JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Kmiz) The annual Salute to America Fourth of July Celebration began Thursday at the Missouri Capitol, and organizers and emergency personnel are implementing extra safety measures to address the heat advisory in effect through the holiday weekend. The festival will include events for multiple days for the first time since 2022. Organizers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters rescued a worker who was stuck on an elevated lift on Wednesday morning in the 1800 block of Vieth Drive, according to a press release from the Jefferson City Fire Department. Crews found a man on a lift that “become inoperable after being damaged by falling debris,” the release says. He
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men from Columbia were run over by a vehicle on Monday at the intersection of Idlewood Drive and Route C in Jefferson City, according to a crash report from the Jefferson City Police Department that was sent to media on Tuesday. Police later on Tuesday said the driver, a 43-year-old
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The Jefferson City School District is projected to receive $2.4 million less in state funding next school year.
The JC Board of Education is set to discuss the fiscal year 2026-27 budget at its meeting Thursday night. According to district documents, the state did not approve full funding of the foundation formula.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A restaurant owner in Jefferson City who is accused of harboring people with “an illegal immigration status” turned himself in to law enforcement, the Department of Justice wrote in a Thursday press release. Danny Cheng, 46, who owns Dragon Kitchen in the 2200 block of Missouri Boulevard, is accused of running a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former youth minister was charged on Wednesday in Cole County with sex crimes. Robert Ferguson, 27, of Jefferson City, was charged with child enticement, nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A court date
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) In a partnership with the City of Jefferson City, the Capital City Housing Task Force is looking for public comment on the state of housing in the city Tuesday evening. The Capital City Housing Task Force worked with the consulting group Housing Innovations Group LLC to create the Jefferson City Housing Supply
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County woman was charged with two felonies after she allegedly stole nearly $12,000 from a Jefferson City nursing home resident during a three-year period. Michelle Weaver, of Tebbetts, was charged on Tuesday in Cole County with financially exploiting an elderly person and misappropriating funds of an elderly nursing home resident.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who pleaded guilty earlier this year in St. Charles County to child molestation and sodomy has died, according to a Monday press release from the Missouri Department of Corrections. Brian Tate, 62, of St. Peters, was being held at the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center on Monday, June 15 and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In the year 2026, the United States of America celebrates its 250th anniversary of freedom and independence. However, on July 4, 1776, not everyone in this country was free. It was another 82 years before the South was ordered to free all slaves when President Abram Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation at
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County man suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash Thursday night on Highway 50. The 57-year-old motorcyclist from Russellville was not wearing a helmet while driving on Highway 50 westbound, just west of the Tri-Level in Jefferson City, according to a Jefferson City Police Department news release. The man lost
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City business owner who was already accused of withholding more than $935,000 in employee wages has been charged in federal court with harboring several people with “an illegal immigration status.” Federal court documents accuse Danny Cheng — who owns Dragon Kitchen in the 2200 block of Missouri Boulevard – of
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COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) Data centers took the spotlight in Jefferson City on Wednesday as groups met to discuss the controversial topic. One of those groups met at the Capitol to voice their concerns about the proposed data centers being built in rural communities. Though a press conference-style meeting in the rotunda, multiple speakers took to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A former Jefferson City Correctional Center nurse received another prison sentence Tuesday for having a sexual relationshop with an inmate. Judge Cotton Walker sentenced Amy Murray to five years in prison after she pleaded guilty to abusing a prison inmate serving a life sentence for murder in 2018. Department of Corrections
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Monday night, the Jefferson City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of minibikes on public streets. The vote passed 8-1, with Ward 5 Councilwoman Mackenzie Job being the lone vote against the ordinance. ABC 17 News reached out to Job on Tuesday morning. According to the ordinance it classifies
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council expects to have a new representative for the Third Ward chosen by Aug. 17, according to a Tuesday press release from the city. Former Ward 3 Councilman Derek Thomas’ last day was June 2, citing medical issues facing his family requiring him to move out of the
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Jefferson City has a minibike issue. Council members say that residents of every ward have complained about vehicles such as minibikes, dirt bikes and other motorized, two-wheeled machines on city streets. At Monday’s meeting, the council passed an ordinance to explicitly bar them from city streets. Do you agree that minibikes shouldn’t be street-legal? Let
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council on Monday passed two proposed ordinances to crack down on illegal street takeovers and the use of minibikes on public roads. However, the council voted to amend the street takeover ordinance before it was unanimously approved. Under the new ordinance, activities such as burnouts, “donuts,” drag racing,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner line added more railcars on Monday ahead of the first World Cup games in the state. The Missouri River Runner line runs from St. Louis to Kansas City and includes stops in Hermann, Jefferson City, Sedalia and Warrensburg. The first World Cup game in Kansas City is at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who pleaded guilty in April to first-degree child molestation was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson announced in an afternoon press release. Gary Owens, 60, was originally charged in 2024 with two counts of first-degree child molestation, first-degree sodomy, first-degree endangering
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