Jessica Hafner is the Chief Meteorologist for ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather. You can see her forecasts at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. on KMIZ and 9 p.m. on KQFX. Jessica returned to ABC 17 News after three years at KSDK-TV in St. Louis, where she was a meteorologist and fill-in traffic anchor. During her time
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Meteorologist Nate Splater joined the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team in the summer of 2020. He’s from a small town in southern Arkansas and came to mid-Missouri to pursue a degree in meteorology at Mizzou in 2018. Even though it’s been a few years since he first came to Columbia, Nate is still not used
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Lucas Geisler anchors the 6, 9 and 10 p.m. newscasts for ABC 17 News and reports on the latest news around mid-Missouri. His coverage includes issues within the City of Columbia and the state’s court system. Lucas has covered protests in Ferguson, Mo., sweeping changes at the University of Missouri and numerous issues people in
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Meghan Drakas joined ABC 17 News from the Keystone State and calls the suburbs of Philadelphia her home.
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Nathalie Jones became the Sports Director at ABC 17 in April of 2022, after joining ABC 17 in June 2020 as a sports reporter/anchor. Nathalie comes from KOMU-TV in Columbia, where she was a sports anchor and reporter for three years. She is so excited to continue telling the stories of people in the mid-Missouri community. Nathalie graduated from the
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Collin Anderson joined ABC 17 News in October 2025 as a sports anchor and multimedia journalist. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism in 2024Â and his master’s degree in journalism in 2025. While in Fayetteville, he worked as a sports anchor, reporter, and producer for the university’s student-run
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Alison Patton joined ABC 17 News as a multimedia journalist in August 2025 after graduating from Ohio University. She also attended Penn State for two years as an undergraduate. Alison is from Zanesville, Ohio, but has lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and now Missouri. She likes covering state and local politics but can’t pass
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Erika McGuire joined the ABC 17 News team in October 2021. You can usually catch her reports Monday through Friday at 5, 6 or 6:30 p.m. on KMIZ.
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Gabrielle Teiner joined the ABC 17 News team in July 2023 as a multimedia journalist.
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Nia Hinson joined the ABC 17 News team in January of 2023 as a MMJ. She graduated from Miami University in May of 2022, with bachelor’s degrees in both Journalism and Sport Management. During her time at Miami, she worked as a reporter/anchor for Miami Television News, and interned for The Borgen Project. She has
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Haley Swaino joined the ABC 17 News team in November 2024 as a multimedia journalist. She got her start at PBS/NPR affiliate WOUB (Ohio University) where she anchored and reported for NewsWatch. Haley is also an alumna of Delta Gamma Fraternity and served as Zeta Rho chapter president in 2022. She was born and raised
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Jazsmin Halliburton joined ABC 17 News as a multimedia journalist in October 2023. She is a graduate of the A.Q. Miller School master’s program at Kansas State University. During her time there she wrote for the Collegian, did some sideline reporting that aired on ESPN+, and was the Sports Director at Wildcat 91.9 FM.
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Mitchell Kaminski is a Big J Journalist from Wheaton, Illinois, who got a degree in sports communication and journalism from Bradley University.
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Marie Moyer joined ABC 17 News in June 2024 as a multimedia journalist. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in May 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in sociology. While at Penn State, Marie was an anchor and reporter for the student-produced newscast, the Centre County Report. She also interned
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Olivia Hayes joined the ABC 17 News team in June 2025 as a multimedia journalist. She previously worked as a production assistant and interned at the news station. Olivia grew up in Columbia and graduated from Rock Bridge High School in 2022. She went on to the University of Oklahoma where she completed her bachelor’s
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Euphenie Andre joined the ABC 17 News team in August of 2023. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri where she majored in journalism.You can usually catch Euphenie’s reports weekends on KMIZ.
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John Ross joined the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team in October 2021. Before that, he spent three years forecasting for southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, western Kentucky, and northwest Tennessee. His love for weather developed as a child, watching Kansas City meteorologists before and after school. John is from Sedalia, Missouri and has a bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric
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Sawyer Jackson is a meteorologist with the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team and started working for ABC 17 in early October of 2022. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri, Columbia, and is working on his master’s degree. You can usually watch him on weekend evenings at 6, 9, and 10 p.m. Jackson comes
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Columbia Public Schools on Tuesday celebrated the start of work to renovate and add to its trade school.
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Kyle Helms joined the ABC 17 News team as a photographer in August of 2023 before moving into the sports department as a reporter and anchor. He previously interned with ABC 17 in 2021 and graduated from the University of Missouri in May 2023.
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