TONIGHT: Increasing clouds with flurries late. A dusting of snow is possible north of Highway 24. Lows in the upper teens to around 20. TOMORROW: Decreasing clouds and breezy with temperatures reaching the mid-20s before falling into the upper teens by early evening. EXTENDED: Tonight, we’ll see increasing clouds ahead of a cold front that
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Some parents are asking the Jefferson City School District to communicate with them after weather-related bus delays that left some students stranded and parents stressed. The Jefferson City School District initially called for a two-hour delay Tuesday due to weather. This delay was extended to a cancellation as the school’s bus
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It’s official: La Nina is here, but not for long. After coming down from a record-breaking El Nino we will only see a brief cooldown into La Nina. La Nina and El Nino are phases of a fluctuating cycle between the atmosphere and the ocean that can have local and global impacts. This pattern is observed
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TODAY: Wednesday is warmer thanks to southwest winds around 10-15 mph that may gust as high as 30 mph at times. This will have us feeling like the 20s, despite air temperatures reaching above freezing. Clouds stick around much of the day, with a chance of flurries during the evening. After 4 p.m. we’ll have
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TODAY: Wednesday is warmer thanks to southwest winds around 10-15 mph that may gust as high as 30 mph at times. This will have us feeling like the 20s, despite air temperatures reaching above freezing. Clouds stick around much of the day, with a chance of flurries during the evening. After 4 p.m. we’ll have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who pleaded guilty to selling crack in Mid-Missouri for several years will get out of jail a decade sooner than he was sentenced. Malcolm Redmon was arrested in August 2014 by local and federal law enforcement on Sanford Avenue in central Columbia. In 2016, he was sentenced to 24 years
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Brian Yearwood was a finalist to lead another school district. Garden City Public Schools in Garden City, Kansas, shared on its Facebook page on Sunday that Yearwood is one-of-two candidates up for the superintendent job. A short description on its page does not directly mention Columbia Public
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A truck driver from Minnesota was seriously injured Monday in a crash on Interstate 70 at mile marker 191 in Warren County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states that the driver – a 60-year-old man from Andover, Minnesota – of a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Recent executive actions by President Donald Trump to limit immigration from refugees and birthright citizenship could have significant ripple effects in Missouri. Tuesday, the controversial executive order reinterpreting the 14th Amendment led to lawsuits being filed by a dozen states and the ACLU. “President Trump’s executive order is an illegal attempt to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Roughly 13,000 animals entered shelters and rescues each day in 2023 across the nation and the need for more pet foster families is at a high, according national rescue group Best Friends. Melody Whitworth, director of Unchained Melodies Dog Rescue, said besides a new litter and mom they took in over the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The former site of a Columbia children’s center has been sold to Burrell Behavioral Health, with plans to turn it into a behavioral health facility. Burrell Behavior Health announced in a Tuesday press release that it had purchased the property on 1611 Towne Drive which was the former home of Rainbow House.
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It’s no secret that its been dangerously cold across the Midwest the past several days, but the southeastern most states are now seeing impactful winter storm impacts that aren’t seen often. Snow and ice has blanketed much of the area from Houston and east dropping accumulating snowfall causing travel issues for millions. The latest radar
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump signed more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office Monday. One of them directed the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The 2015 agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change, and was signed by 194 states and the European Union in
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and windy with warming temperatures overnight. Daybreak temperatures in the upper teens to around 20. TOMORROW: Windy and warmer with increasing clouds. Highs in the mid-30s. EXTENDED: We’re finally thawing from the deep freeze tonight as winds shift to the south-southwest. Gusts could reach 25 mph, sending temperatures up overnight. Tomorrow will
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TODAY: Tuesday is the last, but likely the coldest, of our ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Days. Starting with wind chills as cold as -20, we’ll be dangerously cold through the day. Highs will reach low teens, keeping wind chills in the single digits through the day. TONIGHT: Winds will have gradually shifted through the day,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Both the Columbia College men’s and women’s basketball teams recorded wins against the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in Monday’s doubleheader action at thee Southwell Complex. The Cougar women met the Eutectics first in a dominating 99-60 win to improve to 17-0 on the year. Head coach Matt Moore and company
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MONDAY EVENING UPDATE: After a second push of cold air that even brought a few snow flurries overnight, we are the coldest we’ve been amidst this stretch. Our wind chills as of Tuesday morning were as cold as 20 below. South winds keep us cold feeling, but warming today into the overnight hours. This has
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TODAY: Tuesday is the last, but likely the coldest, of our ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Days. Starting with wind chills as cold as -20, we’ll be dangerously cold through the day. Highs will reach low teens, keeping wind chills in the single digits through the day. TONIGHT: Winds will have gradually shifted through the day,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police confirmed that a stolen gun was found after a shots fired incident over the weekend that led to six juveniles being detained. Two of the youth were released, while one was detained on suspicion of four counts of first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, and distribution
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A Fulton teenager was found shot dead late Sunday night.
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