CENTRALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was charged with stealing after she was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the Centralia Band Booster Club. Jeanie Whitlatch was charged on Wednesday with stealing more than $750. A criminal summons was requested for Whitlatch. According to the probable cause statement, Whitlatch was the treasurer for the Centralia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of bringing a gun to Hickman High School last year while he was a student accepted a plea deal. Shaun Jackson, of Columbia, pleaded guilty on Monday to misdemeanor unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation and a suspended sentence
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Stover man was charged with several child sex crimes on Tuesday. Colby Hader, 26, was charged with two counts of second-degree statutory rape and two counts of second-degree statutory sodomy. He is being held at the Morgan County Jail on a $250,000 bond. Hader pleaded not guilty during a hearing
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Heavy rainfall in Columbia led to flash flooding on some roads Wednesday.
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Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Ernesto continued to unload flooding rainfall on Puerto Rico as it pulled away from the island Wednesday afternoon after its strong winds knocked out power to hundreds of thousands there and in the Virgin Islands. The Category 1 hurricane had maximum sustained
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Missourians will get a chance to vote in November to legalize sports gambling.
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A question to legalize abortion will be on the November ballot but one to award a license for a riverboat casino on the Lake of the Ozarks will not.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some residents in a north Columbia Neighborhood are growing concerned after a recent sting of vehicle break-ins Tuesday morning. The break-ins occurred near the 5100 block of Aspen Ridge Drive. The Columbia Police Department confirmed an incident report was filed, but did not provide any further details. Ring camera video submitted to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 100 Ameren customers in Miller County lost power on Tuesday night. Some power outages were reported throughout the night in multiple counties on the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperative’s outage map after storm cells rolled through areas near the Lake of the Ozarks. There were 106 Ameren customers without power
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An Eldon man charged in March with abandoning a corpse was charged this week with murder.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Lake Ozark man was charged on Monday with nine counts of promoting child pornography. Leland James Weeks II, 48, was charged with two counts of first-degree promoting child porn and seven counts of second-degree promoting child porn. He is being held at the Camden County Jail on a $150,000 bond.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The wife of a man accused of manslaughter in the deaths of two women in a crash last week on Interstate 70 in claims she has proof her husband’s license is not suspended. Walter Montejo, 26 of South Gate, California, is charged with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, one count of
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Two Missouri health non-profit organizations broke ground on Tuesday on a new building in Jefferson City.
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 64-year-old Rolla man was seriously hurt in a single-vehicle crash in Phelps County on Monday evening. According to the online crash report, Guy Clayton was traveling northbound on Highway A north of Ridgetop Drive at 7:50 p.m. when his 2023 F-150 went off the left side of the road. The
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The preseason college football AP Top 25 was released Monday and Mizzou was placed among the best teams in the nation.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education provided an update on the school district’s Missouri Assessment Program testing data on Monday. The statewide assessments are designed to improve accountability and measure student performance. According to a recent presentation from an Aug. 6 BOE meeting statewide participation in the test continues to be more than
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Newburg man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday on Doolittle Outer Road 1 in Phelps County, east of Route T, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, the crash occurred as a 2009 Hyundai Sonata – driven by Jerime Lister, 40 – was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With the new school year approaching, Columbia Public Schools has introduced its new cellphone expectations. This new policy states that within CPS middle schools, personal cellphones are to be put away the entire school day. For CPS high schools, cellphones are to be put away only during class periods. The district’s website
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Dialing the number 911 instead of a seven-digit number for emergencies started in Gasconade County in 1995 and the county is now implementing a new system to better connect callers to first responders in emergencies.
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