COLUBMIA MO. (KMIZ) The Boone County Fire Protection District transferred ownership of two fire tankers to the Van-Far and Northwest Fire Protection District. The districts will each receive one 2000-model Pierce Freightliner that are designed to transport large quantities of water and operate as pumping units for firefighting activities. The two Tanker’s were recently taken
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camden County man was pronounced dead after being pulled Wednesday morning from the Little Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks. The unnamed 82-year-old from Roach, Missouri, fell into the water from a dock at the 3.7-mile marker of the Little Niangua arm for unknown reasons, according to a Missouri
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four youth and a man from St. Joseph, Missouri, were injured in a boat crash on Monday at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District wrote in a social media post that that it received a call for a boating accident at the 38-mile marker and an MSHP
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A restaurant near the Lake of the Ozarks caught fire on Monday morning, according to a social media post from the Mid-County Fire Protection District. The post says crews were called at 2:51 a.m. Monday to Pebble Bay Club Restaurant off of Good Neighbors Road, west of Camdenton. About 25% of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of people were still without power Monday afternoon near the Lake of the Ozarks. Storms caused a significant number of people to lose power earlier in the day, with more than 3,700 electricity customers in Columbia at one point being without power. The outage map for the Association of Missouri Electric
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Osage Beach alderman who was charged with multiple felonies on Wednesday has bonded out of jail. John Robert “Bob” O’Steen, 60, who represents the city’s first ward, was charged on Wednesday with delivery of a controlled substance, two counts of drug possession and one count of unlawful use of a weapon.
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A 55-year-old man from Imperial, Missouri, is dead after drowning in the Lake of the Ozarks.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 1,100 electricity customers in Camden County were without power after a storm with hail went through the Lake of the Ozarks area on Tuesday afternoon. The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives’ map shows 1,056 Co-Mo Electric Cooperative customers without power and another 89 Laclede Electric customers had no electricity. Most
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Branches and trees were down around Mid-Missouri after storms rolled through the area on Friday. The threat of high winds and hail damage prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to issue a Weather Alert Day for Friday. Most of Mid-Missouri was in tornado watch on Friday evening. Gov. Mike Kehoe had preemptively
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Multiple people suffered injuries after a deck collapsed in Lake Ozark on Wednesday night. According to the Lake Ozark Fire Protection District, the dock collapsed around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Sander Road. Fire crews found that the entrance walkway of a multi-family home had collapsed, with six people. Fire Chief Jerome Blomberg
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Osage Beach Mayor Michael Harmison and his business Harmy’s Cheese Store and More have been named in a civil suit out of the state of New York. The lawsuit was filed in Monroe County, New York on March 17, but documents were dated March 13. The complaint claims Favo Funding LLC went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Eldon man was charged on Monday after authorities claim he threatened to shoot a cat and pointed a gun at a woman’s head. Robert Russell, 18, was charged in Miller County with second-degree domestic assault and unlawful use of a weapon. He was released from the Miller County Jail on Tuesday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Lake Ozark man has been charged with two misdemeanors after he was accused of exposing himself at a Miller County bar on Friday. Jeremy Chorpening, 38, was charged on Saturday with resisting arrest and first-degree sexual misconduct. He was arrested, but posted a $2,000 bond, according to Monday court filings. An
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) Three homes at the Lake of the Ozarks caught fire on Friday afternoon, according to an email from the Lake Ozark Fire Protection District. Fire crews were called at 12:44 p.m. for a report of a house fire in an area off of Route W in Eldon. Firefighters found three residences on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An extensive backlog, a lack of support and concerning behavior by personnel from the sheriff’s office were just some of the accusations laid out by the Camden County prosecutor to commissioners at their meeting Tuesday. Prosecutor Richelle Grosvenor spoke at the end of the Camden County Commission meeting. “When we showed up
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Osage Beach leaders are working to tame a lingering fire near the Lake of the Ozarks. Mayor Michael Harmison told ABC 17 News that fire crews have been dealing with a cover fire behind the Dierbergs grocery store on Osage Beach Parkway. An ABC 17 News news reporter found the response
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Camden County will install a baby box at the Mid-County Fire Protection District. State Rep. Jeff Vernetti said the baby box is scheduled to be installed and unveiled this spring. Baby boxes are safe ways to legally surrender newborns up to 45 days old. An alert is sent to first responders as
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Law enforcement took Malang Jan Akbari in custody around 1:40 p.m. after he was accused of taking two children after killing their mother.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Lake Ozark announced in a Thursday press release that it will received a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant from the state’s Department of Economic Development for a demolition project. The release says the money will be put toward a $433,030 demolition project “focused on improving safety and redevelopment opportunities
Continue Reading LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) A 36-year-old man from O’Fallon, MO is dead after drowning in the Lake of the Ozarks, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The MSHP drowning report, said the man was last seen on a dock at the 40.1 mile marker of the Osage at the lake. He is believed to
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