COLUMBIA, Mo. During last week’s Columbia City Council meeting, council members voted to continue participating in the federal asset forfeiture program. The city has a little more than $400,000 in asset forfeiture funds, with about $86,000 of that coming this year. The funds can be utilized by the Columbia Police Department. However, during the council
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Rachel Proffitt has been picked to represent Ward 2 on the Columbia City Council.
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Columbia Public Schools’ top official is asking parents to help keep kids off their cellphones while in school.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sunrise Beach man has been charged after he was accused of causing a fatal boat crash in August at the Lake of the Ozarks. Bobby Gene Childers, 60, was charged on Monday with three boating while intoxicated charges: Causing the death of another, causing serious physical injury and causing physical
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A University of Missouri fraternity member who has been charged with multiple felonies in relation to the alleged hazing of Danny Santulli appeared in court by video on Monday. Ryan Delanty, 22, of Ballwin, was charged in Boone County with felony hazing, second-degree assault and supplying alcohol to a minor. The assault
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported, but occupants of a home in the 6500 block of Village Road were displaced after a Monday morning fire, according to a social media post from the Osage Fire Protection District. The department wrote that three sides of a one-and-a-half story house were on fire at 8:20
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Police have received at least two reports of someone trespassing on vacant yet prominent properties in Jefferson City in the past week.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Road work that will close the northbound lane of West Boulevard in Columbia will begin Wednesday, according to a press release from the City of Columbia Utilities. The closure is expected to last until Wednesday, Dec. 13, according to the release. The northbound lane will be closed between West Broadway Street and
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The number of crashes on Missouri’s highways during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period was up this year compared to last but deaths were cut in half.
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By Rob Picheta, Joseph Ataman and Amir Tal, CNN (CNN) — For more than six weeks, the conditions in which the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas were being held in Gaza were virtually unknown to the outside world. But testimony from some of the hostages released by the militant group in recent days is now
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Fall looks to close out warmer than average after coming off a toastier September and October, despite that short cold snap that ended the growing season around Halloween. This winter into next spring could look different for Mid-Missouri as our global pattern has essentially flipped completely from last year from La Nina to El Nino.
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By Mostafa Salem and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The truce that saw the return of 50 Israeli women and children from captivity in Gaza, as well as dozens of other nationals, has been extended for two more days, officials said Monday, as the hard-negotiated initial four-day pause concluded successfully following a late-night release of
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Prosecutors have charged a Jefferson City woman with first-degree murder in the weekend stabbing death of an 80-year-old man.
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STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton woman was seriously hurt after a crash in St. Genevieve County Sunday afternoon. The Highway Patrol responded to the crash at 2:22 p.m. on Route DD near Kinsey Road. According to online crash reports, Rebekah Love, 49, was traveling east on Route DD and another vehicle was traveling
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team is going to do some dancing in December. The Tigers earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament as the No. 8 seed in the Nebraska Quarter. It is the first time MU has made the NCAA Tournament since 2020 and the 18th time in program history. The Tigers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Black Friday is over, but families can still take advantage of offers and discounts for holiday shopping thorugh Cyber Monday. This year, 182 million consumers are projected to take advantage of the season’s lowest in-store and online prices, with 71.1 million online shoppers, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Traffic accidents increase this weekend as holiday travelers take to the roads. From Nov. 19 to Saturday, there were 148 traffic accidents throughout the state with 54 of them resulting in serious injury. That is 18 more crashes than the week before with 26 more in terms of serious injury, according to
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DOOLITTLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday morning, firefighters put out a blaze at a house near Newburg High School. No one was injured, according to Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District. Doolittle Fire, Rolla Rural Fire and Phelps Health EMS were dispatched to the two-story house with heavy smoke showing around 5:30 Saturday morning. In a FaceBook post,
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 27-year-old Jefferson City woman is now in custody and charged with murder in the death of an 80-year-old man. At 7:29 p.m. Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Cole County Deputies responded to a house in the 3200 block of Landing Creek Road for an unconscious man with serious injuries. The
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LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KMIZ) A house is a complete loss after a fire late on Thanksgiving day at the Lake of the Ozarks. Lake Ozark Fire Protection District responded to the fire just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters put out the fire and searched the house. Fortunately, no one was hurt. However, fire crews
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