COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was set on fire on his porch last month has died. Donovan “Tyler” Baylis died on Monday morning, his mother Nan Oliver told ABC 17 News on Monday afternoon. Baylis was 31. Police had said the man was burned on June 15 in the 1500 block of Paris Road.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of a 23-year-old woman told police he fired in self-defense. Whether the legal system agrees could depend on whether and how David K. Heyde, 68, invokes the state’s self-defense laws. Heyde, 68, is accused of killing Bailey Scott on July 6. He was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of leading law enforcement on a boat chase Saturday in Morgan County was charged with a felony and multiple misdemeanors. Loren Peters, of Sunrise Beach, was charged with aggravated fleeing and four misdemeanors, including boating while intoxicated, not displaying navigation lights, not registering a boat and recklessly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with first-degree domestic assault on Monday after he allegedly assaulted a woman on June 30. Christopher Rowden, 38, is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. An initial court appearance was held on Monday. Court documents say that he assaulted the victim between 8:30-9:30 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man who pleaded guilty last month to sodomy has now been charged with enticing a child. Billy Vanbibber, 40, was charged on Monday with enticing a child younger than 15 years old. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He pleaded guilty on June
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged with statutory rape earlier this year after moving into a home with a teenager and her father is now charged with having child pornography. Travis Kalchbrenner, 32, was charged on Saturday with possessing child porn and is being held at the Cole County Jail. He was charged
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, woman was charged with several child sex crimes after she allegedly sodomized and molested a child multiple times since 2021. Kaila Browning was charged with five counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and five counts of first-degree child molestation. A warrant was issued
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By Devan Cole, John Fritze and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday said President Donald Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court. In an unsigned order, the justices lifted
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 22-year-old man was charged after a deadly crash in Mexico on Saturday morning. Prosecutors have charged Joshua Frye, 22, of Mexico with DWI resulting in the death of two or more. Court documents state police officers responded to the crash on Saturday at 6:39 a.m. in the 4800 block of South
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday laid out a pair of steps intended to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine, including funneling new weapons to Kyiv and threatening economic punishment on Moscow if peace isn’t reached in 50 days, as he grows increasingly disenchanted with his Russian counterpart.
Continue Reading MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The man accused of shooting a 23-year-old woman is set to make his first court appearance in the Randolph County Courthouse Monday afternoon. Prosecutors charged David Kip Heyde, 68, with second-degree murder on Thursday after allegedly shooting Bailey Scott on July 6. Court documents state that Moberly Police received a report of shots fired
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President Donald Trump brought out his favorite economic policy tool again over the weekend. Trump said he is imposing tariffs of 30% on Mexico and the European Union. They’re the latest two countries to get notice of tariffs that are set to start Aug. 1 — Trump sent out several letters to countries last week
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Morberly, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: The last name of the victim on first reference has been corrected. Sunday evening, members of the Moberly community met for the ‘Justice for Bailey walk’ movement. People gathered in purple clothing and shirts in remembrance of 23-year-old Bailey Scott, who was shot and killed last Sunday. The walk began
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F responded to a boat fire Sunday afternoon at the Lake of the Ozarks. Sgt. Kyle Green with the highway patrol tells ABC 17 News troopers were called around 2:20 in the afternoon to a boat fire at the 10 mile marker of the main channel on
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Severe weather and flooding forced Missouri Task Force One to suspend search operations along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas on Sunday, according to the latest update from the Boone County Fire Protection District. BCFPD said the team returned to its base of operations where members reconfigured equipment and were
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By Chris Boyette, Michelle Watson, Linda Lam, CNN (CNN) — Just over a week after deadly flash floods swept through central Texas, slow-moving thunderstorms brought heavy rain, and a potential for flash flooding and rapid river rises to the region Sunday. While the most significant rain happened Sunday morning, the chance for more thunderstorms continues
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By Natasha Chen and Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — If tomato prices jump because of new tariffs on the Mexican-grown produce, restaurant owner Teresa Razo says her businesses could go bust. “I give it three months, and then we go bankrupt,” said Teresa Razo, owner of two Argentine-Italian restaurants in Southern California. A nearly three-decade-old
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Fire Department battled an early morning fire Sunday, according to a press release from the department. According to the release, crews responded to a call for a residential structure fire at around 12:41 a.m. Sunday on the 800 block of Weathered Rock Road. Firefighters found fire showing from a
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force One continued their relief operations Saturday along a 10-mile stretch of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas. The Boone County Fire Protection District taking to social media to share the latest update. The post said the team, working alongside counterparts from Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia, and multiple
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By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Employees at the United States Institute of Peace were terminated for a second time by the Trump administration, after a federal court ruling last month paved the way, according to multiple fired employees. Liz Callihan, a now-former employee, said Department of Government Efficiency personnel installed at USIP notified the
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