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TODAY: An overcast sky is expected through much of the morning with milder morning temperatures in the upper 40s/low 50s. There is a chance of light rain by 7AM near HWY 65 and in central Mid-Missouri near Columbia by 9AM. Any rain that falls will only amount to a few hundredths of an inch of

Union representatives made another pitch Monday night to change the way city leaders negotiate. Groups representing city police officers, firefighters, laborers and police lieutenants met with the Columbia City Council and other staff members before Monday’s city council meetings. Each group supported the push for the city to enter into written contracts with the unions.

Police have been shot in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Des Moines, and even Missouri this year. In the wake of these shootings, ABC 17 News will show you how law enforcement officers are taught to make split-second, life-altering decisions every day. “No officer shows up to work and says today I want to use my handgun,”

Jefferson City officials are one step closer to revitalizing the blighted East Capitol Avenue area. Tuesday, the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners held a special meeting to update the urban renewal plan following several recommendations by the city’s planning and zoning commission. The board adopted three changes to the plan to return the area to

A Morgan County detective was contacted Tuesday by the Department of Children Services about a 2-year-old child who tested positive for methamphetamine. On Nov. 10, deputies and detectives searched a home on Green Hills road after a woman and her child failed to show up for a hair follicle test with the Missouri Department of

A emergency alert system for wounded officers could be coming to Missouri. Governor-elect Eric Greitens is calling for the Blue Alert, which would send out a emergency notification to capture the person responsible for shooting an officer. 27 other states already have the system, which is why the governor-elect says, “It’s time for Missouri to

A Kansas City, Kansas water park announced on Tuesday it will close the world’s tallest water slide following the death of a boy over the summer. Texas-based Schlitterbahn said it will permanently shut down Verrückt after Caleb Schwab, 10, the son of a Kansas state lawmaker, was killed while going down the slide in August.

A Fulton man has been charged in Callaway County after police say he tried to steal a woman’s purse. On Monday, Joseph Michael Wilson, 28, was charged with second-degree attempted robbery, second-degree domestic assault as a prior offender, and second degree property damage. Fulton police said they took a domestic assault report from Wilson’s estranged

A school bus crashed and killed at least five students Monday afternoon in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the bus driver is being charged with reckless driving and five counts of vehicular homicide, according to Chattanooga police. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s website says seat belts are not necessary on school buses because all

Between Oct. 1, 2015, and Oct. 1, 2016, the amount of vacancies at the Columbia Police Department has nearly doubled, public information officer Bryana Larimer said. Four of those positions were frozen until this year and recently opened up. The other four were newly created after Columbia Mayor Brian Treece pushed for money to be

A court is upholding the conviction of a Jefferson City daycare owner Tuesday and denying her appeal. Shelley Richter got five years in prison for endangering the welfare of a child. Back in 2010, she was accused of shaking a baby, leaving him brain damaged and blind. Richter’s daughter, Abigail Connell, was facing charges for

After threatening a judge and her husband in 2015, Frank Jindra’s sentence of serving five years of supervised probation has been agreed upon by courts. Jindra called and threatened to shoot Judge Leslie Schneider because she didn’t grant him a restraining order back in February of 2015. He also said that he was armed with

A former University of Missouri employee was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $781,000 from the school over a 13-year period. U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool sentenced Rathmann to four years in federal prison and ordered her to pay restitution of the full $781,000. Carla Rathmann of Mount Vernon entered a guilty

A new retail Break Time location is coming to Moberly. In an announcement by the Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation, Break Time, a division of MFA Oil, has committed to building a new location at the intersection of Highway 63, and Route M. The development will include a restaurant, convenience store, fuel pumps, as well

TONIGHT: Skies will remain overcast with spotty light rain or drizzle and slowly rising temperatures into the low 50s by Wednesday morning with south winds to 10 mph. WEDNESDAY: There is a chance of light rain in the morning with temperatures rising into the mid 50s by noon then dropping as winds shift to the

New details have surfaced regarding the County Park shooting on Monday in Jefferson City. Witnesses saw Jerry Dean Gill shoot at a female victim twice with a handgun. After Gill left the scene, the witnesses saw the victim lying on the ground, then get into a green truck. While responding to the call about the

Only minor injuries were reported in Japan following the 6.9m earthquake that shook the area near Fukushima and brought back traumatic memories for local residents. The earthquake was an aftershock of one of the world’s strongest earthquakes to ever shake the earth, the 9.0m earthquake that hit Japan in the same region 5 years ago.

UPDATE (1:15 p.m.): Head coach Barry Odom said Damarea Crockett is suspended for Missouri’s game vs. Arkansas this week. Odom said if his players are arrested during the season, the players will be suspended for that week’s game. UPDATE (11:29 a.m.): A Mizzou Football spokesperson said the program is aware of Crockett’s arrest and will

UPDATE 11/22: On Monday, detectives with the Columbia Police Department Vice Narcotics and Organized Crime (VNOC) Unit, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the East Central Drug Task Force and the United States Postal Inspectors served a narcotics-related search warrant at 1503 Lowe Street. The search warrant was issued after a package addressed to Dylan Parham with