COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) About 370 Ameren Missouri customers in east Jefferson City were without electricity Wednesday afternoon. The utility’s outage map showed 372 customers without power in three outages from Highway 50 in the north to the Moreau River in the south at 5:30 p.m. The map showed the largest outage was caused by damage
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sidewalk construction next week in Downtown Columbia will impact street parking, according to a Wednesday press release from the city. A contractor will reconstruct the sidewalk in front of Tiger Barber Shop in the 100 block of South Ninth Street, the release says. A portion of the sidewalk on the east side
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The driving lane of eastbound Interstate 70 near the Route Z exit will close for repairs on Sunday and Monday nights, according to a Wednesday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. The closures will last from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. each day.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men from Phelps County have been charged with stealing more than $750 after they allegedly took 60 feet of fence paneling near a supermarket after a tornado. Michael James McClearn and Ryan Dale Stagner, both of Newburg, Missouri, were arrested. McClearn posted a $25,000 bond on Wednesday, while Stagner is still
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager was charged with five felonies after he allegedly fired six shots at a house on Tuesday. Elijah Butler, 18, was charged with first-degree stalking, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, first-degree property damage and drug possession. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.
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By Mick Krever, Lauren Izso, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Jo Shelley and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Israel pounded Gaza overnight, killing dozens of Palestinians, a day after launching a fresh ground campaign as part of its renewed assault on the territory that shattered the two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas. At least 59 people died in
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AUDRAIN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were hurt early Tuesday morning after a UTV crash near the Audrain and Boone County line. A 45-year-old Centralia man was seriously hurt and a 22-year-old Centralia woman was moderately hurt after a UTV crash in Audrain County just after 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Missouri State Highway
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Athletics announced on Tuesday that Kellie Harper will be its next women’s basketball coach. She replaces Robin Pingeton, who left after 15 years. Do you think Harper was the right pick? Let us know in the poll and in the comments.
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MAIZE, Kan. (KMIZ) Mizzou guard Caleb Grill’s final NCAA Tournament ride of his collegiate career will kickoff in a familiar setting, on Thursday. When the No. 6-seeded Tigers face off against No. 11-seeded Drake in the Round of 64 in Wichita, Kansas, it’ll mark a homecoming for Grill. The graduate student grew up in Maize,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia has named its administrator for the Office of Violence Prevention on Tuesday, a new position created in the 2025 fiscal year budget. D’Markus Thomas-Brown will be the first person to hold the position in the new office. According to a Tuesday news release from the city, he will
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Cleanup efforts continued in Rolla Tuesday, four days after an EF-2 tornado tore through the city.
When Rolla Public School cancelled classes for the week after the devastating storm, some students rallied together to help their community.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a shots-fired call in the 4700 block of Silver Salmon Way, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department. Police wrote that a man fired a gun toward a home. Elijah Butler, 18, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree property
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Tuesday evening social media post from the Sedalia Fire Department showed the garage of a home damaged by fire. The department wrote that crews were working at a building fire in the 2100 block of West 2nd Street Terrace. SFD indicated it was on West 2nd Street Terrace in a comment
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth after being at the International Space Station for more than nine months. The two splashed down off the Florida coast Tuesday evening just before 5 p.m. Williams and Wilmore traveled to the ISS for a planned short expedition in June 2024 when
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)Repairs to the westbound lane of West Worley Street near Hirth Avenue will require a lane closure on Thursday, according to a Tuesday press release from the City of Columbia. The closure is expected to last from 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. One lane will stay open at all times during closure, the release says.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A burn ban has been announced for Camden County until 5 p.m. April 1, according to a social media post from Camden County Emergency Management. The ordinance was passed on Tuesday, days after the southwest portion of the county was devastated by fires and recent storms. The ordinance includes all of Camden
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – The head of the Columbia city government’s planning, housing and neighborhood programs will retire in July. Tim Teddy, head of the Columbia Community Development Department, told ABC 17 News via email that he will retire on July 7. Teddy started working for the city in 2005. Teddy oversaw several major changes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Erica Dickson, Ken Rice and current Columbia Board of Education President Suzette Waters responded to questions on Tuesday at a candidate forum hosted by the Boone County Unit of the Missouri Retired Teachers and School Personnel. “Our organization has done this for several years and we have a tradition to do this
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics has named the next leader of its women’s basketball team. MU announced it is hiring former Tennessee head coach Kellie Harper to take the reins of the program, following the departure of Robin Pingeton at the end of the 2024-25 season. “I am incredibly honored to be the next head
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The former secretary of the Belle Fire Protection District has been charged with a felony after she allegedly embezzled more than $70,000 from 2022-24. Courtney Ann Abel, of Belle, was charged in Osage County with stealing more than $25,000. A criminal summons was issued on Tuesday. An arraignment is scheduled for 10
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