KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two more victims have been added to the record 2020 homicide count in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Police Department said Monday that a 19-year-old man who was wounded in a Dec. 28 shooting died four days later. Officers found Abdulbasid Yassin unresponsive on the ground when they responded
Continue ReadingJOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A former school bus driver in southwest Missouri was sentenced to four years in prison for having sexual contact with a student. Sixty-eight-year-old Dennis Frakes was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in November. Frakes was a bus driver for Carl Junction when he had sexual contact twice with a female student.
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Police said they shot at the man after he refused to drop a large knife.
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Jefferson City Schools is appealing to the Missouri Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled last month that the district must rehire an administrator accused of putting private student information at risk.
Continue Reading The Jefferson City Police Department responded to 3535 Missouri Boulevard around around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday for a disturbance investigation.
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Jefferson City police took three people into custody on Saturday after a traffic stop around 5:17 a.m.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton Police arrested a man Friday morning for a DWI and possession of marijuana after responding to a suspicious vehicle in the middle of the road at Randall and Gary Streets. Officials say the driver, Thomas Epperson, was taken into custody and released. Minutes after being released, Fulton police responded to the
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University of Missouri Hospital officials say a man is in critical condition Friday morning after receiving life-threatening injuries from a crash outside of Sam’s Club the day before.
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Missouri state troopers say an early New Year’s Day DWI crash closed Highway 50 just outside of Jefferson City.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman is arrested Wednesday after allegedly burglarizing items from several businesses. According to multiple probable cause statements, Lacee Adams is accused of burglarizing Robinson’s Cleaners, McKnight Tires, Break Time and JD Byrider to name a few. Adams is accusing of taking $100 worth of stolen items and confronting an employee
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Randolph County man is charged with multiple counts of harassment and stalking after multiple reports beginning in October. According to court documents, Jerry Fifer has allegedly repeatedly talked to the victims and accusing them of calling the police on him. Court documents state that Fifer also would park to intentionally try
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) On the morning of Dec. 21, Moberly police responded to a report of shots fired in the area of Emerson St at Collins Ave. Police say the victim was assaulted with a baseball bat and being shot at twice by 22-year-old Jacob Redifer. Redifer fled the scene in a vehicle prior to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police continue to investigate the cold case homicide of Carolyn William. Williams was found murdered in a residence on Unity Drive on January 1, 1989. Last year, the Columbia Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division reopened the case. “It is very difficult anytime someone is murdered,” said Assistant Chief Jeremiah Hunter. “The
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Miller County deputies have identified skeletal remains that were found in a wooded area on Monday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two more men are charged in the stabbing of a man Monday night in downtown Columbia. Mark Aungerer and Kenneth Sanders are both charged with second-degree assault. Kenneth Sanders Police say Aungerer punched the victim to the ground where Sanders, Javonta Hand and Boyce Hamilton attack the victim near 10th and Locust
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Cole County’s prosecuting attorney has filed a lawsuit against another county official in the hopes of getting a court to say whether 17-year-old suspects will be treated as juveniles or adults starting Jan. 1.
Continue Reading MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Two teens were sentenced earlier Wednesday in the shooting death of a man in Mexico. Demetric Dorsey, 17, was sentenced to 10 years on one count of 1st-degree involuntary manslaughter and 15 years on one count of armed criminal action. Those sentences will run concurrent with each other. Trebion Dorsey, 17, was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman was arrested for possession of a stolen credit card on Nov. 2. A Boone County Sheriff’s deputy reports finding eight credit cards belonging to eight different people during a search of Alexis Pollard’s vehicle. According to court documents, two cards were reported stolen by their owners. Pollard is charged
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) Howard County Sheriff’s Department began an investigation after a child in Fayette was placed on a ventilator due to exposure to marijuana and “essential oils” on Nov. 18. According to court documents, the child was found unresponsive and taken to the hospital where Tristan Easley told hospital staff that “he left the
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Hallsville police say a Columbia man was arrested after a Tuesday night chase ended in a crash just north of city limits.
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