COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team extended its losing streak to nine games, on Tuesday, with a 66-45 loss to Ole Miss. Head coach Robin Pingeton and company now stand at 11-16 overall and 2-12 in conference play. You can watch the full postgame press conference with Pingeton in the video player below.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team is off to its best start to a season in quite some time. The Tigers are a Top-15 team, sitting a 13-2 overall. Head coach Larissa Anderson and company just got back to Columbia from the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic out in California, on Sunday. Anderson said the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team put itself in the history books in 2023. The Tigers finished 11-2 with a win in the Cotton Bowl and also recorded some of the program’s highest College Football Playoff rankings to date, including a Top-10 finish to the year. However, with the start of spring camp, that
Continue ReadingMid-Missouri has continued to be plagued by an increasing number of fires fueled by a variety of ingredients letting them spread more rapidly. One of the main factors leading to this uptick lately is tied to the long standing drought conditions we have seen over the past two years. The latest drought update from last
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and breezy with lows in the lower to mid-50s. A spot shower or two possible along I-44. TOMORROW: Warming up fast with gusty winds up to 35 mph. Highs in the lower 80s. Records across Mid-Missouri are in the mid-70s. EXTENDED: After another day of record-breaking warmth, we’ll be tracking a cold
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As roughly 30% of Missouri school districts have switched to four-day school weeks, a lawmakers aims to incentivize schools to keep students in class five days a week.
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TODAY: Afternoon highs reach into the lower 80s as winds remain out of the southwest at 10-15 mph with gusts up to 27 mph possible. Skies remain mostly sunny this afternoon. TONIGHT: Temperatures stay warm, in the 50s overnight, with partly cloudy skies. Clouds will increase into the sunrise hour as moisture moves into the
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A charred home in Columbia is still standing more than a month after a Columbia man was found dead inside.
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UPDATE: MONDAY MORNING UPDATE As of Monday morning, uncertainty is still high surrounding Tuesday night’s storms. If there’s any more certainty in the forecast, it is that the threat has shifted east, yet again. This likely means our “cap” is strong enough to prevent any storms ahead of the front. With this morning’s data, it’s
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TODAY: Monday brings near or above record warmth. The warmest February 26th on record came 28 years ago in 1996 when we hit 77 degrees in Columbia. The forecast for today is near 80 under mostly sunny skies. TONIGHT: Temperatures stay warm, in the 50s overnight, with partly cloudy skies. Clouds will increase into the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Reign held its first open-field practice all together as a team on Sunday afternoon as the club prepares to kick off a new era of semi-professional soccer in mid-Missouri. Back in October, the Missouri Reign merged with AFC Columbia, forming a partnership between the two soccer clubs. The women’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 200 Mid-Missouri wrestlers took center stage at Mizzou Arena over the weekend, as another year of the MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships are in the books. Out of those 200 athletes, 12 local wrestlers took home state championships. In addition to those state titles, one local team lifted up a trophy
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Sedalia police officers are recovering Sunday after an altercation with an armed suspect ended in gunfire. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, officers with the Sedalia Police Department were dispatched for a disturbance call in the 1000 block of State Fair Blvd. Two officers encountered James H. Kreisel, 28, of Sedalia armed with
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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. The two talked about the ongoing search for a new MU athletic director, after former AD Desiree Reed-Francois left for the same job at the University of Arizona, on Monday. “I
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo (KMIZ) Monday, the Missouri Department of Transportation will begin renovating the Callaway County Route BB bridge northwest of Tebbets for the Bridge Deck Replacement Project. Although the bridge, constructed in 1968, maintains a robust base, the deterioration of the deck necessitates this temporary shutdown. The closure is anticipated to significantly impact daily
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and chilly with lows in the lower 40s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Record high temperatures likely if we exceed 77 degrees. There will be an elevated fire danger as humidity will be low with gusty winds. EXTENDED: Strong winds kick up on Monday, pushing temperatures
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TODAY: Sunshine and winds increasing out of the south will pose a slight fire risk across Missouri with humidity dropping lower than 30% this afternoon. This setup will also push high temperatures up to the low 70s. TOMORROW: Monday remains warm and breezy with temperatures climbing several more degrees. There’s a chance to reach or
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The Columbia Police Department has been solving crimes at a better rate the past couple of years but is still struggling with too few officers and slower responses to calls, according to official data.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the first time in more than 80 years, Hickman Wrestling has earned a team trophy at the MSHSAA State Championships. The Kewpies ended the tournament with a fourth place finish and two state champions. Helias and Rolla also each had a wrestler win a state title. Mizzou Wrestling commit Hank Benter
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were several grass fires Saturday, and firefighters expect more grass fires due to high winds and dry weather in the coming week. On Saturday afternoon, there was a grass fire in Hallsvile, Mo. in the 5100 block of Kemper Road. ABC 17 News was on scene and saw three fire trucks
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