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The Show Me State Games is set to start Friday. With temperatures supposed to be reaching near 100 degrees, heat is the main concern for the weekend events. Before the events began, event coordinators forewarned people who were planning on attending. They set up an awareness campaign, where they sent out emails with tips on

An Audrain County judge has sentenced Monte Ashcraft, who was convicted of child abuse in May, to a total of seventeen years in prison, though he will spend only ten years behind bars. A jury found Ashcraft guilty of child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child following a two-day trial. Ashcraft caused serious

The extreme heat that has been affecting a huge portion of the US, has already been the cause for at least 2 deaths in Missouri. It’s this heat each year that prompts meteorologist to stress the importance of heat safety. According to statistics provided by the National Weather Service, heat is the number one weather

Saturday’s interrupted episodes of Sea Rescue (E/I, 13-16) and Wildlife Docs (E/I, 13-16) will be seenSunday, July 24. Sea Rescue can be seen at 3 pm, with Wildlife Docs at 3:30 pm on ABC17.

Moberly police are investigating two incidents in which vehicles were damaged after someone threw mailboxes off overpasses along Highway 63. The first incident happened at around 1 a.m. Friday, when a mailbox hit a woman’s car as it drove under the McKinsey Street overpass. The second happened about an hour later, when a mailbox thrown

Columbia Fire is investigating an early morning car fire. The call originally came in as a house fire just before 3 a.m. Once fire crews arrived, they saw a car on fire in Brown Station Park. Firefighters were able to get the fire under control in a few minutes. They cleared the scene within an

The University of Missouri Board of Curators announced Friday it has chosen a new vendor for medical benefits for retirees. During its meeting in Kansas City, the board approved UnitedHealthcare as the insurer for Part A and Part B Medicare-eligible retiree medical insurance. The change will take effect January 1, 2017. The board says the

Multiple car break-ins in Columbia hours after each other. The first car break-in was at The Arc, around 5:42p.m. when Columbia Police Department responded to four cars in the parking lot getting broken into. The second car break-in was around 8:50p.m. at the parking lot of Gold’s Gym. Several reports of car windows broken, and

Some mid-Missouri county jails are feeling the pressure of overcrowding in their facilities. Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said the county jail is seeing all-time high numbers of inmates, forcing the department to look elsewhere for inmate housing. According to Long, on July 19, the jail in Waynesville had 90 inmates, about 25 more than

The Jefferson City 911 Center will soon get a major upgrade that officials say will be a safety improvement for the community. The system that allows dispatch operators to monitor and communicate over the radio system is becoming outdated as it is currently 12 to 13 years old. And the warranty on the technology is

On these hot, sticky summer days it may seem like the air is heavy when compared to a day with lower humidity but actually the opposite is true. Humid air is actually lighter than dry air. Dry air is made up of diatomic Oxygen and diatomic Nitrogen which means that two Oxygen atoms are connected

A St. Louis County judge revoked former Osage County Sheriff Michael Dixon’s probation in a 2014 harassment case. Judge Ellen Ribaudo revoked the suspended sentence for misdemeanor harassment on July 15, according to online court records posted Wednesday. Dixon must pay a $1,000 fine, and repay Phelps County $214.60 for the mileage incurred by special

After an early morning shooting in Sturgeon Thursday where a police officer shot a man brandishing a BB gun, ABC17 News is looking into how difficult or easy it might be to tell the difference between a BB gun and a real firearm. “This firearm at first glance, when I saw it, looked like a

Cleveland Police are warning the public against accepting stickers from strangers after officers were treated for an unknown skin irritation. Someone apparently gave the officer the sticker while at a demonstration on a public square in downtown Cleveland. Cleveland police tweeted about two officers getting treated for unknown skin irritation at about 4:00 p.m. Thursday.

Tension between law enforcement and communities are high across the country. So far in 2016, 68 officers have been killed in the line of duty. July has been the deadliest month of the year with 18 officers killed; 11 by gunfire. According to Cole County Sheriff Greg White, his agency is seeing fewer qualified applicants.

Our body is a efficient in more ways than one, from the digestion of our food all the way to keeping us cool in the summer heat. In fact, keeping us cool in the summer heat is done through a variety of means, but our cooling system can be jeopardized. It’s a well known fact

Columbia police announced Thursday the arrests of five people in connection with recent robberies targeting college-age males. Shortly before midnight Wednesday, police searched a home on Greensboro Drive in Columbia for evidence related to the robberies. They reported finding items which may have been stolen, and are working to get in touch with the victims

A man is recovering from a gunshot wound following a police-involved shooting Wednesday night. The shooting happened on Patton Street in Sturgeon, where a woman had called 911 to report a man was drunk and attacking her. A Sturgeon police officer was the first to arrive, and according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, shot

UPDATE 07/21/16 11:06 a.m. – ABC 17 News spoke with Connie Kacprowicz of Columbia Water and Light and she confirmed that power went out in the pictured area around 4:30 this morning. Crews had power restored to the 750 customers affected in about an hour and a half. She said the lightning arrestor was probably

Firefighters responded to a gas leak on Ninth Street at about 9:30 Thursday morning. Crews on scene would not comment on the leak but the owner of Shakespeare’s, which is under construction in the building on the corner of Ninth, said crews hit a gas line and had to work to turn it off. Ninth