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The University of Missouri has impounded more than 200 Bird electric scooters since June 2018, according to records obtained by ABC 17 News. ABC 17 News first reported Tuesday about new rules the university enacted with Bird dictating scooter use and storage on campus. School officials had safety concerns over scooter use since their arrival

The Columbia Housing Authority is barring access to common areas and disinfecting parts of the Oak Towers complex after a few residents came down with a potentially fatal illness. Housing authority CEO Phil Steinhaus said the bacterium C. diff, which can cause severe diarrhea and colon inflammation, was found in an Oak Towers resident who

The Jefferson City Police Department is warning people to avoid North Jefferson City after a levee broke Thursday. The department posted on its Facebook page that a levee broke in the area north of the Missouri River. Capitol View Drainage District officer Britt Smith said a temporary repair to a breach in the levee’s western

The suspect in a Jefferson City shooting is in custody, according to the Jefferson City Police Department. Police said Michael Miller, 27, of Jefferson City is currently being held in the Cole County Jail. According to charging documents, Miller went inside of a home in the 1300 block of Monroe Street on Monday night and

TONIGHT: Mostly clear and humid. Lows in the upper 60s to around 70. FRIDAY: Mostly sunny and hot with heat indices in the upper 90s. Highs near 90. EXTENDED: The upper level pattern is stubborn to move with the jet stream well to our north even into early next week. Rain chances will be slim

A Fulton teen died Wednesday night after he jumped in the North Moreau Creek in Moniteau County and struggled to come back up. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Bradley J. Hall, 17, jumped into the creek on Wednesday and struggled before he went under the water. He did not resurface, the report

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UPDATE 10:33 AM: The Columbia Police Department identified the victim of Wednesday night’s shooting as 40-year-old David Lee Morgan of Columbia. Morgan was pronounced dead on the scene on Tupelo Place. CPD has not released suspect information. UPDATE 10:20 PM: A spokesperson with the Columbia Police Department confirmed one person is dead after a shooting

Federal and local authorities are offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in two gun store burglaries. The ATF and the Columbia Police Department are offering the reward for information into break-ins at Powder Horn Guns and Archery, 1915 Paris Road, early last Friday and again early this Thursday

The Columbia Police Department is investigating a reported incident involving a man with a gun that the victim says could be a hate crime. According to the Missouri chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MO), the victim, a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, was driving on Providence Road on Monday night when a

No one is hurt after Hot Pockets blocked parts of Interstate 70 Thursday morning west of Columbia. The Missouri State Highway Patrol posted on Twitter the right westbound lane of the interstate, near Sweet Springs, was blocked by the frozen foods after a semi-truck flipped over. The right lane of WB I-70 at the 65.4

The Missouri Corrections Officers Association filed a lawsuit in the Cole County Circuit Court on Tuesday against the Missouri Department of Corrections, the Missouri Office of administration and DOC Director Anne Precythe. The lawsuit claims that the DOC stopped allowing the association to access basic training classes or to speak with new bargaining employees. The

THURSDAY: After waking up to some very patchy fog this morning, we’ll return to partly to mostly sunny skies and warming back up. Highs near 90 with a heat index in the mid-60s . TONIGHT: We’ll keep our eyes on a complex of storms to our north that will attempt to move this direction, but

Two men indicted in a $1 million conspiracy to steal cellphones are accused of getting some of the merchandise by breaking into stores in mid-Missouri. Viktor Chernetskiy, 29, a naturalized citizen from Ukraine, and Bryan C. Kirkendoll II, 29, live in the Kansas City area, according to the office of the U.S. attorney for the

Osage Beach police have arrested a man who allegedly evaded officers multiple times. According to a press release, police were dispatched to the area of Highway 54 and Case Road, where Dale Welcher was reportedly tearing road reflectors off the median divider. When police arrived, Welcher ran into the woods. As officers were searching for

The City of Columbia has the money to pay repair the intersection of two runways, where problems caused air traffic to be halted in April. The Columbia Regional Airport closed Runway 13-31 in April after passengers and pilots reported feeling a bump when going over the crown where it intersects Runway 2-20, which had already

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates up to two years is needed to repair levees to their condition before flooding began in 2019. The Corps expects to finish damage assessments by the end of September. A total of 81 levee districts have requested for levee rehabilitation since March. The Capitol View Drainage District’s levee

Although flooding and damage assessments are ongoing, the Missouri government said in a request for a presidential disaster declaration there is already ample destruction to warrant additional federal assistance. Missouri, following historic river flooding and dozens of tornadoes, has requested a federal emergency declaration twice in the last three months. The first was in April

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy with an isolated storm southeast. Lows in the upper 60s to around 70. THURSDAY: Partly to mostly sunny and hot. Highs near 90, heat index in the mid-60s. EXTENDED: The jet stream stays to our north this week, keeping any disturbances with organized rain and storms well out of our way. High