COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old man has died after a single-vehicle crash in Columbia. The Columbia Police Department said in a news release that Mohamed Abdalla, 20, of Columbia, died Thursday after a crash earlier in the week. Police said the crash happened on Wednesday just after midnight on Route B near the intersection of
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Road closures have been reported throughout Mid-Missouri after multiple days of rainfall. Boone County Joint Communication sent a notification at 3:24 a.m. Friday morning, stating that West Gillespie Bridge Road was flooded at Perche Creek, creating a traffic hazard. The road was reopened by 9 a.m. Friday. Route CC near Centrailia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County firefighters rescued a father and daughter who were stranded on top of a pickup truck in floodwater on Thursday. The truck was stranded in water at Perche Creek on Akeman Bridge Road north of Columbia, Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp said. Emergency radio traffic indicated the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 5-year-old boy is recovering after he almost drowned in Benton County just after 9 a.m. Thursday morning. According to an incident report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the boy was looking at the rising flood waters from a bridge at the intersection of Rambow Road and Beeman Ave., when he
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Gas prices just keep going up. The average price in Missouri hit $3.578 on Thursday, up from $2.808 just a month ago. GasBuddy reported prices on Thursday at Columbia stations between $3.39 and $3.49. Meanwhile, oil continued to trade at more than $110 a barrel. Prices aren’t likely to fall soon — those barrels sold
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Crews are working to restore the “Rock M” at Faurot Field, Mizzou football shared in a Thursday afternoon social media post. The photographs shared online showed workers placing rocks in an “M” outline. The “Rock M” was temporarily moved out of the stadium as the university made upgrades to the north end
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A mother was charged in Boone County after she allegedly refused to take her child with third-degree burns to a hospital. Elizabeth Moore, 33, was charged with child abuse on Thursday in Boone County. A warrant was served and she was held on a $10,000 bond. She was listed on the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was convicted of murder in the 2022 death of a woman near the Interstate 70/Highway 63 connector in Columbia had his appeal sent back to a circuit court. Jessie Williams, 33, was found guilty by a jury on May 16, 2024, of second-degree murder in the October 2022 death of Kaylen Schmit. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Faculty Council voted to approve an artificial intelligence use scale policy. According to council documents, MU educators are responsible for labeling graded assignments and assessments on a level from zero to three. Assignments where an instructor allows no AI use are considered a “Level Zero,” but “Level Three”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Centralia man pleaded guilty to three felonies for a drunken October 2024 crash that killed a man. Nathan Timpe pleaded guilty on Wednesday to driving while intoxicated that caused the death of another and two counts of DWI causing serious injury. He was sentenced to 120 days of shock incarceration and
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Steven Wolfe COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Phelps County man was arrested and charged after he allegedly yanked off the skin from a woman’s neck on Monday. Steven Wolfe, 25, of Rolla, was charged on Wednesday in Phelps County with first-degree assault. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cole County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Thursday press release that a bus driver was accused of assaulting a student on a bus on Wednesday morning. The release says a Blair Oaks school resource officer was called by the district’s superintendent “in reference to an alleged assault that occurred on a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Boone County Road and Bridge closed a bridge in the southern part of the county Thursday afternoon. The department announced in a news release that it closed the Rippeto Road bridge over the Bonne Femme Creek at Harold Cunningham Drive due to a “bridge approach failure.” Road maintenance supervisor Chris Jennings
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By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said. The president wrote on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning to a much
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The final suspect with a pending case for a deadly north Columbia shooting pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and unlawful weapons offense. Ja’Shaun Barney, 21, of Columbia, pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder. Judge Joshua Devine gave
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of people in Mid-Missouri were without power on Thursday morning. Columbia Water and Light shared on X at 8 a.m. that an electrical outage was affecting 1,200 customers in south Columbia. Matt Nestor, a spokesperson for the department, said a tree fell on power lines at Oak Lawn Drive. Crews were
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was arrested Wednesday night after he allegedly flipped an SUV while drunk and high. The Mexico Department of Public Safety says officers arrested a 39-year-old man after he drove a Cadillac SUV straight on a curve in the 4800 block of Clark Street, went about a tenth of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) History was made Wednesday after NASA launched a crew to the moon for the first time since the 1970s Wednesday in its Artemis II mission. The rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The last mission this close to the moon was the Apollo 8 mission. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman,
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day lasting through late Wednesday night as conditions are looking more favorable for a few weak tornadoes. A warm front draped over the southern third of the state will act as a focus for storms to develop tonight, and potentially bring the threat of
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Moberly School District is looking to add a storm shelter as part of a slew of planned renovations, but will need help from Randolph County voters on April 7 to do it. In December, the Moberly Board of Education approved language to add a ballot measure that would authorize the issuance
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