Month: September 2017

Sedalia police say they arrested a 16-year old boy after they found evidence from a robbery in his possession. According to the probable cause statement, in July a man called police saying he had been shot at. When police arrived on the scene, they found that the victim had been robbed. Police say the victim

Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School, Aslin Administration Building and West Middle all went on modified lockdowns on Monday fro about 20 minutes. According to the Columbia Police Department, officers were called to a shots heard in the 1700 block of Claudell West Worley. The report was cleared. Our Lady of Lourdes released the following

Morgan County deputies were dispatched to a residence off of Route TT for reports of a possible overdose on Sunday. Deputies say when they arrived on the scene, they found an unresponsive 20 year-old male on the floor of the residence. Witnesses said that the man had drank from a jar containing an unknown liquid.

On Monday, Amy Bosche, the wife of Dr. Chris Bosche, a Missouri Task Force One medical team manager, shared a tribute about her late husband with the Boone County Fire Protection District. Bosche had passed away on September 13 from an illness he contracted from responding to the World Trade Center in 2001. In the

Columbia police are investigating a reported armed robbery from early Monday morning. According to police, the robbery happened around 4:20 a.m. in the 1400 block of Grindstone Parkway. Police say a 21-year-old man woke up to the sound of an argument in his apartment. He told police he heard his roommate “fighting” with two people

TODAY: While the morning will start off mostly dry, storm chances will increase through the day. As a warm front lifts to the north, a series of upper level disturbances will track from the southwest and bring with it a chance for storms all the way into the evening hours. Highs temperatures today will top

Columbia police responded to a vehicle collision in the 400 block of Alexander Avenue on Saturday. Police say when they arrived on scene, they arrested Rickey Ricketts in connection with a previous incident that had occurred on Friday evening. On Friday, police had responded to physical domestic assault with a weapon. Police say Ricketts was

On Saturday, Dennis Whitehead was arrested for a reported burglary that took place in the 4300 block of Mexico Gravel Road. Police say the reported burglary took place on Thursday. The rear door of the residence had been kicked in and items were reportedly stolen. Officers located a document from a business in town with

Firefighters and medics responded to the West Broadway location of Gerbes supermarket after a minivan reportedly crashed into the building. According to police on scene, the driver accidentally hit the gas as she was trying to back out of the parking space. The crash caused minor damage to the building. The driver was taken to

A Columbia woman has bonded out of jail after being arrested for possession of a controlled substance and having a stolen gun. Police were called to Claudell Lane for a weapons incident Thursday night. Police say Collineice Jones went up to a man she believed had stolen her cellphone. Witnesses told police Jones showed a

The University of Missouri Police Department said it received a report of a sexual assault early Sunday. In an MU Alert sent out at 4:15 a.m. police said the assault happened around 3 a.m. in an outside area in the 500 block of Kentucky Boulevard. The only suspect description provided at the time was a

The Columbia City Council has been working on the city’s budget for fiscal year 2018 since Aug. 7. The city manager and finance staff set Monday as the final night for public comments and adjustments to the budget before the council approves it at the meeting. There are a few items on the budget that

TONIGHT: It looks dry overnight, with a small chance for stray showers. Temperatures tonight will bottom out in the mid 60s, with winds out of the northeast under 7 mph. Dense fog is possible through the night, thanks to a combination of recent rain and light winds. MONDAY: The morning will start of foggy, with

A fire severely damaged a home in Moberly early Sunday morning, officials said. The Moberly Fire Department responded to the house fire in the 400 block of Halleck Street around 2 a.m. Firefighters at the scene told ABC 17 News that the fire started in the back of the house, near the kitchen. Firefighters had

TODAY: Scattered showers and isolated t-storms will move through in the morning, shifting south of I-70 by late-morning and heading east through early afternoon as they taper off. Skies will remain mostly cloudy with high temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s with the warmer temperatures east of HWY 63. TONIGHT: It looks dry

Police have responded to the area around McKee Street Park for two separate gun-related instances this past week. Wednesday night officers found shell casings just outside the park, but no one was injured. Friday night police responded to a shots heard call to find 31-year old Nathan Taylor with a gunshot wound. Taylor died after

A 27-year-old woman was killed after crashing her car in Callaway County Saturday evening. The crash happened at 5 p.m. on County Road 220. The Highway Patrol said the driver, Sharnett Berth-Robertson, lost control of her car, went off the road and her car flipped. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers said she

The last time Columbia Regional Airport saw any measurable rain was August 27. Since then, a dry spell has been in place across the region, which has made this September a dry month. Through the night, that drying trend ends as a cold front tracking through Mid-Missouri will give way to scattered showers and storms.

TONIGHT: Storms through the night will end the dry spell in Mid-Missouri and bring some beneficial rain to the region. The storms will be slow to move into the region, as a slow moving cold front tracks into Missouri. Main influx of storms will arrive after 7 PM, with some storms initially being on the

After the acquittal of Jason Stockley came out Friday morning, some protests in St. Louis became violent. Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer, was acquitted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, following a high-speed chase in 2011. In response to the violent protests, Missouri Attorney General