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MONDAY UPDATES: Boone County reports nearly half of 530 new coronavirus cases under 30-years-old
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Continue ReadingMissouri Attorney General Office has begun filing motions for temporary restraining orders in lawsuits against Columbia Public Schools and other school districts over mask mandates.
Continue ReadingThe University of Missouri System and the MU campus will move to remote operations and classes for Wednesday and Thursday due to winter weather.
Continue ReadingThe City of Columbia is opening the Wabash Bus Station overnight warming Tuesday night through Friday night due to forecasted winter weather.
Continue ReadingThe Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has filed lesser charges against a man accused in a deadly Columbia shooting.
Continue ReadingA Boone County judge sentenced a Columbia man to 27 years in prison Friday for his role in a deadly shooting.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Drivers in the Columbia area should expect delays on eastbound Interstate 70 at the Sorrels Overpass Monday. MoDOT is planning for five-minute rolling roadblocks in the eastbound lanes to allow a crane to safely move concrete to the median. MoDOT expects the delays to happen between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 🚧I-70
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Senate is expected to take up the state’s proposed map of U.S. House districts Monday.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia College will return to in-person learning Monday after spending months in a partially virtual setting due to the COVID-19 case increase in Boone County. College officials announced after consulting with the COVID-19 Task Force, careful examination of data, and in consideration of feedback from faculty, staff and students, that the school has
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: Power has been restored to all users as of 9 p.m. on Sunday. Around 3 p.m. on Sunday, a widespread power outage was reported in the area of the Columbia Mall. At that time, the City of Columbia reported 1,637 residents were without power. Matt Nestor with the city’s utilities department
Continue ReadingThe state now has a seven day positivity rate of 31% on Sunday. An additional 11,134 new COVID-19 cases were added over the weekend bringing the total of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic is now 1,069,678. There have also been 257,870 probable antigen test results being positive, with 1,979 added between Saturday
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was seriously hurt after being hit by a car in Columbia on Saturday night. According to Columbia Police, Sullivan S. Preston, 19 of Bowen, IL was walking eastbound along I-70 Drive Northwest when he was hit by a 2003 Honda CRV. Joseph C. Gilmore, 30 of Columbia was behind the
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) According to the Jefferson City Fire Department, no one was hurt in a house fire in Jefferson City on Saturday afternoon. Around 3 p.m. the Jefferson City Fire Department responded to a report of a fire coming from around a chimney of a house in the 1100 block of E. McCarty
Continue ReadingCOLLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) MoDOT has now began their work on replacing the Rocheport Bridge that connects Boone and Cooper Counties. MoDOT said the bridge was in need of major rehabilitation that would have required them change I-70 traffic to one-lane in each direction for an extended period of time, potentially causing 3 to 8-hour backups. The
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested Leslie Lee Williams, 40, of Columbia on suspicion of arson early Friday morning. CPD responded to a car on fire in the lot of Extended Stay at 2000 West Business Loop 70 around 1:35 a.m. on Friday. Police eventually identified the suspect as Williams who had outstanding arrest warrants
Continue ReadingCAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting one person is dead after a one-vehicle crash on Route TT near Crane Cove Drive in Camden County. Troopers report a 2007 Ford Fusion crossed the center of the road and then skidded before traveling off the ride side of the road and hitting a
Continue Readingjust before and soon after the holidays, the demand for COVID testing increased.
Continue ReadingOfficials report two people were taken by ambulance to a local hospital after a two-vehicle wreck at Range Line near Blue Ridge just before 12:30 p.m.
Continue ReadingThe city of Columbia is launching a new website for residents to pay for utilities.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge will give a Columbia teen a lower bond in a shooting case. Shawn Long, 18, is accused of shooting and killing Roberto Lauer last week. He’s charged with involuntary manslaughter. Long says he accidentally shot the gun at Lauer. We were in court when Long’s attorney argued to lower his quarter-million-dollar
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