CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Department of Transportation maintenance crews will repair a joint on the westbound Interstate 70 bridge over Auxvasse Creek from 8 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday. One westbound lane will be closed. Message boards will be placed to warn drivers of the closure. Traffic delays are possible in the work zone. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Homecoming parade is set to take place at 9 a.m. Saturday morning in downtown Columbia. The parade has been a long standing tradition that brings in alumni and fans to the heart of Columbia. But for some, the noise can be too much for them to enjoy. As a
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Centertown, Mo. (KMIZ) The boil water advisory for the Village of Centertown has been lifted. Centertown has received notification from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources that the water samples from the Village’s water system submitted — after the damaged water line was repaired — are good. Centertown issued the advisory Wednesday as a precautionary
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol announced on Friday that the panel has officially sent a subpoena to former President Donald Trump as it paints him as the central figure in the multi-step plan to overturn the results
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Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to serve four months behind bars after defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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An organization that represents missing people placed a new memorial in a Jefferson City park Friday for a boy allegedly killed by his caretaker four years ago.
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) No one is hurt after a fire at an automotive business east of Columbia early Friday morning. Boone County Fire Protection District crews responded to the fire around 6 a.m. at Copart in the 8400 block of E. Richland Road. Copart’s website describes the business as a vehicle auction. A Boone
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A two-vehicle crash in Pulaski County early Friday morning left a Lake Ozark woman with serious injuries. The crash happened on Route A near Carol Court around 1:25 a.m., according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Troopers said an SUV driven by 44-year-old Daron E. Brashear, of Fort Leonard Wood, pulled
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It’s Homecoming weekend at the University of Missouri, and the Tigers will host Vanderbilt on the gridiron Saturday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) Health officials in Missouri are preparing for the possibility of a winter surge of COVID-19, as communities nationwide continue to fight new variants. Health officials are calling this batch of variants “scrabble variants,” because the names of the variants start with the letters Q, X and B. These letters can rack up a lot
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved to turn Thorpe Gordon Elementary into its first STEM school. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Troy Hogg spoke before the vote to give an idea of what to expect with the changes to becoming a
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge rejected a lawsuit brought by six Republican-led states challenging President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program. US District Judge Henry Edward Autrey said Thursday he was dismissing the case because the states had not overcome the procedural threshold known as standing, which requires that plaintiffs
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) MoDOT plans to prepare staff and drivers Thursday with a statewide winter weather drill. The exercise comes amid a shortage of plow drivers, according to the department. MoDOT officials say the winter weather drill is expected to help with training drivers. “With years of high turnover, we are nearly 30% below
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The U.S. Department of Education launched it’s student-loan forgiveness application program on Monday. The federal government is providing up to $20,000 in student loan debt relief to eligible borrows. The application opened on Monday, and will close on Dec. 31, 2023. More than 8 million individuals submitted an application for the program
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged in relation to a September 2021 shooting near Vibez Lounge on Fifth Street in Columbia. Wayne Warmack, 38, is charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, both felonies. He is being held at the Boone County Jail on a $100,000 bond. An arraignment
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The Missouri State Highway Patrol has sent a cease-and-desist letter over an ad supporting an amendment to legalize recreational marijuana, a patrol spokesman said Thursday.
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct new testing at a Missouri grade school to learn more about the level of radioactive contamination in the school and on its playground, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush said Thursday. Bush was among several local, state and federal lawmakers who urged the federal
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Standards-Referenced Grading has been used for years at the elementary and middle school level throughout Columbia.
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) De’andranysha Jackson, 25, is charged Wednesday with trafficking a child and endangering the welfare of a child. She is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $10,000 bond. Jackson’s mother had allegedly contacted Jackson for a ride to a store. Jackson, of Moberly, arrived with her 2-year-old daughter. The woman
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The origin of a loud boom heard across Jefferson City on Thursday morning is unknown.
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