SportsZone Football Friday highlights and scores: Week 7
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Week 7 of the Missouri high school football season is tonight. Scores from Mid-Missouri teams will be posted below.
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Columbia mayor proposes student advisory council amid downtown safety concerns
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After walking back a proposal for a downtown task force, the City of Columbia is now considering forming a new advisory council made up of local college students. The original task force proposal came at the request of University of Missouri System President Mun Choi, following the Sept. 27 shooting death of
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Columbia Public Schools will no longer use AMI days
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools will no longer use alternative methods of instruction, the district wrote in an email to families on Friday night. The email – provided to ABC 17 News by a district spokesperson and Board President John Lyman – says that the district will not need to use AMI days for
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Vigil held in Fulton for woman hit in Jefferson City shooting
FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A vigil was held Friday evening at Carver Park in Fulton for one of the women shot this week in Jefferson City. Organizers wrote that the vigil was being held for Sofie Mulcahey. Organizers said she was a victim in a shooting that occurred Tuesday morning in the 1100 block of Cordell
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1 dies in Montgomery County crash, another injured
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person has died from injuries they suffered in a crash Friday on Interstate 70 in Montgomery County, according to a social media post from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. MSHP’s Troop F – which covers much of Mid-Missouri – wrote one vehicle was involved and described it as a rollover crash
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Woman accused of putting fetus in cooler charged with harassment
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was charged in Pulaski County on Wednesday after she allegedly put a dead fetus into a cooler and gave it to a man. Makayla Haedt was charged with first-degree harassment. An arraignment was held on Friday and a bond hearing was scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28. Information about
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Murder, arson charges filed in June house fire in Columbia
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged Friday with arson and murder in a June house fire on Paris Road. Brandon Butchkoski, 47, is accused in the death of Donovan Baylis. Baylis died after he was burned in a fire that was set at his home. Baylis died about a month later at a
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Government shutdown squashes planned Missouri football flyover
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The government funding fight in Washington, D.C., has taken away some of the spectacle from Saturday’s Missouri football game against Alabama. Mizzou Athletics said in a social media post Friday that a planned military flyover before No. 14 Missouri’s showdown against No. 8 Alabama at Memorial Stadium will not take place because
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SEC Nation returns ahead of Mizzou’s Top 25 match up against Alabama
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) SEC Nation made its return to Columbia, as the 14th-ranked Mizzou Tigers gear up to take on the 8th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide at 11 a.m. Saturday. SEC Nation will be set up at the Walsworth Plaza in front of Mizzou Arena on Champions Drive. This is the second time the University of
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Does Business Loop 70 need safety improvements?
Local officials and the firm they’ve contracted to study safety on Business Loop 70 held a public meeting Thursday night. The study would focus on safety for people outside of vehicles — pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycle riders, etc. Stretches of the Loop lack the kind of improvements meant to make roads safer for people outside of
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Musical rally held at city hall for Columbia man detained by ICE
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of local musicians gathered at city hall on Thursday to rally in support of a Columbia man who was detained by ICE agents after coming back to the U.S. from a trip to Europe. Blue Note and Rose Music Hall’s head of security, Owen Ramsingh, was detained at O’Hare Airport in
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Columbia mother asks community to come forward to help solve son’s 2017 murder
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia mother is asking community members to be brave and come forward to the police to help solve her son’s 2017 murder. “It has really affected us … We just need someone to speak up and say what they saw,” Vivian Morgan said. “I guess they fear for their life, which
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Data shows 60% of deaths along Business Loop 70 in Columbia are people outside vehicles
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia gathered public input Thursday night on how to make the Business Loop safer for pedestrians, motorcyclists and others. The meeting was held at the Boone Electric headquarters on Range Line Street. In attendance was a group of the public and staff members from CoMo to Zero and CBB
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University of Missouri union workers call on Choi to rescind statements in Sept. 16 email
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) LiUNA Local 955 members are calling for University of Missouri System President Mun Choi to rescind comments in an email warning staff about free expression and make it clear that conversations and statements around wages, benefits and working conditions are protected speech. LiUNA Local 955 represents service and maintenance workers throughout the
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Sedalia mayor calls behavior of former councilman ‘not acceptable’
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sedalia Mayor Andrew Dawson in a Thursday statement called the behavior of former Ward 1 Councilman Tom Oldham “not acceptable.” Oldham stepped down from his post on the Sedalia City Council in April after the Pettis County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into Oldham. The city said then that the resignation came after “serious
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Boone County deputy injured in crash in patrol vehicle
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County deputy was injured in a crash in his patrol vehicle on Tuesday afternoon, according to an email from Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Brian Leer. Leer wrote that two deputies were responding to a call and had their lights and sirens on while heading north on Route B. One of
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Seven businesses have signed Columbia Police ‘letters of enforcement’ since deadly downtown shooting
EDITOR’S NOTE: AI was used to research the background for this story. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Seven businesses have signed up for Columbia Police to enforce trespassing and parking rules while they’re closed — four of them since Friday. University of Missouri and Columbia city leaders are asking downtown businesses to sign a form that would
Continue Reading Columbia police make arrest in June Paris Road arson case that killed man
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department says it has arrested a man accused of killing another man after setting a porch on fire in June in the 1500 block of Paris Road. Police wrote in a social media statement that it arrested Brandon Butchkoski, 47, of Columbia, on Thursday on suspicion of second-degree murder
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Woman charged with child endangerment after 3 children test positive for meth
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was charged in Montgomery County on Thursday after three children allegedly tested positive for methamphetamine. Missy Lacomb, of Middletown, was charged with three counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. A criminal summons was served to Lacomb on Thursday, according to court filings. A hearing is scheduled for
Continue Reading 2 killed in Pettis County crash involving dump truck
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man and a woman from Sedalia were killed in a crash Wednesday at Highway 50 and Route MM in Pettis County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred as a 2015 Toyota Camry – driven by a 50-year-old Sedalia man —
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