COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou freshman phenom Jenna Laird is the SEC freshman of the year. The conference announced its yearly awards on Tuesday, and Mizzou was well represented. In total – MU had five players named to All-SEC teams. Laird was also named First Team All-SEC. The New York native added an All-SEC freshman team
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou lifted the interim tag off of tennis coach Chris Wootton on Tuesday afternoon. He’s now officially the Tigers head coach. Wootton led the Tigers to a 15-16 record this past season. Those 15 wins were the fifth-most in program history for a single season. Wootton’s squad was ranked as high as
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and chilly with lows in the lower 40s. TOMORROW: Clearing skies with more afternoon sunshine. Highs in the lower 60s with light winds. EXTENDED: We finally begin clearing out tomorrow as high pressure settles across the Great Lakes and pushes out cloud cover. This will allow more sunshine to heat us up into the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police arrested a suspect in the December 2017 home invasion homicide and robbery of a Columbia man. On Monday, police arrested Jeffrey McWilliams, 28, for second-degree murder, first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. Columbia police responded after 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2017, for a suspicious person in the 1900 block
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COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) The Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Department will let the county’s health order to expire Wednesday at noon; local businesses are planning how they will move forward with the new recommendations. The health order expiration will no longer require businesses to enforce masks and social distancing within their buildings. Businesses
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There are two hurricane seasons; one in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic. While they don’t coincide perfectly on the dates that they run, these two seasons do directly impact each other. Last year, activity in the Pacific was very low, but we saw record breaking storm activity in the Atlantic. Usually, these two
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TUESDAY: Another disturbance is bringing back the clouds this morning. A few sprinkles will be possible, south of I-70. Most of us look to stay dry again today, with highs topping out in the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll keep the clouds around into tonight, with lows falling into the low 40’s. EXTENDED: The sunshine returns tomorrow morning, and
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Department officials were part of the State Board of Education meeting Tuesday morning and gave an update on the state’s coronavirus pandemic response.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: Boone Health announced Tuesday, it will hold a vaccine clinic for anyone over the age of 12 on Thursday and Saturday. The clinic will be located inside the Columbia mall and has appointments available. You can set up an appointment here. ORIGINAL: Officials with the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health
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TUESDAY: Another disturbance is bringing back the clouds this morning. A few sprinkles will be possible, south of I-70. Most of us look to stay dry again today, with highs topping out in the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll keep the clouds around into tonight, with lows falling into the low 40’s. EXTENDED: The sunshine returns
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education voted to approve the first phase of attendance boudary changes which will move about 100 students next fall. District leaders and the company contracted to look into any potential changes Cooperative Strategies recommended the Phase 1 Elementary Attendance Area Boundaries for Parkade Elementary to the Board of Education, which
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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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