COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Fire Chief Clayton Farr, Jr. told ABC 17 News on Wednesday afternoon that he plans to retire after a retirement program he was apart of is set to end. Farr said he and city management had been working on making changes that would allow him to extend his time. However, after
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By Mitchell McCluskey and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country’s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. “The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,”
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One in six teachers want leave the profession because of safety concerns, according to the Missouri State Teachers Association.
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An Ashland GoFundMe has raised almost $42,000 for the Southern Boone Buddy Pack Program in memory of the district’s former P.E. teacher Crystal Branch.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A, explosion and fire that occurred at the University of Missouri Medical School was likely caused by a blow torch igniting natural gas, according to a fire report The fire marshal in the report assessed $5 million in property loss and $1 million in contents lost, but university officials say the damage
Continue Reading By Rachel Clarke and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Two men criticized for their failures to challenge the Uvalde school shooter and rescue children and teachers trapped in the carnage won support from voters to continue as law enforcement leaders in the Texas community. The results stunned and upset families of victims who
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A man and a woman from Columbia were sentenced to federal prison for their respective roles in an insurance fraud scheme involving claims from car staged crashes.
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MACON COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Macon man was charged on Wednesday with several child sex crimes, according to a press release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. According to the release, Johnathon Taylor, 34, was charged by the Attorney General’s Office with seven counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, six counts of fourth-degree child molestation, one
Continue Reading By Richard Roth, Eve Brennan and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned. Nine in 10 people across the country face “emergency levels of hunger” and are
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia dentist was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday for withholding more than $617,000 in earnings from the IRS over a six-year period, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Nohaud Naseef Azan, 66, was sentenced a year in prison without parole and was ordered to pay
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Seven Western states are starting to plot a future for how much water they’ll draw from the dwindling Colorado River in a warmer, drier world. The river is the lifeblood for the West – providing drinking water for tens of millions, irrigating crops, and powering homes and industry with hydroelectric dams.
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Columbia Public Schools Long-Range Facilities Planning Committee is set to discuss the “attendance area process timeline” on Wednesday night. The meeting agenda states Karen Jackson, of Woolpert, Inc., will present an update on the attendance area process timeline. In April 2022, Columbia voters passed an $80 million bond issue which included
Continue Reading GREENSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Leilani Correa scored 15 points, Alberte Rimdal hit a key jumper and 11th-seeded Florida turned back 14th-seeded Missouri 66-60 in the first round of the SEC Tournament. With the help of a 16-0 run to start the second quarter, the Gators opened a 48-28 lead early in the second half. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On-street parking meters in downtown Columbia will be getting new hours. The City of Columbia announced in a Wednesday press release that all on-street parking spaces will have new enforcement times of 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The new times begin Monday, March 18. The changes were made to the city
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who was accused of stabbing another man in the neck on Monday night has been charged with attempted murder. Fredy Navichoc-Putzul, 22, was charged with first-degree attempted murder and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. An arraignment is set
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has offered his “deepest sympathy” to the family of a 5-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a drunken driving crash, after facing criticism for releasing from prison the driver who caused the crash, former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid. But in a statement
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The SAT college admissions exam is now entirely online. Rather than filling in a bubble answer sheet with a No. 2 pencil, US test-takers will be using a computer. US test-takers will use the fully digital version of the SAT on Saturday, March 9. Prospective college students are still required
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press An employee of a rural Missouri boarding school is accused of bloodying a boy’s face while boxing. The man is the third person associated with the same school to be charged this month. Twenty-two-year-old Caleb Sandoval was charged Monday with abuse or neglect of a child. A probable cause statement
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in a quarry in Ukraine belonged to ancient humans who used them more than a million years ago, according to new research. The fresh dating analysis of the artifacts reveals the earliest known presence of hominins in Europe, said Roman Garba, an archaeologist at the Czech Academy of
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A roundup of the illnesses doctors say are spreading around Mid-Missouri.
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