COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team announced that defensive end Williams Nwaneri has been named to the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year watch list, on Wednesday. The award is given out the most outstanding freshman player, at any position, in college football. The award will be presented at the Maxwell Football Club Awards,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the sixth-straight game, the No. 11 Mizzou football team will be playing in front of a sellout crowd at Faurot Field. On Wednesday, MU Athletics announced that it had achieved its long-awaited goal of selling every single seat in Memorial Stadium. Much to the pleasure of head coach Eli Drinkwitz, who
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High humidity has been hard to avoid recently and farmers out in the field face more of it from the crops they tend. Those with an agriculture background are likely familiar with “corn sweat” which describes the extreme humidity produced by plants in the summer. Like many other crops and plants, corn “sweats” to cool
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A new law goes into effect Wednesday that will raise teacher salaries and allow for charter schools in Boone County.
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds and muggy with a low storm chance. Lows in the lower 70s. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy, hot and humid with highs in the low to mid-90s. The heat index will range between 98-100, and a few storms are possible by late afternoon. EXTENDED: We are tracking partly cloudy skies tonight and a spot
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TODAY: Wednesday will be hot and humid, feeling like near 100 with a true temperature expected only in the 90s. Spotty showers this morning will be possible, fizzling out through midday, only to redevelop as storms this afternoon and evening. The best chance tonight comes near I-44. Most will be dry. TONIGHT: Clouds will clutter
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TODAY: Wednesday will be hot and humid, feeling like near 100 with a true temperature expected only in the 90s. Spotty showers this morning will be possible, fizzling out through midday, only to redevelop as storms this afternoon and evening. The best chance tonight comes near I-44. Most will be dry. TONIGHT: Clouds will clutter
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone Health was awarded $475,000 in ARPA funding from the Boone County Commission to expand its progressive care unit. Boone Health says that the money will help double the unit from 16 beds to 32. The hospital believes that this expansion will allow for a better flow of patients, while also helping
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some Columbia bus riders say a transit study could be key to decreasing long wait times. On Tuesday, Columbia Public Works held its final open house for the Go COMO transit study at Wabash Bus Station. The city has held multiple open houses since the study began in August 2023, aimed at
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ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones spoke with the Mike Kelly, the voice of the Missouri Tigers, ahead of the season premiere of Tiger Talk. Tiger Talk is a weekly radio show hosted by Kelly, which previews the upcoming football games with Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz, assistant coaches and players. For the first time
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In a press release Monday, Missouri’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates, Great Plains and Great Rivers, announced they filed complaints in the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission after being removed from the Missouri Medicaid Program. Introduced by state Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) on Feb. 5, Missouri House Bill 2634 prevents government funds from going
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Heat continues to remain a problem following much of the Midwest into the end of August. This has resulted in a multi-day stretch of triple digit heat indices across mid-Missouri that looks to last through Thursday. Heat remains the deadliest weather related causation over the past ten years with flooding coming in a distant second
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TONIGHT: A few showers and storms, otherwise warm and humid with partly cloudy skies and lows in the mid-70s. TOMORROW: Partly sunny with isolated storms possible by late afternoon. Highs in the low 90s with a heat index near 100. EXTENDED: Storms could pop up by this evening and will be widely scattered through about
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A Boone County judge sentenced an Ashland man found guilty of voluntary manslaughter to 50 years consecutively in prison on Tuesday.
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TODAY: Tuesday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day as heat lingers that could be dangerous with prolonged exposure. Highs will reach mid-90s with enough humidity to have us feel about 10 degrees warmer. TONIGHT: A few storms may develop after 4 p.m. this evening. Severe weather is not anticipated, but if a storm can sustain itself
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TODAY: Tuesday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day as heat lingers that could be dangerous with prolonged exposure. Highs will reach mid-90s with enough humidity to have us feel about 10 degrees warmer. TONIGHT: A few storms may develop after 4 p.m. this evening. Severe weather is not anticipated, but if a storm can
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police still have no new information on a string of vehicle break-ins captured on video in northern Columbia earlier this month. CPD spokesman Brain McNeill told ABC 17 they don’t have any updates on an incident report that on Aug. 13 after ring camera video showed at least three people wearing
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Nearly eight years into the city charging developers for closing streets, sidewalks and parking downtown, Columbia has not spent any of the money collected.
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MU Health Care will receive the updated COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, according to the co-chair of the vaccine committee.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Chiefs reunited with wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, on Monday, after he was released from the Patriots earlier in August. Smith-Schuster only previously spent one season in KC, but made it count. In 2022, he led all Chiefs wide receivers with 933 yards and three touchdowns on 78 receptions,
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