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UPDATE 3:13 P.M.: Ringer pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. He is sentenced to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter and 4 years for leaving the scene of an accident. ORIGINAL STORY: A Fulton man accused of killing a pedestrian last year is expected in Boone County court. Ralph Ringer, Jr.

The Mizzou men’s basketball team reacted to the Tigers playing rival Kansas for the first time since Feb. 25, 2012.

TONIGHT: It will be a stormy night across Mid-Missouri, as a strong cold front to our northwest will track through the region. Ahead of the frontal boundary, most of Mid-Missouri is either under a slight or enhanced risk of severe weather. This means that damaging winds, large hail, and an isolated tornado threat are highly

UPDATE 11:42 pm: The State Highway Patrol lifted the alert just before midnight Friday confirming Christie has been found safe. UPDATE 1:55 pm Friday: ABC17 talked with the administrator of Oak Tree Villas, the residential care facility Christie was living at. The administrator said Christie’s routine is to eat dinner and then go walk his

TODAY: We’ll have partly sunny skies and a warm, breezy afternoon. Temperatures climb well above-average into the mid to upper 80s. Southerly winds will increase up to 16 mph, with gusts up to 26 mph. TONIGHT: A line of showers and thunderstorms will move in from the northwest after 9 PM. Severe storms are possible

The Callaway County Sheriff’s Department and the Holts Summit Police Department will have an active shooter training at North Elementary School on Saturday. According to the sheriff’s department, they take a strong approach to protecting local schools so they train inside the buildings. The departments want citizens to know that there will be no emergency,

We’ll go from air conditioning to heat this weekend as a strong cold front moves through Saturday night, bringing big changes in our weather. The weekend will start off with a few showers north of I-70 Saturday morning followed by a warm, breezy afternoon. It will feel like summer as highs climb into the upper

Thousands of visitors are expected this weekend between Columbia and Jefferson City to visit the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival, which runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Organizers are closing Route A heading into town, so they are sending in cars from the south using Old Highway 63. Afterwards, visitors will be directed out

The head of the Missouri Public Defender System and Boone County’s top judge are asking the Missouri Supreme Court address several growing issues for public defenders. ABC 17 News obtained the Oct. 4 letter from public defender system director Michael Barrett, Judge Kevin Crane and H. Riley Bock, the head of the Missouri State Public

COLUMBIA – The Mizzou men’s basketball team will play Kansas for the first time since Feb. 25, 2012. The Tigers and Jayhawks will play an exhibition game Sunday Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. at the Sprint Center to raise money for hurricane relief funds. Mizzou student tickets will be available Tuesday Oct. 17. Members of

All scores will be updated until they’re final. HANNIBAL (14) AT BATTLE (28) LIBERTY NORTH (48) AT HICKMAN (0) ROCKHURST (30) AT JEFFERSON CITY (12) VERSAILLES (0) AT SOUTHERN BOONE (47) ST. PAUL LUTHERAN (3) AT TOLTON (54) MEXICO (20) AT MOBERLY (21) MACON (26) AT CENTRALIA (19) ELDON (35) AT HALLSVILLE (14) MONTGOMERY COUNTY

The Missouri Task Force 1 and the Missouri National Guard completed four days of training Friday for its newly formed helicopter search and rescue team. The team wrapped up with its first flight training at the Boone County Fire Protection District and Missouri Task Force 1 training center. Members simulated rescuing people from their cars

Some 7400 veterans died by suicide in 2014, the last year solid data is available. To put that number in perspective, it would be almost the same number as if everyone in both Ashland and Centraila took their own lives. Dr. David Hammer is trying to change that. As our guest for “This Week,” he

ABC 17 News confirmed a crash blocked part of an intersection in north Columbia Friday night. Crews were first called to Rangeline and Brown School Road around 6:30 p.m. ABC 17 News saw at least three vehicles towed from the scene. It appears injuries were involved. The Boone County Sheriff’s department responded, but the Highway

TONIGHT: Tonight will be mild as clouds increase as winds remain out of the south near 10 mph. Overnight lows will only drop into the mid to upper 60s. After 4 AM, there is a chance of showers & t-storms north of I-70. SATURDAY: Spotty showers and t-storms are possible through mid-morning north of I-70.

The Camden County Sheriff’s Department has responded to multiple reports of vehicle thefts in the Horseshoe Bend area. Deputies said the vehicles had been left unlocked, and in many of them the keys had been left in the ignition or were otherwise accessible. Deputies said items that had been reported stolen include jewelry, cash, electronics

BJC Healthcare is looking to change its lease with Boone Hospital Center or leave Columbia all together. In a letter written in 2016, BJC officials state why the current lease is not working. BJC officials said the current lease is,”no longer responsive to what the hospital will need to succeed and thrive in the years

Firefighters with the Jefferson City Fire Department went door to door, sharing the dangers about carbon monoxide. ABC 17 News reporters went with the firefighters as they installed CO alarms in Jefferson City homes. In previous years, the fire department has held this event but with smoke detectors. Over the summer, two people died from

Attorney General Josh Hawley announced on Friday that a jury found Michael Hays, 30, guilty of involuntary manslaughter, assault in the second degree and failing to keep right on a roadway. Hays was accused of killing Bate County Commissioner Larry Berry in 2014. Hawley said the jury heard evidence that Hays admitted to drinking 10

Gov. Eric Greitens has appointed Brouck Jacobs as Circuit Judge for the 13th Judicial Circuit. Jacobs will replace Judge Christine Carpenter, who retired earlier this year. He has been a prosecuting attorney for almost a decade, Greitens said. Jacobs has been serving as an assistant prosecuting attorney for the Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office since