Convicted teen killer Alyssa Bustamante denied parole; hearing reset for 2029
The Missouri Board of Parole denied convicted Cole County killer Alyssa Bustamante an early release from prison.
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The Missouri Board of Parole denied convicted Cole County killer Alyssa Bustamante an early release from prison.
Continue ReadingA Missouri police group is criticizing a political ad that centers around Attorney General Andrew Bailey and a Hermann police officer killed in 2023.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A political action committee hoping to upend Attorney General Andrew Bailey from his office has criticized some of his decisions. But the attorney general’s campaign called many of the claims misleading, and explained to ABC 17 News some of the things Bailey has done. The ad is produced by “Defend Missouri,”
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An attack ad from a political action committee backing Attorney General Andrew Bailey highlights his challenger’s arrest while he was in college. The ad from Liberty & Justice PAC puts the two candidates, Bailey and attorney Will Scharf, side-by-side in December 2007. While Bailey was deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army,
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of a man who was killed by Columbia police in 2021 has settled its lawsuit with the city. Attorneys for Quillian Jacobs’s family filed stipulations on July 3 that it would dismiss the city from its federal lawsuit. A settlement document obtained by ABC 17 News through an open records
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Gov. Mike Parson plans to sign a bill that will change the parole eligibility for some people in jail that committed murder when they were children. The governor’s office said that he plans to sign SB 754 on Tuesday with a slew of other bills. The timing, though, leaves Alyssa
Continue ReadingA Cole County woman who killed a 9-year-old when she was a teenager will get a chance at a release from prison on Monday.
Continue ReadingMARIES 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
Continue Reading(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
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, 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
Continue ReadingThe Callaway County prosecutor will not file charges against the man who shot and killed another man outside of a bar earlier this year.
Continue ReadingA 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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Continue ReadingJEFFERSON 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
Continue ReadingEditor’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
Continue ReadingColumbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe will be one of many U.S. mayors taking a trip to Switzerland this month.
Continue ReadingBONNE 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
Continue ReadingA southern Illinois town is preparing to host several events around its second solar eclipse in seven years.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON 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
Continue ReadingFULTON, 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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