WATCH: Columbia superintendent talks about return to learn
The CPS superintendent talks about what fall classes will look like.
Continue ReadingThe CPS superintendent talks about what fall classes will look like.
Continue ReadingStudents at Fulton Public Schools are getting ready for the first day of the 2020-21 school year Wednesday.
Continue ReadingAs students of all ages head back to classrooms and case numbers rise across the state, the Fulton City Council is set to continue their discussion on a possible mask ordinance on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three officers were involved in a crash in downtown Columbia on Tuesday night. According to online dispatch records, crews responded to a crash in the 500 block of Walnut Street around 8:05 p.m. A police department spokesperson said all three officers suffered minor injuries. The crash happened while the officers were trying
Continue ReadingThe Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an Amber Alert for a Laclede County newborn.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department is investigating after a man was shot at Douglass Park in central Columbia on Tuesday night. Police responded to the scene around 8 p.m. for reports of shots fired. When they arrived there were around 100 people in the area. Some were applying pressure to the victim’s wounds.
Continue ReadingContact tracers with the Columbia/Boone County Health department continue to reach out to people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 as case numbers increase.
Continue ReadingSEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Pettis County prosecutors charged three people with abandoning a corpse after they allegedly brought a dead teenager to an emergency room. According to the Sedalia Police Department, officers responded to Bothwell Regional Health Center on Aug. 4 after a 16-year-old boy was brought to the emergency room. Police said that the boy
Continue ReadingUPDATE 6:20 P.M.: Cole County reported 14 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, continuing a short streak of lower daily totals after a weeks-long surge. The 14 cases Tuesday come after the county reported just five new cases Monday. Despite the reprieve from high daily totals the county has still recorded more than 400 cases this month,
Continue ReadingThe University of Missouri is working to alleviate the spread of COVID-19 by using a new app called CampusClear.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for raping a woman he met in downtown Columbia in April 2017. A jury convicted Jemell Butler of second-degree rape in January. A prosecutor said during the trial that Butler raped the woman in a wooded area off Oak
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A University of Missouri professor remains on the payroll as a civil rights investigation of his comments during an online class Monday gets underway. Joel Poor, an associate teaching professor in the Trulaske College of Business, remains on the MU payroll but has been assigned other duties, the university said in a
Continue ReadingA company planning a high-voltage power line carrying wind energy across the Midwest says it plans to distribute more electricity in Missouri and Kansas.
Continue ReadingMissouri Task Force 1 will head to Texas on Tuesday to help with the response to Hurricane Laura.
Continue ReadingA woman accused of starting fires at two Jefferson City homes has been indicted on three federal counts.
Continue ReadingThe Columbia Police Department is investigating after an early-morning shooting Tuesday.
Continue ReadingThe university shuts it’s doors for the spring semester to students in late March to protect students and employees from COVID-19. The campus was reopened to students in July.
Continue ReadingStudents and professors were on the University of Missouri’s campus for the first day of classes on Monday.
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Continue ReadingStudents in the Jefferson City Public School District started their school year with new procedures to safeguard against COVID-19 Monday.
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