MARIES COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) – An 86-year-old man drowned on Saturday at a Maries County lake. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Warren Cooper of Dixon drowned in the Rinquelin Trail Lake Conservation Area around 4:15 p.m. The drowning report said Cooper fell into the water when he slipped on the boat ramp while getting
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(Editor’s note, 6/16: An earlier version of the story misidentified the gender of the person involved in the crash.) COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A crash on Saturday evening closed part of a lane on Highway 63 in north Columbia and gave a man serious injuries. A Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report said 27-year-old Madison
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A Boone County grand jury indicted a man on Friday accused of killing his ex-wife and her mother. Randall Fox, 51, faces two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of tampering with evidence. The court set a new arraignment date for July 1 at
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The Callaway County prosecutor will not file charges against the man who shot and killed another man outside of a bar earlier this year.
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A Sturgeon man who died after an hours-long standoff with law enforcement Tuesday was on probation and wanted for an assault earlier that day.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – A broken clock hangs on the wall in the Capitol Kids business on Ford Street in Jefferson City. The time reads 11:32, forever frozen by the damage an EF3 tornado did to the building in May 2019. Swanson also remembers feeling frozen. “Sitting on the curb in the daylight thinking
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Editor’s note: Hanneken’s name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is leaning toward hiring a consultant to help set up the mayor’s proposed Office of Violence Prevention. Deputy City Manager Matt Unrein told ABC 17 News the city manager’s office was “being led to an idea” of bringing on a consultant
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Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe will be one of many U.S. mayors taking a trip to Switzerland this month.
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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (KMIZ) Convicted murderer Brian Dorsey was executed on Tuesday evening, Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman Karen Pojmann stated in a news conference. Officials were given the OK to administer the lethal injection to Dorsey at 6:01 p.m. He was dead by 6:11 p.m. The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Dorsey’s
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A southern Illinois town is preparing to host several events around its second solar eclipse in seven years.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Cole County first responders took one person to the hospital on Monday night after a storm flooded roads across the city. Jefferson City Fire Department assistant chief Jay Niemeyer told ABC 17 News that firefighters had to help people from three cars stuck in the water on Edgewood Drive and
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) – Callaway County will stop providing insurance benefits to suspended sheriff Clay Chism. County prosecutor Ben Miller told ABC 17 News that the county plans to cease health and life insurance benefits to Chism after March 31. County human resources director Leah Laramore said the county pays $600 a month for an
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) – One person died after a shooting in southern Callaway County on Saturday morning. The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that its deputies were dispatched to the 8000 block of State Road CC outside of Steedman at 1:41 a.m. The post said an employee of a business shot a
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The state’s public safety director will soon decide whether to punish suspended Callaway County Sheriff Clay Chism for a series of incidents involving Chism drinking alcohol on and off the clock.
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Thousands of fans are expected to attend Wednesday’s Super Bowl Victory Parade in Kansas City.
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LAS VEGAS (KMIZ) – It doesn’t take long to find reflections of New York, Paris and Egypt along the Las Vegas Strip. But below the soaring monuments, a man in a cow costume and red Chiefs shirt roams the streets. “I did it snowblowing, and so I was like ‘Why not? We’re a cow town,'”
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LAS VEGAS (KMIZ) Many Super Bowl attendees are putting some cash on the line for this year’s game. The American Gaming Association estimates that Americans will put more than $23 billion up in sports bets on the game. That survey reflects a 44% increase from last year’s wagering. While Missourians are still not allowed to
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Kathy Coker made sure she had plenty of red Kansas City Chiefs gear to match the football team’s jerseys for Super Bowl LVIII.
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LAS VEGAS (KMIZ) Mark and Dana Poese booked their trip from Stewartsville, Missouri, to Las Vegas this summer. A Super Bowl win would cap a season that’s taken them all over the world. The Kansas City-area couple said their experience at last year’s Super Bowl — when the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles
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