JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said Missouri saw a voter turnout of 51% for Tuesday’s election. Ashcroft said his office was expecting 55-56% voter turnout. More than 2 million votes were cast in the election. Ashcroft said the total is down from the 2018 senate election. “I think that we’re
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Investigates the Mid-Missouri bus crash that injured 14 people on their way home from a church trip in Houston, Texas. Months later, questions still remain about the driver and the crash. With safety regulations in place to prevent overtired drivers, ABC 17 wants to know why the driver couldn’t
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A woman suspected in the killing of a Columbia man in 2019 has been arrested and is in a California jail, the Callaway County sheriff said Wednesday.
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Dan Viets — Missouri coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws — spoke with ABC17 on Wednesday to about what’s next after Amendment 3 passed. View the entire interview above.
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and breezy with lows in the lower 60s. TOMORROW: Breezy and warm to start with highs reaching in the mid-70s. Showers and storms move in by late afternoon, bringing a big cool down. EXTENDED: It will be breezy and warm to start the day with temperatures still managing to get into the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Amendment 3 passed Tuesday night making recreational marijuana legal for anyone 21 and older. The new law does not go into affect until Dec. 8. It will legalize marijuana for usage, sale, distribution and production. According to state officials, some shops may be able to start selling to the public as soon
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, Oliver Darcy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Elon Musk has publicly clashed with a growing number of Twitter employees about the state of the platform, and fired at least one of them in a tweet, in an unusually visible sign of corporate chaos after his $44 billion takeover of the influential company.
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Although Columbia Missouri official recorded a high of 82 degrees breaking a previous long standing record of 78 degrees, cold weather is just around the corner which means we will be eventually gearing up for our first snow event. With conditions quickly changing, drivers are not acclimated to wintery driving conditions.
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President Joe Biden addressed reporters Wednesday after appearing to withstand historic and political headwinds in the midterm elections, staving off resounding Republican wins even as his presidency is now likely entering a new period of divided government.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team opened up the regular season with a win against in-state foe Missouri State on Monday night. The victory snapped a three-game losing streak against the Bears, but also revealed MU’s team chemistry. Head coach Robin Pingeton returned five major contributors from last season in guards Lauren Hansen,
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN In many ways, the 2022 elections were an example of the plane landing safely. The fallout from former President Donald Trump‘s lies about the 2020 election — and the fraud conspiracy theories, hostility towards election officials and promises of combative poll watching activities those falsehoods produced
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN Democrats have clinched 50 seats in the Senate, but the stakes remain high for Georgia’s December 6 runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Neither candidate surpassed the 50% threshold needed to win the race outright in the November general election, forcing a runoff. But what exactly
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Darya Tarasova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russia has ordered a retreat from the key southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital it has captured since February’s invasion, in a dramatic strategic setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the face of Ukrainian advances in the region, Russian troops across the Kherson
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr and Kristen Holmes, CNN Donald Trump wanted to catapult himself into a third presidential campaign with a wave of Republican midterm gains behind him. Instead, he emerges from Tuesday’s underwhelming election night facing questions about his political future and with the momentum behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, potentially his potential chief nemesis
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates said he learned a lot about his team in the group’s season-opening win against Southern Indiana. He specifically pointed to how the group overcame adversity in the final minutes of Monday’s win. “No one pointed a finger at another. No one blamed one person. It is
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Boone County emergency dispatchers warned people Wednesday that they might see some smoke in the southern part of the county.
Continue ReadingToday: Afternoon highs look to reach or surpass 80 degrees beating long stand record highs. Skies remain mostly sunny with winds out of the south gusting up to 25 mph. Tonight: Skies become partly cloudy throughout the overnight hours as temperatures cool slowly into the mid 60s. Winds remain out of the south. Extended: A
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Members of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus are withholding their support for House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid and have begun to lay out their list of demands, putting the California Republican’s path to securing 218 votes in peril if the party ultimately takes the House with
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, CNN The story of President Joe Biden’s Election Night can be told by the two congratulatory messages he delivered roughly four hours apart. The first went to Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, the second to Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. Together, the messages represented an initial signal of an electorate that appears
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