COOPER COUNTY, Mo. Cooper County Fire Protection District has safely rescued three animals this year after falling through ice. According to a release from the agency, firefighters were called to a partially frozen lake at Warm Springs Ranch on Highway 98 in Boonville after a dog fell into the water on Sunday at 2:56 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two segments of Interstate 70 in Cooper County will narrow to one lane next week for drilling, according to a Friday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. The release says that the driving lane of westbound Interstate 70 near mile marker 113 will be closed 8 p.m.-7 a.m. each night
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters in Boonville rescued a pooch who had fallen through thin ice on a pond Thursday. According to a Cooper County Fire Protection District news release, the rescue happened at about 1:30 p.m. The dog, named Boone, had walked onto the ice and fallen away from the bank. Firefighters from the Cooper
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Boonville police officers were called to a report of a student with a gun on a school bus Wednesday morning. According to the Boonville Police Department, officers responded to a 911 report that a student had a gun on the school bus near 11th Street and Jefferson Road. After an investigation police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville High School student was arrested after they allegedly assaulted another student in the school’s parking lot, Boonville police wrote in a Tuesday afternoon social media. Police wrote that that they were called at 3 p.m. to help the school’s resource officer respond to an assault. Two students were allegedly fighting
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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) Rest areas near mile marker 104 off of Interstate 70 near Boonville will be closed for several months for renovations, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. The westbound rest area will close at 6 a.m. Tuesday and the eastbound rest area is expected to close in February,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Public safety offices across the Show Me State warned residents to stay off the roads Saturday. “If the precipitation hasn’t started in your area, it’s coming, and conditions will change quickly,” the Missouri Department of Transportation said in a social media post. The department’s traveler information map showed snow and ice covered
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State and city offices will be closed on New Year’s Day, and services like trash pickup will be impacted. Trash pickup will not occur on Wednesday for the holiday in several area cities, including Columbia, Jefferson City, Fulton and Boonville. All trash pickup for the rest of the week will be delayed
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Editor’s note: The hours for the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services have been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State and city offices will be closed on Christmas Day, and some changes will occur this week for services such as trash pickup. Trash pickup will not occur on Wednesday for the holiday in several area
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Editor’s note: The position was corrected after the governor’s office sent an updated press release. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson appointed Gayle Linneman to become the next Cooper County assessor, a Wednesday press release from the governor’s office says. Linneman, of Blackwater, is an officer coordinator for Restoration Health and as a realtor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Boonville-based propane supplier Gygr Gas was ordered on Wednesday to pay the state of Missouri $377,167.11 in a 2022 lawsuit. The Attorney General’s Office – then headed by Eric Schmitt – sued Gygr Gas in December 2022 after the company abruptly closed and failed to notify its customers that it would
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit over a 2022 Cooper County crash that killed a Moberly woman. Randall Hendricks filed the lawsuit in February against Inocente Prisciliano-Miranda, of Sedalia, in the Cooper County Circuit Court. Hendricks is the father of Belinda Hendricks, who was killed in a crash on
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thanksgiving is already upon us and trash pickup around the area will be impacted. The state and every city office observes the holiday. Gov. Mike Parson signed an executive order on Nov. 7 that will also close state offices on the day after the holiday. Columbia and Jefferson City will also have
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people were injured – one seriously – in a single-vehicle crash Thursday on Interstate 70 in Cooper County at mile marker 102, a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says. According to the report, the crash occurred as a 2012 Freightliner Cascadia was heading eastbound and changed lanes near a work
Continue Reading BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Students at Laura Speed Elliot Middle School in Boonville were temporarily evacuated from the building on Friday after its dedicated outdoor air system had a leak, according to a notification on the school district’s website. Students were brought outside “to allow fresh air to be recirculated throughout the building,” the alert says.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In-person, no-excuse absentee voting for the Nov. 5 election begins on Tuesday in Missouri. Do you plan on voting early? Let us know in the poll and in the comments.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi called a pair of recent racist incidents on campus “abhorrent” in a letter sent to students this week. The Mizzou Legion of Black Collegians shared information – on its Instagram page on Sunday — about students being called racial slurs on campus on Oct. 6
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man was charged with three felonies after he allegedly assaulted a woman and shot at her on Monday night. Phillip Clubb, 49, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action and illegal gun possession. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail on a $500,000 bond. A court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The northern lights were able to be seen in Mid-Missouri once again on Thursday evening. Check out some viewer-submitted photos in the gallery above. Do you have any photographs you want shared? Add them to our Facebook page and they can end up on-air and online. We will be adding more photos
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