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Columbia police have used bait cars in the city for the past six years when stolen vehicles were at an all-time high. However, last month, the program got a face-lift. Steve Brown, a retired Columbia officer, took the program under his wing to add more cars and improve its technology. The focus right now is

State lawmakers are getting frustrated trying to find out who is responsible for procedure changes at licensing bureaus. ABC 17 News has been following developments for months. Lawmakers have tried to figure out why the Department of Revenue started to require scanning of personal information like birth certificates or mortgage statements to get a driver’s

Columbia road crews began work on sections of Rangeline Street to replace a water main. The construction will close lanes of Rangeline and nearby roads intermittently through early August. Starting Tuesday, Rangeline will be down to one lane between Business Loop 70 and Wilkes Boulevard. The first phase will last until July 31. The second

A Centralia man was arrested for allegedly raping and abusing a child. The Centralia Police Department arrested 65-year-old George E. Green after nearly a week-long investigation that began July 17. Boone County prosecutors charged Green with first-degree attempted statutory sodomy, first-degree statutory sodomy and first-degree child molestation. Investigators say Green had sex multiple times with

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an overnight stabbing in Columbia. According to investigators, an 18-year-old male arrived at the Boone Hospital Center around 3 a.m. Tuesday. He told authorities that an unknown assailant stabbed him twice in the chest while he was walking. The stabbing happened near the 4500 block of Bellview Drive

A pipeline project that cuts through Missouri is expected to create nearly 1,000 jobs during peak construction times. Six hundred miles of oil pipeline is set to span from Flanagan, Ill., and through 11 Missouri counties before going through Kansas and ending in Cushing, Okla. The Flanagan Pipeline Project was backed by both Democrats and

The University of Missouri will pay a southern California search firm $100,000 to guide the hiring process for the next chancellor of its Columbia campus. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates of suburban Los Angeles will screen prospective candidates to succeed Chancellor Brady Deaton, who is retiring in November. His replacement will

Fire crews went back to the scene of a structure fire late Monday and again early Tuesday. The house, located at 1357 Old Highway 40, was fully engulfed Monday morning when crews arrived around 11:30. The home is located of I-70 near the Boone-Callaway county line, just east of Columbia. Mutual aid was called for

A Fulton man was arrested Sunday for having sex with a teenager who had been reported missing. The Callaway County Sheriff’s Department got a report about a 16-year-old girl who was missing and had possibly run away from the Fulton area. She was dropped off at a business in Kingdom City Saturday evening but didn’t

University of Missouri leaders are looking for the next leader and they want some help. Current chancellor Brady Deaton will officially retire in November. System president Tim Wolfe wants input from employees. Several faculty and staff members spent an hour asking the president to find a chancellor who is honest and won’t be afraid to

One man was charged with assault as Jefferson City police continue investigating the suspicious death of his wife. Albert Glisson was charged with felony assault Saturday and booked into the Cole County Jail on a $100,000 cash-only bond. As of Monday evening, Glisson has been released from jail. An autopsy on Monday revealed no criminal

Columbia City Manager Mike Matthes is expected to unveil his budget by the end of the week. Deputy City Manager Tony St. Romaine confirmed to ABC 17 News that Matthes will present the 2014 fiscal year budget Friday at 9 a.m. at city hall. St. Romaine says city leaders are looking to add more police

The University of Missouri is adding one more safety device on campus to help warn students of any danger. The university is installing 225 emergency alarms in high-traffic areas of campus buildings. Each unit costs $750, with funding coming from the campus facilities budget. “We heard about other universities using it so we felt that

The House Interim Committee on Improving Government Responsiveness and Efficiency met Monday morning and the conversation was on Missouri child abuse. Citizens came forward with their stories about abused children who have not been taken care of by protective services. Most of the committee members agreed that more needed to be done to protect Missouri

A Holts Summit man pleaded guilty to killing three people and injuring a fourth person in October 2010. Joshua W. Maylee entered guilty pleas to three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault. Maylee admitted to killing 48-year-old Eugene A. Pinet, 57-year-old Jackie Pinet, and 46-year-old Jeffrey Werdehausen. Werdehausen’s wife, Gina, was

The citizen-soldiers of the Missouri National Guard’s 70th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment is set for deployment to Afghanistan. The deployment ceremony was held Monday morning and Gov. Jay Nixon spoke to the crowd. The detachment will train, advise and assist Afghan media representatives. It will also provide public and command information services.

How do you pronounce the name of the Show-Me State? According to a University of Missouri professor, it’s neither “Missour-ee” nor “Missou-rah.” Charles Gilbert Youmans, professor emeritus in the College of Arts and Science’s department of English, says the word has a French origin and therefore its pronunciation would have reflected that language. “French explorers

Nearly a dozen people were taken to the hospital after a multiple vehicle crash Sunday evening on Interstate 70. According to a Columbia police report, an SUV with ten people inside lost control on the wet road and hit a guardrail. A second car then hit the SUV. Columbia fire crews told ABC 17 News

Fulton police were called out to a disturbance in which the weapon was a sword. Police were called out around 9 p.m. Sunday to 211 S. Ravine Street. When they got on scene police came in contact with a man holding a sword and took him into custody. The man was identified as Adam Lairmore.