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TONIGHT: Temperatures will be dropping below freezing once again for your Saturday night. Clear skies will help it cool down quickly, feeling even colder thanks to the slight breeze out of the south. By the morning hours, temperatures will be in the mid 20s with just a slight chance of snow flurries, but no accumulation

Mid-Missouri’s weather has cooled down for the weekend, but roads were not affected Saturday morning. ABC 17 reporters saw some snow flurries around 4 a.m. but the roads were clear of snow and ice. ABC 17 stormtracker Emily Klaus said there will be strong winds throughout the morning and afternoon and there shouldn’t be anymore

UPDATE: According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report, 25-year-old Trevor Henry hit deputy Bradley Young’s patrol car just before 10 p.m. Friday night. Henry was subsequently arrested for felony leaving the scene of an accident and felony DWI drugs – injury to law enforcement officer. ORIGINAL: The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating

No one is injured after an overnight fire damages a home in Linn Creek. The Camden County Sheriff’s Office said the initial call came in shortly after midnight Saturday morning. They say the caller reported hearing a loud explosion and said the trailer and the woods were on fire. When deputies arrived, the home was

TODAY: AM wind chills will be frigid near 12-18 with temps in the lower 20s. Increasing sunshine is expected by late morning with gusty conditions continuing into the late afternoon; 42 TONIGHT: Winds will taper off by tonight leading to more tolerable conditions will temps in the lower 30s and wind chills in the lower

TODAY: The morning hours are going to be frigid with wind chills in the teens through 10AM with increasing sun. High temperatures will touch near 40 degrees with clearing skies by mid-morning. It will be another breezy day with northwesterly winds at 7-16 mph and gusts in the 20s, diminishing through the afternoon. SUNDAY: A

ABC 17 News confirmed on Friday work crews are making progress on flooding issues in central Columbia. It’s a story ABC 17 News has covered since January, when Josie Sullivan first showed us the flooding problem she had battled for 9 years at the corner of Anderson Avenue and West Ash Street. Sullivan said rain

ABC 17 News is digging in to the drug problem in rural Mid-Missouri after 10 people are arrested in connection to drugs in Moniteau County. “Meth use has always been high, especially in rural counties…it’s spiked again and now it’s as high as it’s ever been,” Sheriff Tony Wheatley told ABC 17 News. In fact,

J.C. Penney announced Friday it plans to close 130 to 140 stores as well as two distribution centers by May. The Company is also implementing a voluntary early retirement program (VERP) incentive forapproximately 6,000 eligible employees. The closure may affect two store locations in mid-Missouri, one at the Columbia Mall and another at the Capital

Columbia police were called to a burglary at La Quinta Inn Friday afternoon. It happened just after 3:40 on I-70 Drive Southwest. An ABC 17 News crew on scene saw police dogs searching for someone, but police have not released information on who they were looking for. ABC 17 News will continue to monitor this

The Jefferson City Fire Department is exploring other potential locations for one of its stations which is falling into disrepair. ABC 17 News has reported that the department is looking to make major renovations to or rebuild Station 2, which is currently located on East McCarty Street. Right now, the department is working withe Architects

On Thursday, a Columbia man was charged after being accused of holding a knife to another man’s throat. The crime allegedly happened in the afternoon in the 1000 block of E. Broadway. The victim said Cody McCracken walked up behind him and put the knife to his throat. He went on to say McCracken told

A pavement repair and resurfacing project will begin on Feb. 27 for multiple lanes of I-70 in Boone County. Contractors working for the Missouri Department of Transportation will repair and resurface 30 miles of eastbound and westbound I-70 between the Missouri River Bridge near Rocheport and St. Charles Road in east Columbia. Guardrail improvements are

A Columbia man is in custody, accused of trying to help ISIS plan a terror attack in Missouri. Although the suspect is innocent until proven guilty, cases such as this raise the question of how a U.S. citizen could possibly become a terrorist. Dr. Tahir Rahman is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University

A judge will need more time to rule on some restrictions surrounding the trial over a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper’s death. Judge Ted House took two motions under advisement Friday afternoon in 21-year-old Serghei Comerzan’s murder trial. The three-day trial is set to start April 10, with 110 potential jurors to appear in court

TONIGHT: Snow flurries or a light snow shower are possible until midnight with no accumulation. Low temperatures will drop into the mid to upper 20s with wind chills as low as 12 by morning. Northwesterly winds of 15-20 mph will gust to 25 mph overnight. SATURDAY: Saturday morning looks frigid with wind chill in the

New developers have their eye on the International Shoe Company factory building in the 1100 block of East Capitol Avenue. The Vecino Group, a Springfield-based company outlined its proposal Friday for transforming the 100-plus-year-old building into an 80-unit apartment complex. The company said that the project is estimated to cost more than $13 million to

The Columbia Fire Department is adequately staffed based on its current response model, according to Assistant Fire Chief Brad Fraizer. The comments come after the International Association of Firefighters claimed that the department needed 95 additional firefighters. That number would bring the number of firefighters per truck from three to four at six of Columbia’s

The MUSTANG Drug Task Force indicted twenty one people on charges related to the illegal sales of drugs after over a year of investigating. 12 people are in custody, 2 of them are already in the Department of Corrections, and 7 are still at large. The ages of the people indicted by a grand jury

Members of the MUSTANG Drug Task Force and the Jefferson City Police Department made a narcotic and firearms search at 5607 Ravenwood Drive, Apartment A, in Cole County, the residence of Jordan Reece Stokes. At the residence, authorities found multiple guns including one that was stolen, 4.39 grams of methamphetamine, a mason jar filled with