BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The former executive director of Unlimited Opportunities Inc. has been charged with a felony after she was accused embezzling nearly $50,000. Jennifer Waibel, of Boonville, was charged on Monday in Cooper County with stealing more than $25,000. A warrant was issued for her arrest on Monday and a $10,000 bond was set.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Benton County official has an arraignment scheduled in his child sex crime case. Richard Lenno, of Lincoln, Missouri, waived his preliminary hearing on Monday when he appeared in court. He is charged with child enticement of a youth younger than 15 years old and sexual misconduct involving a child younger
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been arrested and charged after he was accused of robbing someone at knifepoint on June 18 in downtown Columbia. Jordan Thompson, 28, of Columbia, was charged on Monday with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two wrongful death lawsuits in a 2022 Amtrak crash have been settled. The crash with a dumptruck killed four people and injured dozens more in June 27, 2022, near Mendon, Missouri. Settlements have been reached in wrongful death lawsuits filed by the families of Rachelle Cook and Kim Holsapple. There are two other lawsuits
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager was charged as an adult with murder in Randolph County on Monday, a year after he was accused of shooting a man to death. Da’Caveon W. Nelson, 17, has been certified as an adult. Prosecutors have asked that he be brought to the Randolph County Jail from the Clay
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors on Monday. John Patrick Wallace pleaded guilty in Callaway County to impersonating a law enforcement officer and fourth-degree assault. He was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation. Wallace was originally charged in January with impersonating a law enforcement officer, fourth-degree assault, attempting to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man pleaded guilty on Monday to multiple counts in relation with a fatal crash in July, according to a press release from the Audrain County prosecutor’s office. Joshua Frye, 24, of Mexico, Missouri, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated resulting in the death of two people, reckless driving and DWI
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than six years after a string of homicides and gun violence struck Columbia, police and the former mayor spoke with ABC 17 News about a violent September. “I think I referred to it at the time as a hurricane of violence that was circling our community,” former Columbia Mayor Brian Treece
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with several felonies after he allegedly caused several serious injuries for people in another vehicle after a crash on Oct. 3. D’Angelo Larkin was charged Monday in Boone County with three counts of second-degree assault, one count of leaving the scene of an accident and three counts
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman was arrested on Saturday morning after authorities say she threatened to kill her two children while she was livestreaming on TikTok. Elena Lujan, 30, was charged with child abuse. She is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. An arraignment was scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday.
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Four months after a 23-year-old woman was shot and killed in Moberly, the suspected gunman has posted bond, according to the Macon County Jail.
David Kip Heyde, 68, of Moberly, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Bailey Scott.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A mistrial was declared in a Columbia child sex crime case after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on Thursday. Francisco Rutiaga-Santoyo, 49, is charged with two counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and one count of first-degree child molestation. He is being held at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty in September to firing six shots at another man last year during a fit of road rage. Nathan Griffin, 34, pleaded guilty on Sept. 12 in Boone County court to first-degree assault and two counts of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two women who were previously charged with hindering a felony prosecution that ended with deputies exchanging gunfire with a homicide suspect have been charged with murder. Lois Armour, 78, and Patty Armour, 51, both of Paris, Missouri, were both charged in Monroe County on Friday with second-degree felony murder. They are both
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County Judge on Friday decided to give bond to a man accused of killing a teenager in a crash last week. Jervontaye Warmack, 32, was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of child endangerment and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. He was previously held without bond, but Judge Joseph Shetler
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree murder and first-degree assault, according to a Friday social media post from the Phelps County prosecutor. Joseph Snow, 35, will be sentenced at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, the post says. He was previously charged with first-degree murder, two counts of
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A bench trial has been scheduled in a Moberly homicide case. David Kip Heyde, 68, of Moberly, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Bailey Scott. Heyde waived his right to a jury trial on Friday and a bench trial was scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged in Morgan County on Friday after he allegedly threatened to distribute nude photographs of a teenage girl. Bryce Martin, 20, of Stover, was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of having child porn. He is being held at the Morgan County Jail on a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with first-degree assault after he allegedly attacked a person the morning of Nov. 1 in downtown Columbia. Quashawn Rush, 27, is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court appearance was scheduled for Friday. The probable cause statement says Rush attacked the victim at
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Cole County’s top prosecutor said Friday that the investigation is ongoing into a shooting that took a man’s life last weekend in Jefferson City. Prosecutor Locke Thompson issued a statement Friday morning about the investigation into the shooting of Erik Spencer II, who died after being shot in a business parking
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