COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 500 customers around Mid-Missouri are without power Sunday morning after severe storms entered the area on Friday night. The threat of high winds and hail damage prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to issue a Weather Alert Day for Friday. Most of Mid-Missouri was in tornado watch on Friday evening.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Strong winds and heavy storms Friday night left thousands without power and caused one house to catch on fire. On Saturday morning, the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives’ Statewide Outage Map reported over 2,000 people in Morgan County without power. Gravois Fire Protection District Chief Dustin Hancock reported that crews responded to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Warsaw R-IX School District will be closed Monday due to storm damage clean up, according to a social media post from the district. The district said no students or staff were hurt on school campuses. District staff may access the South Elementary building if needed. The school district said it hopes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Branches and trees were down around Mid-Missouri after storms rolled through the area on Friday. The threat of high winds and hail damage prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to issue a Weather Alert Day for Friday. Most of Mid-Missouri was in tornado watch on Friday evening. Gov. Mike Kehoe had preemptively
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order on Friday declaring a state of emergency ahead of severe storms that are expected to enter the area this evening. The potential of hazardous storms with damaging winds and hail prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to declare Friday a Weather Alert Day.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri senators stayed late Wednesday to pass a new amendment to the income tax elimination plan and sent it back to the House just after midnight. The Missouri Senate GOP posted on Facebook at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, letting people know House Joint Resolutions 173 and 174 were on the Senate
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Power has been restored after severe storms rolled through parts of Mid-Missouri Wednesday night. As of 7 a.m. Thursday, power has been fully restored in Camden and Cole Counties. Wednesday night, 1,500 Ameren customers were without power in Cole County. The threat of severe storms in Mid-Missouri prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Officials in Clinton reported damage to several buildings Wednesday night after storms moved through the area. Henry County Sheriff Aaron Brown told ABC 17 News that a tornado appeared to have touched down in Clinton near Calvird Drive between 2nd Street and Highway 13. Henry County is located in the western part of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 27-year-old Eldon man drowned in a private pond on Wednesday afternoon in the 1400 block of North Grand Avenue, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man “suffered an unknown medical emergency and was located in the pond.” He was pronounced dead at 4:22
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia announced Wednesday that its looking for community feedback to update its 2021 Strategic Plan. The city said it wants the plan to reflect the community’s future priorities. Its gathering the feedback through a number of ways including a survey, ideas wall and discussion forum. Three public forums will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Republican candidates seeking their party’s nomination for Missouri’s Sixth Senate District have raised more than $1 million combined for their campaigns, according to reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission. State Rep. Rudy Veit, who represents rural Cole County, has taken in the most money so far, raising more than $324,000 for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIIZ) A Columbia man was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison without parole for federal child pornography charges, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Ryan Hine, 29, was sentenced for enticing a minor to produce child porn and advertising child porn to other people. He will also
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people were charged in Pettis County on Tuesday in connection with a Chicagoland-area child abduction case. Devetta Davis, Raven Johnson and Karon Nabors, all of Sedalia, were arrested and charged with being fugitives from out of state. All three are being held without bond. Arraignments for all three people were held
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County judge on Tuesday upheld the state’s voucher program that lets some students attend their school of choice — public or private. Judge Brian Stumpe denied the Missouri National Education Association’s request for an injunction to halt the Missouri Scholars Program. The Missouri General Assembly appropriated $51 million for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A crash on North Providence road near Monday night Hickman High School that left a man seriously hurt marked the third crash in Columbia this year that involved a pedestrian. Statewide crash data shows pedestrian crashes are three times lower in Columbia than by the same point in 2025. By April 2025,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Board of Education voted 5-1 on Tuesday to approve an application for a Columbia charter school. The application was refiled by Frontier last week for a STEM charter school in Columbia. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education recommended the board authorize the Frontier STEM school for pre-K
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged with multiple felonies after he was shot by Jefferson City police officers in February is asking for a change of judge and venue. Joey Hampton, 40, of Jefferson City, is charged in Cole County with two counts of first-degree assault and single counts of shooting at a vehicle,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A substitute high school teacher from the state of California has been arrested after he tried to get children from Callaway County to send him nude photographs. Matthew Bowman, 25, of Los Banos, California, was charged on Friday in Callaway County with two counts of child enticement and two counts of misrepresenting
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Hemp Trade Association held a news conference ahead of delivering handwritten letters to the governor’s office opposing hemp regulations. Watch it in the video player.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe met Monday afternoon with federal, state and local officials about security preparations for the World Cup in Kansas City. Kansas City will host six matches, including a quarterfinal game. The city is expecting 650,000 visitors and four countries will call KC its base camp. Those countries include:
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