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Drivers in Boone County will have to make changes to their commute for the upcoming week due to various construction projects. On Monday, the Missouri Department of Transportation will close Highway 124 to replace a culvert pipe between Old Number 7 and Proctor roads. Crews said the construction will shut down the route from 9

UPDATE 10 a.m.: Power has been restored to all Columbia Water and Light customers Sunday morning. Lucia Bourgeois, a spokesperson for Columbia Water and Light, said a squirrel got on a power line, burned the line and damaged one circuit just after 6:30 a.m. Bourgeois said smaller outages south of Stadium Boulevard and west of

TODAY: We’re seeing some high level clouds filter into the area this morning. Winds out of the southeast combined with some filtered sunshine will help us warm up a bit more than we did yesterday with afternoon highs will make it into the middle to upper 80s. Storms will increase in coverage from the south

The State Highway Patrol is investigating what cause a boat to go up in flames near mile marker 8 at the Lake of the Ozarks Saturday. Sgt. Scott White tells ABC 17 News that no injuries were reported by troopers on scene. There was no obvious cause to the fire, according to White. Troop F

A Kansas City woman died Saturday afternoon after driving a golf cart in Camden County, according to online Missouri State Highway Patrol reports. The crash happened just after 1:30 p.m. The report said Theresa Grist, 64, was backing up onto Flintstone Circle when the golf cart traveled off the roadway and went down a 60-foot

TONIGHT: We’ll continue to see clouds slowly clear out into this evening as an exiting upper level low continues to pull into the northeast. Temperatures remain comfortable overnight as we drop down into the middle 60s. SUNDAY: Although we start the morning out mild, we’re going to watch temperatures warm above average into Sunday afternoon.

Former Mizzou wrestler J’den Cox clinched a spot on his third straight U.S. World Freestyle Team after a dominating victory over Haydin Zillmer at Final X. After the victory, Cox will now compete at the 2018 World Championships. Cox will wrestle in the 92-kilogram class. Cox took the first match over Zillmer by decision, 5-2,

UPDATE 1 p.m.: Defense attorneys representing a Huntsville man convicted of murder called several witnesses to testify in court on Saturday for the sentencing phase in the murder trial. Defense attorneys first called an old neighbor of Jeffrey Nichols, the convicted murderer, to the stand. The neighbor said Nichols was about 7 years old when

Two Iowa teenagers are recovering from serious injuries after crashing in Camden County Friday night, according to online Missouri State Highway Patrol reports. The report said Angel Castillo, 17, was driving an all-terrain vehicle on Last Resort Road near Skywater Road just before 6:30 p.m. The report said Castillo lost control of the ATV, traveled

TODAY: Cloud cover will be with us to start the weekend off this morning as the remnants of a decaying system bring some showers to our southern counties. Because of the cloud cover, temperatures will be slower to warm as we head into the afternoon hours. Haven’t been able to rule out a stray storm

UPDATE 11:57 p.m.: Officers have started clearing Olympic Boulevard and opened Hickam Drive to traffic. Deputies and troopers also responded to the scene. ORIGINAL: Right now there is a large police presence on Hickam Drive and Olympic Boulevard in northeast Columbia after reports of a person with a gun. ABC 17 News saw officers with

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to the Break Time on Smiley Lane around 11 p.m. Friday night. Deputies on scene told ABC 17 News they responded to someone driving while intoxicated and that person was not cooperating with authorities. Deputies did not confirm if anyone was arrested, but ABC 17 News did see

Staffing issues have been looming over the Cole County Emergency Medical Services department for months, but there is disagreement over how bad the situation really is. On Friday Jack Brade, the chief of the Regional West Fire Protection District, posted a picture of an ambulance with the word “Closed” layered on top with the caption,

The families of the two people killed in a Boone County fire are settling lawsuits with the former owners of the building. The children of Lauren Ballew filed a proposed settlement on Thursday with Herman Hardt, Elizabeth Hardt and James Roark-Gruender, related to Ballew’s death. The Hardts owned the building on East Kathryn Drive in

Howard County Coroner Frank Flaspohler and his attorneys filed an appeal Friday morning in the case surrounding a teenager’s suicide. ABC 17 news reported when Howard County Judge Scott Hayes issued a partial summary judgment in the lawsuit between the Howard County Coroner’s office and the Glasgow School District. The judgment said the Howard County

Emergency crews responded to a crash on Highway 63 in Columbia Friday night. It happened near Grindstone Creek in the northbound lanes. Boone County Joint Communications urged drivers to avoid the area. As of 7 p.m., one northbound lane was still closed. All southbound lanes were open. A viewer sent ABC 17 News a picture

UPDATE: Carmelita Kaser was left to die Easter Sunday in 2013. The first witness to address the jury in Randolph County Courthouse Friday was Kaser’s daughter, Phylis Self. Self sat quietly as the defendant’s attorney and prosecutors asked questions regarding her mother who was killed by Jeffrey Nichols with a “machete-like knife.” Two officers with

A billboard on Highway 63 South heading into Jefferson City reads, “Overdoses remove addicts from the gene pool. -Rob Schaaf” “In this case, this billboard seems to be put up by people within the member’s party who are unhappy with what he’s been doing so it just shows how divisive everything has become that even

Governor Parson signed his first bills as the Governor of Missouri on Friday, according to an official press release. “Our top objective is to move Missouri forward. Today, by signing these bills into law, we are headed [in] the right direction. The legislature should be proud of the work that was done this year. Many

Draft night did not go the way former Mizzou forward Jordan Barnett hoped. However, the end result did. Barnett agreed to play in the NBA Summer League with the Milwaukee Bucks. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/JBounce33/status/1010029834272010242″,”author_name”:”Jordan Barnett”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/JBounce33″,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”und” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/FearTheDeer?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#FearTheDeer&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– Jordan Barnett (@JBounce33) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/JBounce33/status/1010029834272010242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;June 22, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″} The Bucks’ first game in the Summer League