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Rebuilding Mid-Missouri: A look back at the Jefferson City and Eldon tornado
The ABC 17 News team revisited the people and places affected by the May 22 tornado that hit Jefferson City and Eldon for a half-hour special.
Continue ReadingThe ABC 17 News team revisited the people and places affected by the May 22 tornado that hit Jefferson City and Eldon for a half-hour special.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Tornado damage and flooding made 2019 a devastating year for the Show-Me State. Through it all, Missouri’s State Emergency Management Agency continues to help people pick up the pieces. On the night of May 22, SEMA director Ron Walker said workers at the agency closely watched the storm system move across
Continue ReadingMILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A former School of the Osage teacher pleaded guilty to statutory sodomy of a person less than 14 years old on Tuesday. Mark Edwards, of Eldon, was accused of touching a student inappropriately on two separate occasions in April 2018. A detective with the sheriff’s office looked at the school bus
Continue ReadingELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) The city of Eldon, Mo continues to recover after an EF 3 tornado caused destruction on May, 22. The city received 134 building permit requests between May 24 and Oct. 18 related to tornado damage repairs. Building permit requests included new construction, roof, porch, electrical, siding replacement and remodeling. The tornado brought
Continue ReadingELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) A wrongful death lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Circuit Court of Miller County accuses the owner of an Eldon RV park of causing a woman’s death. The court document shows Robert Vanbarneveld filed the lawsuit after his wife Tisha Vanbarneveld died on June 16. The couple were at Shorewood Landing Waterfront RV
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE 8:50 p.m.: Callaway County voters turned out at about a 15 percent clip Tuesday to approve two sales tax increases to pay for law enforcement. Voters approved Proposition 1, a half-cent increase to pay for sheriff’s department staffing and salary raises, 3,099-1,129, or about 72 percent in favor. They approved Proposition
Continue ReadingA man is charged in Miller County after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase late Sunday. Lake Ozark police accused Curtis Thorne of driving in the wrong lane on U.S. Highway 54 in Miller County just before midnight on Sunday. Court documents show an officer tried to pull over Thorne at 11:41 p.m. on
Continue ReadingA man is charged in Miller County after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase late Sunday. Lake Ozark police accused Curtis Thorne of driving in the wrong lane on U.S. Highway 54 in Miller County just before midnight on Sunday. Court documents show an officer tried to pull over Thorne at 11:41 p.m. on
Continue ReadingThe Miller County Prosecutor’s Office charged on Friday an inmate accused of attacking workers at the detention center. James W. Simpson, 27, is charged with first-degree assault, two counts of third-degree assault and damage to jail property. Simpson attacked the workers at the Miller County Detention Center off Highway 52 on Sept. 7, according to
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Department of Natural Resources received three complaints about foam waste from a local business making its way onto other property. DNR spokeswoman Tayna Turner said authorities have already visited the site and the investigation is ongoing. Turner said DNR is investigating the incident as a potential water pollution and solid waste dumping case.
Continue ReadingA historic motel is still undergoing repairs five months after an EF3 tornado ripped through mid-Missouri in May. Historic Randles Court owner Jennifer Hart said the 1830s motel was damaged by a fire in 2017 and she planned to have a grand reopening May 24, 2019, but the tornado struck two days before on May
Continue ReadingAt least one person was taken into custody after he led police on a multi-county chase on Sunday night. The Miller County Sheriff’s Office tried to pull over a truck at about 11:15 p.m. Sunday after Jeffrey Barlow ,the driver of the truck, allegedly went out of his lane, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol
Continue ReadingA Pennsylvania law firm says it has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Hy-Vee grocery store chain after a recent data breach. Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLC announced the filing in a news release posted Tuesday. Law firms in Illinois and Oklahoma are also listed on the lawsuit. The original plaintiffs listed on the
Continue ReadingA Miller County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a pair of felonies. Leonard W. Wilson appeared in the Miller County Circuit Court on Tuesday after being accused of failing to register as a sex offender multiple times. Wilson was called back into the courtroom after he admitted
Continue ReadingAdministrators put the Miller County R-III campus on lockdown after a bullet was found in the school parking lot Tuesday. “It was brought to the administration’s attention that a single round of ammunition was found in the school’s parking lot this morning,” the school district wrote in a Facebook post. “It is unknown how or
Continue ReadingThe superintendent for the School of the Osage is retiring at the end of the month. According to the district, the board of education approved Dr. Brent Depeé’s request at Thursday night’s meeting. Depeé has served as the superintendent since 2011. “He truly believed in the Osage mission. Lots of school districts have a mission
Continue ReadingUpdate as of 10:16 p.m.: Power is back for most Ameren customers now. The outage map shows 238 are still waiting for the lights to come back on. An Ameren spokeswoman said crews continue to work in the area. Update as of 9:33 p.m.: Power was restored for many Camden County electric cooperative members, 36
Continue ReadingMany people are still displaced after more than four months after tornadoes left several homes destroyed in Eldon, Cole County and Jefferson City. The United Way of Central Missouri and Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri are now coordinating volunteers to help victims of the tornados move into their new homes. United Way of
Continue ReadingFour people were arrested in Osage Beach Thursday all accused of buying and selling fentanyl. On Oct. 3, the Osage Beach Police Department and the Mid-Missouri Drug Task Force were tipped off to a person living in the 800 block of Highway D who was allegedly selling fentanyl. According to a press release, authorities executed
Continue ReadingA data breach Hy-Vee grocery stores reported this summer affected customers at two Columbia locations and in Jefferson City and Osage Beach. The company on Thursday released more information about the breach that it initially reported in mid-August. The release Thursday included a list of affected stores. Malware meant to access card data was used
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