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UPDATE:The Pulaski County 911 Communications system is back up and running after an outage Tuesday night. The outage was apparently caused by a lightning strike. ORIGINAL STORY: According to Fort Leonard Wood, the Pulaski County 911 Communications system is experiencing some issues after an apparent lightning strike. Officials say only one 911 line is working

A sign in Columbia is warning drivers about a high crash area. Columbia police put up the sign at the intersection of Grindstone Parkway and Bearfield Road. ABC 17 News checked Columbia police dispatch. As of Tuesday , officers were called to nine wrecks at the intersection so far in 2016. ABC 17 News also

The I70 westbound on-ramp at Providence was reopened Wednesday morning. It was closed overnight so traffic could be switched to the new I-70 overpass at Garth Avenue. Last week, MoDOT slid the new Garth bridge into place-with the help of 15 bottles of dishwashing liquid. Crews are still putting in barrier curbs so there will

On Sunday, ABC 17 News showed you what Joplin has done to combat future tornadoes, but securing parts of Mid-Missouri, might not be so easy. ABC 17’s Lindsey Berning digs into what local communities and some schools are doing to protect your family and you in “Safe Room,” Wednesday, May 25 on ABC 17 News

Police in Mexico are searching for the person responsible for shooting at a home. Officers were called to the scene around midnight Tuesday in the 200 block of North Missouri Street. One home was damaged. As of Tuesday night , no witnesses have come forward and no arrests were made. The occupants of the house

The city will take a property owner to county court over an alleged lack of roof repairs throughout 2015. The case against property owner Ngoc Nguyen, 54, was moved from the city’s municipal court to the county’s 13th Judicial Circuit on Monday. Former Columbia city prosecutor Steve Richey filed the eight misdemeanor charges in December

The Douglass Bulldogs Baseball League is still needing boys and girls ages 5-10 to join their league. The league is geared at teaching kids basic baseball skills in a fun, non competitive environment. The league’s games will begin the week of June 6. Cost per child is $32. Volunteer coaches and umpires are needed, also

Jefferson City police will be on the lookout this week for drivers who don’t yield to emergency vehicles. ABC 17 news first brought the public safety alert to you in a 2015 special report. ABC 17 News crews showed you some of the dangers of failure to yield during our ride-along with firefighters in Columbia.

Jumping in a lake is a great way to cool off in the summer…but what’s in the water with you? It could be an unhealthy level of E. coli. Weather permitting, Columbia’s Public Health and Human Services Department will begin analyzing the water for the bacteria next week. They plan to test all the local

Fulton residents are now able to get more medical treatment in town. SSM Health opened a new walk-in clinic Tuesday that will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The clinic will be staffed by Dr. Kimetha Fairchild, the family practitioner as well a nurse practitioner. She said she already knows the

A Cole County judge ruled in favor of the city of Jefferson in its case against a downtown property owner. The city filed a lawsuit against Barbara Buescher more than a year ago after multiple properties in the neighborhood of East Capitol Avenue were found to be in violation of city code. Judge Pat Joyce

Prosecutors have upgraded one of the charges against Jason Lage, a suspect in the 2014 murder of Zachary Dawson in Madison. Lage had been charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and tampering with physical evidence; the murder charge was upgraded to first-degree murder on Tuesday. His bond has been set at $1 million, cash

An inmate at the Boone County Jail faces several charges following an attack on corrections officers Monday night. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, Glen Lewis was causing trouble in his cell shortly before 8 p.m., and fought with jail officials as they tried to remove him from his cell. One official tried to

ABC 17 News has reporters at the scene of a crash on the new double roundabout at Rangeline under I-70, which has only been open fewer than two days. Crews believe one vehicle exiting from the off-ramp did not yield to another car that was already in the roundabout. It is more elongated and shaped

Emergency crews were on the scene of a crash Tuesday morning on the new double roundabout in Columbia. It happened around 8:00 Tuesday morning on the roundabout at Rangeline and I-70. Authorities tell our ABC 17 News crews that one vehicle was exiting I-70 and entering the roundabout and the driver failed to yield to

More swimmers will soon start using Columbia lakes and pools as we head into the Memorial Day holiday weekend, but the high chances of rain could mean higher chances of E. Coli in the water. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources says that with heavier rain, lakes see an increase of E. Coli. E. Coli

The American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood and platelets going into the Summer months. The organization says this ensures blood is readily available for patients all summer long. It also says activities during and after Memorial Day can lead to a shortage of blood and platelet donations when regular donors become busy.

Columbia’s former Emergency Management Directorhas been namedAssociation of Public-Safety Communications Officials (or APCO) International Director of the Year. Current Springfield-Greene County911 Emergency Communications Director Zim Schwartze is set to be recognized during the opening general session at the 2016 APCO Annual Conference & Expo during Aug. 14-17 in Orlando, Florida. “As a city, we are

The double roundabout interchange at Rangeline and I-70 opened Monday. The so-called “dogbone” interchange, which opened to traffic at 6 a.m., consists of two tear-shaped roundabouts that join together to form a single roundabout. “This particular design will run more efficiently than a signalized intersection, as was here prior to (its construction). More vehicles will

IBM is needing over 20,000 people to fill open positions, but it is also laying off thousands in the process. According to IBM the layoffs are due to the company’s shift in strategy from software to cloud. The number of national layoffs are unspecified but IBM has reported they hope to fill 20,000 positions. As