COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tractor-trailer fire in Mexico, Missouri, affected traffic on a main thoroughfare Monday. The Mexico Department of Public Safety says personnel were called to a fire on the Highway 54 bypass at about 7 a.m. A 2000 Peterbilt hauling corn was on fire and the cab was fully involved, according to a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man from Texas was killed after he was hit by a car at around midnight Sunday in Audrain County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee – driven by a 27-year-old Vandalia man – was heading westbound on U.S. 54,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was charged on Thursday with several child sex crimes. Christopher Lee Boyd, 30, was charged with three counts of first-degree statutory rape and three counts of statutory sodomy. A warrant was issued and no bond was set. A court date has not been scheduled. Court documents claim Boyd
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Wellsville man was charged on Wednesday with two counts of fourth-degree child molestation that allegedly occurred two years ago, court documents say. Timothy Blaine Cross, 22, is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A court date has not been set. According to the probable cause statement, a teenager
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people have been charged with murder in the July overdose death of a 62-year-old Mexico, Missouri woman. Shelbi R. Hamilton and Timothy R. Hoffman, both of Mexico, were charged Tuesday. Hamilton is charged with second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance. Hoffman is charged with second-degree murder, delivery of a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man was charged Friday with four felonies after he allegedly fired a shot at a vehicle along Highway 54. Jessie L. Deere of Martinsburg, Missouri, is charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and first-degree harassment. Deere is accused of firing a .38-caliber
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was charged in Boone County on Wednesday after he was accused of placing a hidden camera in a residential bathroom. Tony Dean Jones Jr. was charged with invasion of privacy, attempted sexual exploitation of a child and misdemeanor attempted invasion of privacy. A motion to set bond was
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According to Audrain County Prosecutor Jacob Shellabarger, Larry Karhoff, 53, was sentenced to 30 years at the Missouri Department of Corrections for drug trafficking and firearm charges.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A public information meeting has been announced for a bridge replacement project on Highway 22 in Audrain and Boone counties, according to a Friday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. The release says a bridge over a railroad that’s just west of Highway 151 will be replaced in 2027. Most
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Western Smokehouse Partners will invest more than $67 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Mexico, Missouri, according to a Thursday press release from the Missouri Department of Economic Development. The new facility is expected to create 280 new jobs, the release says. The 300,000-square-foot facility – which will specialize in
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Audrain County, the City of Mexico and Boone Heath have taken the next steps to get a hospital up and running. On Monday, the Audrain County Commission, County Health Department, and Boone Health signed a letter of intent to begin building a Medicare-certified critical access hospital in Mexico. This comes after city
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An Audrain County jailer has been accused of helping smuggle drugs into the jail including heroin.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man was charged on Tuesday with several child sex crimes that allegedly occurred between 2000-08. Adam Charles Reeves, 37, of Laddonia, was charged with three counts of first-degree child molestation and three counts of first-degree statutory sodomy. He was booked into the Callaway County Jail at 10:36 a.m. Monday
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Police are looking for the person or people who shot school buses and the garage housing them Saturday.
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder in the 2020 killing of a Mexico, Missouri man. Timothy Scott Midgyett, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and first-degree burglary in the death of Chance Davis. He was sentenced to 25 years in
Continue Reading Police arrested a 17-year-old boy for allegedly driving a vehicle that hit a utility pole and drove away Tuesday morning.
Continue Reading A Columbia man was unhurt after a train hit the back of the truck Saturday in Mexico, Missouri.
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A man who was accused of shooting himself and a woman early Saturday in Callaway County has been charged with 10 felonies.
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An Illinois man was arrested after he is accused of driving while intoxicated causing the death of a Columbia woman after a crash in Audrain County on Friday.
Continue Reading A woman was killed when two vehicles collided head-on on a railroad overpass, the Mexico, Missouri, Department of Public Safety said Friday.
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