COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A car ran into a building on Broadway in downtown Columbia on Wednesday morning. No one was injured when the four-door sedan ran into the building at 910 W. Broadway — a suite of offices. The car appeared to cause only minor damage. Columbia Police Department Officer John Hoff said the building
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man backed off an attempt to change his plea in a shooting case on Tuesday and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Steven M. Harris pleaded guilty in January to unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and stealing a gun in a March 2025 shooting near Ninth
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Fire Department responded to an apartment fire in East Columbia early Wednesday morning. Fire crews responded to a kitchen fire in the 5100 block of Clark Lane just after 4 a.m. Columbia Fire official Wayne Cummins told ABC 17 News on scene that the fire was in only one unit and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved an ordinance that will nearly double the number of downtown parking spaces designated for taxis and rideshare services. The proposal expands the downtown taxi and rideshare footprint from 34 spaces to 66. It would expand the start time to 9 p.m., two hours
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Missouri secretary of state to use a 2025 congressional map, just days after the Missouri Supreme Court said the new map was not law. Judge Stephen Clark ordered Tuesday that Secretary of State Denny Hoskins implement the map in the November 2026 election, instead of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council unanimously accepted $15 million from a state appropriations bill for the for the conference center project. House Bill 19 gives the money to the city “to fund the planning, design, and construction of a conference center and parking garage.” The funds are required to be spent by June
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Construction of a roundabout at the intersection of South Fairview Road and Chapel Hill Road began Tuesday. According to a news release from the City of Columbia, the project is intended to improve safety and traffic flow at the intersection. The construction also includes stormwater improvements, along with sidewalk improvements along the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged with several felonies after authorities claim he pistol-whipped someone during an armed robbery on Monday. Royce Kemp, of Columbia, was charged on Tuesday in Boone County with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, second-degree assault and first-degree kidnapping. He is not listed on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with a felony and several misdemeanors after he allegedly pointed a gun at five youth during a car chase on Saturday. Cassius Bello, 21, was charged on Tuesday in Cole County with unlawful use of a weapon and five counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He is
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up a case over which congressional map should be in effect in Missouri. The court’s docket entries show that Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s application for a stay of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling was denied Tuesday by Justice Brett Cavanaugh. “We are disappointed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man has been charged after law enforcement claims he possessed child sex abuse materials in Boone County. George Haynes III, 44, was charged on Tuesday with six counts of possessing child sex abuse materials. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of trying to toss someone out of a two-story window in January has been booked into the Boone County Jail. Michael Wright, 39, of Columbia, was charged in February with first-degree domestic assault and fourth-degree domestic assault. He was booked into the jail at 11:04 p.m. Monday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged in two cases after he allegedly stole from separate vehicles on Sept. 1 and 3 in Jefferson City. Sajan Karki, 31, is charged in two Cole County cases with second-degree burglary. He is being held on $5,000 bonds. A bond review hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Police Department on Tuesday announced that it found no evidence of “foul play or criminal activity” after a 70-year-old man was found face down in the Missouri River last week. JCPD wrote in a press release that Michael Blecher was the man who was found in the river near
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Emergency crews on Tuesday morning were called to a trailer fire in north Columbia. Columbia firefighters responded to a double-wide trailer in the 4500 block of North Range Line Street. Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer told ABC 17 News on scene that firefighters found the trailer with a large column of smoke. Fire
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced that more traffic deaths occurred this Labor Day weekend than last year. Eight people died on state roads between 6 p.m. Friday through 11:59 p.m. Monday. Last year during the same time period, six people died in total, with MSHP investigating four, MSHP wrote in a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A water main break will have one lane at the High Street viaduct in Jefferson City closed until Friday. The Jefferson City Public Works Department said in a news release Tuesday that the eastbound lane of West High Street will be closed south of the viaduct while contractors work on the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was pronounced dead at the scene of a motorcycle crash in Osage County Monday evening. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 45-year-old Jefferson City man was driving a 2020 Harley-Davidson Fat Bob southbound on Highway 63 north of Route T at 6:37 p.m. Monday. The motorcycle
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Missouri has made the midterms that much more interesting with its down-to-the-wire battle over which congressional map will be in effect this November. Now, the lawsuit over whether a Republican-friendly map approved by the legislature last year should be the law of the land, or the map drawn after the normal census in 2022, has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council is scheduled to formally adopt a 1% public safety sales tax passed by Columbia voters in August at its meeting on Tuesday. The tax would then take effect on Jan. 1. City leaders project the tax to generate an additional $38 million each year to support police and
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