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UPDATE 3:00 P.M.: Discussions between Al Watkins and the Special Investigative Committee were heating up Thursday morning.The committee is considering disciplinary action for Gov. Eric Geitens and heard public testimony from a number of people. In Watkins’ three-hour testimony, he admitted that Faughn, who testified yesterday and is the publisher of the newspaper Missouri Times,

Mizzou athletic director Jim Sterk and South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley have come to an agreement in regards to a defamation lawsuit filed in February. Mizzou announced on Thursday it “has settled a lawsuit brought against its Director of Athletics, Jim Sterk, by South Carolina Head Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley for $50,000.

UPDATE: The Columbia Regional Airport will have a new security line before the summer is out. Airport manager Mike Parks said in Thursday’s Airport Advisory Board meeting that the TSA has approved new equipment to form a second screening line. “The flow of passengers going through there will be a whole lot more streamlined,” he

Two people from Lake Ozark were injured on Wednesday at 11:39 p..m after a 2018 Triton crashed into a shoreline. Christopher Miller, 47, and Katherine Miller, 34, were headed westbound on the Osage arm of the Lake of the Ozarks on mile marker 15.9 when the boat crashed into the shoreline. Katherine Miller was ejected

A New Bloomfield mayor will be nominated and selected Friday at 8:00 p.m. at City Hall in a special session. ABC 17 News crews are in New Bloomfield tonight, working to gather more information. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/ABC17News/status/999770207827701760″,”author_name”:”ABC 17 News”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/ABC17News”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;JUST POSTED: A New Bloomfield mayor will be nominated and selected tomorrow (Fri) at 8pm at

UPDATE 4:49 P.M.: Alyssa Murray has been located unharmed, according to authorities. ORIGINAL STORY: Boonville police are looking for a missing 15-year-old. A friend said she last saw Alyssa Murray sitting on the front steps of her home on May 24 around midnight. When Murray saw the friend, she took off running toward Water Street.

TONIGHT: A few evening storms are possible but will end by midnight. Storms will move in from Kansas after 4 AM, affecting areas west of HWY 63 by daybreak. These are not expected to be severe. Lows will drop into the upper 60s with light southerly winds. FRIDAY: Morning showers and storms will track to

Longtime Centralia softball coach Jill Angell was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday. Angell won four state championships during her 19 seasons as the Panthers softball coach. Centralia most recently won a state title in 2016. Angell resigned from her position as softball coach this past November.

TODAY: It will continue to remain on the warm side across Mid-Missouri, as temperatures warm into the upper 80s this afternoon. As the summer like pattern continues, we’ll see afternoon showers and storms. Most of the activity will be south of I-70 and very isolated in nature. Outside of the small storm chance, it will

You may have noticed more political ads on starting on television these days. Although the general election is more than five months away, the commercials are designed to shape early opinion. We are putting the ads to a Truth Alert to sort out the reality from the spin. The commercial under review is an anti-Josh

THURSDAY: It will be another very warm, humid day with high temperatures in the upper 80s and south winds under 10 mph. There is a slight storm chance mainly south of I-70. TONIGHT: With partly cloudy skies we are going to see an increasing storm chance overnight. Storms in northwest Missouri will drop south, with

James Carlock, a father of two, says the routine flow of rainwater through their backyard is not ideal for his family. The storm water system in Carlock’s neighborhood collects rainwater from the street, Buckingham Park, and runs it to his backyard. From there, the water flows from one open pipe, through a creek and into

You may have noticed more political advertisements on television of late. Although the general election is more than five months away, the commercials are designed to shape early opinion. Gov. Eric Greitens is now running a television ad on KMIZ and other stations, and he’s not even on the ballot this year. Gov. Greitens was

You can watch the Special Investigative meeting live here. The Special Investigative Committee looking into allegations of misconduct against Gov. Eric Greitens, including impeachment, met for day two of week one of the special session Wednesday. Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn testified in front of the committee for more than three hours Wednesday. Faughn is

The Columbia Police Department held its first open forum on the future of its community policing program. The forum Wednesday at the Daniel Boone Regional Library focused on the Fourth Ward, the first of seven meetings throughout the city. The first six will focus on specific wards in town, while the seventh will be held

UPDATE: Mayor Norris Gerhart said he first noticed a questionable charge from the police department at the beginning of May when he was going through payables before a city council meeting. “He’s [the police chief] no different from any other manager or superintendent,” said Gerhart. “They are all responsible for their payables. They just get

Attorneys for Governor Eric Greitens want a hold on delivering documents related to a lawsuit over his office’s use of a message-deleting app until after the special legislative session ends. The lawyers representing the governor’s office filed a motion on Wednesday to put a halt to the ongoing discovery process in a lawsuit over Confide

A hearing for the Missouri House of Representatives v. A New Missouri took place Wednesday morning. ABC 17 previously reported that the special committee investigating Gov. Eric Greitens wants a judge to enforce two subpoenas on Greitens’ campaign and a nonprofit connected to him. Minutes before the hearing, Mark Kempton, the attorney representing the special

TONIGHT: With passing clouds tonight temperatures will remain mild only dropping into the mid 60s by morning. Winds will be light out of the southeast up to 8 mph. THURSDAY: It will be another very warm, humid day with high temperatures in the upper 80s and south winds under 10 mph. There is a slight

Once again, the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is hosting a free lunch program during the summer. Monday through Friday, starting June 4 and ending August 3, free and healthy lunches will be available for children 18 years old and younger. Lunches will be handed out from 11:30 a.m. to 1