TODAY: Monday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day. Temperatures near 100 and dewpoints in the 70s will yield air that feels like 105-110. We’ll be mostly sunny, with a southwest wind at 5-10 mph. TONIGHT: It will be a war night as well, with lows in the mid-70s. Storms from Iowa will blow through
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation on ABC 17 SportsZone at 10:30 on KMIZ. The pair covered all the big storylines headed into the 2024 season, including building on the momentum from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some local politicians in Missouri are reacting after a shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania that officials say is being investigated as an attempted assassination. The shooting left one person dead, including the shooter and two others critically injured. The FBI identified the suspect as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel
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President Joe Biden and his campaign are facing an abrupt pivot point: After spending the last two weeks trying to salvage the president’s reelection bid, they are now grappling with a delicate national moment following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As temperatures continue to rise in the coming days, experts are reminding people that it will be even hotter inside a vehicle. According to No Heat Stroke, the temperature inside a vehicle can be up to 50 times higher than outside. This year, 10 children have died nationally after being left in
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) A 32-year-old man died in a private pond late afternoon Saturday, according to Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp. Blomenkamp told ABC 17 News that the man was visiting friends in the 7000 block of W Sweringen Road in Harrisburg. Blomenkamp said the department was dispatched at 4:16 p.m.
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have identified the gunman involved in the attack against former US President Donald Trump on Saturday as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was killed by Secret Service agents at the scene after the shooting. The FBI named Crooks in a statement early Sunday morning, identifying him as a resident of Bethel
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Jeff Zeleny, Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump was wounded Saturday evening while speaking onstage at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in an incident that’s being investigated as an assassination attempt from a shooter on a roof near the rally site. Trump was in the middle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested a St. Peters man on Saturday for an armed robbery that occurred in West Columbia. According to a press release, Damiere French, 18 of St. Peters, Mo. was arrested for an armed robbery in the 2100 block of West Broadway. French faces charges of first-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, felony
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Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after loud noises rang through the crowd.
Continue Reading Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — At 6:02 pm Saturday, to the strains of “God Bless the U.S.A.,” former President Donald Trump took the stage at fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, waving at the cheering crowd and settling into his regular rally speech under a scorching midsummer sun. A few short minutes later, Trump pointed to
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Republican and Democratic leaders, past and present, expressed shock Saturday night following the news that gunfire had broken out during a Donald Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania — and relief that the former president had survived the attack.
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By Kate Sullivan, Alayna Treene, Emma Tucker and Bob Ortega, CNN Butler, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Eyewitnesses who spoke to CNN on Saturday described an awful scene following a shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which one person was killed and two others injured in what’s being investigated as a possible
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By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden said he is grateful former President Donald Trump is safe after a shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania. Speaking from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, about two hours after the shooting, Biden said, “There’s no place in America for this kind of
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UNION, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday morning, hundreds of first responders gathered in Union, Missouri, for the funeral service of Matthew Tobben. Among those present were representatives from Joplin, Miller, Union, Ashland, Ferguson, Southern Boone, Eureka, Des Peres, Valley Park, North Charleston, Gerald, and many other communities. “We laid to rest a hell of a firefighter, but
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RALLS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Bridgeton man was arrested after he was seriously injured in a crash in Ralls County early Saturday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, Preston Glass, 32, was driving northbound on Highway 61, just south of Hannibal, in a 2007 Dodge 2500 truck at 1:02 a.m. Saturday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused of stabbing a woman on Wednesday morning was booked into the Boone County Jail on Friday. Michael Anthony James, 55, was charged on Thursday with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. He was arrested on Wednesday and was booked into the jail at 12:03 p.m. Friday.
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UNION, Mo. (KMIZ) Funeral services for Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Matthew Tobben will start at 11 a.m. The funeral is being held at East Central College. The burial will be private. Tobben, 42, died on Monday during a water rescue in north Columbia. The rescue boat he was on lost power and overturned, throwing everyone into
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 78-year-old man from Ontario, Canada, was found dead Friday evening at the Lake of the Ozarks, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report. The report states that at 6:56 p.m., Lawrence Moore suffered a possible medical emergency and went into the water from a dock at the 45-mile mark
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UNION, Mo. (KMIZ) At least 1,000 people are expected to attend the visitation of late Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Matthew Tobben on Friday afternoon in Union, Missouri. The 42-year-old died on Monday morning while rescuing two people from floodwaters in north Columbia. At the time, he was assisting the Columbia Fire Department
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