OSAGE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 63-year-old Linn woman was seriously injured Friday in a crash on Highway 50 at County Road 604 in Osage County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. According to the report, a 2011 Toyota Avalon – driven by David Dill, 68, of Linn – was heading
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rock Bridge is preparing to play on its home turf for the first time this season. The Bruins will welcome the Jefferson City Jays to Columbia for their home opener on Friday night. The Jays and Bruins are our KZOU Game of the Week. You can watch the game live on KZOU
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The superintendent of the Vienna School District posted on social media Friday that the district is taking extra safety precautions after law enforcement investigated a threatening social media post.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City detectives arrested a man accused of murder in relation to an assault that occurred in the 2700 block of Industrial Drive on Aug. 17, a press release from the Jefferson City Police Department says. Kamari Balton, 26, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of second-degree murder, the release says.
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Five people claiming Catholic priests abused them in Mid-Missouri accused the diocese of covering up and sometimes encouraging their assaults over decades.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Joseph Shetler, of Jefferson City, was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson to become anassociate circuit judgefor the19th Judicial Circuit, according to a Friday press release from the governor’s office. The release says Shetler owns Shetler Law, LLC and has a bachelor of arts degree in liberal arts from Conception Seminary College and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with a pair of felonies after he was accused of stealing a car at a gas station and leading law enforcement on a chase around 3:20 p.m. Thursday. Heath Thalgott, 26, was charged with first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle and aggravated fleeing. He is being held
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Police have arrested a suspect in the robbery of a south Columbia restaurant last month.
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Traffic was interrupted on Highway 50 over Lafayette Street after a crash Thursday in Jefferson City.
Continue ReadingThousands of tips have poured in from several states. But the man accused of raining bullets onto Interstate 75 in Kentucky keeps evading capture – prompting more school closures and a plea for nearby residents to avoid the wilderness.
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Drought is starting to creep back into Mid-Missouri.
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A Miller County family is searching for answers as Thursday marks three years since 18-year-old David Michael Bowers Jr. went missing. He was last seen on Sept. 12, 2021, in Affton, Missouri.
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Editor’s note: The affiliation of students who attended the meeting has been clarified. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri’s Faculty Council and Black Studies Department are standing by a student group upset with the school after they were forced to change the name of an annual event. In August, the Mizzou Legion of Black
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ Recent social media posts referencing possible threats to Columbia schools are not credible, the school district wrote in a Thursday night email to parents. Rumors spread Thursday night about possible threats to some school campuses in Columbia. “We’re reaching out to ask for your help and support. Over the last several days,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Lincoln University has formally cut ties with its national alumni association, according to Thursday press release from the school. LU ended its relationship after the Lincoln University of Missouri Alumni Association, Inc. missed its Sept. 1 deadline for a financial audit, the release says. The school’s Board of Curators announced it
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Four former corrections officers who were charged in the death of an inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center were indicted by a grand jury on Thursday. Jacob Case and Justin Leggins were charged with third-degree accessory to assault and second-degree murder in a joint indictment along with Bryanne Bradshaw and Aaron
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Police had to direct traffic and control a crowd at the scene of an apartment fire Thursday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 is coming home. Forty-five members of Task Force 1 were deployed to Louisiana on Tuesday to assist in rescue and emergency services as Hurricane Francine made landfall. Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp told ABC 17 News in a text message that Task Force 1
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ROCHEPORT, Mo. (KMIZ) The last steel girder was placed on the Rocheport bridge on Wednesday, according to a Thursday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. Crews are in the home stretch of the project and will be able to place cross frames and wind bracing before preparing to pour the new bridge deck,
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The local Republican Party picked a new candidate in a Boone County state House race just in time to get him on the November ballot.
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