COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team remained unbeaten to open up the Kellie Harper era in Columbia. The Tigers hammered Arkansas State 97-75 to improve to 3-0 on the season. You can watch the full postgame press conference with Coach Harper and players in the video player below. MU’s 97 points is the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of Erik Spencer II, who was shot and killed in the parking lot near the Old Navy on Missouri Boulevard, held a balloon release Tuesday afternoon to honor his life as they continue to call for justice. Spencer was killed on the evening of Nov. 1, and his family
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A building caught fire Tuesday night near the intersection of County Roads 2000 and 293 in Callaway County. No one was in the residence when the fire started and no injuries were reported, according North Callaway Fire Protection District Chief Matthew Walton. The building was considered a complete loss. Walton said
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) A section of Business Loop 70 between Hathman Place and Eastland Circle will be closed from Nov. 12-26 as construction on a new roundabout begins. The roundabout is part of the larger Improve I-70 project, with the addition connecting eastbound I-70 traffic to the Business Loop. “We’re going to really attack this
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool with lows in the mid-upper 30s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and pleasant with highs in the lower 60s. EXTENDED: Winds have shifted to the southwest, bringing temperatures up quite a bit from yesterday. We’ll be just above freezing lows in the mid-upper 30s by morning, and highs reaching the low 60s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones spoke with the Mike Kelly, the voice of the Missouri Tigers, ahead of the Mizzou, Mississippi State edition of Tiger Talk out at Faurot Field. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen on Wednesday night will determine whether to approve or deny a deal with Osage Casinos. The new property is part of a new entertainment district in Missouri announced last fall by the Osage Nation. The proposed site is at 3501 Bagnell Damn Blvd. and is expected
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The former executive director of Unlimited Opportunities Inc. has been charged with a felony after she was accused embezzling nearly $50,000. Jennifer Waibel, of Boonville, was charged on Monday in Cooper County with stealing more than $25,000. A warrant was issued for her arrest on Monday and a $10,000 bond was set.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Tigers have another home game this week — this time hosting Mississippi State at Faurot Field. The Tigers are coming off two straight SEC losses that have driven them out of the AP Top 25. Watch the news conference live here.
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Missouri is paying tribute to its service members on Tuesday with the dedication of a new memorial obelisk honoring veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The event will also include a rededication of the Gulf War memorial obelisk, which now bears the conflict’s end date.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) U.S. Rep. Mark Alford spoke with CNN on Tuesday morning as House members returned to the Capitol to vote on a deal to end the longest-ever government shutdown. Alford supports the spending package after Democrats dropped a demand that subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans be extended. Watch Alford talk about
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TODAY: Partly cloudy skies are expected today as we start with high clouds overspreading the region. This keeps us mostly cloudy through the lunch hour, but sunshine will likely peak through from time to time, with more sunshine expected this afternoon. At the surface, winds from the southwest 10-20 mph sustained and gusting up to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As far as the postseason is concerned, the final two matches of the regular-season could not be more important for the Mizzou volleyball team. With Selection Sunday looming on the horizon, head coach Dawn Sullivan and company’s performances in the final pair of matches against Mississippi State and Alabama, as well as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team is undefeated to start the Kellie Harper era in Columbia. The Tigers have won back-to-back games against Central Arkansas and Tulane to open up a new chapter of MU women’s hoops, 2-0. However, those wins came on the heels of a challenge from their first-year head coach.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A number of flights have been affected at Columbia Regional Airport because of the ongoing government shutdown. Two American Airlines flights scheduled to leave from Columbia to Dallas on Monday were canceled, as well as one flight coming into Columbia from Dallas. Another flight from Dallas was delayed by five hours. A
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two wrongful death lawsuits in a 2022 Amtrak crash have been settled. The crash with a dumptruck killed four people and injured dozens more in June 27, 2022, near Mendon, Missouri. Settlements have been reached in wrongful death lawsuits filed by the families of Rachelle Cook and Kim Holsapple. There are two other lawsuits
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager was charged as an adult with murder in Randolph County on Monday, a year after he was accused of shooting a man to death. Da’Caveon W. Nelson, 17, has been certified as an adult. Prosecutors have asked that he be brought to the Randolph County Jail from the Clay
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds and cold with lows in the mid-20s. Winds could drop wind chills back into the upper teens. TOMORROW: Gradually decreasing clouds with highs in the upper 50s and gusty southwest winds up to 30 mph. EXTENDED: It’s been a cold start to the week with wind chills as cold as 11 degrees
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt voted Sunday evening to advance the federal funding bill. The Senate is expected to hold a final vote Monday night, moving one step closer to ending what’s become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The vote Sunday marked a major breakthrough for the GOP,
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The University of Missouri banned people who yelled a racial slur from a vehicle at Cayleigh Moore and Gabbi Gordon from campus. Those people were not students. The university’s Office of Institutional Equity is investigating another incident that Moore and Gordon recounted to an ABC 17 News reporter. MU says that the incident
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