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As gang crime spills into the community, frustrated family members of those involved say police aren’t listening. One mother took her concerns to the Columbia’s Citizen’s Police Review Board Wednesday night. Andrea Brookins is the mother of a teenager driving one of the cars involved in a car wreck after a car chase and shooting

The state has reached a deal with a Jefferson City day care after it lost a child twice. Kids Unlimited on Fairgrounds Road was closed last month after two incidents involving a child getting out of a gate. A passerby found the child in the street the first time and called police. State documents showed

A public swimming area at the Lake of the Ozarks reopened after closing for E.coli. On Wednesday, officials at the Department of Natural Resources confirmed the weekly test taken Monday came back with acceptable levels. Authorities closed Grand Glaize Beach for three weeks in a row due to high bacteria. Public Beach No. 1 remained

The man who crashed into a Columbia home last week turned himself into police Tuesday. Arthur Evans, 74, turned himself into authorities at the request of the Traffic Unit officer who worked at the scene. Evans was arrested for driving while intoxicated, a repeat offense, and careless and imprudent driving. The morning of July 2,

The Columbia Fire Department ruled a weekend house fire was arson. Investigators say the Saturday fire in the 800 block of West Boulevard was intentionally set. Columbia’s fire marshal says the arson started with a dispute. Officials say there was apparently an argument between another person and someone inside the home, but investigators have not

Two men were arrested Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase in Mid-Missouri. Around 8:15 a.m., Jefferson City police informed Callaway County Sheriff’s deputies of a stolen pickup truck traveling eastbound on Highway 54. Law enforcement followed the truck on Highway 54 toward Kingdom City until the truck crossed over the median and started to head

A woman who had been missing since tubing on the Gasconade River Monday has been found alive. The Maries County Sheriff’s Office says 34-year-old Penny D. Curtner was found Wednesday. She was able to walk to a campground after being lost in the woods. “I’ll be honest, I was water searching when dispatch contacted me

Local law enforcement has received several complaints of door-to-door salespeople from Columbia residents over the last several weeks. Residents say they are concerned the salespeople have more dangerous motives than just making sales; they believe they are casing homes, or worse, trying to abduct children. Boone County Sheriff’s Detective Tom O’Sullivan says that most of

Firefighters extinguished a small fire at the University of Missouri Power Plant Wednesday morning. Around 7 a.m., the Columbia Fire Department responded to the plant off Fifth Street for a report of a fire. Firefighters found a small fire in the west ash collection silo. Crews shut down airflow to the silo and the fire

Crews repaired a gas line that was ruptured during construction on Stadium Boulevard. Around 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, the Columbia Fire Department was called to the intersection of Stadium and Broadway for a report of broken gas line. According to Columbia Public Works spokesperson Steve Sapp, crews hit a two-inch gas line while doing construction for

Lightning is being blamed for a building fire Wednesday morning near the Lake of the Ozarks. Firefighters were called to a commercial structure fire around 3:37 a.m. at the Porter’s Building Center in Greenview. The business is located at 143 North State Highway 7. It took firefighters about one hour to put out the fire,

The Jefferson City Animal Shelter is now under new leadership. Dr. Corey McCann is now the official animal shelter veterinarian and animal control program director. Under McCann’s advice, the shelter will now be euthanizing sick and dangerous animals through injection instead of a gas chamber. The gas chamber was unpopular with the public, as many

Locating a 911 caller can be the difference between life or death in some situations. But some counties in rural areas can’t afford the technology allowing emergency crews to locate callers on cellphones. “The new 911 systems will allow a cellphone to be picked up, and the location,” Randolph County Sheriff Mark Nichols told ABC

The Osage County Sheriff’s Office has issued a public safety alert after several complaints by residents of people going door-to-door to sell educational materials. Some of the residents claim the salespeople are casing homes in the western and southern parts of Osage County to potentially abduct children. The Sheriff’s Office confirms this is only speculation

Callaway County sheriff’s deputies arrested an Auxvasse man for outstanding warrants that were issued in 2012. They saw Tyron Trower, 40, driving on Highway 54 near Kingdom City and pulled him over. In addition to the warrants – one for resisting arrest (running from police), the other for violating his parole – the deputies arrested

Columbia city leaders have spent the past few weeks giving lip service to tackling an increase in the frequency, severity and location of violent crimes. But a city-proposed solution could still be one year off. At a city council meeting on Monday, July 1, Mayor Bob McDavid proposed the task force as an alternative to

The Columbia Regional Airport is staying busy this summer. Since March, airport officials haven’t paid American Airlines for lack of people flying. The American flight to Chicago Tuesday was even overbooked. One traveler said this is the first time she’s seen this happen. Although it is concerning to travelers, it’s situations like this that makes

A judge found a Lebanon, Mo. man guilty of a brutal 2010 triple-murder in Mid-Missouri. On Tuesday, a Camden County judge found 53-year-old Morris A. McCabe guilty on three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of armed criminal action. McCabe was convicted of killing Don Myers, Don Young and Sally Amos in December 2010

Columbia Water & Light officials are blaming equipment failure for the cause of a Sunday morning power outage that left 6,000 customers without electricity. That outage was the fourth such outage ABC 17 News has reported since earlier this year. While the city wants to improve its infrastructure, it does not believe it has reached

A jury found the third and final suspect in a Jefferson City murder guilty Tuesday afternoon. The jury found Khiry Summers guilty of murder, robbery and armed criminal action after less than 90 minutes of deliberation. He is accused of killing Keith Mosley last April during a drug deal. The jury had the task of