COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ed Hassinger has been named the new director of the Missouri Department of Transportation, a Wednesday press release says. He replaces Patrick McKenna, who announced in August that he would be stepping down from the position in September after nine years. Hassiner holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man has been charged with 10 felonies after he allegedly hit another person in the head with a gun and led law enforcement on a high-speed chase on Monday. Evans Weber, 23, was charged with second-degree assault, four counts of armed criminal action, one count of unlawful use of a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department has released a photo of a man who they say is connected to a Tuesday shooting scene at Douglass Park. A woman was found injured with gunshot wounds at Douglass Park at around 3:40 p.m. and was brought to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, previous reporting indicates.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of helping another man, who was accused of murder, escape police in November 2023 has pleaded guilty to a pair of felonies. Alex Glay, 26, of Columbia, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hindering a felony prosecution and resisting arrest. He was sentenced to four years in prison
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former substitute school teacher and paraprofessional for a Pulaski County school district was charged last week with 19 felony counts related to child sex crime allegations. Carissa J. Smith of Dixon, Missouri, faces charges including statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child sex trafficking and paying a child for sex. Smith was in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A detached garage is considered a total loss by Southern Boone firefighters after a garage fire in Hartsburg early Wednesday morning. The online dispatch log says firefighters were dispatched to the 19700 block of S Route A in Hartsburg at 3:35 a.m. on Wednesday. According to a Facebook post, around nine firefighters
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton Public School District will hold a school board meeting Wednesday night to discuss its agreement to add school resource officers. The Fulton Public School District and the City of Fulton, along with the Fulton Police Department has come to an agreement to have officers provide security at school campuses. The district
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President-elect Donald Trump has wasted no time getting key roles in his coming administration filled. One of the latest big names to break as a Trump administration member is South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (pictured), who will reportedly be appointed Homeland Security secretary. Other big names who will be part of Trump’s new administration include
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man found guilty of the death of two women in 2022 was sentenced to over 60 years in prison on Tuesday. A Boone County judge sentenced Cadilac Derrick to 62 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for five felonies. Derrick was found guilty of killing two Columbia women –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was rushed to a hospital after she was shot Tuesday afternoon in a central Columbia park. Police at the scene did not provide the woman’s name or age. Police were sent to Douglass Park at about 3:40 p.m. and found the injured woman and evidence that shots had been fired,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police found a suspect in a weekend downtown Columbia shooting getting treatment for his own gunshot wounds early Sunday at a Jefferson City hospital, court documents say. Deandre Denny was charged Tuesday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and illegal gun possession after the shooting that happened a little before 3 a.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The cause of a fire that destroyed an antique shop in Hermann can’t be determined after the building collapsed. Firefighters from multiple agencies were called to Hermann in Gasconade County on Monday morning to fight the blaze on East 1st Street. The building suffered a partial collapse from the fire. State fire
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused in a deadly Columbia shooting in summer 2023 waived arraignment Tuesday. Deljuan Turner’s arraignment was held Tuesday morning at the Boone County Courthouse. Another suspect, Damarkus Williams, will be arraigned Dec. 2, according to court records. Turner and Williams had their charges changed from second-degree murder to first-degree murder,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three games are in the books for the Missouri Tigers. Mizzou (2-1) opened the season on Nov. 4 with an 83-75 loss to Memphis. The Tigers then snapped the program’s long losing streak on Friday with a 77-62 victory over Howard, and followed it up with a narrow 84-77 win over Eastern
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Department of Veterans Affairs is searching for a building in Columbia for a new research facility. The VA is taking bids to lease a 70,000-square-foot building for research and office space. Bid documents show the government wants to rent a building between 59,709-70,246 square feet and 250 parking spots. The documents
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According to a release from Partner for Better, the Missouri Network Against Child Abuse will contract with the company to open a new child advocacy center after the Rainbow House closed earlier this year.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Investigators have detained two juveniles in a deadly shooting in Randolph County on Sunday. According to a release from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a home on County Road 2605 at 5:11 p.m. on Sunday. Deputies found Ethan March, 22, dead with a gunshot wound, according to a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some residents who live in Downtown Columbia say they’re on edge after three people were shot Sunday morning on East Broadway. Finn O’Hagan, a graduate student at the University of Missouri who lives Downtown, said he is not surprised there was a shooting. “It does make me nervous hearing stuff like this
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TUSCUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Tuscumbia woman was seriously injured in a UTV crash on Monday at a residence in the 200 block of Crow Road in Tuscumbia, a Missouri State Highway Patrol report says. The report says a 36-year-old Tuscumbia man drove a 2016 Polaris Ranger into a field, hit a rut and the vehicle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A firefighter was brought to an area hospital after a large fire on Monday destroyed a building on Hermann’s First Street. Multiple fire agencies working the fire and the Hermann Chamber of Commerce confirmed that the fire was at a business. Photos showed a building in the 200 block of East First
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