MILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Retired Miller County Sheriff Bill Abbott passed away today from COVID-19 according to Osage County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Sheriff Abbott spent more than 16 years of service to Miller County residents since his appointment to the office in April 1999. Abbott retired from the department in Dec. 2016.
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Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two more victims have been added to the record 2020 homicide count in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Police Department said Monday that a 19-year-old man who was wounded in a Dec. 28 shooting died four days later. Officers found Abdulbasid Yassin unresponsive on the ground when they responded
Continue ReadingJOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A former school bus driver in southwest Missouri was sentenced to four years in prison for having sexual contact with a student. Sixty-eight-year-old Dennis Frakes was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in November. Frakes was a bus driver for Carl Junction when he had sexual contact twice with a female student.
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two people who were homeless died in Kansas City during cold weather over the weekend. A volunteer for an organization that helps the homeless found a man dead inside a vacant building on Sunday, Alina Heart, a volunteer with Free Hot Soup Kansas City, found the man after
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The City of Columbia will consider an agreement for a coronavirus vaccine education campaign during its meeting Monday night.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) I-70 Westbound near the connector is back open Sunday after a rollover crash sent two people to the hospital Saturday evening. I-70 westbound near the connector is back open this morning after a rollover crash sent two people to the hospital.I-70 westbound near the connector is back open this morning after a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported more than 2,300 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, pushing the state’s total passed 400,000. Missouri’s total COVID-19 case count is now reported to be 401,761. Records indicate there were also 19 new virus related deaths added Sunday bringing the state’s death toll to 5,562.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri state health department reported more than 2,100 new COVID-19 cases Saturday. Health officials said total COVID-19 cases since the pandemic were up to 399,456 Saturday — 2,157 more since Friday’s dashboard update. The health department included three more virus-related deaths to the dashboard bringing the pandemic total up to 5,543 fatalities.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Veterans Commission released a full version of an investigation done on its response to COVID-19. The report says the commission failed to recognize the changing pandemic and didn’t plan or respond to it well. The report gave credit to the quick response to the pandemic at the beginning but
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As road crews across Mid-Missouri are preparing to battle the ice, Boone Electric Cooperative also has crews on the ready to fix any power outages caused by the storm.
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Director of the State Health Department Dr. Randall Williams said at the Governor’s state briefing Wednesday the state lab has the capacity to look for the strain and is in the process of expanding it.
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Missouri’s governor said during a news conference Wednesday afternoon that 66,000 residents have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
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Walgreens partnered with The Bluffs in Columbia to deliver some of the first long-term care facility coronavirus vaccinations in Central Missouri on Tuesday.
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Continue ReadingNOVINGER, Mo. (AP) — An investigation continues into an accident that killed three people in northeast Missouri. KTVO-TV reports that the accident happened about 2:30 a.m. Monday on Adair County Route O near the town of Novinger. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a pickup truck and an SUV collided head-on at the crest of
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two people are hospitalized after a large fire broke out at an apartment complex in the Waldo area of Kansas City, Missouri. Fire officials say two people jumped from the third story to escape the fire that occurred Monday night near the Missouri-Kansas border. Their injuries are not believed to
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