COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the first time since 2015, the Mizzou football team will host a Thursday night game at Faurot Field, as Louisiana Tech will make the trip to Columbia. The last time the Tigers played on a Thursday night, it was an SEC game against Mississippi State. The match up will also be
Continue ReadingEmergency roadside workers and first responders came together Wednesday in Columbia to remind drivers about the slow down, move over law ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend. Last year three people were killed and more than 70 were hurt in 246 crashes with parked emergency vehicles that had their emergency lights on in Missouri. Missouri
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Highway patrol troopers were investigating a crash Wednesday afternoon that blocked eastbound Interstate 70 in Cooper County.
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Police closed off part of an east-central Columbia street Tuesday.
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A Pennsylvania couple who were riding on an Amtrak train through Chariton County went it hit a dump truck and derailed have sued the company that operated the truck and its driver, who died in the crash.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman stole tens of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly couple and their disabled daughter, a Boone County Sheriff’s Office detective wrote in a statement used to justify a felony charge against her. Ana Cristina Lopez-Clark, 54, was arrested and booked into the Boone County Jail
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is now offering the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to people 12 and older.
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A special session called to consider a $700 million permanent income tax cut will be pushed back a week, Missouri legislative leaders said Wednesday.
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A Callaway County man was charged this week with vehicle theft and resisting arrest after allegedly leading a deputy on a chase near New Bloomfield.
Continue ReadingBy Naomi Thomas and Brenda Goodman, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer. This is the first time updated Covid-19 vaccines have received emergency use authorization in the United States. Both are bivalent vaccines that combine the companies’ original vaccine with one that
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City School District has taken disciplinary action against a student after looking into a report about a weapon. In a letter sent home to families, the school district reported staff received a tip about a high school student with a weapon on a school bus. Lewis & Clark Middle
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Moberly police officers recovered stolen property Tuesday while investigating thefts from vehicles. Police said officers identified 33-year-old Dustin Wheeler, of Moberly, as a suspect during the investigation. Wheeler was arrested at a home in the 400 block of E. Rollins Street around 5:45 p.m. on a no bond parole absconder warrant, according
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Staff at a Columbia middle school plan to hold a back-to-school event Wednesday. The “Back to School Bash” is scheduled for 5 to 7 p.m. at John Warner Middle School. Organizers want the event to welcome the community back to school. The Back to School Bash will allow parents to meet their
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The Boone County health department said Tuesday that a county resident has tested positive for monkeypox.
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A man charged with first-degree murder claimed self defense in a Howard County courtroom Tuesday morning.
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Two Columbia Public Schools middle school students were assaulted Tuesday morning on their bus, a district spokeswoman said.
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More than 600 kids at Columbia Public Schools got new books Tuesday at Blue Ridge Elementary School as part of the Read Across Columbia program.
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Kundarrius Taylor, 23, is set to appear in the Howard County Court Tuesday after being charged with first-degree murder in the deadly shooting of Torrance Evans.
Continue ReadingMikhail Gorbachev — the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 — has died at the age of 91.
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A fire destroyed a barn near the Osage River in Cole County on Tuesday.
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