COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications says it received nearly 350 calls during a phone outage on Monday night and Tuesday morning, but all emergency services were dispatched efficiently. BCJC stopped receiving 911 calls around 6:40 pm Monday night. An alert was sent to the public just before 8 p.m., reporting that Brightspeed believed
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) Rep. Bishop Davidson (R-Greene County) presented House Bill 100 to a special committee on tax reform Tuesday in hopes of implementing a flat 4% income tax rate in the state and getting one step closer in fully eliminating income tax. If HB 100 gets implemented, starting in 2027, the 4% flat tax
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported after a fire broke out at Warehouse Tire & Muffler in Jefferson City Friday night, according to a press release from the Jefferson City Fire Department. The release states that just after 9:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to a structure fire at 1611 Christy Dr. Suite B
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged on Friday with possessing child pornography in Cole County. Nathan Kent, 31, is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A court date has not been set. The probable cause statement says law enforcement received report in May 2024 of someone storing child pornography
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A series of a dozen outages in Jefferson City left nearly 400 Ameren Missouri customers without electricity at its peak late Thursday afternoon. The outages appeared on the utility’s map to be clustered south of Highway 50 and east of Highway 54. The largest outage affected 275 customers and began at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A lane closure will occur Thursday evening at a road in Downtown Jefferson City, the Jefferson City Department of Public Works announced in a Wednesday press release. Crews will do utility repairs in the 300 block of eastbound West McCarty Street, between Missouri Boulevard and Broadway Street, the release says. Work will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two inmates at separate Missouri Department of Corrections facilities died on Monday, the DOC stated in separate press releases on Tuesday. Gregory Peck, 45, was pronounced dead at 3:54 a.m. at Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City. The release says that he was serving a 15-year sentence for selling and possessing drugs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was charged with three felonies after she allegedly stabbed a man at a Jefferson City residence on Friday. Tabatha Pinkston, 36, of Jefferson City, was charged with first-degree burglary, second-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. She is being held at the Cole County Jail at the time of publication.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Public Service Commission on Thursday held a public hearing in Jefferson City over a proposed electric rate increase for Ameren. The utility company is asking for an additional $446 million, which it says would cost the average resident around $17.45 more each month, or 15.77% A majority of people in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with a pair of felonies after he allegedly inappropriately touched a minor while they were sleeping. Myron Demon Cage, 40, was charged with first-degree attempted sexual abuse and tampering with a witness. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A court date
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Some parents are asking the Jefferson City School District to communicate with them after weather-related bus delays that left some students stranded and parents stressed. The Jefferson City School District initially called for a two-hour delay Tuesday due to weather. This delay was extended to a cancellation as the school’s bus
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center died on Tuesday, according to a Wednesday press release from the Missouri Department of Corrections. The release says Brandon Church, 34, was pronounced dead at Capital Region Medical Center. He was serving a 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in Platte County and was received by
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman accused of murdering a toddler in 2018 and abandoning the corpse has been deemed competent to stand trial by the Department of Mental Health. Quatavia Givens, 32, was charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and abandoning a corpse in relation to the death
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Several abortion rights groups will be holding a rally inside the the Capitol Rotunda in Jefferson City Wednesday. At 11:30 a.m., Abortion Action Missouri, ACLU of Missouri, Action St. Louis, Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Action, PROMO, and Missourians from across the state will gather in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dangerously cold temperatures have led to a number of area schools to either call off classes on Tuesday or have a late start. Overnight wind chills in parts of Mid-Missouri are expected to hit minus-20 degrees, according to the ABC 17 News Stormtrack Weather Team, who issued a Weather Alert Day for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police confirmed that a stolen gun was found after a shots fired incident over the weekend that led to six juveniles being detained. Two of the youth were released, while one was detained on suspicion of four counts of first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, and distribution
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman who volunteered at a private school is set to be sentenced in April after she pleaded guilty last week to sexual abuse for a relationship with a student. Jennifer E. Cecil pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse, a felony. She was charged in July 2023 after the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Lincoln University in Jefferson City held its Founders’ Day Convocation on Thursday. University officials say the tradition celebrates the school’s continued mission of education, diversity and service. The annual event commemorates LU’s founding in January 1866 by Civil War veterans of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantries, a press release from
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)Â The Jefferson City Police Department arrested six people in connection to an armed robbery on Monday night in the 300 block of Benton Street. According to police, two victims of the robbery said that multiple people entered their car and robbed them at gunpoint. Officers who responded to the scene established
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Elected officials who won the November 2024 election were sworn in outside the Missouri Capitol today. Among those to take the oath was first-time Gov. Mike Kehoe. Kehoe, a Republican, was elected governor after serving as lieutenant governor. Another Mid-Missouri resident, Denny Hoskins, was sworn in for the first time as
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