Editor’s note: The sentence referring to the percentage of families who do not qualify for free or reduced lunch has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools and a Pennsylvania-based debt collection agency have agreed to go after unpaid student lunch balances and other delinquent payments beginning July 1. The Columbia Board of Education
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cooper County man has been charged with two felonies after authorities say he had child pornography. Jesse Lawrence Wallace, of Blackwater, was charged with first-degree promoting child porn and possessing child porn. He was not listed on the Cooper County Jail roster on Friday afternoon. A warrant was issued on Thursday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison her alleged connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in May 2024 on Rice Road. Quanina Lambert, 35, pleaded guilty in April to second-degree assault and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. She was previously charged with first-degree assault, second-degree felony murder and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury trial for a man accused in a fatal 2023 shooting has been scheduled. Kimo Spivey, 35, of Columbia, is charged with first-degree murder, illegal gun possession, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action. Another count of unlawful use of a weapon was
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By Michael Rios, Nechirvan Mando, Catherine Nicholls, Eugenia Yosef and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Tehran launched retaliatory strikes against locations across Israel on Friday, following Israel’s attacks on Iranian military and nuclear targets. Iran said Friday evening local time that it had fired “hundreds of various ballistic missiles” towards Israel, in what it called
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged after he is accused of stealing a box truck and running from officers. Daylon Logan was charged with tampering with a motor vehicle, aggravated fleeing a stop and resisting arrest. Court documents state detectives saw a U-Haul box truck with Arizona registration traveling north on Paris
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By Helen Regan, Lauren Izso, Tamar Michaelis, Nadeen Ebrahim and Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Israel struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear, missile and military complex early Friday, in an unprecedented attack that has killed several of Iran’s most powerful figures and plunges the wider Middle East into dangerous new territory. The strikes on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Athletic departments across the nation will soon be ushering in a new age of college sports, with the recent approval of the House v. NCAA settlement. On Thursday, Mizzou Athletic Director Laird Veatch took time to meet with the media and break down the logistics of revenue sharing, roster limits and the
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court late Thursday paused a ruling that required President Donald Trump to return control of members of California’s National Guard to the state. Senior US District Judge Charles Breyer had ruled that Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard and must return control
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Homeless Task Force met Thursday morning and heard directly from individuals who have experienced homelessness. Created in June 2024 by the Jefferson City Council, the task force aims to better understand homelessness and connect people with vital resources. It brings together law enforcement, elected officials and nonprofit organizations
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hallsville School District said Wednesday that a bond issue approved by voters in April will not be certified by State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick. According to a social media post, the district learned on Friday that the State Auditor’s Office will not authorize the bond issue. The post by Hallsville School District
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order on Thursday, activating the National Guard ahead of protests scheduled around the state and country this weekend. “We respect, and will defend, the right to peacefully protest, but we will not tolerate violence or lawlessness in our state,” Kehoe said in the release. “While other
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who is wanted for two counts of first-degree rape in Washington state was arrested Wednesday in Sedalia. Meshkov Aleksandr, 34, was charged in Pettis County with being a fugitive from out of state. He is at the Pettis County Jail awaiting extradition. A court date for the Missouri charge has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Lincoln University Board of Curators on Thursday morning approved the school’s budget for fiscal year 2026. A document from the board states that the general fund budget is $43,196,623 and the auxiliary fund budget is $6,973,471. The budget includes $2.3 million to finish a salary study “with individual adjustments capped at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 45-year-old Rolla woman was seriously injured in a crash Thursday afternoon in Phelps County at the 175-mile marker of eastbound Interstate 44, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The single-vehicle crash occurred as the 2020 Toyota Tacoma went off the right side of the road, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A lane closure has been scheduled at the intersection of Broadway and Providence Road in Columbia next week. A press release from the city says that the Stormwater Utility will repair pavement in the northwestern portion of the intersection beginning at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 16. Work is expected to be done
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Juneteenth will be on Thursday, June 19 and city services in Columbia will be impacted, according to a press release from the city. City offices will be closed that day and residential curbside trash will not be collected. Pickup will be delayed one day for the rest of the week. The landfill
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri Athletic Director Laird Veatch on Thursday will speak to the media on the recent settlement reached against the NCAA. Judge Claudia Wilken last week approved the settlement between the college sports governing body and current and former student-athletes. The athletes sued over claims the NCAA illegally limited their ability to
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were seriously hurt after a motorcycle crash near Newburg in Phelps County on Wednesday night. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash happened around 8:10 p.m. on Wednesday on Route T, five miles south of Newburg. The report states a 52-year-old man from Rolla and
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CNN By Sophie Tanno, Aishwarya S. Iyer, Rhea Mogul and Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — At least 290 people are feared to have died after a plane bound for London crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad. Images from the scene showed thick black
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