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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its coronavirus guidance on Thursday to say fully vaccinated people can go fully maskless outdoors.
Continue ReadingThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its coronavirus guidance on Thursday to say fully vaccinated people can go fully maskless outdoors.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) Local health departments advise following the CDC’s new recommendations on fully vaccinated people no longer having to wear a mask. The University of Missouri says it’s taking the new CDC guidelines into consideration and is carefully reviewing the information. Thursday, the CDC announced fully vaccinated individuals would no longer have to wear
Continue ReadingGerrod Taylor, 20, and Dequan Hughes, 21, for their alleged roles in the incident that happened Monday. Columbia police were sent at 8 p.m. to a shots-fired call at Walmart on West Broadway. The incident continued with shots fired near the Hy-Vee gas station after those involved ran across the road.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation says the state is seeing an increase in its bear population. Officials report the population is around 800 with most Missouri black bears are found in the forested parts of southern Missouri, primarily south of Interstate 44. Bears are also expanding their territory in the state,
Continue ReadingCOOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol bomb squad, at the request of Cooper County Sheriff Chris Class, helped dispose of several dangerous devices Thursday, the patrol says. According to a tweet by Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F, the bomb squad helped dispose of: one modified M-67 grenadetwo artillery simulatorsfive blasting caps24
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Continue ReadingPeople fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks or practice social distancing indoors or outdoors, except under certain circumstances, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
Continue ReadingGov. Mike Parson announced Thursday that Missouri will not expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 275,000 low-income residents who were set to become eligible for the program July 1. Missouri voters in August approved a state constitutional amendment to expand the program, but Parson said the legislature did not fund the expansion, make it unconstitutional.
Continue ReadingThe Boone County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday that motions have been filed to revoke probation for Gerrod Taylor, 20, of Columbia.
Continue ReadingVaccinators across Mid-Missouri will begin to administer Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine to children ages 12 to 15 years old after the CDC recommended the use of the vaccine.
Continue ReadingThe Boone County Fire Protection District responded to a shed fire shortly after 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
Continue ReadingAccording to Governor Mike Parson’s Office, the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) submitted a letter Thursday morning to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to withdraw its State Plan Amendments for MO HealthNet expansion.
Continue ReadingBoone Health is holding the first vaccination clinic for ages 12-15 in the mid-Missouri area at the Columbia Mall on Thursday morning.
Continue ReadingIf signed by Parson, the bill would allow police to only use chokeholds if they or someone else are in serious danger.
Continue ReadingColumbia and Boone County are no longer under health orders that included a mask mandate.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone Electric Co-op is reporting two power outages, one in Rocheport and one in southwest Columbia affecting 380 customers. The Rochepot outage is affecting one customer while the southwest Columbia outage is affecting 379 customers. On the outage map, Boone Electric reports the southwest Columbia outage was reported at 10:04 p.m. and
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police arrested a man in connection to the Monday night shooting at the Walmart on Broadway. DeAngelo D. Hughes Police arrested DeAngelo D. Hughes, 21, for the charge of tampering with evidence in a felony prosecution and has been taken into the custody of the Boone County Jail. Three men are
Continue ReadingCALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is in custody after a morning manhunt in Callaway County in the area of Route HH and County Road 202. Local law enforcement received a suspicious person call in the area after the same person reportedly fled the scene of an overnight disturbance investigated by deputies near Fulton. A
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Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed charges against Carlton J. Curtis of Licking, Missouri, for violating Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act in Camden, Lincoln, and Phelps Counties. In a Wednesday press release, Curtis is charged by a complaint with one class E felony of deceptive business practices. The charges stem from
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