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ABC 17 News’ own Marissa Hallowed speaks to Valley Hope Admissions Manager Dan Bridges about Addiction Treatment at Valley Hope. For more information about Valley Hope Addiction Treatment & Recovery, click here.
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ABC 17 News’ own Marissa Hallowed speaks to Valley Hope Admissions Manager Dan Bridges about Continuum of Care at Valley Hope. For more information about Valley Hope Addiction Treatment & Recovery, click here.
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Weather Alert Day: Dangerous heat has arrived, and will stick around all week
The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the potential of dangerous heat through Friday. All of this week will present a risk of dangerous heat. Heat indexes will largely range from 100-105 degrees, with some localized values of 105+ possible. Heat Advisories are in place through Friday night as
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Missouri history: A timeline
Missouri’s documented history precedes the founding of the United States of America by hundreds of years, with archeological evidence dating as far back as 1250 C.E. Below is a timeline highlighting some major points in Missouri history. To see a more extensive timeline, view the Missouri State Historical Society interactive on which this article was
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Sponsored Content ABC 17 News’ own Marissa Hallowed speaks to Valley Hope Admissions Manager Dan Bridges about Recovery Month at Valley Hope. For more information about Valley Hope Addiction Treatment & Recovery, click here.
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Bellwether turned red: Missouri’s shifting 200-year political history
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) While Americans celebrate 250 years of freedom in July, Missouri will reach 205 years of being a state in August. When Missouri became a state in 1821, it was at the center of a war between America and itself: the Civil War. “Missouri played an important role very early on in the
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Alert issued after dementia patients walks away from Marshall nursing home
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Authorities are asking for help to find a woman with dementia who walked away from a Marshall nursing home amid extreme heat on Tuesday. Shirley L. Swift, 89, was last seen at Hartland Residential Care Center at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to an alert issued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Gasconade County man accused of killing man living in his garage, dumping body in river
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Gasconade County man was charged last week after investigators accused him of killing a man who had been living in his garage in 2018. Daniel W. Russell was charged Thursday with first-degree murder, abandonment of a corpse and evidence tampering. The case had been sealed until this week. The Gasconade County
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Venezuelans deported by the US hours before the deadly earthquake struck are missing
CNN By Osmary Hernández and Lex Harvey, CNN La Guaira, Venezuela (CNN) — Relatives are desperately searching for their loved ones after a hotel holding more than 100 Venezuelans who were deported by the US on Wednesday collapsed during deadly earthquakes that same evening. A deportation flight from Miami to Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar International Airport
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Pope Leo faces first major crisis of papacy from rebel Catholic group
By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has made a last-ditch appeal to a rebel group of traditionalist Catholics who plan to ordain bishops without his approval, saying they will be committing a “sin of extreme gravity” if they proceed. Just over a year into his tenure, Leo is facing the first
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Man arrested for Monday morning stabbing in Mexico
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Police in Mexico arrested a man for allegedly stabbing someone on Monday. Police Chief Brice Mesko said in a news release on Tuesday that Darrell Smith, 42, was taken into custody for allegedly stabbing a man in the 700 block of Singleton in Mexico. Mesko said officers were dispatched to the
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Judge keeps parts of Columbia Public Schools lawsuit over charter school
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A Cole County judge will let some of Columbia Public Schools’ lawsuit over a new charter school in Boone County proceed. Judge Emily Fretwell decided on Monday to let CPS pursue claims against the state, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and the State Board of Education over a 2024 law that permitted
Continue Reading George Washington was a dancer and 3 other things you didn’t know about our first president
By Amanda Sansone and Michael Yoshida George Washington is on the $1 bill; he’s got a monument named after him in our nation’s capital; a state in the Pacific Northwest that bears his moniker, and he chopped down that cherry tree and told his father he “could not tell a lie.” Well, that “fact” about
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