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Two future Missouri Tigers landed big honors. Mizzou softball signees Tori Finucane (Gemantown, Md.) and Casey Stangel (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho) earned Gatorade Softball Player of the Year awards for their respective states of high school competition, the Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, recently announced. Both players have earned the title

The NCAA has released its annual Academic Progress Rates (APR) for member schools, and once again, the University of Missouri stands out among the very best. A review of the numbers for all Southeastern Conference schools shows that Mizzou leads the league in APR rate in four different sports, a figure which is tied for

Monday the Columbia board of education decided schools are safe enough without adding guns to holster of school safety and security personnel. Four board members voted against it while three members supported the proposal to arm the district director and assistant director of safety and security. “Our issue is to worry about those issues we

Boone County Sheriff’s deputies are working overtime hours now that the weather has warmed up and dried out, according to one detective. Tom O’Sullivan told ABC 17 News Tuesday the department sees its busiest season once schools let out, families go on vacation and the weather gets nicer. “Summertime is vacation time, people are gone

In a report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 750 children age 15 and younger will drown next year. About 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent. When a child is drowning, you won’t necessarily hear screams for help or even splashing. They’re unable to call for help because they’re

Boone County firefighters helped find a man who called to say he was lost early Wednesday. The man called from Pinnacles Park off Highway 63 near Sturgeon at around 2 a.m. Using GPS to track the man’s cell phone, firefighters found him around 4:30 a.m. They said he was a little dehydrated but otherwise okay.

Police are increasing their patrols in St. Louis City after 17 people were shot and one person was stabbed Monday night. Seventeen people were shot in seven different incidents, mainly in northern St. Louis. According to affiliate KTVI, four of the shooting victims are teenagers. All of the victims are expected to survive. In one

The principal of Columbia’s Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School will retire at the end of the month. Elaine Hassemer announced her retirement from Columbia Public Schools on Tuesday after serving 33 years with the district. In a statement, Hassemer said she will become the principal of Columbia Catholic School this fall. CPS said Adrienne Patton,

A Jefferson City man was seriously injured in a Tuesday morning accident on Missouri Route 94. According to the Jefferson City Police Department, a car and a motorcycle were traveling on the ramp from northbound Highway 54 to eastbound Route 94 around 8:45 a.m. When the car slowed to yield to oncoming traffic, the motorcycle

The suspect in an April murder appeared in court Tuesday. 24-year-old James Robert Thompson is accused of killing 46-year-old Brian Daniels. Daniels was found shot to death at his home on Cimarron Drive in Columbia. Thompson appeared during a preliminary hearing in a Boone County courtroom. The hearing was continued by both the prosecution and

Prosecutors have charged a Missouri man for child sexual exploitation and statutory sodomy. Law enforcement arrested Gary D. Foster, 53, of Linneus Monday after he allegedly took several sexually explicit photos of a 13-year-old boy near a Mid-Missouri state park. The Boone County and Kirksville Regional Cyber Crime Task Forces say the photos showed Foster

A Columbia high school student accused of changing another student’s name in a yearbook to a sexually suggestive term has been charged with a misdemeanor. 17-year-old Kaitlyn Booth, a Hickman High School junior, was arrested May 14 on suspicion of felony property damage and harassment. But online court records show the Boone County prosecutor on

A chronic DWI offender is in jail again after a crash in which police suspect he was intoxicated. Monday night, Fulton police were called out to a crash on Route F and Gaylord Drive. When police got to the scene, they found the car had been driven off Route F and down a grassy hill

Columbia school board members decided Monday night to not allow some school employees to be armed. Board members defeated a proposal 4 to 3 that would have allowed the director and assistant director of safety to conceal and carry guns. Both employees are retired police officers and would have been required to go through training

The Missouri State Highway Patrol released its annual school bus inspection report and found more than 11 percent of the buses failed inspection. Highway Patrol inspected 11,890 buses in the state. Out of those, 1,153 were deemed defective and 244 were placed out-of-service. Defective buses can still be used to transport students and school districts

The Missouri State Auditor’s Office released its audit of the Early Childhood Development, Education and Care (ECDEC) Fund. State Auditor Tom Schweich gave the program a “Poor” review. According to Schweich, three Start Up and Expansions (SUE) child care facilities received $171,500 in taxpayer money during the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years, but stopped participating

The Missouri Tiger basketball team revealed its entire 2013-14 non-conference schedule Monday. No times or television assignments have been set yet for these games: Nov. 8 SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA Columbia, Mo. Nov. 12 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Columbia, Mo. Nov. 16 Hawaii Kansas City, Mo. (Sprint Center) Nov. 23/25 TBA (Las Vegas Invitational Regional Rounds) Columbia, Mo. Nov.

Aid is pouring in for a New Florence couple after a tornado damaged their home beyond repair last week. On Sunday night, only ABC 17 News reported how the American Red Cross would no longer be able to help Kelly Morgan and her family. The agency reached their lending limit and could not provide housing

When school gets out and the free school lunch program ends, many children are left hungry in the summer months. However, one local group has a program that helps fight that problem. Lunch in the Park is a U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded service that provides free lunches every weekday for kids ages two through 18.

A Columbia man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the shooting death of a high school student near a city park. A Boone County jury convicted 20-year-old Anthony Graves last month of felony murder, armed criminal action and illegal use of a weapon. The victim, 17-year-old Deaudre Johnson, was killed in March