COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County sex offender was charged with two child sex crimes on Thursday. William Laurence Pilger Jr., 64, was charged with statutory sodomy of a child younger than 14 years old and second-degree child molestation of a child younger than 12 years old. He is being held at the Boone County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hickman High School students who are members of Students For Change are hoping to channel sadness into action after Wednesday shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Senior Karli Jones — Students For Change’s president — said she is tired of a lack of action to stop school shootings. “In kindergarten, we were
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man who was charged with murder and rape in Indiana in relation to a 1993 Indianapolis killing appeared in court on Wednesday. Dana Shepherd, 52, was charged in Marion County, Indiana, with two counts of murder and one count of rape in the and death of Carmen Van Huss.
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A Columbia family had quite a scare last month when their 11-year-old son began screaming in their backyard.
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The woman who led Columbia and Boone County’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is retiring in October.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some Columbia residents say an apartment complex located on the south side of town has a history of its residents’ vehicles being broken into. A social media post from a woman shows a vehicle’s windows smashed in at what she claims are the Corporate Lake Apartments–located in the 4800 block of John
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council approved an amendment to the city code on Tuesday that will impact the Citizens Police Review Board. The council voted 4-2 to limit the complaints against police officers the CPRB can review, strips its power to make recommendations on police department policies and be able to host public
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton woman was seriously injured Monday night in a motorcycle crash in northern Boone County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash report states that Sherri Zajdel, 57, crashed a 2020 Harley Davidson while heading southbound on Route Z about half a mile north of Rob Cook
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The charity Love Columbia is asking for donations for its rental assistance program because pandemic-era stimulus money is nearly exhausted.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were seven deaths on Missouri roads over Labor Day weekend, according to a Tuesday press release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. This year’s total for fatalities and crashes are lower than last year, where 12 deaths and 306 crashes were reported, according to previous reporting. MSHP states that 223 crashes,
Continue Reading Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were scheduled to host a news conference Tuesday afternoon to talk about the arrest of a Boone County man in a 1993 rape and murder case.
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A Columbia man accused last week of shooting at a group of people downtown has been charged with four felonies.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Audits from the City of Columbia ABC 17 News received show some pools received a three-star rating in 2024. Superintendent for the Activity and Recreation Center Cavelle Cole-Neal said the city completes one audit in the winter, one in the spring and one at each pool during the summer months. According to
Continue Reading EDITOR’S NOTE: A misspelled name has been corrected. BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man is facing rape and murder charges stemming from a 1993 Indiana case. Dana Jermaine Shepherd, 52, faces charges in Marion County, Indiana, including two counts of murder and one count of rape “with deadly force.” Boone County deputies and
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Columbia, Mo. (KMIZ) New additions are expected to be added to the Columbia Farmers Market within the next year. During a Columbia Convention and Visitors Advisory Board Meeting on Tuesday, members presented the newest addition to the Columbia Farmers Market, a community welcome center set to come in 2025. According to the project’s website, the
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A man accused of killing his daughter and abandoning her corpse was sentenced to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 500 Columbia Water and Light customers experienced a power outage on Friday evening. An outage was reported at 8:55 p.m. in Central Columbia on Range Line Street near the intersection with Lakeview Avenue, according to the city’s outage map. There are 506 customers impacted by the outage. The outage was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Work on the Grindstone Parkway Sidewalk Project in Columbia will require lane closures beginning on Sept. 10, according to a Friday press release from the city. Work was originally set to begin on Tuesday, and will be completed by late fall. The project will address a sidewalk gap on the south side
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed on Interstate 70 in Cooper County on Wednesday evening is in critical condition. An MU Health Care spokesperson confirmed Christopher Wanager’s condition in an email on Friday. Wanager had to be pulled from a 2005 Freightliner Columbia after crashing it at mile marker 112, Lt.
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A Columbia man pleaded guilty in court Friday morning and was sentenced 18 years in prison after being arrested in June 2023 following a fire and a 16-hour manhunt.
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