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Labor shortage is affecting emergency services response times
An ongoing labor shortage is to blame for longer response times for emergency services in both 911 dispatchers and Columbia Police Department.
Continue ReadingAn ongoing labor shortage is to blame for longer response times for emergency services in both 911 dispatchers and Columbia Police Department.
Continue ReadingMONROE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Monroe City man is sentenced to 30 years in prison and must serve at least 25 and a half years before being eligible for parole. Jerry Asbell, Jr., 31, entered a guilty plea to the charge of murder in the second degree for the shooting death of Amanda Johnston, 32,
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) A Columbia woman told ABC 17 News crews she awoke to gunshots at around 4 a.m on Sunday, and found her front door blown down shortly after. Joyce Godbee and her daughter were home at the time of the incident, she said no one in her home was injured during the shooting.
Continue ReadingOn Saturday around 4:30 a.m., Columbia Police were called out to the 1500 block of Raleigh Drive to investigate a possible shooting.
Continue ReadingFormer governor and current Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens and his ex-wife Sheena Greitens did not publicly testify during a hearing Friday in their family court case.
Continue ReadingThe Austin American-Statesman dominated headlines nationwide this week when it released surveillance video from inside the elementary school in Uvalde where a gunman massacred children and teachers.
Continue ReadingA Tipton man is facing multiple drug charges after a drug investigation in Sept. 2021 in Jefferson City.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The suspect that allegedly called in a bomb threat to a daycare in Columbia faces new charges including revenge porn in a new probable cause statement. A Boone County prosecutor has charged Alexzander Green with making a false report and non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images. On May 11, 2021, Green reported
Continue ReadingA former official in the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering has been charged with stealing from the school after investigations by MU and the highway patrol.
Continue ReadingA Cole County prosecutor has charged Curtin Burton and Michaela Cook-Burton with four counts of abuse or neglect of a child.
Continue ReadingThe executive director of The Loop Carrie Gartner told us they recovered the artwork sometime Wednesday.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City couple was charged in federal court with video recording their sexual assault of a 4-year-old victim. Paul Emerson Schofield, 33, and Sara Ellen Schofield, 29, each was charged in separate criminal complaints filed in the U.S. District Court in Jefferson City. The federal criminal complaints charge the Schofields
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of the parents accused of killing their baby in 2017 and abandoning the body in a backpack, is back in Boone County. Staffone Fountain was in court Thursday. He and the baby’s mother Lavosha Daniels are charged in the baby’s murder. The judge revealed Fountain allegedly killed the baby by strangulation. This is a case
Continue ReadingThe Columbia Police Department is investigating an overnight shooting in southeast Columbia.
Continue ReadingLaw enforcement in Columbia and Boone County are trained to do whatever is necessary to stop an active shooter threat and they said the practice is to move in without waiting for a response.
Continue ReadingThree people are facing multiple charges after an alleged drug deal that went bad resulted in a 23-month-old boy with a bullet grazing his foot in Sedalia on Friday evening.
Continue ReadingA popular art piece has been recovered after it was stolen from Columbia Senior Activity Center off of Business Loop 70 East on Wednesday morning.
Continue ReadingA federal grand jury indicted a U.S. Army staff sergeant based at Fort Leonard Wood for sexual exploitation of children and receiving child pornography.
Continue ReadingA Columbia man is facing two criminal charges after he led police on a vehicle chase Friday afternoon in west Columbia that ended near the on-ramp to eastbound Interstate 70 from Stadium Boulevard.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Jefferson City women face multiple charges after an alleged large fight with several other women on Saturday morning. A Cole County prosecutor has charged Janiya Rucker, 18, and Tawanna Jullous, 34, with second-degree assault, armed criminal action and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Janiya Rucker Jefferson City police
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