Month: October 2016

The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County Sunday morning. It happened around 10 a.m. in the westbound lanes at mile marker 144 just outside of Kingdom City. Troopers said the driver, Robert Jones, 46, drove off the left side of the road, overcorrected, flipped his car

TONIGHT: The cool temperatures will stay overnight under mostly cloudy skies with lows in the mid 50s. MONDAY: Mostly cloudy skies will persist for the morning and the early afternoon before clearing to partly cloudy skies by the evening. This will keep temperatures cooler than expected with still warm but pleasant highs in the upper

ABC 17 News is working to find out what caused a large power outage for Columbia Water and Light customers Sunday afternoon. According to the company’s outage map, the outage happened at 2:35 p.m. and affected approximately 1,421 customers north of I-70 from North Rebel Drive to North Providence Road. One resident on Parkside Drive

Law enforcement agencies across mid-Missouri are cracking down on drunk driving this weekend, as they often do on holiday weekends. Some agencies say Halloween has as many drunk driving incidents as Saint Patrick’s Day and New Year’s Eve. From 2007 through 2011, across the United States 52% of the traffic fatalities that happened that were

Columbia police are investigating a crash that sent three people to the hospital. The crash happened at 1:30 a.m. at the intersection of Providence and Stewart. ABC 17 News crews saw a red pick-up truck with heavy front end damage and a black Scion car with rear-end damage. Police on scene told ABC 17 News

A 21-year-old man from Cole County is dead after driving off the road early Sunday morning. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports, Dylan Bias from Centertown, Missouri, drove off the left side of Route U in Cole County. The report says he hit a fence and a tree. The report says Bias was

TODAY: Our Sunday forecast is looking dry and cooler with our highs reaching only to the mid 60s due to a passing cold front transitioning our wind to a northerly direction. Although this is still unseasonably warm, it will still feel cooler today then yesterday. Especially with persisting clouds developing towards the afternoon hours and

UPDATE: 10:00 a.m.: According to Columbia police, 28 year old Vanessa Beatty and James T. Carter II were the victims in Saturday morning’s head on collision on I-70. Police say the crash happened as Beatty, driving a 2013 Hyundai Sonata, was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes near mile marker 125. Carter, in a Buick

The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to two different boat crashes at the Gravois Arm at the Lake of the Ozarks Saturday. The first crash happened at 11:10 a.m. at mile marker 5.5. Troopers said a boat hit another boat from the rear side. The passenger, 73-year-old Ronald Heffkamp, was taken to the hospital with

TONIGHT: It will be a warm night for the end of October with lows in near 60 degrees- nearly 15 degrees above normal low temperatures. Winds will be from the south around 6 mph under clear skies overnight. SUNDAY: Mid-Missouri will experience a slight break in these warm temperatures as cold front moves through Sunday

The Mizzou football team continued its struggles Saturday, losing 35-21 at home to Kentucky. It’s the Tigers fourth loss in a row. MU quickly fell behind 21-0, and it only got worse from there. Mizzou gave up more than 500 yards of offense for the fourth straight game. Kentucky rushed for 377 yards and 3

TODAY: These above average temperatures will continue into today with our high temperature reaching to the lower to mid 80s. Conditions will remain mostly sunny and dry with winds from the SE around 10-15 mph with gusts up to 24 mph. SUNDAY: We will experience a slight break in these warm temperatures as cold front

Prominent sociologist and television commentator Marc Lamont Hill gave the hundreds of people in the Anheuser-Busch Natural Resource Center – create chaos or community. Hill moderated a panel of several students and faculty, both current and former, for the Department of Black Studies’ “One Year Later” event Friday night. The night featured music and poetry

The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Boone County Fire Dept. responded to a car crash on Highway 63 Friday night. The crash happened north of Jefferson City just before 8:00 p.m. Fire officials told ABC 17 News that a car was traveling northbound and then flipped, landing in the southbound lanes. Traffic slowed for

Law enforcement officers continue to search parts of mid-Missouri for a man accused of burglary on Friday night. According to the Camden County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were involved in a car chase on Old South 5 near Greenware Road in Camdenton around 3 p.m. on Thursday. Deputies said the vehicle stopped at a dead end

An elevator that was under renovation at Paquin Tower is now open to residents. Several elevator outages at Paquin Tower caused some inconvenience for residents over the past few months, but the Columbia Housing Authority tells ABC 17 News that only a few repairs are left for the elevator to be fully functioning by Monday.

A man arrested in northeast Columbia for $460 in counterfeit money was out of jail Friday. Boone County deputies said John Alexander was arrested Thursday night after a counterfeit bill was reported at the Phillips 66 off Route B. Investigators said Alexander was also stopped last weekend with 23 bills, all containing the same serial

Jefferson City police and the Cole County Sheriff’s Office are stepping up patrols Monday night to keep trick-or-treaters safe. Halloween is consistently one of the top three days for pedestrian injuries and deaths, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And the CDC estimates children are four times more likely to be hit by

All scores will be updated until they’re final. Jefferson City 46 at Blue Springs 56 Final Smith-Cotton 17 at Belton 28 Final Raytown 13 at Battle 44 Final Moberly 14 at Hannibal 49 Final Warrenton 28 at Helias 63 Final Christian 35 at Southern Boone 56 Final Fulton 6 at Blair Oaks 42 Final Eldon

In 11 days, we we’ll go to the voting booth and select a new president, as well as, local and state leaders to represent us here at home. Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler will be on the ballot for some Missourians as she is seeking re-election to Missouri’s 4th U.S. House District. The 3-term Republican is running