Month: September 2017

UPDATE 9/6: ABC 17 News has confirmed with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department that Edwards turned himself in on Tuesday evening. ORIGINAL STORY: Boone County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a 31-year-old Jefferson City man charged with disobeying a judge’s protective order and first degree endangerment of a child, according to an official press release.

WEDNESDAY: Waking up temperatures will be chilly, as low temperatures drop into the mid to upper 40s. After a cool morning, we’ll have a mild and pleasant afternoon. Temperatures will reach the low 70s with northwesterly winds up to 13 mph under mostly sunny skies. TONIGHT: Mostly clear skies will allow temperatures to drop back

The Columbia City Council voted 6-1 to move forward with a double-lane roundabout at Green Meadows Road and Forum Boulevard. Columbia Public Works recommended the city choose that option among four other ideas to make the intersection safer and move cars through it quicker. Mayor Brian Treece cast the one vote against it, citing both

Plans for a Jefferson City neighborhood were postponed Tuesday night. The City Council indefinitely suspended the revitalization plans for the Old Munichburg district neighborhood in order to make sure state regulations are being followed first. “The next step is to ensure that we have all the ducks in order and to pass this and to

The Missouri Hospital Association said on Tuesday hospitals should have an open dialogue with law enforcement officials when it comes to hospital policy. The MHA statement comes days after video surfaced of a nurse being taken into custody at a Utah hospital. Nurse Alex Wubbels was taken into custody in July after she refused to

When the price of copper goes up, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department advises, so does the trend in copper thefts. According to NASDAQ data, copper prices have seen a large increase since 2015 and 2016. As of Tuesday, the price of copper is at $3.10 per pound, compared to January of 2015, when prices were

TONIGHT: We will cool into the mid to upper 40s by morning under clear skies as winds diminish to 5 mph from the northwest. WEDNESDAY: After a cool morning, we’ll have a mild and pleasant afternoon. Temperatures will reach the low 70s with northwesterly winds up to 12 mph under mostly sunny skies. EXTENDED: We’ll

More homebuyers in Columbia are looking for new construction and starter homes as opposed to resale homes, but the supply isn’t there. According to data from the Columbia Board of Realtors, the average selling price of a home in Boone County is between $180,000 and $200,000, give or take a few thousand. But Sean Moore,

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the DACA program will begin to be rolled back. No more applications will be accepted, but current holders are able to renew a 2-year permit if they do so in the next month. DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, allows certain illegal immigrants that entered the country

At 185 mph and with gusts up to 225, Hurricane Irma remains one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, Irma continues to show signs of strengthening as it approaches the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico. Hurricane watches and warnings have already been posted in advance of

A Jefferson City man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to a conspiracy to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine. Mario Alberto De La Cruz, 43, admitted that he participated in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Columbia and other locations from Aug. 2 to Nov. 10 of 2015. According to the official

Missouri’s attorney general is suing a computer hardware company after it settled a federal dispute over security flaws in its products. The petition claims Lenovo, Inc. misled users of its laptops in 2014 about software pre-loaded onto the machines. The software, called VisualDiscovery and created by Superfish, would work as a proxy between the computer

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department says CrimeStoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect(s) responsible for breaking an elementary school. Deputies say they responded to Two Mile Prairie Elementary School on North Route Z in late August. There, they found four classroom trailers burglarized and discovered electrical copper wiring

A man from Springfield, Missouri was charged with forceable sodomy, second degree statutory rape, second degree statutory sodomy and age misrepresentation with intent to solicit a minor after meeting a minor on Facebook and raping her. On March 22 of 2016, the victim reported to authorities that she met a man on Facebook who went

ABC 17 News has confirmed with the Columbia Police Department that officers were called to the Aslin Administration Building at 1818 Worley Street for a check subject. One man was taken into custody after a foot chase ended in Columbia Square Townhomes, but no further information is being made available. West Middle School went on

UPDATE 2:07 P.M.: According to Columbia Public Schools, West Middle was on a precautionary modified lockdown due to the suspicious person at Aslin Administration Building. The administration building was on lockdown since the person was in the building. The school was on lockdown for 15 minutes. ORIGINAL STORY: West Middle School was put on lockdown

UPDATE 9/5: The autopsy results on the body found in the Missouri River near Malta Bend on Monday identify the victim as male. The autopsy also revealed that the body was in the water for a long period of time, making the body difficult to identify. ORIGINAL STORY: The Saline County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Monday

An accident investigation is pending after a vehicle crash on Garth Avenue and Business Loop 70 East. On Tuesday, Columbia police officers were called to the scene of the crash. According to dispatch notes, there were two vehicles involved in the crash and one vehicle may have left the scene. ‘A woman was taken to

UPDATE 11 a.m.: The Missouri State Highway Patrol released its final numbers from the Labor Day weekend counting period. MSHP troopers investigated 317 traffic crashes starting from 6 p.m. Friday through 11:59 p.m. Monday. Eight of those crashes involved fatalities. Troopers made 136 driving while intoxicated arrests and 128 on-the-road drug-related arrests. On the water,

TODAY: It will be a gorgeous Monday afternoon across the region, as highs will only climb into the mid 70s. Thanks to drier air filtering into Mid-Missouri from the north, we’ll see plentiful sunshine today with low humidity. It will be a breezy day though, with winds out of the northwest up to 13 mph