COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police Chief Jill Schlude told ABC 17 News in an interview before Monday’s City Council meeting that the department will not have the staff to reestablish a standalone downtown unit in May. “Unfortunately, we’ve had several retirements and we have quite a few people that are out either military or injured,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The county clerks of Mid-Missouri’s two-largest counties are expecting low-voter turnout on Tuesday. Boone and Cole counties have several items up for a vote on Tuesday, including voting for school board members in several districts, propositions and people running for city government. You can view everything being voted on at our Voter
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Both sides said Monday that they’re ready to move forward with the trial of a Boone County dog breeder suspected of abusing several animals. Melissa Sanders, 26, of Columbia, appeared via WebEx in front of Judge Joshua Devine on Monday at the Boone County Courthouse. The state and the defense are ready
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Democrats are hosting an “Empty Chair” town hall in Columbia Monday night to discuss citizens’ concerns regarding health care and more. The town hall will run from 6-8 p.m. in the Columbia Senior Activity Center on East Business Loop 70. This town hall with empty chairs is supposed to
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STURGEON, Mo. (KMIZ) Sturgeon Mayor Seth Truesdell is speaking out against the Missouri Department of Transportation’s plan reroute traffic from a dangerous crossroads, stating the plan could put residents, especially students at risk. In a post on social media, Truesdell criticized the agency for moving forward with a project he said would reroute heavy traffic
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri will stop providing designated funding to five of its student organizations, according to University of Missouri spokesman Christopher Ave. The clubs include: the Asian American Association (AAA), Association of Latin American Students (ALAS), Four Front, Legion of Black Collegians (LBC) and Queer Liberation Front. Ave said the university
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A large vehicle fire blocked traffic from using an I-70 on-ramp in Boone County on Saturday night.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was transported to the hospital with minor trauma Saturday night after a car accident on I-70. Gale Blomenkamp, with Boone County Fire Protection District, tells ABC 17 News it was a crash between two cars. Skylar Clark, with the Columbia Fire Department, said their firefighters were called to assist the
Continue Reading A Kingdom City woman is under investigation after multiple crashes Friday evening.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 just west of Columbia were closed on Friday during rush hour after a crash. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, at around 5:45 p.m., a 27-year-old Columbia man was driving a 2021 Ram 3500 east on I-70 when he passed a 38-year-old Fayette
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ As severe storms approach Mid-Missouri after days of rain, Boone and Cooper County officials are reminding people to “turn around, don’t drown” when they see water on roadways. Cooper County is under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10 p.m. Friday. “We’ll be monitoring the weather all day,” Cooper County Emergency Management Agency
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Road closures have been reported throughout Mid-Missouri after multiple days of rainfall. Boone County Joint Communication sent a notification at 3:24 a.m. Friday morning, stating that West Gillespie Bridge Road was flooded at Perche Creek, creating a traffic hazard. The road was reopened by 9 a.m. Friday. Route CC near Centrailia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County firefighters rescued a father and daughter who were stranded on top of a pickup truck in floodwater on Thursday. The truck was stranded in water at Perche Creek on Akeman Bridge Road north of Columbia, Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp said. Emergency radio traffic indicated the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Boone County Road and Bridge closed a bridge in the southern part of the county Thursday afternoon. The department announced in a news release that it closed the Rippeto Road bridge over the Bonne Femme Creek at Harold Cunningham Drive due to a “bridge approach failure.” Road maintenance supervisor Chris Jennings
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The final suspect with a pending case for a deadly north Columbia shooting pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and unlawful weapons offense. Ja’Shaun Barney, 21, of Columbia, pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder. Judge Joshua Devine gave
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) History was made Wednesday after NASA launched a crew to the moon for the first time since the 1970s Wednesday in its Artemis II mission. The rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The last mission this close to the moon was the Apollo 8 mission. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of East Ash Street and the sidewalk by the Boone County Courthouse will be closed from 6:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, according to a press release from the City of Columbia. Both lanes of the street and the southern sidewalk between North Seventh and Eighth streets will be closed,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire that occurred Monday in a care facility in the 300 block of East Stone Street in Sturgeon was caused by an “electrical malfunction” near a porch, according to Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp. Previous reporting shows that a staff member at Sturgeon Residential Care Facility found
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Edits to Columbia Public Schools’ bullying policy, including summer interactions and employee protocol, will be discussed during a school board policy committee meeting Wednesday. The new policy, if passed, would implement new guidelines for instructors on handling reports of bullying. The initial policy had instructors and employees ask to report incidents to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Camden County’s presiding commissioner entered the Republican primary for Missouri’s Sixth Senate District on the final day of filing Tuesday. Todd Isaac “Ike” Skelton of Osage Beach is the sixth Republican to file paperwork to run in the August election for the district that runs from Cole County to the Lake of
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