COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Amendment 8 would place rules for county sheriffs in the state Constitution, including how sheriffs are elected, what duties they perform, how they staff their offices and how they can be removed. Missouri voters will decide whether to approve the amendment on Nov. 3. Most counties already elect sheriffs to four-year
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Amendment 6, proposed by Respect Missouri Voters, will appear on the November ballot, and would limit legislators’ power to overturn laws enacted by direct vote of the people. The ballot language that will appear before voters reads as follows: expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 86-year-old Sunrise Beach man was seriously hurt in a Camden County crash at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was driving a 2018 Jeep Cherokee on Route TT at Shawnee View Dr. when the man went off the left side of the road
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US wholesale inflation jumped in September to its highest level in more than four years, marking the second hotter-than-expected inflation reading this week and adding to concerns about the economy just weeks before the midterm elections. The Producer Price Index rose 1.3% from the month before and 6.3% from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A non-injury crash closed one lane of U.S. Highway 63 Thursday morning. The highway fully reopened just before 7:30 a.m. A Boone County Joint Communications alert was sent around 6:20 a.m. stating that the crash was on the highway at E. Dripping Springs Road in Boone County and to avoid the area
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Despite what the temperatures have been telling us, November is just a couple of weeks away, and there’s an election on the first Tuesday. In Missouri, the ballot is crowded with five statewide issues on a variety of topics. Some are well-publicized. Others, not so much. Among them is Amendment 3, which would undo the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Organizers announced the intent to move the Katy Station building earlier this month, and one mover says moving train depots can prove to be a difficult task. The group Save the Katy Station met with a developer claiming it could move the building to a different location. Moving the building would cost
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge has granted a temporary restraining order that will allow transfer guard CJ Gunn to play a fifth season of college basketball. Gunn and his legal team appeared in a Boone County courtroom Tuesday to plead their case for why Gunn should be given an extra year of eligibility.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is giving $5.8 million in financial assistance to the City of Fulton for upgrades to its wastewater treatment system, according to a Wednesday press release from the DNR. The project includes a $4.3 million loan and a $1.5 million grant coming from the DNR’s Clean Water
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged with murder in a Gasconade County homicide case was given a bond on Friday. Henry Lorton, of Owensville, is charged in Gasconade County with second-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault. A motion from last week asked the judge to lower his bond to $10,000 and claimed that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a murder conviction of a man found guilty of killing an 88-year-old woman. Lyle Miller, 68, of Madison, Missouri, was found guilty by a jury on March 21, 2025, of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the December 2021 death of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Missouri Attorney General and former Co-Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew Bailey filed paperwork on Tuesday to form a political action committee that supports a ballot initiative. Bailey was listed as the treasurer of “Vote Yes On Amendment 3,” which as it the name implies is supporting the passage of Amendment
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Work began on the water system at a Moberly mobile home park Wednesday, several days after residents stopped receiving clean water in their homes. Residents at Riley’s Mobile Home Park in Moberly have been without running water for about five days. Some say the outage is part of a yearslong pattern of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man and two people from Dixon were killed Wednesday morning when a vehicle hydroplaned on Highway 63 in Maries County near the Osage County line. A 29-year-old Fulton man died after a Buick Encore lost control while passing a tractor-trailer and hit the Ford F-150 he was riding in, according
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) Six Central Methodist University football players have been suspended from the team after two of them were charged with assaulting a teammate. The university told ABC 17 News about the suspensions Wednesday afternoon, after earlier in the day saying two players charged with assault had been suspended. The university did not name
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man has now been charged with murder in an Oct. 4 attack in Phelps County. Stacey Cameron Johnson, 37, is now charged in Phelps County with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and drug possession. Amended charges were filed on Tuesday. He was previously charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal
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Editor’s note: Some quotes previously attributed to a library spokesperson have been correctly attributed to its executive director. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Public Library sent state Sen. Rick Brattin an 86-page packet of records about its Rainbow Story Time event on Sept. 16, in response to a request under Missouri’s Sunshine Law. Nearly a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were injured – one seriously – in a crash Wednesday morning in Phelps County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 24-year-old Edgar Springs man drove a 2016 Chevrolet 1500 northbound in the 19000 block of Route O. The truck went off
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Howard County Prosecutor’s Office charged two Central Methodist University football players with assault on Wednesday, according to online court records. Kamarrion Ferguson, 20, and Michael Hourel, 22, were booked into the Howard County jail on Monday and remain there as of Tuesday evening. According to the probable cause statement filed with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A church is considered a total loss after a fire in Northeast Johnson County Wednesday morning. According to Capt. Joe Jennings with the Johnson County Fire Protection District, the Mount Zion Christian Church was fully engulfed in flames when the first crews arrived at the scene. A passerby called in the fire
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