Month: February 2016

A Jefferson City woman won’t spend any time in prison after admitting to sex crimes against multiple children. Misti Fitzwater pleaded guilty to five different felonies Thursday . A judge suspended Fitzwater’s sentence and placed her on parole. Judge Robert Schollmeyer was very clear that he did not want to have to revisit the issue

Southerly winds will continue to warm our temperatures through Saturday with daytime highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s which is 20 to 25 degrees above normal. Saturday will start off mild and dry with increasing clouds which will lead to a chance of showers as a storm system moves into southern Missouri. A

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California was held for ransom, paying 40 bitcoins – which is equivalent to about $17,000.The money was given to hackers who controlled the hospitals computer system, which contained important patient medical documents. The incident happened back in the beginning of February, preventing the hospital from being able to

COLUMBIA, Mo- On Thursday, a group of students called the Young Americans For Liberty, were standing at the Speakers Circle on Mizzou’s campus to hand out a petition they had created. The petition has the goal of firing Melissa Click. The group wanted it done without having to barge in to the Curators meeting. Emotions

A Missouri woman was federally charged Thursday for allegedly making violent threats on Twitter. Court documents said 38-year-old Safya Yassin of Buffalo apparently had several social media accounts, including multiple Twitter accounts and one Facebook page. She allegedly used a Twitter account to post a threat against two FBI agents. In August 2015, Yassin reportedly

The Columbia school board discussed safety and security at a meeting Thursday morning. Members discussed active shooter training and current security measures. Those measures include HD camera systems in all the schools, new security alarms, and emergency radios in the district’s security budget. The CPS school security budget has jumped from $500,000 to $750,000 in

Voters in Cole County and Jefferson City will head to the polls in less than two months. They’ll have to decide whether or not to renew a 1/2 cent sales tax that has been in place since 1986. If it’s approved in April, it’s expected to bring in more than $30 million in 5 years.

A Missouri Senator has filed a complaint against a MU professor who has been captured on video confronting police officers in one instance, and a student journalist in another. Senator Paul Wieland’s complaint with the UM System Collected Rules and Regulations is against Dr. Melissa Click. In the written complaint, Wieland said Click violated section

ABC 17’s Marissa Hollowed speaks with the student journalist behind the camera of the Melissa Click confrontation viral video the day after ABC 17’s Mark Schierbecker You’ll remember, yesterday, I spoke with click for her first ever tv interview after the controversy. The student filming the clash is mark schierbecker. Tonight– *his reaction to the

Two people were arrested in Callaway County early Thursday morning after officers stopped a car for a registration violation on County Road 220 near Kingdom City. Callaway County deputies found a Hipoint .380 pistol in the car that was confirmed stolen from Fulton. The driver, 33-year-old Stephen Palmer of Holts Summit, was arrested for unlawful

Columbia police arrested two teens Wednesday on suspicion of breaking into homes and cars in a south Columbia neighborhood. ABC 17 talked to a sergeant on the scene, who says a couple of homes and a car were broken into. Officers caught the suspects in the act, who took them on a short chase. Austin

A Jefferson City man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for child molestation and statutory sodomy. A jury convicted 71-year-old Arthur Earl back in December for the charges. Earl was charged after a mother came home to find he had abused her child while babysitting. According to court documents, Earl admitted to becoming

Interim MU Chancellor Hank Foley confirmed the med school’s dean is returning to the job after unexpectedly stepping down five months ago. Former MU Chancellor Bowen Loftin did not provide an explanation when Patrice Delafontaine left last September. Loftin himself left his position less than a month later on November 9. Delafontaine first came to

Hole punch, or fall streak clouds can be seen during the winter and spring months. Supercooled water droplets and ice crystals are present at levels with cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds present. The ice particles grow at the expense of the supercooled water droplets that are in the atmosphere, and fall out of the cloud as

Three men, all 20 years old, were arrested when officers search a home Tuesday night after responding to reports of a drug sale in south Columbia. Officers say they found about seven ounces of marijuana, 91 Xanax pills, some Molly, 10 papers of LSD, eight hydrocodone pills and several thousands of dollars throughout the house

A man was arrested Wednesday night after leading police and sheriff’s deputies on a chase throughout Callaway County. Douglass L. Bowen, 41, lead Fulton police and Callaway County Sheriff’s deputies on a chase after police tried to stop his vehicle around 10 p.m. in the area of West 4th Street near Pioneer Drive. The chase

Officials at the University of Missouri System, and its flagship campus in Columbia, answered questions Wednesday about its strides in diversity, a controversial communications professor and a grim financial outlook. The state’s Joint Committee on Education hosted a hearing specifically for the UM System and the University of Missouri, with interim system president Mike Middleton,

A potentially deadly virus could be putting some Mid-Missouri pets at risk. Canine influenza cases, or dog flu cases, have recently been reported in the St. Louis area. Just like the flu in humans, the dog flu is contagious and can travel quickly. A vaccine for a new strain of the virus was developed in

Firefighters with the Mid-County Fire Protection District have worked hours of overtime this year fighting several serious fires throughout the county. Just this month, firefighters responded to at least two deadly fires, one of which left a woman dead. In January, there were a few more as well. A Camden County funeral home was considered

Tech giant Apple says it will fight a court order to help break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers. A federal judge ordered Apple to helpthe FBI bypass a self destruct feature in Syed Farook’s phone. Apple has made it very clear that this is can create dangerous backdoor for any