COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team has officially put a bow on the most difficult fall camp in head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s time in Columbia. With a combination of heat, good-on-good periods, the shear number of periods, number of live tackling situations and more all testing the Tigers, the group made it out on
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City’s Center of Hope is expanding its services to help better address homelessness in the city. The year-round homeless shelter– located on Jefferson Street– opened a new homeless resource center. The center now allows anyone to stop into the center and gain access to resources and support. “Our caseworkers want
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With classes officially underway across Missouri, schools are bracing for changes to the sports and extracurricular landscape The Missouri State High School Activities Association is finalizing bylaw changes to comply with Senate Bill 63, which expands eligibility for homeschool, Family Paced Education and full-time virtual students to participate in public and charter
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump announced Monday he wants to change the shape of elections in the United States and eliminate mail-in voting and voting machines. In a post on Truth Social the president said he would “lead a movement” to get rid of mail-in ballots, and get rid of voting machines. Trump made
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) With Attorney General Andrew Bailey set to head to Washington, D.C., this September to work for the FBI after being tapped by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Gov. Mike Kehoe has appointed the state’s first female Speaker of the House. Kehoe said Tuesday that Catherine Hanaway will take over
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The University of Missouri sent out its first MU Alert to students since move-in began for the 2025-2026 school year Monday night.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 19,000 Columbia Public School students made their way back into the classrooms for the first day of the 2025-26 school year Tuesday morning. Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Klein told he’s excited and that this is a great opportunity as he begin this new position. “Our focus this year is on
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Pope Leo XIV has chosen the Rev. Ralph O’Donnell as the Bishop-select for the Diocese of Jefferson City, according to a press release. The Diocese held a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Cathedral of St. Joseph on W. Main Street in Jefferson City. O’Donnell spoke to a fraction
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear and mild with lows near 70. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and cooler with highs in the upper 80s. EXTENDED: We’ll feel the effects of a cold front pushing to our south for the rest of the week with highs reaching the upper 80s tomorrow and mid-80s by Thursday. Dew points
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The story has been updated to correct information about the Puri Group’s purchase of the property. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly a decade after its closure, the Truman Hotel is coming down. Puri Group Enterprises, the building’s owner, said Tuesday that criticism from the community over the deteriorating building was the motivation behind
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Over the past couple of days, there has been a noticeable trend in storm activity across central Missouri. Although there has not been any widespread severe weather, isolated storms each afternoon have caused brief wind gusts up to 60 mph before dissipating. Just yesterday, one of these storms occurred in the morning, and damages were
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The Mizzou Tigers football team wrapped up fall camp this week with the season kickoff looming next week. Coach Eli Drinkwitz and the team’s captains took questions from reporters after camp. Watch them talk in the player.
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TODAY: I’m tracking temperatures feeling like they are 100-105 degrees for areas along and south of I-70 throughout the afternoon. Isolated storms will begin around 3-5 pm, with some storms having the potential to produce brief wind gusts up to 60 mph. Temperatures will cool into the low 70s by the end of the night.
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TODAY: Tuesday is another hot day, but likely a few degrees cooler than Monday in most places. Highs in the low 90s feel more like 100-103 this afternoon. A cold front is slowly moving north to south across the region, and will have a slight impact on heat indexes today. Storms will be confined along
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump is tapping Missouri’s attorney general to be a key player in Trump’s FBI. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will be the state’s third attorney general in a row to leave for Washington, D.C., when he takes a job as FBI co-deputy director working alongside Dan Bongino, Fox reported
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two additional school buildings in Columbia will have weapons detection systems on the first day of class on Tuesday for the first time. According to Columbia Public Schools spokeswoman Michelle Baumstark, Douglass High School and the Columbia Area Career Center will now have weapons detection systems. The district implemented the systems during
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football fans will notice some changes to their game day experience out at Faurot Field in the upcoming season, as renovations to the north end zone will continue through the 2025 campaign. On Monday, Tiger Athletic Director Laird Veatch took time to talk to media members and break down all of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Delmar Cobble School in Columbia is now permanently closed after struggling to reach staffing levels, part of a broader statewide consolidation of schools for students with severe disabilities. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Board las week decided close six buildings that were already “temporarily consolidated due to staff vacancies,” immediately,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council on Monday evening voted 5-0 to change its water rates. According to council documents, the water ordinance would increase revenue by $3.6 million, or 12%, and would take effect with the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1. The council will decide on changing electric rates at
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Demolition is underway for the dilapidated Truman Hotel in Jefferson City. Mayor Ron Fitzwater confirmed crews started tearing down the building on Monday afternoon. The former hotel in the 1500 block of Jefferson Street has long been called an “eyesore” by city officials. Discussions around the building’s demolition have occurred for
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