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Boone County Commission votes to move courthouse murals to ‘secure location’

October 7, 2021 3:51 AM Matthew Sanders

he Boone County Commission is set to meet Thursday and take action on murals in the Boone County Courthouse after lawyers called for them to be moved.

MU Faculty Council endorses indoor masking, coronavirus vaccine mandate

October 7, 2021 3:26 PM Hannah Falcon

One motion asks President Mun Choi, who is also the UM System president, to renew current requirements that include masks in classrooms but revise them to require everyone to wear masks indoors at all times. Another motion asks Choi to require vaccinations for students and staff.

Boonville police seek missing man

October 7, 2021 1:40 PM ABC 17 News Team

BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Boonville police say they’re looking for a 27-year-old man last seen Wednesday and who might be in danger. James C. Green was last seen “after being transported for medical treatment,” the Boonville Police Department said in a Facebook post. Green left the medical facility and has not been seen or heard from.

Kawasaki to create manufacturing plant at former Nordyne site in Boonville

October 6, 2021 12:57 PM Matthew Sanders

Boonville and Cooper County officials are expected to make an economic development announcement at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

18-year old Timothy George Simpkins is in custody. Simpkins is suspected of a shooting at Timberview High School in Arlington

A suspect is in custody in the Texas school shooting that left at least 4 people injured

October 7, 2021 3:40 AM CNN Newsource

By Kay Jones and Holly Yan, CNN The suspect in a shooting at a Texas high school Wednesday is in custody, Arlington police said. Detectives have started interviewing 18-year-old Timothy George Simpkins, who will be charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Assistant Police Chief Kevin Kolbye said. An Arlington Police

No charges in deadly south Columbia officer-involved shooting

October 6, 2021 7:04 AM Zachary Farwell

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor will not file charges against three Columbia police officers involved in a deadly shooting. According to the Columbia Police Department, Callaway County Prosecutor Christopher D. Wilson told the Missouri State Highway Patrol in a letter on Oct. 1 the officers acted lawfully in their use of deadly force. Special

State executes Ernest Lee Johnson for Columbia triple murder; state releases last offender statement

October 5, 2021 11:08 AM Matthew Sanders

The state executed Ernest Lee Johnson on Tuesday, 25 years after he killed three gas station workers and following a last-ditch effort by his lawyers to save him, The Associated Press reported.

Former CPD officer recounts murders 27 years later as governor confirms plans to execute Ernest Johnson

October 4, 2021 11:37 AM Leila Mitchell

Randy Boehm, a former Columbia police officer and chief, arrived at the Columbia Casey’s General Store 27 years ago, the morning after the horrific murders of three of the store’s employees.

State ethics commission orders Columbia mayor to end campaign committee

October 1, 2021 3:42 PM Lucas Geisler

The Missouri Ethics Commission told Mayor Brian Treece to dissolve his campaign committee in a Friday order. Once dissolved, the commission promised to take no further action against him.

Lawmakers are racing the clock to avert a government shutdown ahead of a midnight deadline. Nancy Pelosi

Biden signs bill to avert shutdown ahead of midnight deadline

October 1, 2021 6:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday night signed Congress’ stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown and extend government funding through December 3, according to the White House. Government funding had been set to expire at midnight, but Democratic congressional leaders, who control both chambers of Congress, had projected

Jefferson City Schools drops mask requirement, changes quarantine protocols

September 30, 2021 10:59 AM Hannah Falcon

Jefferson City Schools will drop its mask requirement starting Friday. Students and staff who are in close contact with a COVID-19 positive individual will no longer need to quarantine in most cases.

Chicago is reinstating its indoor mask mandate as COVID cases rise again in the city

Judge denies bid to immediately halt Columbia Public Schools mask mandate

September 28, 2021 5:26 AM Zola Crowder

Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit he filed last month to end CPS’s mandate that all students and staff wear masks while indoors. Judge Brouck Jacobs denied that request in a two-plus-hour hearing Tuesday, along with a request to make the lawsuit class action, which would bring in other schools with mandates as defendants.

R. Kelly convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in New York

September 27, 2021 2:34 PM CNN Newsource

In this federal case in the Eastern District of New York, Kelly faced a total of nine counts — one count of racketeering, with 14 underlying acts that included sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and sex trafficking charges, and also eight additional counts of violations of the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law.

Joseph Elledge pleads not guilty to three felony charges.

Prosecutor says vegetation on boots puts Elledge at site where wife’s body was found

September 23, 2021 3:49 AM Matthew Sanders

Prosecuting Attorney Dan Knight told Judge Brouck Jacobs during a hear in Joseph Elledge’s case that experts at the Missouri Botanical Garden matched juniper needles on Elledge’s boots to the spot where his wife Mengqi Ji’s body was found. A hiker discovered her remains off a trail in Rock Bridge Memorial State Park in October and identified them in April.

Southern Boone High School closed Tuesday for a deep clean after student tests positive for COVID-19.

Southern Boone School District votes to suspend mask mandate

September 23, 2021 8:50 AM Zachary Farwell

The requirement was issued after more than 15% of students and staff at the middle school tested positive for COVID-19 or are in quarantine, the district said.

Attorney general seeks to add more schools to mask lawsuit against CPS

September 17, 2021 4:33 PM Karl Wehmhoener

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt wants to add more schools to the lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools and its mask policy.

FDA vaccine advisers vote to recommend booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older and those at high risk

September 17, 2021 3:51 PM CNN Newsource

Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Friday to recommend emergency use authorization of a booster dose of Pfizer’s vaccine six months after full vaccination in people 65 and older and those at high risk of severe Covid-19.

THURSDAY UPDATES: Boone County reports second coronavirus-related death this week

September 16, 2021 5:52 AM ABC 17 News Team

Check back here for updates on the pandemic in Missouri.

Police receive report of man with gun at Sedalia junior high school

September 16, 2021 11:12 AM Matthew Sanders

Sedalia police say they arrested a man on suspicion of trespassing and making a terrorist threat Thursday after a report of a person armed with a gun on the Smith-Cotton Junior High School campus.

Truck crashes into home in central Columbia; one person pinned under vehicle

September 15, 2021 5:02 PM Matthew Sanders

A pickup truck crashed into a home in central Columbia on Wednesday afternoon.