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A 19-year-old Jefferson City man is still in the hospital after an early morning crash in Cole County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 5:20 a.m. Saturday on Route M near Kleffner Ridge Road. Troopers say Cody Stegemann, 19, was driving eastbound when he crossed the center line. Stegemann and the

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is volunteering at her former middle school Saturday morning. The senator is speaking at the University of Missouri’s Care for Columbia on Tiger Plaza. 1500 students showed up to volunteer at 86 sites across the city. That’s more than Caring for Columbia has ever had in their 15 year history at

A Centralia man accused of leading authorities on a dangerous chase has pleaded not guilty. Jason Fuget was charged in January with two counts of assault and one count of resisting arrest. According to court documents previously obtained by ABC 17 News, Fuget refused to pull over when stopped by police. He then led authorities

Jefferson City Council Member’s unanimously voted to support the approval of renewing the half cent sales tax for the August 2nd ballot. The ordinance would allow voters to vote on whether or not to renew the half cent capitol improvements sales tax from April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2022. The tax has been in

The current chairman of Hallsville Area Family Clinic said Friday he is in the final stages of discussions with Boone Hospitals to transfer ownership of the clinic to them. Currently, the clinic is run by John and Rose Schloot as a non-profit with financial help from the Central Bank of Boone County. According to John

St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City moved to its new facility in 2014. Its old building on Missouri Boulevard was sold in 2015. Right now, there are no redevelopment plans filed, and the old hospital remains empty and closed off. The building has been a fixture in the Capitol City for more than a century.

A former Mid-Missouri police officer is now heading to prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving children. The Miller County Court sentenced Jerry Cluck to 20 years in prison as part of a plea agreement. Cluck pleaded guilty to knowingly having sex with a child. A probably cause statement claims Cluck was a former

A Fulton man could face charges after he’s accused of sending inappropriate Facebook messages to an underage girl. 19-year-old Michael Collins was arrested yesterday for sexual misconduct. The Boone County Sheriff’s Department started its investigation earlier this year after a concerned parent reached out. Investigators say he sent explicit photographs to a 14-year-old.

After an upper level ridge moved into the region in the later half of the work week, temperatures have been anywhere from four to ten degrees warmer than average from Wednesday through Friday, with more abnormally high temperatures expected to continue into the weekend. So far, for the month of April, six out of the

Brian Treece defeated Skip Walther on April 5 th to become Columbia’s next mayor. Mayor-elect Treece will drop the “elect” portion of his current title when he’s sworn on Monday evening at 5:00. Then, he’ll attend his first city council meeting as an elected member of that body. Before he takes the oath, he visits

A committee leading the search for a new president of the University of Missouri system nagged by racial unrest says candidates must have “a deft command” of communications and public relations. The committee approved a list of qualifications for the successor to Tim Wolfe during a meeting Thursday in Rolla of the system’s governing board

PLEASE NOTE: The Networks of Mid-Missouri will air a special episode of last week’s ‘Jack Hanna’s Wild Countdown’ Saturday, April 16 , at 11 a.m. on ABC 17, KMIZ.

The Missouri Senate Veterans’ Affairs and Health Committee has unanimously passed a bill that targets so-called “step therapy” practices by insurance companies. The bill is sponsored by House Speaker Pro Tem Denny Hoskins from Warrensburg. It’s designed to ensure the medicine prescribed by a patient’s doctor is the medicine the patient is allowed to take.

A Mexico, Missouri man will soon learn his sentence after he was convicted for child sex crimes. Audrain County prosecutors say a jury found 40-year-old Darran Boston guilty after two days of trial. Boston raped, sodomized, abused, tortured, and exploited two girls in Audrain County for nearly 2 years. He’s now convicted of 28 counts

Columbia police identified the man who was hospitalized Thursday morning after he was hit by three vehicles on Interstate 70, including one car and one truck. Police said 24-year-oldDewayne Carter was under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he tried to walk across I-70 eastbound this morning. Police said a vehicle struck Carter. Another

A Cole County woman has been charged with embezzling more than $40,000 from two companies. Laura Winge, 44, is accused of taking the money from Turks Construction, Inc. and Pools Unlimited LLC. According to investigators, Winge embezzled the money over a period beginning in 2010 and ending in March of this year. According to the

Columbia Mayor-elect Brian Treece isn’t sworn into office until Monday, but he already has another appointment to make. The chairman of the Mayor’s Task Force on Infrastructure, Chris Kelly, has resigned. The long-time community and state servant headed up the task force that was approved by the city council last July. Mayor Bob McDavid recommended

Southern Boone School District officials held a meeting for parents on the danger of social media as a gateway to child human trafficking Thursday. A detective with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department Cyber Crimes Task Force and a member of the Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition spoke to parents in the Southern Boone High

The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators met Thursday morning in Rolla to discuss changes for the upcoming school year. Recent hires at the University of Missouri would not be eligible for subsidized health insurance after they retire and this would include anyone who was employed for less than five years on January 1st, 2018.

UPDATE: 39-year-old Robert Lozano was arrested and charged in connection to an armed robbery that happenedat the Eagle Stopconvenience storeat the junction of Hwy. 87 and I-70 Thursday. According to the Cooper County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the convenience store around 1:30 Thursday morning to find Lozano had fled the scene. Cooper County Sheriff’s