Month: May 2016

A man was recovering Friday after an off-duty Fulton police officer shot him during a fight. It happened around 10:00 Thursday night in the 9000 block of County Road 445 near Mokane. The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report shooting. Once on scene, deputies discovereda 29-year-old man from the Mokane area had been

Multiple agencies were working a two-vehicle crash on Route KK in Boone County Friday evening. Units responded to the crash near Applewood Creek Road close to 6:30 p.m. An ambulance did take at least one person from the scene. A deputy tells ABC 17 News that he will not rule out weather as a possibility

Lightning strikes are five times hotter than the surface of the sun. So, a human getting struck by lightning has roughly 50,000 degrees coursing through his/her body. Each year dozens of people die from lightning strikes in the United States, deaths that could have been avoided by following simple safety tips. It all begins with

A cold front moving through Friday night will leave us with drier but much cooler air for the weekend. Skies will be sunny Saturday but temperatures will struggle to get out of the 50s as a cool northwesterly wind increases to 18 mph in the afternoon. Clear skies and light winds will help temperatures fall

Mizzou softball coach Ehren Earleywine is asking his players to end their protest of the athletic department. Earleywine sent this message to ABC 17 News Friday afternoon. “The support from my team over the past couple of weeks has been the greatest compliment I’ve ever been paid by my players in 23 years of coaching.

Deputies in Callaway County have arrested two people for a burglary south of Fulton. On Thursday, authorities went to a home on County Road 403 for reports of a break-in and theft of items inside and outside the building. On Friday, following up on leads, deputies contacted Kenneth Allen and Jennifer Ritter, and reported finding

A Severe Storm Watch is in effect until 8 PM for a large portion of Mid-Missouri. Damaging winds up to 70 mph and large hail up to the size of ping pong balls are possible. A cold front will send a line of storms through Mid-Missouri from 4PM in our far northwestern counties of Chariton,

UPDATE 5/13: Columbia police identified the man Friday who was arrested in connection to a shooting in Northeast Columbia Thursday. Police say they arrested Kirk Powell just before 1:00 Thursday afternoon after responding to the 2600 block of Quail Drive for reports of a shooting. Police say witnesses saw Powellfire one shot in the air.

County jails around the country are locking up mentally ill people in record numbers – around two million people each year. “There are more mentally ill individuals in jail, in prison than there are in hospitals or treatment centers. That’s frightening,” said Anna White. Anna White is one of 33 community mental health liaisons in

A man is in the Boone County jail on Friday after deputies discovered a gun on him all while speaking with a known drug dealer. Last night around 9:30 PM a deputy with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department spotted a known drug dealer near the Super 8 Motel on Freedom drive in the Lake of

Columbia police responded to several calls for shots fired on Tupelo Place Thursday night after 10:00 p.m. Police have recovered at least three shell casings near the end of an alleyway connecting the short street to Fir Place, on the 1500 block of Tupelo. The area is just behind the Phillips 66 gas station, just

A motorcyclist was life-flighted to University Hospital Thursday night after losing control and crashing on Highway 54 in Jefferson City. It happened around 9:15 p.m., according toSgt. Doug Ruediger with the Jefferson City Police Department. Sgt. Ruediger said the motorcyclist was coming off 179 onto Highway 54 when he lost control. The motorcycle went into

After a school year of protests, negotiations and voting, a graduate student group sued the University of Missouri to recognize their union. The Coalition of Graduate Workers filed suit Wednesday in Boone County circuit court against the school system’s Board of Curators. The group, aiming to represent the 2,692 graduate assistants on the Columbia campus,

An 18-year-old woman is alive thanks, in part, to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Thursday , the patient and her family got to meet some of those troopers at MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital.The hospital’s executive director presented the troopers with a Community Hero Recognition in gratitude of their willingness to help her. The patient,

After days of tension between the Mizzou softball team and the school’s athletic department, new documents ABC 17 News obtained Thursday afternoon have revealed more details about what has prompted recent actions like the team’s playing under protest in a recent game. One document is a letter sent by the team’s Unity Council to Mizzou

Starting this coming summer, Lincoln University will start a new summer bridge program to help freshman retention rates. So far, at least 120 students have signed up for Project Jumpstart, according toLincoln University’s Dean of Student Affairs Dr. Jerome Offord, Jr. “Part of why we’re doing the program is to give students the opportunity to

The man accused of killing four Kansas City, Kansas men and one Montgomery County man appeared in court for his preliminary hearing Thursday. The court found probable cause that Pablo Serrano-Vitorino committed a felony back in March. He’s charged with the murder of Randy Nordman of New Florence, Missouri. Police believe he killed Nordman while

A man was in the Boone County jail Thursday after he was arrested in connection to a shooting that injured one person. Officials with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department tells ABC 17 News deputies responded to a reckless incident with a gun last week on Demaret Drive. Once there deputies apparently learned a 22-year-old man

A Kansas City woman could face another 15 years in prison for killing a man in eastern mid-Missouri. Cassandra Johnston was found guilty Thursday of shooting 55-year-old Edward Jefferson. In June 2011, Johnston asked Jefferson to take her and her mother and brother to Illinois. Along the way, she shot and killed Jefferson and left

A federal judge has decided to let a civil lawsuit move forward against the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The suit claims the agency violated the rights of a man who died at the Lake of the Ozarks, while he was in custody, wearing handcuffs. ABC 17 News has had extensive coverage on Brandon Ellingson. He