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Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer announced plans Wednesday to run for Missouri attorney general in 2016. Schaefer (R-Columbia) is currently serving his second term as senator of Missouri’s 19th District. The office of attorney general is expected to be up for grabs because the two-term incumbent, Democrat Chris Koster, has already said he’s preparing to

One person was injured in a house fire in Boone County Wednesday afternoon. Around 3:50 p.m., Boone County Fire Protection District crews were called to the house on 12400 block of Highway YY, north of Columbia. Seventeen units responded to the fire. According to an ABC 17 News crew at the scene, the home is

Research projects at the University of Missouri received hundreds of thousands of dollars Wednesday for research that could one day help save lives. The projects range from heart valve replacement devices to detecting infections in the blood. MU officials tell ABC 17 News the projects are on the brink of going to the patient testing

A Jefferson City man was arrested for allegedly robbing an acquaintance at gunpoint Tuesday. Police say 52-year-old Michael A. Green picked up the male victim around 2 p.m. near the intersection of Green Meadows Road and Crescent Green Drive in Columbia. As Green and the victim were heading to a movie, Green stopped the car,

The Special Olympics Missouri State Outdoor Games are coming to Jefferson City. The announcement came during a Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau news conference, Wednesday. The event will be held in Jefferson City starting in 2014 through 2017. The 2014 games will happen the weekend of Oct. 3-5. Officials say the event will provide

A person was arrested for unrelated warrants after a body was found decomposing on the back porch of a home near Camdenton. On Wednesday, officials confirmed the remains belong to a woman. Investigators think it is the woman who rented the house in Camelot Estates. On Tuesday night, 30-year-old Jamison D. Shelton was taken into

The Jefferson City Day Care Center is getting a $500,000 renovation with assistance from Missouri taxpayers. Gov. Jay Nixon got a tour and announced the news at the day care. Nixon claims it’s going to make the center safer and geared more toward learning. The money is really coming from three places: $200,000 is coming

Two people were taken to a hospital following a truck crash in Boone County Tuesday morning. The accident happened around 3:30 a.m. on Smith Hatchery Road south of Columbia. According to authorities, four people were in the truck when it left the road and crashed into a tree. The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the

ABC 17 News continues to follow a story about safety in some Columbia rental properties. In April, a fire at Ash Street Place Apartments forced 60 residents to re-locate. Ash Street Place Apartments was one of 30 complexes that were not up to current fire code in April. Those complexes did not have required manual

Columbia police responded to a robbery at Passion’s around 8 p.m. Tuesday at 1108 Business Loop 70 East. An employee says he saw the suspect walk into the store and appear to browse merchandise before he walked up to the cash register and demanded money. Police are uncertain if he was armed but say he

The Pulaski County Sheriff says a southwest Missouri hunter died Monday after he fell into a sinkhole while searching for a deer he had shot. Sheriff Ron Long saysCurtis S. Powelson, 31,called his wife, telling her that he was trying to track the animal. When he failed to return home, his wife reported him missing

The father of an Ashland teenager who killed himself last week after threatening his school is speaking out. John Meadows say his son, Jacob, was misunderstood and meant the threat as a joke. However, the threat led to the district canceling classes for the day. The impact overwhelmed Jacob, Meadow said, leading him to commit

A Mid-Missouri plant has stopped generating electricity, less than two weeks from officially closing. The Chamois Power Plant, operated by Central Electric Power Cooperative, has stopped producing electricity. On Tuesday morning, the final generator went offline. The Central Electric Power Cooperative decided earlier this year to shut down the plant due to new mandates from

The Columbia Police Department, along with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department and four other law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and U.S. Marshal’s, conducted a “saturation patrol” to catch criminals in Columbia. The saturation patrol placed many officers in one area of high crime and arrested 35 people, almost half of whom were wanted felons.

The city council in Jefferson City fired the city’s administrator Nathan Nickolaus. Council members went into a closed session Monday night to discuss personnel matters. Mayor Eric Struemph requested a motion to terminate Nickolaus in the closed-door session. Struemph cited a difference of opinion over direction and “visioning” for the city. “I believe the council

A tractor trailer crash backed up traffic for hours on Interstate 70 in Columbia. Just after 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, emergency crews were called to the accident on the eastbound lanes of I-70 at the exit ramp to Highway 63. The Columbia Fire Police Department says the tractor trailer — carrying automotive batteries — struck the

Two members of the University of Missouri’ s governing board say they did not order football Coach Gary Pinkel to dismiss a star running back after the player’s 2010 arrest on sexual assault charges. Derrick Washington was Missouri’s leading rusher as a sophomore and junior until he was kicked off the team before his senior

Three out of four car seats are not used correctly, according to the global children’s organization, Safe Kids. A new study out of Ohio said one of the reasons for this is because cars and car seats are not always compatible. Experts at the Ohio State University College of Medicine measured the width, height and

A man went before the Columbia City Council Monday night to make the city aware of what he calls a “brown recluse infestation” at his daughter’s apartment complex. He said he and his daughter have killed at least 40 spiders in her Timber Ridge apartment since the beginning of August. And he presented a video

A fire damaged the roof of a medical building in Columbia Tuesday morning. The fire started at Boyce and Bynum Pathology Professional Services on Portland Street shortly before 7 a.m. Firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames, which were quickly extinguished. They told ABC 17 News the likely cause of the fire was a halogen