around 6:00 p.m. Sunday near Vandiver and Highway 63. Officers think he hit a road sign before

Two Mid-Missouri counties will receive disaster assistance after FEMA approved Governor Nixon’s request to expand a declaration made on August 7. A major federal disaster declaration was made for flash flooding and severe storms was expanded to include Camden and Phelps counties in Mid-Missouri, among 6 other counties across the state. The expansion will allow

78 animals were rescued Monday from a home in Warren County by the Humane Society of Missouri Animal Cruelty Task Force. All of the animals were living in filthy conditions; suffering from severe matting, internal and external parasites, and eye and ear infections. Workers rescued dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, goats, ducks, a cockatoo, and a

A firenado forms with very hot temperatures. The heat creates low pressure, and induces the rising of air. This is similar to an updraft in a thunderstorm. The rising of air can spin and creates a whirlwind. Important to note though, a firenado is much different than a real tornado. An actual tornado descends from

A Columbia man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to robbing six banks in Columbia, using a bicycle as his getaway vehicle. 43-year-old Shaun Becker admitted that he robbed the banks between November 20, 2014 and January 3. Becker took $3,890 from the Missouri Bank II on November 20. Eight days later, on November 28,

Two people from Columbia pleaded guilty Monday to heroin trafficking. 20-year-old Alec Ell and 20-year-old Angelica Polston pleaded guilty to charges from an April 2 indictment. The two were boyfriend and girlfriend. Ell pleaded guilty to distributing 100 grams or more of heroin in Boone Co. from July through October 2014. Ell admitted that he

Gov. Nixon’s youngest son, Willson, was arrested over the weekend for his second DWI in Columbia in less than six months. Police records show Willson Nixon, 25, was booked into the Boone County jail early Sunday, before bonding out. Police claim he was pulled over around 3 a.m. Sunday for driving with no headlights on

As of Monday afternoon, the cause of the fire that destroyed the Missouri Better Bean plant in Bunceton is undetermined. Mike O’Connell, Missouri Department of Public Safety Communications Director, said an electrical cause could not be eliminated due to the extent of the damage. Investigators have determined the fire started in the lower level of

UPDATED at 11:55: The MU Alert website reports “Columbia Police believe there is no threat to campus at this time.” An MU text alert first warned of a report of gunfire near campus. A posting on MU Alert Emergency Information Center said the shots fired incident was near the intersection of Hitt and Cherry Streets.

The Bunceton community is working to clean up the damage from a fire that destroyed the Missouri Better Bean plant on West Main Street Saturday. Cooper County officials are hopeful the economic impact from the loss of the business will be short. A Missouri Better Bean plant employee said about five or six people worked