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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Tigers women’s basketball team is 2-0 as they get ready for a game at home Tuesday. The women will host Arkansas State at Mizzou Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the game will stream on SEC Network+. Watch a news conference about preparation for the game here.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is considering a special taxing district for Business Loop 70 that would divert taxes from future development to the companies undertaking those projects. Columbia City Council members met Monday morning to discuss implementing tax incremental financing as a way to revitalize the Business Loop. City Manager De’Carlon Seawood
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THIS AFTERNOON: Mostly sunny and cold with highs in the upper 30s. TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and cold with lows in the mid-20s. EXTENDED: It’s been a bitterly cold start to the week with temperatures only reaching the upper 30s this afternoon. Cold northwest winds will keep lows in the mid-20s with a wind chill in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) held a news conference at the Capitol on Monday morning to talk about a deal reached between Senate Republicans and some Democrats to end the government shutdown. More votes were set in the Senate, and House members have two days to return from their districts
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Four months after a 23-year-old woman was shot and killed in Moberly, the suspected gunman has posted bond, according to the Macon County Jail.
David Kip Heyde, 68, of Moberly, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Bailey Scott.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The man accused in a deadly shooting in downtown Columbia on homecoming weekend has pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of a Stephens College student. Misael Covarrubias, 23, is facing charges of second-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action, two counts of first-degree assault and a single count of unlawful
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TODAY: Monday is another cold one, as we put off warmth until Tuesday. Temperatures starting in the 20s will climb to 40 at most, but many are expected to remain in the 30s for the entire afternoon. With a light northwest wind, we feel like 20-30s through the warmest part of the day. Skies remain
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Sedalia will reopen the 200 block of West Main Street this week, after months of it being closed. According to a social media post, the city will remove the plywood boards over the windows of a business across the street from buildings 207 and 209. Historic buildings 207 and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Eli Hoff in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The dreams that the Mizzou football team set at the start of the 2025 season are now officially out of reach, after head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company fell to No. 3 Texas A&M, on Saturday. The 21-point defeat at the hands of the Aggies not only marked the third loss of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Public Safety’s State Emergency Management Agency has issued a winter weather preparedness message as the state heads into the colder months. That alert has homeless shelters across Mid-Missouri making early preparations to handle an anticipated increase in demand as temperatures begin to drop. According to the Missouri Balance
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire at a hotel in Jefferson City on Sunday evening was contained to the laundry room, according to a social media post from the fire department. The post says firefighters were called to the America’s Best Value Inn in the 1600 Block of Jefferson Street around 5 p.m. Crews found
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team’s undefeated start to the 2025-26 campaign continued in dominating fashion, on Sunday, as the Tigers defeated the VMI Keydets 106-68 to improve to 3-0. You can watch the full postgame press conference with head coach Dennis Gates and players in the video player below, along with extended
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