COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office requested a federal emergency declaration Monday after storms ripped through Missouri last week, killing seven people. Five people died in St. Louis and two in southeast Missouri’s Scott County when tornadoes hit Friday. Experts who surveyed the area say the St. Louis twister showed damage consistent with an
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By Mary Gilbert, Hanna Park, Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine (CNN) — Multiple tornadoes and intense storms hit the eastern half of the United States on Tuesday as a relentless severe weather pattern that left 28 people dead in recent days began to wind down. Damaging storms tore through parts of 10 states – including areas
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By Julia Vargas Jones, Jack Hannah, CNN St. Louis (CNN) — Craig Cole was at the convenience store in his neighborhood of Fountain Park when the storm alerts went off on his phone. He ran to his royal blue Ram truck parked outside. “I’m like, oh, I’m under these trees, let me reverse,” Cole said.
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KSDK, CNN By Mary Gilbert, Emma Tucker, Taylor Ward, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A storm that produced a devastating tornado in the St. Louis, Missouri, area Friday afternoon has left at least five people dead and at least 10 injured, according to local authorities. The deaths come after a string of tornadoes and severe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eighty members of Missouri Task Force 1 are heading to St. Louis to help with storm damage recovery. Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp confirmed through text message that Task Force 1 will soon head out to St. Louis, which saw significant damage from storms. St. Louis officials had
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By Mary Gilbert, Emma Tucker, Taylor Ward, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A storm that produced a tornado in the St. Louis area Friday afternoon has left at least four people dead and at least ten injured, according to local authorities. St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer confirmed the four deaths at a Friday news conference.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation on Friday proposed price increases to a wide array of permits, with “significant increases” coming for some nonresident permits. In a press release, the MDC wrote that it is raising pricings “to keep pace with continually rising costs of goods and services,” and “will make nonresident-permit prices
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Camden County Sheriff Chris Edgar has responded to a lawsuit filed against him by an umpire who was accused of attacking a woman and a deputy in 2023. Neal Sidebottom, of Versailles, was charged in 2023 with first-degree assault and misdemeanor resisting arrest. The case was transferred last year from Camden County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There were nearly 1,700 electricity customers in Phelps and Pulaski counties without power on Friday afternoon after severe storms came through the area. The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives outage map showed 910 Intercounty Electric Cooperative Association customers in Phelps County without power at 2:33 p.m. Additionally, 750 customers were without power
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe says he’s considering calling a special session to discuss incentives the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to renovate or build new stadiums. In a email Kehoe’s office said, “a special session is under consideration. It has not yet been called, so that is why dates and subjects of
Continue Reading The dust has settled on the 2025 legislative session, and there were some casualties. One of them was a bill that included incentives to help finance stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Royals. The stadium bill and another that included money for several Mid-Missouri construction projects were left hanging when the Senate decided
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Missouri House lawmakers ended their regular session a day ahead of the deadline. The House passed 11 bills on Thursday, limited to only those the state Senate had already passed. The upper chamber called it a year on Wednesday after Republican leaders broke a Democratic filibuster on bills dealing with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri nursing homes rank among the worst in the country for the amount of care provided to residents, and ongoing staffing shortages may be adding to the problem and putting residents’ health and safety at risk. Federal guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require skilled nursing facilities to provide
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Both the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals have publicly expressed interest in moving from Missouri to Kansas after Jackson County voters rejected a proposal last year to extend a sales tax to help finance a downtown baseball stadium and upgrades to Arrowhead Stadium. In response, Gov. Mike Kehoe proposed to fund
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of abortion and Proposition-A advocates gathered at the Capitol on Thursday to protest the recent passage of two bills during the legislative session. On Wednesday, the senate ended its session after republicans forced a vote to approve a ballot measure to send abortion rights back to the voters. It also
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Missouri’s Republican legislative leaders took extraordinary steps to repeal sick leave requirements approved by voters in November. The chamber’s GOP majority invoked a “previous question” motion to shut down debate and force a vote on the bill that would make changes to Proposition A, which more than 57% of voters approved in November. The bill
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Senate Republicans opted for a rarely used procedural measure Wednesday to stop debate and force votes on a ballot measure that would repeal Amendment 3, which enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, and a bill to repeal voter-approved sick leave requirements. Republican leaders put forward a “previous question” motion to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three men were charged on Tuesday after they allegedly stole a fire hydrant and other parts in Jonesburg. Kristopher Sumner, of Jonesburg, and Albert Meidel, of Moscow Mills, were charged with felony stealing and are being held on $5,000 bonds. Jonathan Nash, of Perry, was charged with felony stealing and driving while
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) State funding for a new juvenile center in Cole County is uncertain after the Missouri legislature failed to pass House Bill 19 on Wednesday. About $4 million of the more than $14 million project would have come from the state. The project has been in works since 2022 and would have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Morgan County man has been charged with several felonies after he allegedly admitted to child sex crimes to law enforcement. Matthew Bell, 24, of Rocky Mount, was charged with four counts of sexually exploiting a minor, five counts of child porn possession and four counts of second-degree sodomy. He is being
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