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Columbia City Manager Mike Matthes is expected to unveil his budget by the end of the week. Deputy City Manager Tony St. Romaine confirmed to ABC 17 News that Matthes will present the 2014 fiscal year budget Friday at 9 a.m. at city hall. St. Romaine says city leaders are looking to add more police

The University of Missouri is adding one more safety device on campus to help warn students of any danger. The university is installing 225 emergency alarms in high-traffic areas of campus buildings. Each unit costs $750, with funding coming from the campus facilities budget. “We heard about other universities using it so we felt that

The House Interim Committee on Improving Government Responsiveness and Efficiency met Monday morning and the conversation was on Missouri child abuse. Citizens came forward with their stories about abused children who have not been taken care of by protective services. Most of the committee members agreed that more needed to be done to protect Missouri

A Holts Summit man pleaded guilty to killing three people and injuring a fourth person in October 2010. Joshua W. Maylee entered guilty pleas to three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault. Maylee admitted to killing 48-year-old Eugene A. Pinet, 57-year-old Jackie Pinet, and 46-year-old Jeffrey Werdehausen. Werdehausen’s wife, Gina, was

The citizen-soldiers of the Missouri National Guard’s 70th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment is set for deployment to Afghanistan. The deployment ceremony was held Monday morning and Gov. Jay Nixon spoke to the crowd. The detachment will train, advise and assist Afghan media representatives. It will also provide public and command information services.

How do you pronounce the name of the Show-Me State? According to a University of Missouri professor, it’s neither “Missour-ee” nor “Missou-rah.” Charles Gilbert Youmans, professor emeritus in the College of Arts and Science’s department of English, says the word has a French origin and therefore its pronunciation would have reflected that language. “French explorers

Nearly a dozen people were taken to the hospital after a multiple vehicle crash Sunday evening on Interstate 70. According to a Columbia police report, an SUV with ten people inside lost control on the wet road and hit a guardrail. A second car then hit the SUV. Columbia fire crews told ABC 17 News

Fulton police were called out to a disturbance in which the weapon was a sword. Police were called out around 9 p.m. Sunday to 211 S. Ravine Street. When they got on scene police came in contact with a man holding a sword and took him into custody. The man was identified as Adam Lairmore.

Columbia police are investigating an attempted home invasion and robbery. Police were called out around 10:30 p.m. Sunday to the 2900 block of Lawnridge Court. A woman told police that she heard a knock at the door and her boyfriend answered. Investigators say he was confronted by two men who threatened him. The woman says

A Williamsburg man was arrested Saturday night after his sister said he tried to shoot her during an argument. Darrick Brown, 27, was out of the Callaway County Jail by Sunday night. He faces armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, domestic assault and felony resisting arrest charges. Brown was picked up at his

A Fulton man was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning in Cooper County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed that 54-year-old Donald Downey ran off the left side of the road off Missouri 5, five miles south of Boonville. The motorcycle overturned, throwing Downey off the bike. Downey was taken by ambulance to

A 21-year-old Columbia man was arrested Friday in connection to a robbery earlier this month. Brandin Bell was arrested on Park Avenue after a tip led police to him. Bell is accused of robbery and armed criminal action after an incident in Field Park July 5. The park is off Range Line Street near Columbia

Two Columbia men were arrested Friday night after a traffic stop turned up drugs and one man ran from the scene. Police told ABC 17 News Joshua Eubanks was driving on Interstate 70 when a Street Crimes patrol tried to pull him over on the off ramp. Eubanks did not immediately stop and a passenger,

None of Columbia’s park playgrounds are handicapped accessible and changing it will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The city wants to invest more than half a million dollars — and nine months — in just one of those playgrounds. It’s a plan parks and recreation leaders will push for starting at Cosmo Park’s Steinberg

The Show Me State Games’ opening ceremonies were held Friday night at the Mizzou Arena. Officials of the Gamessay that they will have an economic impact of $15 million. Show me State Games executive director Ken Ash said nearly 30,000 athletes will be competing over the course of the three weekends. The economic impacts comes

Police uncovered new evidence about a Mid-Missouri inmate who escaped from jail earlier this week. Walter Estay got a seven hour headstart Monday morning after taking the jailer’s keys and cell phone and locking the door behind him. Estay remains on the loose. But on Friday Kansas City officers found the Rav4 he allegedly stole

A well-known restaurant could be heading back to Jefferson City. Viet’s was approved for a new location this week by the planning and zoning commission. The original business closed down in 2005. It used to be a familiar spot for many state lawmakers. Elvis ate also there once in the 1950s. Now the same owners

A second suspect who police call the triggerman in a Columbia murder from April is charged and behind bars. 24-year-old Casey Lewis is now charged with first degree murder of Brian Daniels at his house in south Columbia. Lewis has a $1 million bond in Boone County and is the second person to be charged

Eight people are behind bars today after a number of arrests were made Thursday night. It all started Wednesday, when three men reported they were robbed at gunpoint at 1200 East Capitol Avenue. The SWAT team was called in and meth was found in the home. There were several other people present in the home

A Saline County man was killed late Thursday night in a car accident in Johnson County. According to a Highway Patrol report, Jerry W. Wilder, 53, of Sweet Springs was traveling northbound on Missouri Route 23 around 11:20 p.m. Thursday. Troopers say he entered a curve too fast, causing the vehicle to run off the