COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An active-duty soldier at Fort Leonard Wood has been charged in Pulaski County with multiple child sex crimes. Juan Cabrer-Matias, of St. Robert, was charged on Monday with second-degree statutory rape, sexual misconduct involving a child younger than 15 years old and fourth-degree child molestation. A warrant was served and a $75,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Indiana woman was seriously injured in a crash that occurred Wednesday night in the westbound lane of Interstate 44 in Pulaski County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred when a 2018 Dodge Challenger – driven by the 53-year-old woman from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Richland, Missouri, man was charged with involuntary manslaughter in a fatal crash that occurred on April 28 on Highway 133 in Pulaski County. William Sivell II, 19, was charged on Tuesday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and three misdemeanors: Failing to drive on the right side of the road, reckless driving and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Waynesville Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying remains discovered on Jan. 9, 2023, according to a Wednesday social media post from the department. Skeletal remains were found in a wooded area near St. Robert, the release says. A sketch was used to create a possible recreation of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Pulaski County man has been charged with two child sex crimes after he allegedly sexually assaulted a child. Devin Crossland, 25, was charged in Pulaski County with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child involving sexual contact and first-degree sodomy of a victim younger than 12 years old. A warrant was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was described as a “worship leader” in court documents – who was charged earlier this year with a child sex crime in Morgan County – has been charged again in Pulaski County. George Hancock, 36, of Richland, Missouri, was charged in Pulaski County on Wednesday with first-degree statutory rape.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Waynesville firefighter suffered minor injuries after a firetruck crashed Monday morning on Interstate 44, according to a social media post from the Waynesville Rural Fire Protection District. The truck blew out a tire near mile maker 156, causing the truck to go into an embankment, hit a sign and stop on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire was reported Tuesday in the bathroom of Waynesville Middle School, according to a social media post from the St. Robert Fire Department. The department wrote that it was called around 10 a.m. and found moderate smoke in the building. It found a fire in one of the bathrooms, which was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were nearly 1,700 electricity customers in Phelps and Pulaski counties without power on Friday afternoon after severe storms came through the area. The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives outage map showed 910 Intercounty Electric Cooperative Association customers in Phelps County without power at 2:33 p.m. Additionally, 750 customers were without power
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dixon Elementary School in Pulaski County will not be in session again on Thursday as the school district is still dealing with storm damage. The Dixon R-1 School District announced on its social media that class would not be in session again for elementary students. The middle and high schools will be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was seriously injured Monday night in a crash on eastbound Interstate 44 in Pulaski County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred after a 29-year-old St. Robert man lost control of his 2016 Hyundai Genesis on the wet roadway, overcorrected
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Article 32 preliminary hearing was held on Tuesday for a U.S. Army specialist accused of killing a soldier at Fort Leonard Wood in November. Spc. Wooster Rancy, 21, with the 5th Engineer Battalion, is charged with murder and obstruction of justice in the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, an Army Special
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Crocker, Mo. man was seriously injured Sunday after his pickup truck flipped over in Pulaski County. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 42-year-old man was driving a 1997 Ford F-250 on Missouri 17 just before 4 p.m, when the truck went off the road
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 31-year-old woman from Pulaski County was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Tuesday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened at 11 a.m. on Tuesday on Highway 28 three miles south of Dixon. Troopers said a 31-year-old woman was driving a 2000 Ford F150 when she went off
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was in basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood was arrested by Army personnel on Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree murder and concealment of death. A press release from the Fayetteville, North Carolina, Police Department says that Tyrique Zavier Leroy Williams, 26, is accused of killing Annie Lock. Williams is
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Dixon man was flown to a hospital following a motorcycle crash in Pulaski County Friday. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened at 6:15 on Highway Mm. The 48-year-old man was riding his 2006 Harley Davidson Roadking when it went off the right side
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe requested that President Donald Trump approve a major disaster declaration to give federal assistance for storms that caused significant damage in Missouri counties on March 14 and 15. A Wednesday release from the governor’s office say that Kehoe is requesting FEMA individual assistance for 25 counties, including: Bollinger, Butler,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A weekend shooting in St. Robert, Missouri, has led to a murder charge for a Dixon, Missouri, man. Colin L. Mar, 21, is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in a Saturday evening shooting death. The sheriff’s office found a man who had been shot and two other people inside
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state of Missouri has requested that FEMA participate in joint preliminary damage assessments after storms devastated a number of counties on Friday night, according to a Monday press release from the governor’s office. The request is the start of the process of getting federal assistance, the release says. “As I observed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Crocker, Missouri, man died in a Tuesday morning crash on Highway 133 in Pulaski County, nearly a mile east of Highway 17, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says that a 2004 Ford F-150 – driven by the 48-year-old man – was heading eastbound when it
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