COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Senate Republicans opted for a rarely used procedural measure Wednesday to stop debate and force votes on a ballot measure that would repeal Amendment 3, which enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, and a bill to repeal voter-approved sick leave requirements. Republican leaders put forward a “previous question” motion to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – In a press release Saturday morning, the Columbia Police Department announced they arrested 18-year-old Columbia man Kieran Piersee in connection to Friday night’s shooting on Moss Street. Piersee was charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. The statement also reported that police located a 32-year-old
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three boys were detained at a track meet on Tuesday night at Rock Bridge High School. One of the children was accused of threatening to shoot a Columbia Public Schools staff member, according to Columbia Police Department Assistant Chief Mark Fitzgerald. The other two boys were taken into custody for fighting. Police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sturgeon man was charged with murder Monday after a deadly weekend shooting in northern Boone County. Dalton R. Perkins, 31, was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and first-degree domestic assault in the death of a 56-year-old Sturgeon man. He plead not guilty in his arraignment Monday. The Boone County
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By Kaitlan Collins, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate national security adviser Mike Waltz to serve as UN ambassador, after widespread reports that Trump planned to oust him, in the first major staff shakeup since the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia has indefinitely suspended commercial and residential recycling pickup after the city’s recycling plant was damaged during a strong storm Sunday afternoon. Columbia Utilities spokesman Jason West said this also applies to the public drop-off centers, saying they will be unavailable to the public. Recycling workers have been asked not to report
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of customers lost power across Mid-Missouri as severe storms moved through the area and set off multiple tornado warnings. Nearly 4,000 Boone Electric Cooperative customers were without power as of 5:35 p.m. According to the outage map, the outages are happening near Hallsville and Columbia. Emergency managers also sent out
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors charged a Holts Summit woman Thursday with six felonies in a shooting that killed one person and left two others injured. Heather M. Smith, 37, was charged with second-degree murder, child endangerment, armed criminal action and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon. She was in the Callaway County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia stabbing victim told police that he interrupted his assailant trying to steal from him before the attack, according to court documents. Arthur W. Hooks, 70, was arrested Monday after police responded to a stabbing in the 2900 block of Leeway Drive in north Columbia. Prosecutors charged Hooks with first-degree assault,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was arrested following an hours-long standoff Friday at a West Columbia apartment complex has been charged with two felonies. Michael Whited, 59, of Columbia, was charged with second-degree making a terroristic threat, resisting arrest and three counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He was arrested on Friday and was brought
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested following a more-than-10-hour standoff Friday at an apartment complex in West Columbia. A standoff occurred as Ash Street Place Apartments, with its entrance just west of Stadium Boulevard, following a “weapons incident” around 8:30 a.m. Police said at 12:48 p.m. that a man had threatened people with a
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By Jesse Zanger Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS/WLNY) — A helicopter has crashed in the Hudson River, authorities said. The incident happened at roughly 3:15 p.m. Thursday. Multiple boats gathered could be seen gathering near Jersey City, not far from the Water’s Soul sculpture. A police helicopter was also on
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Continue ReadingBy John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Global markets on Thursday were severely rattled by President Donald Trump’s historic tariff announcement, which threatens to throw the US and the rest of the world into a recession. The Dow fell 1,679 points, or 3.98%. The broader S&P 500 was down by 4.84% and the tech-heavy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 18-year-old Columbia man was sentenced to more than two decades in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to felony murder in an elderly woman’s death. Jermarion Burnett-Howard had already pleaded guilty to felony murder and a gun charge in the killing of 72-year-old Janet Jago, who was gunned down outside her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and MU Health Care failed to reach a deal on Monday, according to a Monday news release from MU Health Care. The two sides had been in contentious negotiations for months with the intent to reach an agreement by Monday’s deadline. MU Health Care will no longer
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The alleged driver who led law enforcement on a car chase last week in Callaway County was arrested Wednesday in Jefferson City, the county sheriff’s office said. Dillion Johnson, 33, of Jefferson City, was arrested a little after 5 p.m. Wednesday after a foot chase in Jefferson City, according to a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of a University of Missouri fraternity member who died last year on a group trip to Nashville, Tennessee, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Delta Chi fraternity and its members. The lawsuit claims the fraternity’s MU chapter did not follow its protocols for keeping members safe during the
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By Kevin Liptak and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, seeking to fulfill decades of conservative ambition to get rid of the agency, but raising new questions for the country’s millions of public schools, student-loan holders and parents. No
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A North Carolina man convicted last month in a Columbia rape and assault from 1984 was sentenced Friday to two consecutive life sentences. A jury convicted Wilson of rape and first-degree assault for raping and repeatedly stabbing a 17-year-old girl in the throat in the 4000 block of Wellington Drive in northeast
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