JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Mid-Missouri counties have sued the Missouri Attorney General, alleging that a state law that allows judges to set salaries for deputies and jailers in some counties is unconstitutional. Audrain County and Montgomery County filed the lawsuit Thursday in Cole County. The county commissioners in each county are asking a judge
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The heat wave keeps going, and it won’t stop before Independence Day. Much of Mid-Missouri remains under an excessive heat warning that ends late Friday. Even so, highs are expected to be in the 90s for the Fourth of July. This kind of heat isn’t unusual for early July in Missouri, but it’s still uncomfortable.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A group calling itself the Missouri Licensing Advocacy Group is suing the Missouri attorney general and other state officials to stop an enforcement campaign targeting businesses that operate video gambling machines. The group filed its lawsuit in Cole County last week, saying that Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and Missouri Alcohol and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man proposed to a woman at the top of the Empire State Building after unfurling a flag that preached the power of love. The couple had not been identified early Wednesday afternoon.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A lane closure on eastbound Interstate 70 in Columbia caused by emergency pavement repairs is expected to reopen before Thursday morning’s rush hour, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation. One lane of eastbound I-70 and an eastbound off-ramp closed Wednesday after a large pothole developed near the construction zone, prompting emergency
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An ordinance that prevents people from standing on medians along busy roads in Columbia is taking effect. The police have been on an education campaign, informing panhandlers about the ordinance ahead of Wednesday’s effective date. But the ordinance is still meeting political resistance from people who say it unfairly targets those same panhandlers and restricts
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) With the new fiscal year set to start on Wednesday, Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday signed a fiscal 2027 state budget of about $50 billion, while vetoing or restricting about half a billion dollars in funding, including money for major local projects. Among those projects are the University of Missouri’s Energy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Marshall woman with dementia who walked away from a nursing home amid extreme heat on Tuesday was found safe. Shirley L. Swift, 89, was last seen at Hartland Residential Care Center at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to an alert issued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. She suffers from dementia.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Gasconade County man was charged last week after investigators accused him of killing a man who had been living in his garage in 2018. Daniel W. Russell was charged Thursday with first-degree murder, abandonment of a corpse and evidence tampering. The case had been sealed until this week. The Gasconade County
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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to release its decision in a case over whether the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship any day. The constitutional amendment was ratified in the years after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship for freed slaves and their children. The section on birthright citizenship has long been interpreted to mean
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man was charged over the weekend with seven felonies, including first-degree assault, after three people were injured with a knife in a bar fight. Robert H. LeCoque, 37, of Benton City, is accused of stabbing three people early Sunday after climbing onto a stage where a band was performing
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Deputies in eastern Missouri arrested a man Sunday in connection with the 2019 discovery of human remains on the banks of the Gasconade River. The Gasconade County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook that Jefferson County, Missouri, deputies arrested Daniel W. Russell of High Ridge, Missouri, on Sunday on suspicion of first-degree murder,
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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) 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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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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 19-year-old Columbia man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of evidence tampering after two people were found shot in the parking lot of a Clark Lane apartment complex. Chase Ricketts, 19, was arrested on suspicion of felony evidence tampering, and a juvenile male was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery, first-degree assault
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Columbia’s police department has been at work educating people on a law taking effect July 1 that will make it illegal to linger in medians at busy city intersections. The law is like those in several other cities, and by its letter, looks to prevent collisions between pedestrians and vehicles at busy medians. However, critics
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President Donald Trump is insistent in his claims that the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial has been vandalized. The world has watched as algae has infested the water and pieces of liner have come detached from the bottom of the pool since a multi-million dollar renovation project. But now, claims are growing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was flown to a hospital, and another person was found dead when Osage County deputies and state troopers responded to a shooting Friday morning. A release posted on the Osage County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page says deputies and troopers were sent to a home on County Road 623 on a
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