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Jefferson City Police are using extra radar coverage this week to step up speed limit enforcement. Police are looking for speeders in the work zone on Highway 50 near the site of the future Lafayette Interchange. The special enforcement lasts until Friday. The speed limit in that area is 35 mph, and penalties could include

A Mid-Missouri man is facing numerous charges in Pettis County after multiple violent incidents over the past few days. On Sunday, a Sedalia man told police he was attacked while walking home in the 300 block of Scott Joplin Ct. The victim said 29-year-old Jose Ortiz started punching him, and the victim fell on the

A University of Missouri student was arrested Monday evening for allegedly making a terrorist threat. The University of Missouri Police department arrested Nathan Benz of St. Louis just before 8 p.m. after he made a threat on the social media site Yik Yak Monday. Benz is a freshman at MU. Major Brian Weimer said they

ABC 17 News has now confirmed Boone County Sheriff’s deputies continue to search for a man involved in a stabbing in Columbia Monday night. Detective Tom O’Sullivan said the department knows who the 25-year-old suspect is and that he is the ex-boyfriend of a woman who lives on Mauller. That woman’s current boyfriend was the

Police confirmed one man was arrested after a brief chase and K-9 search in northeast Columbia Friday afternoon. It started just before noon close to Whitegate Road and Sylvan Lane, off Paris Road. Officers stopped a car in the area, before the driver, Justin Miller, ran from the scene. ABC 17 News witnessed a man

Gov. Jay Nixon today applauded new data from the U.S. Department of Education showing that Missouri’s 4-year high school graduation rate increased to 87.3 percent in 2013/2014 from 85.7 percent in 2012/2013. Missouri’s graduation rate is significantly above the national average of 82.3 and ranks in the top 10 in the nation. Missouri’s graduation rate

Authorities in Randolph County Tuesday held active shooter training for school bus drivers. The training, sponsored by Moberly Police and the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department, was centered around a January 2013 incident where a school bus driver was fatally shot and a 5-year-old child was taken hostage. The training was designed for school bus drivers

A Pettis County teen was tasered and arrested Monday morning after he allegedly threatened an administrator with a knife. The incident happened in a hallway at Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia around 9:30 a.m. Monday. Students in the area were placed on a lockdown and stayed in their classrooms as a precaution. A school resource

ABC 17 News confirmed workers briefly evacuated the Jefferson Building Tuesday morning after a fire sensor was triggered. Mike O’Connell, the communications director for Missouri Department of Public Safety, says the alarm went off around 11 a.m., and employees cleared the building as a precaution, before they were let back in shortly afterwards.

Lincoln University just finalized a deal with a construction company to start work on the new multi-purpose rec center for Jefferson City. The new 80,000 square-feet building is a joint effort between the city and the college. It will be built near the high school and most of the work should be done by late

The Highway Patrol has confirmed the name of a man who was taken to University Hospital after getting trapped inside a pick-up truck about 10 minutes east of Columbia. ABC 17 News has video from I-70 near mile marker 135. Troopers say Raffael Caleca, 48, from Warrenton, drove off the side of the road, before

The Jefferson City Fire Department went through training for emergency rescue situations Tuesday. The training started at 10 Tuesday morning in Jefferson City. Jefferson City firefighters used Missouri-American Water’s rock hill water storage tank as a training site for the drill. Fire crews practiced a high angle rescue drill during the training. About 1.5 million

A former assistant attorney general for the State of Missouri has announced her campaign for Boone County Southern District Commissioner. Brianna Lennon made the announcement early Tuesday morning. Karen Miller, who currently occupies the District I (Southern) Commissioner seat, announced in October that she will not seek reelection. Lennon, a resident of Columbia, graduated from

Columbia School Board members voted unanimously in favor of an operating tax levy and bond issue Monday. The board approved a $30 million no-tax-increase bond issue for April. The CPS board packet says the proposal would be used for numerous projects, including $4 million for middle school land, $2 million for middle school design, $11

On Monday, the Columbia Police Department released the preliminary findings of a staffing study. Matrix Consulting Group has been studying the efficiency of CPD’s patrol and some of the findings show inefficiency in the department. Preliminary results show the patrol beat structure is effective, but with the current call volume, the two officer patrols are

Another cold front will move through Mid-Missouri early Wednesday bringing in temperatures more like December. Ahead of this front, we will warm up into the 50s, well above the 30 year average high of 41 as winds come in from the southeast Tuesday. Wednesday will be a transition day as colder air starts to move

ABC 17 News confirmed Janna Basler has returned to her job as student life associate director at MU, after she was placed on administrative leave following the campus protests in November. Basler was captured on video during the confrontation last month between a student photographer and protesters. She was also an assistant director for Greek

Franklin County authorities are searching for a man suspected of stealing guns. Osage County Sheriff Michael Dixon told ABC 17 News he took several calls from people in the area regarding Matt Lackey’s whereabouts on Monday. Dixon said he made contact with the leader of the Franklin Co. SWAT and an active manhunt was ongoing

Power stayed on for several Columbia residents after two vehicles hit different utility poles in the same area, near I-70 and Rangeline in Columbia. City workers replaced one of them Sunday off Vandiver near the Joe Machens dealerships. Then a semi-truck hit a separate pole Monday afternoon, while a contractor for a cable company was

New results have been released from this weekend’s DWI checkpoints east of Columbia. The Boone County Sheriff’s Department and Columbia Police stopped cars at two locations overnight Friday. They started near Richland Road south of St. Charles Road. Then, they moved to Mexico Gravel Road near highway 63. They stopped more than 70 vehicles, but