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Columbia police have issued a warning to residents after two more neighborhoods became targets for burglars. Police say in the last few weeks, there has been a rash of burglaries in two south Columbia neighborhoods — off of Nifong Boulevard and Bearfield Road and off of Providence just south of Corporate Lake. Bryana Maupin with

Measurable rain is expected to move into Mid-Missouri early Wednesday afternoon as a low pressure system develops over south Texas Tuesday, and pulls northeast. Rain will move in from southwest Missouri late Wednesday morning into the early afternoon, impacting the Lake of the Ozarks area first. Steady rain continues through Wednesday night, becoming more light

Work on two bridges north of Columbia Mall will cause some road closures through early summer. Crews started work this week on Route E which turns into Stadium Blvd. MoDOT is replacing the entire deck of the bridges over Rocky Fork and Perche Creek. All of this will keep the bridges closed until June 5th.

A Columbia road will be closed through early Tuesday night so crews can remove trees. This emergency closure is happening at Heriford Road between Parker and Burlington St. City officials said the trees are an imminent hazard. The road should be open again by 7:00 p.m.

The movie ‘American Sniper’ is now bringing controversy to the University of Missouri. School officials are looking into disparaging comments directed at students for speaking out about their beliefs. Some feel the movie should not be shown, claiming the story is racist. The former president of the Muslim Student Organization, Farah El-Jayyousi, is the one

Missouri Department of Transportation has begun repairs on the Lamine River bridge just west of Boonville on Interstate 70. A MoDOT inspection crew found a three-inch crack on Monday in one of the steel beams running along the bottom of the bridge. MoDOT crews were out Tuesday putting a steel beam in place under the

Cecil Clayton is scheduled to be executed at 6:00 Tuesday night. Clayton was convicted of gunning down a Sheriff’s Deputy back in 1996. Clayton asked both the Missouri Supreme Court and Governor Jay Nixon to consider his last minute argument. He claimed he is suffering from dementia and the effects are from a sawmill accident

A teen turned herself in for a deadly crash near Rangeline and Vandiver last fall in north Columbia. Ashley Renee Moore, 17, was taken into custody after turning herself over to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department around 2:25 Monday afternoon. Witnesses say a vehicle swerved out of the lane, lost control and hit two pedestrians

A former Mid-Missouri daycare owner was sentenced to 5 years in prison Tuesday for child endangerment. In 2010, Shelley Richter was accused of shaking a baby, leaving him brain damaged and blind. This past December Richter was convicted in Cole County court. The family of 5-year-old Lane Schaefer told the courtroom how their lives have

A Morgan County man is being held in federal custody without bond for threatening to kill President Obama. 24-year-old Cameron Stout of Stover was federally charged with making multiple threats against Obama. Stout’s case will go to a federal grand jury in Jefferson City. A confidential informant on Friday told a Morgan County Sheriff’s deputy

A Mid-Missouri man accused of five crimes over the span of four months is headed to prison. Joshua Harrington was sentenced to 19 years in jail Monday after pleading guilty to a number of charges. Police think the crime spree might have started with a home invasion robbery off High Oaks Court near Nifong last

Sewer work will close parts of Lafayette Street Wednesday through Thursday. The work will close Lafayette from just north of east Elm Street to east Miller St. from 7:00 Wednesday morning through 9:00 a.m. Thursday. Drivers are encouraged to seek an alternate route and allow a little extra time to get to where they’re headed.

A Jefferson City Correctional inmate accused in another inmate’s death is scheduled to be in court Tuesday. The killing happened at the JCCC last August. Randy Teter is charged with first degree murder in the death of Mark Melton. Court documents said Teter beat Melton, and stomped on his head and throat. Melton was a

The Missouri State Highway Patrol Tuesday released numbers from its latest DWI saturation efforts. Troopers held a checkpoint this past Saturday in Boone Co. Thirty cars were stopped, and two of those drivers received DWIs. There were other various tickets handed out, including 5 for speeding, one for misdemeanor drugs, and a child restraint violation.

In one year, the GOES R Series satellite will be launched. This will help improve forecasts, and help detect severe storms earlier. Here’s how a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite works. It orbits with earth, approximately 22,000 miles above the surface over a fixed point. Currently, GOES satellitescollect data over those fixed points, every 30minutes. This

Boone County emergency management officials said they are testing a new outdoor warning system Tuesday. Officials said the old system caused confusion because all the sirens in the county would sound during the threat of severe weather, no matter where the threat was. “Citizens, for example, in the central part of Columbia said, ‘Well, the

Last summer, straight line winds caused $1 million worth of damage to two schools in Mid-Missouri. Last June, the principal of Prairie Home school got a call saying the roof of a portion of the school blew off and into the parking lot. “I was so surprised when people were sending me texts and pictures

The intensity of thunderstorms over Mid-Missouri can sometimes be underestimated due to a lack of radar coverage in the central part of the state. If you’ve ever been through a severe thunderstorm in Mid-Missouri and watched the ABC 17 Stormtrack weather team when severe weather arrives, you know Doppler radar is a key tool in

Thunderstorms are common in the spring and summer months, and sometimes can turn severe. A storm is considered severe if it is producing winds of 58 mph or greater, 1″ hail or larger, or a tornado. The structure and formation of a storm can give meteorologists insight on what type of severe weather threat will

In Mid-Missouri, we start the transition into warmer temperatures in March. Temperatures tend to be variable during the spring and summer months, however. The average high may be 61, but it isn’t uncommon to see highs anywhere from the low 50s to upper 60s. Temperatures become more consistent in the summer. April and May are