COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state auditor gave Cooper County a “poor” rating on Wednesday. A press release and audit report claim the county needs to “do a better job of managing the county’s finances and putting it on a better trajectory by doing more immediate and long-term planning,” Fitzpatrick wrote. The report claims the County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No one was injured, but a highway was blocked in Cooper County temporarily on Monday when a tractor-trailer rolled onto its side. The truck rolled on Highway 179 near Big Lick Road, south of Wooldridge, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The road was blocked for more than 30 minutes while
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was treated for smoke inhalation and a firefighter was shocked by electricity on Thursday night after a house caught fire in the 1200 block of Rainbow Road in Boonville, according to a Friday social media post from the Boonville Fire Department. Crews were called at 8:27 p.m. and saw “heavy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Troopers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol are investigating a tractor-trailer crash on westbound Interstate 70 in Cooper County. An ABC 17 News videographer arrived at the 109.8-mile marker at 6:45 a.m. and saw a tractor-trailer hauling two loads of cargo in a ditch on the side of the road, with caution
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 48-year-old St. Joseph man died in a crash involving a motorcycle at around 7:30 p.m. Monday in Cooper County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced that it was investigating a two-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 near mile marker 99. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Bunceton will receive $2.86 million in financial assistance from the Department of Natural Resources to upgrade its wastewater treatment system, a Tuesday press release from the DNR says. Funding from the DNR includes a $1.1 million loan and a $1.7 million grant through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man described as a “cult-like” Amish leader who is accused of manslaughter and sex abuse was denied bond again. Sam Shetler, 43, of Boonville, is charged with three counts of trafficking for the purpose of slavery/forced labor, a count of first-degree sodomy, first-degree sex abuse, four counts of kidnapping and one count
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 400 Ameren customers in Boonville were without power on Thursday night. Ameren’s outage map showed that crews were assessing an outage that began at 7:13 p.m. That outage affected 432 customers in Boonville. A restoration time was not available. A second outage was reported just north of that outage that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged in Cooper County with a felony and a misdemeanor after he allegedly pointed a loaded gun at a teenager during a road-rage incident Saturday night on Interstate 70. Jalin Crenshaw was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He was not listed on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A sex offender who is under 20 years of supervised release was arrested on Monday night in Boonville. Andrew Paul Capps, 26, was charged in Cooper County with being a sex offender at a public park and resisting arrest. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail without bond. He pleaded
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 19-year-old Pilot Grove woman suffered serious injuries in a Cooper County crash Thursday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the woman was driving a 2011 Toyota Camry southbound on Route JJ, south of Lee Road at 11:50 a.m., when she drove through water in the road. The woman began to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Power outages were reported around Mid-Missouri on Thursday after heavy rain and storms went through the area. At 2:27 p.m., Columbia had two outages affecting 126 electricity customers on Stadium Boulevard and in a neighborhood near Forum Boulevard. The outage map for the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives showed 477 Callaway Electric
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cooper County prosecutor filed a motion on Thursday to give consent for the case of a “cult-like” Amish leader to be moved to Montgomery County. Sam Shetler, 42, of Boonville, is charged with three counts of trafficking for the purpose of slavery/forced labor, a count of first-degree sodomy, first-degree sex
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Cooper County Jail guard received a two-year probation term for her role in an inmate’s death in 2023. Rachel Atherton pleaded guilty to second-degree involuntary manslaughter on Monday. Prosecutors reduced her chare on Friday to the lesser felony. Jazzlyn Johnson, spokesperson for special prosecutors out of Jackson County, said Atherton
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The final books were taken from Boonville’s 65-year-old library on Thursday in what was called a bookworm relay. Residents lined up along a three-block stretch between the old location on main street to the new location in a building on the former Kemper Military School CAMPUS. The group moved the libraries final
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of the men accused in the Isle of Capri casino robbery from late March has new options for his bond. Benjamin Charles, 21, of Columbia, is charged in Cooper County with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and tampering with evidence. He is currently in the Cooper County Jail. His original bond
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Cooper County Fair is moving forward without carnival rides this year after its contracted ride company, Amusement Associates, shut down unexpectedly and did not return the fair’s $5,000 deposit. Cooper County Fair Board President Bryan Larm said the board hired Amusement Associates in January after meeting with the company at a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cooper County Fair announced on Tuesday on its social media that the carnival company it had contracted has closed. The Cooper County Fair is scheduled to be July 21-25. The fair stated on its Facebook page that it received a letter on Monday afternoon from Amusement Associates indicating the company had
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A California, Missouri, man was charged with three felonies after he was accused of hitting his own father with a hatchet on Sunday night. Dustin Coffelt, 40, was charged in Cooper County with second-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Cooper
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who is accused of stealing $1.28 million from the Isle of Capri Casino earlier this year has pleaded guilty in a separate case in Illinois. Hollis Vanleer Jr., 20, of Bloomington, Illinois, pleaded guilty on Thursday in McLean County to stealing a vehicle. He was sentenced to three years in
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