COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia Public Works announced on its social media that it is activating a 16-person overnight crew at 7 p.m. Friday as poor road conditions could occur from the snow and cold. There are scattered snow chances throughout the evening, according to the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team. Isolated accumulations
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 27-year-old Sedalia woman was seriously injured in a crash Thursday evening on westbound Highway 50 in Pettis County, east of Muddy Creek, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. An MSHP arrest report indicates that Leydi Maldonado, 27, of Sedalia, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged with multiple felonies and a misdemeanor after leading police on a chase that ended with a crash Wednesday night at a Columbia intersection. Daylon Logan, 21, is charged with driving without a license, kidnapping, stealing a car, fleeing a traffic stop and leaving the scene of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of the driving lane of eastbound Interstate 70 in Columbia will be closed until 3 p.m. Friday, according to a Thursday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. Emergency repairs are occurring at St. Charles Road. MoDOT crews temporarily reduced that portion of eastbound I-70 on Wednesday evening to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of the eastbound lane of East Walnut Street in downtown Columbia will be closed until Wednesday, according to a Thursday press release from the City of Columbia. The release says the lane between North Eighth and Ninth streets near the Guitar Building closed Thursday morning and will reopen by 5
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly stole a gun and got into a chase with law enforcement has been charged with six felonies. Devin Taylor, 25, of Columbia, was charged with aggravated fleeing, armed criminal action, first-degree property damage, second-degree burglary, stealing a gun and tampering with evidence.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A vehicle involved in a crash Wednesday night at a Brickton Road intersection was first involved in a chase with police, according to Columbia Police Department Lt. Anthony Bowne. The intersection of Brickton Road and Conley Road was blocked off on Wednesday night after a vehicle had flipped on its side after
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A traffic study provided by the Regional Economic Development Inc. along a portion of Route B indicates a new road could be built to help with expected traffic needs as businesses expect significant growrth. An access study on Route B was conducted in 2025, with a report dated Dec. 10. It specifically
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation met with Boone County stakeholders to discuss what local funding can do to improve Interstate 70 as a lane is added to each side of the highway. Improve I-70 Program Director Eric Kopinski said the goal of Wednesday’s meeting with Boone County commissioners, Columbia Chamber of Commerce
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A car was seen in the side of a home on Monday afternoon at a Central Columbia intersection. Several first responders were seen at the corner of West Worley Street and North Garth Avenue around 4 p.m. after a car hit a home. Columbia police officers and more than a dozen Columbia
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A 72-year-old man from Cuba, Missouri, was seriously injured Saturday in a crash in Gasconade County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
The report says the crash happened on Route T, south of Third Street, at 9 p.m.
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MILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An 18-year-old Versailles man was killed in a car crash in Miller County Saturday night, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says the crash happened on Highway 54, east of Midway Road, around 1 p.m. The man was headed eastbound in a 2012 Mazda 3 and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A bicyclist was taken to University Hospital Thursday morning, after they were involved in a hit-and-run just after 7 a.m. at the intersection of Rangeline St. and E. Brown School Road. According to Kyle Green with the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F, they received reports that a car had hit a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 43-year-old Warsaw man was seriously injured after being hit by a car in Benton County on Tuesday, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol Crash Report. The crash happened at around 10:53 p.m. when a 31-year-old Warsaw woman was driving a 2008 Mercury Mariner southbound on Highway 63 at the MO-7
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Traffic is back to normal on westbound I-70 in Boone County after a crash involving a jackknifed trailer, according to the MoDOT Traveler Map. A social media post from the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F states troopers are investigating a one-vehicle crash at mile marker 134.6, just east of Columbia. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Five people were killed in traffic crashes on state roads over the New Year’s holiday weekend, according to a Monday press release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The release says the “counting period” lasted from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31-11:59 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4. This year, there were 87 people injured
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 21-year-old Texas man was killed in a crash in Phelps County early Saturday morning during a police chase, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Around 12:15 a.m., the man was driving a 2017 Hyundai Sonata westbound on I-44 near mile marker 176 when he drove off the left
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City Police are trying to determine why a car crashed into Westbrook Terrace Memory Care on Thursday afternoon, leaving a resident of the facility dead and the driver of the car hurt. Firefighters were called to the facility at 1:54 p.m. Thursday after the car hit the building at 3305
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 200 hogs died after a tractor-trailer crashed Friday in Miller County, according to a social media post from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The post says the rollover crash occurred on Route HH near Tuscumbia. The tractor-trailer was carrying 650 hogs, according to the post. No people were injured in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Traffic was stopped and Interstate 70 westbound closed Friday morning after a tractor-trailer rolled onto its side around the 135 mile marker. The Missouri Department of Transportation’s Central District posted about the crash on social media at about 6:45 a.m. The crash and cleanup caused first responders to close both westbound lanes
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