COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Commission will be meeting Thursday afternoon to vote on a contract to bring a new child advocacy center to the county. The vote will be to approve a 2024 Contingency Fund with Missouri Network Against Child Abuse to build the center. The contract was sent to the Boone County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An electrical pole was broken and lines were on the ground on Creasy Springs Road in Columbia on Wednesday night. Columbia Utilities spokesman Matt Nestor told ABC 17 News in an email that no outages occurred after the pole broke. City crews will work with Boone Electric crews to repair, as Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Through the month of October, Columbia has experienced an uptick in gun-related crime compared to the same point in time last year. On Sunday, three people were shot in Downtown Columbia on East Broadway. Deandre Denny was charged Tuesday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and illegal gun possession in connection with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A building just south of Interstate 70 in Columbia was set on fire by a homeless person in retaliation against the building’s owner, a report from the Columbia Fire Department claims. A building on Nebraska Avenue, just east of Providence Road, caught fire on Oct. 20. An investigation report says $125,000 in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department has released a photo of a man who they say is connected to a Tuesday shooting scene at Douglass Park. A woman was found injured with gunshot wounds at Douglass Park at around 3:40 p.m. and was brought to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, previous reporting indicates.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of helping another man, who was accused of murder, escape police in November 2023 has pleaded guilty to a pair of felonies. Alex Glay, 26, of Columbia, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hindering a felony prosecution and resisting arrest. He was sentenced to four years in prison
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man found guilty of the death of two women in 2022 was sentenced to over 60 years in prison on Tuesday. A Boone County judge sentenced Cadilac Derrick to 62 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for five felonies. Derrick was found guilty of killing two Columbia women –
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was rushed to a hospital after she was shot Tuesday afternoon in a central Columbia park. Police at the scene did not provide the woman’s name or age. Police were sent to Douglass Park at about 3:40 p.m. and found the injured woman and evidence that shots had been fired,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused in a deadly Columbia shooting in summer 2023 waived arraignment Tuesday. Deljuan Turner’s arraignment was held Tuesday morning at the Boone County Courthouse. Another suspect, Damarkus Williams, will be arraigned Dec. 2, according to court records. Turner and Williams had their charges changed from second-degree murder to first-degree murder,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Department of Veterans Affairs is searching for a building in Columbia for a new research facility. The VA is taking bids to lease a 70,000-square-foot building for research and office space. Bid documents show the government wants to rent a building between 59,709-70,246 square feet and 250 parking spots. The documents
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According to a release from Partner for Better, the Missouri Network Against Child Abuse will contract with the company to open a new child advocacy center after the Rainbow House closed earlier this year.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some residents who live in Downtown Columbia say they’re on edge after three people were shot Sunday morning on East Broadway. Finn O’Hagan, a graduate student at the University of Missouri who lives Downtown, said he is not surprised there was a shooting. “It does make me nervous hearing stuff like this
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The revised district calendar for Columbia Public Schools is expected to cost the district $95,000, according to a Columbia Board of Education agenda for Monday’s meeting. CPS sent a letter to parents last week detailing the new schedule that was approved during an Oct. 24 work session. The changes to this year’s
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Watch a Veterans Day wreath laying from the University of Missouri’s Memorial Union. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In honor of Veterans Day, multiple events are being held across Mid-Missouri to honor fallen soldiers. At noon, The University of Missouri will hold its 98th annual wreath-laying ceremony that began in 1926 to honor fallen Alumni. This year’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the Missouri Tigers are set to face off against one of their oldest rivals, the Oklahoma Sooners, fans are reminded to possibly change their gameday plans as Memorial Stadium undergoes construction. The preliminary work for the Memorial Stadium Improvements Project started Oct. 14. Parking Lot B in the Northeast corner of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is rolling out a new safety campaign to try and curb the number of fights on public buses. On Thursday, city staff began putting up posters for a new “Ride With Respect” campaign. Each poster outlines guidelines for passengers with expectations for language, personal items and pet carriers.
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been accused of uploading child pornography to the internet in Moberly. Tyler Marsh, 23, of Centralia, was charged with possessing child pornography and first-degree promoting child porn. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $50,000 bond. A court date has not been set. According to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with seven felonies after he was allegedly found with hundreds of doses of fentanyl. Kyle Shepherd, 32, was charged with second-degree drug trafficking, two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and four counts of unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation has stocked rainbow trout at Cosmo-Bethel Lake in Columbia, marking the start of the winter trout season. The catch-and-release winter season typically begins on Nov. 1, but the MDC was not able to stock trout last week in Columbia and Jefferson City due to high-water temperatures at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new Westlake Ace Hardware location has opened in in the Rock Bridge Shopping Center on East Nifong Boulevard in Columbia. There are two other Ace Hardware locations in Columbia at 1910 West Worley Street and 1900 Business Loop 70 East. The company announced the third location would open in March. A
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