CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A co-owner of a Columbia restaurant who was wanted for second-degree arson has been booked into — and since released from — the Cape Girardeau County Jail. Crystal Umfress, 42, co-owner of Casa Maria’s Mexican Cantina, is facing arson charges for her alleged role in starting a fire at a restaurant
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman has been charged after authorities claim she unlawfully took more than $19,000 in SNAP benefits and made false statements on the program’s applications. Andrea Rhoden, 33, was charged in Boone County on Wednesday with stealing $750 or more and unlawfully receiving public assistance. She was not in the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A federal review of the University of Missouri’s plan to demolish a building with radioactive contamination could take until 2025 to complete. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission began its technical review this summer for the plan to demolish Pickard Hall. The NRC said its review of the different aspects of MU’s plan could
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor said he will start his review of a deadly Columbia police shooting that happened in August. Police were called twice to The Landing — an apartment complex on Campusview Drive in south Columbia — on Aug. 4. A man who reported being suicidal was killed after shooting at officers,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused of deceptive businesses pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday. Mark Doninelli, 47, was charged with five counts of forgery, four counts of second-degree odometer fraud, deceptive business practice, intent to defraud by failing to make a sales tax return, stealing a motor vehicle and stealing involving a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Clark, Missouri, man was arrested on Monday after he was accused of statutory rape in 2017 in Boone County. Trenton Kalinowski, 27, was charged on Sept. 25 with second-degree statutory rape. He was in the Boone County Jail on Monday and bonded out. His bond was set at $25,000. A court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Those in abusive relationships who have a “secret phone” should turn their phones off before a nationwide EAS test Wednesday, according to a Tuesday Facebook post from the Boone County Office of Emergency Management. A national emergency alert test will be sent to cellphones around the country at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Prosecutors charged a man on Monday for allegedly shooting another person at a Columbia park over the weekend. The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office charged Terron D. Shelton Jr. with assault and armed criminal action. Columbia police believe he shot a man at Cosmo Park on Saturday night during a large gathering.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools and the Jefferson City School District were among the few schools to get the maximum amount of funding from the latest round of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education School Safety Grants. CPS and JCSD each received $300,000 for school safety improvements. Fulton Public schools was another area
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Columbia Second Ward Councilwoman Andrea Waner will resign next month when she moves out of the district she represents.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged in September with two counts of first-degree sodomy is now in the Boone County Jail. Colin Eugene Fair, 22, was charged on Sept. 21. He was brought to the jail on Sunday and is being held without bond. Casenet states he is from Centralia and the probable
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A Columbia Democrat said Monday that she plans to seek a second term in the state House.
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A Boone County commissioner with more than a decade in office will seek reelection this fall.
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ABC 17 News obtained video from the ARC showing portions of the fight involving multiple people.
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More than 120,000 people living in Missouri have Alzheimer’s.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexican national has been charged in Boone County with second-degree child sex trafficking and sexual misconduct involving a child younger than 15 years old. Francisco Acosta-Flores, 33, is not in custody. A warrant was ordered for his arrest and no bond was set. According to the probable cause statement, Acosta-Flores knowingly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man was charged on Tuesday with two counts of possessing child pornography. Nicholas Toeniskoetter, 28, was arrested on Monday, according to the probable cause statement. His address listed on Casenet is Columbia, but jail records indicate he is from Ashland. On June 8, the Boone County Sheriff’s Office Cyber
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) CVS Pharmacy employees across Missouri are protesting what they are calling “poor working conditions and sub-par Regional leadership”. ABC 17 News spoke with six employees of CVS, four of which work at a Mid-Missouri CVS locations. All six wished to remain anonymous due to the possibility of retaliation. The first walkouts began
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County will hold an open house Tuesday night regarding a new master plan for the county. The county’s current master plan was adopted in 1996, so this will be the first time in nearly 30 years that the plan is updated. The plan is a way for the county to accommodate
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A couple dozen people in Boone County lost power Saturday night because of downed power lines after strong winds and a storm swept through the area. Boone Electric Cooperative’s outage map showed nine outages affecting just after 10 p.m. Saturday. These outages popped up after Boone County Joint Communications reported power
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