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The Columbia/Boone County Health Department is reminding people how to prevent mosquito bites during the rainy weather. One way to avoid the blood-thirsty creatures is to simply remove standing water. Health officials recommend removing the water at least once a week or after every rain. “It’s also important, not only when you dump the standing

EDITOR’S NOTE: Charlene Allison was not criminally charged. Search warrants executed in Fulton resulted in four arrests Thursday morning. The Fulton Police Department said it assisted the Mustang Drug Task Force and the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office with a narcotics search warrant in the 1400 block of Colonial Drive in Fulton around 11:46 a.m. Police

UPDATE: A judge has ruled a teenager will be tried as an adult . The hearing took about hour and a half. The prosecutors were arguing 16 year-old Zaccheus Silva could only stay in the juvenile court system until he was 21, not leaving much time for him to be punished for his crime. Silva

Over the past 10 years, the city of Boonville has suffered setbacks in the form of several national companies closing their doors, leaving hundreds out of work. The most recent company to take its business out of the city was the heating and cooling manufacturer Nordyne. But economic developer Jim Gann, a University of Missouri

The Boone County Commission issued orders of abatement for three Boone County nuisance properties at their meeting Thursday. Two of the properties are located on O’Rear Road and the other is located on Limoges Drive. The order gives the Boone County Health Department the authority to correct the property violations. The cost of the repairs

The Boone County and Columbia library districts will merge on Jan. 1, 2018, which will affect the property tax rate for potentially both parties. Currently the rate is 30.91 cents for every $100 of assessed valuation in the Boone County district and 31.14 cents in Columbia. In August the board members from both districts will

The Jefferson City Liquor Control Board voted to table a discussion Thursday on an incident with a gun at a popular bar. ABC 17 News reported that police arrested Allen Tatman after reportedly firing a gun while drunk at Paddy Malone’s Irish Pub in April. Tatman is the husband of the bar’s official owner and

The Columbia Fire Department responded to a report of a fire alarm with smoke in a hallway at 3700 Lenoir St (Lenoir Senior Services) on Thursday. The fire started on the stove of an unoccupied apartment had been extinguished by the automatic sprinkler system when crews got to the apartment. There were no reported injuries

According to the Jefferson City Fire Department, an operator suffered minor injuries after an incident with Twehous Excavating. The incident happened Wednesday morning with Twehous Excavating. The operator was using equipment when it flipped over on uneven ground, trapping him in the cabin. The Jefferson City Fire Department responded in six minutes, broke glass and

A California man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to mail large quantities of methamphetamine to Columbia for distribution. Kameron Terrell Howard, 26, of Compton, Calif., was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison without parole. On Jan. 19, 2017, Howard pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to

Columbia Police Department Street Crimes Detectives arrested April Rae Brashier, age 42, from Columbia, at the Boone County Jail for making a terroristic threat on Thursday. Brashier was arrested for falsely calling in a hostage situation with a gun in the 200 block of Apple Tree Court on June 22. According to a release, Columbia

According to official documents obtained by ABC 17 News, there have been requests filed for the Missouri Supreme Court to decide whether or not the attorney general’s office can be involved in the Shayne Healea case. There has also been a motion filed for a rehearing within the court of appeals. Earlier this month, ABC

A Jefferson City man who posted photos of stolen property, illegal drugs, guns and cash on his Facebook page was sentenced in federal court on Thursday for illegally possessing two firearms. Tremaine Cordell Smith, also known as “Sak Boy Fatt Maine,” 28, of Jefferson City, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. On Feb.

Heading into Thursday Evening we have seen a decreased threat for severe weather as storms are expected to move through mid-Missouri this evening. Heavy precipitation from this morning has eaten some of the atmosphere’s energy and the air mass may not be able to recover quickly for tonight’s round of storms. All of mid-Missouri has

TODAY: The afternoon brings a slight thunderstorm chance mainly north and along I-70. Areas south of I-70 will stay dry until evening. It will be a hot and humid afternoon with high temperatures in the upper 80s to 90 and heat indices reaching the mid 90s. Southerly winds of 8-15 mph will gust to 20

Moniteau County Deputies went to a home located on Round Hill Road just north of Tipton on Wednesday to find a wanted fugitive. When deputies got to the home, one subject jumped into a vehicle and fled. The subject was identified as Steven L. Fairfax Jr., 40, of Bunceton. Fairfax fled in the vehicle across

Moniteau County Deputies were on Round Hill Road just north of Tipton Wednesday, trying to locate a wanted fugitive. Deputies said they arrived to see 40-year-old Steven Fairfax jumping into a vehicle and driving away. “Fairfax fled in the vehicle across some fields just north of the residence until he came to a stop in

Police have arrested two people for allegedly squatting in a northwest Columbia home that didn’t belong to them. Officers say they responded to a reported burglary around 7:30 Tuesday night in the 1900 block of Garnet Drive. The female victim apparently told officers she has not lived in that resident for more than a year,

TODAY: Areas north of I-70 are seeing a continued chance for showers and thunderstorms diminishing by late this morning. Through the afternoon there is a slight t-storm chance mainly north of I-70 but areas south will stay dry until evening. It will be a hot and humid afternoon with high temperatures in the upper 80s

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Thursday that E. D. Smith, 75, was pronounced dead Wednesday at 6:18 p.m. Troopers said the St. Charles man suffered a “medical issue” Tuesday that caused him to fall into the water. Smith’s body was later recovered near the 26 mile mark of the Osage Arm. This is 2017’s