Month: February 2016

ABC 17 News talked to the student journalist who was confronted by former professor Melissa Click in last fall’s viral video after Click was terminated Thursday. Mark Schierbecker told ABC 17 News he thought the UM System Board of Curators did the right thing in firing Click, but said he thought there was still a

Hours after the University of Missouri Board of Curators fires Melissa Click, the MU Faculty Council met at Memorial Union on campus. Thursday’s meeting was dominated by the topic of Click’s termination. ABC 17 NEWS has been on the story since Dr. Click’s first known encounter with the media during the November protests that were

The University of Missouri campus stayed peaceful Thursday after the UM System Board of Curators announced its decision to fire former professor Melissa Click. ABC 17 News talked to students across campus to get their reaction to the announcement. Most students said they agreed with the board’s decision. “There are several of us who were

Right now, the number of reported rapes in Columbia is the highest it has ever been. You may remember ABC 17 News started looking into the problem in the East Campus neighborhood in 2014, when a suspect committed suicide after allegedly attacking women in the area. Many college women and men living on East Campus

The University of Missouri Board of Curators released its 24-page investigative report on assistant communications professor Melissa Click Thursday afternoon after announcing her termination. The curator’s investigation conducted by Bryan Cave, LLP started on Jan. 27 just two days after the city prosecutor filed assault charges against the professor. Click was featured in a video

ABC 17 News has confirmed a University of Missouri Communication professor has been fired from her position. MU officials told ABC 17 Thursday afternoon that Dr. Melissa Click is no longer employed at the university. Click has received backlash after appearing in more than one video clashing with law enforcement and journalists last fall. University

Several Missouri state legislators have been calling for Asst. Professor Melissa Click to be fired since a video showing her intimidating a student journalist by calling for “muscle” went viral and gained national attention. Four months later, the UM Board of Curators announced Click no longer has a job. “Any time you have a professor

The Missouri House Committee approved a bill that would require the board of each public higher education institution in Missouri to have a procedure in place on how tohandle sexual assult cases on campuses. The bill would require all higher education schools in Missouri to engage with law enforcement agencies and enter into a Memorandum

The corner of Turner Avenue has a new look lately as construction crews continue to build a new apartment complex for the corner. Builders broke ground in October, but the project was proposed nearly two years before that. One of the reasons it went through such a long approval process was because the developers proposed

ABC 17 News has reporters at the scene of a large house fire Thursday about 15 minutes north of Columbia. Our crews were moved away from the home around 11:40 a.m. because Boone County firefighters believed the scene was too dangerous. ABC 17 News later confirmed no one was in the barn, after getting a

ABC 17 News has confirmed a man claiming to be a priest while allegedly scamming an elderlywoman is out of jail. Ryan Gevelinger was picked up for a warrant after pleading guilty to an unlawful possession of a weapon charge last December. Howard County Prosecutor Stephen Murrell dropped three counts of financial exploitation of an

Firefighters rescued two people from a burning apartment building in Jefferson City early Thursday morning. The fire happened in the 300 block of West Elm Street shortly before 2:30 a.m. Firefighters arrived to find the second story of the building on fire. One of the rescued persons was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries;

The Jefferson City Public Safety Committee has sent issues on to the city council. The police and fire departments brought up a number of points in the meeting Thursday morning. The police department is asking council to approve a handful of grants from MoDOT. The grants include funds for DWI enforcement over St. Patrick’s Day,

Emergency crews responded to a deadly two-car crash in north Columbia Wednesday. It happened around 2:20 p.m. on Paris Road just south of Waco Road. The Columbia Fire Department said 68-year-old Genie Drown was killed in the wreck and two other adults were sent to the hospital with serious injuries. The second driver and passenger

The MU Faculty Council met Thursday afternoon after the decision was made by UM Curators to fire communication professor Dr. Melissa Click. Ben Trachtenburg, who is on the executive committee of the council, said he disagrees with the curators’ decision to terminate Click. ABC 17 News heard others in thecrowd saying, “hear, hear.” Interim Chancellor

The petition started a year ago to update lighting in Columbia’s crime-ridden east campus neighborhood, but residents are still waiting for change. Last fall, resident Abby Jensen recalls a moment where “The taxi driver stopped to get me and a man came and started trying to attack me.” Sarah Sprick, the petitioner says, “Our front

A mid-Missouri man was charged Wednesday night, accused of stealing from his employer. Jefferson City police officers arrested 52-year-old Roland Morrow Tuesday afternoon just after 11:30 a.m. Court documents obtained by ABC 17 News show Morrow embezzled money while he worked as an office manager and accountant at Scheppers International Truck Center in Jefferson City.

This coming spring, much of the land near Columbia Regional Airport won’t be covered in corn. Instead, contruction workers will descend on the land to begin building a sewer collection system extension for Ashland. Ashland Mayor Gene Rhorer said a few years ago, the city passed a bond issue for a seven million dollar waste

A Columbia man was arrested earlier this week for reportedly striking a 6-year-old child with a blind adjustment stick that left several welts on the child’s arm before going into school. Dewayne Carter, 24, was charged with child abuse on Monday when the incident apparently happened. He is currently in the Boone County Jail with

Boone County leaders said their jail is overcrowded, and part of the problem, officials are locking up too many inmates with mental health issues. Boone County Commissioner, Janet Thompson, just got back from Washington D.C. As part of the National Association of Counties, Thompson talked to other commissioners about the growing inmate population with mental