BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hallsville man is calling on state agencies to make changes along Route B to lower the number of crashes and create a safe road for drivers. In an email to ABC 17 News, Tom Payne expressed his concern for the state road that takes drivers to and from Columbia to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday after he was accused of committing pandemic-related fraud. Steven Hendren, 32, was indicted in the Eastern District Court of Missouri in St. Louis for three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to a Wednesday
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Road repairs on two Jefferson City streets will require lane closures on Thursday and Friday, according to a pair of press releases from the Jefferson City Department of Public Works. Repairs will occur 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday in the 900 block of Jackson Street, the release says. Road signs will be
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Prairie Home man has been sentenced for a federal charge involving child pornography. Bradley Leigh Knecht, 30, was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 years in prison without parole, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The court also ordered that he spend the rest of his life on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused of an assault that killed a man in November has a trial date set for the spring. Alexander Aklan, 28, was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree drug trafficking, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers football team is getting ready for the postseason. The Tigers, who finished No. 19 in the College Football Playoff rankings, will head to Nashville, Tennessee, on Dec. 30 to play Iowa in the Music City Bowl. Watch a news conference about the team’s preparation in the player.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Belle in Maries County has lifted its boil advisory. The City Clerk’s Office told ABC 17 News that testing samples indicated that water was now safe to consume. The city issued the advisory on Friday after multiple water line breaks were reported.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of Silvey Street will be closed through the winter season, according to a Wednesday press release from the City of Columbia. The street will be closed between I-70 Drive Southwest and the entrance to the Sprout Academy Preschool, the release indicates. “The steep incline on the north end of Silvey
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was charged with first-degree murder in a fatal stabbing at Douglass Park in April was deemed incompetent on Monday. Demetrice Tatum, 39, was charged in April with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after he allegedly stabbed Kejuan Allen to death at Douglass Park. He is still listed on the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cooking remains the biggest seasonal risk for fires around the holidays, a Boone County firefighter said Wednesday. Gale Blomenkamp, the Support Services Bureau director for the Boone County Fire Protection District, said cooking/kitchen fires are the biggest risk this time of year. “So when it comes to holidays, we remind people to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A retired Jefferson City priest who admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the church over the summer has now been sentenced for sending part of the money to his sister. The Rev. Ignazio C. Medina, also known as Ignatius, was sentenced Wednesday to three months in federal prison
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It’s that time of year again. Illnesses are thriving as cold temperatures push people inside. Locally, the spread of the flu has calmed a bit but COVID-19 cases rose in early December in Boone County. That’s reflective of a national trend of rising COVID-19 infections. Have you or your family fallen prey to the bugs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors charged a man Tuesday with murder for his alleged role in a deadly October shooting and charged another man — who was already in custody and charged — with murder. Daevion McCray, 21, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death of Orrion Moody, 28, of Columbia. Police found Moody with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman is growing frustrated with a vacant property that she says is a danger to the community. Marty Wallace was looking to move into a home in the 5400 Block of Thompson Road when she noticed a vacant property across the street. The house was falling apart, with items littering
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You can watch the full postgame press conference with head coach Dennis Gates and guards Jacob Crews and Mark Mitchell in the video player above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) It took a while to get going, but a late run helped the Tigers secure their 10th win in a row. Things looked tight in the second
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council on Monday night approved to rezone nearly 5 acres of land in west Columbia. The council unanimously approved to rezone 4.82-acres land in the 4400 block of Smith Drive – near Scott Boulevard — from single-family to multi-family. There was not a specific plan for the area published
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After winning in the November election, Mike Kehoe will serve as Missouri’s 58th governor next year. Kehoe had served as lieutenant governor since 2018, after he was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson in 2018 and won the seat in the 2020 election. Prior to that, he served in the Missouri Senate. Kehoe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rock Bridge High School will be testing out another weapons detection system at one of its entrances on Wednesday. Principal Jaciob Sirna informed parents about the addition in an email to parents on Tuesday. It will be conducted at one lane of the north entrance on Wednesday. Columbia Public Schools spokesperson Michelle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri may have one of the highest levels of the COVID-19 virus, according to federal officials. Missouri is one of the top handful of states for the amount of coronavirus in wastewater based on sampling from just one site in Jefferson County, south of St. Louis. The Centers for Disease Control and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has reported the first significant overdose death decrease since 2015, with 1,948 deaths in 2023. The department says 1,310 overdose deaths were caused by synthetic opioids, 18 by heroin with a synthetic drug present and five deaths caused by heroin alone. According to the
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