COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Jay Moore will be Cole County’s next auditor, according to a Friday press release from Gov. Mike Kehoe’s Office. Kehoe made the appointment on Friday. Moore replaces Mark Ruether, who announced his retirement last month. Moore is the finance director for the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce and has more than 30
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Central Missouri Humane Society announced in a Friday press release that its anonymous donor who is matching up to $2.5 million in donations has extended the match through the end of August. Previous reporting says the money will be put toward its new campus it intends to build on a 17.5-acre
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CNN By Liam Reilly, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. The announcement came just over a week after President Donald Trump enacted a rescissions bill
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By Alejandra Jaramillo, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump issued a rare threat of nuclear escalation on Friday, saying he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be strategically positioned near Russia in response to what he said were aggressive remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, the country’s former president and current deputy chairman of its
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former worker at the prison in Tipton pleaded guilty on Friday to having sex with an inmate. Jessica Baird, of Versailles, will be sentenced at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3. She is accused of having sex with a male prisoner on Oct. 21, 2024, when she worked at Tipton Correctional Center,
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By Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida, has been moved to a lower-security federal prison camp in Texas. “We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An inmate at the Fulton Reception & Diagnostic Center died this week after he was in custody for just over a month. Missouri Department of Corrections said Timothy Poore, 72, died on Wednesday. Poore was serving a six-year sentence for sexual abuse and sodomy charges from Callaway County, according to the department.
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LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KMIZ) A 22-year-old Versailles man was seriously hurt after crashing a jet ski into a bridge pier at the Lake of the Ozarks in Morgan County Thursday night, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states the man was driving a 2015 Sea-Doo around 7:30
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s annual back-to-school sales tax holiday began at midnight on Friday and will remain in effect until midnight on Sunday. The Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday exempts all state and local sales or use tax on qualifying items during the exemption period. During this time, certain back-to-school purchases, such as school supplies, computers,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In less than a month, students across Missouri will be preparing to head back to the classroom for the 2025-2026 school year. As the new school year approaches in Missouri, state health officials are urging parents and guardians to check their child’s vaccination status, warning that falling immunization rates could lead to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters were seen at the site of Columbia’s new elementary school on Thursday afternoon after a fire was reported. First responders were called to the 5400 block of South Sinclair Road, the site of the new Eagle Bluffs Elementary School that is expected to open in 2026. Columbia Public Schools spokeswoman
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The battle over a derelict building in Sedalia took its next step on Thursday. The City of Sedalia has sought the demolition of a building it says is in a “state of collapse.” The city filed a lawsuit last week seeking a court to approve the demolition of the building at 207
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia realtor is speaking out after finding people squatting in the homes she is trying to sell. Wendy Swetz, a longtime Columbia realtor, said she’s more squatting incidents over the past month and a half, and not in just one part of town. She says the issue is damaging homes, turning
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation will continue to monitor and fill a sinkhole that formed outside of a business on Business Loop 70 last week, across from Hickman High School. Employees at Ashland Auto Sales told ABC 17 News on Thursday that a customer notified them about the hole last week. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man is out on bond after he was charged with second-degree child molestation of a youth younger than 12 years old. Kyle David Lee Tuggle posted a $40,000 bond on Thursday and has a court date scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 25 at the Randolph County Courthouse. A mugshot
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County’s top prosecutor has announced that he plans on running for associate judge. A Thursday press release from Roger Johnson says he plans on running for division 11’s associate judge in 2026. “Serving as your elected prosecutor has been a great honor,” Johnson said in the release. “It has deepened my
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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 44-year-old woman from Lincoln, Missouri, was killed in a crash on Wednesday night in Benton County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says the crash occurred on Route H, south of Black Oak Church Road. A 2015 Ford F450 – driven by a 44-year-old Carrollton, Missouri,
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, according to authorities. Hogan’s official cause of death is cited as “acute myocardial infarction” – which in layman’s terms means a heart attack – according to a cremation approval summary report from the medical examiner’s office in Pinellas County, Florida
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State Sen. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove), State Rep. Bryant Wolfin (R-Ste. Genevieve) and a Maries County man have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 3. The lawsuit — that was filed Thursday in Cole County — is asking a judge to declare Senate Bill 3 unconstitutional, specifically regarding the
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