COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After a delay due to the coronavirus, the Columbia/Boone County Board of Health has issued their recommendations to help reduce teen vaping rates in the county. The report states that “harmful health and mental health effects of youth vaping are far-reaching, and more interventions are needed to bring down the number of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives is reporting power outages in several Mid-Missouri counties. Resident currently affected by outages are: Camden County – 977Benton County – 1,345Morgan County – 654Pettis County – 358Boone County – 1Miller County – 15Howard County – 1Cooper County – 3 Severe weather is reported in several counties currently
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia utilities worker is in jail for allegedly poisoning his co-worker. Bryan Homan is charged with first-degree assault. Police say a co-worker at the power plant felt ill after drinking coffee and tea from his Keurig machine. Surveillance video apparently shows Homan putting bleach in the Keurig before the other man
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) City manager John Glascock said the pandemic reminded him of the time he has left with his family. “You know, I lost my father when I was 13,” Glascock said. “He was 45. So the pandemic brings life its curveballs. You start thinking you’ve got a finite number of years. I’m in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With a scarce number of people coming forward to provide law enforcement with vital information in recent shootings, Crimestoppers want to make sure the public knows they can remain anonymous. The recent shooting at The Vault nightclub that left a Columbia man dead still has few witnesses volunteering any information to investigators.
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Check back here for updates on the COVID-19 pandemic in Missouri.
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Workers will start to lay down a new surface on another section of Stadium Boulevard as early as the end of this month, the Missouri Department of Transportation said Friday.
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Despite scores of people being inside The Vault nightclub when a Columbia man was fatally shot last month, witnesses have provided little information, the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
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Hot and humid conditions-that’s what storms love to feed off of. We’ll have plenty of that in places as a complex of storms dives south. Stormtrack Doppler Radar With temperatures returning to the low to mid 90’s, and dewpoint temperatures nearing 70-we won’t have much standing in the way of a complex of storms that’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Starting tomorrow, the state is set to end all federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits. Missouri is among the first states to end pandemic-related programs for people who are out of work. At least 24 states led by Republican governors have decided to end pandemic-related unemployment benefits early for residents. The federal program, which
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Food and Drug Administration has authorized an extension of the shelf life of Johnson & Johnson vaccines, from three months to four and a half months. This means the doses that local health departments said would expire by the end of June now have until August. The Columbia/Boone County Department of
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More school districts in Mid-Missouri are making masks optional as coronavirus cases go down and vaccinations go up.
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The Jefferson City School District and Lincoln University are changing their mask wearing protocols for the upcoming school year. Lincoln University will not require mask wearing on campus beginning Monday, June 14, 2021. The campus has been under a mask wearing protocol since the campus reopened in May 2020. Masks are still recommended for anyone
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Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler, who represents a very conservative and mostly rural area of central and western Missouri in Congress, has officially entered the state’s crowded Senate race.
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Multiple residents reported seeing the bear passing through their neighborhood at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Robert Hemmelgarn with the Missouri Department of Conservation said it’s the latest of several bear sightings in Mid-Missouri in the past three weeks.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After several major companies were hit with ransomware attacks, the White House gave a stern warning this week to companies to beef up it’s security systems. It’s not just big corporations that are at risk, cybersecurity experts worry about small businesses and individuals who are also targets. “I worry for these small
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia has won a nearly $54 million judgment in a case against telecommunication company CenturyLink for unpaid taxes. A St. Louis County judge issued the ruling last week in the case brought by Columbia and Joplin in 2014. Courts had previously found that CenturyLink and its related companies had
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-4 Thursday in favor of a new six-story hotel near the corner of Cherry Street and Hitt Street. In January of 2020, the commission voted 6-1 to approve the potential new hotel called the Cherry Street Hotel. The hotel would sit at 1005 Cherry Street
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Each side agreed Tuesday to drop the lawsuit that Jennifer Henderson brought against the Business Loop 70 Community Improvement District in 2016.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A pedestrian is injured after he tried to cross the 1600 block of Jefferson St. Thursday morning at 9:38 in Jefferson City while trying to fix a flat. According to the Jefferson City police, Everett Pruitt was changing a flat tire when he tried to cross the highway to get to
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