COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge sentenced a woman to four years in prison for tampering with evidence in a deadly drug overdose, according to a news release from the Boone County Prosecutor’s Office. Adrian Sumler pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of tampering with physical evidence. Her four-year sentence is the maximum
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Health Care is set to follow COVID-19 vaccine recommendations from the American Academy of Family Physicians ahead of the cold and flu season. The recommendation is universal for anyone 6 months and older looking to get a COVID-19 vaccine. This is different from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County’s 911 center switched its phone service provider from Brightspeed to AT&T on Wednesday, a week after a Brightspeed outage disrupted 911 service across Mid-Missouri. Christie Davis with Boone County Joint Communications confirmed the switch Thursday. Boone County Joint Communications’ 911 service went offline Sept. 16 for several hours because of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was sentenced on Friday to 90 years in state prison for a drive-by shooting that occurred last year in a Boone County neighborhood. Kevin Buckner, 27, was found guilty on Aug. 5 by a Boone County jury on four counts of first-degree assault, three counts of armed criminal action, two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly eight years after the January 2019 death of Dominick Roland, Columbia Police have persons of interest in the case, but are yet to arrest anyone. Witnesses described to police a dispute that night between a man in the car with Roland and another man just before the drive-by shooting that killed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is calling out Columbia city leaders, after it says a request to discuss city ordinances — which it says targets unhoused people — remains unanswered. The request was first sent in a letter on July 16 and included support from local and state advocates including
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged on Friday in Boone County with two felonies. Donta Bogan was charged with possessing child sex abuse materials and promoting child sex abuse materials. He is being held in Pettis County for a different warrant. The probable cause statement says Boone County received a CyberTip on Sept.
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) First responders responded to an accident scene on Route J south of Harrisburg on Thursday, according to a news release from the Boone County Fire Protection District. A Boone County deputy at the scene told an ABC 17 News photographer that a man had been run over by a tractor. The incident
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A plan to buy a property of a former animal hospital will be introduced at the next Columbia City Council meeting. The city and Boone County will propose to buy the former site of Columbia Animal Hospital at 1300 East Boone Industrial Dr. The Columbia Animal Hospital closed in March. The property
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) What started as a local restaurant that decided to stop serving breakfast has turned into a worldwide story of a Harrisburg woman wanting to serve her community and getting the attention of the president of the United States. Kathy Kite wakes up at 3 a.m. every morning to cook breakfast and hands
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Emergency phone lines were restored Wednesday afternoon in Boone and Cole counties after an outage that began in the morning. Jefferson City Police Lt. Curtis Finke said a little before 4 p.m. Wednesday that service for the city and Cole County had been restored by communication carrier Brightspeed. “There was no disruption
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump sent a signed letter and photograph of himself to a Boone County woman who was cited by the county’s health department for serving food out of her home. Kathy Kite, of Harrisburg, received a letter from the president, which was dated Sept. 2. Trump’s letter included words of encouragement
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused of killing a woman at a motel on Range Line Street in Columbia last month was indicted by a grand jury on Friday. Nicholas Ayres, 35, of Crane, Missouri, is charged in Boone County with first-degree domestic assault and second-degree murder in the death of Destiny Dunn, 37, of Kansas City. Ayres
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Centralia man has been charged with a felony and two misdemeanors after he allegedly exposed himself to police during a standoff that occurred after a chase on Friday. Brandon Baldwin, 40, was charged on Monday with aggravated fleeing, misdemeanor driving while revoked and misdemeanor first-degree sexual misconduct. He is being held
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol Troopers took a juvenile into custody Sunday for allegedly stealing a family member’s car in Jefferson City. MSHP’s Troop F said in a social media post that Flock Safety Cameras were used to find the car. 🚨Flock Camera Locates Stolen Car🚨 Troopers received notification of a car, stolen
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Editor’s note: Source name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Fire Protection District hosted a ceremony for members of the Missouri Task Force 1 who were deployed to the World Trade Center during 9/11 25 years ago. University of Missouri Provost Matthew Martens and Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe gave speeches at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two teenagers were seriously injured late Friday night after being thrown from a vehicle in a crash in Boone County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, five people were in a 2024 Chevrolet Impala headed north on Route J. Shortly after 11 p.m., the driver — a 16-year-old Harrisburg
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Election officials will move forward with creating ballots for the November election that align with Missouri’s 2022 congressional map rather than the 2025 “Missouri First” map. This comes amid litigation and rulings by the Missouri and U.S. Supreme court over which map will be active when voters cast their ballot.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Highway 63 reopened Thursday morning north of Columbia after a crash shut it down. First responders shut down the highway north of the intersection with Range Line Street. Boone County Joint Communications sent an alert just before 9:30 a.m. An ABC 17 News reporter saw one northbound lane and both southbound
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EASLEY, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County firefighters have recovered a boat that was drifting down the Missouri River on Thursday morning. Boone County Fire Protection District said there were two individuals on the boat that was rescued. No injuries were reported. Boone County Fire Protection District boats launched from Coopers Landing in southern Boone County after
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