JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was indicted by a federal grand jury for child pornography charges, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Ryan Edward Hine, 27, was charged with attempted enticement of a minor, three counts of attempted production of child pornography, two counts of advertising child pornography and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Charges have been filed on a Columbia woman who was accused of shooting at a car Monday night on Brown Station Road in Columbia. Carra Maleghia Brooks, 27, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action, first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. Jail records indicate that she has a court
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A man’s body was recovered from the Missouri River near Hermann on Sunday.
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A three-vehicle crash restricted traffic for nearly an hour Tuesday morning on a major Jefferson City highway.
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A number of Columbia police officers were seen Monday night in the 3600 block of Brown Station Road.
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A Columbia man charged with abandoning a corpse has been arrested and booked into the Boone County Jail.
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A man from Gravois Mills drowned on Monday evening at 7:29 p.m. in Truman Lake near the Shawnee Bend.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Candidate filing for the August primary begins at 8 a.m. on Tuesday and closes on March 26th at 5 p.m. Candidate filing will be held in the James C . Kirkpatrick State Information Center located at 600 West Main Street in Jefferson City. Offices that file with the Secretary of State
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Spring training is underway and a new change has had some baseball fans and players in an uproar, and this time it’s not about any rule changes. MLB unveiled new uniforms recently and a number of players – including from the St. Louis Cardinals – have aired their concerns. The pants of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources met to discuss the Lower Missouri Jefferson City spin-off study. The study comes after the Missouri River flooded in 1993, 2011 and 2019, leaving billions of dollars in damage to buildings and agriculture. Community Planner with
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The state’s public safety director will soon decide whether to punish suspended Callaway County Sheriff Clay Chism for a series of incidents involving Chism drinking alcohol on and off the clock.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A naloxone education and distribution event will be held noon-1 p.m. Tuesday at the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services building on West Worley Street, according to a Monday press release. PHHS staff will also provide a brief training session for walk-ins from 1-1:30 p.m., the release states. No registration is required
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) City of Columbia Utility customers who use auto-pay features on their utility bills will have to enroll in a new system before their March bill is due, according to a Monday release from the city. According to the release, the city is transitioning its utility autopay to the finance department’s new platform,
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As roughly 30% of Missouri school districts have switched to four-day school weeks, a lawmakers aims to incentivize schools to keep students in class five days a week.
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Editor’s note: March 1 is Friday and has been updated in the story as such. LEBANON, Mo. (KMIZ) A small portion of Bennett Spring State Park will be closed to anglers at the start of trout season, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Conservation. Trout season in the state begins Friday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One family is dropping out of a federal lawsuit filed against MU Health Care in a case surrounding gender-affirming care. MU Health Care said in August that it would stop prescribing or administering puberty-delaying drugs or hormone replacement therapy to transgender minors. A pair of Boone County families sued MU Health in November, claiming MU Health was
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged on Friday with sodomy and other felonies after authorities say he sexually assaulted a child in June. Matthew Dakota Thompson, 23, was charged with first-degree sodomy, kidnapping, first-degree sexual abuse and fourth-degree child molestation. Casenet indicates his residence is in Vandalia, while the probable cause statement says he
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A charred home in Columbia is still standing more than a month after a Columbia man was found dead inside.
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UPDATE: MONDAY MORNING UPDATE As of Monday morning, uncertainty is still high surrounding Tuesday night’s storms. If there’s any more certainty in the forecast, it is that the threat has shifted east, yet again. This likely means our “cap” is strong enough to prevent any storms ahead of the front. With this morning’s data, it’s
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It’s a story that has become all too familiar — a looming deadline for Congress to pass funding bills with no apparent agreement in sight.
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