CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A co-owner of a Columbia restaurant who was wanted for second-degree arson has been booked into — and since released from — the Cape Girardeau County Jail. Crystal Umfress, 42, co-owner of Casa Maria’s Mexican Cantina, is facing arson charges for her alleged role in starting a fire at a restaurant
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman has been charged after authorities claim she unlawfully took more than $19,000 in SNAP benefits and made false statements on the program’s applications. Andrea Rhoden, 33, was charged in Boone County on Wednesday with stealing $750 or more and unlawfully receiving public assistance. She was not in the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A federal review of the University of Missouri’s plan to demolish a building with radioactive contamination could take until 2025 to complete. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission began its technical review this summer for the plan to demolish Pickard Hall. The NRC said its review of the different aspects of MU’s plan could
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Saturday, the University of Missouri football team will face off against LSU; and while the Tigers are gearing up for the game, so is Tiger Towing. Tiger Towing has been contracted by the University of Missouri to tow cars that are parked illegally. “We’ll be busy throughout the entire day between
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Beginning Thursday, the Columbia Regional Airport will be offering an additional, but temporary, flight to Chicago through October 27th. The flight will depart daily from COU at 11:45 a.m. and land in Chicago around 1:17 p.m. American Airlines says the new mid-morning flight is part of a temporary increase in flights. Currently,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor said he will start his review of a deadly Columbia police shooting that happened in August. Police were called twice to The Landing — an apartment complex on Campusview Drive in south Columbia — on Aug. 4. A man who reported being suicidal was killed after shooting at officers,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused of deceptive businesses pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday. Mark Doninelli, 47, was charged with five counts of forgery, four counts of second-degree odometer fraud, deceptive business practice, intent to defraud by failing to make a sales tax return, stealing a motor vehicle and stealing involving a
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Columbia College will slash its workforce as part of a restructuring meant to adapt to changes in higher education, the private college said in a statement Wednesday.
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Lawmakers, business leaders and business owners from across Missouri gathered for a discussion on an issue plaguing Missouri’s economy: child care.
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A lawyer for a Columbia restauranteur accused of arson in southeast Missouri is trying to negotiate her surrender in Boone County, court documents show.
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The federal Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine $16 million to help train new doctors to work in parts of rural Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cosmo Park has seen a large number of calls to police since the beginning of the year. According to online records from the Columbia Police Department 6-hour Dispatch Log, there have been 211 calls to the park since Jan. 1. Nearly a quarter of those calls have come within the past two
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Four Mizzou Club Swim teammates are recovering in the ICU after the deadly pile-up crash in Illinois over the weekend.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Those in abusive relationships who have a “secret phone” should turn their phones off before a nationwide EAS test Wednesday, according to a Tuesday Facebook post from the Boone County Office of Emergency Management. A national emergency alert test will be sent to cellphones around the country at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday. The
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MU Health Care has reached an agreement with hospitals in Moberly and Kirksville that will expand its presence to northeast Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Prosecutors charged a man on Monday for allegedly shooting another person at a Columbia park over the weekend. The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office charged Terron D. Shelton Jr. with assault and armed criminal action. Columbia police believe he shot a man at Cosmo Park on Saturday night during a large gathering.
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It’s the city’s latest idea to take on violent crime.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) At Monday night’s City Council meeting, Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe proposed a new office for violence prevention. The decision comes after a 3-year-old was shot in Columbia on Sept. 24. Buffaloe was on a bike ride with her daughter when she received the news. “I got that phone call, right when I
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) At Monday night’s Columbia City Council meeting, city officials approved a resolution to give funding to make a once seasonal homeless shelter open year-round. The council approved a resolution aimed at keeping Room at the Inn at 1509 Ashley Street open year round, beginning Oct. 29. According to the council memo, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday for a new addition to the MU Research Reactor. The $20 million, three-story addition to the existing MURR North Building is being referred to as MURR West, according to a press release from the university. The building will expand the facility’s research and medical isotope production
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