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UPDATE (12/4): CPD confirmed Gary Taylor was the driver arrested in Saturday night’s crash. He’s since bonded out of the Boone County Jail. ORIGINAL (12/3): Columbia Police confirm a man was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after crashing his car in the 600 block of West Stewart Road. Police and fire

UPDATE 12/4 10:38 a.m: ABC17 just talked with a spokesperson for the Boone County Fire Department. He said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Boone County Fire officials say a structure is a “total loss” after a fire early Sunday morning. Crews were called to Wilhite Road, near the Route E intersection

TODAY: Light snow and rain will begin to clear out by late morning. Skies on the other hand will remain mostly cloudy until late afternoon. Due to the persisting cloud cover, the high temperature will rise only to the mid 40s. Winds today will be out of the southeast at 5-7 mph with partly cloudy

Starting on December 4th and extending through the 6th (weather permitting) the Missouri Department of Transportation will begin work on several different roads throughout Callaway County. Route J at Route F will be closed from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Sunday, December 4th. Route H between County Road 325 and County Road 333 will

The Mayor’s Task Force on Pedestrian Safety issued a recommendation to help reduce or eliminate traffic-related deaths in Columbia back in March. So far, the City Council members have heard two presentations on the Vision Zero policy, a policy that originated in Sweden and is now used across the country as a way to address

The Missouri Democratic Party elected Stephen Webber as its chairman Saturday at Lincoln University. Webber is replacing Roy Temple, who has held the leadership position since 2013. “It has been an honor to serve as the Chair of the Missouri Democratic Party,” Temple said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Chairman Webber

Missouri is seeing a startling decline in methamphetamine lab seizures, but it isn’t because users are turning away from the drug. Statistics provided by the Missouri State Highway Patrol show just 172 meth lab seizures through September, on pace for around 230 seizures for the year. That’s less than half the 507 seizures in 2015,

A 21-year-old Sunrise Beach man was seriously injured Friday night in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 5 in Camden County, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. The crash happened around 9:45 p.m. near the Highway 7 Junction. Troopers said the driver, Macolm May, was traveling northbound when he drove off the left side of the

TONIGHT: The chance for rain kicks up this evening starting in southwest Missouri and moving in a northeasterly direction overnight. Winds will be light around 5-7 mph out of the southeast. Temperatures will slide down to the upper 30s by tonight. Since temperatures will be in the upper 30s we don’t expect to see any

Columbia Public Works announced on Friday that Engineering Surveys and Services plans to survey the Nifong Boulevard corridor between Providence Road and Willowcreek Lane. Work starts December 5th and will continue throughout the month of February. The survey information will be used as part of the Nifong Boulevard Corridor Improvement Project. The project is part

The Jefferson City Fire Department was called out to reports of smoke at an apartment building in the 200 block of Dunklin Street on Friday night around 11 p.m. When firefighters arrived on scene flames were showing from the second floor of the apartment complex. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire on the second

Police have blocked Route W near Highway 54 at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Lake Ozark Police communications tells ABC 17 News it does have the road near the northern tip of the Lake closed. The dispatcher would not explain the reason, but an ABC 17 News viewer said numerous law enforcement agents were

UPDATE, 12/3/16: Dennis Collins has been charged with assault and attempted assault, resisting arrest and driving while revoked. Boone County deputies have arrested a man accused of leading authorities on a brief chase and causing a crash involving a deputy vehicle. It happened just before midnight in the 700 block of Demaret Drive. Deputies say

TODAY: Clouds will fill into our skies today leading to a mostly cloudy Saturday with our highs in the mid 40s. The chance for rain kicks up this evening starting in southwest Missouri and moving in a northeasterly direction overnight. Winds will be light around 5-7 mph out of the southeast. Temperatures will slide down

A mid-Missouri veteran will join thousands of other former service members this weekend at a North Dakota pipeline protest. Russell Boyt doesn’t consider himself an “activist,” nor did he give the Dakota Access Pipeline much attention until recently. The Army veteran and Columbia native considers himself an outdoorsman, and became “incensed” the more he read

The woman who claims to be the tutor involved in alleged academic cheating among University of Missouri student-athletes started a GoFundMe page Thursday to help pay for her legal fees. Yoland Kumar posted to her private Facebook page on Nov. 22, explaining her academic fraud in the athletic department at the University of Missouri. An

A recent University of Missouri study predicted a reduction in crashes with the introduction of collision avoidance technology. In a special report last week, ABC 17 News looked into what government officials are doing to reduce deadly crashes in Missouri. Now, ABC 17 News is digging into what is being done in the private sector.

UPDATE: The Columbia/Boone County Health Department said students are a part of the community so non-students should take the same precautions to not get the mumps. Eric Stann, community relations specialist for the county public health department, said the outbreak is not severe enough to recommend the third measles, mumps and rubella vaccine dose. According

TONIGHT: Clouds will increase late from the south tonight. Areas north of I-70 may stay clear, allowing temperatures to drop a few more degrees, possibly bringing frost and patchy fog early on Saturday morning. Lows tonight will fall to the upper 20s to lower 30s south of I-70 with northerly winds under 7 mph. SATURDAY:

The weekend will start off dry with mostly cloudy skies Saturday. After a cold morning with temperatures in the and cool afternoon temperatures, reaching the mid to upper 40s. Winds will remain light at 3-6 mph, coming in from the east. Light rain will move in from the southwest, entering the Lake of the Ozarks