COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Sheriff’s Office said in a Friday night social media post that it has spoken with the alleged gunman in a fatal Thursday night shooting in the Lakeview Mall parking lot. The sheriff’s office wrote earlier on Friday that a 42-year-old St. Louis man died from injuries suffered in the
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The City of Columbia Water Utility proposed the construction of a water tower on Beulah Ralph Elementary property near the end of Thornbrook Parkway, and some residents of the Thornbrook neighborhood in Southwest Columbia are not happy with the city’s proposal.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Belle in Maries County is under a boil advisory until Tuesday after three water line breaks occurred within the city. The city clerk’s office told ABC 17 News that the advisory is in effect until Tuesday in order to give time for testing. The clerk’s office said that some
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 60-year-old man from Monroe City was seriously injured in a crash on Friday on Highway 24, about three miles south of Monroe City, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. According to the report, a 2005 Ford 500 – driven by a 60-year-old Monroe City man –
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Fourth Ward Jefferson City Council race for the April 8 election will be contested. Kathryn Harness filed to run for the open seat at 2:30 p.m. Friday, according to filing information from the city. She will run against Julie Allen, who filed on Tuesday. Candidate filings for election in non-charter
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) William Woods University President Jeremy Moreland will resign from his position in January, according to a Friday press release from the university. The release says that Moreland – who joined the university in September 2021 – will leave to “pursue other professional opportunities.” Moreland was president during a number of changes, including
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The owner of a south Columbia Mexican restaurant is seeing another court case be moved to Butler County. Crystal Umfress was charged in Dunklin County with two counts of filing false documents and three counts of forgery after she was accused of impersonating county officials and restaurant owners. A change of venue
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team is riding high after upsetting Kansas at home last weekend. The Tigers will host Long Island University at Mizzou Arena at 11 a.m. Saturday. The Tigers are now 8-1 with an eight-game winning streak. Watch the news conference in the video player.
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has transported out of Syria an American who had disappeared seven months ago into former President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system and was among the thousands released this week by rebels, U.S. officials said Friday. Travis Timmerman, 29, was flown to Jordan on a U.S. military helicopter,
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday morning that one person died after a shooting in the parking lot of Lakeview Mall on the eastern edge of Columbia. Sheriff’s Office spokesman Cpt. Brian Leer said the shooting happened Thursday night in the parking lot after a disagreement inside Jake’s Bar and Grill.
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, Meg Tirrell, Jason Carroll, John Miller, Brynn Gingras and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week, was not a customer of the private health insurer, but police say he had identified the company as one of
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TODAY: Friday brings more warmth to the region as a warm front slowly moves into the region. Despite this, winds are largely easterly, if not south easterly. The arrival of south winds to the south of the warm front will be later into the overnight. This keeps highs in the low 40s near Columbia, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia city council and other city officials will be holding a retreat at the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri Friday morning. According to the agenda, the retreat is created for officials can spend time together to check in and ensure the governing body continues to govern well together on behalf
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The way Americans shop for holiday gifts has changed. Where Black Friday used to draw sometimes violent crowds to stores to compete for scarce deals, online commerce has allowed many to find their gifts from the comfort of home. And online commerce is continuing to grow, as evidenced by the Amazon facility recently built in
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Editor’s note: This story was updated after a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol was released. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Officials says one person suffered a leg injury in a three-vehicle crash Thursday on Route B near Route HH, just north of Columbia. The road was briefly closed, but reopened before 5 p.m. According to
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The Jefferson City Task Force on Homelessness on Thursday heard from three organizations who can provide services in the Jefferson City area.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Income tax changes may be on the table during the 2025 session after six Missouri senators prefiled bills that propose setting a flat tax for the state to ultimately eliminate income tax. Missouri currently has a tax rate of 0.5% for every $1,273 of annual taxable income. This rate caps out at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Camera inspections of sewer mains “south of the railroad tracks” in Sturgeon will begin next week, according to a Thursday social media post from the city. The inspections will begin Monday, the post says. “This work is part of a larger initiative funded by a grant awarded to Sturgeon for a study
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused in a 2022 Boone County electrocution death pleaded guilty earlier this week to a pair of felonies. Justin Scott Trader, 31, pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree involuntary manslaughter and first-degree tampering with a vehicle. He was originally charged with second-degree murder, vehicle tampering and first-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man is accused of driving into a building and colliding his vehicle into two parked police vehicles at 3:27 a.m. Thursday morning in Mexico, Missouri, according to a press release from the Mexico Public Safety Department. The release says that police were made aware that a building in the 200 block
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