Columbia Board of Education votes for pre-K through 5th grade to return to a four day week next week
The Columbia School Board voted to allow some students to return to the classroom.
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Online classes come with new challenge: How to stop cheating
Online school comes with all sorts of new challenges. Among them is ensuring students don’t cheat on exams when they’re taken outside the classroom.
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Inspectors say two Columbia bars violated COVID-19 health orders
Health inspectors cited two Columbia bars on Saturday for what they said were violations of public health orders meant to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Mizzou’s homecoming game against Vanderbilt postponed
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team’s homecoming game against Vanderbilt on Saturday is postponed. PowerMizzou first reported the news. NEWS: The Vanderbilt at Missouri FB game of Oct. 17 is postponed due to positive tests & subsequent quarantine of individuals within the Vanderbilt FB program. The action is consistent with SEC COVID-19 management requirements.
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MONDAY UPDATES: Boone County reports fewest new cases since Aug. 17
Get live updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here.
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Pettis County: Swisher and Harms Rd intersection closed till April 2021 to replace bridge
PETTIS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Pettis County Road & Bridge Department will close the entire intersection at Swisher Rd & Harms Rd beginning Monday, October 12, 2020, for 120 days for bridge replacement. The location is north of State Route 52 in southwestern Pettis County. All work is weather & equipment breakdown dependent, with the
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Former Missouri youth pastor charged with child sex abuse
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former youth pastor was charged with seven felonies following accusations he sexually abused a child in Missouri. The Springfield News-Leader reports 46-year-old Jeff Taylor of Strafford, Missouri, was charged Thursday with five counts of statutory sodomy and two counts of statutory rape. Taylor is accused of sexually abusing a
Continue ReadingMissouri S&T announces ‘transformative’ $300 million gift
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis businessman and his wife have donated $300 million to a foundation to support Missouri University of Science and Technology in what the university said is believed to be the largest single gift to a higher education institution in Missouri. Missouri S&T announced the gift Monday from Fred and
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Jefferson City Schools decides to not shorten quarantine time for employees
School board will review whether teachers should be considered essential workers.
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Missouri agency working to fix state’s COVID-19 dashboard
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two days after a “database extract error” incorrectly showed a massive one-day increase in coronavirus cases in Missouri, the problem remains unresolved. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services spokeswoman Lisa Cox said Monday that the state is still working to pinpoint the cause of the problem, which is related
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DEFENDERS: Scammers target Amazon users ahead of Prime Day
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Days before Amazon Prime Day, the Better Business Bureau is warning Amazon users about scammers trying to steal your personal information. In a news release, the BBB says the scammer will call you and if you answer a recorded message will play. The message claims there is a problem with Amazon account.
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Barrett vows to interpret laws ‘as they are written’
At her confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has declared that Americans deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets the Constitution and laws “as they are written.”
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Jefferson City police arrest man with multiple warrants
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City officers arrested a man with multiple active warrants early Sunday morning. A release from the police department said 27-year-old Jonathan Adams and a woman were arrested at a Days Inn hotel on Jefferson Street. Officers were patrolling the area when they saw a vehicle associated with Adams in the
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Patrol: Truck crash into bridge seriously injures man
A Lake of the Ozarks-area man was seriously hurt after crashing into a bridge later Saturday night, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
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Benton County Sheriff recovering in hospital after motorcycle crash
The sheriff of Benton County and his wife are at University Hospital in Columbia after a motorcycle crash.
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Sunday Sit-down with Souichi Terada
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on the Kansas City Star’s Mizzou beat writer Souichi Terada in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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Recap: Drinkwitz captures signature first win over No. 17 LSU
ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman recaps the Mizzou football team’s upset win over No. 17 LSU on Saturday. “It was our will versus there’s,” Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz said after the game. “We wanted it more, bottom line.”
Continue ReadingSUNDAY UPDATE: Boone County reports 25 new COVID-19 cases
The Department of Health and Senior Services reported an error on the state’s COVID-19 dashboard on Sunday.
Continue Reading Columbia Board of Education to vote on return to learn; parents await decision
The Board of Education is set to vote on an in-person four-day week learning model on Monday for Columbia Public Schools to return to classrooms, while parents await to see how the decision could impact their families.
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Fatal motorcycle crash in Osage County
OSAGE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A fatal motorcycle crash in Osage County is the second fatality of October for Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F. According to MSHP crash reports, 52-year-old, Tammy S. Sauer of Loose Creek Mo. was traveling westbound on Highway 100 when she traveled off the right side of the roadway and flipped
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