COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Local after-school organizations are raising alarms about the Education Department’s plan to withhold nearly $7 billion in funds for the next fiscal year. Those funds include money for programs such as the Boys and Girls Club. If the funding is not released, Boys and Girls Clubs across the country could face widespread
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TODAY: Chances of showers and storms increase into the afternoon hours. These storms will have potential to produce locally heavy rain and isolated damaging winds. Rain keeps temperatures cooler, with highs generally in the mid-80s but some may be cooler under the best rainfall. TONIGHT: Overnight, our weather will become quiet. Temperatures should fall into
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Starting Tuesday night, a traffic shift will occur on Eastbound I-70 in Columbia, between Paris Road and Highway 63, as the Missouri Department of Transportation continues the Improve I-70 Project. MoDOT has completed new lanes in the median between Eastbound and westbound I-70 and will begin reconstructing the existing Eastbound lanes. For
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TODAY: Tuesday brings a chance for rain once in the morning as a weakening line of storms pushes into the region from the northwest. This rain chance will wane through the morning as it dies out, but a renewed chance for storms will come along the same outflow during the afternoon. These storms will have
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(Editor’s note, 7/8: This story has been updated with a new quote from Presiding Commissioner Kip Kendrick.) COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone Health is seeking a partner to help it expand, according to the independent system’s top executive. Boone Health announced on Tuesday its search for a possible new “strategic partner.” Boone Health wants to find
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Summer workouts are in full swing around the state of Missouri, as the 2025 high school football season is right around the corner. Out at Hickman High School, the Kewpies are in a vastly different position than they were just one season ago when summer practices hit, as they are set to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 has been activated by FEMA to assist in rescue operations following catastrophic flooding in Texas’ Guadalupe River. The Boone County Fire Protection District announced the deployment Monday afternoon. At least 95 people have died in the flooding, according to reporting from CNN. The task force will focus on
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The Moberly Police Department said it was investigating a shooting in the 900 block of East Logan Street around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, according to a social media post.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tractor-trailer lost control and folded in on itself on Interstate 70 near Kingdom City on Monday. The truck and trailer have the Hogan logo on them. The crash happened Monday afternoon and ended with the trailer blocking both eastbound lanes, a photograph shows. It’s not clear how the crash started. Both
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TONIGHT: A few storms early, with a decaying storm complex moving in by daybreak. Lows in the upper 60s to around 70. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and humid with highs in the mid-80s. Scattered storms developing along a stalled frontal boundary by late afternoon. A few storms could produce brief heavy rain and isolated strong downburst
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TODAY: We start out our work week with a fairly dry day and temperatures reaching the upper 80s. We’ll hang out to partly cloudy skies for most of the day, with low chances of storms heading into the afternoon. TONIGHT: As we head into the night, temperatures are expected to drop to the lower 70s.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation will begin nightly lane closures of U.S. 63 near Grindstone Parkway for interchange improvements. From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. until July 14, MoDOT will be closing one lane northbound on U.S. 63 to prepare for outside lane widening. Construction on New Haven Road has been postponed
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TODAY: Monday feels like summer, with highs in the 80s, feeling like near 90 with continued summer humidity. A few storms are possible this afternoon, but most of the day is dry under partly cloudy skies. Winds are light and variable with a stationary front draped across the region. TONIGHT: Skies remain partly cloudy overnight.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou women’s basketball star Grace Slaughter in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can find a full transcript of the interview below. You can also watch the full conversation on ABC 17 SportsZone at 10:30 on KMIZ. NATHALIE JONES: Welcome back everyone, it
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TONIGHT: Scattered storms diminishing late with mostly cloudy skies and lows falling into the upper 60s to around 70. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny, warm and humid with a few storms possible by mid-late afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. EXTENDED: Scattered storms diminish late tonight as we lose daytime heating, but tomorrow looks to be warm
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Nearly 500 Co-Mo Electric Cooperative customers are without power in Moniteau County.
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TODAY: Isolated storms are possible in the morning, with storm coverage increasing along and south of I-70 in the early afternoon. Temperatures climb to the mid-80s, and humidity pushes the heat index into the mid-90s. Storm chances decrease overnight as we lose the heat of the day. TOMORROW: Monday starts dry and sunny, but showers
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The Boone County Fire Protection District and Missouri State Highway Patrol tell ABC 17 News they have already responded to multiple calls over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking scattered storms lasting into the evening, slowly falling apart through the overnight hours. Temperatures will be dropping into the low 70s by the end of the night as winds shift into the northwest at 7-10 mph with gusts up to 15 mph. TOMORROW: I’m tracking more storms redeveloping along and south of
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TODAY: Sunny in the morning, with clouds rolling in before the afternoon. Temperatures will reach the upper 80s to near 90 degrees, with the heat index climbing into the mid-90s. Scattered rain chances increase after 3 PM from west to east, and isolated showers and storms persist late overnight. TOMORROW: Sunday starts out dry for
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