MONDAY UPDATES: Boone County reports nearly half of 530 new coronavirus cases under 30-years-old
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Continue ReadingThe University of Missouri System and the MU campus will move to remote operations and classes for Wednesday and Thursday due to winter weather.
Continue ReadingThe City of Columbia is opening the Wabash Bus Station overnight warming Tuesday night through Friday night due to forecasted winter weather.
Continue ReadingThe Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has filed lesser charges against a man accused in a deadly Columbia shooting.
Continue ReadingA Boone County judge sentenced a Columbia man to 27 years in prison Friday for his role in a deadly shooting.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Drivers in the Columbia area should expect delays on eastbound Interstate 70 at the Sorrels Overpass Monday. MoDOT is planning for five-minute rolling roadblocks in the eastbound lanes to allow a crane to safely move concrete to the median. MoDOT expects the delays to happen between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 🚧I-70
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia College will return to in-person learning Monday after spending months in a partially virtual setting due to the COVID-19 case increase in Boone County. College officials announced after consulting with the COVID-19 Task Force, careful examination of data, and in consideration of feedback from faculty, staff and students, that the school has
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: Power has been restored to all users as of 9 p.m. on Sunday. Around 3 p.m. on Sunday, a widespread power outage was reported in the area of the Columbia Mall. At that time, the City of Columbia reported 1,637 residents were without power. Matt Nestor with the city’s utilities department
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was seriously hurt after being hit by a car in Columbia on Saturday night. According to Columbia Police, Sullivan S. Preston, 19 of Bowen, IL was walking eastbound along I-70 Drive Northwest when he was hit by a 2003 Honda CRV. Joseph C. Gilmore, 30 of Columbia was behind the
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested Leslie Lee Williams, 40, of Columbia on suspicion of arson early Friday morning. CPD responded to a car on fire in the lot of Extended Stay at 2000 West Business Loop 70 around 1:35 a.m. on Friday. Police eventually identified the suspect as Williams who had outstanding arrest warrants
Continue Readingjust before and soon after the holidays, the demand for COVID testing increased.
Continue ReadingOfficials report two people were taken by ambulance to a local hospital after a two-vehicle wreck at Range Line near Blue Ridge just before 12:30 p.m.
Continue ReadingThe city of Columbia is launching a new website for residents to pay for utilities.
Continue ReadingShootings of police officers have shaken multiple American cities already in 2022 — building off an increase in such shootings in 2021.
Continue ReadingColumbia trash customers should be receiving vouchers for new bags in the mail this week, though some residents have complained about not being able to find the special bags the city requires.
Continue ReadingSeveral Missouri Republicans claim masks in schools are ineffective and hindering children’s education, but medical experts and public health officials say otherwise.
Continue ReadingA crash Thursday night on Interstate 70 killed a person from Columbia, police said.
Continue ReadingSome drivers may have been caught off guard by the snowfall this morning but Columbia Public Works certainly wasn’t.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Wabash Bus Station is set to open as a temporary overnight warming center Friday, according to a release from the City of Columbia. In the release, the city said the warming center, located at 126 N. 10th St., will be open from 7 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday. The city
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department chief plans to leave for a new position in Arkansas. According to Southern Arkansas University Tech, Andy Woody will take over as the next director of the Arkansas Fire Training Academy (AFTA). A date wasn’t immediately available for when Woody will start in his new role. The school
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