COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The parents of a Phelps County baby who died of a fentanyl overdose last year are in custody. Caleb Deon Gorman, 25, of Salem, and Corissa Dessie Botkin, 24, of Rolla, are charged with child abuse resulting in death. Gorman was arrested Tuesday morning and Botkin was arrested that evening, the Phelps
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury awarded a former Lincoln University employee with $1,271,000 in damages in a discrimination case. Sheila Gassner had sued the school in 2019, claiming that her compensation was lower than her African-American counterparts, according to previous reporting. Gassner is white and worked for the university for nearly 30 years until
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Students of Columbia Public Schools will still have to work to do on snow days after the school district announced its implementation of Alternate Methods of Instruction. According to a presentation on AMI for a Board of Education meeting Thursday, the district is adding remote learning days following the Department of Elementary
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri raised more than $78,000 at its 18th annual One for One Holiday Food and Fund Drive Wednesday. Executive director Lindsay Lopez said preliminary totals show that the nonprofit collected $78,751 through the drive. The Food Bank collected donations from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hallsville man is calling on state agencies to make changes along Route B to lower the number of crashes and create a safe road for drivers. In an email to ABC 17 News, Tom Payne expressed his concern for the state road that takes drivers to and from Columbia to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday after he was accused of committing pandemic-related fraud. Steven Hendren, 32, was indicted in the Eastern District Court of Missouri in St. Louis for three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to a Wednesday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For college football teams across the nation, it is the craziest time of year. Head coaches are not only dealing with preparation for upcoming bowl games, but tackling signing day, transfer portal madness, opt-outs, NFL Draft declarations and so much more. Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz has been busy ever since the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Road repairs on two Jefferson City streets will require lane closures on Thursday and Friday, according to a pair of press releases from the Jefferson City Department of Public Works. Repairs will occur 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday in the 900 block of Jackson Street, the release says. Road signs will be
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Prairie Home man has been sentenced for a federal charge involving child pornography. Bradley Leigh Knecht, 30, was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 years in prison without parole, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The court also ordered that he spend the rest of his life on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused of an assault that killed a man in November has a trial date set for the spring. Alexander Aklan, 28, was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree drug trafficking, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers football team is getting ready for the postseason. The Tigers, who finished No. 19 in the College Football Playoff rankings, will head to Nashville, Tennessee, on Dec. 30 to play Iowa in the Music City Bowl. Watch a news conference about the team’s preparation in the player.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Belle in Maries County has lifted its boil advisory. The City Clerk’s Office told ABC 17 News that testing samples indicated that water was now safe to consume. The city issued the advisory on Friday after multiple water line breaks were reported.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of Silvey Street will be closed through the winter season, according to a Wednesday press release from the City of Columbia. The street will be closed between I-70 Drive Southwest and the entrance to the Sprout Academy Preschool, the release indicates. “The steep incline on the north end of Silvey
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was charged with first-degree murder in a fatal stabbing at Douglass Park in April was deemed incompetent on Monday. Demetrice Tatum, 39, was charged in April with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after he allegedly stabbed Kejuan Allen to death at Douglass Park. He is still listed on the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cooking remains the biggest seasonal risk for fires around the holidays, a Boone County firefighter said Wednesday. Gale Blomenkamp, the Support Services Bureau director for the Boone County Fire Protection District, said cooking/kitchen fires are the biggest risk this time of year. “So when it comes to holidays, we remind people to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A retired Jefferson City priest who admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the church over the summer has now been sentenced for sending part of the money to his sister. The Rev. Ignazio C. Medina, also known as Ignatius, was sentenced Wednesday to three months in federal prison
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By Clare Foran and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members – a provision pushed by Republicans that sparked anger from Democrats. The legislation will
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By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether a controversial ban on the social media app TikTok violates the First Amendment, adding a major case to its docket this term just before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The high court agreed to expedite the case
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CNN By Alayna Treene, Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. The report is now expected to be
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It’s that time of year again. Illnesses are thriving as cold temperatures push people inside. Locally, the spread of the flu has calmed a bit but COVID-19 cases rose in early December in Boone County. That’s reflective of a national trend of rising COVID-19 infections. Have you or your family fallen prey to the bugs
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