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***UPDATE 4 P.M.***The Columbia Fire Department and Boone County Fire Protection District say it took firefighters under an hour to control the blaze at Super Recycled Auto Parts on Rogers Road in northeast Columbia.Fire crews found a machine shed or shop fully involved at the facility. Since the fire was several hundred feet away from

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – A Missouri Senate energy committee has advanced legislation that would let power companies seek permission for an infrastructure surcharge.Under legislation approved by the committee with two dissenting votes Wednesday, power companies could seek to levy the surcharge between formal rate cases.Utilities could seek a surcharge no more than twice per year

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Republican U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt told legislators from Missouri that the government needs to prioritize and can do so by determining what level of government is best able to address problems.In a speech before the Missouri House Wednesday, Blunt said the first question when confronting a problem should be whether the

Road crews are preparing to hit the streets as the winter storm approaches Mid-Missouri. Missouri Department of Transportation and Columbia Public Works officials say they will have full crews on the roads, but it could still take awhile for them to get to every street.Main roads like Providence Road, Business Loop 70, and Interstate 70

An Osage County daycare was put on lockdown Wednesday after a man threatened to shoot himself in the building.According to law enforcement, the man and his wife — the owner of the daycare near Linn on County Road 401 — got into an altercation. He allegedly told her that he was going to shoot himself

Missouri men’s basketball head coach Frank Haith has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA, accusing him of “failing to promote an atmosphere for compliance with the men’s basketball program” while being the head coach at the University of Miami.On Thursday, the University of Missouri released the notice along with the letters to both

MoDOT plans to pre-treat roads right before winter weather hits the area. They will have 225 trucks out driving across Mid-Missouri, 25 of them in Boone County starting at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.MoDOT workers prepped the sand and trucks on Wednesday and will be driving overnight and likely work for 36 hours through Thursday. They will

Morgan County deputies chased a burglary suspect Wednesday evening through multiple counties.Missouri State Highway Patrol confirms for ABC 17 News that it aided in the search with its helicopter, but said at 10 p.m. Wednesday no one had been caught in the chase.Morgan County deputies chased the suspect along Route Y, Highway 52 in Miller

ABC 17 News is expanding its winter storm coverage with a special edition of ABC 17 News at Noon on KMIZ.Join Stephanie Schaefer and ABC 17 Stormtrack Meteorologist Neville Miller for the latest on the winter storm hitting Mid-Missouri.Continue to check abc17news.com and ABC 17 News on Facebook and Twitter for continuous updates.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Public schools would be required to teach the strengths and weaknesses of the scientific theory of evolution under a bill being considered by a Missouri House committee.The House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony Wednesday on a measure that would require state officials to develop guidelines for teaching evolution in

The strong winter storm prompted Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to declare a state of emergency Thursday. The State Emergency Management Agency, or SEMA, has been monitoring the storm since yesterday from its operations center in Jefferson City.As part of the declaration, the State Emergency Operations Plan also is in place. The protocol allows the state

The City of Columbia is sending home non-essential workers at noon due to the severe winter weather conditions. This does not include police or fire departments, but the decision will likely affect local businesses.”Essential operations are those that must continue to assure the public safety and general welfare of citizens,” said City Manager Mike Matthes.In

Here is the latest information on the winter storm.***UPDATE 4:33 P.M.***–MU – LSU womens basketball game has been postponed util tomorrow.***UPDATE 3:50 P.M.***–70 Closed from 63 to Lake of the Woods ***UPDATE 2:25 P.M.***–MU Urgent Care Heathcare will close at 3:00 P.M. ***UPDATE 2:07 P.M.***–Fire truck stuck near Vandiver Dr. ***UPDATE 1:27 P.M.***–Planning and Zoning

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The women’s basketball teams from LSU and Missouri will have to wait at least one more day for their first meeting since the 1989-90 season because of a major snow storm in the Midwest.University officials say the game, originally scheduled Thursday night in Columbia, has been postponed until Friday at 1

Many of the problems were on roads where there was any kind of a hill or an incline.ABC 17 News talked with a few drivers who left at the time and said conditions just got too bad too quickly.”It’s just gotten progressively worse,” Carol Lewis said as she looked at a semi-truck that stalled out

The University of Missouri decided to call off school around noon on Thursday, but that was too late for a lot of people.ABC 17 News talked to a lot of students who were stranded on campus. They said university buses stopped running an hour before MU canceled classes.A spokesperson for the college was not aware

***UPDATE 7:00 P.M.***Columbia city snow plows hit residential neighborhoods around 1 p.m. Friday, working from the center of the city outward.Public Works spokesman Steve Sapp told ABC 17 News crews were working 12 hours on, 12 hours off until every street had been plowed. He estimated that would be done Sunday night.Friday night, many residential

Cold air continues to move in behind Thursday’s winter storm and will stick around through Saturday. Temperatures Friday will stay in the 20s with wind chills in the teens. We’ll drop to the low teens overnight Friday as skies clear. The snow which fell from Thursday’s storm won’t start to melt until Sunday when temperatures

Police and prosecutors continue to play catch-up in stopping producers and sellers of synthetic drugs. Meanwhile, users continue to wind up in the hospital. Synthetic drugs first started popping up in the United States in 2008. Since then, the popularity of bath salts and other synthetics has increased. In 2010 Missouri lawmakers passed the state’s

The biggest problem for road crews right now is abandoned vehicles. MoDOT crews tell ABC 17 News they are trying to widen all their roads, but they’re having a hard time getting around vehicles piled up in snow.Road crews are waiting on the towing companies to finish getting the rest of the abandoned cars off