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Everyone is safe after a student displayed a kitchen knife to a teacher in a “threatening way” at Smithton Middle School on Friday. According to a letter that was released by Principal Ed Schumacher to Smithton families, the student was “confined to one eighth grade classroom” and will face “appropriate disciplinary action.” You can read

TONIGHT: The winds become become light and we’ll have a clear, cool night with low temperatures near 50. SATURDAY: The morning will start off cool but temperatures will quickly rise into the low 70s by afternoon under mostly sunny skies. Northwest winds will increase to 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph at times in the

One person is still in critical condition after a vehicle crash on highway 24 in Randolph County on Thursday. A 2014 Ford Fusion, holding a driver and three passengers, was stopped and trying to make a turn onto MO-3 when a 2014 Ford F150 hit the Fusion from behind. The F150 flipped and stopped on

Construction is moving forward on a 80,000 square-foot milk processing and distribution plant in northeast Columbia. A groundbreaking ceremony for Aurora Organic Dairy was held Thursday afternoon at the construction site at Route B and Waco Road. The $91 million construction project is set to be completed by 2018. “It really solidifies the advancements in

TODAY: Sunny skies are in the forecast this afternoon for all of Mid-Missouri, with highs climbing to near 70 degrees. This trend is the start of what’s going to be a gorgeous weekend across the region. The only wrench in the perfect weather today, is the fact that winds will be quite breezy out of

Columbia police officers saw a black Chevrolet cobalt traveling east in the 1600 block of Broadway at 79 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. Officers stopped the vehicle in the 2700 block of Green Valley Drive and talked to the driver, Ryan B. Williams. Williams smelled strongly of alcohol and was

Columbia police officers pulled over a green truck in the 2400 block of Broadway for an equipment violation on Friday morning when two suspects tried to run from the scene. Rhonda Nicole Wilson was a passenger in the vehicle and gave the officer a fake name. The driver, who also gave officers a fake name,

The weekend will bring a dry pattern with typical May temperatures with highs in the low 70s and nights in the upper 40s. Saturday morning a disturbance will move through east of Missouri bringing passing clouds in the morning, but keeping us rain free. The next rain SMALL rain chance will move in on Monday

TODAY: It’s a chilly morning with winds from the north. Winds will gust to 25 mph during the afternoon for those east of US 63. The winds gusts will be lower for those west. Plenty of sun today will bring temperatures to the upper 60s. TONIGHT: It looks clear with lows dropping to the upper

TODAY: After a chilly morning with temperatures dipping to the mid to low 40s, it will be a bright and sunny day with a breeze. Further east you head today, the wind will pick up . Winds will gust to 25 mph east of US 63. Look for a slight breeze west of US 63

Two people were hospitalized after a crash on Highway 124 in Boone County Thursday. It happened near Route YY, about 20 minutes north of Columbia. Emergency responders on scene said they received the call around 6:15 p.m. for the two-vehicle head-on crash. “It did occur on a curve where they have done some fresh oil

ABC 17 News is working to find out if anyone was injured in a single vehicle crash Thursday evening. The crash happened in Columbia on Rock Quarry Road at Fellow Place just before 5:45 p.m. The vehicle struck a light pole and was towed from the scene.

Planning and Zoning commissioners chose not to move up any projects that might help three areas of town the city has focused on. The commission sent its recommendations for the fiscal year 2018 capital improvement plan to the Columbia City Council on Thursday. The plan lays out a $90 million road map of improvements to

Another inmate is charged after a second reported fight at the Boone County Jail in the same week. On Wednesday, Lamont Cooper Jr., 22, of Columbia was charged in Boone County with a felony count of third-degree assault. Deputies say Carter punched another inmate while their back was turned to him on Tuesday afternoon. According

Wade School Road was shut down Thursday night as firefighters responded to a possible house fire in the 7200 block of North Wade School Road. The Boone County Fire Protection District was called to the duplex around 9:25 p.m. Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp said crews believe the fire started in the lower electrical area of

While the budget for the upcoming fiscal year is not yet finalized, there is at least one certainty: Funding for higher education will be cut — it’s just a matter of how much. Missouri lawmakers have approved a spending plan that cuts core funding for public colleges and universities by more than six percent. UM

The Missouri House passed a $27 billion state budget Thursday the day before the congressional deadline. The budget for the fiscal year starting in July is now in review in the state Senate and will then move on to Gov. Eric Greitens. In the current proposal, public universities and colleges across the state would take

A new report finds that the rate of sexual assaults on the University of Missouri campus is “too high for its population size.” Vice Chancellor Garnett Stokes, now interim chancellor, established the University of Missouri’s Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Task Force in the fall of 2015. Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Task Force Report

UPDATE: Lucas has been found guilty on all four counts, including double murder and armed criminal action. ORIGINAL STORY: A 12-person jury is deciding the fate of a man accused of murdering two men in September 2015. Darious Lucas is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action for

Nelson Barnes said his cell mate confessed to the crime in 2015. It wasn’t the crime the man found himself most recently accused of that October, a drug case that sent him to the Fulton Diagnostic and Reception Center. Barnes, serving a sentence for receiving stolen property, said Darious Ashton Lucas told him about a