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Continue ReadingJoseph Elledge is in the Boone County Jail without bond on a first-degree murder charge in the disappearance of Mengqi Ji.
Continue ReadingThe Boone County Commission has awarded about $2.9 million in CARES Act funding for COVID-19 relief since the pandemic started.
Continue ReadingA crash on US-40 and Katy Trail killed 17 year old Trey Potter Friday morning.
Continue ReadingJoseph Elledge, who was charged with murdering his wife Mengqi Ji in February, has court hearings scheduled Friday.
Continue ReadingOne year after Mengqi Ji, a Columbia mother, went missing police continue the search for her. Police announced on Tuesday Wednesday they would begin searching the Lamine River for Ji once again while removing part of the levee they built because the water level was so low.
Continue ReadingFormer Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill accused state Sen. Caleb Rowden of lying in an attack ad against his election opponent Thursday.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control is investigating after someone is shot with a Columbia Police Department-owned firearm on Monday. Columbia Police first responded early Monday morning after being dispatched to University Hospital and Clinics, 1 Hospital Drive, for a report of a gunshot victim in the emergency
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia’s Planning and Zoning Commission, along with City staff, are currently working on a 5-year Status Report for “Columbia Imagined – The Plan for How We Live & Grow.” The status report is the City of Columbia’s comprehensive land use plan that was adopted by the City Council on
Continue ReadingColumbia police and Boone County Joint Communications are working to improve communication after it broke down during a shooting in north east Columbia. This prevented EMS crews from entering the scene to provide help to victims.
Continue ReadingAs of Thursday the search for missing Columbia woman Mengqi Ji has not resumed.
Continue ReadingOfficers said the man was walking in a westbound lane of Interstate 70 when he was hit by two cars.
Continue ReadingIt has now been one year since Columbia woman Mengqi Ji was last seen alive.
Continue ReadingAs the return to learning continues one local college currently see’s no active cases of COVID-19 and no students in quarantine or isolation.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department said Wednesday that it would make another attempt at finding a woman’s remains in the Lamine River. Police suspended the search for Mengqi Ji’s remains in the river near Boonville in June. Ji went missing last October. Her husband, Joseph Elledge, has been charged with her murder. Elledge
Continue ReadingInsurance company State Farm will sublease its campus on Providence Road to Veterans United starting Dec. 1.
Continue ReadingMU officially confirmed Wednesday that Saturday’s game moved to Columbia because of Hurricane Delta.
Continue ReadingThe plan said social distancing would not be possible if elementary students returned to school.
Continue ReadingColumbia police were searching the area of Rice Road Wednesday morning.
Continue ReadingThe head of Columbia Public Schools on Tuesday proposed a four-day week as an alternative to bringing students back into classrooms for two days in a hybrid plan.
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