Law enforcement from the Columbia Police Department, Boone County Sheriff’s Department, MU PD, and Missouri State Highway Patrol are searching for a suspect after a car chase. The chase ended when the vehicle crashed into a tree in front of Grant Elementary School. There were around five police vehicles at the scene near Grant Elementary
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Two people are in custody after a chase in Columbia, according to police. Police said an officer attempted to pull over the vehicle for a registration violation, but the driver did not pull over. The pursuit ended on Creasy Springs Road near Sunny Ridge Lane when one of the vehicle’s tires blew out. An officer
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A Pennsylvania law firm says it has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Hy-Vee grocery store chain after a recent data breach. Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLC announced the filing in a news release posted Tuesday. Law firms in Illinois and Oklahoma are also listed on the lawsuit. The original plaintiffs listed on the
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A Columbia man was charged in Boone County after prosecutors allege he threatened to bring a gun to work after being fired from his job. Isaac Flowers was sentenced with a felony count for making a terror threat in September. Flowers and eight other employees at DANA Incorporated were fired after coming into work Sept.
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A Miller County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a pair of felonies. Leonard W. Wilson appeared in the Miller County Circuit Court on Tuesday after being accused of failing to register as a sex offender multiple times. Wilson was called back into the courtroom after he admitted
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The Maries County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged a man after a deadly weekend crash. Austin B. Edwards, 25, of Rolla, is charged with driving while intoxicated resulting in a death, driving while intoxicated that resulted in an injury and careless and imprudent driving that involved an accident. The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested Edwards
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A Boone County judge recused himself Wednesday from a lawsuit involving the University of Missouri medical school. Judge Jeff Harris stepped aside after an attorney for Rachel Brown, a former associate dean of the medical school, brought up a relationship Harris has with a possible witness in the case. Dr. Robert Churchill, a former dean
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A man charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in Chariton County was named in a wrongful death lawsuit. Court documents show Michael Meyer, who is listed as the father of Alicia Meyer, filed the suit against James Pleasant. The lawsuit alleges Pleasant was driving with Alicia Meyer in a car on May 31 in an area
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The University of Missouri wants a court-ordered mental examination of a former track coach suing the team. The school filed two motions this week for a mental exam of Carjay Lyles and to compel Lyles to provide medical and employment records. The university argued that Lyles had “placed his emotional condition at issue” in the
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The University of Missouri Police Department said officers received a report of sexual assault on Tuesday stemming from homecoming weekend. Officers said a female was the victim of the assault by a male acquaintance. The reported assault allegedly happened at a residence in the 400 block of Buram Avenue. Anyone with information on the assault
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While more University of Missouri students said they are aware of services for victims of sexual assault, nearly one in four undergraduate women said they have experienced “nonconsensual sexual contact,” according to a survey released Tuesday. About 20 percent of MU students responded to the survey administered in April and May. MU was one of
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According to the National Crime Prevention Council, Neighborhood Watch is one of the oldest and most effective crime prevention programs in the country. From the national level to the local level, organizations based around safety continue to form. “I believe we educated almost 200 people in the last calendar year,” said Columbia Police Department officer
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A Kansas man has sued the Missouri Department of Corrections, a prison health care contractor and several individuals including the state’s corrections director, alleging medical staff at Boonville Correctional Center refused him medical treatment for a spinal injury. Jeremy Bradshaw of Lawrence, Kansas, filed the lawsuit in Cooper County on Oct. 7. Bradshaw seeks a
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A Cole County judge said Tuesday that the court hopes to try a Jefferson City woman charged with child abuse in the summer of 2020. Quatavia Givens, 26, was charged in 2018 in connection with the death of 4-year-old Darnell Gray. At the first hearing since Givens was released on bond Oct. 10, judge Jon
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The City of Centralia has policies specific to city employees’ use of social media and their use of work computers. ABC 17 News crews looked at the city’s policies after Clint Baer, 41, of Centralia was fired from the police department. The city’s policy on social media lays out rules for posting on city social
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Centralia city leaders will meet on Monday to discuss public safety. This comes after federal prosecutors charged a Centralia police officer with trying to have sexual contact with a minor using the internet. Clint Baer, 41, of Centralia is accused of communicating with an FBI agent posing as the mother of a 14-year-old girl using
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A man is facing kidnapping charges in Boonville after allegedly taking a child from an elementary school. According to court documents, Devin Maupin took a 10-year-old child Thursday from David Barton Elementary School in Boonville. The school called the child’s mother who said Maupin did not have permission to take the child. The school principal
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Police arrested one person after serving a search warrant in north Columbia on Friday morning. According to a news release, officers served the warrant at 2313 Parks Edge Place around 10:45 a.m. Officers arrested Henry Anthony Williams, 30, on suspicion of burglary, stealing, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance. The
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Columbia police arrested two men early Thursday after the shooting of a home and two vehicles. Police were sent to the 3300 block of Dove Drive in north Columbia at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday, where they found the damage. The Columbia Police Department said in a news release that officers arrested Cameron K. Wright, 22,
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Cole County Assessor Chris Estes has filed a lawsuit over property lines against a man he is accused of assaulting, according to court records. According to court documents, Estes and his wife own an easement that runs across Danny and Nancy Schaffer’s property on Moreau River Lane. Documents detail several disputes where the Esteses claim
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