Saturday is the last of 24 drive-thru vaccination events hosted by MU Health Care. The event will be held at the South Providence Medical Building, located at 551 Veterans United Dr., and will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
While it’s the final in a month-long series, people will have other opportunities to receive COVID and flu vaccinations.
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV left hospital Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery in a swift return to his duties following the first health scare of his papacy. Leo walked out of hospital unaided, greeting well-wishers, including a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl who gave him a stuffed toy as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused of raping a woman in 2025 has been booked into the Boone County Jail. Airbay Jackson Jr., 22, of Columbia, was charged on Sept. 21 in Boone County with first-degree rape. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. He was booked into the jail on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department is looking to implement downtown and traffic units, but cannot do so until all patrol beats across the city are fully staffed. While CPD says it has no shortage of applicants, many are failing to pass the department’s vetting process, which has contributed to the ongoing staffing shortage.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) When a restaurant owner refused to serve two Black players on the University of Missouri football team, coach Dan Devine faced a decision. The Tigers were returning from a game at the University of Kansas when they stopped for dinner in Missouri. Jerry Wallach, a tackle who played for the Tigers from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia officials are considering whether to give historic buildings more time to be saved from demolition as the city’s Historic Preservation Commission develops a broader plan to strengthen preservation rules. The Columbia City Council will review a staff report Monday outlining options for temporarily delaying demolition permits for properties listed on the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Having responded to seven school shootings during his career, John McDonald stresses that school districts must first understand where they stand on the spectrum of school safety. As the chief operating officer for the Missouri School Boards’ Association Center for Education Safety, he emphasizes that recognizing this baseline is a critical first
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Voters in the Gravois Fire Protection District will decide on Nov. 3 whether to approve a one-percent sales tax known as Proposition Fire. Fire Chief Dustin Hancock said the district needs more revenue as calls increase, costs rise and positions remain unfilled. The district serves parts of Morgan and Camden counties.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia has added a second recycling bin that can take glass. The city announced the new glass recycling bin in a Friday press release. It is located at 1242 Ashland Road at the contractor parking area on the University of Missouri’s campus. There is a “porthole-style opening on the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Pettis County Commission on Thursday passed a temporary moratorium on data center development in the county, according to a Friday press release from the commission. A timeline for the moratorium was not listed in the release, but it states it will be in effect “until an economic development study, an environmental
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sidewalk closures have been announced for next week in downtown Columbia, the city announced in a Friday press release. The release says crews will begin painting the roofline of the Gentry Building at 1 South Seventh St. The nearby sidewalks along East Broadway and Seventh Street will close from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person was taken to the hospital after a crash in west Columbia on Friday afternoon. The Columbia Fire Department told ABC 17 News that firefighters were dispatched to the intersection of West Broadway and Park De Ville Drive at 12:37 p.m. for reports of a crash. A Boone County Joint Communications
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Settling in for a seven-hour flight across the continent this week, President Donald Trump offered little indication there was anything wrong. His new press secretary’s rocky 14-minute debut at the White House podium was being met with decidedly negative reviews. An hour later, she’d offered
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services released a new survey Thursday examining the state’s cannabis market over the past year, with the study reporting room for growth. The study, conducted by New York-based Cannabis Public Policy Consulting LLC, used data from 1,200 cannabis consumers over the past 35 months to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A substitute teacher and cross-country coach in the Macks Creek School District who is also the Hickory County treasurer was charged this week in federal court with distributing child sex abuse material. Kenneth S. Ratliff, 51, appeared Thursday in federal court in Jefferson City on one criminal count. The federal complaint alleges
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The fight to end Alzheimer’s disease continues Saturday as Columbia’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s aims to raise $195,000 for research and support for the more than 7 million Americans living with the disease. Saturday’s walk will be held at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia. Registration begins at 10 a.m. with the opening
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia Public Works is considering a roundabout at East Green Meadows Road and East Nifong Boulevard in an effort to improve traffic flow and reduce crashes on the city’s south side. The Public Works Department hosted its first public open house Thursday evening to give residents a look at
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Residents at Riley’s Mobile Home Park in Moberly are still without running water as contractors work to address contamination concerns. Work started on Wednesday to restore water at the park after it was shut down last week. The property manager hopes to restore service this week, pending water testing and city approval.
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CNN By Emma Tucker and John Miller, CNN (CNN) — Three children, aged 5, 8 and 11, and one teacher were killed when a 16-year-old Bend, Oregon, resident entered an elementary school and started shooting, police said at a news conference Thursday evening. The shooter, armed with a long gun, forced his way into the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Lodging Association has filed an appeal in its case against the city. The lodging association filed a lawsuit in 2025 against the city, the Jefferson City Area Chamber of Commerce and the Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau. It alleges that lodging tax funds collected for the Jefferson City
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