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A Boone Co. road will close in both directions Thursday night, just northeast of Columbia. Route Z will close between Timmons and Rob Cook Road, so crews can replace a cross pipe. Traffic isn’t scheduled to reopen until 5:00 a.m. Friday, and detours will be in place.

Thursday will yet again be another hot day, with temperatures about 10 degrees above average in the mid-90s. Heat indices will reach the mid-upper 90s by late afternoon, and muggy conditions continue into the evening. A steady south wind continues to pull warm, moist air into the region, adding to the instability we’re seeing from

A Fulton woman is facing multiple felonies after Morgan County deputies say she stabbed a man inside a local cave. The sheriff’s department was called to Jacob’s Cave Sunday, off Highway TT just south of Versailles near the Lake of the Ozarks. They found the victim, David Emht, 60, from Cuba, with moderate injuries to

One person is in custody and two others are on the loose following a Columbia burglary and high speed chase. Police arrested Luster Jordan Jr, 22, from Malden, MO. Jordan was arrested on charges of burglary and resisting arrest. Investigators say he was the driver of the vehicle that officers were chasing in the 1700

A Columbia home on Highridge Drive caught fire Wednesday evening just before 6:30 p.m. Fire officials say the fire started in the garage. There was a few hundred dollars worth of damage, but crews were able to quickly put out the flames. It is unclear what started the fire.

IBM employees in Columbia who were part of the latest round of layoffs said the company has moved up their last days, meaning they now have less time to find new jobs. ABC 17 News is told their new departure date is June 30. For the last month, ABC 17 News has been investigating after

A highway patrol sergeant is in trouble for what his lawyer says was telling the truth. Randy Henry has publicly criticized the Highway Patrol’s handling of the drowning investigation of Brandon Ellingson. Ellingson is the 20-year-old who drowned a year ago at the Lake of the Ozarks while in Highway Patrol custody. On Thursday, Henry’s

Law enforcement analysts are calling for a change in the way police are trained. Some said “community policing” could be the way to solve some problems between police and the people they’re protecting. Charlie Jackson, the former Director of Public Safety in Missouri, said incidents like the one in McKinney Texas have been happening since

ABC 17 News is learning about some Mid-Missouri improvement projects in the works. The Columbia REDI board of directos met to talk about improvement proposals. ABC 17 News sat in on the meeting and learned Centralia is pushing to bring a hotel to the city. It said it needs more lodging for a basketball tournament

The trial for the operators of a former Columbia smoke shop is delayed. Both Kevin Bay and John Hawkins are accused of selling over $2 million in synthetic marijuana, known as K2. Jury selection was supposed to start next month, but that’s been pushed back until October. Police raided Bay’s home four years ago and

A walk-in clinic that is already in Columbia is now expanding to Jefferson City. Capital Region just announced it is adding another location in the Hy-Vee near the mall. MU Healthcare already has three Mizzou Quick Care locations. The clinics are available to anyone over the age of 2. They offer certain vaccines, treat minor

A Phelps County woman was sentenced to fourteen years in jail after she was caught selling heroin. 31-year-old Jessica Edwards was sentenced this week after violating her probation. A local drug task force raided her home in Rolla, and found more than 40 plastic baggies bags with heroin in them. Edwards was already convicted for

Household burglary rates are at their highest this time of year, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice. On average, the report said burglary rates are about 11 percent higher during the summer months. According to the Columbia Police dispatch, officers have responded to about 30 burglary calls since the first of

Doctors at the University of Missouri Children’s Hospital are reminding parents how to be safe while mowing the lawn. The hospital has already seen two serious lawn mower-related injuries to children. Doctors expect more injuries as the summer months continue. “The injuries children suffer with are often not salvageable injuries,” said Dr. Sumit Gupta. “The

Jefferson City police are continuing to investigate a shooting a few blocks from Lincoln University. It happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of E Ashley Street. Two Lincoln University police officers were near the scene and confirm six shots were fired. One bullet shattered a car window and another bullet hit a

Capitol Police are investigating after a child was left alone in a hot car Wednesday morning. Mike O’Connell with theMissouri Department of Public Safety told ABC 17 Newsa woman called Capitol Police around 10:25 a.m. Wednesday after hearing a child crying from inside a vehicle. A day care facility, Fountain Life Preschool, left the 3-year-old

Nearly three weeks after ABC 17 News aired a special report where customers of a Cole County builder claimed they were ripped off, those same customers said Tuesday they were still out money for unfinished work. Ken Jinson was arrested just hours after ABC 17’s Jillian Fertig confronted him last month about taking money from

Southerly winds will send warm, moist air into Mid-Missouri the next few days and with plenty of sunshine Wednesday, temperatures will climb into the lower 90s. The humidity will make the lower 90s feel more like the upper 90s in the afternoon. A weak cold front draped across the Missouri-Iowa border will help spark spotty

Boone County deputies respond to hundreds of calls a year on Demaret Drive varying from small complaints to shootings. But according to deputies it is difficult to enforce regulations on landlords and tenants to prevent some of those crimes. Inside Columbia city limits, there are laws to make sure every rental property is registered and

A woman is being treated for a case of tuberculosis has health professionals concerned. The case of TB is resistant to drugs normally used to treat the disease. The woman was briefly quarantined in a Chicago hospital and then flown to the National Institutes of Health, but not before making her way through three states,