COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of people were without power on Tuesday in Mid-Missouri as storms entered the area. There were 432 Boone Electric Cooperative customers without power on 26 reported outages at the outages’ peak, according to Boone Electric’s outage map. A majority of the outages appeared to be near the Midway area. The number
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Data from the National Traffic Highway Administration Shows that Highway 5 has seen the most deaths in the state during the past five years. The highway saw an average of 11 traffic-related deaths per year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System data from 2018-22. On Tuesday,
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HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Five people were injured – four seriously – in a Tuesday crash in Howard County on Highway 5, south of County Road 345, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says a 2014 Chevrolet Captiva – driven by Heaven-Lee Hundley, 19, of Fayette – was heading southbound
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The Port of Howard/Cooper County held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning to mark the completion of transformative infrastructure project.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Superintendents from Boone County schools and neighboring districts signed a letter on Friday that asks Gov. Mike Parson to veto a bill that would allow charter schools to operate in Boone County. SB727 passed the Missouri House last month. The bill mentions that school districts in Boone County would be added to the
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Four people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash on Tuesday afternoon in Howard County less than two miles North of New Franklin.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of electricity customers in Benton County were without power on Tuesday afternoon. Storms had rolled through Mid-Missouri earlier in the day and much of Mid-Missouri is in a tornado watch that is set to expire around 8 p.m. There were 835 electric customers without power in Benton County at its peak,
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HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A single-vehicle crash in Howard County late Monday night sent a Fayette woman to the hospital. According to the online crash report, Amanda Weis, 41, was driving east in a 2012 Toyota Highlander on 880 County Road 404 around 11:32 p.m. when the SUV went off the left side of the
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A federal grand jury has indicted a New Franklin couple for a September attempted bank robbery and illegally owning guns.
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Fayette police investigated a report of a threat against the local public school district and determined the threat was not legitimate, the district said Thursday.
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) A sunshine request made by ABC 17 News details inconsistencies in prior claims made by the Fayette Police Department. Dec. 26 meeting notes from the city’s Board of Alderman meeting describes Alderwoman Bekki Galloway questioning the city’s Police Chief David Ford about the department’s previous policy for disposing of evidence. The document
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Fayette has not given an update into the personnel issues within its police department, over a month after police evidence was found in a dumpster at a local grocery store. In December, the city’s Police Chief David Ford announced in a press release that the city had revised its
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HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Howard County Public Water Supply District has issued a boil water after the Howard County Regional Water Commission detected a leak in the area. According to Nichole Wilmsmeyer with the County, the boil order began on Friday and will run until further notice. Howard County Residents Affected include: All CPWSD #1
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Prosecutors have charged a man accused of driving drunk last week in a Howard County crash that killed a St. Louis man.
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The Fayette Police Department said Thursday that it is revising its evidence disposal procedures after residents raised concerns about finding evidence in a trash bin.
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HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A New Franklin man died in a single-car crash this afternoon. Dennis Klatt, 65, was driving north on Missouri 5 south of County Road 345 when he drove off the side of the right side of the road, over corrected, and drove off the left side of the road. Klatt hit a
Continue Reading HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis man was killed in a crash in Howard County Saturday morning. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, Moberly resident David Brown, 42, and passenger Joshua McNabb, 39, from St. Louis, were driving westbound on Missouri Highway 124 west of County Rd. 409 when his 2011 Honda CRV failed
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) On Tuesday, the City of Fayette’s attorney Nathan Nickolaus told ABC 17 News that evidence was found inside of a dumpster at a grocery store and was not disposed of properly by a police officer. Nickolaus said he wasn’t aware of which specific store the evidence was found and said he was
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Fayette’s attorney Nathan Nickolaus told ABC 17 News that police evidence was found inside of a dumpster at a grocery store in the city. Nickolaus said the evidence was not disposed of properly by a police officer, but declined to comment further, saying the incident is a personnel matter.
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GLASGOW, Mo. (KMIZ) Glasgow Fire District responded to a car fire that spread into a wooded area Sunday morning. According to a Facebook post from the fire district, the fire spread to stacked wood and was threatening multiple structures, including a house and a detached garage. Howard County Sheriff’s Office and Central 911 aided in
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