COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new judge has been assigned to a murder case surrounding a 2024 fatal shooting. Jordan Brantley, 20, is charged with first-degree assault, second-degree murder and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A trial was scheduled for next month, but it has since been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eight people died on Missouri roads during Memorial Day weekend this year, according to preliminary results described in a Missouri State Highway Patrol press release from Tuesday. The reporting period for the weekend lasted from 6 p.m. Friday through 11:59 p.m. Monday. There were 234 crashes, 99 people with injuries and 107
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cole County Public Works is spending $20,900 to buy five speed radar signs that will be used around the county. Public Works Director Eric Landwehr told ABC 17 News in a statement that Henwick Lane will be the first road to see the signs placed. “We have had numerous citizen complaints regarding
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman from California, Missouri, was charged with a felony after police say she was seen “breaking off flags set out for Memorial Day” on Sunday. Crystal Badolato was charged on Tuesday with first-degree property damage. A warrant with a $1,000 bond was issued. The California Police Department wrote in a social
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department on Tuesday released its annual report for 2025, which shows violent crime trending down in the city for the fourth year in a row. CPD defined violent crime as a criminal act that involves a force or threat of force against a person. It may consist of murder
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COLIMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused of dumping a woman’s body in a trash bin in Perche Creek earlier this month appeared in court on Tuesday. Andrew Acton, 53, is charged with abandoning a corpse and tampering with evidence. He still does not have an attorney. The judge set his next hearing for 1
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Joseph woman was charged with a pair of felonies after she allegedly kicked a 7-year-old boy into a pool on Saturday in Sedalia. Penny Badgett, born in 1963, was charged with child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. She was held at the Pettis County Jail on a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was arrested and charged after he allegedly fired a gun in a mobile home park while he was drunk on Monday evening. Phillip Etheridge, 36, was charged on Tuesday with unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Boone County Jail and the state has requested
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A bill that could change who has the final say on high school sports and activities appeals is sitting on the governor’s desk after months of back-and-forth with the private nonprofit that organizes many of Missouri’s interscholastic activities. Senate Bill 863 would create a governor-appointed oversight commission for the Missouri State
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas City man has been charged with four felonies after he allegedly assaulted a victim who was in a wheelchair. Arthur Wayne Hooks, 71, was charged on Tuesday with second-degree assault of a special victim, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful use of a weapon. He
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County man has made an Alford plea to reduced charges in a 2017 Cole County homicide. Zacchaeus D. Silva pleaded guilty earlier this month to accessory to second-degree assault in the beating death of Jerry Robertson on April 20, 2017, court records show. Silva had been indicted with second-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: An erroneous reference to a 120-day jail sentence has been removed. A Boonville woman who pleaded guilty last month to embezzling from a Cooper County nonprofit was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail. Judge Jeff Mittelhauser sentenced Jennifer Waibel last week to 30 days in jail and five years
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to put a 3/8-cent sales tax on the November ballot. Sheriff Dwayne Carey appeared before the commission last week to make his pitch for the tax. The commission was initially considering it for the August ballot, but moved it to November at Carey’s urging
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four youth and a man from St. Joseph, Missouri, were injured in a boat crash on Monday at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District wrote in a social media post that that it received a call for a boating accident at the 38-mile marker and an MSHP
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several Columbia police officers responded to the Woodstock Mobile Home Park on New Haven Road on Monday. An ABC 17 News crew saw at least five Columbia Police Department patrol cars at the scene shortly before 8 p.m. The Columbia Fire Department confirmed several of its crews responded to the same scene
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man was charged on Friday with a pair of felonies after authorities claim he broke into a building by crawling through a hole that housed an office air conditioning unit. Joshua Allen Kautzman was charged with second-degree burglary and first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle. A warrant was issued and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A partial mistrial was declared on Friday in a Boone County child molestation case involving an Iowa man. Fred L. Fox, 56 of Humeston, Iowa, was originally charged with two counts of child molestation, one count of child enticement and sexual misconduct involving a child younger than 15 years old. He is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of parade-goers on Monday packed East Broadway in downtown Columbia for the Gold Star Memorial Day Parade. Parade founder Sherry Wyatt marked the second year since the event’s return after a six-year hiatus, honoring fallen service members on Memorial Day. “This is extremely important to us because the greatest sacrifice that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A restaurant near the Lake of the Ozarks caught fire on Monday morning, according to a social media post from the Mid-County Fire Protection District. The post says crews were called at 2:51 a.m. Monday to Pebble Bay Club Restaurant off of Good Neighbors Road, west of Camdenton. About 25% of the
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — For more than 40 Revolutionary War-era soldiers, the long journey to their final resting place fittingly ended on Memorial Day weekend in the idyllic southeastern foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Former service members donning white gloves carried small pine boxes from the New York State Museum in Albany and
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