COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation will close a portion of Highway 5 on Wednesday between New Franklin and Fayette to replace a culvert, according to a Tuesday press release. A stretch of highway between County Roads 426 and 320 will be closed from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The work is related
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HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man accused of shooting another man in Howard County last week is expected to face a judge Tuesday morning for an initial arraignment. Johntelle Millens, 39, was charged on Friday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and illegal gun possession. Millens is being held
Continue Reading 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) 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) Suspects in Sunday’s fatal shooting in Columbia are still at large as of Tuesday morning, according to the Glasgow Police Chief TJ Livermore. An ABC 17 News reporter arrived in Glasgow around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and saw a few law enforcement vehicles in the area. Livermore told ABC 17 News that the
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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) An Iowa man was sentenced in Jefferson City on Wednesday for a federal bank fraud charge. Roger Dean Peters, 71, of Hampton, Iowa, pleaded guilty on May 30, 2024, to bank fraud and was sentenced to a year in prison, according to a Wednesday press release from the Department of Justice. Peters
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 33-year-old Fayette man was charged with a pair of felonies after he allegedly pinned a woman against a truck. Andrew Finley was charged on Wednesday in Howard County with first-degree domestic assault and driving while revoked. He is being held at the Howard County Jail on a $30,000 bond. An arraignment
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A 19-year-old man from Farmington, Missouri, was seriously injured in a crash Friday afternoon at the intersection of Highway 240 and Highway 40 in Howard County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Amber Alert was issued in several Mid-Missouri counties around 4 p.m. Wednesday for a 16-year-old Wisconsin teenager who may have been abducted. The Amber Alert says that Sophia Franklin, 16, of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, was last seen at her residence at 9 p.m. Feb. 2 and could have been abducted the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A couple has pleaded guilty to several felonies, including child sex crimes, in Howard County. Jeremy Cudney, of Fayette, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after he pleaded guilty on Friday to drug possession, three counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, one count of misdemeanor illegal possession of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to by flown at half-staff at firehouses statewide and government buildings in Howard County on Sunday in honor of firefighter Larry Roland Duncan. Flags will also be flown at half-staff at the firefighters memorial in Kingdom City. Duncan died on Wednesday, Jan. 15 from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A criminal summons was issued Thursday for a woman who was accused of drunkenly causing a crash that injured multiple people in April. Shelby Thompson was charged in Howard County with three counts of DWI causing serious physical injury, a count of DWI causing injury and two counts of first-degree endangering the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Democratic candidate Jim Bates and Republican state Rep. Kurtis Gregory will face off in the Missouri Senate District 21 race on Nov. 5. District 21 covers Cooper, Howard, Saline, Lafayette, Ray, and the northern portion of Clay County. Republican Kurtis Gregory has served as a Missouri House Representative for District 51 for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The northern lights were able to be seen in Mid-Missouri once again on Thursday evening. Check out some viewer-submitted photos in the gallery above. Do you have any photographs you want shared? Add them to our Facebook page and they can end up on-air and online. We will be adding more photos
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man was charged with unlawful use of a weapon after he allegedly threatened a group of youth with a gun on Wednesday in Fayette. Kadyn Lee, 19, is being held at the Howard County Jail without bond. He appeared in court for an arraignment on Friday. A bond hearing is
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A New Franklin man pleaded guilty to a bank robbery Thursday in federal court.
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man was charged with five felonies on Saturday after he was accused of pulling a gun on someone at a residence and taking a minivan. Marquette Smith, 32, was charged on Saturday in Randolph County with first-degree attempted assault, first-degree burglary, second-degree kidnapping, unlawful use of a weapon and first-degree
Continue Reading A Higbee woman pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to stealin from Exchange Bank of Missouri customers in Fayette during a 15-year scheme, a press release from the Department of Justice.
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