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Elledge sentenced to 28 years in prison
A Boone County judge has sentenced Joseph Elledge to 28 years in prison for the murder Mengqi Ji.
Continue ReadingA Boone County judge has sentenced Joseph Elledge to 28 years in prison for the murder Mengqi Ji.
Continue ReadingProsecutors have charged Kourtney Aumen and three other people in the December 2020 death of 4-year-old Jessica Mast.
Continue ReadingCAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kaiser teenager was hurt after a crash on eastbound Highway 54 in Camden County on Thursday night. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 11:50 p.m. near the 117.6-mile marker. Troopers said the 15-year-old driver was thrown from the car after he failed to go around
Continue ReadingMissouri, Louisiana Attorney General’s Offices to Present Oral Arguments in Biden v. Missouri/Becerra v. Louisiana
Continue ReadingPolice have arrested a man they suspect of shooting four people in downtown Columbia early New Year’s Day.
Continue ReadingOfficers arrested Brandon L. Welty, 25, of Columbia, after a fight among three people near the intersection of Ninth and Cherry streets, University of Missouri police said.
Continue ReadingAn Audrain County armed robbery suspect was arrested in Jefferson City following a weeks-long investigation.
Continue ReadingMissouri’s Attorney General says he has filed another lawsuit against St. Louis County’s mask mandate.
Continue ReadingDeputies are seeking the public’s help to find Gianni D. Hodo, 30, of Columbia after a woman was assaulted east of Columbia.
Continue ReadingCALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Callaway County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a Kingdom City man after a vehicle chase early on Monday morning. Prosecutors charged Jared B. Evans, 33, with felony resisting arrest, two felony counts of second-degree assault on a special victim, and other crimes. According to the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office, deputies started
Continue ReadingA Jefferson City man has entered a guilty plea to two counts of sexual misconduct involving a child according to the Cole County prosecutor.
Continue ReadingCALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County grand jury has indicted a man accused of a deadly 2020 crash. Jurors indicted John R. Meissert Jr., of Auxvasse, last week on felony charges of driving while intoxicated that resulted in the death of another person and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in a
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department confirmed to ABC 17 News four people were shot outside the area of at Silverball Bar on Ninth Street in downtown Columbia on Saturday morning. Police were called to the scene because of a fight and were seen investigating around 1 a.m. Three people shot in the area
Continue ReadingMILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge has approved a request to move the trial of a man accused in a Lake of the Ozarks biker club shooting. Miller County Judge Aaron Koeppen granted the change of venue request for Tonka Ponder at an arraignment hearing on Tuesday. The case will now move to St. Charles
Continue ReadingThe Public Safety Committee unanimously voted Thursday morning to move forward with hiring incentives.
Continue ReadingAccording to a Facebook post from the sheriff’s office, Elio Regalado, 28, of Longview, Texas, ran from New Florence police officers during a traffic stop at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday near Love’s Truck Stop.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a man after a deadly November 2020 shooting in Columbia. Prosecutors charged Isaiah C. Brunson, 19, with second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance on Wednesday in the death of 19-year-old Jermaine Spain. Police said Spain was shot and killed at Cosmo
Continue ReadingA jury has reached a verdict in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and close associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict will be read in court shortly.
Continue ReadingA suspect pleaded not guilty in a deadly Columbia crash.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Harrisburg man was sentenced to 11 years in a Missouri correctional facility after pleading guilty in the hit and run death of a Columbia man in the 1400 block of Range Line Street on June 29, 2019. Charles Waddill will serve seven years for leaving the scene of an accident involving
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