COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe has ordered United States and Missouri flags to fly at half-staff in honor of a State Representative who died on Sunday. Flags will be lowered at government buildings in Missouri on Saturday from sunrise to sunset. State Rep. Kenneth “Ken” Waller, 63, died on Sunday after suffering from a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is accused of trying to hit a woman with his truck. Jesse Jones, 37, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, first-degree property damage, armed criminal action and a misdemeanor charge of violating a protection order. Court documents state officers were dispatched to the Super 8 hotel in Columbia on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Paris High School student was taken into custody after attempting to assault another student on Friday. Paris R-II School District Superintendent said in a letter to families that a student brought a pocket knife to school. “While only minimal physical injury occurred during the altercation, the knife did make contact with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former state trooper was sentenced to three months in jail after he was found guilty of sexual assault and kidnapping. Jeffrey Durbin was found guilty of the two counts in January, but his sentencing was delayed after the defense argued juror misconduct. A Boone County judge ordered Durbin to serve three
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Season tickets for the Mizzou Tigers’ 2025 football season sold out faster than last year despite a 50% increase in prices. The Mizzou Athletic Department announced on Aug. 5 that season tickets were sold out, despite raising prices by half. Assistant athletic director Joshua Moore said tickets sold out two weeks earlier
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Climax Springs man suffered serious injuries after a motorcycle crash in Camden County on Thursday afternoon. According to an online crash report, a 42-year-old man on a Yamaha V Star motorcycle crossed the center line on Bollinger Creek Road north of Crainshaw and hit a minivan head-on. The man on the
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The Missouri Tigers led off the 2025 football season Thursday night with a big win at home over Central Arkansas, 61-6. The Tigers had one quarterback go down when Sam Horn left the game with a leg injury. That cleared the way for Penn State transfer Beau Pribula to lead the offense for the rest
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) KOMU 8 announced Sports Director Ben Arnet, 43, passed away on Thursday. Arnet was a Columbia native, graduated from Hickman High School and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he later became an instructor and the Sports Director for KOMU 8 for five years. In 2004, Arnet moved
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has kicked off the 2025 season with a dominating win. You can watch extended highlights of MU’s routing of the Central Arkansas in the video player below. The Tigers (1-0) cruised to a 61-6 victory over Central Arkansas (0-1) in their season opener, behind an impressive debut from quarterback Beau
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge has ruled that a lawsuit against University of Missouri fraternity members can continue. Judge Joshua Devine ruled on Thursday that the lawsuit filed by former student Riley Strain’s family can continue after the defendants argued to have their names dropped. Devine granted the motion filed by Delta Chi
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A discrimination lawsuit filed by the former warden of Jefferson City Correctional Center provides details about the workings of the facility, including when multiple inmates died by homicide. The lawsuit filed by Doris Falkenrath, the warden at JCCC from April 2021 until June 2024, claims that she was discriminated against for her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: A correction has been made about the closures on Interstate 70. Thousands of fans traveled to Columbia on Saturday for the Missouri Tigers’ first football game of the season, packing Faurot Field and creating heavy traffic around campus hours before the 6:30 p.m. kickoff. By mid-afternoon, traffic congestion was building
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State Road M is back open after it was closed for several hours following a crash with a semi-truck. Callaway County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post that State Road M in Callaway County was closed north of Interstate 70 and south of Hatton-McCredie School. The road was closed for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Marshall woman has been charged after she was accused of driving on the wrong way of Highway 65 while intoxicated. Lauren Ngaue, 32, is charged with aggravated fleeing a stop causing physical injury, second-degree assault, DWI resulting in serious physical injury, armed criminal action and two traffic misdemeanors. Court documents state
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new crossing arm will be installed in Moberly as part of a project to make crossing safer. Norfolk Southern Railroad will be adding a cross arm to Coates St. westbound lane to keep drivers from stopping between the two sets of tracks. This means Moulton St. traffic will now be one-way
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged after he was accused of having more than 50 grams of fentanyl. Charles Walker Jr. is charged with first-degree trafficking drugs over the statutory amount, tampering with physical evidence and a misdemeanor of resisting arrest. Court documents state officers were patrolling on Wednesday when they saw a
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By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine, Allison Gordon, Audrey Ash, Rob Kuznia, John Miller, Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — As a teenager, Robin Westman claimed to have been suspended after discussing school shootings with classmates – later writing in a journal that the incident was the origin of a deep obsession with mass shooters. A
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri Health Care made $45 million in its fiscal year 2025, according to the UM Board of Curators Health Affairs Committee meeting on Thursday. This comes after MU Health and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield reached a deal in July, according to a previous KMIZ report. Contract details haven’t
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri man was sentenced on Wednesday for his role in a 2022 conspiracy to murder U.S. Border Patrol agents. Jonathan S. O’Dell, 35, of Warsaw, was sentenced to 165 years in federal prison without parole for more than 30 felonies this including conspiracy to murder a federal officer, escape from custody
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council voted to approve a new city property tax rate. During a special meeting held on Thursday, the vote on a property tax that is slightly lower than the current one was approved by all eight members at the meeting. State statute requires the city to set property rates
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