COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Wednesday marks eight years since two half-brothers were shot and killed in broad daylight along I-70 Drive N.W. and Garden Drive in Columbia. According to the Columbia Police Department, at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, March 26, 2017, officers responded to northwest Columbia and found three men shot inside a white 2007 Audi
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department is investigating more than a dozen cold case homicides dating back to 1985. “When you have such a terrible thing happen and you don’t have an answer for it, that really hurts the family and obviously the investigation,” CPD Lt. Matt Gremore said. Gremore said that 16 cold
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Love Columbia’s transitional housing complex, Love Forward Homes, is expected to be complete early 2026. The complex at 1221 E. Ash St. in Downtown Columbia will have six three-bedroom units and four two-bedroom units that can house up to 10 families. Love Columbia says in 2024, it provided 4,144 hotel nights to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The expected opening of the Voluntary Action Center’s Opportunity Campus has been pushed back to March 2026. As of December 2024, the Opportunity Campus was expected to open in fall 2025. On Monday, Voluntary Action Center director Ed Stansberry said the initial timeline was a “best guess” and that weather has caused
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People take in the sights and sounds of the St. Louis Cathedral light show in New Orleans on Feb. 8, 2025.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (KMIZ) On Sunday, over 70-thousand fans will be attending Super Bowl 59 at the Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans. The Kansas City Chiefs are set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles for the big game, which is a rematch from two years ago. Two fans attending on Sunday are Judith Lee and
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NEW ORLEANS (KMIZ) Apple Music hosted its Super Bowl 59 Halftime Show press conference for The Official Kendrick Lamar Interview on Thursday. On Sunday, Lamar swept the Grammy’s with “Not Like Us” winning all five categories he was nominated in, including Record of the Year. He also secured the win for Song of the Year and
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NEW ORLEANS (KMIZ) Starting Wednesday afternoon, football fans are diving in the NFL’s Super Bowl experience in New Orleans. New Orleans resident and Kansas City Chiefs fan Dan Seyl says he loves the experience. “It’s amazing. I mean, we love coming here. You get to meet players, see the Lombardi Trophy, there’s all the activities.” Seyl
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NEW ORLEANS (KMIZ) As the week of Super Bowl 59 kicks off, law enforcement officials are putting years of planning security measures into place. “We’re all committed to ensuring that we have a beautiful and exciting Super Bowl week here in the city of New Orleans,” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said. NFL Chief Security
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s police officers are having more frequent encounters with homeless people — so many that the Columbia Police Department has a team dedicated to dealing with that part of the population. The number of calls for service and arrests involving homeless people jumped 38% in Columbia from 2023 to 2024, according to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Friday, the U.S. Department of of Housing and Urban Development awarded the Columbia Housing Authority $537,433 to fight chronic homelessness in Boone County. “We are pleased with this,” CHA CEO Randy Cole said. “These funds are for special vouchers we use for persons experiencing chronic homelessness.” Cole said the vouchers come
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After winning in the November election, Mike Kehoe will serve as Missouri’s 58th governor next year. Kehoe had served as lieutenant governor since 2018, after he was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson in 2018 and won the seat in the 2020 election. Prior to that, he served in the Missouri Senate. Kehoe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On GivingTuesday, the Voluntary Action Center announced it has been awarded a $745,400 challenge grant award from the Mabee Foundation to support The Opportunity Campus project. The project is being built along Business Loop 70 and Bowling Street in central Columbia to support transitional services for the homeless population in Boone County.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Multiple Mid-Missouri homeless resource centers are preparing for the upcoming winter season. The 2024 Point in Time Count which counts all of the people in the state experiencing homelessness on a single night in January, tallied 7,338 people. In Region 5 — which represents much of Mid-Missouri — the 2024 count stood
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Walk to End Alzheimer’s raised over $114,000 as of Saturday. Over 600 people showed their support during the walk on Saturday at Stankowski Field on the University of Missouri’s campus. This year, the walk goal is set at $185,000. Last year, the walk raised $161,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News Anchor Meghan Drakas is sharing her family’s experience with Alzheimer’s disease along with other members of the ABC 17 family, in the leadup to Columbia’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday. My grandmother Barbara Early was born in 1938 in the suburbs of Philly. She was a mother, grandmother,
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The total money raised from last year’s Columbia Walk to End Alzheimer’s has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Alzheimer’s Association says more than 122,000 Missourians 65 years and older are battling Alzheimer’s Disease, which has been documented for nearly 120 years. In that time, multiple treatments have been approved by the U.S.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Democratic incumbent Janet Thompson is facing off against state Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch in the Northern District commissioner race in Boone County. Boone County Commission District Map, credit: Boone County Government Early voting is currently underway in Missouri and Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Janet Thompson Thompson was first elected to the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Democratic incumbent Justin Aldred is facing off against Republican Sam Turner in the Boone County Southern District commissioner race. Boone County Commissioners District Map Early voting is currently underway in Missouri and Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Justin Aldred Aldred was first elected as the Southern District commissioner in November 2020.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sam Turner is a Republican seeking to be Boone County’s Southern District commissioner, a seat currently held by Democrat Justin Aldred. The Southern District, also known as District I, represents the southern and a portion of the western part of Boone County. Meghan Drakas: Of course. So to start off, who is
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