COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor after an exchange while he was pulled over turned into him getting pepper sprayed. Patrick Allen, 26, was charged with resisting arrest, armed criminal action and misdemeanor obstructing government operations. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City businessman is the fourth Republican to officially declare for the Sixth Senate District race next year. Jake Vogel, president of Jefferson City Coca-Cola, wrote in a social media post Monday that he would seek the seat currently held by term-limited Republican Mike Bernsketter. The Sixth Senate District covers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A California, Missouri, man was charged with several felonies after he led law enforcement on a chase on Sunday morning. Stephen Curtner, 48, was charged on Monday in Callaway County with second-degree assault, misdemeanor driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of first-degree property
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HOLTS SUMMIT, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was taken into custody on Sunday after allegedly leading law enforcement on a chase in Holts Summit and crashing into a police vehicle. According to a press release from the Holts Summit Police Department, police learned that the Jefferson City Police Department was attempting to a stop a vehicle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A court date has been scheduled in Ryan Ferguson’s civil case for later this month. A Cole County jury sided with Ferguson and six former Columbia police detectives in November in their lawsuit against Travelers Insurance. They claimed Travelers refused to pay out the remaining $2.9 million of a more than $11 million
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A state psychologist testified Friday that a woman charged with murdering a 4-year-old boy in Jefferson City in 2018 is mentally competent to go to trial. Tiffany Harris, a forensic examiner and senior psychologist for the Missouri Department of Mental Health, testified during a hearing in the Cole County Courthouse that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged with two felonies after he allegedly attacked a youth on Wednesday in Camden County. Kenneth Shumate, 36, of Jefferson City, was charged Thursday in Camden County with first-degree domestic assault and child abuse. He is being held at the Camden County Jail without bond. A bond hearing is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The former head cook of the Jefferson City Boys and Girls Club has been charged with a child sex crime in Cole County. Scott Minor, 45, of Jefferson City was charged on Thursday with child enticement. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A court date has not
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City School District opened its new Early Childhood Center on Thursday. The new facility, located at 1840 E. McCarty St., doubles the number of students served from 150 to 300 out of the district’s approximately 600 annual early childhood graduates, according to school officials. Construction was paid for with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported after a house caught fire Thursday afternoon in the 2400 block of Bluebird Drive in Jefferson City, according to a press release from the Jefferson City Fire Department. JCFD wrote the fire was ruled accidental. Crews were called at 3:26 p.m. and firefighters ended up finding a fire
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The north side of West Capitol Avenue in Jefferson City will be closed next week for resurfacing and painting, according to a press release from Jefferson City Public Works. Work will start at 7 a.m. Monday and is expected to be done by 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, the release says.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City voters will decide in November whether to extend the city’s 7% lodging sales tax for 25 more years. The tax pays to promote tourism in Jefferson City and charges 7% on all hotel and motel rooms and short-term rentals. Most of the tax receipts — four-sevenths of the money
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with two felonies after he allegedly sexually abused a disabled woman at her home on Monday. Demon Tyrone Johnson Sr., 40, was charged on Wednesday with first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree burglary. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A court date
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation is moving into the next phase of its bridge rehabilitation project along Highway 54 over Missouri Boulevard, with new traffic changes and ramp closures set to begin Tuesday evening. Crews will begin work on the right-hand lanes of U.S. 54 over Business Route 50, forcing both
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Cole County’s Board of Equalization is working against an August 23 deadline after the State Tax Commission issued an order Wednesday saying it must raise the assessed value of certain parts of the county by 5 percent.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Animal Shelter may receive a $7,000 ASPCA grant to help with operational costs following a large animal abuse investigation in July. Court documents reported that four people, Casey Logsdon, Jessica Morgan, Ashley Ousley and Henry Ousley Jr. were charged were charged July 24 with 19 counts of accessory to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City will not move forward with a housing strategy in the city for the time being. City leaders voted on Monday night to send the strategy– aimed at helping the city with its long-term housing options– back to the administrative committee for review of the contract. The vote was 5-5,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No charges will be filed against any of the Jefferson City police officers who were accused of shooting at a woman in March, according to a letter from Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson. Julie Knehans was dead with a gunshot wound after police opened fire while responding to a burglary on March
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man faces life in prison after pleading guilty to a child sex crime. Ryan Swillum, 25, of Jefferson City plead guilty to first-degree statutory sodomy on Friday, according to a press release from Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson. According to the release, the events occurred in Jefferson
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Jefferson City women were killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday morning on Route C in Cole County, just west of Zion Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. It is not known if the women were wearing seatbelts, the report says. The crash occurred as a 2008 Ford
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