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Plans to build a proposed Columbia Sports Fieldhouse moved forward Thursday night. Columbia Parks and Recreation hopes to break ground sometime in November on the indoor facility by A.Perry Philips Park in South Columbia. The $3.7 million project is expected to be finished by October 2018. “This is one thing the city has been missing

The ABC 17 News weather team is tracking the current and future weather conditions for Friday. According to Chief Meteorologist Sharon Ray, a tornado watch will continue until 10:00 p.m. for most of Mid-Missouri south of Highway 24. Storms will increase throughout the evening and move east by 10:00 p.m. and could become severe with

UPDATE 11:31 A.M.: Julio D. Carballea, 50, of White Settlement, Texas was charged with second degree assault and armed criminal action. Myzra Abdykerimov, 24, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was treated for injuries at the Hannibal Regional Hospital and released. He was charged with third degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. UPDATE 2:15 p.m: ABC

UPDATE – 5:00 p.m.: The Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed the identity of the woman who died in Friday morning’s crash on Highway 63. Troopers say 21-year-old Kimberly Schumann from Jacksonville, Missouri was killed when she lost control of her car just after 7:30 a.m. Schumann was pronounced dead at the scene. Leah Ensor, 22,

A Tornado Watch is in effect until 10 PM for most of Mid-Missouri, including areas south of HWY 24. Storms will increase from the west through the evening and could strengthen to severe levels, with all modes of severe weather possible. The greatest tornado threat is south of HWY 50 where there is a 5%

ABC 17 News confirmed with the Boone County Fire Protection District that a house fire on Hudson Avenue in Hallsville was caused by a lightning strike to the roof. The fire happened at around 4:00 Friday morning. There were three people in the home at the time of the fire, but no one was injured.

It’s been one week since the City of Columbia finished installing speed bumps on Rice Road and Kelsey Drive with a goal of easing traffic, and ABC 17 News is checking back on the project’s success. Joyce Schulte, who has lived on Kelsey Drive for nearly a decade, told ABC 17 News that the speed

TODAY: Scattered storms will pull through again by early afternoon, moving in from southern Missouri and lifting to Columbia and Jefferson City by 5PM-7PM. All modes of severe weather will be possible with storms today. Due to cloud cover, our high near 80 degrees for this afternoon will cool to the upper 60s by this

UPDATE 5:36am: Ameren Missouri is reporting all outages across the state are now restored. UPDATE 5:07am: More than 2,000 mid-Missourians are now without power after strong storms hit the area Friday morning. Here’s a look at the outage reports by county from Ameren Missouri. Boone – 308 Cole – 148 Gasconade – 47 Maries –

UPDATE 7:18am: Three Rivers Electric is reporting nearly 1,00 customers are without power in its service area. It’s based out of Linn in Osage County. The Osage County Sheriff’s Department says it is still assessing damage in the area, but did confirm several roads are blocked in the county and several people are without power.

While injuries have not been reported this morning so far due to severe weather, strong wind gusts of 60 mph were observed bringing some damage in the counties of Miller, Cole, Osage, Maries, Gasconade, and Montgomery counties. Severe Thunderstorms brought power outages. We had one Tornado Warned storm in eastern Callaway County from and Montgomery

TODAY: Rain chance through noon with storms increasing after 3PM. Look for a high of 80 today. All modes of severe weather possible through 10PM. TONIGHT: Rain chance continues overnight through Saturday morning, look for a low of 60. SATURDAY: Rain and Storm Chance possible through 3PM then drying out by evening.

TODAY: Storms this morning will end through 8AM. There still may be some lingering rain through 10AM east of HWY 54. We’ll be left with some dry time today. High temperatures will reach near 80. Sct’d storms again will be possible by early afternoon, moving in from southern Missouri and lifting to Columbia and Jefferson

“America consumes over 80% of the narcotics and we’re only 5% of the world’s population,” said Rep. Holly Rehder (R)-Sikeston. “So as a country, we’ve got to stop saying…’take away the pain, we don’t want to feel any pain.’ We need to look at this differently. We need to talk about it more.” The law,

UPDATE, 8:00 p.m.: The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved the preliminary plat for the Coliseum, a 43-lot subdivision on St. Charles Road. Judy Barnes, a resident on Norwich Drive, said she had several concerns with how the neighborhood would affect traffic. City staff claimed the expected traffic from the neighborhood wouldn’t call for

For some, the house at 1125 Vandiver Drive sporting a large Green Bay Packers helmet on the front window is hard to miss. But for at least the past year, federal authorities claim it’s been hiding a dark secret inside — women forced into prostitution. “Nothing’s changed in the fact that trafficking exists everywhere, in

The Columbia Fire Department spent nearly two and a half hours cleaning up a small chemical spill downtown Thursday night. ABC 17 News was told a passerby noticed the product spilling down the road in the 400 block of 9th Street and called emergency services. Crews were dispatched to the Domino’s around 8:50 p.m. for

TONIGHT: A line of storms will move in after midnight and a few could be strong or severe with possible wind gusts to 60 mph and large hail. Low temperatures will stay in the mid 60s. FRIDAY: Early morning storms end then we’ll be dry through early afternoon. High temperatures will reach near 80. Sct’d

Members of the Business Loop Community Improvement District, or CID, board said at a meeting Thursday morning that sales tax revenues have exceeded their expectations. “We are very pleased with what we’re bringing in in sales tax. And the reason for that is it’s much higher than our estimates. And that means we have a

Gov. Greitens is calling state lawmakers back to Jefferson City for a special session starting in just four days. The governor announced Thursday the sole focus is a bill bringing a steel mill to Missouri. His office claims efforts failed to pass the legislation before last Friday’s deadline because of “some career politicians in the