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We are tracking another cold front which moves in Friday evening. Ahead of this front, temperatures will reach near 80 degrees with partly cloudy skies. Scattered showers and t-storms are expected to develop ahead of the front Friday afternoon in northern Missouri and move southeast into Mid-Missouri after 4 PM. These are forecast to move

Randy Boehm said he was lucky he had only one day like January 10, 2005. “Hard to believe it was 11 years ago. Feels sometimes much, much more raw and recent than that,” the former Columbia police chief said Wednesday, standing near the spot one of his officers was shot. Molly Bowden, then 26 years

U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey granted a permanent injunction Wednesday, protecting Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri’s license to perform abortions in Columbia. The state tried to strip the organization of its license for not having a doctor with hospital privileges. Planned Parenthood still can’t perform abortions until it has a doctor with those privileges.

A proposal that would require people to show a photo ID when voting moved forward Wednesday night. The Missouri Senate voted 24-8 to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow for such a law. Now it needs another House vote. If approved, it would bypass Gov. Nixon and would go right to the Missouri voters.

Missouri executed a convicted killer Wednesday night. It was the state’s first execution of the year. 66-year-old Earl Forrest died from lethal injection after 7:00 p.m. Forrest was convicted in the 2002 killing of Harriett Smith and Michael Wells in a drug dispute and Dent County Sheriff’s Deputy Joann Barnes in a subsequent shootout at

The Cole County Sheriff’s Department told ABC 17 today, that in two days alone, they have received over a dozen calls about a scam involving warrants. The suspects are identifying themselves as Deputy Gary or Greg, telling victims that they have active warrants and have to pay up or else they will go to jail.

The Columbia city council could vote on a proposed downtown freeze at its meeting next Monday. The ordinance would place an administrative delay on building permits for multi-family developments within a one mile radius in the area of Elm, Providence, Stadium and College. It was introduced at the May 2 city council meeting by Mayor

Drivers in Jefferson City could expect delays Thursday morning. Crews are set to close the Route 50/63 off-ramp to Clark Avenue at 8:30 a.m. They are putting up a sound wall as part of the Lafayette St. interchange project. The ramp is expected to stay closed until about 3:00 p.m. The $20 million project also

Divers have found the bodies of two high school students who drowned during their senior class trip. The teens were from Saint Paul Lutheran in Concordia, about an hour west of Columbia. They were at Table Rock Lake Tuesday, in southwest Missouri, trying to swim to shore from a pontoon boat. Grief counselors were made

The ABC 17 Stormtrack team received reports of wind and hail damage during severe thunderstorms Wednesday morning and afternoon in eastern mid-Missouri. Residents in the Thompson area in Audrain County reported quarter-sized hail and small tree limbs blown to the ground. Later in the afternoon, county officials also confirmed seeing golf-ball sized hail near Mexico,

The University of Missouri and Shelter Insurance came out in support of the city’s proposed lodging tax hike at Wednesday’s REDI board meeting. This comes just one day after the Columbia Hospitality Association panned the proposal for its lack of transparency, namely that the city hasn’t presented a business plan for the use of the

Missouri lawmakers have passed a measure making it easier to buy medicine that treats and revives victims of heroin or painkiller overdoses. The House voted 147-2 Tuesday to let pharmacists sell naloxone, commonly known as Narcan. The bill cleared the Senate in April with a 29-0 vote, and it now heads to the governor. Naloxone

A Holts Summit man was arrested Wednesday following a rollover crash in the area of Route F and Highway 54. The crash happened shortly after 1:30 p.m.; two vehicles were involved, both heavily damaged. One of the drivers was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. When police got there, they learned

After a quiet afternoon, storm chances increase as we head into the evening hours as a cold front approaches from the west. The storms will be spotty by 5 PM and increase through 8 PM, forming a line just north of I-44 by 9 PM. This line will be out of our area by midnight.

Known as the Big Government, Get Off My Back Act, House Bill 1870 was approved by the Missouri Legislature Wednesday. The bill prevents the state government from imposing any user fees on small businesses with 50 or fewer employees. The act also provides special tax incentives to small businesses who hire new employees and pay

The Columbia Police Department has announced the appointment of Officer Clint Sinclair to serve a liaison officer to the city’s LGBT community. In the department’s announcement, Sinclair says Columbia has a large LGBT community, which for law enforcement can present new and unique challenges. Officials say creating this new position is an effort to bridge

A man convicted of killing a sheriff’s deputy and two other people in 2002 is scheduled to be put to death in what could be Missouri’s last execution for some time. Earl Forrest was convicted of killing Harriett Smith and Michael Wells in a drug dispute and Dent County Sheriff’s Deputy Joann Barnes in a

South 5th Street between Elm and Locust is expected to be closed for at least four weeks. The closure should start around 8 a.m. Wednesday and go through June 8th. Bengals and Casablancas are expected to be demolished during the closure. The contractors are also expected to install new sewer and water connections. There will

Hanover Blvd residents are seeing some positive changes in their neighborhood after a WWII veteran was beaten in broad daylight. The neighbors believed restoring a broken fence could help lessen the amount of troublemakers passing thru. As of May 10th, the fence was restored. When we originally aired the story on May 4th, 2016 residents

Mid-Missouri contractor Ken Jinson pleaded not guilty to defrauding customers in Cole County Court Tuesday. Jinson is accused of stealing a total of $22,000 from four customers in Cole County. Tuesday, another one of those customers in the case spoke to ABC 17 News. Jefferson City resident Casey Allen said he and his wife Anita