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Saturday, many members of the community are coming together to celebrate Black History Month in Columbia. The event put on by Peoples’ Visioning, the City of Columbia, Parks and Recreation and more, is to educate residents about black history and bring the community closer together. Michael Floore, the Police Chief of East St. Louis, will

Friday, a big construction project at a school in north Columbia is on hold after the company paid to do the work has gone out of business. JC Industries was working on a kitchen expansion at Lange Middle School when the company went out of business, according to officials. Columbia Public Schools said the work

One Mid-Missouri county has a new resource to keep you safe. The Camden County Sheriff’s Department has just launched a website and app called SafeTown. The web-based platform allows interaction between the public and the sheriff’s office. Users will be able to view current inmates, report traffic accidents, suspicious activity, and other information. You can

Southwesterly winds will continue to usher in warmer air through Saturday. As the warmer winds move over areas with snow still on the ground, areas of fog will develop late Friday night through early Saturday morning mainly north of HWY 24. Temperatures will start off in the 30s Saturday morning and quickly rise into 50s

An 18-year-old Columbia man arrested for a 2013 robbery is back behind bars. Dyran Hill was taken into custody Thursday for stealing from the Walmart on Grindstone. Hill just appeared in court Friday on the new charges. Hill was also arrested in August 2013 when a school resource officer recognized Hill from the bank surveillance

A Columbia man is in the Boone County Jail Friday after police said he ran from officers. Columbia Police said they went to pull over 27-year-old Steven Young’s car after he failed to stop at a stop sign near Garth and Ash streets. Young apparently kept driving until eventually stopping the car and taking off

Investigators are still looking for a cause up in flames outside the Old Church Farm prison in Cole County near Jefferson City. The Jefferson City Fire Department got a call around 8:15 Thursday night off Highway 179 about 20 minutes northwest of downtown. Crews had everything under control within about 10 minutes, but they stayed

A 22-year-old Columbia man is scheduled to appear in court later this month after allegedly having sex with a woman while she was passed out. Joseph Clamp has already bonded out of jail after being taken into custody earlier this week on a first-degree sexual assault charge. The assault allegedly happened at sorority and fraternity

ABC 17s Sherree Burruss recaps the Southern Boone Classic, girls high school basketball Thursday semi-finals

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Courtney Walker scored 17 points to lead No. 14 Texas A&M over Missouri 55-48 on Thursday. The teams combined for just 12 points through the first six minutes of the game. Texas A&M (18-5, 6-3 SEC) went on an 8-2 run – with six from Walker – and led 28-21 at

There are more than 500 miles of streets in Columbia. The number one intersection viewers told ABC 17 News drives them crazy is in Columbia; the connector where Highway 63 and I-70 meet. At 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, you’ll usually see bumper to bumper traffic. So is it safe? Will it ever get better?

A police chief in northern Boone County gets to keep his job after a week on edge. The Sturgeon Board of Aldermen voted unamimously Thursday night to keep Chief Greg Halderman in hisposition. The decision comes after more than a week of uncertainty after allegations of the chief pointing an unloaded gun atsomeone. Last week,

It’s been 7 months since a Mid-Missouri man’s death, and no arrests have been made. ABC 17 Thursday spoke with the family of 32-year-old Cody Thirlwall, who went missing last summer. Authorities are still looking for the person who killed Thirlwall. He went missing last July and his body was found a month later in

A portion of Fulton High School was evacuated Thursday after a bomb threat was discovered in a restroom. Fulton Police Chief Steve Myers told ABC 17 a the threat was written on a bathroom wall. Police searched the wing of the building and was determined to be secure. There were no injuries, and school dismissed

Just one day after a Columbia woman is sent to prison for a deadly wrong-way crash, one of the jurors who convicted her is speaking out, saying the jury made a mistake. This jury convicted Kelli Smith last month of involuntary manslaughter for a crash that killed Thomas Sullivan in 2012. And one juror, who

MoDOT will be closing a portion of a major highway in Cole County later this week as crews continue to work on the Lafayette Street Interchange. MoDOT officials said Thursday this is a rare event, and they don’t shut down heavily-traveled roads like this very often. Funding issues will keep projects like this few and

Thursday afternoon Blair Oaks head football coach Brad Drehle is resigning after nine years on the sideline with the Falcons. Drehle told his team after school Thursday that he retired and will be taking the head coaching position at Waynesville High School. The head coach will continue his responsibilities as the A+ coordinator and science

Scammers are using malware to extort money from unsuspecting smartphone users. This virus, known as “ransomware,” freezes up your phone until you pay to unlock it. Ransomware can be downloaded by visiting a malicious or compromised website, clicking on a malicious advertisement/link, or opening a malicious attachment via email. It can also be downloaded through

A 17-year-old Sedalia teen was arrested Thursday after Sedalia Police searched a home at 1505 S. Barrett Avenue. Officers eventually forced their way into the house and detained three people without incident after finding high-grade marijuana, prescription pills, drug paraphernalia, and drug packaging materials. Police said they had enough evidence to determine one of the

A Hallsville man was convicted Wednesday on two counts of statutory sodomy. A jury recommended 36-year-old Jeremy Jennings receive ten years in prison on each count. Jennings’ victim was 4 years old when the incidents happened in 2013. A judge has scheduled a March 16 sentencing date.