COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone county probable cause statement reveals what allegedly happened during a domestic disturbance Tuesday night. According to the probable cause statement, the victim told Columbia Police that Marcus Beals strangled the victim multiple times Tuesday. In the court documents Beals allegedly stated “I’m going to kill you…” The victim said that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) OATS Transit has received a $1,000 community service grant from the Community Foundation of Central Missouri. Officials with OATS says the grant will be used toward transportation for seniors and individuals with disabilities in Boone County. “We are truly grateful to the Community Foundation of Central Missouri during this challenging time,” said
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UPDATE: Missouri State Highway Patrol has canceled the Amber Alert. Officials say the vehicle and child were located. The child is safe. No suspect has been found. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued the following Amber Alert out of Lee’s Summit, Mo. Law enforcement is looking for a black 2010 Dodge Journey
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Continue ReadingSEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — Pettis County in west-central Missouri has elected a new sheriff who campaigned in part on criticism of the incumbent sheriff’s handling of the fatal shooting of a Sedalia woman by a deputy over the summer. The Kansas City Star reports that Brad Anders, a sergeant with the Lee’s Summit Police Department,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are back at work to make sure more than $1.1 billion in federal coronavirus aid gets where it needs to go throughout the state. The special legislative session began Thursday. Republican Gov. Mike Parson called lawmakers back to the Capitol to give his administration the authority to spend the
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The amount of water being released into the Missouri River from a key dam on the Nebraska-South Dakota border will be reduced later this month. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that the amount of water flowing out of Gavins Point Dam will be reduced starting on Nov. 22 by
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis election official who worked at a polling place on Election Day despite a positive test for the coronavirus has now died, raising concerns for the nearly 2,000 people who voted there. St. Charles County, Missouri, spokeswoman Mary Enger said in a news release Thursday that the person,
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson plans to hold a briefing Thursday afternoon to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Health Care is extending its Saturday morning drive-thru flu shot clinic for the next two weeks at its South Providence Medical Park. The clinics were going to end last Saturday but will continue through Nov. 14. The event offers car-side flu shots to anyone six months and older from 8 a.m.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 3 million Missourians cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election. The turnout exceeded the previous high mark of 2.9 million voters in the 2008 presidential election. But the 70% turnout rate fell a little short of the 75% threshold that had been forecast by local election officials. The state’s
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Click here for updates on this story WASHBURN, MO (KHBS) — The Pea Ridge Fire Department helped bring at least three children to the hospital after a house fire and explosion in southwest Missouri. The White Rock Fire District responded to a house fire and explosion in Washburn, Missouri, a town less than 20 miles
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Vice President Joe Biden won in Boone County but the margin was much smaller than the one President Donald Trump enjoyed in Cole and Callaway counties. Biden took about 55% of the presidential votes in reliably Democratic Boone County, getting 49,999 of the 91,200 votes cast. Trump garnered about 38,600 votes.
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Missouri voters passed Amendment 3 Tuesday, undoing changes to how the state draws congressional and state legislative districts.
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Democratic state Auditor Nicole Galloway told supporters Tuesday night that she hoped her campaign was one they could take pride in despite her loss to Republican Gov. Mike Parson.
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Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis woman was distraught that people dying of COVID-19 in her area were being remembered less for who they were than as statistics of the pandemic, so she decided to do something about it. Jessica Murray launched a website in June to honor St. Louis area lives lost to
Continue ReadingAFFTON, Mo. (AP) — Police say an 85-year-old woman crossing the street to vote was hit and killed by a car in St. Louis County. Sgt. Benjamin Granda said the woman was walking to get to a polling place inside the Affton Community Center about 6 a.m. Tuesday when she was hit. Her name has
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the conviction and 10-year sentence for a businessman who ran a $220 million predatory payday lending operation that cheated over a half-million people nationwide. The ruling Tuesday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed the 2018 sentencing of Richard Moseley Sr., of Kansas City,
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