COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 14-year-old Jefferson City girl suffered moderate injuries on Friday morning after she was hit by a 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The girl was hit while she was walking westbound in the roadway on Randall Drive, the report says. The Mitsubishi was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Regional Airport in 2025 had its biggest year in the airport’s history for passengers traveled, according to a Thursday press release from the airport. The release says the airport had 242,167 passengers in 2025, a 17% from the year prior. Since 2024, the airport has announced more flights to Chicago and
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) More than a dozen Boone County firefighters were seen in the northern part of the county on Wednesday night trying to pull a horse out of a hole. Firefighters were called around 7:18 p.m. to the 8400 block of Gray Road near Harrisburg. First responders were seen attempting to find ways
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Indianapolis man was charged Wednesday in western Missouri’s Lafayette County after a chase that ended with a crash on Interstate 70 in Cooper County. Sawnen Wah, 18, was charged with second-degree assault on a special victim, aggravated fleeing a stop, first-degree vehicle tampering and driving without a license, a misdemeanor. Wah
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A suspect was seriously injured when a chase ended in a crash near the Blackwater exit on Interstate 70 in Cooper County. The chase started near Oak Grove, east of Kansas City, said Sgt. Justin Ewing with the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop A. The suspect was in a vehicle reported stolen
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About two months after a deadly pedestrian crash in Cole County, solutions are in the works to make crosswalks safer.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation is seeking the public’s input on its proposal for major improvements to Business Loop 70 and Paris Road. “An at grade intersection where you can make all those different turns, regardless of which direction you’re coming from at that intersection,” said MODOT Improve I-70: Rocheport to Columbia
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No one was reported to be injured in after a car crashed into a fire hydrant in southeast Columbia on Sunday morning.
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An Owensville woman was hospitalized after a four-vehicle crash in Morgan County on Friday night. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred on U.S. 50 just before 10 p.m. The report says the 61-year-old was traveling west in a 2025 Nissan Altima, when the vehicle crossed
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Public Works Department shut down a portion of West High Street Thursday after what was initially reported as a pothole turned out to be a significant structural issue. “It was not a pothole, it was indeed a hole in the structure,” said Molly Bryan, spokeswoman for the City
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The reconstruction of a sidewalk ramp will require a sidewalk to be closed and a bus stop to be temporarily moved in Columbia, according to a Thursday press release from the city. Contractors are reconstructing the sidewalk ramp at the corner of East Broadway and South Second Street, the release says. Work
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The westbound lanes of Interstate 70 are back open, after they were closed for six hours as troopers investigated and cleaned up after a deadly crash involving a tractor-trailer at mile marker 111 in Cooper County early Thursday morning. Troop F spokesman Kyle Green says no other vehicles were involved. An ABC
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 21-year-old Kansas City man died from injuries he suffered in a crash on Wednesday on Highway 54 at Monticello Road in Cole County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man drove a 2011 Volkswagen Jetta southbound and was attempting to cross
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was charged with a felony and four misdemeanors in an alleged drunken driving crash on Monday allegedly had a blood alcohol content nearly four times the legal limit to drive. Maurice Robinson, 40, was charged on Tuesday with driving while intoxicated – causing physical injury and four misdemeanors:
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was taken to the hospital after their car flipped after hitting a tree on Wednesday. A Boone County Joint Communications alert was sent out at 8:42 a.m. about a crash on Smiley Lane at Rangeline St., asking drivers to avoid the area. Columbia Police Department Sgt. Robert Fox said a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of a woman who was killed in flooded waters in Boone County in 2024 claims the City of Columbia and Boone County were at fault. The wrongful death lawsuit filed Friday in Boone County alleges the city and county “failed to use ordinary care to either prevent Gillespie Bridge Road
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 21-year-old motorcycle rider was seriously injured in a Tuesday afternoon crash on Route W in Miller County, just east of Lighthouse Road, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man rode his 2013 Harley Davidson 1200 Custom westbound when he crossed the centerline
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An out-of-state resident who was diagnosed with measles traveled through St. Louis Lambert International Airport earlier this month, according to a Tuesday press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The release says the infected person was at the airport between 5-7 p.m. Feb. 7 and was at Terminal
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Tension boiled over at Tuesday morning’s Cole County Commission meeting, leaving the signing of a towing contract tabled.
The county was set to sign with Broadway Wrecker Service after awarding it a bid last week to be the towing and storage company for the sheriff’s office.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council on Monday night unanimously approved plans to for a culvert replacement project Old Plank Road. The design and construction will cost $620,000, with the city funding $337,000 of the amount, according to estimates in meeting documents. The memo indicates $282,763.10 will be provided by the Missouri Department of
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