COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Natural Resources said it needs more information and clarity from the City of Columbia on its plan to mitigate and track human waste and trash from homeless camps getting into water. DNR’s Water Protection Program Director John Hoke told the city in a May 30 letter that the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police are revealing new details about the unsolved case of Virginia ‘Ginger’ Davis. Police say on the morning of June 6, 1994, authorities found Davis inside her home at 1508 Patsy Lane in only her underwear with a plastic bag over her head. According to a 1994 media release, a neighbor
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Editor’s note: The sentence referring to the percentage of families who do not qualify for free or reduced lunch has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Leaders at Columbia Public Schools are looking at how to best tackle the more than $90,000 of student meal debt. The conversation continued at the Columbia Public Schools’ Finance Committee
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hallsville woman has been charged with two felonies after she allegedly stole the income of someone with a disability. Natalia Phillips, 44, was charged with financially exploiting a disabled person and stealing more than $750. She is being held at the Boone County Jail on a $50,000 bond. Court date has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department says it has arrested a man who was wanted in an armed robbery that occurred on June 5. Noah Cooley, 21, of Columbia, was charged on June 13 with first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action and a lone count of unlawful use of a weapon. Police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The B-2 Bomber Stealth Fleet held Whiteman Air Force Base in Johnson County played a critical role in the United State’s “Operation Midnight Hammer” airstrike on Iran. The base is the only one in the country that houses the nation’s stealth bomber fleet and is the sole operational base for the B-2.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia’s Public Works Department has completed repairs on a road buckle. Crews worked to pave over the damaged area of North Providence Road near near Big Bear Boulevard. As of 4 p.m. Tuesday,, the road was back open and safe for drivers. The extreme heat causes road materials to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Local first responders have responded to multiple heat-related service calls since Friday. The Columbia Fire Department told ABC 17 News on Tuesday that firefighters have responded to five calls. Cole County EMS said on Monday it had responded to three heat-related calls. “Folks are out there doing yard work, hottest time of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Marshall man was charged with several felonies in Saline County on Tuesday after he was found with several weapons in a shopping cart. John Hooper was charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, illegally having an illegal weapon, drug possession and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) First responders on Tuesday were in a neighborhood just north of Interstate 70 in Columbia. A car crashed into a building on Heriford Road. Responders on the scene told an ABC 17 News photographer that one person was brought to an area hospital with minor injuries. Traffic was directed back to Paris
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center died Sunday morning, according to a Tuesday press release from the Department of Corrections. The release says Jerry Thebeau, 66, died at 2:51 a.m. Sunday at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City. He was received by the DOC at Oct. 20, 2005 and was
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CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — American hospitals and utilities are on alert for the possibility of cyberattacks following the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites last weekend. So far, there haven’t been any new breaches, but hackers linked to Iran have reportedly been talking openly online about retaliation, one cybersecurity expert said. Here’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men from Mid-Missouri were sentenced Tuesday in separate federal drug cases. In one of the cases, Jordan Shelton, 42, of Mexico, was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison without parole for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, the release says. He pleaded to the charge on Jan. 21. The release says on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Waynesville firefighter suffered minor injuries after a firetruck crashed Monday morning on Interstate 44, according to a social media post from the Waynesville Rural Fire Protection District. The truck blew out a tire near mile maker 156, causing the truck to go into an embankment, hit a sign and stop on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire was reported Tuesday in the bathroom of Waynesville Middle School, according to a social media post from the St. Robert Fire Department. The department wrote that it was called around 10 a.m. and found moderate smoke in the building. It found a fire in one of the bathrooms, which was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 63-year-old Gravois Mills woman was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash on Tuesday morning on Highway 5 in Morgan County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the woman was driving a 2009 Yamaha XVS650 southbound on Highway 5 when she lost control of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sturgeon man has been sentenced to probation after he was charged with six felonies in two cases. Jadon Gooldy, 20, was charged with first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action, along with one misdemeanor count of fourth-degree assault after he shot a gun and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is in custody after being charged with nine felonies after he is accused of robbing a person at gunpoint. Aaron Jones, 24, of Columbia, was charged with first-degree robbery, four counts of Armed Criminal Action, two counts of unlawful possession for being a dangerous felon, unlawful use of a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several witnesses took the stand on the second day of a jury trial for a deadly shooting in 2023 at a former Columbia nightclub. The four-day jury trial for Kimo Spivey began Monday morning. Court reconvened around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, where the prosecution called several witnesses to the stand. Spivey, 35,
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Larry Lunnin Sr. was sentenced after causing a deadly crash in 2022 resulting in the death of a 3-year-old boy.
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