JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of Ameren Missouri customers remain without power after the storms blew through on the July 4 weekend. Utility crews expect to restore power to most customers by Tuesday night after winds stronger than 100 miles per hour tore through parts of Mid-Missouri over the holiday weekend, leaving thousands without electricity
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Monday morning fire at a garage on Michales Cove Road in Sunrise Beach was started by a generator being run inside, according to a Monday afternoon press release from the Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District. Crews were called at 7:56 a.m. and had the fire under control by 8:16 a.m., according
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old Stover woman was seriously injured Tuesday in a crash on Ivy Bend Road in Morgan County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 20-year-old Stover man and the woman were riding on a 2006 Yamaha Road Star 1700 motorcycle that was heading
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 16-year-old Montreal, Missouri boy was seriously hurt in a crash after a chase with the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Thursday. According to a Highway Patrol crash report, the crash happened on Highway 5, about 1500 feet south of Smooth Hill Dr. at 10:47 p.m. The teen was driving a 2000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The boy’s age had been incorrect because of a source error. An 8-year-old boy was pronounced dead at University Hospital after he crashed a side-by-side Wednesday on a gravel road in Morgan County near Proctor. The Stover boy was driving the vehicle on Blackbird Road near Birch Road at about
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Eldon man was charged in Morgan County on Tuesday with multiple child sex crimes after he allegedly assaulted a child on Monday morning. Ronald Lee Brown Jr., 36, was charged with second-degree statutory rape, two counts of incent and one count of second-degree statutory sodomy. He is being held at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion after responding to a house fire early Tuesday in Sunrise Beach, according to a press release from the Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District. Crews were called to a home in the 100 block of Via Cresta Drive at 3:40 a.m. for a fire that led
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 66-year-old Versailles man was killed in a crash on Friday afternoon on Route W in Morgan County near Old Marvin Cutoff Road, a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol says. The report says the man drove a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado southbound and it went off the left side of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 66-year-old woman from Lake of the Ozarks was seriously injured in a multi-vehicle semi-truck crash Saturday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred in Morgan County at around 11:45 a.m. on U.S. 50 near Missouri Highway 5. The woman was driving a 2022 Ford Expedition
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four youth and a man from St. Joseph, Missouri, were injured in a boat crash on Monday at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District wrote in a social media post that that it received a call for a boating accident at the 38-mile marker and an MSHP
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A probable cause statement filed by the Stover Police Department details a violent assault that allegedly occurred just after midnight on Saturday morning. Details of the assault appeared in the probable cause statement for Austin Beckmann, who was charged in Morgan County on Monday with first-degree burglary. A warrant was issued and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of people were still without power Monday afternoon near the Lake of the Ozarks. Storms caused a significant number of people to lose power earlier in the day, with more than 3,700 electricity customers in Columbia at one point being without power. The outage map for the Association of Missouri Electric
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Power is being restored in Mid-Missouri Monday morning after storms rolled through. According to the City of Columbia’s outage map, nearly 1,800 customers are without power due to six electrical incidents. This is an improvement from earlier Monday morning, when more than 3,700 customers were without power due to seven power incidents
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four children 6 years old and younger were seriously injured Wednesday in a horse-and-buggy crash that involved a vehicle in Morgan County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a horse and buggy carrying six people was heading westbound on Route C in Morgan County,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Chamois man who is accused of committing deceptive business practices in multiple Mid-Missouri counties is now charged in Morgan County. Curtis Luke McCarty was charged on Monday in Morgan County with stealing more than $750 and committing deceptive business practices, both of which are felonies. A warrant with a $10,000 bond
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Law enforcement arrested a man and woman late Monday after a chase went through three counties, according to a news release from the Cole County Sheriff’s Office. The chase started when Cole County deputies tried to stop a Dodge Charger near Greenbrier Road and Monticello Road. The driver didn’t stop, and led
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A Saint Charles woman was seriously hurt in Morgan County after being hit by a car Saturday.
The crash occurred at around 6:30 p.m. near 28404 Holt Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol Crash report.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged in Morgan County with several child sex crimes. Joshua White, 19, of Gravois Mills, was charged on Wednesday with two counts of statutory sodomy of a person younger than 14 years old and two counts of third-degree child molestation. He is being held at the Morgan County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Strong winds and heavy storms Friday night left thousands without power and caused one house to catch on fire. On Saturday morning, the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives’ Statewide Outage Map reported over 2,000 people in Morgan County without power. Gravois Fire Protection District Chief Dustin Hancock reported that crews responded to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Branches and trees were down around Mid-Missouri after storms rolled through the area on Friday. The threat of high winds and hail damage prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to issue a Weather Alert Day for Friday. Most of Mid-Missouri was in tornado watch on Friday evening. Gov. Mike Kehoe had preemptively
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