COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Art in the Park in-person event is canceled this summer after multiple artists declined to travel this year due to the coronavirus. Art in the Park was originally scheduled for June 5 and 6 in Stephens Lake Park with 110 local and national artists to attend. Officials with the event also said
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Here are the local scores from Monday, May 10, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Smith-Cotton 0 | Hickman 6 FINAL Rock Bridge 4 | Rolla 0 FINAL https://youtu.be/TOWE2JR68pM Battle 3 | Capital City 5 FINAL Fulton 0 | Mexico 4 FINAL HS BASEBALL Capital City 0
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. The Missouri Valley men’s soccer team won its first ever NAIA national championship on Monday night. The Vikings beat Oklahoma Wesleyan 2-0 in the championship match. This was Missouri Valley’s third trip to the championship game in the last four seasons. You can watch the Vikings celebrate in the video above. You
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police release new details about a report of shots fire at the Walmart on Broadway at 8 p.m. Monday. Officials report searching the area and finding evidence of shots fired. Witnesses told police that four men may have been involved but ran away toward the Hy-Vee across from Walmart. Shortly afterwards,
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Mexico police continue to look for a suspect that stole a vehicle and crashed it before running away from police Sunday morning. According to a Mexico police release, a Mexico officer saw a blue 2003 Ford Explorer driving erratically in the area of Clark and Boulevard. The officer attempted to pull over
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Missouri requested 21,290 vaccine doses last week and received 20,620. This is a 36,380 vaccine dose decrease from the week of April 26-May 2 when Missouri received 57,000 doses. The drop is even greater when looking back several weeks.
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and chilly. Lows in the mid-40s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and cool with a chance for spotty showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to around 60. EXTENDED: High pressure sitting over the Great Lakes is keeping us anywhere from 10-15 degrees cooler than normal and we won’t break back into
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. A federal judge sentenced a Fulton man to 12 years in federal prison without parole for transporting child pornography over the internet. Kevin Michael Downey, 35, a former Boone County corrections officer, was also ordered to pay a total of $30,000 in restitution to 10 of his victims. On Nov. 3, 2020,
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The Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15th through November 30th. Mother Nature, however, has decided to kick things off a little early. Tropical storm Andres has set a new record for the earliest named tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean. The old record was set on May 10th, 2017 with tropical storm Adrian, but
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Watch discussions about attendance area changes and COVID-19 in schools in the player below. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. The Columbia Board of Education will hear recommendations on a possible change to attendance areas Monday night. You can find the Columbia Public Schools Board of Education meeting agenda here. The board
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MONDAY: Some of us will wake up to some fog around the area. That mix of sun and clouds will turn mostly cloudy early on. A few spotty sprinkles will be possible from the late morning into the early afternoon. Temperatures will bounce back from a cool start into the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll stay quiet and mostly cloudy
Continue Reading A man got away with an undisclosed amount of cash after robbing a Columbia gas station Saturday.
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MONDAY: Some of us will wake up to some fog around the area. That mix of sun and clouds will turn mostly cloudy early on. A few spotty sprinkles will be possible from the late morning into the early afternoon. Temperatures will bounce back from a cool start into the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll stay quiet and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Public Schools Board of Education will discuss revisions to Policy KKB during it’s meeting Monday night. Policy KKB currently prohibits visual or audio recording on district property unless authorized. Last year, the board discussed the policy, but did not make any changes. Many parents and students had come forward to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s Legislative Session ends Friday at 6 p.m, creating a deadline for bills to become laws in the state. This includes Senate Bill 262, which is set for a third reading Monday. The Missouri transportation investment bill, or Senate Bill 262, would be the first funding increase for Missouri since the 1990’s,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou golfer Ross Steelman on this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above. Steelman is a redshirt sophomore for the Tigers. The former Rock Bridge standout recently qualified for an NCAA Regional in Noblesville, Ind.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team fell to No. 5 Tennessee in a 10-2 loss on Sunday, which extended their losing streak to nine games. The three-straight losses mark just the fourth time Steve Bieser’s group has been swept this season. The Tigers got on the board first, due to solid base running from
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2021 Central Methodist softball team ended up being a pretty unexpected group of girls. It’s composed of every grade, including a couple of “super seniors.” Due to COVID-19, college athletes received an extra year of eligibility, however, the decision to return was not easy one. “Some of them had different things
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) National housing cost increases have affected the Columbia real estate inventory and the ability of developers and builders to create new homes. Lumber costs skyrocketed last March at the start of the pandemic. Costs have continued to increase over the last year due to supply and demand issues. Lumber is one of
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The Community Remembrance Project of Boone County said Friday in a news release that its staff learned of the vandalism to the James T. Scott marker around 8 p.m. Thursday.
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