COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 75-year-old woman from Villa Ridge, Missouri, was seriously injured Friday in a crash on Highway 54 at Quarry Road, an area southwest of Jefferson City, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the driver of a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado – driven by the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police put up crime scene tape around one of the parking lots of a southern Columbia apartment complex on Friday night. Officers were in the parking lot of The Collective, located on Aspen Heights Parkway. Columbia Police Department spokesman Colin Imhoff told ABC 17 News that police responded to a call of
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By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court reversed a terrorism-related conviction for the 2017 New York City subway bomber in a decision that could have wide-reaching effects for the prosecutions of accused terrorists. Akayed Ullah detonated a pipe bomb inside a busy Manhattan transit station in 2017, causing panic among commuters and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Head coach Eli Drinkwitz has his first players selected in the 2026 NFL Draft Mizzou edge rusher Zion Young was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round with the 45th pick in the NFL draft. He is the first player selected from the Tigers roster this season. During his senior
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone Health says it is moving forward with its split from Missouri Heart Center. Boone Health spokesman Christian Basi wrote in an email on Friday that the hospital is transitioning data for thousands of patients and that three-dozen staff members and providers have been hired for the hospital’s new clinic. Basi added
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Chiefs added edge rusher R Mason Thomas out of Oklahoma with the 40th pick in the 2026 NFL draft on Friday. In his senior year, Thomas recorded 6.5 sacks, good enough for second on the Sooners, and forced two fumbles. He also recorded 18 solo tackles and eight assists
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By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally. “I
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged with first-degree assault after he allegedly attacked another man with a railroad spike on Thursday. Colby McKee, 35, is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has not been scheduled. The probable cause statement says deputies were called to a Hartsburg
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By Isabel Rosales, Elizabeth Wolfe, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — After a University of South Florida doctoral student was found dead on a Tampa Bay bridge, his roommate has been charged with killing him and his friend – also a USF doctoral student – the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. Hisham Abugharbieh has been
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By Allison Gordon, Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) — A former staffer who accused former California Rep. Eric Swalwell of raping her is now cooperating with an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, she told CNN. The woman, who said Swalwell raped her in a New York City hotel in April 2024, shared her story
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By Zeena Saifi, Allegra Goodwin, Rayhana Zaiter, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — When Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2, two days after Israel and the United States launched a war on Iran, the resulting Israeli operation to destroy the group quickly became a mission to flatten swathes of southern Lebanon. As Israeli warplanes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County jury suggested sentencing a Holts Summit woman convicted of murder to up to decades in prison on Friday. The jury deliberated the sentence of Heather Smith, 38, on a change of venue from Callaway County. She was convicted on five criminal counts on Thursday, including felony murder. Smith was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The trial of a Boone County dog breeder charged with 13 counts of felony animal abuse has now been scheduled for October. Melissa Sanders, 26, had been set to face trial next week in a Boone County courtroom. However, she waived her right to a speedy trial during a pretrial conference Friday,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Even with hundreds of witness statements, Columbia Police criminal investigator Lt. Matt Gremore says 17 years later that no clear suspect has been identified in the death of 49-year-old Mark Dailey. “To this day, we have no idea who the suspect is or even what the motive was for the killing,” Gremore
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By Lucy Bayly, David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s extraordinary criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is over, removing significant uncertainty that had been clouding the future of the world’s most important central bank. Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, announced on X Friday that she is
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Americans still feel lousy about the economy and worry that the US-Israeli war with Iran will continue to push up prices. The University of Michigan’s final consumer sentiment reading for April measured 49.8, a slight improvement from the preliminary report earlier this month but still at the lowest level
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau (CNN) — Dual insults — one from the US president and another from a Russian commentator — flung at Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni appear to be uniting at least some of her critics behind her. Last week, US President Donald Trump – who has historically had a close relationship with
Continue ReadingBy Ivan Watson, Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Italian peacekeepers have replaced a statue of Jesus Christ in a village in southern Lebanon after an Israeli soldier was pictured taking what appears to be a hammer or ax to the figure. Israel apologized and placed two soldiers in detention after the image caused outrage in
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By Tal Shalev and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly underwent treatment for prostate cancer, he said Friday, as he publicized the results of his annual medical examination. Netanyahu, 76, said he delayed the release of his annual medical report – which revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer for
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Thursday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day as there is a chance for strong storms overnight Thursday into the pre-dawn hours Friday morning. These will not be as intense as the storms the region experienced last Friday. SETUP: A dry line across eastern Kansas has allowed storms to develop to our west. These storms
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