COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla man was charged with 11 felonies after a child was reported to have several serious injuries when they were brought to a Phelps County hospital on Jan. 14, 2025. Devin McCollum was charged with one count of first-degree sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and 10 counts
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Timothy Morris/Phelps County Jail COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man was charged on Monday in Phelps County with seven counts of possessing child sex abuse materials. Timothy Morris, 41, is being held at the Phelps County Jail without bond. He applied for a public defender on Monday. A hearing has not been scheduled. The
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) The National Weather Service Office in Springfield confirmed on Friday afternoon that an EF-0 tornado traveled through Rolla for about a minute on Thursday night. The maximum width of the tornado was 200 yards and it traveled more than a half mile from 10:02-03 p.m., the NWS shared on social media. Winds
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A swatting call led to a large police response Friday morning in Rolla, the Rolla Police Department wrote on its social media. Police wrote that it responded to “to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a firearm” on Vichy Road. Officers quickly learned the home was vacant and “no disturbance had
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of people were without power in Morgan County and surrounding counties on Friday morning. There are 4,912 electricity customers without power in Morgan County between Co-Mo Electric Cooperative (2,780) and Ameren (2,132) users. Additionally, 895 Ameren customers in Miller County were without power on Friday morning. Benton County saw 269 Co-Mo
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 3-year-old girl and 33-year-old woman from Newburg were both seriously injured in a Thursday morning crash at a Phelps County intersection, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred at County Roads 6120 and 6110. The woman drove her 2005 Chevrolet Malibu
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old Rolla man was flown to University Hospital with serious injuries after he was seriously injured in a crash on Monday afternoon on Highway 63 in Maries County, north of County Road 333, a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says. The report says a 35-year-old Columbia woman tried to make
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) Following a brief investigation, Rolla-area fire officials determined a Saturday night house fire to have been caused by fireworks. According to a social media post, at 10:33 p.m. Saturday the Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District and the Rolla Rural Fire Protection District were dispatched to the 16000 block of County Road 8200.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 29-year-old woman from Pacifica, California, was killed in a crash Friday morning on Interstate 44 in Phelps County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the woman failed to stop her 2010 Honda Odyssey at a stop sign on the outer road and went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 29-year-old Rolla woman died in a crash on Sunday in the 21000 block of Route J in Phelps County, according to a Missouri State Highway crash report. The report says the crash occurred when a 2005 Toyota Camry – driven by a 21-year-old Rolla man – was heading southbound when it
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Phelps County coroner announced in a Monday social media post that a car that was left running in a garage on June 19 led to the deaths of five people. Four men and a woman were found dead that day in a home in the 11000 block of Village Circle in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Five people were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning on Friday morning, according to a social media post from the Phelps County Sheriff’s Office. The post says the Rolla Rural Fire Department was called at 5:24 a.m. for a carbon monoxide alert at a duplex just east of Rolla. The Rolla Rural
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Salem, Missouri, man was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences on Thursday in a child sex crime case, the Phelps County prosecuting attorney announced in a social media post. Dustin Drennan, 37, was found guilty by a Texas County jury on April 29 to five counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 42-year-old traveling nurse was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a patient in the Phelps Health hospital emergency room. James H. Todd, 42, was in the Phelps County Jail on Tuesday on a no-bond warrant for two counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of first-degree rape and a count of first-degree sexual
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed that it has received “several” reports about a bear being spotted in St. James. The St. James Police Department shared photos of a black bear in the area on Wednesday and Thursday. A Department of Conservation spokeswoman told ABC 17 News in an email that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man is accused of breaking into a Rolla apartment and threatening to kill two people on Sunday morning. Shawn Allen, 27, is charged in Phelps County with first-degree burglary, two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A healthcare worker has been accused of sexually abusing a patient last year at Phelps Health. Alan Atkisson, of Rolla, was charged on Thursday in Phelps County with second-degree sexual abuse. A patient reported on Aug. 15. 2025, that Atkisson, who is described as a sonographer in court documents, sexually abused them
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Waynesville woman was seriously injured in a Monday morning crash in on Route Z at Teardrop Road in Phelps County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the 47-year-old Wanyesville woman failed to yield her 2015 Kia Sorento to a 2009 Ford F-150 –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas City man was found guilty on Thursday of stabbing two men at a St. James restaurant in early 2025. Patricio Padilla, 47, was found guilty by a Pulaski County jury of first-degree assault, second-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action, according to a social media post from the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rolla police shot a man early Wednesday while responding to a “disturbance.” The Rolla Police Department said in a news release that officers were sent to the 2000 block of Forum Drive at about 4 a.m. for a disturbance call. Police encountered a man armed with a gun and shot him, according
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