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Less than a week into the new school year, teachers at Hickman High School used the solar eclipse as a learning experience. “The whole school came out, which is great because one of the misconceptions was you shouldn’t be looking at it but we made sure we taught the kids the important safety procedures were,”

City Manager Mike Matthes clarified his plan to pay city employees more for next fiscal year. Matthes introduced the plan in June to pay each city worker $1,000 as a one-time raise for the budget year. The raise, Matthes said, was his attempt to combat low morale over a lack of reliable or significant raises.

TONIGHT: Showers and t-storms will increase overnight and bring heavy rain. The threat for severe weather is very low overnight. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for Chariton , Pettis , and Saline counties until 10 AM Tuesday. Most areas will pick up a half inch or more rainfall by Tuesday morning. A stripe

Eclipse 2017 is now part of history, but it’s a history Mid-Missourians now share together. With a response worthy of a major sporting event or the rare natural event that is a total solar eclipse, a swath of our nation got an epic treat. The only coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in many generations brought similar

The Jefferson City Council is taking the next step in redevelopment plans for the former St. Mary’s Hospital. Nine city council members voted in favor of approving the redevelopment project of St. Mary’s Hospital tax increment financing district, or TIF, plan. One City Council member had to recuse himself due to his involvement with Lincoln

The total solar eclipse attracted veteran and novice eclipse chasers to Columbia on Monday. Abi Ghosh, who was on his second total solar eclipse, said this was the first time he was well equipped for the event. “This was my first time being serious about it with all this equipment,” Ghosh said after totality on

The Boone County Office of Emergency Management staffed extra 911 communication personnel for Monday to be prepared for the expected traffic of visitors and tourists for the eclipse. The partly cloudy forecast for Boone County seems to have deterred people from coming to the area to view the total solar eclipse, however. Hotels in Boone

UPDATE, 5:00 p.m.: Boone County deputies are investigating a home invasion that happened around 4:00 Monday morning in the 7400 block of Sunburst Court. Deputies said the victims, a man and a woman, reported two or three men broke down the back door of their home and came inside. The suspects left a short time

A strong cold front will be tracking through Mid-Missouri Monday night and will bring with it the threat for damaging winds, large hail, and the potential for flash flooding. There is a marginal risk for severe storms for most of Mid-Missouri. A few storms are possible in the late-afternoon to early evening hours with the

ABC 17 News has confirmed with the Fulton police department that three female suspects led authorities on a car chase on Monday. The vehicle the suspects were driving was stolen out of Columbia. The chase began on Route F, about a half mile west of Highway 54. Sgt. Schramm of Fulton PD got a call

The solar eclipse later this month will be the most studied of all time, with some of the data collected coming from ordinary folks volunteering their time for science. Scientists say the eclipse will give us an unprecedented view of the solar atmosphere never seen before. CATE, the Continental American Telescope Eclipse, is an experiment

While mid-Missourians have their eyes to the sky Monday, there will be plenty of pilots up there looking to land at local airports in the area. The Columbia and Jefferson City airports are preparing for an influx of aircraft that are already requesting to land on Monday. Columbia Regional Airport manager Mike Parks said the

UPDATE: Columbia police identified the man taken into custody after a lengthy standoff Sunday. Christopher Moore, 35, from Columbia is in the Boone County Jail Monday. Moore reportedly forced his way into a home where a 22-year-old woman was inside, according to the Columbia Police Department. Moore had a gun and forced the woman to

Researchers at the University of Missouri are using Monday’s total solar eclipse to learn more about plants, animals and fish. MU’s Bradford and South Farm research centers will being doing a variety of experiments Monday to see how the species respond when it becomes dark in the middle of the day. Tim Reinbott, assistant director

NASA has taken over the Missouri Capitol lawn in Jefferson City for the total solar eclipse festivities. “You don’t get to see that every day,” said Rhonda Nunn, a Jefferson City resident. “I feel like we’re making history today.” Nunn said she liked that NASA has been educating the community on the eclipse and doling

TODAY: The much anticipated total solar eclipse is here and it’s likely to be accompanied by partly cloudy skies. Cloud coverage will likely be greater in our northern counties through the morning hours thanks to an overnight storm system decaying in Iowa. Temperatures will reach close to 84 at the start of the eclipse and

Mid-Missouri residents will get their chance to say their final goodbyes to a local fallen Marine. Talon Leach, of Callaway County, was one of the 16 servicemen who died in a plane crash in Mississippi in July. Leach died in the line of duty when a transport plane he was in crashed on its way

TONIGHT: Scattered storms are possible through 9 PM tonight, as a line of storms that’s tracking through Mid-Missouri will continue to weaken. Once storms clear out, expect partly cloudy skies to stick around. We are looking at the possibility of some patchy fog developing in the river valleys, with lows in the lower 70s. MONDAY:

A total solar eclipse is visible from some place on Earth around every two to three years. While this seems often, it is still a rather rare occurrence since it’s only visible from a narrow path along the Earth. So within a lifetime, any point in the world will likely only see a total solar

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker who temporarily posted a Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated is apologizing to Trump and his family, but the Democrat says she has no plans to resign over what she called “a mistake.” Numerous top Republicans and Democrats in Missouri have called upon