Month: May 2018

TUESDAY: We’ll start the day mild and sunny but temperatures will warm quickly, reaching the upper 70s by noon and into the lower 80s in the afternoon. It will be a bit breezy with southeast winds at 12-16 mph, gusting to 20 mph at times as clouds increase late in the day. TONIGHT: A warm

Lawmakers and university leaders fought for funding consideration Monday during a conference meeting. There were some intense exchanges as some Senators and Representatives discussed how to fund state universities while maintaining a balanced budget. “You keep talking about the students and how many [universities] have, but you don’t fund that way,” said Sen. Jamilah Nasheed

A St. Louis judge allowed Gov. Eric Greitens’ former mistress to testify at the governor’s upcoming invasion of privacy trial, but barred three witnesses prosecutors planned on calling as experts. Judge Rex Burlison said the mismanagement of evidence and sworn testimony given about it by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s private investigator, William Don Tisaby,

Trash littered Rosemary Lane after a street party caused a police response last Friday. ABC 17 News was told that more than a thousand people who attended the party on Rosemary Lane didn’t clean up their trash. Right now, Columbia is in the process of deciding whether to issue a fine or to ask whoever

A lawsuit was filed against the School of Osage and Mark Edwards, a teacher at the School of Osage at the time of the incident, after the teacher was accused of sodomizing a student. According to a probable cause statement, a student told investigators Edwards touched her inappropriately on two separate occasions in April. The

TONIGHT: A calm and clear night is in store with temperatures dropping into the mid 50s by sunrise. Winds will be out of the east and shifting to the southeast up to 9 mph. TUESDAY: We’ll start the day mild and sunny but temperatures will warm quickly, reaching the upper 70s by noon and into

Randy Gooch will be the new chief operating officer for Columbia Public Schools. Gooch will oversee the facilities and construction services, custodial services and transportation departments for CPS. “For the past seven years, Gooch has served in a leadership role at the Columbia Area Career Center. He has more than 20 years of experience in

Three shootings in Columbia over the last couple days. One that left two people hurt and one last week that left one man dead. Law enforcement told ABC 17 that they notice a link between warmer weather and violent crimes. “We definitely see an uptick of criminal activity in the warmer months,” said Detective Tom

A Fayette man is facing charges after allegedly threatening to blow up a business in the 300 block of Nebraska Avenue Saturday. Columbia police officers were called to Battery Outfitters just after 5 p.m. for reports of a bomb threat. Police said Clinton Ewings went into the business and told employees he planned to blow

UPDATE (7:45 a.m.): Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed the names of the two people who were taken into custody after a multi-county pursuit ended in Boone County Monday morning. Troopers said Sandor Spies, 30, of St. Louis and Michael Berner, 37, of St. Louis, were the men they took into custody. Online arrest records showed

On May 6, 2018, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 9-1-1 call of a man asking for an immediate response to an ongoing assault on his wife. The man was not in the same location as his wife during the assault and told authorities to go to 14968 Hwy N, Stover, Missouri. When

The Miller County Sheriff’s Office was called to the St. Elizabeth area for an assault investigation. The investigation revealed that a 21-year-old man from Taos was stabbed in the neck and taken to the hospital. The victim’s car was also taken without his consent. The investigation identified Ryan Scott Garvin, 23, of Jefferson City, as

TODAY: It’s a gorgeous and sunny Monday afternoon across Mid-Missouri. Temperatures will climb into the upper 70s and lower 80s through the day, accompanied by an easterly breeze up to 12 mph. TONIGHT: A calm and clear night is in store with temperatures dropping into the mid 50s by sunrise. Winds will be out of

MONDAY: The day will start out on the cool side, but as the sun begins to rise temperatures will warm quickly. We stay dry with ample sunshine throughout the day as temperatures will make their way to the upper 70s this afternoon with just a light breeze out of the northeast. TONIGHT: A calm and

No one is hurt, but suspect or suspects are still on loose after a shooting on Oak Street Saturday night around 11:00 p.m. Neighbors told ABC 17 that they just moved in and with the arrival of their newborn son, they may consider moving. Andrew Wood and his fiance thought the 400 Block of Oak

ABC 17 is tracking another severe storm risk headed into Wednesday. We could begin seeing strong storms as early as Wednesday morning as a strong storm system pushes into the area, follow by storms later in the evening. WEDNESDAY Our latest risk zone contains most of eastern Mid-Missouri and we’ll have to keep an eye

TONIGHT: Scattered showers and storms will continue to slide southward across much of eastern Mid-Missouri through 9pm. Most of that activity will begin to diminish as we continue to lose daytime heating. No more severe weather is going to occur overnight. Lows will be cool behind this front, we drop to 50 degrees by sunrise.

UPDATE 3 P.M.: Chief David Gehm said the fire marshal has ruled the fire as electrical in nature. He said investigators believe the fire started inside the warehouse, but the exact point of origin is unknown. Gehm said firefighters used more than 160,000 gallons of water to put out the fire. UPDATE AT 8:30 A.M.:

The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested a New Jersey man Sunday morning after finding about 20 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop. Sgt. Scott White said troopers pulled over Charles Greenidge, 56, of Pleasant Hills, near mile marker 95 for a traffic violation. Highway Patrol K9 Rony found the marijuana inside coolers and trash

A Columbia man is being held without bond, accused of masturbating in front of two 12-year-old girls while inside a fast food restaurant. Officers were called to the McDonald’s on Stadium around 6:50 p.m. Saturday for the incident. Police said Gregory Wolfe was speaking to the two girls and began masturbating. Wolfe was arrested on