CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Moniteau County Presiding Commissioner Joe Lutz was fined $8,244 last week by the Missouri Ethics Commission. According to documents from the Missouri Ethics Commission, the entity investigated a complaint and found multiple mismanagement issues with fundraising and spending during Lutz’s 2022 campaign. He was elected to the commission in the November 2022
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MONITEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 36-year-old Hannibal woman on a two-wheeled “hoverboard” suffered serious injuries in a Moniteau County crash on Friday, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states the crash occurred on Osage Street at East Morgan Street. According to the report, a 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee
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A Moniteau County sheriff’s deputy was hurt early Saturday when he wrecked his patrol car in neighboring Cooper County.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury trial has been delayed again for a Fulton man accused of killing his Russellville classmate in 1991. William “Chris” Niemet, 46, is accused of killing his classmate, Greg Jones, in April 1991 in Russellville. Jones was 14. Niemet also would have been 14 at the time. Niemet was charged in 2020 with first-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With hospitals closing across Missouri, access to physicians and health care is becoming difficult in rural communities. Missouri has a lower ratio of primary care providers per capita than the United States. On Wednesday the MU School of Medicine received a $16 million award from from the Health Resources and Services Administration
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man who was charged last week with having child pornography has now been charged with sexual misconduct involving a child. Robert Wayne Stuart, 35, was charged on Sept. 27 in Callaway County with six counts of having child pornography. Stuart has since been charged in Moniteau County with sexual misconduct
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CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A California, Missouri, man was arrested and posted bond on Tuesday after hitting a Sedalia man with a truck and leaving the scene, according to court documents. Ethan Daniels, 20, was charged on Tuesday with leaving the scene of an accident – causing a serious injury, and operating a vehicle in a
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MONITEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man was seriously hurt after being hit by a truck in Moniteau County Monday evening. The Highway Patrol reported Jeremy Maupin, 46, was hit by Ethan Daniels, 20, on Business 50 west of County Road at 6:15 p.m. According to the online crash report, Daniels looked at this phone,
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A Cole County grand jury has indicted a Moniteau County man on two felonies for allegedly taking more than $9,000 for work that wasn’t performed.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mid-Missouri will soon be introduced to a new area code, according to a Monday press release from the Missouri Public Service Commission. The new area code – 235 – will not replace numbers that currently use 573. New numbers using the 235 area code will begin being assigned on March 24, 2024.
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Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect Ida Wolf passed away, after ABC 17 News received more information from law enforcement. CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 83-year-old woman died after she was injured in a one-vehicle crash Thursday in Moniteau County. Ida Wolf, of California, Missouri, died, according to a Friday night email from a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Inclement weather began passing through Mid-Missouri Wednesday evening and power outages have already been reported throughout the area. In Cole County, Three Rivers Electric is showing 502 customers without power and Ameren Missouri had 165 customers without power at its peak. The Ameren number has come down to 140. The storms
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CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A California, Missouri, man who pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in May was sentenced on Monday. Ethan Bondurant, 20, pleaded guilty on May 1 to second-degree murder, two counts of armed-criminal action, two counts of first-degree assault and one count of second-degree assault. Boundurant was sentenced to life in prison
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MONITEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An Independence man suffered serious injuries Monday after getting pinned between a roller and a semi-truck on Route E in Moniteau County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Troy Bellamy, 51, was injured while trying to hook up equipment between the two vehicles when a Hamm Double-Drum Ride-On
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JAMESTOWN, Mo. (KMIZ) A boil water order in Jamestown was lifted at noon Wednesday, Mayor Jamie Russell told ABC 17 News in an email. The order was issued Monday evening after storms knocked out power to parts of Moniteau County. About 260 Ameren customers in Moniteau County lost power. The storm also caused 690 customers
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 700 Ameren customers in Cooper County were without power early Monday evening. There were 690 customers without power in Cooper County. Moniteau County also had a sizable outage with 260 Ameren customers without power. An Ameren spokesperson told ABC 17 News in an email that the outage was weather-related and began
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CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The mayor of California, Missouri, said in a press release that a recent fish kill in the city could have include more than 1,000 fish. Proctor Park Lake had a reported fish kill on Sunday. The lake is managed through an agreement between the City and the Missouri Department of Conservation, according
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CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of California, Missouri, Parks and Recreation department stated on its social media Wednesday that Proctor Park Lake is experiencing a fish kill. The fish kill is occurring “due to low dissolved oxygen in the lake,” according to the post. The City of California and Missouri Department of Conservation are aware,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A California, Missouri, man who was recently released from jail was arrested again on Wednesday after a witness told law enforcement that the man planned to kill a judge and prosecutor. Kody Sidebottom, 27, is charged with two counts of tampering with a judicial officer. He is being held without bond
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A Moniteau County construction company will pay thousands of dollars to a federal agency over a worker’s death last year.
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