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Clouds will move out early Saturday leaving us with a mostly sunny and mild afternoon with high temperatures near 50. Westerly winds will pick up to near 10 mph in the afternoon. Clouds will increase Saturday night with a chance of light rain by Sunday morning mainly east of HWY 63. A cold front will

Emergency crews responded to a multiple vehicle crash just south of Columbia at around 6:30 Friday night. Traffic was backed up on southbound Highway 63 just before 7:00 p.m., but started moving more smoothly shortly after. ABC 17 News confirmed the Highway Patrol and Boone County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash. Emergency dispatchers said

Saturday marks the 11-year anniversary of a central Missouri woman’s disappearance. Michelle Henri, 25, was known to frequent both Jefferson City and Columbia. Michelle Henri was last seen on January 23, 2004, at her home near Waynesville, Mo. On Friday, the Pulaski County Sheriff’s department issued another plea asking the public for any new details

One person is dead and another injured after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 50 in Moniteau County Friday morning. The crash happened on westbound Highway 50 at California Drive and Jacket Factory Road. 45-year-old Claude Jones of Holts Summit was killed after failing to yield to 65-year-old Arlyn Hartsock of Florence, who was driving a

A Columbia high school choir director was arrested for stalking, again Thursday. Boone County prosecutors charged Matthew Felts with 2 more counts of stalking after violating a restraining order by calling and texting a woman multiple times. Court documents said Felts not only called her and texted her repeatedly, he would also wait outside her

A University of Missouri student died Thursday night after being hit by a car while trying to cross Providence Road just north of Green Meadows Road, police said. 24-year-old Kui Zou was a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri, according to spokesman Christian Basi. According to CPD, she was hit in the northbound lanes

A Mid-Missouri man is going to prison after pleading guilty to six charges tied to a deadly DWI crash north of Mexico in 2014. Jesse R. Smith, 21, was sentenced to seven years in prison, but that was suspect. He could be released after 120 days of shock time if he undergoes an alcohol treatment

A Jefferson City middle school student’s father is speaking out after the boy ran away from a field trip in St. Louis Thursday. The boy and his mother showed up at the ABC 17 News studios nearly 8 hours after his disappearance. Officials with the Jefferson City Public School District said the student from Lewis

On Thursday, the Missouri football program announces the addition of Butler Community College offensive line coach Cody Oates as offensive analyst. PowerMizzou’s Brian Austin first reported the hiring. Oates was the offensive line coach at Butler CC for the past five seasons and played for the Grizzlies. Oats is the o-line coach for Tyler Howell,

Web Extra: Kim Anderson previews Arkansas game Saturday (pt. 2)

Web Extra: Missouri men’s basketball head coach Kim Anderson previews Saturday’s game against Arkansas (part 1)

A blood drive is being held Friday afternoon to honor a Columbia Police officer killed in the line of duty. Molly Bowden was a Columbia Police officer who was shot during a routine traffic stop near Forum and Nifong in 2005. The annual blood drive in her honor got underway Friday afternoon and will go

The Columbia Fire Department is investigating a Friday morning house fire. It happened in the 4100 block of Valleywood Court just after 9:00 a.m. A neighbor called and said they saw smoke coming out of the roof. Flames were shooting out the top of the garage and part of the garage roof collapsed. No one

Two people were arrested in Moberly in separate assault cases on Thursday. In one case, police investigating a shots fired call in the 700 block of Taylor Street. Officers found a loaded pistol and a shell casing. They later arrested a 17-year-old girl in connection with the shooting. She was booked into the Randolph County

Hundreds packed the Knights of Columbus Hall in an Osage County town Thursday night to learn more about a proposed recreation trail that would connect the eastern and western border of Missouri. The Rock Island Trail would require turning 144 miles of railroad in mid-Missouri into a trail, from Beaufort in Franklin County to Windsor

In front of both bodies of the state legislature, Chief Justice Mary Russell took the podium in the House chamber to deliver her “State of the Judiciary” speech on Wednesday. “It has been the honor of my life to serve as your chief justice, leading a court system devoted to fairness for Missourians,” said Russell.

Officials in eastern Missouri are waiting for a 27 year-old woman to turn herself in, after claiming she shot her husband in self defense. The Warren County Sheriff confirmed on Thursday Ashley Hunter is not in custody. Nicholas Hunter, 29, was found dead on the living room floor a week ago inside their home on

The execution scheduled for next week for a Missouri inmate has been called off by the Missouri Supreme Court. The court on Thursday withdrew the execution warrant for 46-year-old Marcellus Williams, who had been set for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. A court spokeswoman declined to discuss the reason. After a state record 10 executions

Officials are working to offset a large deficit in Columbia Public Schools and that could mean more money out of taxpayers’ pockets. The school board met Thursday morning to talk about growth in the district and the impact it is having on the budget. Officials said they are getting less money from the state than

A former Tiger is heading back home. Former Helias football coach Phil Pitts was named Mizzou football’s defensive analyst, Missouri announced on Wednesday. Pitts was 40-15 in four seasons as head coach at Helias, including two appearences in the state final game. Pitts also spent six seasons as an assistant at Helias from 2005-2010. “We’re