COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A school bus with 17 middle and high school students from the Jefferson City School District was involved in a crash on Thursday morning. School district spokeswoman Ryan Burns told ABC 17 News that a car rear-ended the bus on the way to school on Route T at Parkview Road in St.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Voters will send three brand new members to the Jefferson City Schools Board of Education in the April 7 election. Those candidates will replace outgoing members Brad Bates, Scott Hovis and Suzanne Luther. A majority of the board will have less than a year of experience running the district — board member
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Ryan Towner, a candidate for the Jefferson City Board of Education. Towner is one of seven candidates seeking three seats. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome, everybody, to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Gretchen Duckworth, a candidate for the Jefferson City Board of Education. Duckworth is one of seven candidates seeking three seats. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome, everybody to
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ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Trent Vallandingham, a candidate for the Jefferson City Board of Education. He is one of seven candidates seeking three seats. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome everyone to the ABC 17
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Cierra Griffin, a candidate for the Jefferson City Board of Education. Griffin is one of seven candidates seeking three seats. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome, everybody, to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Kris Scheperle, a candidate for the Jefferson City Board of Education. Scheperle is one of seven candidates seeking three seats. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome everybody, to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Michelle Rodemeyer, a candidate for the Jefferson City Board of Education. Rodemeyer is one of seven candidates seeking three seats. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome, everybody, to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Boone County Road and Bridge closed a bridge in the southern part of the county Thursday afternoon. The department announced in a news release that it closed the Rippeto Road bridge over the Bonne Femme Creek at Harold Cunningham Drive due to a “bridge approach failure.” Road maintenance supervisor Chris Jennings
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A candidate for the Columbia Board of Education said he’s fixed issues with his campaign committee that stopped him from properly filing and reporting his fundraising activity. Dr. Keary Husain told ABC 17 News that the Missouri Ethics Commission did not accept his first filing because his campaign committee did not
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Board of Education President John Lyman wants three more years. Lyman is one of the three incumbents running for reelection to the school board in a four-way race. The board is made up of seven members, and the election has the opportunity to change one face on the board. Lyman’s opponents
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) April Ferrao is looking for another term on the Columbia Board of Education. Ferrao, who was first elected in 2023, is one of three incumbents seeking reelection this April. They are being challenged by Dr. Keary Husain. LUCAS GEISLER: Welcome, everybody, to the ABC 17 News, Your Voice, Your Vote voter guide
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Paul Harper is one of three Columbia Board of Education members seeking reelection in April. Like his fellow incumbent candidates, Harper has served one three-year term on the board. Four candidates are seeking three seats on the board. Harper is joined by the ballot by incumbents April Ferrao and John Lyman and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dr. Keary Husain is the only person in the four-way race for three seats on the Columbia Board of Education who is not already on the school board. Husain will try to unseat one of three incumbents — April Ferrao, Paul Harper and John Lyman — in the April election. Three seats
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Rep. Sam Graves (R-Tarkio) said he will leave Congress at the end of the year. The 13-term congressman from northern Missouri announed on X Friday morning that he would not seek another term in 2026 for the state’s Sixth Congressional District. “This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the right one,”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A body was found after several agencies were called to investigate a possible drowning at a Fulton park on Thursday. Police Chief Bill Ladwig said rescuers were looking for someone in Morningside Lake. Ladwig said a 911 caller reported seeing someone in the water yelling for help around 10 a.m. Tuesday. “A
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Don Waterman, the incumbent Fifth Ward representative on the Columbia City Council. Christina Hartman is challenging Waterman. LUCAS GEISLER: Would you mind just introducing yourself
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News is talking to candidates in select April election races about their positions on key issues. Below is the transcription of the full interview with Christina Hartman, who is challenging the incumbent to be Fifth Ward representative on the Columbia City Council. Her opponent is Don Waterman. LUCAS GEISLER: Why
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The story has been corrected to say the bill received initial approval. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri House of Representatives gave initial approval Tuesday to a plan that would ask voters to phase out the state income tax over several years. The chamber voted 85-48 around 1 p.m. Tuesday to perfect HJR
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A man who admitted to illegally having a gun during a deadly shooting received a decade-long prison sentence. Judge Joshua Devine sentenced Steven S. Jones to 10 years in prison on Thursday morning. Jones pleaded guilty in January to unlawful possession of a gun following a shooting outside Jake’s Bar on
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