COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 37-year-old man from Festus, Missouri, was seriously injured Friday after he crashed a golf cart at the fourth hole of The Oaks Golf Course in Camden County, a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says. The report says the man drove a 2024 Yamaha golf cart westbound down a steep cart
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Voters in the Gravois Fire Protection District will decide on Nov. 3 whether to approve a one-percent sales tax known as Proposition Fire. Fire Chief Dustin Hancock said the district needs more revenue as calls increase, costs rise and positions remain unfilled. The district serves parts of Morgan and Camden counties.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A substitute teacher and cross-country coach in the Macks Creek School District who is also the Hickory County treasurer was charged this week in federal court with distributing child sex abuse material. Kenneth S. Ratliff, 51, appeared Thursday in federal court in Jefferson City on one criminal count. The federal complaint alleges
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 51-year-old man from Clmax Springs, Missouri, was seriously hurt after a motorcycle crash involving a deer in Camden County on Monday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was riding a 2006 Harley-Davidson Dyna Wide Glide on Highway 5 north of Rock Grove Court at 6:48
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 56-year-old man from Roach, Missouri, was killed in a motorcycle crash on Thursday afternoon on Route AA in Camden County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man rode his 2024 Indian Roadmaster northbound, failed to negotiate a curve and went off the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Camden County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday night shared a more than 47-minute-long video surrounding the response to a call involving a toddler’s drowning. Iszabella O’Bryan, 2, was found dead on March 3 in the water at the Lake of the Ozarks after she went missing. Previous reporting from the time of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One woman was seriously injured while four youths had minor injuries in a Friday morning crash in Miller County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The crash occurred on Highway 42, east of Highway 134, the report says. The report says a 17-year-old Osage Beach girl
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Osage Beach Board of Aldermen is reviewing a bill that would allow the creation of entertainment districts. The bill would create procedures to apply for a special license for an entertainment district and set out regulations. Osage Beach Mayor Richard Ross told ABC 17 News that the bill would
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Zach Williams, 23, was killed in a hit-and-run crash near Camdenton over Labor Day weekend on Sunday, Sept. 6. His cousin, Kelsey Trower, is asking anyone with information to contact investigators. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a vehicle struck a pedestrian on westbound U.S. Highway 54 near Cedar Heights Drive,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 23-year-old Osage Beach man was seriously hurt during a crash in Camden County just before 1 a.m. Monday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred on Storm Cove Dr. at Dennison Dr. The man was driving a 2022 Jeep Cherokee west when the car went off
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The parents of a toddler who was found dead in the Lake of the Ozarks in March 2025 filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday. The lawsuit names as defendants various directors or employees of the Missouri Department of Social Services, Missouri Children’s Division, Camden County Juvenile Office and Camden County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 60-year-old Kansas City man was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash Friday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened at around 5:13 p.m. at the intersection of Route MM and Shawnee Four Drive. The man was driving a 2007 Harley-Davidson CVO Softail Springer eastbound on Route MM when
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas woman has died after she was involved in a motorcycle crash in Osage Beach on Thursday. A 55-year-old passenger died at the hospital, according to Osage Beach Police Department Lt. Michael O’Day Friday morning. The woman was one of three people involved in a crash on Highway 54 near Key
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were more than 2,600 electricity customers without power on Wednesday in Camden County after storms went through the area. Roughly 15 reports of outages were called in by Ameren customers mostly along Highway 54. There were 1,005 Ameren customers affected. Most of those outages were reported after 5 p.m. with restoration
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Vernon County man died Sunday morning after he was hit by a vehicle in Camden County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The crash was reported around midnight on westbound Highway 54 at Cedar Heights Drive just west of Camdenton and the Niangua Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 64-year-old man from Pleasant Hill was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash Friday on Willow Creek Road in Camden County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man rode his 2008 Harley Davison FLHTC northbound and the bike started to skid on a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The man described as a marijuana supplier for the Gathering of the Juggalos remained behind bars on Thursday after a bond hearing earlier this week. Kevin “Bluntman” Jones, 45, of Eastonm Pennsylvania, is charged in Camden County with first-degree drug trafficking. A bond hearing was held on Tuesday and he was denied
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 48-year-old Kaiser woman was seriously hurt during a crash in Camden County just before 7 p.m. Monday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the woman was driving a 2008 Honda Element south on Highway D at Locust Road. The report says she was speeding down the curvy road
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 64-year-old St. Charles man was killed during a crash in Camden County just after 3:15 p.m. Sunday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was driving a 2018 Ford F250 east on US 54 near Route A when the truck went off the right side of the
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men who were charged with felonies for having hundreds of pounds of drugs while heading to the Gathering of the Juggalos in Macks Creek appeared in court on Friday. Kevin “Bluntman” Jones, 45, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was charged earlier this week with first-degree drug trafficking and delivery of a controlled substance.
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