Month: April 2017

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has closed a complaint against a Sturgeon alderman. Former Police Chief Greg Halderman filed the complaint March 9 against First Ward Alderman Tyler Patterson, claiming he copied a personnel file. In a letter sent to the City of Sturgeon Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, Casey Lawrence with the Attorney General’s

TONIGHT: It looks quiet and mild tonight with a partly cloudy to mostly clear sky. Temperatures will be warm again, only dropping to the mid to low 60s with southerly winds under 10 mph. SATURDAY: Much like the past several mornings, Saturday will start off on the mild side. Temperatures will be in the low

Maintenance work will close one lane of Interstate 70 in Boone County next week. Monday night MoDOT will begin the maintenance work at the Missouri River Bridge. The lane closures will last from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. Monday through Friday. MoDOT said message boards and signs were put up near the work zones to

University of Missouri School of Medicine students are raising money for childhood cancer research this weekend. The event will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Logboat Brewery on Fay Street in Columbia. The fundraising event supports the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. At it, supporters will shave their heads as a way to show

TODAY: Another pleasant day as far as temperatures are concerned are on track through the afternoon, the only wrench in the forecast is isolated showers and storms through the day. Most locations will see a few sprinkles to light rain, with some thunder possible. The rain chance looks to come to an end from 3PM-5PM

The Cole County Sheriff’s Office is planning to increase DWI enforcement as summer starts. The Sheriff’s Office said it initiate increase enforcement in conjunction with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration under its “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. The Sheriff’s Office was awarded traffic grants to fund DWI enforcement and hazardous moving violations

CrimeStoppers is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest in a Boone County arson. The fire was reported last weekend at the dead end of Bush Landing at the Missouri River. Deputies and members of the Southern Boone County Fire District were called to the scene Sunday morning after a man reported that

TODAY: Isolated showers through 4PM with temperatures warming to 79-81 today. TONIGHT: It looks dry and quiet with skies clear and overnight lows in the mid to low 60s. SATURDAY: Slight Rain chance from 1PM-4PM near HWY 24 and north-most locations will be dry during the day under a partly sunny sky with temperatures reaching

Law alarms are among the calls that keep officers the most busy. Dispatch records show authorities have already responded to more than 1200 calls county wide since the beginning of the year. Back in 2016, Columbia police said they alone responded to more than 3700 calls with only 1.7% considered valid. On Wednesday, Chief Ken

TODAY: Most locations will be dry for the morning commute. There is a slight rain chance for Cooper, Howard, and Boone counties from 5AM-8AM where 0.01″ to 0.05″ of rain is possible. Meanwhile, a line of showers to our west will increase over HWY 65 by 8AM and work into US 63 by 12PM-2PM. There

A mid-Missouri woman charged with abandoning a corpse was found unfit to defend herself Thursday. Deborah Berardi appeared in Boone County Court for allegedly abandoning Steven Summa’s body on January 30 in a home on Leeway Drive. Berardi was caught by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on January 31 after a warrant was issued. On

Columbia utility leaders will present its plans for sewer repairs and maintenance for the upcoming year. The interested parties meeting took place Thursday at City Hall from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The meeting went over the “44,000 linear feet of sewer line, 400 manholes, and 310 lateral connection repairs” the city plans to tackle in

A makeshift basketball court sits at the end of Edenton Boulevard in north Columbia. It’s one of the few community spaces in the north part of the city for children to gather. “I was very disturbed about our children having no type of activities, no positive influence, and only having each other to gather from,

DWI checkpoints across the state could be at risk of losing their state funding for the next fiscal year. Missouri House Bill 4, a budget bill, would only appropriate $1 to fund DWI checkpoints and the rest of the funding would go toward saturation patrols. Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick, the author of the bill, said local

The Jefferson City Planning and Zoning Commission approved a resolution Thursday to adopt the Capital Area Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan to the city’s comprehensive plan. There have been 20 pedestrian-involved crashes in the past year in Jefferson City, including one deadly crash, according to the Missouri Statewide Traffic Accident Records System, or STARS. There have

On Thursday night, a crash temporarily shut down part of Old Plank Road and Providence Road in southern Columbia. The crash happened before 7: 50 p.m. near Rock Bridge Elementary School and involved two vehicles. The Missouri State Highway Patrol directed traffic while the area was closed and tow trucks were brought in to remove

For the first time in the agency’s history, the Columbia Police Department is applying for accreditation. “It’s a three year process,” Sgt. Robert Dochler, who is managing the project, said. “We’re six months into it. We have until September of 2019 to schedule our first on-site visit from the assessors and achieve accreditation.” The department

The search for the dean of the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri is now suspended. According to Christian Basi, the spokesperson for MU, Provost Stokes wanted to have more conversations about the “future direction of the school.” Basi says they had a strong candidate pool. MU says it is a

Fulton Police responded to a Fulton business in the 1200 block of Bluff Street on Thursday for a report of a male subject exposing himself to employees. The employee that reported the incident said that the man had driven through their drive through multiple times, exposing himself to her. When officers got to the business,

A car struck a utility pole in Jefferson City Thursday afternoon causing nearly 500 Ameren Missouri customers to lose power. Ameren said it happened at 4:08 p.m. near West Truman Boulevard and Constitution Drive. The company also said power will be restored to a majority of the affected customers by 5:15 p.m. ABC 17 News