COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old pleaded guilty to a pair of felony counts on Tuesday in relation to a 2024 shooting at a Columbia apartment complex. Ja’Mez Thompson-Bey, of Columbia, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault and was sentenced to eight years in prison. He was previously charged with two counts of first-degree assault,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man was charged with two felonies on Monday after he allegedly crashed into a law enforcement vehicle and injured an officer. Leopaldo Leon was charged with driving while intoxication – injuring a law enforcement officer and leaving the scene of an accident. A $15,000 bond was set and an arraignment
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol is facing a lawsuit in Pulaski County over a September crash that involved a trooper. The petition was filed by Orin Miller, of Waynesville, on Monday. The lawsuit accuses MSHP of negligence and negligence per se. The plaintiff is suing for personal injuries and property damage, court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who was already charged with several child sex crimes earlier this month is facing more charges in Cole County. Michael Minor, 48, was charged on Jan. 16 with two counts of first-degree child molestation and two counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation announced its road safety milestone in a press conference alongside the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Gov. Mike Kehoe Tuesday morning. State officials announced that Missouri has seen a decline in traffic deaths every year since 2022 and further discussed its goal to have zero traffic
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Athletics is now accepting bids to replace the playing surface at Mizzou Arena over the summer. According to a proposal obtained by ABC 17, the athletic department expects the court replacement to cost anywhere from $700,000 to $785,000. The proposal also contained some special scheduling guidelines. The department would like the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers women’s basketball team is preparing for a two-game road trip. The Tigers will take on Mississippi State on Sunday, then travel to Arkansas next week.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of 85 people was called to the Boone County Courthouse on Tuesday to potentially decide the fate of a woman charged in the death of a baby in 2023. Sarah Brown is charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, a felony, in connection with the death of a 3-month-old in Columbia in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Growing up in St. Louis in the ’90s for Lonnie Lockhart Bey wasn’t easy. He was met with challenges and hardships that led him down a path he hadn’t planned. That adversity eventually led to him becoming affiliated with a gang. Lockhart Bey says the word “affiliated” is key. “One of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of college students in Columbia are hoping to tackle important issues in the city through a new advisory council. The Columbia Collegiate Advisory Council met for the first time Monday night at city hall. The board is composed of nine college students, three of which are from the University of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After Mid-Missouri was blanketed with 5-9 inches of snow this past weekend, Columbia road crews faced challenges clearing streets because of frigid temperatures early Monday. A spokesperson for Columbia Public Works told ABC 17 News temperatures dropped to minus 8 degrees Monday morning, preventing much of the salt from effectively reacting with
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Some Mid-Missouri plumbers are seeing more frozen pipes in unconditioned spaces than usual.
MasterTech Plumbing, Heating and Cooling in Columbia says it received about 80 emergency overnight calls through the weekend — about double what they would typically — and continued to respond to calls for frozen pipes on Monday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Around 10 people gathered on Monday near the Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia to honor a man who was killed on Saturday by federal agents in Minneapolis. Candles were present, one person waved a flag that read “Defend Democracy,” another held up a photo of a man, while another
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Friday night house fire in Mexico, Missouri, was likely caused by an overloaded electrical circuit, according to a news release. The fire led to heavy damage in the attic of a home in the 500 block of West Robinson Street, the Mexico Department of Public Safety wrote in the release. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With below-average cold inhibiting snow removal and more extreme cold expected Tuesday morning, Mid-Missouri school districts began to cancel Tuesday classes on Monday afternoon. Fulton, South Callaway and New Bloomfield were among the districts that decided to call off Tuesday classes as the sun was still shining Monday. In the case of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ice skating is now open at Stephens Lake Park, according to a Monday social media post from Columbia Parks and Recreation. Ice skating opens at the lake when the depth of the ice is measured at least 4 inches, the post says. The post says Cosmo-Bethel Lake on the south side of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Streets around Columbia are partially covered Monday morning after this weekend’s winter storm. Mid-Missouri was blanketed with five to nine inches of snow, according to the ABC 17 StormTrack Weather Team. In Columbia, the city’s 28-person snowplow crew spent Sunday morning clearing first and second-priority routes, including main roads and emergency paths. By
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The ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday due to dangerous cold, with temperatures expected to drop to the teens and single digits, and wind chills potentially reaching subzero levels.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 33-year-old Lake Ozark man is seriously hurt after a crash in Camden County just before midnight Sunday, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states the man was driving a 2016 Toyota 4Runner on Carol Road, west of Ginger Road, at 11:46 p.m. Sunday, when he failed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones caught up with Mizzou softball coach Larissa Anderson in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-Down to preview the 2026 season. Coach Anderson emphasized that her team is intent on making it back to the postseason, after falling short of that goal in 2025. “I mean it’s
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