COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation will close a portion of Highway 5 on Wednesday between New Franklin and Fayette to replace a culvert, according to a Tuesday press release. A stretch of highway between County Roads 426 and 320 will be closed from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The work is related
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The next phase of work on Highway 54 over Missouri Boulevard that begins next week will require a traffic shift, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. Crews on Tuesday, Aug. 5 will start working on the driving lane and will shift eastbound and westbound traffic to their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 72-year-old West Virginia man was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday on Interstate 70 in Montgomery County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred as a 2018 Freightliner Cascadia was heading westbound “at a slow rate of speed” in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Barnett, Missouri, man died from injuries he suffered in a single-vehicle crash on Tuesday morning in Morgan County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred on Route AA, north of Jones Creek Road. The crash occurred as a 2007 Pontiac Torrent
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Lori Smith was mowing her lawn Thursday when she saw a pickup truck coming around the corner of County Road 391. “There was nothing indicating that this individual that was driving was doing anything wrong at all,” Smith said. She has lived across the street from the Katy Trail crossing on
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A Columbia man has been charged after he is accused of hitting a person with his truck and leaving the scene early Sunday morning.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A small memorial of flowers and a teddy bear now rests at the edge of a county road where a 9-year-old boy lost his life after being struck by a pickup truck. The child was hit by a 21-year-old woman while crossing a section of the Katy Trail on Thursday. Cyclists
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was killed after being hit by a truck in Boone County Sunday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred on Route AB, east of U.S. 63 around 5 a.m. A 20-year-old Columbia man was driving a 2021 Ram 1500, when the vehicle crossed
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AUDRAIN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Centralia man was injured Saturday when his dirt bike crashed into a horse and buggy in Audrain County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man, 21, was riding a 2025 Honda CR125X on the wrong side of Audrain Road 124. The man then braked, causing the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 9-year-old boy was killed Thursday when he was hit by a pickup truck on a North Jefferson City road. Jefferson City Police revisited the scene the area where the crash happened on Friday afternoon, closing down the road just before 1:30. The child, who was not named in a Jefferson
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia has brought back the use of yellow Barnacles for vehicles with unpaid tickets. According to Columbia Public Works, it will only Barnacle people with four or more tickets that have aged past their court dates. However, before adding the Barnacle, the driver will be warned with a sticker
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Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed one person died after a crash on eastbound Interstate 70 in Columbia Thursday morning.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A grant that had been canceled twice has once again been given the greenlight. A Thursday press release on the website for the Business Loop 70 area says that a $2 million grant to study a portion of the street has been reapproved. The grant – which was approved for use by
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Missouri’s General Assembly may have found the solution to all of those expired temporary registrations on the state’s roads. A law takes effect Aug. 28 that will require vehicle buyers to pay sales tax at the time of purchase, instead of enjoying the grace period they do now. The change means those expired tags should
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new Missouri law will require drivers to pay the motor vehicle sales tax directly at the car dealership when purchasing a vehicle in a bid to reduce the number of expired temporary tags on the road. It will require drivers to pay their motor vehicle sales tax directly at the dealership
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Editor’s note: The time of the crash was updated after law enforcement sent an updated press release. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 42-year-old pedestrian in Moberly was flown to University Hospital with life-threatening injuries on Tuesday night after they were hit by a vehicle, a press release from the Moberly Police Department says. The release says
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The pilot of a crop duster plane that crashed Tuesday in northern Boone County is recovering at a Columbia hospital. Wren Johannaber was in fair condition Wednesday after crashing a crop duster plane near Centralia on Tuesday, an MU Health spokesperson said. Johannaber, 31, of Huntsville, was flying an air tractor plane,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia will begin building a new roundabout Monday on a road that draws heavy commuter traffic. The $2.4 million project to build a roundabout at West Route K and West Old Plank Road aims to improve safety and traffic flow at the intersection, which has a skewed angle that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Unpaid motor vehicle sales tax costs Missouri millions of dollars a year, according to the Missouri Department of Revenue. Between January 1, 2021, and July 23, 2024, the Department of Revenue reported more than 113,000 delinquent accounts tied to temporary permits, adding up to nearly $145 million in unpaid fees. Each year,
Continue Reading The $2.13 million grant awarded to the to improve Business Loop 70 in Columbia has been canceled by the federal government.
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