Jury selection and opening statements heard Tuesday for murder trial in Moniteau County
Thomas Capps was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in 2019 for the March 17, 2015, death of Ronald Salmons.
Continue ReadingThomas Capps was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in 2019 for the March 17, 2015, death of Ronald Salmons.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, MO. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Judge Robin Ransom as the next Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Watch the event replay in the player below. Judge Ransom will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the Honorable Laura Denvir Stith in early March. “Appointing a judge to the Supreme
Continue ReadingA Columbia man seeking an alternative method of execution will be put to death by lethal injection, despite the possibility of seizures.
Continue ReadingThe court declined to change the bond for Jeffrey McWilliams, 28, during a hearing Friday morning, according to Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Chris Shelton.
Continue ReadingTreyvon D. Korte, 20, of Boonville is charged with one felony count of leaving the scene of an accident that caused an injury.
Continue ReadingAaron Harris pleaded guilty in late April to first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the death of E’quan Spain, 19, on Sept. 14, 2019.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The attorney for a man accused of taking part in a robbery that killed someone in 2017 wants a judge to give him the chance to post bond. Stephen Wyse, the attorney for 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams, asked Judge Jeff Harris to set a $50,000 cash or surety bond in the case. Such
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state appeals court says Missouri cannot keep medical marijuana license applications secret. The Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday on a lawsuit filed by a California-based company that was denied a license in Missouri. The company said it needed to see information from successful applicants to challenge why
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge says a 2018 law was wrongly used to end significant union protections for state workers. Cole County Judge Jon Beetem last week ruled that state agencies unconstitutionally used the 2018 law to ignore union-negotiated contracts. The law made most state workers at-will employees, meaning they could be
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A grand jury indicted a Columbia man accused in a 2017 murder investigation. 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams is a suspect involved in the death of Augustus Roberts in December 2017. McWilliams faces charges for second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and robbery. His court appearance is set for next Tuesday.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to lesser terrorist threat charges. Brian Groner, 28, was ordered to six months in Cole County Jail. Groner was charged back in August and November of 2019 with felony counts of making terrorist threats, the charges were later changed to
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly woman was sentenced to ten years in a Missouri Department of Corrections facility after smuggling a gun into the Boone County Jail back in February. On Feb. 14, Columbia police arrested Amy Wilhite for drug related offenses and took her to Boone County Jail. In March, Boone County Jail detention
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Judges could issue lifelong restraining orders that also cover pets under a bill passed by the Missouri Legislature. Senators on Monday voted 31-0 to send the bill to Gov. Mike Parson. Currently, orders of protection are limited to at most one year. After that, victims have to go back to
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia medical marijuana dispensary claims the city’s development rules conflict with the laws voters approved. A lawsuit filed by GRD Columbia, LLC asked a Boone County judge to stop the city from requiring changes to the property based on its development code. That includes landscaping and traffic design rules that the
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Morgan and Camden County contractor is facing consumer fraud charges after an investigation by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Brandon Rusin of Rocky Mount, faces one count of financial exploitation of the elderly, a class C felony, and one count of deceptive business practice, a class E felony in Morgan
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) A judge has denied a defense request to return to a grand jury the case against a St. Louis couple accused of waving guns at racial injustice protesters last year. A St. Louis grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey in October on felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon and
Continue ReadingThe daughter of a man killed in a February crash has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Boone County and a snowplow driver.
Continue ReadingJames Addie is charged with the 2018 death of his fiancée, Molly Watson, in Monroe County.
Continue ReadingThe request for a bill of particulars — a document that details the prosecution’s case — from lawyers representing William “Chris” Niemet of Fulton was denied Wednesday, according to online court records.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The second suspect involved in a 2019 Columbia pawn shop burglary has been sentenced to prison. 21-year-old Alexander Mears was sentenced Wednesday morning to three years in prison. Mears and 26-year-old Tyler Hilderman stole more than 60 firearms from Tiger Pawn in Columbia. According to Mears’s plea agreement, the duo made
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