COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two golfers from the Mizzou women’s golf team were granted a temporary restraining order on Friday, allowing them to participate in a fifth year. Addie Dobson and Melanie Walker filed the motion against the NCAA on Sept. 14, and a hearing is scheduled for 12 p.m. at the Boone County Courthouse before
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A shooting suspect was among the people arrested as police served a search warrant at an east Columbia apartment complex Friday. Two people were arrested in east Columbia when police served the search warrant Friday morning, a police officer said at the scene. Eight Columbia Police officers and a Bearcat armored vehicle
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and humid with lows in the low to mid-70s. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy, hot, and humid with highs in the low to mid-90s. EXTENDED: We don’t cool much overnight with lows in the mid-70s and a heat advisory still in effect for the zone south of the Missouri River until 8:00 Saturday night.
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September is typically a time of plenty across the heartland, but instead, our local fields are drying out at near-record speed. Weeks of relentless late-summer sunshine, near-record temperatures, and high evaporation rates have acted like a giant blow dryer on Mid-Missouri. The result is a rapidly accelerating “flash drought” that is creating immediate, severe challenges
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TODAY: I’m tracking a mostly sunny, hot afternoon for most as temperatures warm into the low 90s, with feels-like temperatures nearing 100-105. During the later afternoon hours, a few isolated storms will be possible, but most will remain quiet as winds blow out of the southwest at 5-10 mph. TONIGHT: I’m tracking mostly quiet conditions
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Columbia schools go toe-to-toe in week four of the high school football season. The Spartans and Kewpies are our SportsZone Football Friday Game of the Week. You can watch the game live over the air channel 17.3 on KZOU. Here is a look at other local listings: DirecTV – Channel 18
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department received an additional $60,000 for fuel purchases as rising prices and increased consumption put pressure on its budget through the end of the fiscal year. The Columbia City Council on Aug. 17 approved the one-time appropriation from the city’s General Fund balance. City documents state the money is
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TODAY: Friday is another hot day, with heat indexes as high as 100 to 105 degrees this afternoon along and south of HWY 24. Bright skies are expected, but some clouds in the north at sunrise will drift south towards I-70 before low clouds bubble up this afternoon south of I-70. This will give many
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS VOLLEYBALL Jefferson City (3) Capital City (2) FINAL Hallsville (0) Boonville (3) FINAL Battle (3) Father Tolton (0) FINAL Blair Oaks (3) California (0) FINAL Hannibal (3) Mexico (0) FINAL Eugene
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With football season underway, Missouri is poised to collect some of its highest taxable revenue from sports betting. But the rise of prediction markets could divert some of that wagering activity — and the tax revenue it generates — away from the state. Missouri launched legal sports wagering in December 2025 after
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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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 85-year-old Holts Summit man died in a crash on Wednesday involving a golf cart while driving on Route AA. According to a crash report put out by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, it was a two-vehicle crash on Route AA between Evergreen Drive and County Road 499 in Callaway County. The
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with some patchy fog developing before daybreak. Lows in the lower 70s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and hot with highs in the mid-90s. Heat index in the low 100s. EXTENDED: Tonight looks warm and muggy again with lows in the lower 70s and highs reaching into the mid-90s again by Friday afternoon. Heat
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Missouri’s late-summer heat and dry conditions are stressing trees across the state, but the timing could have been a lot worse. That’s according to Brian Schweiss, a sustainable forestry specialist with MU Extension, who says a late-summer heat wave is better than an early one. “The good news with the warm temperatures and trees, since
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Representatives for U.S. Rep. Bob Onder, State Sen. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) and others asked judges with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to side with a lower court to use the 2025 “Missouri First” map in the November election. People Not Politicians, which was intervening in the case also asked the judges
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THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny, with highs in the mid-90s. The heat index could reach as high as 104. A pop-up storm is possible near I-44, but most stay dry. TONIGHT: Mostly clear, with warm temperatures in the 80s through sunset. Lows fall to the lower 70s. EXTENDED: A Heat Advisory remains in effect through Saturday evening
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police detained a man after a call of shots fired led to a crash scene in a residential neighborhood and later released him with two citations. Police were called at about 9:20 a.m. to a possible shots-fired call in the area of Grindstone Plaza, Columbia Police Department spokesman Brian McNeill said.
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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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