COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) Prosecutors have charged a man with first-degree terrorist threat and resisting arrest following a four-hour standoff on Wednesday. Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Christopher Dow of Columbia. Officers arrested Dow shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday at his home on Hidden Creek Court on a warrant for third-degree domestic assault. According to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A federal judge sentenced a Jefferson City man to eight years in prison Thursday for being a felon in possession of a gun. Derrick Crumble, 34, pleaded guilty in February, and was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison without parole and three years of supervised release. According to a news release
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman charged in the murder of a 4-year-old in Benton County has waived her right to a jury trial. Kourtney Aumen is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, child endangerment and assault. She is accused of being part of the murder of 4-year-old Jessica Mast in December 2020. Mast’s parents have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education held a work session Thursday morning to discuss lottery school updates and the potential addition of a “health science high school.” According to the meeting agenda, lottery schools are specialized schools that admit students through a random drawing. CPS lottery schools feature specialized instruction areas such as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s Downtown Community Improvement District issued a statement Wednesday criticizing officials who have labeled a downtown bar a “public nuisance.” The statement was issued in response to a letter from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway sent to Reign Bar between Walnut and Ninth Street, addressing the “nuisance conditions.” Downtown CID Director Nickie Davis
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police officers arrested a man after a standoff on Wednesday in the northeast part of the city. ABC 17 News saw several police officers on the scene with some of them pointing guns at the home on Hidden Creek Court, a cul-de-sac off of Rice Road and Hanover Boulevard. Columbia Police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri attorney general said Wednesday that her office is investigating a student group with a University of Missouri chapter for possible ties to fundraising for Islamic terrorists. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway cited “public reports from independent organizations” in her news release that “have raised concerns about SJP’s fundraising representations and alleged
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Association of Librarians asked the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday to uphold a lower court’s ruling that deems a law on sexually explicit materials in schools unconstitutional. The law in question is Senate Bill 775. The bill went into effect in August 2022 and addressed sexual assault and school materials.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City will get $10 million in financial assistance from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for upgrades to its wastewater collection system, a Wednesday press release from the DNR says. The release says the city expects the funding to cover the entire project. “The completed project is expected to reduce sanitary
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of the westbound lane of Cherry Street in downtown Columbia will be closed on Thursday, the city announced in a Wednesday press release. The street and north sidewalk between Eight and Ninth streets will close at 7 a.m. as a crane will be used to “to lift a rooftop air
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 25-year-old St. Robert woman was seriously hurt after a crash in Maries County just before 10:34 a.m. Tuesday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the woman was driving a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox on Highway 133 north of County Road 630, south of Brinktown, when the SUV traveled off
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COLUMBIA. Mo (KMIZ) A fourth person has been charged for their role in a shooting in Columbia on Aug. 2. Walter Ricketts, 43, of Columbia was charged on Aug. 12, but not made public until after his arrest on Tuesday. He is charged with two counts of armed criminal action, one count of first-degree assault
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Oral arguments are set to be heard Wednesday morning in the case of a University of Missouri student group that was excluded from marching in Mizzou Homecoming parades. Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine filed a lawsuit against university President Mun Choi after it was banned from participating in the 2024 and
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University of Missouri President Mun Choi has been applying pressure on city leaders on downtown crime issues for weeks. During that pressure campaign, one bar in particular has drawn a direct callout — Reign. Now the state’s top law enforcement official is applying pressure of her own. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said Tuesday that her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced on Tuesday that her office sent a letter to a downtown Columbia bar that was previously targeted by University of Missouri System President Mun Choi. Hanaway issued a letter to Reign Bar – located on East Walnut Street between Eighth and Ninth streets – to address
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation is looking to make safety enhancements to a busy Columbia intersection and roadway. MoDOT showed plans for two intersections along College Avenue during an open-house meeting on Tuesday at 900 East Stadium Boulevard. At the College Avenue and University Avenue intersection, the left turn signal would be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were hurt – one seriously – in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday on Northwoods Road in Pettis County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 35-year-old Smithton man lost control of his 1993 Ford Explorer while it was heading northbound. The vehicle went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Fitzgibbon Hospital in Saline County announced in a Tuesday morning social media post that it will be renamed to Missouri Valley Regional Medical Center. The comes after the Marshall Hospital announced that it will be ending its inpatient labor and delivery services on Sept. 30. American Medical Administrators took over its hospital
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An appeals court in Missouri’s western district upheld the conviction of a Cole County man who is serving two life sentences after he was found guilty of raping women. Francis H. Kempker, 55, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without parole for two rapes committed during spring 2016 at his Centertown
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman charged in a Benton County child’s death was deemed competent to stand trial again on Monday. Kourtney Aumen, 26, of Lincoln, Missouri, is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, two counts of armed criminal action, two counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and one count of first-degree
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