COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Friday or early Saturday as a Category 3 storm after rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico. Watch the storm’s approach on Panhandle beach cameras. Sharky’s, Panama City Perdido Key, Florida Santa Rosa Island, Florida Destin, Florida
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The Mizzou football team hopes it can keep on winning in the SEC this Saturday when Texas A&M comes to Columbia. The No. 14 Tigers are favored over the Aggies. The game will get a national showcase, kicking off the Saturday slate on ABC at 11 a.m. Do you think the Tigers will prevail? Let
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 will reschedule its Saturday children’s programming to Sunday this week because of an ABC college football broadcast. ABC will air the Mizzou vs. Texas A&M game at 11 a.m., preceded by Mizzou Live. “Jeff Corwin’s Southern Wild” and “The Champion’s Edge with Bonnie Bernstein” would normally air Saturday morning, but
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the death of his on-again, off-again girlfriend Thursday. Christopher Woods-Bloss is charged in the death of 16-year-old Kayla Huff, whose body was found this spring in a Randolph County conservation area. Woods-Bloss and Huff had been in a relationship multiple
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A Columbia man who describes himself as a “nudist” was arrested this week and charged with four misdemeanors for exposing himself in May and June on the MKT Trail. Two people who allegedly encountered the man on the trail considered purchasing a gun after those incidents due to safety concerns, according to court documents. Reports
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A botched lethal injection in Tennessee left a woman in critical condition after the drug used failed to kill her. Christa Pike was conscious and speaking Tuesday, her lawyer said, but she suffered severe damage to her arm, and a long recovery is expected. Pike, convicted in the 1995 murder of a 19-year-old woman, was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: A quote has now been correctly attributed to Boone County Assistant Prosecutor Mel Buchanan. Three freshman Mizzou football players were arrested Monday on suspicion of first-degree harassment, a felony. Defensive back Ahmod Billins, cornerback Trashundon Neal and wide receiver Karsten Fiene were arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of first-degree harassment,
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the charges against Woods-Bloss has been corrected. A 17-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old girl in Randolph County. Christopher R. Woods-Bloss was also charged with armed criminal action and first-degree kidnapping in the May killing of Kayla Huff, whose body
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Columbia Police Department leadership addressed the public about a report that showed increased crime numbers downtown on Monday night. That explanation came Monday after Race Matters, Friends raised concerns about how the Columbia Police Department’s downtown crime data was being presented during a Columbia City Council pre-council meeting. CPD presented a report comparing crime from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No one was injured, but a highway was blocked in Cooper County temporarily on Monday when a tractor-trailer rolled onto its side. The truck rolled on Highway 179 near Big Lick Road, south of Wooldridge, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The road was blocked for more than 30 minutes while
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman was arrested over the weekend after new charges were filed against her in a man’s 2024 beating death. Felicia Hay, 35, was charged earlier this summer with first-degree assault after a manslaughter charge was dropped in the November 2024 death of Antonio Davis, 56, of Columbia. Davis died in
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Plenty of people, on both sides of the political aisle, are unhappy about an ad campaign produced by the Trump administration and funded with taxpayer money. A firm that tracks TV advertising reports the campaign has already cost at least $2.5 million, with $20 million allocated from public funds. Multiple Republican senators have criticized the
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President Donald Trump hosted the country’s tech leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a summit focused on artificial intelligence. Talk of whether and how government should regulate the development of new AI models has gained traction amid warnings that the technology could eventually harm humanity. At the summit, Trump and tech CEOs seemed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Affordable housing remains a challenge in Columbia and Boone County, and the latest housing numbers show some of the same pressures identified in a 2024 countywide housing study. Close to 14% fewer homes were sold in Boone County last month than the year before, according to the Mid-Missouri Board of Realtors. August
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested two 19-year-old men early Friday after calls of people breaking into cars on the Columbia College campus and a carjacking. Prosecutors filed charges against Emmanuel Ernest and Ja’Marion Dalton, 19, Friday morning with vehicle hijacking, armed criminal action and stealing a vehicle. Court documents state that officers were called
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No. 19 Missouri is traveling to Starkville to take on No. 24 Mississippi State on Saturday. And despite being ranked higher than the Bulldogs, the Tigers are underdogs in their SEC opener, according to oddsmakers. That said, some experts are putting their money on Mizzou to beat the 6.5-point spread, if not win outright. Do
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri attorney general said Wednesday that her office is investigating a student group with a University of Missouri chapter for possible ties to fundraising for Islamic terrorists. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway cited “public reports from independent organizations” in her news release that “have raised concerns about SJP’s fundraising representations and alleged
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University of Missouri President Mun Choi has been applying pressure on city leaders on downtown crime issues for weeks. During that pressure campaign, one bar in particular has drawn a direct callout — Reign. Now the state’s top law enforcement official is applying pressure of her own. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said Tuesday that her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager already being prosecuted for evidence tampering in a separate shooting has been charged with four felonies in an August shooting on the Interstate 70/Highway 63 connector. Chase D. Ricketts, 19, was charged Friday with first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police detained a man after a call of shots fired led to a crash scene in a residential neighborhood and later released him with two citations. Police were called at about 9:20 a.m. to a possible shots-fired call in the area of Grindstone Plaza, Columbia Police Department spokesman Brian McNeill said.
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