DEFIANCE, Mo. (KMIZ) His name is on significant landmarks around the Show-Me State and in Boone County, like the Daniel Boone Regional Library or the Daniel Boone Little League Fields. But who was Daniel Boone? While he wasn’t from Missouri, he made the state his home for much of his life, helping to form it
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County woman was charged with two felonies after she allegedly stole nearly $12,000 from a Jefferson City nursing home resident during a three-year period. Michelle Weaver, of Tebbetts, was charged on Tuesday in Cole County with financially exploiting an elderly person and misappropriating funds of an elderly nursing home resident.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A street in the Brick District in Fulton has reopened to limited traffic nearly a week after a building collapsed, according to a press release from the Fulton Fire Department. The front of a building at 505 Nichols St. collapsed Wednesday, June 17. It led to the closure of the 500 block
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Downtown Fulton businesses remain closed and a block of Nichols Street is expected to stay shut down through the weekend after part of a historic building collapsed Wednesday morning, exposing a second-floor apartment and forcing evacuations. No injuries were reported in the collapse, but businesses remain displaced and the residents who lived
Continue Reading FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The front of a building in downtown Fulton collapsed Wednesday, revealing an apartment in the top floor of the two-story building. No injuries were reported, but the collapse displaced tenants, delayed a planned business opening and forced neighboring storefronts to close. Police and fire crews were called around 10:40 a.m. to 505
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Stakeholders are in active talks about a possible 800,000 square foot data center in Callaway County.
Western District Commissioner Christopher Scott told ABC 17 News that Crusoe, a Denver-based AI company, would build the 14-acre center somewhere in the north Callaway area.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were 280 Consolidated Electric Cooperative members without power in Audrain County on Thursday afternoon after storms rolled through Mid-Missouri. The outages were reported on the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperative’s map. It also shows 37 customers in Callaway County without power, with 35 being Consolidated Electric Cooperative members. There were 94
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A registered sex offender in Fulton has been charged with a child sex crime. James Dale Courtney, 63, has been charged in Callaway County with statutory sodomy of a person younger than 12 years old. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A court date has not been
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office says the search for an alleged armed man who ran away during a traffic stop has been resolved, after he died by suicide. The law enforcement agency wrote on its social media on Thursday night that it is looking for a man near Route E, East
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol has completed its annual bus inspections. A Wednesday press release from MSHP says 10,239 buses were approved on its initial inspection, while 849 were rated “defective” and 283 were determined to be “out of service.” The release says that defective components require repair within 10 days, “out-of-service”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday after he pleaded guilty to several child sex crimes. Memphis Dils, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, one count of possessing child sex abuse material and a count of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The date that Daniels started service with MSHP has been corrected. The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Friday confirmed the name of a trooper who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. MSHP said Cpl. Gary T. Daniels was found Thursday with a gunshot wound on Callaway County Road 395,
Continue Reading CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) No foul play is suspected in the death of a trooper, according to a Thursday media release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office and MSHP are investigating the death of a trooper on Callaway County Road 395, which is just off of Highway 63 in an
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four youth and a man from St. Joseph, Missouri, were injured in a boat crash on Monday at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District wrote in a social media post that that it received a call for a boating accident at the 38-mile marker and an MSHP
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A Fulton man was charged on Friday with multiple counts related to child sex crimes.
According to a Facebook post from the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office, Phillip Likes, 29, was arrested Friday in connection with an alleged sexual assault involving a juvenile that was reported in early March.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former law enforcement officer was charged on Tuesday in Callaway County with a pair of child sex crimes. Paul Robert Winkler, 61, of Fulton, is charged with first-degree child molestation and enticing a child younger than 15 years old. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Holts Summit police arrested a man wanted by the U.S. Marshal’s Service following an hours-long standoff on Monday. According to a news release from the Holts Summit Police Department, police established a perimeter in the 300 block of South Summit Drive. The suspect was identified as Damien Rotter, wanted for probation violation
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man who was accused of trying to carjack a woman at the Jefferson City airport last month has been charged in federal court. Brian Koch, 28, is accused of trying to pose as a police officer before pulling out a gun and a machete at a woman in a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of killing a Fulton State Hospital patient while he was a patient in 2025 was indicted by a Callaway County grand jury on Thursday. Jabril Kanatzar is charged with first-degree murder and misdemeanor fourth-degree assault in the death of Christos Karagiannis. An arraignment for the indictment is scheduled for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State regulators on Wednesday approved Ameren Missouri’s plans to build a solar field on conservation land near its nuclear plant in southern Callaway County. The utility applied for a Certificate of Convenience to build and operate the Reform Solar Project last September. The project will be built on land owned by Ameren
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