COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Supporters of a voter-passed proposition rejoiced after a court’s decision on Tuesday. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, which raised the state’s minimum wage and requires employers to offer paid sick leave, rejecting arguments from business groups that the ballot measure was misleading and unconstitutional. The court’s majority ruled
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters responded on Tuesday night to Oak Towers Apartments in Columbia after a fire occurred at a third floor apartment. Columbia Fire Capt. Wayne Cummins said at the scene the fire was contained to just one room on the third floor and it has been extinguished. Multiple people were treated at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people – including a 9-year-old girl – were seriously injured Monday in a crash on Highway 63 at South Westbrook Drive in southern Boone County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. According to the report, a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado – driven by a 54-year-old Hartsburg man
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved law that increases the minimum wage and requires employers to provide paid leave. Chief Justice Mary Russell wrote the majority opinion, joined by five of the court’s seven judges. The remaining judge wrote in a separate opinion that the court does not have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Lines are forming outside at least one Columbia license office as people rush to get a new Real ID ahead of a pending deadline. Columbia’s license office on Vandiver had a line out the door Tuesday morning. An employee told ABC 17 News that it takes 5 to 10 minutes to process
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Final exams are just a few weeks away, and the end of the semester can be a stressful time for students. Between final exams, final project deadlines, final grades, and for some graduation, students may experience a deterioration of their mental health.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested in Colorado in relation to a missing Missouri teenager. A press release from the Fort Collins Police Department says the Fort Collins Police Cyber Crimes Unit received a tip from a Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force about a possible kidnapping. A youth went missing in December. The release
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A basketball prospect for the University of Missouri has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a campus visit in September. Keiner Asprilla, 18, was charged in Boone County as an adult on Tuesday with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree kidnapping. A petition was filed in juvenile court on Jan.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Morgan County man who was accused of kidnapping his children from Nebraska before getting into a crash that killed one of them entered an Alford plea on Monday. Larry Lunnin Sr. entered an Alford plea to second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child abduction. An Alford plea occurs when a defendant maintains
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man pleaded guilty on Monday to three felonies and was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Freeman Myron Larnerd, 54, pleaded guilty to child enticement of a youth younger than 15 years old and two counts of child porn possession. He is being held at Callaway County Jail. Court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Indiana man who was in a crash this past summer after a chase with law enforcement in Callaway County was sentenced on Monday to eight years in prison. Christopher Voiles, 47, of Kokomo, Indiana, pleaded guilty in January to interfering with an arrest for a felony, resisting arrest by fleeing, leaving
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 82-year-old Boonville woman was seriously injured Tuesday morning in a crash on Highway 179 in Cooper County, just another of Highland School Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says that that the woman was driving a 2021 Buick Encore northbound when it went off the
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans continue to grow uneasy about the economy as President Donald Trump wages an erratic trade war that could send US inflation rising and even trigger a recession. Consumer confidence sank 7.9 points in April to a reading of 86, the Conference Board said in its latest survey
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Senate and the House of Representatives are set to return to session at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. The Senate is preparing to debate the state education budget. The Missouri House of Representatives passed a $47.9 billion state budget on April 3. However, the Senate Appropriation Committee plans include $300
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Tuesday marks President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. The first 100 days in office are noted as a key period in a presidential term, a time when the chief executive implements his or her agenda. Trump’s first 100 days have seen massive changes to government on many levels, right down to the norms of
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CNN, POOL By Elisabeth Buchwald and Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order and a proclamation on Tuesday to ease auto tariffs, the latest abrupt shift in a rapidly changing tariff policy that has left businesses scrambling to keep up. The 25% tariff on imported cars will continue,
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Roughly six months ago, Dominique Ford died after being shot in his apartment building, but the search for the killer remains ongoing. According to an October press release from police, Ford was found with life-threatening injuries in the 1400 block of Mokane Road on Oct. 25. Police later said Ford died from
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EDITOR’S NOTE: An incorrect bill number has been removed from the story. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Black Missourians are reported missing at disproportionately higher rates than their share of the population, a troubling trend now affecting a Columbia family. Desire Smith, 15, has been missing for nearly four months after she was last seen in Columbia
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By Paula Reid and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to resign from their positions and be paid through September, according to a source familiar with the situation. The division employs roughly 340
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CNN By Whitney Wild, Jason Hanna and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a targeted attack, Illinois State Police said Tuesday. Still,
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