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ABC 17 News confirmed two people drowned Monday morning while trying to load a pontoon boat at the Lake of the Ozarks. Troop F believes the men, 46-year-old Dennis Michel and 40-year-old Jacob Seeman were loading a boat at a ramp when it got away from them around 8:20 a.m. According to the patrol, one

Police believe three masked men confronted and shot a man outside an east Columbia duplex Monday night. The department responded to the shooting around 11 p.m. in the 5400 block of Volunteer Drive, near the corner of Grace Lane. A sergeant told ABC 17 News the victim suffered bullet wounds to his stomach and leg,

Arguments in a Missouri death penalty case questioning the state’s use of lethal injection started again in district court Monday, and offered a new, potential, method of execution. Attorneys for Ernest Lee Johnson, sentenced to death for the 1994 murders of three people at a Columbia convenience store, filed their opening argument in federal court.

Voters across the state will head to the polls Tuesday to vote for various candidates, and issues. Unlike, elections past county clerks say this election they are over prepared. You might recall back in March, during the Presidential Primaries some counties ran out of ballots due to the higher voter turnout. Osage and Miller County

Jefferson City leaders are getting closer to finalizing the city’s budget for the upcoming year. A proposed total budget of more than $60.8 million was introduced at the Monday night city council meeting. The 2017 Fiscal Year starts November 1 and goes through the end of October 2017. The expected revenues for the next year

The heavy rains Sunday night caused some storm damage for Mid-Missouri residents Monday morning. ABC 17 News crews traveled to Hartsburg, where residents said some homes had partial flooding. One resident told our ABC 17 News crew he was waist-deep in water Sunday night. Roads in Boone County that were closed for flooding have now

ABC 17 News talked to crews at the scene of a fire off Dodd Road, near Highways 124 and 63 just north of Columbia. Fire and medical officials responded to the fire at 9:36 Monday morning. According to dispatch reports, 17 different units went to the scene, including three fire engines and an ambulance. ABC

Crews in Jefferson City recovered a body from Wears Creek early Monday morning. Jefferson City Fire Division Chief Jason Turner could not confirm the cause of death, but said the Jefferson City Police Department is investigating. ABC 17 News has a reporter in Jefferson City working to get more details and will be following this

The I-70, Highway 63 connector has been cleared in Columbia after a slick substance spilled across the roadway. ABC 17 News confirmed with MoDot the substance was called “beer mash.” The mash is a pulp like substance that is leftover after the liquid beer is extracted. Crews worked for more than five hours to clean

Southern Boone County authorities have confirmed the search for a man and his dog is now over at the Devils Backbone. The search started around 2 a.m. on Monday morning. Captain Timothy Bullard confirms crews never found the man, but he started texting his parents around 7 Monday morning. Around the same time search and

ABC 17 is seeing reports that more than 1,500 people are without power across mid-Missouri. According to the Ameren Missouri outage map, that includes 830 in Camden County, 337 in Callaway County, 249 in Boone County and 163 in Cole County. ABC 17 will continue to follow outages and update this story if there are

Two shootings in central Columbia just days apart from each other leaving one teenager dead has some City leaders and Police officers expressing their views. Compared to years past, Officer Jamal Castile with Columbia Police Department says, “I’ve seen a big change, which is really kind of surprising if you would have asked me this

Police arrested a 22-year-old Portland, Missouri man after reports of stolen iPads from a church in Fulton. The Fulton Police Department were called to the First Baptist Church on Court Street around 5:15 Sunday afternoon. Officers were told two iPads were stolen from the church. Chance Barnhouse was allegedly seen leaving the church before officers

We know the “dog days” of summer to represent the hottest days of the year which occur in July through August. We’ve experienced these conditions the past couple weeks with one heat wave and another starting tomorrow. The exact timing of this period was set by the Old Farmer’s Almanac to be from July 3rd

A 16-year-old girl was injured in an overnight crash in Morgan County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the crash happened on Highway 5 at Chigger Lane just after midnight on Sunday. Troopers said the driver started to drive off the left side of the road and then overcorrected, which caused the car to go

UPDATE 7/30, 3:17 p.m.: The suspect in the recent shooting death of 17-year-old Marquez Reed turned himself in to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department Saturday afternoon. According to a press release, the sheriff’s department contacted the Columbia police to let them know Tyrone James Jr. had turned himself in on his warrants for second degree

Bills signed into law by Governor Nixon will officially take effect tomorrow, August 1st. Some of the noteworthy bills are centered on ethics reform. One of those bills-HB 2203-changes the laws regarding campaign finance. Another, HB 1477, amends laws relating to election and political parties. Other bills worth noting are HB 1649, which “Establishes the

With two shootings in one week, ABC 17 News wanted to take a deeper look into shootings in Columbia. The most recent shooting happened Friday night on Worley Street and Pennant Street. A 22-year-old man was shot. As of Sunday, Columbia Police had not released any suspect information. We reviewed police dispatch records for Worley

A 2-year-old girl from Colorado was flown to University Hospital Friday afternoon after nearly drowning at the Lake of the Ozarks. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, it happened near the 46 mile marker in the Osage Arm. The girl reportedly went into the water without wearing a life jacket. A witness was able

One person is in custody and two have been injured after a shooting in Eugene. Deputies say they got a call around 5:20 p.m. Friday eveningfrom Capitol Regional Hospital saying they had a gunshot victim with non life-threatening injuries. Multiple deputies were then sent to the location of the shooting in Eugene. Upon arrival, they