COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ethan Jones has owned MindRight Wellness in downtown Columbia for five years. He said he came into work Monday with a heavy heart after shooting on Saturday morning left one student dead and injured two others just a few stores down. “It’s definitely a heavy energy,” Jones said. “It’s emotional, you know.”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi said Monday that crimes ranging from homeless trespassers on campus to gun violence in downtown Columbia have created a dangerous environment for citizens and students. “What I’m hearing from individuals, whether that’s the business leaders or citizens, is that Columbia was not this way in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police say in court documents that the 23-year-old Florida man who opened fire early Saturday in downtown Columbia, killing a woman, shot 11 times into a crowd as he walked from the scene. Court documents show that 23-year-old Misael Covarrubias has been charged with three counts of assault, three counts of armed
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with patchy river valley fog in some spots overnight. Lows in the lower 60s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy with highs in the upper 80s. EXTENDED: I’m tracking a quiet pattern for the week ahead with upper high pressure building across the region. Highs will be more than 10 degrees above
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The Atlantic has been busy over the weekend, as Hurricane Humberto was deemed a major hurricane on September 26th once it reached category 3 strength by the afternoon hours. The next day, September 27th, it rapidly strengthened to a category 5 hurricane. This storm was producing sustained winds up to 160 mph. As of today,
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TODAY: I’m tracking a warm and sunny afternoon as temperatures get into the mid 80s by 2-3 pm. During the evening hours, temperatures will slowly begin to cool off, getting back down into the low 60s by the end of the night. Winds will be out of the northeast at 3-6 mph. TOMORROW: I’m tracking
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi held a news conference Monday morning to talk about crime in Columbia after a Stephens College student died over the weekend from a gunshot wound. Watch the playback in the player.
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TODAY: Monday is nearly a carbon copy of Sunday; starting our week the way the weekend closed. We’ll be warm and sunny today as south winds at the surface provide warmth, and upper level ridging provides continued sunshine. We’ll continue to expect similar days ahead. TONIGHT: Also feeling similar, will be our overnight forecast. Clear
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Congratulations to our Week 5 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the nominees in the video player above and then vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Jefferson City’s Zavion Finney bounces off tackles and puts the moves on the Capital City defense on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou midfielder Hailey Chambliss knows what it means to be the ultimate team player. “She just wants to compete,” Tiger soccer coach Stefanie Golan said. “We’re utilizing her off the bench and, you know, sometimes players want to be the one who starts…I think she does a great job of like watching
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has finished off a dominant run through non-conference play. The Tigers (5-0) clinched an undefeated record against non-conference challengers with a 36-point win over Massachusetts, outscoring their non-league opponents by a combined 144 points (197-53) over four games. This represents the third straight season that the team won all four
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Aiyanna Williams of Columbia
Courtesy: Stephens College 2023 Volleyball Roster & LinkedIn
TONIGHT: Mostly clear and comfortable with lows in the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and hot with highs in the upper 80s. EXTENDED: We have a quiet week ahead to close out the month of September with unseasonably warm temperatures through the entire 7-day stretch. High pressure builds in and is locked
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri President Mun Choi, in an email obtained by ABC 17 News, called on Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe to address violent crime, warning that if action isn’t taken, he will elevate the issue to Gov. Mike Kehoe. Buffaloe, in response, listed actions the city government and Columbia Police Department have
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Two bills from September’s special session are up for Governor Kehoe’s signature in a closed-door signing Sunday.
A new congressional map, dubbed the “Missouri First” map, is ready to be signed. The map splits Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Fifth District in Kansas City into three. This will merge it with more rural and republican areas, likely removing Cleaver’s seat and giving the Republican Party a boost in the next election.
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TODAY: Sunny and warm with afternoon highs in the mid-80s. Winds from the southwest will be light, between 5 and 10 mph. TOMORROW: Cool at the morning bus stop in the upper 50s and 60s. Highs reach the mid-80s under sunny skies in the afternoon. EXTENDED: The forecast changes very little this week, with daily
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the ninth-straight season the Mizzou football team walked away from its homecoming game with a mark in the win column, following a 42-6 trouncing of UMass on Saturday night at Faurot Field. With the victory, head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company improved to 5-0 on the season, which marks the second
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ). Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe is planning to take steps toward addressing violence downtown. Buffalo responded on social media to an early morning shooting on Saturday that left three people injured, calling it “one too many.” She announced plans to create a task force of city, county, university, business, and community leaders to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Homecoming Parade kicked off Saturday morning, with the Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine in tow. The student group was barred from participating in the parade last year. MSJP was denied again this year but a federal judge ordered the university to allow the group to participate this
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