FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man was arrested on a Callaway County warrant for possession of child pornography after an investigation began in January. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Task Force received a CyberTip report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding a person in the Fulton area who
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An 87-year-old man is dead after a crash involving a lawnmower near Holts Summit, Missouri. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports, around 7:15 Wednesday night Leland Schweiss was backing up the lawnmower when it started to slide down a hill and overturned. The report said Schweiss was thrown from
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Several law enforcement agencies worked into the early hours of Thursday to find a suspect who ran from Callaway County Sheriff’s deputies.
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A Fulton man was killed in a Callaway County crash involving a tractor at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton woman pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and tampering with a motor vehicle. Tori Taylor admitted to keeping a car that she borrowed from the owner in late April. Taylor was the reported victim of an alleged kidnapping in April but was later found unharmed one month later
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MoDOT will be making improvements as part of a rehabilitation project to both directions of Highways 54 and 63 along the bridge.
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Callaway County Sheriff’s Department says Stephen Thorp was taken into custody Tuesday in a nearby county after leading deputies on a chase.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man is now charged after police arrested him Friday after he allegedly fired a gun into the air several times. Prosecutors charged Sandalio Ingram with drug possession, possession of a firearm by a felon, stealing a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon while intoxicated and armed criminal action.
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Authorities are still searching for a convicted murderer after a vehicle chase in Callaway County. Authorities say Stephen Thorp took off from deputies on Saturday. He’s currently on supervised parole for second-degree murder and domestic assault. The chase happened near county roads 161 and 142 about 10-miles east of Kingdom City.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa, (KMIZ) A North Callaway School District teacher and coach was arrested on June 16 for allegedly producing child porn and sextortion of an Iowa minor. According to court documents, 44-year-old Chad Craghead allegedly posed as a teen online and obtained nude images of a 16-year-old victim from Muscatine. After obtaining those images, Craghead
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A boat driver was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated causing death following a deadly incident on the Missouri River. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol arrest reports, troopers arrested 51-year-old Scotty Smallwood of Lohman, Missouri, shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday. An MSHP incident report says Smallwood was driving the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is inviting residents and travelers to share their thoughts regarding the 2022 improvements along Highway 63 in Boone and Callaway Counties. The project will make several improvements along Highway 63 including resurfaced between Boone County Route B and Highway 54 in Callaway County, as well as
Continue Reading CALLAWAY Co. (KMIZ) Two minors suffered serious injuries after the truck they were driving, overturned on I-70 in Callaway County. The accident happened around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. The 17-year-old driver from Waynesburg, Pa was driving westbound on I-70 near mile marker 144 when the truck he was driving went off the left side
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man faces multiple charges after a vehicle chase on June 9 in Boone County and then on Thursday in Callaway County. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, a deputy attempted to stop Davy Rasa for failing to display proper registration in a vehicle. Rasa drove off and the
Continue Reading CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), working with a contractor, will begin replacing the deck and upgrading guardrail on the Callaway County Route O bridge over Auxvasse Creek, southeast of Fulton, beginning Monday. The existing bridge was built in 1967 and the driving surface has reached a point where rehabilitation is
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Pamela J. Cordrey, a store employee who was working at the time of the fire, was booked into the Callaway County Jail without bond on suspicion of first-degree arson, the Fulton Police Department said in a news release. Information about her case was not available in online court records Thursday morning.
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Lary D. Turner, 71, was pronounced dead at University Hospital after the crash Sunday afternoon on Route B near Highway 54, just north of Auxvasse.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County woman is now in a state mental hospital after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2020 murder case. Callaway County prosecutor Chris Wilson said Lola Crews made the plea on April 26 and effectively ends the case. Wilson said that two mental evaluations found that Crews
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was arrested Monday afternoon after a vehicle chase ended at the south Fulton city limit. According to a Facebook post by the Callaway County Sheriff’s Department, deputies located a stolen BMW from Osage County on US Highway 54 near New Bloomfield when the chase started. The chase ended at the
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HOLTS SUMMIT, Mo. (KMIZ) A MoDOT Central District tweet is saying urgent repairs will begin at 6:30 Thursday night on eastbound Route 54 lanes near Summit Drive. MoDOT officials say the repairs are caused by pavement “blow-ups”. A pavement blow-up occurs when the roadway surface expands at a crack or joint where moisture has seeped
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