Month: December 2018

As University of Missouri Health Care continues its efforts to buy the St. Mary’s hospitals in Jefferson City and Mexico, many critics of the deal are calling on Missouri lawmakers to halt the acquisition. State Sen. Caleb Rowden, who represents the district that houses MU Health’s Columbia headquarters, said in an interview Friday that there

A teenager has been arrested and charged in a high-speed police chase that started in Moniteau County and ended in a crash in Jefferson City. Ariyan T. Akins, 17, of Jefferson City, has been charged with felony resisting arrest by fleeing. She was being held Friday in the Moniteau County Jail on a $25,000 bond.

Authorities have arrested a man suspected of driving a getaway car after a Sedalia bank robbery. The Sedalia Democrat reports that David A. Graves, 52, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony stealing. He is suspected of waiting outside the Central Bank in Sedalia on Wednesday while another man went inside and demanded that a

Columbia’s only roller rink is being sold. The owner said Friday in a news release that he is selling the rink, which was built in 1938, to Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity. Willie Trent has been trying to sell the property as a roller rink for several years unsuccessfully, the Trent family said in the

TONIGHT: Skies will remain partly cloudy tonight as temperatures continue to drop through the night. Overnight lows by morning will drop into the upper teens with wind chills in the lower teens. Winds will be out of the northwest 6-10 mph. SATURDAY: Although we’ll see some sunshine mixed with clouds, it will stay cold with

Planned Parenthood is asking a federal court to suspend a state regulation that the organization says is preventing it from getting a license to perform local abortions. Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains filed the renewed motion for a preliminary injunction in its case against the state of Missouri late last week. The clinic’s

State Sen. Caleb Rowden is ready to take on a bigger role in Missouri politics in 2019. The Columbia Republican will be the Senate’s majority leader when the session begins Jan. 9, with several major issues looming large. Among them is transportation funding after the rejection of an increase in the gas sales tax. During

No one was hurt when a fire started in the kitchen of a Columbia apartment building Friday. A Columbia Fire Department official said firefighters were called early Friday afternoon to 1609 Windsor St. after neighbors smelled smoke. Firefighters found the fire in the kitchen of one of the apartments and were able to stop it

A Jefferson City woman charged in the death of a 4-year-old boy is seeking a change of venue. Quatavia Givens’ public defender on Sunday filed a motion seeking the change in the case involving the death of 4-year-old Darnell Gray, according to online court records. Police have said Givens was Gray’s caregiver. The boy’s body

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office and lawyers for a man condemned to die for a Columbia triple killing have asked for a stay in his case pending the resolution of another death-row challenge. Attorneys for Ernest Lee Johnson and Attorney General Josh Hawley’s office filed the joint motion in federal court last week. In the

A Subway restaurant employee says she is humiliated and is considering legal action after a Howard County sheriff’s deputy posted a photo of her on Facebook making light of her condition after she had a seizure. Laurie Roth, general manager at the Fayette restaurant, took a screen grab of the post on Bradley Young’s Facebook

The Mizzou Tigers are headed to Memphis to play in the Liberty Bowl on Monday against Oklahoma State. Kickoff is at 2:45 PM. If you’re heading down to spend time in Memphis to ring in the New Year and cheer on the Tigers you may need to grab the umbrella or poncho! Meteorologist Brigit Mahoney

More than 600 pieces of legislation have been pre-filed in the Missouri House and Senate since December 1. Among them is a measure that has been filed and debated many times before in the legislature, but has always failed to become truly agreed and finally passed. The ‘Narcotics Control Act‘ is aimed at curbing the

FRIDAY: It will be much colder with highs in the mid 30s with wind chills in the 20s. Skies will gradually break up to partly cloudy skies by late afternoon with west to northwest winds at 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph. Winds will slowly diminish through the evening. TONIGHT: Skies will remain partly cloudy

Lawyers for the University of Missouri are asking a federal judge to dismiss former and current administrators from several counts in a case alleging the school violated the civil rights of a student found responsible for violating a sexual harassment policy. Jeremy Rowles, a black man and a former Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology, believes

TONIGHT: Skies will remain mostly cloudy and winds shift out of the northwest overnight. Winds will be breezy once again with sustained winds up to 18 mph and gusts up 23 mph. This will cool us down into the upper 20s with wind chill values in the upper teens by morning. FRIDAY: It will be

One Benton County man is in custody after being accused of involvement in a burglary and stealing a tractor. Authorities arrested 29-year-old Dustin Mahan on Dec. 22 after a foot chase with Benton County deputies. Before, being arrested, Mahan was seen taking items from a building. The owner showed up to find Mahan stealing property

ABC 17’s Andrew Kauffman and Tyler Murry are in Memphis, TN with the Mizzou football team as they breakdown the Tigers’ upcoming matchup in the Liberty Bowl.

State Rep. Chuck Bayse prefiled a bill Friday that would keep local districts from starting school more than 10 days before Labor Day, the first Monday in September. If that bill became law, Columbia Public Schools would have to move it’s traditional start date from the second week of August at least one week later.

CenturyLink customers around the country were affected by service outages Thursday. Media outlets across the nation reported on the outages. CenturyLink has been quiet about the cause and extent of those outages, simply saying in a tweet that its network “is experiencing a disruption affecting customer services.” The CenturyLink network is still experiencing a disruption