COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 41-year-old New Franklin man died Friday night in an ATV crash on Route P in Howard County, north of County Road 451, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man drove the 2005 Arctic Cat off the road and was ejected from the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Fire risks are on the rise as Missouri is set to enter another dry month, with drought conditions expected. Dryness started back in July and continued through August, the former being recorded as the second-driest month in history for the City of Columbia. Both the Columbia Fire Department and the Missouri Department
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man has been charged with two felonies after he was allegedly found with child pornography. Lance Larkin, 35, was charged with first-degree promoting child pornography and child porn possession. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail without bond. An arraignment is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The probable
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Prairie Home woman suffered moderate injuries when a car rear-ended the buggy she was riding in on Monday night. The crash happened on Highway 87 north of Apple Drive in Prairie Home, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. A Chevrolet Malibu sedan driven by a 22-year-old Prairie Home
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas man was charged in Cooper County after he allegedly broke into a home and pointed a gun at the homeowner on Sunday morning. Rivanold Truman Tegomo Tekombo, 25, of Olathe, Kansas, was charged with first-degree burglarly, second-degree kidnapping, armed criminal action and two misdemeanors: Fourth-degree assault and stealing. He is
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COOPER COUNTY, MO. (KMIZ) The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office says its response to a possible armed home invasion turned into a two-hour long stand off. Sunday morning at around 7:30, the Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post that Cooper County deputies and Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched to an address on
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COOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Pilot Grove boy was seriously injured in an ATV crash in Cooper County on Friday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash happened around 4:15 p.m. on Riverview Drive. The 10-year-old boy was riding a 2007 Kawasaki, when he turned to go north on Riverview Drive.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man was charged with four felonies after he was accused of shooting another man in Howard County on Thursday. Johntelle Millens, 39, was charged on Friday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and illegal gun possession. He is being held at the Howard County Jail
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police and deputies have arrested a suspect after a man drove himself from Howard County to Boonville. Boonville police found the victim sitting in a car bleeding with a gunshot wound and Main Street, according to a news release. The shooting happened in Howard County, the release says. Boonville police and Cooper
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man and two juveniles were accused of robbing someone at gunpoint on Thursday in the 500 block of Leroy Street in Boonville. Trenton Schoen, 18, was charged on Friday with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and illegally having a weapon. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail on a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Power is restored after storms rolled through Howard County Wednesday night. The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives outage map on Wednesday night showed 216 Howard Electric customers without power, while 50 Co-Mo Cooperative customers in Cooper County had no power and 28 Boone Electric Co-op customers with no power in Randolph County.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The body of a Boonville woman missing since Monday has been found in the Missouri River. The Boonville Police Department wrote in a social media post Wednesday that the body of Katelynn Nelson, 33, was found in the river near Jefferson City. Nelson was reported missing early Monday. Police say she was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cooper County man has been charged with two felonies after authorities say he had child pornography. Jesse Lawrence Wallace, of Blackwater, was charged with first-degree promoting child porn and possessing child porn. He was not listed on the Cooper County Jail roster on Friday afternoon. A warrant was issued on Thursday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Wooldridge man was arrested and charged after he was accused of stabbing a woman on Tuesday. Donald Rybolt, 61, was charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A court date has not been set. The probable
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Protesters in Mid-Missouri are joining a national movement this weekend, rallying against what they call authoritarianism and unjust immigration practices. The demonstration is part of a coordinated “No Kings” effort taking place in cities across the country, timed to coincide with President Donald Trump’s planned military parade in Washington, D.C., marking the
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A misspelled name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new law signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday includes sweeping public safety reforms, including updating the state’s outdated firework regulations. Senate Bill 81, which takes effect Aug. 28, modernizes how Missouri regulates fireworks for the first time in more than two decades,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who crashed a tractor-trailer in the westbound lane of Interstate 70 on Monday has been charged with a felony. Andrei Parham, 32, of Beaverton, Oregon, was charged Tuesday in Cooper County with driving while intoxicated. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail on a $15,000 bond. A court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to house inmates in jails across Mid-Missouri, as local officials continue to struggle with overcrowding and a growing backlog of detainees awaiting mental health evaluations. From Jan 10 to May 23, the county had spent $461,235 to house detainees in other counties, according
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As storms continued to impact much of Mid-Missouri on Tuesday night, power outages continued to climb. In Columbia at 8 p.m., there were nine reported outages impacting 2,510 utility customers. A number of outages were reported in West Columbia, though outages impacting a high-number of people were reported in central Columbia. That
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As of this week, Missouri leads the nation in the number of tornado warnings issued since Jan. 1, with 140 more warnings than normal. The severe weather season ramped up in March and has been relentless ever since. Missouri typically averages around 50 tornadoes (2000-2024 average), and we have had more than
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