President Donald Trump unveiled a new plan to send weapons to Ukraine on Monday. NATO countries will purchase weapons from the United States for use by Ukraine under the plan laid out during an Oval Office meeting. Trump also gave Russia a 50-day deadline for a ceasefire. The president also said he would impose severe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One man is out of the hospital Monday night after a fight with his brother led to a stabbing in a northeast Columbia neighborhood. An ABC 17 News reporter saw at least eight Columbia police officers in a yard in the 1400 block of Lambeth Drive. Police said they were called there
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An inmate has been accused of setting a fire at the Saline County Jail in that caused a number of inmates to be displaced in January 2024 has been charged. 4 Jonnie Grimes, 41, was charged with first-degree arson, having a weapon at a jail and first-degree property damage. He is being
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) FEMA has requested that more members of Missouri Task Force 1 to be deployed to Texas to assist with the response to flooding, according to a Monday press release from the Boone County Fire Protection District says. The release says Task Force 1 was upgraded from a Type 3 team to a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A group made up of over 20 sheriffs from across the state, calling itself the Missouri Sheriffs’ Constitutional Firearms Alliance, introduced itself at a news conference Monday at the Missouri Capitol. The group says it is focused on promoting gun safety and defending the Second Amendment. “By creating the MSCFA, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Overnight roadwork for a number of downtown Columbia streets and roads near the University of Missouri’s campus will begin 5 p.m. Thursday, according to a Monday press release from the City of Columbia. Crews will mill and overlay pavement for about three weeks, with an expected completion set for 7 a.m. Thursday,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tank used to store flammable liquid blew its top off Route K, sending its top flying into a nearby neighborhood. Fire crews were called to the closed Leatherwood Hills store on Route K at about 2 p.m. for a tank fire. A photo shows four tanks of the sort used to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was set on fire on his porch last month has died. Donovan “Tyler” Baylis died on Monday morning, his mother Nan Oliver told ABC 17 News on Monday afternoon. Baylis was 31. Police had said the man was burned on June 15 in the 1500 block of Paris Road.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of a 23-year-old woman told police he fired in self-defense. Whether the legal system agrees could depend on whether and how David K. Heyde, 68, invokes the state’s self-defense laws. Heyde, 68, is accused of killing Bailey Scott on July 6. He was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of leading law enforcement on a boat chase Saturday in Morgan County was charged with a felony and multiple misdemeanors. Loren Peters, of Sunrise Beach, was charged with aggravated fleeing and four misdemeanors, including boating while intoxicated, not displaying navigation lights, not registering a boat and recklessly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with first-degree domestic assault on Monday after he allegedly assaulted a woman on June 30. Christopher Rowden, 38, is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. An initial court appearance was held on Monday. Court documents say that he assaulted the victim between 8:30-9:30 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man who pleaded guilty last month to sodomy has now been charged with enticing a child. Billy Vanbibber, 40, was charged on Monday with enticing a child younger than 15 years old. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He pleaded guilty on June
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged with statutory rape earlier this year after moving into a home with a teenager and her father is now charged with having child pornography. Travis Kalchbrenner, 32, was charged on Saturday with possessing child porn and is being held at the Cole County Jail. He was charged
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, woman was charged with several child sex crimes after she allegedly sodomized and molested a child multiple times since 2021. Kaila Browning was charged with five counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and five counts of first-degree child molestation. A warrant was issued
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 22-year-old man was charged after a deadly crash in Mexico on Saturday morning. Prosecutors have charged Joshua Frye, 22, of Mexico with DWI resulting in the death of two or more. Court documents state police officers responded to the crash on Saturday at 6:39 a.m. in the 4800 block of South
Continue Reading MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The man accused of shooting a 23-year-old woman is set to make his first court appearance in the Randolph County Courthouse Monday afternoon. Prosecutors charged David Kip Heyde, 68, with second-degree murder on Thursday after allegedly shooting Bailey Scott on July 6. Court documents state that Moberly Police received a report of shots fired
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President Donald Trump brought out his favorite economic policy tool again over the weekend. Trump said he is imposing tariffs of 30% on Mexico and the European Union. They’re the latest two countries to get notice of tariffs that are set to start Aug. 1 — Trump sent out several letters to countries last week
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Morberly, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: The last name of the victim on first reference has been corrected. Sunday evening, members of the Moberly community met for the ‘Justice for Bailey walk’ movement. People gathered in purple clothing and shirts in remembrance of 23-year-old Bailey Scott, who was shot and killed last Sunday. The walk began
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F responded to a boat fire Sunday afternoon at the Lake of the Ozarks. Sgt. Kyle Green with the highway patrol tells ABC 17 News troopers were called around 2:20 in the afternoon to a boat fire at the 10 mile marker of the main channel on
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Severe weather and flooding forced Missouri Task Force One to suspend search operations along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas on Sunday, according to the latest update from the Boone County Fire Protection District. BCFPD said the team returned to its base of operations where members reconfigured equipment and were
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