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The Jefferson City school board is scheduled to vote on a few construction projects. A meeting got underway at around 6:00 p.m. One plan calls for more than $1 million worth of construction at the high school and Nichols Career Center. Another contract they’re scheduled to vote on is for partial re-roofing at Cedar Hill

There may be a heavy police presence in northeast Columbia Monday night. Officials told ABC 17 News it’s just a training exercise. Columbia Police confirmed the SWAT and Crisis Negotiation Team will be near a vacant home off Brown Station Road, near Gerbes on Paris Road. Property owners gave their permission for the training, and

A man was arrested Friday after threatening to commit suicide and attacking police officers as well as St. Mary’s Hospital staff. Police responded to the Zip Stop convenience store at 910 Fairgrounds Road in Jefferson City Friday night for a call for a disturbance. When officers arrived, they took Michael Clanahan into custody after he

Seven people were arrested following a drug bust involving Boonville Police and the MUSTANG Drug Task Force. After a year long investigation, 20 people were indicted on the sale of a controlled substance. An undercover operation revealed those charged were selling meth, crack cocaine, marijuana, and prescription pills. 45-year-old Diego Harmon of New Franklin was

The man Johnson County deputies took into custody this weekend is now charged for shooting and killing a serviceman at Whiteman Air Force Base. An indictment filed Monday said that Dominic Sacco shot 22-year-old Senior Airman John Bottom Saturday morning at a residence near Warrensburg. Prosecutor Rob Russell charged Sacco for unlawful use of a

A 32-year-old Jefferson City suspect is now charged, accused of shooting another man Sunday afternoon. Witnesses report Carlton Tyler and Antoine Kingwere fighting, in the 1400 block of Miller Street, before Tyler pointed a rifle at at the King. King went to the hospital with a non life-threatening gunshot wound to his back, before police

The man accused in a deadly Columbia stabbing appeared in court Monday afternoon in Boone County. Anthony Shegog had a pre-trial conference Monday afternoon. He’s accused of stabbing a man to death behind Hickman High School last fall. Investigators think he was jealous when he saw the victim talking to his girlfriend. Court documents said

A former Hickman High School choir director last Monday pleaded guilty to harassment charges. Matthew Felts pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor harassment after calling and texting a woman repeatedly. Court documents said Felts would also wait outside her house and called her boyfriend. Felts was sentenced to two years supervised probation. Felts is

A suspect in a Randolph County murder appeared in Boone County court Monday afternoon. Christopher Lewis and Jeffery Nichols are both charged in the killing of an elderly woman in 2013. Both admitted to robbing the woman and leaving her for dead. The prosecutor is seeking the death penalty. Lewis had a hearing in Boone

Sedalia police are looking for a man who robbed a convenience store Sunday afternoon. Sergeant D.L. Keltner said officers arrived at the Tiger Eagle Stop on East Broadway Boulevard at 3:50 p.m. The clerk there told officers a bald, black man in light blue, striped overalls came into the store, telling the clerk he was

The system that brought showers and thunderstorms over the weekend will move to the northeast Monday morning. A few showers or a stray thunderstorm could linger into Monday morning, but rain will end by Monday afternoon. Then partly sunny skies and slightly cooler temperatures will return. Highs Monday will reach near 70 with a breezy

Columbia police cleared the scene of a standoff on Apple Tree Lane near Southampton around 7:15 Sunday night. Columbia police said they got a 911 call from an assisted living facility on the street around 5:30 Sunday evening, saying a black man in a white T-shirt came into the facility and threatened to shoot everyone

An upper level system currently to the west of Missouri will slowly make its way eastward through the weekend and into Monday. As it does it will continue to rotate in showers and thunderstorms Saturday night through Monday morning. Showers and thunderstorms will pick up after 9pm Saturday night and last into the overnight hours.

Hundreds of residents across Columbia donated food to the Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Saturday morning, Columbia postal carriers picked up canned goods from homes across the city. And dozens of volunteers sorted through the donations at the post office throughout the day for the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. The Food Bank

Hundreds of people in Mid-Missouri are taking steps to protect themselves from identity theft. Saturday, the Mid-Missouri Better Business Bureau along with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office hosted Shred Day to help people get rid of sensitive documents. This comes less than two weeks after Columbia police arrested a man who reportedly stole trash outside

Saturday, a man is in jail after leading multiple law enforcement agencies on a car chase through parts of Mid-Missouri. Fulton police arrested Clayton Craddock, 30, around 11:00 Friday night. Police officers tried to pull over Craddock for several traffic violations near State Road HH and Atkinson Road, but Craddock would not stop his car.

A recent spike in pedestrian deaths has Columbia city leaders concerned. Mayor Bob McDavid announced a pedestrian-safety task force Friday at City Hall to investigate the problem. “How does Columbia’s accident rate compare with national trends? Do the accidents share a theme? How does Columbia compare with comparable university towns?,” said McDavid. Four pedestrians in

Gov. Nixon has signed a $26 billion operating budget for the state in the next fiscal year. The new budget includes more money for schools, as well as cuts to social services. The governor praised the legislature for coming to an agreement on time. He also highlighted several key items that he was satisfied with

A Columbia man was arrested Monday for stealing scrap metal in Macon. Early Monday morning at around 2:30, Macon Police got a tip about a theft in progress near downtown. Officers saw a suspicious car in the 200 block of Goggin St. which contained scrap metals. Officers located 51-year-old Tommy Tolson, who was wearing all

Officials say it is important to know that storm shelters are not water tight. This week in Oklahoma City, a 43-year-old woman drowned in an underground storm cellar. According to Oklahoma Police, the woman went in the shelter to avoid severe weather. But flood waters rushed in and trapped her inside. All underground storm shelters