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A robbery suspect on the University of Missouri campus is now charged in a home invasion in a fraternity house the same night. Treshaun Butner was taken into custody last week on Wednesday, May 6. He barricaded himself inside a home on Redwood Drive near Ash Street and West Boulevard in central Columbia. The night

The driver in a Columbia crash on Creasy Springs Road earlier this month has died. Police say Bradley Gilman of Fulton, 27, was traveling north when his car hit the concrete curb just after midnight Sunday, May 3. Gilman was pronounced dead 5:15 p.m. Thursday at University Hospital. On Friday, officials said they suspect both

The Missouri House has elected Majority Leader Todd Richardson to take over the chamber’s top spot following the resignation of House Speaker John Diehl. Richardson was elected unanimously Friday by Republicans and Democrats. He was sworn into the office shortly after Diehl resigned Friday, following through on an announcement Diehl had made a day earlier.

There are some questions about public safety at the Lake of The Ozarks after fires earlier this year leveled a large house and a condo complex. The blazes happened just 30 days apart and got ABC 17 News looking at why the damage was so severe. ABC 17’s Ashley Strohmier found out fighting fires was

The Columbia Star Dinner Train is about to be sued, and disgruntled employees and customers still waiting on money from the business said it’s about time. The City of Columbia is in the process of filing a joint lawsuit with Mark Vaughn, the original owner of the dinner train, against leasee B. Allen Brown. They’ll

On Thursday, ABC 17 News got a copy of a letter from IBM to U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley that was a response to the Senator’s questions regarding the company’s use of H1-B visas. ABC 17’s Jillian Fertig reported Monday that IBM was not meeting state requirements as far as employment numbers and that employees claim

Electric work will close parts of downtown streets in Columbia starting next week. Columbia Water & Light is about to complete a new electric feeder line project that started last summer. Crews will install a new electric line from May 18 until June 12, weather permitting. From May 18 until May 22 the intersection of

Friday is a major moving out day for many University of Missouri students. City buses will be impacted by the departing students. CoMO Connect is changing some of its routes to go around the area. Eastbound traffic on Rollins will be detoured, and police will be stationed at the corner of Hitt Street near College

The Missouri Public Service Commission may soon announce their decision to approve or deny a controversial power line that would go through Mid-Missouri. The Grain Belt Express Clean Line would run more than 700 miles from Kansas to Indiana, passing through northern Mid-Missouri. The project promises to provide clean and affordable energy. However, residents in

The University of Missouri got another large gift Thursday benefiting the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. MFA Incorporated and MFA Oil pledged $750,000 to the school. The gift is meant to support agriculture research and education at MU by establishing an endowing professorship in Agribusiness. University officials said such donations directly benefit the

Hundreds of students will graduate this weekend from the University of Missouri, and officials told ABC 17 News Thursday the number of graduates is up by 200 students from last year. MU Registrar and Assistant Registrar Brenda Selman and Paula Thies talked about the graduation process on ABC 17 News at 9 a.m. The process

A Jefferson City man charged in Cole County for allegedly contacting underage children on a mobile app in April was charged Wednesday in Boone County. 36-year-old Andrew Clayton appeared in court Thursday. Clayton is accused of creating child pornography involving a 14-year-old in Boone County. Deputies began investigating Clayton in Cole County in March after

The Callaway County Sheriff’s Department assisted in a federal operation near Millersburg Wednesday morning. Sheriff’s Lt. Clay Chism told ABC 17 deputies were working with The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to serve a warrant at home on Route J. Witnesses said they saw authorities with rifles on the scene and were looking through

ABC 17 News has confirmed that the engineer driving the derailed Amtrak train survived and is a graduate of the University of Missouri. Brandon Bostian graduated from MU in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. Bostian was one of five Amtrak engineers on board the NYC-bound train when it derailed Tuesday

After staying behind closed doors for hours House Speaker John Diehl briefly spoke with reporters about texting incident with Capitol Intern.

In a letter to Mizzou students and faculty Wednesday, the campus police chief addressed the issue of campus-wide alert messages. R. Douglas Schwandt says some are blaming the rise in number of alerts on more crime. Schwandt says expanding technology which allows for a wider reach is the real reason more alerts are being sent

With more than $122 million in projects on the table, Columbia city leaders decided which ones they wanted to present to voters when renewal for a sales tax comes up in August. The quarter-cent Capital Improvement Sales Tax faces renewal this summer for the first time since November 2005. The tax helps pay for projects

In the wake of an Amtrak train derailment killing seven people and injuring more than 200 in Philadelphia, some local Amtrak train riders said they had some new feelings as they boarded the train in Jefferson City Wednesday. “It actually makes me a little nervous,” said Amtrak train rider Anthony Anderson. Anderson rides the Amtrak

Columbia Police Wednesday responded to a shooting on Forest Avenue in central Columbia just before 5:30 p.m. The shots were fired on Forest Avenue, just south of the Business Loop. ABC 17 News confirmed three people were shot on Forest Avenue. Police told ABC 17 they believe the victims’ injuries were non-life threatening. Two were

This is Officer Latisha Stroer with the Columbia Police Department discussing the triple shooting on Forest Avenue that happened Wednesday.