COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Friday morning, Jessie Williams is set to have a hearing. He is charged with first degree murder for allegedly pushing 24-year-old Kaylen Schmit off the Highway 63 bridge near Clark Ln. According to court documents, a witness saw Schmit and Williams at a nearby homeless camp arguing over Williams’ belongings. Witnesses then said the two were walking
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City renegades overcame a six-run deficit to down the U.S. Military War Dogs 14-7 on Thursday night at Ernie Vivion Field. The War Dogs put up six runs in the second inning to grab an early lead. JC started to chip away at the lead with three runs in
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Thursday marked the second day of 52-year-old Leo Robinson Jr.’s trial for his alleged involvement in a 2021 murder outside of Waffle House on Vandiver Drive in north Columbia.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Within the past month, the Columbia Police Department has shown several thefts on its social media pages, asking for the public’s help in identifying the people responsible. CPD detective Brandon Baden said a number of the social media posts refer to people stealing from cars. “If you leave like your wallet in
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TONIGHT: Skies have been blanketed with some high and thin clouds, giving today’s sky a milky look. We’ll lose some of this cloud cover overnight by sunrise. Temperatures fall into the mid-60s to start Friday. TOMORROW: Friday brings back rain chances. Our upper level jet will bring better winds and a disturbance into the region,
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The Midwest continues to experience the brunt of this summer’s drought, as extreme dry conditions expand locally. Nearly a quarter of the state of Missouri is under extreme drought, indicating potential agricultural losses and drying of waterways. This summer has seen a particularly early uptick in drought for our region. A drought of this magnitude
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Questions over federal conflict-of-interest rules caused a Columbia nonprofit to pull its funding requests for a homelessness resource center.
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This afternoon: Highs reach the mid to lower 80s under partly cloudy skies. An isolated shower or two remains possible in southwestern portions of mid-Missouri near Camden and Pulaski counties. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the lower 60s as winds remain out of the northwest with increasing cloud cover to mostly cloudy skies. Extended: Friday
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Today: Afternoon highs increase into the mid to lower 80s as skies remain partly cloudy. An isolated shower or two remains possible in southwestern portions of mid-Missouri near Camden and Pulaski counties. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the lower 60s as winds remain out of the northwest with increasing cloud cover to mostly cloudy skies.
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ROCHEPORT, Mo (KMIZ) Beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday evening, MoDOT will begin to redirect traffic heading eastbound on the Rocheport Bridge to the new bridge. Workers will narrow eastbound traffic to one lane and redirect it to the new bridge, with two westbound lanes and two eastbound lanes. MoDOT says by midnight, all eastbound
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department said in a Wednesday press release that it is searching for four people accused in a June 26 homicide. CPD is searching for: Alqueze Jones, 19 Deljuan Turner, 19Ja’shaun Barney, 18Deazes Turner, 21 All four Columbia men are charged with second-degree murder, armed-criminal action and unlawful use of
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) On Wednesday, trial started for 52-year-old Leo Robinson Jr. for his alleged involvement in a 2021 murder outside of Waffle House on Vandiver Drive. Robinson is charged with second-degree murder and armed-criminal action. The trial will continue at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. According to court documents, in March 2021, Robinson was in an
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TONIGHT: Only slim chances for spotty showers remain through the evening, but it’s a largely dry evening, with partly to mostly cloudy skies along the way. Temperatures fall into the upper 60s overnight. TOMORROW: After a cooler day today, (still in the upper 80s, near normal) we will cool further tomorrow. Temperatures climb from the
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A large house fire in the 5100 block of I-70 Drive Southeast was finally extinguished in the early morning hours of Wednesday after blazing since 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s Independence Day celebration, Fire in the Sky, experienced a lighting system failure around the 13-minute mark of the 20-minute firework display Tuesday night at Stephens Lake Park. J&M Displays was the company hired for the celebration. Columbia Parks and Recreation has used them in the past. “They had experienced a failure
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Today: Scattered showers and storms remain throughout the region with rainfall totals up to 1/2″ possible. Afternoon highs warm into the mid to upper 80s with winds out of the west at 5-10 mph. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the mid-60s with some chances of scattered showers and storms still possible. Winds slowly switch out
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Salute to America in Jefferson City kicked off Tuesday morning. Salute to America is Mid-Missouri’s largest Independence Day celebration. The 14-hour event included several activities. Two major highlights of the event are the 5k run and the Independence Day Parade. Temperatures reached 96 degrees in the afternoon but that didn’t stop hundreds of
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire was reported Tuesday at a building in the 5100 block of Interstate 70 Drive SE in Columbia. The Columbia Fire Department was called to the building at 6:45 p.m. and it was 80% contained by 8:20 p.m., according to Columbia Fire Chief Clayton Farr Jr. The containment was upgraded to
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B.R.A.K.E.S, a national teen defensive driving program, is coming to Jefferson City this weekend.
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Nearly 100 injury crashes have been reported statewide this holiday weekend.
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