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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Have you missed work because you didn’t have child care?

October 5, 2023 2:19 AM ABC 17 News Team

Leaders say the lack of sufficient resources costs companies and the state more than a billion dollars each year and is most felt in rural areas.

Callaway prosecutor reviewing officer-involved shooting at Columbia apartment complex

October 4, 2023 8:37 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor said he will start his review of a deadly Columbia police shooting that happened in August. Police were called twice to The Landing — an apartment complex on Campusview Drive in south Columbia — on Aug. 4. A man who reported being suicidal was killed after shooting at officers,

Columbia man accused of deceptive businesses practices pleads guilty

October 4, 2023 6:53 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused of deceptive businesses pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday. Mark Doninelli, 47, was charged with five counts of forgery, four counts of second-degree odometer fraud, deceptive business practice, intent to defraud by failing to make a sales tax return, stealing a motor vehicle and stealing involving a

State will not seek death penalty for man accused in 2021 Lazy Gators shooting

October 4, 2023 6:14 PM Ryan Shiner

CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The state of Missouri will not seek the death penalty against a Jefferson City man accused of a 2021 Memorial Day weekend shooting at Lazy Gators Camden County Prosecutor Richelle Grosvenor on Tuesday filed a notice of intent to waive the death penalty against Chad Tariq Brewer. Brewer, 31, was charged with first-degree murder,

Court case for man accused of killing Hermann police sergeant moved to Franklin County

October 4, 2023 6:01 PM Ryan Shiner

HERMANN, Mo. (KMIZ) The criminal case for the man accused of shooting and killing a Hermann police sergeant in March will be moved to Franklin County. Kenneth Lee Simpson, 35, of Steelville, was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of armed-criminal action, first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful gun possession, unlawful possession of an illegal

Columbia College to cut more than 100 positions in restructuring

October 4, 2023 5:12 PM Matthew Sanders, Mitchell Kaminski

Columbia College will slash its workforce as part of a restructuring meant to adapt to changes in higher education, the private college said in a statement Wednesday.

80% of Missouri business leaders say child care crisis bad for state

October 4, 2023 11:02 AM Hannah Falcon

Lawmakers, business leaders and business owners from across Missouri gathered for a discussion on an issue plaguing Missouri’s economy: child care.

Casa Maria’s co-owner seeks Boone County surrender in Bootheel arson case

October 4, 2023 4:11 PM Marina Diaz

A lawyer for a Columbia restauranteur accused of arson in southeast Missouri is trying to negotiate her surrender in Boone County, court documents show.

MoDOT to hold public information meetings on Highway 54 study

October 4, 2023 3:24 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of informational meetings will be hosted by the Missouri Department of Transportation later this month to give an update on a study of Highway 54 improvements between Mexico and Louisiana, according to a Wednesday press release. The open-house meetings will be held: 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 at the Community

MU School of Medicine awarded $16 million to improve physician shortages in rural Missouri

October 4, 2023 11:45 AM David Kitchin

The federal Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine $16 million to help train new doctors to work in parts of rural Missouri.

Drought Assessment Committee set to meet to discuss ways to respond to statewide drought conditions

October 4, 2023 4:04 AM Gabrielle Teiner

A screenshot of the U.S. Drought Monitor released September 28th, 2023.

Trump back in court as fraud trial probes who was responsible for his financial statements

October 4, 2023 9:29 AM Associated Press

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The fraud trial that could block former President Donald Trump from doing business in New York drilled down Wednesday into the question of who — his company or hired accountants — bore responsibility for financial statements that the state

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you side with Missouri GOP representatives on Kevin McCarthy?

October 4, 2023 2:12 AM ABC 17 News Team

Washington made history again Tuesday when a sitting House speaker was voted out of his office for the first time in the nation’s history.

Two people seriously injured in Morgan County crash

October 3, 2023 10:06 PM Ryan Shiner

MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people were hurt – two with serious injuries – in a Tuesday crash on Highway 5 in Morgan County, just south of Harrison Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred when a 2014 Toyota Tacoma – driven by Woodrow Tweed, 75, of Linn Creek

Macon County couple running daycare accused of child abuse; man allegedly fractured toddler’s femur

October 3, 2023 8:33 PM Ryan Shiner

BEVIER, Mo. (KMIZ) A Macon County couple who run a daycare in Bevier have been charged with child abuse after authorities say one of them fractured a toddler’s femur. Joshuea Leodon Teter, 28, of Bevier, was charged with child abuse in two separate cases – one stemming from last week and another from November 2022.

52 calls to police made at Cosmo Park since August, more than 200 calls made since Jan. 1

October 3, 2023 7:33 PM Mitchell Kaminski

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cosmo Park has seen a large number of calls to police since the beginning of the year. According to online records from the Columbia Police Department 6-hour Dispatch Log, there have been 211 calls to the park since Jan. 1. Nearly a quarter of those calls have come within the past two

Officials say not to repost social media threats made against schools

October 3, 2023 4:58 PM Morgan Buresh

While there are no active threats being investigated against Jefferson City schools, school officials want parents and students to know what to do in the case one does occur.

Moberly man sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for child sex crimes

October 3, 2023 6:08 PM Ryan Shiner

HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man who was found guilty of more than a dozen charges related to child sex crimes was sentenced on Tuesday. Scotty Gene Reynolds, 47, was found guilty on June 15 of two counts of first-degree statutory rape, six counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, one count of first-degree child molestation, four