HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge has found a former Moberly police officer guilty in the murder of a woman who confronted him at his front door, Judge Robert Koffman found David Heyde guilty of second-degree murder in the case of Baily Scott at the end of his bench trial Friday morning. Koffman ruled that there
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County grand jury on Friday indicted a Columbia man accused of killing his romantic partner and disposing of her body in a trash bin that was found in a creek. Andrew Acton is accused of strangling or smothering the 47-year-old woman sometime between Oct. 1, 2025, and May 10, 2026.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man was charged Friday with two counts of child enticement — the latest in a string of defendants charged with similar crimes this week. John Binu, 25, tried to meet with two 16-year-old girls on Thursday for sex after meeting them online, according to a probable cause statement. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Norm Ruebling, the cofounder of a Columbia airport shuttle business and longtime local musician, died on Thursday. Ruebling helped found the MO-X Doc & Norm direct shuttle service in Columbia, taking people to and from the St. Louis and Kansas City airports. The business posted about his passing on Facebook on
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By Max Foster, Caitlin Danaher, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry and Meghan will stay in royal residence next month during their first trip to the United Kingdom in four years, raising hopes of a potential rapprochement with the rest of the royal family. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be joined by their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office filed one count of driving while intoxicated against former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel on Friday, according to court records. Pinkel was arrested on July 7, 2025, but no charges had been filed until now. According to the probable cause statement, Pinkel flagged down a state trooper
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Jim Spain, a faculty member and administrator at the University of Missouri for more than three decades, will retire. According to the university, Spain joined the MU faculty in 1990 as an extension dairy specialist, before starting service as the vice provost for undergraduate studies in 2007. At a meeting of the
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By Oren Liebermann, Sean Lyngaas, and Charbel Mallo, CNN (CNN) — Israel will withdraw from two areas in southern Lebanon, transferring the sites to the Lebanese military, under an initial agreement signed Friday after four days of talks in Washington. The deal, which both sides framed as a first step, comes as Israel has been
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TODAY: Friday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day for flood potential and a few strong storms this afternoon. The newsroom received reports of flooding late Thursday as heavy rain persisted across mid-Missouri. This immediate flood threat has subsided with a lull in rain overnight, but more rain is forecast, leaving a threat for additional
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police in Bloomington, Illinois, say a suspect in a Mid-Missouri casino robbery was arrested without incident this week. Hollis C. Vanleer Jr., 21, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Bloomington police and U.S. Marshals, according to a release from the Bloomington Police Department. Police arrested Vanleer during a traffic stop, and he was
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By Andi Babineau, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — A Utah judge in the case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk ruled Friday to hold a prosecutor in civil contempt for violating a pretrial publicity order but opted to leave the death penalty in place as a possible outcome in the murder trial. The
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By Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, Arpita Dasika, CNN (CNN) — As several criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s foes continue to flail, federal prosecutors are now ushering one of his biggest critics to a conviction. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Stover woman was seriously injured during an accident in Camden County on Thursday morning. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 65-year-old Stover woman was driving in a 2010 Dodge Nitro southbound on Missouri Highway 5 north of Harvest Road. Troopers said the vehicle blew a tire and skidded off
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By Steven Jiang, Mike Valerio, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A small aircraft appeared to have struck the tallest building in China’s capital on Friday afternoon, in a shocking incident in one of the world’s most fortified cities. Dramatic footage from Beijing posted on social media showed debris falling from the 109-story CITIC Tower, also known
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By Uriel Blanco, Mary Triny Mena, Hira Humayun, Camille Rodríguez Montilla, CNN (CNN) — In Venezuela’s coastal state of La Guaira, which was hardest hit in the massive twin earthquakes on Wednesday, residents said they spent the night awake and reported that several people remained trapped in the rubble after severe damage to dozens of
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By Alexandra Banner, CNN President Donald Trump will present the World Cup trophy in New Jersey on July 19 — and depending on who wins, the ceremony could be very awkward. He’s waged war against one country in the tournament, imposed tariffs on others and traded barbs with leaders whose teams could end up standing
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Budget time is here again for schools, whose fiscal year begins July 1. That means administrators and school boards are facing some thorny outlooks, some worse than others, when it comes to funding. The Missouri General Assembly didn’t provide the funding increase that educators had sought last session, and school districts say that puts them
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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — After two decades behind bars and with few options left, Marquez Powell sat down several years ago and wrote a letter from a rural Georgia prison more than 100 miles from his Atlanta home. It would eventually help win his freedom. After being prosecuted at the age of 20,
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CNN, POOL, VTV, VANTOR, @DEPTOFWAR, @DELCYRODRIGUEZV By Jessie Yeung, Michael Rios, Taylor Ward, Issy Ronald, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers are desperately searching through piles of rubble in Venezuela after the country was rocked by two powerful earthquakes on Wednesday, leaving scores of people dead and widespread destruction in a country already beset by
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By Zahra Ullah, Katharina Krebs, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Russian-installed authorities declared a state of emergency in Crimea on Friday, as repeated, intensified Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula lead to widespread power outages and fuel shortages. Blackouts have plagued Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-controlled Crimea, for days. The Kremlin-installed governor of the city,
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