MONDAY UPDATES: Boone County to host Spanish speaking coronavirus vaccine event Saturday
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Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant Britt Reid charged with felony DWI
The Jackson County prosecutor’s office has filed a felony driving while intoxicated charge against Britt Reid, former Kansas City Chiefs assitant coach and son of head coach Andy Reid.
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Man charged with murder in Missouri convenience store attack
A 28-year-old man has been charged in the fatal shooting of one person and the wounding of three more at a convenience store in a small southern Missouri town.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should concealed guns be allowed on public transportation?
The measure has already passed the House and is working its way through the Senate.
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SUNDAY UPDATES: Missouri hits another milestone with over 3 million vaccine doses administered
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services hit another benchmark in the fight against COVID-19 on Sunday, reporting over 3 million doses of the vaccine have been administered. According to the state’s dashboard, 3,038,964 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been put in the arms of Missourians as of Sunday. In the state, 1,895,020
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Boone County leads Missouri in vaccination rate
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County residents have been getting vaccinated more than any other Missouri jurisdiction. According to the state dashboard, 37.4% of the Boone County population has received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Nearly three million vaccines have been given out statewide which equates to 30.4% of the population receiving at
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Health experts give safety advice to all Missourians about receiving the coronavirus vaccine
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With all Missourians now eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine, providers want to make sure people are being as safe as possible and know what the vaccine entails. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has continued to ensure the public of the safety of
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Missouri’s health department reviewing duplicated COVID-19 test results
The Department of Health and Senior Services said Saturday it is reviewing for potentially duplicated COVID-19 test results, that could impact past positivity rates.
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One dead, three injured after shooting at a Southern Missouri convenience store
Authorities say one person is dead and three others were critically injured in a shooting at a convenience store in southern Missouri.
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SATURDAY UPDATES: Five new COVID-19 related death reported in Missouri
Missouri reported 5 new deaths because of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number to 8,515 throughout the pandemic. The Department of Health and Senior Services recorded 426 new cases of the virus in the state Saturday. There have now been 493,249 reported cases in Missouri. The states sayd 823 people are in the hospital
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Biden’s new gun laws send gun sales soaring in Columbia
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) While many Missourians are not happy with President Joe Biden’s gun control measures and are pushing back, there are some people who believe gun safety comes first before anything. After recent mass shootings, Biden announced his first gun control measures since taking office. He announced a half-dozen executive actions aimed at controlling
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FRIDAY UPDATES: Boone County positivity rate more than doubles from the previous week
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Ameren seeks utility rate increases to raise $309M a year
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Energy utility Ameren is seeking to raise customer rates to cover billions of dollars recently invested in electric grid upgrades and new wind generation facilities. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the company said in a filing last week to state regulators that it wants to boost electric rate revenues by almost
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Health officials hopeful expanding vaccine eligibility could lead to coronavirus herd immunity by end of May
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Director Dr. Randall Williams said he hopes to have 75% of the population vaccinated by the end of May.
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Boone County officials propose new wind farm regulations at public hearing
COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) Public hearings for wind farm regulations have been scheduled by the Boone County Zoning Commission throughout April. The commission will host the first public hearing Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Boone County Government Center. Boone County Resource Management Director, Bill Florea, says the department was looking forward to hearing the
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$1 million endowed professorship to support autism research, services at MU
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri alumni Bill and Nancy Thompson established the Ron Ashworth Endowed Professorship in Child Development with a $1 million gift. The gift honors Ron Ashworth, board chair for the Thompson Foundation Board of Directors and a longtime advocate of both neurodevelopmental disability issues and the Thompson Center for Autism and
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THURSDAY UPDATES: Audrain County reports 481 people receive coronavirus vaccine during Tuesday event
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ABC 17 News coronavirus roundtable: Phase 3
Vaccination eligibility will soon expand to all adults across the show-me state. An estimated 1.1-million Missourians will get access to vaccines against COVID-19 under phase three. Local health care experts, owner of Flow’s Pharmacy Anthony Desha and MU Health Care’s Director of Pharmacy Brad Myers, talk about this expansion and how other vaccination efforts are
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Experts say vaccinations even more important as COVID-19 variant shows up in Mid-Missouri
The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services reported the first known U.K. coronavirus variant COVID-19 case in Boone County.
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Health leaders say new variant found in Missouri is a reminder the pandemic not over
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Health leaders across the state are saying the finding of the first case of the COVID-19 variant originally found in South Africa is a good reminder the pandemic is not over. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported the case of the variant found in Jackson County on Tuesday. The
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