COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) KOMU 8 announced Sports Director Ben Arnet, 43, passed away on Thursday. Arnet was a Columbia native, graduated from Hickman High School and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he later became an instructor and the Sports Director for KOMU 8 for five years. In 2004, Arnet moved
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has kicked off the 2025 season with a dominating win. You can watch extended highlights of MU’s routing of the Central Arkansas in the video player below. The Tigers (1-0) cruised to a 61-6 victory over Central Arkansas (0-1) in their season opener, behind an impressive debut from quarterback Beau
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: A correction has been made about the closures on Interstate 70. Thousands of fans traveled to Columbia on Saturday for the Missouri Tigers’ first football game of the season, packing Faurot Field and creating heavy traffic around campus hours before the 6:30 p.m. kickoff. By mid-afternoon, traffic congestion was building
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri Health Care made $45 million in its fiscal year 2025, according to the UM Board of Curators Health Affairs Committee meeting on Thursday. This comes after MU Health and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield reached a deal in July, according to a previous KMIZ report. Contract details haven’t
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with lows in the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny with highs in the lower to mid-80s. EXTENDED: Tomorrow morning will start out near 60, and we can expect a nice end to the week with highs in the lower to mid-80s Friday and sunny skies. The weekend is still
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Minneapolis police provided an update on this week’s Catholic school shooting in a public news conference Thursday. Among the news to come out of the briefing was that police found more weapons they believe to be associated with the shooter. Watch the full news conference in the video player.
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TODAY: Gradually decreasing clouds throughout the day with highs around 80 degrees. TONIGHT: Tracking overnight lows cooling into the upper 50s with partly cloudy skies. EXTENDED: We remain pleasant through the holiday weekend as highs reach the lower 80s with sunshine through Monday. The pattern doesn’t budge much next week with highs in the lower
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THIS MORNING: Partly cloudy and cool with morning temperatures in the 50s and 60s. TODAY: Gradually decreasing clouds throughout the day with highs around 80 degrees. EXTENDED: We remain pleasant through the holiday weekend as highs reach the lower 80s with sunshine through Monday. The pattern doesn’t budge much next week with highs in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football fans will see some changes to their game day experience out at Faurot Field this season with stadium upgrades, concession stand additions and travel impacts on I-70. The current renovations to the north end zone will continue throughout the season; however, in addition to those changes, Mizzou Athletics has also
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) A town hall crowd that packed the Harrisburg Lions Club was sharply critical of U.S. Rep. Mark Alford (R-Raytown), his congressional votes, and his support of President Donald Trump and his policies. Alford, whose district includes about half of Boone County, held the event Wednesday night as part of his town hall
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In less than 24 hours, Memorial Stadium will be jam-packed with black and gold, as the Tigers kick off the 2025-26 season against Central Arkansas. Downtown is never a scarce scene in Columbia on game days, but with many students left unable to claim tickets after Mizzou Athletics rolled out a new
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Regional Airport is taking steps to prevent vehicles from being left in airport parking lots for extended periods, a problem that has limited available spaces for legitimate travelers. Â “We’ve had vehicles with flat tires and vehicles that have been sitting out there for long periods of time that we’ve observed,”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has assembled a jam-packed roster of leadership ahead of the 2025 season. On Thursday, the Tigers will begin the road to a third straight 10-win season against Central Arkansas with nine captains leading the charge. It marks the largest group of leaders that the program has had in a single
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The ABC 17 Sports team previewed the 2025 Mizzou football season, ahead of Thursday night’s opener against Central Arkansas. Sports director Nathalie Jones and anchor Kyle Helms dove into head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s ongoing quarterback competition, a record-setting group of team captains and a whole lot more. You can watch a full
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been suspended for the first six games of the 2025 season. According to ESPN, the NFL said on Wednesday that Rice accepted a six-game suspension for violating the personal conduct policy after he pleaded guilty to a 2024 Dallas crash. The suspension is without
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics is urging the Mizzou faithful to plan out their game day more than ever before, as renovations to the north end zone at Faurot Field will rage on through the 2025 football season. Although MU worked to make the changes to the game day experience as minimal as possible, there
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) To find success as a walk-on in college football, it takes a unique blend of skill, dedication, passion, grit and toughness. Even then, it’s not always guaranteed that you’ll carve out the role you would’ve hoped. Mizzou receiver Logan Muckey possesses and each every one of those qualities, plus an extra one
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two students are dead and 14 are injured after a deadly school shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school on Wednesday. This comes after several colleges across the country received fake reports of active shooters, according to a previous ABC 17 report. Chief Operating Officer for the Missouri School Board’s Association Center for
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and mild with lows in the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Gradually decreasing clouds throughout the day with mild temperatures around 80. EXTENDED: A few light showers could approach the Lake area tonight into tomorrow with more of the steady rainfall staying across southwest Missouri closer to low pressure. We’ll hold
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An organization will be announcing a lawsuit against University of Missouri President Mun Choi over the removal of Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine from last year’s homecoming parade. The Council of American-Islamic Relations will be announcing the lawsuit in a press conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday on the corner of Elm
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