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President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump have agreed to face each other on live TV.
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump have agreed to face each other on live TV.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The left-turn lane of Dix Road that turns onto Southwest Boulevard in Jefferson City will close on Monday. The Jefferson City Department of Public Works announced in a Wednesday press release that the closure would last about four days. Construction crews will close the left-turn lane for the Southwest Boulevard Crosswalk
Continue ReadingHOLTS SUMIT, Mo. (KMIZ) The Holts Summit Police Department is asking for help tracking down the people responsible for a string of vandalism that occurred to multiple mailboxes and property damage to a storage unit facility. On Tuesday night, multiple mailboxes were damaged in the areas of North Greenway Drive, Brookstone Drive and Sommer Court,
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who was previously charged with child sex crimes in Cole County was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Jonathan Wong, 25, was charged with two counts of using a victim younger than 12 years old
Continue ReadingJury selection was set to begin Wednesday in the first-degree murder case against Jessie Williams.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Senate passed 50 hours of filibuster Wednesday afternoon, after already breaking the record for the longest filibuster earlier in the day.
Continue ReadingCAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Halfway, Missouri, man suffered serious injuries early Wednesday in a single-vehicle crash in Camden County in the southbound lane of Highway 73, about 422 feet south of Pennington Drive, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash report states that a 2008 Infiniti G35 – driven by
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged with three felonies after he allegedly assaulted a woman at Best Western Motel in the 2900 block of Clark Lane. Justin Allen Thomas, 33, was charged on Wednesday with first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping and stealing more than $750. He is being held at the Boone County
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man was charged on Wednesday with five counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old. Jimmy Joe Culbertson is accused of sexually assaulting a child several times. He is not listed on the Boone County Jail roster, as of Wednesday afternoon. A warrant was issued
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have approved a more than $4 billion hospital tax program essential to the state’s Medicaid budget. The GOP-led House on Wednesday renewed the program, which for months has been used by a Republican faction as a bargaining tool. The heart of the program
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both accepted an invitation from CNN to debate on June 27, nearly four years since they last clashed onstage. Biden, who was first to accept the invitation Wednesday morning, posted on X: “I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A filibuster from Missouri Democrats past the 41-hour mark on Wednesday morning, as they continued to block Republicans in the Missouri Senate from passing legislation that would make it harder for voters to amend the state constitution. Currently, initiative petitions only need a simple majority of more than 50% to pass. However,
Continue ReadingExperts have been warning us for months that this late spring would be a noisy one.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three Columbia residents are frustrated over the lack of accountability after their storage units were broken into in May. David Paulsteinwand and his wife Penny said their storage unit at Target Masters was broken into earlier in the year in January. About two weeks ago, David Paulsteinwand said he and his sons
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police were seen Tuesday evening in an area off of East Broadway, adjacent to Stephens Lake Park. Capri Drive was blocked off by first responders around 10 p.m. Four police vehicles were seen at Villa Capri Apartments when an ABC 17 News reporter arrived at 9:28 p.m. An ABC 17 News
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old Columbia man who was charged in a June 21, 2023, shooting in the 900 block of Jewell Avenue was booked into the Boone County Jail on Monday afternoon. La’Treon Fulton, 20, was charged last year with second-degree assault and armed criminal action. He was booked into the Boone County Jail
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former financial officer at the University of Missouri’s School of Engineering pleaded guilty on Monday to multiple felonies. Brandon Guffey, of Centralia, pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing more than $25,000, two counts of felony fraudulent use of a credit/debit device and one count of misdemeanor fraudulent use of a
Continue ReadingCreepy, crunchy, brown-colored shells can be seen all over Mid-Missouri this month as cicadas begin to emerge.
Continue ReadingRICHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) A Richland, Missouri, man was seriously injured in a Tuesday crash in Pulaski County at the intersection of Highway 133 and Rodeo Road, about a mile north of Richland, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred as a 2008 Dodge Nitro – driven by Lawrence Richey, 65,
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Boone County resident was indicted by a federal grand jury on three charges related to child pornography, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Emrah Eymez, 38, who currently resides in Lafayette, Indiana, was charged with attempted production of child pornography, receiving child pornography and transferring
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