COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou gymnastics team hosted the unofficial start to the 2025 campaign, on Wednesday, with the annual black and gold intrasquad exhibition at the Hearnes Center. You can watch some highlights from the meet in the video player below. Team black ended up taking the win, scoring higher in three out of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Students of Columbia Public Schools will still have to work to do on snow days after the school district announced its implementation of Alternate Methods of Instruction. According to a presentation on AMI for a Board of Education meeting Thursday, the district is adding remote learning days following the Department of Elementary
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TONIGHT: Decreasing clouds and chilly with lows in the upper 20s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and windy with highs in the upper 40s. EXTENDED: Clouds clear out gradually tonight, leaving us with temperatures in the upper 20s by tomorrow morning. Thursday is looking breezy with highs in the upper 40s and more sunshine. A disturbance will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri raised more than $78,000 at its 18th annual One for One Holiday Food and Fund Drive Wednesday. Executive director Lindsay Lopez said preliminary totals show that the nonprofit collected $78,751 through the drive. The Food Bank collected donations from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hallsville man is calling on state agencies to make changes along Route B to lower the number of crashes and create a safe road for drivers. In an email to ABC 17 News, Tom Payne expressed his concern for the state road that takes drivers to and from Columbia to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For college football teams across the nation, it is the craziest time of year. Head coaches are not only dealing with preparation for upcoming bowl games, but tackling signing day, transfer portal madness, opt-outs, NFL Draft declarations and so much more. Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz has been busy ever since the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers football team is getting ready for the postseason. The Tigers, who finished No. 19 in the College Football Playoff rankings, will head to Nashville, Tennessee, on Dec. 30 to play Iowa in the Music City Bowl. Watch a news conference about the team’s preparation in the player.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cooking remains the biggest seasonal risk for fires around the holidays, a Boone County firefighter said Wednesday. Gale Blomenkamp, the Support Services Bureau director for the Boone County Fire Protection District, said cooking/kitchen fires are the biggest risk this time of year. “So when it comes to holidays, we remind people to
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TODAY: Wednesday will be cloudy, breezy, and cool. Temperatures remain in the low 40s thanks to persistent clouds and a 10-15 mph north wind that may gust up to 20-30 mph at times. Wind chills will be in the 20s and 30s most of the day. TONIGHT: After a cloudy day, clouds will persist into
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors charged a man Tuesday with murder for his alleged role in a deadly October shooting and charged another man — who was already in custody and charged — with murder. Daevion McCray, 21, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death of Orrion Moody, 28, of Columbia. Police found Moody with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman is growing frustrated with a vacant property that she says is a danger to the community. Marty Wallace was looking to move into a home in the 5400 Block of Thompson Road when she noticed a vacant property across the street. The house was falling apart, with items littering
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You can watch the full postgame press conference with head coach Dennis Gates and guards Jacob Crews and Mark Mitchell in the video player above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) It took a while to get going, but a late run helped the Tigers secure their 10th win in a row. Things looked tight in the second
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council on Monday night approved to rezone nearly 5 acres of land in west Columbia. The council unanimously approved to rezone 4.82-acres land in the 4400 block of Smith Drive – near Scott Boulevard — from single-family to multi-family. There was not a specific plan for the area published
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After winning in the November election, Mike Kehoe will serve as Missouri’s 58th governor next year. Kehoe had served as lieutenant governor since 2018, after he was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson in 2018 and won the seat in the 2020 election. Prior to that, he served in the Missouri Senate. Kehoe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri may have one of the highest levels of the COVID-19 virus, according to federal officials. Missouri is one of the top handful of states for the amount of coronavirus in wastewater based on sampling from just one site in Jefferson County, south of St. Louis. The Centers for Disease Control and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has reported the first significant overdose death decrease since 2015, with 1,948 deaths in 2023. The department says 1,310 overdose deaths were caused by synthetic opioids, 18 by heroin with a synthetic drug present and five deaths caused by heroin alone. According to the
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with light rain through late evening. Lows in the mid-30s. TOMORROW: Morning clouds with afternoon sun returning. Highs in the lower 40s. EXTENDED: I’m tracking a cloudy night with spotty showers developing in the next couple of hours and continuing into the overnight hours before pressing east. Rain amounts will likely be
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TODAY: Tuesday is mostly dry, and mild. South winds bring temperatures into the 50s by the afternoon. Scattered light showers return around the dinner hour and exit by morning. TONIGHT: Scattered rain will bring a few hundredths of an inch of rain at most, and wrap up shortly after midnight. Temperatures likely remain int the
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TODAY: Tuesday is mostly dry, and mild. South winds bring temperatures into the 50s by the afternoon. Scattered light showers return around the dinner hour and exit by morning. TONIGHT: Scattered rain will bring a few hundredths of an inch of rain at most, and wrap up shortly after midnight. Temperatures likely remain int the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mike Hestir paces the front of a room. He’s discussing firearm use and grip techniques with 14 recruits to the Columbia Police Department in the newly renovated basement of a law office that the city purchased. The recruits take notes on paper and tablets with the CPD logo and the emblem for
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