COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of showdowns against Top-3 teams in the nation opened up Southeastern Conference action for No. 7 Mizzou gymnastics, in 2026…and they aren’t done, yet. On Friday night, MU will host No. 2 LSU at Mizzou Arena for its third Top-3 clash in as many weeks. Head coach Shannon Welker said
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A bye week could not have come at a more perfect time for the Mizzou women’s basketball team, as the group has been grappling with injuries through Southeastern Conference action. However, the seven-day stretch that head coach Kellie Harper and team have between their next game is being used very intentionally. During
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Editor’s note: The story has been updated to better reflect the use of the home. FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people died in an assisted care home fire on Tuesday in Fayette. The fire engulfed the building on Villers Drive behind Perkins Residential Care Center on Main Street in Fayette on Tuesday morning, Fayette co-fire chief
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds but clearing late, lows in the single digits. TOMORROW: Cold to start with more sunshine in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s. EXTENDED: Tomorrow morning will be cold to start the day behind a weak cold front with lows in the single digits, but the afternoon will be nice again as
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By Wednesday afternoon, the Cole County Commission will decide if it will ask Hawthorn Bank to pause an upcoming land auction, just 11 days away.
Lawrence Renn Jr. left his 178-acre Elston farmland to become a county park. He created a trust, leasing the land to the county after his death in 2021.
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After the brutal cold this weekend, areas across Central Missouri are finally starting to experience at least some relief. Even though this relief is taking over, it won’t last long, and there may be additional factors that could push the forecast toward a more frigid outcome than some models suggest. The main culprit will be
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THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny and cold, with temperatures staying below freezing and wind chills in the 20s and teens. Winds from the northwest may be breezy at times, reaching up to 20 mph. TONIGHT: Skies remain mostly clear overnight, with temperatures dropping into the single digits and wind chills falling a few degrees below zero. Winds
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers women’s basketball team is preparing for a two-game road trip. The Tigers will take on Mississippi State on Sunday, then travel to Arkansas next week.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of 85 people was called to the Boone County Courthouse on Tuesday to potentially decide the fate of a woman charged in the death of a baby in 2023. Sarah Brown is charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, a felony, in connection with the death of a 3-month-old in Columbia in
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TODAY: Tuesday is notably warmer than Tuesday, with temperatures expected to reach the upper 20s to near 30 by the afternoon. Winds have been from the south overnight, which has warmed the region into the teens, if not the 20s, early, but northwest winds arrive this morning and will keep us mostly out of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Seven conference games down, 11 to go for Mizzou men’s basketball as head coach Dennis Gates and his team look to make the push needed to make the program’s second-straight NCAA Tournament. A ranked clash in Tuscaloosa will kickoff a critical stretch of games for the Tigers, as the group came into
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Growing up in St. Louis in the ’90s for Lonnie Lockhart Bey wasn’t easy. He was met with challenges and hardships that led him down a path he hadn’t planned. That adversity eventually led to him becoming affiliated with a gang. Lockhart Bey says the word “affiliated” is key. “One of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of college students in Columbia are hoping to tackle important issues in the city through a new advisory council. The Columbia Collegiate Advisory Council met for the first time Monday night at city hall. The board is composed of nine college students, three of which are from the University of
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cold with lows near 10 degrees. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the upper 20s. EXTENDED: We’ll stay above zero tonight with lows falling into the upper single digits to around 10 as the coldest air shifts east. As this arctic high presses east on Tuesday, southwest winds will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After Mid-Missouri was blanketed with 5-9 inches of snow this past weekend, Columbia road crews faced challenges clearing streets because of frigid temperatures early Monday. A spokesperson for Columbia Public Works told ABC 17 News temperatures dropped to minus 8 degrees Monday morning, preventing much of the salt from effectively reacting with
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Some Mid-Missouri plumbers are seeing more frozen pipes in unconditioned spaces than usual.
MasterTech Plumbing, Heating and Cooling in Columbia says it received about 80 emergency overnight calls through the weekend — about double what they would typically — and continued to respond to calls for frozen pipes on Monday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Around 10 people gathered on Monday near the Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia to honor a man who was killed on Saturday by federal agents in Minneapolis. Candles were present, one person waved a flag that read “Defend Democracy,” another held up a photo of a man, while another
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Friday night house fire in Mexico, Missouri, was likely caused by an overloaded electrical circuit, according to a news release. The fire led to heavy damage in the attic of a home in the 500 block of West Robinson Street, the Mexico Department of Public Safety wrote in the release. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As tensions continue to rise between protestors and law enforcement across the nation, two Missouri activist groups remain faithful to their causes, with one even telling ABC 17 News that recent events have led to more people joining the crowds. Saturday marked the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen this month
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THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny and cold with highs in the mid-teens, wind chills in the low single digits. TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cold with morning lows in the upper single digits. EXTENDED: Bitter air hangs around today as temperatures only make the mid-teens, but a wind shift to the southwest will keep us above zero overnight
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