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Kehoe to sign new congressional map into law Sunday

September 28, 2025 4:44 AM Marie Moyer

Two bills from September’s special session are up for Governor Kehoe’s signature in a closed-door signing Sunday.

A new congressional map, dubbed the “Missouri First” map, is ready to be signed. The map splits Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Fifth District in Kansas City into three. This will merge it with more rural and republican areas, likely removing Cleaver’s seat and giving the Republican Party a boost in the next election.

No. 20 Mizzou crushes UMass on homecoming to earn second 5-0 start in three seasons

September 27, 2025 9:48 PM Nathalie Jones

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the ninth-straight season the Mizzou football team walked away from its homecoming game with a mark in the win column, following a 42-6 trouncing of UMass on Saturday night at Faurot Field. With the victory, head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company improved to 5-0 on the season, which marks the second

Columbia Mayor announces plans for new task force following downtown shooting

September 27, 2025 9:19 PM Euphenie Andre

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ). Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe is planning to take steps toward addressing violence downtown. Buffalo responded on social media to an early morning shooting on Saturday that left three people injured, calling it “one too many.” She announced plans to create a task force of city, county, university, business, and community leaders to

MSJP claims the group was told to take down a parade decoration during MU’s homecoming parade

September 27, 2025 4:23 PM Alison Patton

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Homecoming Parade kicked off Saturday morning, with the Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine in tow. The student group was barred from participating in the parade last year. MSJP was denied again this year but a federal judge ordered the university to allow the group to participate this

Juvenile, Martinsburg woman injured in Callaway County motorcycle crash

September 27, 2025 10:13 PM Nia Hinson

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 13-year-old girl from Fulton, and a Martinsburg woman were seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Callaway County Saturday afternoon. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash happened around 1 p.m. on Route O at County Road 491. The report says the 26-year-old lost control of a

Florida man accused of shooting 3 in downtown Columbia

September 27, 2025 2:42 AM Haley Swaino, Marie Moyer

A large police presence was seen in downtown Columbia early Saturday morning.

Pastor reflects on time in Columbia as Wilkes Boulevard church prepares to close next year

September 26, 2025 7:36 PM Mitchell Kaminski

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) When the Rev. Andrew McCausland was appointed to Columbia’s Wilkes Boulevard United Methodist Church in January 2024, he knew change was ahead. His last appointment was in Union, Missouri, a rural town of just more than 12,000 people, with his new assignment bringing him to a city of more than 126,000. “It

SportsZone Football Friday highlights and scores: Week 5

September 26, 2025 6:17 PM ABC 17 News Team

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri high school football kicked off Week 5 of the 2025 season on Friday. Scores from Mid-Missouri teams are posted below.

Plea hearing scheduled Tuesday for man charged with manslaughter in 2024 crash on I-70

September 26, 2025 10:26 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A plea hearing has been scheduled for next week for a man accused of manslaughter in a fatal crash in August 2024. Walter Montejo, 27, is charged with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, one count of second-degree assault, misdemeanor driving while revoked and driving without insurance. He is being held at

MSJP plans to march in University of Missouri Homecoming Parade

September 26, 2025 11:57 AM Alison Patton

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine student organization posted on social media Thursday that they will be marching in the University of Missouri Homecoming Parade on Saturday. MU had denied MSJP the ability to march in the parade, citing “safety concerns,” according to previous ABC 17 reporting. This was the second

SportsZone Football Friday Game of the Week Preview: Smith-Cotton at Hickman

September 25, 2025 2:01 PM Kyle Helms

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of rising programs in the Central Missouri Activities Conference (CMAC) will clash in Week 5 of the high school football season. Hickman (3-1) will host Smith-Cotton (3-1) on Friday at Alumni Stadium, representing a showdown between two CMAC teams with just one loss in league play. The Tigers and Kewpies

Man accused of stealing more than $100,000 in jewelry from southwest Columbia home

September 26, 2025 4:21 PM Ryan Shiner

EDITOR’S NOTE: The state where the suspect was arrested has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged with five felonies after he allegedly broke into two southwest Columbia homes and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry and cash. Seweryn Rapacinski, 62, of Poland, was charged on Thursday with two counts of

Group to proceed in campaign to put ‘Missouri First’ map before voters, despite petitions’ rejection

September 26, 2025 5:28 PM Matthew Sanders

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office has rejected three petitions submitted to get a newly redrawn congressional map before voters. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ office released three rejection letters late Friday. The letters were addressed to Richard von Glahn, with Missouri Jobs with Justice, and said the three petitions submitted

Road closures, transit delays announced for MU homecoming parade

September 26, 2025 5:04 PM Euphenie Andre

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Homecoming preparations continue, drivers should expect several road closures in downtown Columbia on Saturday morning for the University of Missouri’s annual parade. City transit services including Go COMO, Paratransit and the MU Tiger Line will be delayed until noon because of the parade. The parade begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at

Brunswick man charged with six counts of first-degree rape, several more felonies

September 26, 2025 4:49 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Brunswick man was charged in Chariton County with a slew of sex crimes on Thursday. Kenneth Paul Jr. was charged with six counts of first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of fourth-degree child molestation and a lone count of third-degree assault. He was arrested on Thursday and his

Man accused of pouring himself a beer while threatening to kill people at distillery

September 26, 2025 3:35 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, (KMIZ) A man has been charged with a felony and three misdemeanors after he is accused of threatening the lives of multiple people at a distillery on Thursday morning as he poured himself a beer. Ashraf Habimana, 39, of Columbia, was charged with first-degree burglary, two counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and a count

MU safety report shows reports of rape cut in half from 2023, liquor arrests decline

September 26, 2025 3:06 PM Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri’s annual security and fire safety report showed sharp declines in reported rapes and liquor arrests in 2024 from the previous year. The report was shared by the university on Friday. The report shows there were nine reports of rape in 2024, which is half the total of 2023’s

Dueling Amendment 3 PACs report big fundraising totals

September 26, 2025 12:08 PM Matthew Sanders

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Political action committees on the opposite ends of Missouri’s abortion debate each reported large fundraising totals to end the week. Stop the Ban Missouri, a coalition aimed at defeating Amendment 3 in November 2026, announced in a news release on Friday that it has raised more than $800,000 since its formation

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House on September 26. Trump told reporters he expects other political opponents to be prosecuted after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

Trump says ‘there will be others’ prosecuted after Comey

September 26, 2025 11:51 AM CNN

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told reporters he expects other political opponents to be prosecuted after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. “It’s not a list, but I think there will be others,” Trump told CNN’s Kevin Liptak on Friday as he departed the White House for the

Eastbound I-70 back open after crash in Columbia

September 26, 2025 8:01 AM Gabrielle Teiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 are back open, after a crash in Columbia closed them Friday morning. Sgt. Kyle Green, of MSHP’s Troop F, told ABC 17 News just after 8 a.m. that all lanes are back open. The alert, sent out at 7:24 a.m., states that a crash in the