COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation is holding a mandatory sampling this weekend for Chronic Wasting Disease as the November firearms portion of deer season opens. The department will use the findings from this weekend during the annual targeted deer removal between January and mid-March. The procedure has the MDC working with local
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A water problem led to part of the Callaway Energy Center nuclear plant being shut down this week. An executive with plant owner Ameren Missouri said Friday that “restoration of the affected systems on the non-nuclear side” of the plant was underway. “Our focus is on returning the facility to full power
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State utility regulators have set a date for the public to give feedback on Ameren Missouri’s plans for a solar field in southeastern Callaway County. The utility plans to build a 250-megawatt solar field called the Reform Solar Project. It would be built on land the utility loaned to the state as
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A building caught fire Tuesday night near the intersection of County Roads 2000 and 293 in Callaway County. No one was in the residence when the fire started and no injuries were reported, according North Callaway Fire Protection District Chief Matthew Walton. The building was considered a complete loss. Walton said
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HOLTS SUMMIT, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported after a house caught fire on Tuesday evening in Holts Summit. Firefighters responded to a home that caught fire on Callaway County Road 394 at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday, according to Holts Summit Assistant Fire Chief Allen Wehmeyer. Wehmeyer said the fire started in the back of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 61-year-old Maryland Heights man is dead after crashing his truck around 8 p.m. Sunday in Callaway County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to an online crash report, the man was driving a 2001 Chevrolet S-10 west on I-70 at mile marker 156.8 when he went off
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County man was charged with two counts of first-degree harassment after he allegedly threatened to kill two workers who were ordered to trim trees for Callaway Electric Cooperative. Christopher Cockrum, 45, of Fulton, is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A mugshot was not immediately available and
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MoDOT leaders, state troopers and elected officials across Missouri gather for a ribbon cutting on I-70 near mile marker 137
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Two people were seriously injured in a crash in Callaway County on Saturday evening, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man led deputies to a half-pound of methamphetamine stashed in his truck Monday, according to court documents. Lance M. Stout was charged Tuesday in Callaway County with drug trafficking and felony possession after the Monday night traffic stop. Stout was pulled over in his F-150 on Highway 54 for speeding
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man has been charged with three felonies and three misdemeanors after he allegedly shot at an occupied car and pointed a gun at another person on Saturday night. Lamar Scott Jr., 19, was charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, one count of armed criminal action, misdemeanor
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Callaway County has sued three property owners for alleged violation of the county’s floodplain rules. The county commission sued T&T Pallet and Farmer Companies, or Farmer Holding Inc., as well as one residential homeowner. According to court documents, Callaway County is included in FEMA’s National Flood Plain Insurance Program that provides
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 65-year-old woman from Columbia was seriously injured in a crash in the 4900 block of Route F in Callaway County on Thursday morning, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the 2016 Toyota Camry was heading west when it went off the right side
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with several sex crimes after he was accused of repeatedly raping and sodomizing a child over the course of several years. Zackary Ray, 27, was charged with two counts of first-degree rape of a child younger than 12 years old, one count of first-degree sodomy of a
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was killed on Tuesday night after he was hit be a semi-truck on Interstate 70. Â According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, a 44-year-old Columbia man was walking in the left lane of eastbound I-70 near mile marker 137 when he was hit by a semi-truck
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​​COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ​​The Missouri Department of Transportation and law enforcement officials are urging drivers to slow down and stay alert in work zones along Interstate 70, where construction, traffic congestion, and recent crashes have raised safety concerns in Boone and Callaway counties. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F crash reports, 39
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man suffered serious injuries and three children were hurt Wednesday morning in a crash on Highway 54 in Callaway County. The 35-year-old driver was not wearing a seatbelt when his Jeep Compass ran off the road, went up an embankment and hit a tree at about 6 a.m., according
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 68-year-old man from Holts Summit died Tuesday afternoon in a crash on Highway 63, about a quarter-mile north of Renz Farm Road, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man did not wear a seatbelt. The crash occurred as a 2019 Kenworth
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A second North Callaway School District bus crashed less than a week after five students were hurt on Thursday. The second crash happened Tuesday morning near the Callaway and Audrain County line on County Road 2000 near the intersection of State Route DD. Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Kyle Green
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County woman was charged on Monday after she allegedly shot an AR-15 at an elderly man who was driving a skid steer on Sunday in a residence east of Fulton. Rebecca Elm, 58, was charged with second-degree assault, armed criminal action and first-degree property damage. She is being held at
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