Watch a news conference with Attorney General Catherine Hanaway live at 2 p.m. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The owner of Eagle Stop convenience stores has been charged with promoting illegal gambling after a raid on a Columbia store. Anthony Gier, of Eldon, was charged Tuesday by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office with four felony counts of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison last week for a downtown Columbia shooting. Deandre L. Denny pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree assault, second-degree assault and armed criminal action in the November 2024 gunfight on Ninth Street. Denny was shot in his legs and foot and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Teresa Shaw walked through the grounds at Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery on Monday, she counted vase after vase that had been stolen from gravesites in recent months. “My grandmother’s is missing, my grandmother’s daughter’s is missing,” Shaw said. “My stepfather’s was missing. You can go on over there and there’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education on Monday approved a salary increase for Superintendent Jeff Klein. The increase was on the agenda for Monday’s Board of Education meeting, which began at 6 p.m. Under the proposal, Klein will receive a 6% salary increase ($15,300) for the next school year. Klein currently makes $255,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Documents for a Columbia City Council work session on Monday shows the city can expect to spend millions in the red through fiscal year 2031. Meeting documents show general revenue and expenditures are expected to look as followed: Fiscal YearRevenueExpendituresDeficit2026$130,045,273$137,792,238$7,746,9652027$131,668,045$135,897,485$4,229,4402028$132,816,321$139,207,543$6,391,2222029$133,981,664$142,599,122$8,617,4582030$135,170,623$146,074,251$10,903,6282031$136,371,944$149,635,010$13,263,066 Some of the biggest expenses from the general fund are employee wages
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rocheport man accused of manslaughter in deadly crash from February 2024 is set to go to trial on Wednesday, court filings show. Matthew Shilling is charged in Boone County with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of armed criminal action, one count of second-degree assault and a count of driving while revoked, a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia doctor who was indicted on 38 federal charges was released from jail on Monday morning. Dr. Jonathan Morris, who owns Columbia Urgent Care on North Providence Road, is charged with 15 counts of illegally prescribing drugs and 23 counts of health care fraud. Morris was booked into the Crawford County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Law enforcement officers found two .45-caliber pistols and two rifles, one with a load in the chamber, at the end of a multi-county chase Saturday in which the suspect allegedly shot at officers. Clayton Wulf of Ellisville, Missouri, in the St. Louis area, was arrested after crashing his pickup truck at East
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools leaders could approve a new salary package for Superintendent Jeff Klein while also renewing a program that brings international teachers into district classrooms at Monday night’s meeting. The school district is seeking approval to renew an agreement with BVD Cultural Exchange, LLC, a company that helps sponsor international teachers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a 17-year-old in connection with the disappearance of Kayla Huff early Saturday afternoon. A news release said the arrest was made Friday with assistance from the Moberly Police Department. 16-year-old Huff has been missing since Wednesday and search efforts are ongoing. Volunteers and
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A heavy police presence was seen in east Columbia Saturday morning near the East Saint Charles Road/North Lake of the Woods Road roundabout.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri students celebrated “Stop Day” on Friday, but many said an increased police presence changed the atmosphere of the annual tradition. Reading Day, colloquially known as Stop Day, is intended to give students a day off from classes before finals week begins; though it has also become associated with large
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The man accused of shooting two of his family members, leading a police chase and shooting at law enforcement before shooting himself on Thursday finished a 120-day shock incarceration program with the Department of Corrections about a week before the shooting. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, 32-year-old Steven Swanson allegedly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Klein’s salary is an agenda item for Monday night’s Board of Education meeting. The board is expected to approve a 6% salary increase ($15,300) for Klein for the next school year, according meeting documents. Klein currently makes $255,000 per year and the increase would bump it up
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No people were injured, but a cat died in a Friday morning Columbia house fire, according to a press release from the Columbia Fire Department. The release says firefighters were called just before 8 a.m. to the 400 block of McBaine Avenue. Firefighters saw black smoke and fire coming from the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment celebrated the grand opening of its new facility Friday morning. The facility is in the MU Health Care South Providence Medical Park, located at 701 Veterans United Drive. The new facility is 74,000 square feet and costs $54.8 million, enabling significant expansion to serve twice
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A driver suffered serious injuries in a crash that shut down part of Clark Lane in northeast Columbia on Friday. Emergency dispatchers sent a public alert that the crash had closed Clark Lane at Hanover Boulevard at about 9 a.m. The road remained closed at 9:30 a.m. Columbia Fire Department Battalion Chief
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: The type of vehicle involved has been corrected. A well-traveled road in south Columbia was closed off by first responders on Thursday night after a crash. Law enforcement and barricaded vehicles blocked off Nifong Boulevard near Woodrail on the Green. Columbia Police said Friday morning that this crash happened at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Librarians at the University of Missouri voted to join LiUNA Local 955, a union that represents a number of public employees in the Mid-Missouri area. LiUNA announced in a Thursday social media post that library workers voted to join the union. Workers had announced their intent to unionize in December. MU librarian
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday to celebrate the start of construction from Rocheport to Columbia for the next phase of the Improve I-70 Project. MoDOT contractor Emery Sapp and Sons will begin strengthening the interstate’s shoulder from Route BB to Midway starting Monday with nightly lane closures.
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