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Continue ReadingMissouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt wants to add more schools to the lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools and its mask policy.
Continue ReadingVaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Friday to recommend emergency use authorization of a booster dose of Pfizer’s vaccine six months after full vaccination in people 65 and older and those at high risk of severe Covid-19.
Continue ReadingCity of Columbia Mayor Brian Treece announced Friday afternoon he will not run for reelection in 2022.
Continue ReadingDonald Leffler of Warsaw, Illinois, tried to exit onto Key Largo from Highway 54 on his Harley-Davidson Trike when he went off the road and hit an electrical box, the Osage Beach Police Department said in a news release. Leffler was thrown from the Trike and pronounced dead at Lake Regional Hospital, police said.
Continue ReadingKelli Jones, spokeswoman for Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will help those refugees settle here. The Ethiopian Community Development Council can settle up to 250 in Kansas City and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants can resettle up to 200 in Kansas City and up to 350 in St. Louis.
Continue ReadingThe district said in an email to parents that CPS accounted for changes in school calendar laws when creating its calendar, which the school board approved Monday. The number of hours built into the calendar exceeds state standards, the district said, leading to leniency on snow days.
Continue ReadingExperts are urging Americans to get flu shots as the country enters another fall with high levels of coronavirus transmission. The combination of a flu outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic could have deadly consequences, they warn.
Continue ReadingFirefighters from the Southern Boone County Fire Protection District put out a shed fire near East State Highway MM and East Edwards Road Thursday night.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Board of Education voted Thursday night to keep the JC Schools’ COVID-19 reentry plan in place and will reevaluate around the 30th day of school. Public comment mainly consisted of debating over masks for students in schools. Watch the meeting replay in the player below. It’s an ongoing
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Fixes have begun on a home in central Columbia a truck crashed into Wednesday afternoon. ABC 17 News saw people installing a post inside a Worley Street bedroom on Thursday. Columbia Building and Site Development said the post will help keep the roof above the damaged room stable. The Wednesday crash injured
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Over 2,600 books were provided to Columbia Public School students because of Daniel Boone Country Library program. Each fall and spring, the Read Across Columbia program gives kids four books from the library to promote literacy among children. Read Across Columbia is a Heart of Missouri United Way event that provides books
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Continue ReadingThe Jefferson City Board of Education is set to meet Thursday at 6 p.m. to discuss the district’s back-to-school plan, among other topics.
Continue ReadingThe new health director from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Donald Kauerauf, said the delta variant of COVID-19 is affecting children “vastly” different than the alpha variant and should be treated as an entirely new disease.
Continue ReadingA 67-year-old man was injured Wednesday after he fell out of the bed of a truck.
Continue ReadingSedalia police say they arrested a man on suspicion of trespassing and making a terrorist threat Thursday after a report of a person armed with a gun on the Smith-Cotton Junior High School campus.
Continue ReadingMU Health Care is offering drive-thru flu shots for adults and children six months and older on the last weekend in September and first weekend in October at the South Providence Medical Park from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Continue ReadingAccording to the Cole County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Amber Duenkel, of Jefferson City, pleaded guilty Monday to an amended felony count of possession of a controlled substance. She was previously charged with a felony count of distribution of a controlled substance.
Continue ReadingThe lawyers object to violent and racist depictions, including a man being whipped for a crime, slave labor and a Native American with a gun pointed at him. But another lawyer told ABC 17 News that while those images might be offensive, that’s the point — to depict life as it was, including the brutality.
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