COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County Judge heard arguments on whether a Columbia dog breeder who pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts of animal abuse should be granted a lower bond and a change of venue. Twenty-six-year-old Melissa Sanders was arrested in November after law enforcement found several dead dogs and remains at her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council at its Monday night meeting approved a parking fine hike with an 8-2 vote. Parking violations were approved to be $25 across the board. A fine for metered parking was previously $6. Other notable increases include blocking a driveway and parking in a no-parking zone increasing from $17,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 1,000 electric meters went dark in Columbia on Tuesday morning, according to the Columbia Water and Light outage map. The outages appeared to be clustered along Stadium Boulevard, Route E and West Broadway at about 11:30 a.m. Emergency dispatchers warned of traffic backups in the area of Stadium Boulevard and Worley
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Installation of the Safe Haven Baby Box began Monday at the Cole County EMS Headquarters in downtown Jefferson City, according to Chief Eric Hoy.
The device is expected to be installed by the end of the week, but people will not be able to drop off infants until sometime in February, Hoy said. The box is being put in a wall on the building’s east side, behind the engine truck garages. People can access it from East McCarty Street.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Harry Adrian IV is no longer working for MoDOT. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The former state safety coordinator for the Missouri Department of Transportation, who was accused of pulling out a gun during a road-rage incident in September, pleaded guilty Tuesday in an agreement with the state. Harry Adrian IV, of Tuscumbia, pleaded guilty
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control is investigating after a man died while in the custody of the patrol. Troop A posted on social media that a man died after being taken in custody by troopers in Johnson County. The release states that around 6:30 p.m. on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sheridan Beardshear was closing her store on the west side of Columbia as usual around 7 p.m. Saturday night. She did the normal closing procedures in the back of the store, when she heard what she originally believed was a car backfiring. She walked outside of the store and was greeted by
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Five people were killed in traffic crashes on state roads over the New Year’s holiday weekend, according to a Monday press release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The release says the “counting period” lasted from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31-11:59 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4. This year, there were 87 people injured
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire that occurred Monday morning at a duplex in northern Columbia was ruled accidental, according to a press release from the Columbia Fire Department. The release says the fire in the 2800 block of North Willowbrook Drive was started in a clothes dryer. A cat died in the fire and
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter on accusations that he had a seizure while driving after not taking his medicine, killing a nursing home resident. Deshawn M. Robinson, 57, was charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and driving without a license on New Year’s Day. He was listed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a man with murder after a shooting that killed one person and left two seriously injured on Clark Lane in Columbia Sunday night. Columbia police said Monday that one of the victims in the shooting, Brianna Hawkins, 21, of Fulton, died at a nearby hospital
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President Donald Trump has rolled out his “Don-roe Doctrine.” That’s the portmanteau the president used over the weekend when talking about the military strikes in Venezuela, the news of which Americans woke up to on Saturday. The apparent goal of the show of force — which included strikes on Venezuela’s air defenses — was the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) All on-street parking rates in Downtown Columbia are increasing to $1 per hour, a $0.40 increase, starting Monday, according to a city press release. This ensures all parking rates match the campus area south of Elm Street. According to the release, the city intentionally selected Monday to reprogram and update pricing labels
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people were shot on Clark Lane at the Greens apartment complex on Sunday night, according to Columbia Police Chief Jill Schlude. According to Schlude, police received reports of a shooting in the 4800 block of Clark lane shortly after 9 p.m. Police found three people who had been shot on scene.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old Columbia teen was arrested for firing shots and a carjacking in the Shoppes at Stadium area Saturday night, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department. CPD spokesman Colin Imhoff said officers were called to the area just after 7 p.m. for reports of an active assailant and
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) Eldon residents are still under a boil order as of Saturday, marking the 18th day. The city posted on its social media, saying it collected eight water samples from four locations that previously tested positive for Total Coliform, and one sample came back with traces of the bacteria. That sample was taken
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 21-year-old Texas man was killed in a crash in Phelps County early Saturday morning during a police chase, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Around 12:15 a.m., the man was driving a 2017 Hyundai Sonata westbound on I-44 near mile marker 176 when he drove off the left
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The Columbia Police Department is hitting some installation delays with Flock cameras more than a year after the technology was approval by the city council in 2024.
101 of 118 camera locations have been installed, according to CPD Assistant Chief Lance Bolinger.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of a woman charged with felony murder for the 2021 death of an 8-month-old girl maintains she is innocent. Columbia police arrested Jennifer Johnson in April 2021, after being called to a home in the 1000 block of Elleta Boulevard in north Columbia. She is charged with felony murder in
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City Police are trying to determine why a car crashed into Westbrook Terrace Memory Care on Thursday afternoon, leaving a resident of the facility dead and the driver of the car hurt. Firefighters were called to the facility at 1:54 p.m. Thursday after the car hit the building at 3305
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