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A Columbia clinic is offering free candy screening for the Halloween holiday. Providence Urgent Care posted on its Facebook page saying its Trimble Road location will offer the free x-ray scan of candy tonight and tomorrow to help parents make sure its safe for kids to eat. The clinic says families can bring the candy

Law enforcement agencies across Mid-Missouri are keeping an eye out for sex offender violations over the Halloween holiday. According to state law, sex offenders are not allowed to have Halloween decorations, answer the door for trick or treaters, or even have their porch light on while trick or treaters are out. Boone County has two

UPDATE (10/30): Authorities have identified the victim in Saturday’s drowning as Cole Bradley, 24, of Gladstone, Mo. UPDATE (6:55 p.m.): Officials said they have found the body of a man who jumped into the lake Saturday afternoon. Crews used sonar equipment, which helped them focus in on an area of the lake where they recovered

A Jefferson City man is dead after falling from a cliff in the area of Water Street. Jefferson City Police responded to a check for well-being call around 1:50 p.m. Sunday, after several pedestrians reported a elderly man calling for help from the ground near railroad tracks in the area of Bolivar Street. Jefferson City

TODAY: Areas of fog are likely for the morning drive for those across the Ozarks and I-44. Mostly cloudy skies will persist for the morning and the early afternoon before clearing to partly cloudy skies by the evening. A southerly breeze gets kicked in today, although areas west of US 63 look to have the

More than three thousand burglary alarm calls have been reported in 2016, but only 1.7% of those calls were considered valid. In 2016, Columbia Police responded to 3,736 alarm calls; 1.7% of those calls were considered valid. In 2015, police responded to 4,498 calls; 2.2% of those being valid. Columbia Police Lt. Scott Young says

No this isn’t a trick but Mid-Missouri is in for a treat this Halloween as temperatures will be very mild Monday night in the lower 70’s. You also don’t have to worry about any rain ruining your costume as there is none till Wednesday and you’ll be trick or treating under partly cloudy skies. Normal

The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County Sunday morning. It happened around 10 a.m. in the westbound lanes at mile marker 144 just outside of Kingdom City. Troopers said the driver, Robert Jones, 46, drove off the left side of the road, overcorrected, flipped his car

TONIGHT: The cool temperatures will stay overnight under mostly cloudy skies with lows in the mid 50s. MONDAY: Mostly cloudy skies will persist for the morning and the early afternoon before clearing to partly cloudy skies by the evening. This will keep temperatures cooler than expected with still warm but pleasant highs in the upper

ABC 17 News is working to find out what caused a large power outage for Columbia Water and Light customers Sunday afternoon. According to the company’s outage map, the outage happened at 2:35 p.m. and affected approximately 1,421 customers north of I-70 from North Rebel Drive to North Providence Road. One resident on Parkside Drive

Law enforcement agencies across mid-Missouri are cracking down on drunk driving this weekend, as they often do on holiday weekends. Some agencies say Halloween has as many drunk driving incidents as Saint Patrick’s Day and New Year’s Eve. From 2007 through 2011, across the United States 52% of the traffic fatalities that happened that were

Columbia police are investigating a crash that sent three people to the hospital. The crash happened at 1:30 a.m. at the intersection of Providence and Stewart. ABC 17 News crews saw a red pick-up truck with heavy front end damage and a black Scion car with rear-end damage. Police on scene told ABC 17 News

A 21-year-old man from Cole County is dead after driving off the road early Sunday morning. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports, Dylan Bias from Centertown, Missouri, drove off the left side of Route U in Cole County. The report says he hit a fence and a tree. The report says Bias was

TODAY: Our Sunday forecast is looking dry and cooler with our highs reaching only to the mid 60s due to a passing cold front transitioning our wind to a northerly direction. Although this is still unseasonably warm, it will still feel cooler today then yesterday. Especially with persisting clouds developing towards the afternoon hours and

UPDATE: 10:00 a.m.: According to Columbia police, 28 year old Vanessa Beatty and James T. Carter II were the victims in Saturday morning’s head on collision on I-70. Police say the crash happened as Beatty, driving a 2013 Hyundai Sonata, was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes near mile marker 125. Carter, in a Buick

The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to two different boat crashes at the Gravois Arm at the Lake of the Ozarks Saturday. The first crash happened at 11:10 a.m. at mile marker 5.5. Troopers said a boat hit another boat from the rear side. The passenger, 73-year-old Ronald Heffkamp, was taken to the hospital with

TONIGHT: It will be a warm night for the end of October with lows in near 60 degrees- nearly 15 degrees above normal low temperatures. Winds will be from the south around 6 mph under clear skies overnight. SUNDAY: Mid-Missouri will experience a slight break in these warm temperatures as cold front moves through Sunday

The Mizzou football team continued its struggles Saturday, losing 35-21 at home to Kentucky. It’s the Tigers fourth loss in a row. MU quickly fell behind 21-0, and it only got worse from there. Mizzou gave up more than 500 yards of offense for the fourth straight game. Kentucky rushed for 377 yards and 3

TODAY: These above average temperatures will continue into today with our high temperature reaching to the lower to mid 80s. Conditions will remain mostly sunny and dry with winds from the SE around 10-15 mph with gusts up to 24 mph. SUNDAY: We will experience a slight break in these warm temperatures as cold front

Prominent sociologist and television commentator Marc Lamont Hill gave the hundreds of people in the Anheuser-Busch Natural Resource Center – create chaos or community. Hill moderated a panel of several students and faculty, both current and former, for the Department of Black Studies’ “One Year Later” event Friday night. The night featured music and poetry