COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge took the jury’s recommendation Friday, sentencing a Columbia psychologist to seven years in state prison for child sex crimes. Kurt Bumby was convicted of two counts of second-degree sodomy connected to events in 2010 and 2011. A victim told authorities in 2019 that he and Bumby had a sexual relationship
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The first trial date has been set against the defendants accused in connection with a University of Missouri fraternity pledge’s alcohol poisoning in October 2021.
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The trial of a man accused of killing a Central Methodist University football player last summer has moved from Howard County to Cooper County.
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A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who has emerged as a main person of interest in the disclosure of highly classified military documents was taken into custody Thursday by federal agents, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced.
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A neighbor of a salvage yard that burned in a wildfire in northern Boone County on Wednesday was arrested at the scene.
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Jasmine King, a 22-year-old Jefferson City woman, became a victim of deadly domestic violence Monday night when the father of her child stabbed her in her apartment bedroom, police say.
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Cole County’s top prosecutor said Wednesday that his office will seek the death penalty against a Jefferson City man charged this week with the murder of his child’s mother.
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A man charged in a shooting outside a Columbia gas station this week told police that he fired in self-defense, according to court documents.
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A man accused in connection with a shooting that badly injured a Jefferson City woman was charged Tuesday with six felonies, including attempted voluntary manslaughter.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Prescription drug take-back events are occurring around Mid-Missouri. One will occur 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Jefferson City Police Department. The event is part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 24th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The DEA and its partners will collect tablets, capsules patches and other
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Police arrested a suspect Tuesday in a shooting on the University of Missouri’s Homecoming weekend last year in Columbia.
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Columbia Public Schools leaders are considering a new security enhancement in district high schools.
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LAURIE, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against the City of Laurie, claiming the city allows police officers to target drivers who let others on the road know about speed traps by flashing their headlights. No court dates have been announced, yet. The city has been summoned. In court documents,
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Jefferson City police say they’ve arrested a man after finding a woman dead with stab wounds Monday.
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Columbia Public Schools demonstrated a “touchless” weapons detection system Tuesday in response to high school students’ calls for increased safety amid frequent school shootings.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cole County Sheriff’s Department announced in a press release that a man was arrested after his girlfriend was shot in the head on Tuesday morning. Around 7:14 a.m. Tuesday, deputies responded to a call in the 100 block of Bourbon Street. A woman was crying on the call to EMS,
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Columbia police said Tuesday that they’ve arrested two people in connection with a shooting outside a gas station in the Conley Road area.
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LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) A Lake Ozark man was arrested following a Monday chase that ended with his vehicle crashing into a loading ramp, according to a social media release from the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. Timothy Crowley, 38, is being held at the Miller County Jail on a $75,000 bond, according to the jail’s
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Editor’s note: This story was corrected to say Durbin met the alleged victim on March 23. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An MSHP trooper is facing multiple charges. Jeffery Gilmore Durbin, 30, of Madison, Missouri, is charged with first-degree sexual abuse, a felony, and third-degree kidnapping, a misdemeanor. Durbin was booked into the Boone County Jail on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A hearing for three men accused in the hazing incident that left a University of Missouri student disabled had a hearing on Monday. Samuel J. Morrison, Blake A. Morsovillo and John James O’Neill are charged with hazing – life endangerment. A motion to continue was filed and granted. Morsovillo and O’Neill are
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