Local authorities and the state attorney general’s office says they rescued several human trafficking victims at Columbia’s Holiday Inn East hotel over the weekend. Mid-Missouri advocate Nanette Ward says human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world. Even your neighbors could be used for sex or cheap labor. …

KMIZ 17 — Two people could face charges after a vehicle chase ended in Jefferson City on Monday night. According to the Jefferson City Police Department, an officer tried to stop an unlicensed vehicle around 7:40 p.m. near the 3800 block of W. Truman Blvd. Police said an officer later …

KMIZ 17 — Mark McCloskey, a St. Louis personal injury lawyer who gained national attention after he and his wife waved guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home last summer, says he will run for the U.S. Senate in 2022. McCloskey made the announcement Tuesday on Tucker …

Two years after the tornado hit Jefferson City, Riley Chevrolet is in their rebuilt dealership on Christy Drive. Kevin Riley says many of his customers remember that day too … Riley says they’re now dealing with a vehicle shortage because of the worldwide shortage of silicon chips.

17 — Camden County prosecutors charged a Louisiana man Friday with murder in a woman’s 1984 beating death. A warrant was issued last week for the arrest of Larry G. Hicks, 78, on a second-degree murder charge. Hicks is accused in the Dec. 15, 1984, beating of Diane Lukosius, who …

KMIZ 17 – Prosecutors filed gun charges against a man accused of murder in a Jefferson City homicide. Semaj Harris was charged with aiding a shooting from a vehicle and illegal gun possession in a May 5 shots-fired incident at Community Park on Marshall Street in Jefferson City. In another …

Someone hacked the Mexico school district’s Facebook page. School officials tell ABC 17 that hackers used a phishing scam through a staffer’s personal account to get access to the page. Then they removed administrative privileges for district workers, locking them out of the Facebook account. Other Mexico district data and …

KWOS Person You Should Know   May 14, 2021 / Week 2 Nathan Schmitz / Paramedic / Cole County EMS Married and has 4 kids – he and his wife home school During the pandemic he actually helped to vaccinate friends and neighbors that are home bound He instructs various …

. (AP) — The Missouri Legislature wrapped up its 2021 session Friday by passing a bill granting legal protections to businesses and health care providers from COVID-19 liability lawsuits. Here’s a look at that and other bills that passed during the 2021 session. ALCOHOL SALES Allows restaurants to sell carryout …

Jefferson City police are asking if anyone has more info on a deadly weekend crash. A pickup went off Highway 54 near the tri-level early Saturday morning. It hit a guardrail and the concrete center divider. The truck’s driver, 59-year-old Bradford Mason of Ballwin, died.