COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A partial collapse occurred Tuesday night at a dilapidated building in Sedalia. The east wall of the building at 104 Main St. collapsed and sent debris into an adjacent parking lot and Ohio Street, the city announced in a Wednesday press release. The release says multiple addresses in the 100 block of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) West Ash Street near the Activity and Recreation Center in Columbia is temporarily closed for emergency water line repairs Wednesday. Repair crews with Emery Sapp & Sons Inc. began working on the broken water line at 4 a.m. W. Ash St. is closed between Bernadette Dr. and Clinkscales Road; however, crews expect
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University of Missouri President Mun Choi started off the school year with a message to students. Buried in it was a red flag to students: a warning about the dangers of a two-block stretch of downtown after dark. Choi has been at odds with City of Columbia and Boone County leaders about what he sees as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department taped off a street on Tuesday in a neighborhood just south of Interstate 70 near St. Charles Road. CPD wrote on its social media at 5:52 p.m. that it was investigating a shots-fired call in the 5700 block of Canaveral Drive. Police wrote on social media at 9:18
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man says he has no regrets after being arrested while protesting Columbia’s Flock cameras. Dominic O’Connor, a tattoo artist who lives in Mexico and works at Electric Peacock Tattoos in Columbia, said he spent two days protesting the city’s use of the automated license plate reader cameras before he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Starbucks located near the University of Missouri’s campus on Ninth Street will be closed for at least the rest of Tuesday after a fire caused “minimal damage.” Columbia Assistant Fire Chief Zac Grace told an ABC 17 News photographer that crews responded to a fire call at 3:12 p.m. Firefighters extinguished
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Office of Administration Commissioner Kenneth Zellers will retire on Sept. 4, according to a Tuesday email from Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office. “As a proud Missourian, it has been a true honor and privilege to serve my state in these roles,” Zellers was quoted in the release. “I am grateful to have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury trial for a Callaway County man accused of killing his wife in 2002 has been given a new trial date. Harold Dickens, of Auxvasse, is charged in Callaway County with first-degree murder in the death of Debra Dickens. Court documents allege he stabbed Debra Dickens on or around April 28,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Residents at a Columbia apartment complex at the center of an invasion of privacy lawsuit claim they were never notified about the employee it is centered around. A “Jane Doe” filed the lawsuit in Boone County on Monday against Country Club Apartments and employee Juan Carlos Vazquez Martinez. The woman accuses the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman sued a Columbia apartment complex on Monday after she claims a maintenance worker rummaged through her dirty clothes hamper and sniffed her underwear. A “Jane Doe” filed the lawsuit in Boone County on Monday against Country Club Apartments and employee Juan Carlos Vazquez Martinez. The woman accuses the apartment and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools welcomes thousands of students back to campus for the first day of school on Tuesday. With classes back in session, drivers need to be mindful of traffic impacts as the school year kicks off. Crews have finished the roundabout project at Sinclair Road and Southampton Dr., which leads to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Legendary country music singer and humanitarian Dolly Parton died after a bout with cancer, Parton’s team announced on Tuesday. Nearly 170,000 children in Missouri benefitted from Parton’s Imagination Library, though the program had to stop taking in new enrollees in July after state budget cuts affected the Department of Elementary and Secondary
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Staffing at the Jefferson City Fire Department has been stagnant for about two decades, according to Chief Matt Schofield.
And despite a significant increase in call volume during that period, additional fire personnel and some equipment remain unfunded in fiscal year 2027.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri President Mun Choi and Provost Matthew Martens warned students to stay away from an area of downtown at night in an email sent to students on the first day of classes. “Incidents downtown typically occur between midnight and 3 a.m.; make sure you’re home safely before then,” the officials
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Crews on Wednesday will close West Ash Street near the Activity and Recreation Center for emergency waterline repairs, according to a Tuesday press release from the City of Columbia. The release says West Ash Street will be closed between Bernadette Drive and Clinkscales Road beginning at 4 a.m. Work is expected to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were injured – one seriously – in a Tuesday morning crash in Phelps County on County Road 3060, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 2000 Harley Davidson – rode by a 34-year-old Newburg man – was heading eastbound when the bike
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former substitute teacher from the state of California who tried to get children from Callaway County to send him nude photographs had his case moved to Boone County on Monday. Matthew Bowman is charged with two counts of child enticement and two counts of misrepresenting his age to entice a minor
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A four-vehicle crash shut down some of the eastbound lanes of the Missouri River bridge at Jefferson City on Monday afternoon, the Jefferson City Police Department said in a news release. The crash happened at about 4:20 p.m. on the Highway 54/63 bridge. A Chevrolet Trailblazer failed to stop for traffic
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Five Guys burger restaurant in east Columbia will open at its normal time Tuesday after a morning HVAC fire. The damage was limited to a rooftop HVAC unit, Columbia Fire Department Capt. Brandon Wasson said. No one was hurt. Wasson said firefighters cleared the building of smoke and the business would
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 48-year-old Kaiser woman was seriously hurt during a crash in Camden County just before 7 p.m. Monday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the woman was driving a 2008 Honda Element south on Highway D at Locust Road. The report says she was speeding down the curvy road
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