Five witnesses have testified in day two of the State v. James F. Wilson jury trial. The victim who was 17 at the time of her 1984 attack testified Tuesday in her alleged assailant’s trial.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications says it received nearly 350 calls during a phone outage on Monday night and Tuesday morning, but all emergency services were dispatched efficiently. BCJC stopped receiving 911 calls around 6:40 pm Monday night. An alert was sent to the public just before 8 p.m., reporting that Brightspeed believed
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A woman who was 17 at the time of her 1984 attack testified Tuesday on the first day of her alleged assailant’s trial.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications said Tuesday morning that it was back online. A public alert at about 9:30 a.m. said 911 service had been restored. Boone County sent a public safety alert to residents on Monday evening after it began experiencing a phone outage. BCJC said in the alert – sent a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Recorder of Deeds Office in a Monday press release warned residents of a mail scam. The release says that fake notices titled “Recorded Deed Notice” have been mailed to residences. The “notices” are design to look official, but aren’t affiliated with the government and are trying to mislead people
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Central Missouri Humane Society employee had to be saved by firefighters after they became trapped in a food storage trailer that tipped over on Friday morning. CMHS wrote in a press release that hundreds of pounds of food fell around the employee. No injuries were reported and firefighters were able to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A large police presence was seen early Friday morning in northeast Columbia. ABC 17 News crews arrived on scene on Mulberry Road just before 4 a.m. and saw five to six Columbia Police Department vehicles along with a Bearcat SWAT vehicle. An ABC 17 News photographer on scene saw multiple officers focused
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Power went out for more than a thousand people in southeast Columbia on Thursday night. Columbia Water & Light posted on X that 1,150 customers lost power just before 11 p.m. The city’s outage map showed crews working at the substation on Grindstone Parkway and Ponderosa Street. The post did not
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of shooting another person in December after an argument pleaded guilty to a pair of felonies on Monday. Anthony Sharp, 52, of Columbia, pleaded guilty to illegal gun possession and unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to five years’ probation with a seven-year suspended sentence.
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Jermarion Burnett-Howard, 18, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of Janet Jago, 72, and will be sentenced on April 3.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Habitat for Humanity will be hosting a realtor build event that will help families in need for affordable housing Wednesday. The event will be at noon at the Habitat for Humanity construction site in the Boone Prairie Subdivision off Brown Station Road. The event will focus on working on the interiors of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A court marshal and Columbia Police Department officer arrested a man who threw an incendiary device at the front of the Boone County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post that Nicholas A. Walters, 39, of Columbia threw “a device that can … best be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced a pair of closures on Interstate 70. One lane of eastbound Interstate 70 near mile marker 138 in Millersburg will be closed for part of the day on Wednesday for repairs, according to a Tuesday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday in Jefferson City for child sex crimes. William Lee Nichols, 53, was charged in the indictment with sexual exploitation of a minor child, using a child to prodice child porn and distributing child porn, all of which allegedly occurred from June
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s police officers are having more frequent encounters with homeless people — so many that the Columbia Police Department has a team dedicated to dealing with that part of the population. The number of calls for service and arrests involving homeless people jumped 38% in Columbia from 2023 to 2024, according to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A teenager was killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday night on Highway 63, near Claysville Road in southern Boone County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. According to an MSHP crash report, a 2007 Chevrolet Impala – driven by an 18-year-old man from Columbia – was heading southbound when it went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly middle school teacher was one of the three people who died on Highway 63 in Boone County on Thursday. Moberly School District Superintendent Cristina Wright wrote in a letter to Moberly school families that Ashley Apel was killed in one of the crashes. Apel was in a vehicle that was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to by flown at half-staff at firehouses statewide and government buildings in Howard County on Sunday in honor of firefighter Larry Roland Duncan. Flags will also be flown at half-staff at the firefighters memorial in Kingdom City. Duncan died on Wednesday, Jan. 15 from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County jury found a former state trooper guilty of sexual assault and kidnapping Friday after a three-day trial. Jeffery Durbin had been charged with sexual abuse, a felony, and third-degree kidnapping, a misdemeanor. The jury returned the verdict after deliberating for about three hours. Durbin and his accuser each took
Continue Reading BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people died in two separate crashes Thursday on Highway 63 in Boone County, north of Columbia. Emergency dispatchers alerted the public at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday that a crash had closed Highway 63 southbound at Highway 124. Two people died in a head-on collision. According to the crash report release
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