COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Attorney General’s office has launched an investigation into a Boone County haunted house that did not open its doors this past fall. The Attorney General’s office received 25 complaints from consumers about Fear Fest, according to AG spokesperson Madeline Sieren. Columbia’s Fear Fest Haunted House made an official announcement on Oct. 31
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Fulton Police Department is looking for a maroon/burgundy 2022 Jeep Compass Sport in connection to a teenager’s shooting death. Police wrote in a Wednesday afternoon press release that suspect vehicle information was developed after investigating more than 50 leads in the death of 17-year-old Mason Sheets. Police previously said on
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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) The City of Moberly on Wednesday announced a boil advisory for water customers in the 1700 block of Parkwood Drive. Water service was shut off in the area on Wednesday because of an emergency water main repair. The boil advisory will last 48 hours, the release says. During an advisory, water should
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Conley Road in Columbia between east Business Loop 70 and Trimble Road will close each night Wednesday through Saturday, the city public works department wrote in a Wednesday press release. The Missouri Department of Transportation will close both lanes from 7 p.m.-6 a.m. each night, the release says. Driver should plan alternative
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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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AUDRAIN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire at a home in Audrain County reignited Wednesday morning, according to Gale Blomenkamp with the Boone County Fire Protection District. According to a release from Little Dixie Fire Protection District, fire crews were called to Audrain Road 165 at 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday for a house fire with flames
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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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Many people think birthright citizenship, a right laid out in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and other federal laws, is ironclad. President Donald Trump is not among them. Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office meant to chip away at birthright citizenship. It quickly drew legal challenges. The new
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who pleaded guilty to selling crack in Mid-Missouri for several years will get out of jail a decade sooner than he was sentenced. Malcolm Redmon was arrested in August 2014 by local and federal law enforcement on Sanford Avenue in central Columbia. In 2016, he was sentenced to 24 years
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Brian Yearwood was a finalist to lead another school district. Garden City Public Schools in Garden City, Kansas, shared on its Facebook page on Sunday that Yearwood is one-of-two candidates up for the superintendent job. A short description on its page does not directly mention Columbia Public
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported in a house fire Tuesday in Moberly in the 600 block of Burkholder Street. Moberly Fire Department Lt. Cory Putnam told ABC 17 News in an email that firefighters were dispatched for a report of a house fire that had one person and multiple pets in the home.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A truck driver from Minnesota was seriously injured Monday in a crash on Interstate 70 at mile marker 191 in Warren County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states that the driver – a 60-year-old man from Andover, Minnesota – of a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Recent executive actions by President Donald Trump to limit immigration from refugees and birthright citizenship could have significant ripple effects in Missouri. Tuesday, the controversial executive order reinterpreting the 14th Amendment led to lawsuits being filed by a dozen states and the ACLU. “President Trump’s executive order is an illegal attempt to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Roughly 13,000 animals entered shelters and rescues each day in 2023 across the nation and the need for more pet foster families is at a high, according national rescue group Best Friends. Melody Whitworth, director of Unchained Melodies Dog Rescue, said besides a new litter and mom they took in over the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump signed more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office Monday. One of them directed the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The 2015 agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change, and was signed by 194 states and the European Union in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police are looking for a “vehicle of interest” in relation to a Fulton teenager’s death, Fulton Police Chief Bill Ladwig told ABC 17 News on Tuesday. Police wrote on Monday that Mason Sheets, 17, was found on Sunday night with gunshot wounds in a vehicle near South Business 54 and Commons Drive.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were brought to an area hospital for smoke inhalation after a fire occurred Tuesday morning at a residence in Osage Beach, the Osage Beach Fire Protection District wrote in a press release. The district wrote that the fire is under investigation “but it appears that it started in the front
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with four felonies on Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted a woman and threatened to kill her at a hotel on Monday. Maurice Lee, 34, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, second-degree kidnapping, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas City man pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas City on Tuesday for his role in a series of armed robberies in Mid-Missouri, the Department of Justice wrote in a press release. Kentrail Collins, 26, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, five counts of robbery, one count of brandishing
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