Air Force opens up the season at home against Bucknell
Rob Namnoum
The Air Force football team will open up the season on Saturday at home against Bucknell. It is Parents weekend at the Academy.
St. Louis man sentenced to probation after starting fire
Madison Stuerman
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A St. Louis man charged after he set a Helitech trailer on fire in Callaway County in May 2024 was sentenced on Monday.
Josef Black pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly burning or exploding and two counts of first-degree property damage. Prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor charge of first-degree trespassing as part of an agreement.
Online court records state his sentence was suspended and Black was given five years of supervised probation with special conditions to get a substance abuse and mental health evaluation done, five days of shock treatment at the Callaway County jail and pay restitution of $10,075 to the defendant.
If Black fails to meet these conditions, he will spend four years in the Department of Corrections, according to online records.
By pleading guilty, Black admitted to throwing gravel at cars at Helitech and breaking windows, along with pouring gasoline to set the trailer on fire. He also suffered burns on his body after the fire.
Community honoring victims of Kabul Airport attack at ‘CPL Hunter Lopez Lightsaber Vigil’
Shay Lawson
LA QUINTA, Calif. (KESQ) – The City of La Quinta honored Marine Corporal Hunter Lopez on Tuesday on the anniversary of his death.
Lopez was one of the 13 U.S. Service members killed in the 2021 Kabul Airport attack in Afghanistan.
The tribute is being held at the Civic Center Campus indoors in the multipurpose room.
Dozens of community members remembered Lopez’s sacrifice and the lives lost that day.
The remembrance began at 7.
Guests held up light sabers — a nod to Lopez’s love for Star Wars and his legacy.
Stay with News Channel 3 for continuing coverage at 10 and 11 p.m.
The CSU Pueblo football team will see the Hardrockers in their season opener
Rob Namnoum
The CSU Pueblo football team will open the season at home on Thursday night. The Thunderwolves will host South Dakota Mines, their nickname, the Hardrockers.
Concours d’Elegance generates $4 million for local organizations
jose.romo
MONTEREY PENINSULA, Calif. (KION-TV) — It was packed for Car Week this year. With all those people crowding the Central Coast, many local community organizations are seeing a benefit from charitable effects.
“That’s a massive amount of money coming into our local economy,” says Lindsey Stevens with See Monterey
The traffic headaches are now gone with car week in the rearview mirror, but its help to local community partners is here to stay.
“Our hotel occupancy over the 10 days was about 85%, up to 95% on some of the weekend evenings, which is about flat from the year before,” she adds. “However, revenue was up a little bit this year.”
During Car Week, Monterey hotels saw a surge in revenue, increasing by 5 percent compared to 2024. But, hotels aren’t the only ones benefiting, as restaurants also see a similar trend.
However, it goes beyond the restaurant and hotel industry.
“All that money stays right here in the county. It goes back to local nonprofits and supports education programs and youth programs to make sure the county has what it needs,” she says.
“We were able to raise $108,000 for the Boys and Girls Club, which is a huge win for us and right around our goal. We fell a little bit short, but the kids are really going to be the main winners with that,” said Ron Johnson, President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance says the event brought a little more than $4 million for local charities and nonprofits.
For the past 49 years, the Pebble Beach Company Foundation has been making programs like these possible, impacting the lives of thousands of youth, providing them with the building blocks for a good education. Johnson said it is necessary to look past the traffic.
“We understand that it’s a couple of weeks of inconvenience, but in the big scheme of things, it could be changing and saving lives. And we see that every day here at the Boys and Girls Club,” Johnson said.
Each year, more than 100 thousand tourists make their way to the Monterrey Peninsula to enjoy the sight of classic and contemporary cars. Lindsey with see Monterey says annually the economic impact
For Ron, the greater impact is on the youth he serves. He mentions youth were out on Concours Sunday getting job training experience through an internship program with various Pebble Beach catering companies.
High Street viaduct renovations put on pause as costs rise
Marie Moyer
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
Jefferson City and Cole County Public Works are looking for sponsors to foot an around $18 million renovation bill for the city’s High Street viaduct.
The updated estimate that was announced Tuesday morning during a Cole County Commission meeting is around $6 million more than what was expected in November 2023.
In 2023, Jefferson City Public Works proposed several renovation ideas, including plans to shorten the road and move the creek underneath the viaduct. The accepted plan was to shorten the road and connect it with Missouri Boulevard.
Courtesy: Cole County Commission
According to Jefferson City Council members Derek Thomas of Ward 3 and Julie Allen of Ward 4, the council is conscious of the viaduct’s deteriorating condition; however, they are currently prioritizing different Capitol Improvement projects.
“Is it at crisis emergency level? I don’t believe so,” Thomas said. “There are other issues that I think are crying for dollars way more expediently, the tri-level crossing for one, the Jefferson City Police building is in pitiful shape, there’s other capital projects that I think deserve priority.”
“What the city has been focusing on is working on their ten-year planning for capital projects and the improvements that are necessary,” Allen said. “That’s really what’s going to come next for us as far as the larger picture.”
During Tuesday’s meeting, the Cole County Commission voted to renew the current Capitol Improvement Sales Tax rate, which will be on the 2026 ballot for voter approval.
No official sponsors or grants for the High Street viaduct have been presented to the Cole County Commission or the Jefferson City Council.
ABC 17 News reached out to Jefferson City Public Works for comment but did not hear back.
Columbia man sentenced to ten years for domestic assault
Madison Stuerman
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Columbia man was sentenced on Monday after police found shell casings outside a home earlier this year.
Clyde J. Johnson Jr., 50, was sentenced to 10 years in the Department of Corrections after changing his plea on Monday in court.
Online court records state prosecutors dropped three felonies against Johnson as part of a plea agreement.
Johnson was sentenced to seven years for second-degree domestic assault, four years for unlawful use of a weapon and 10 years for two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. All of the charges will run concurrently with each other.
Prosecutors dropped the charges of first-degree kidnapping and two counts of armed criminal action.
Johnson was arrested after a shots-fired call in the 4200 block of Rice Road. Prosecutors charged him after police found shell casings outside a home in March, according to a probable cause statement.
Police found a handgun with no serial number hidden in Johnson’s home, the statement says.
Prosecutors also charged Johnson with a string of incidents that began Feb. 23. The victim told police that Johnson had been acting paranoid and violent and had been carrying a gun, the statement says. The victim said Johnson burned and hit her during the incidents and barred her from leaving the residence, according to the statement.
Idaho Falls man sentenced to 25 years for rape
Abi Martin
IDAHO FALLS (KIFI) — On August 26, 2025, Perry Myron Thomson, 51, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for rape.
He was sentenced with no possibility of parole until Thomson turns 72, meaning he will serve 23 years before becoming eligible.
The sentencing took place with the victim and family members present.
The Idaho Falls Police Department served as the primary investigative agency in the case.
Trial starts for Columbia man accused in 2022 deadly shooting
Olivia Hayes
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The first witness in the jury trial for a deadly 2022 Columbia shooting took the stand on Tuesday.
The trial for Isaac J. Bryant started on Tuesday morning. Bryant is facing charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Demetrius Ware.
Eight women and six men were selected for the jury and heard opening statements by the defense and the state.
Bryant is accused of shooting Ware, 37, of Columbia, outside of a home in the 800 block of Grand Avenue in May of 2022. Police said Bryant drove by the home and shot Ware. Ware was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Prosecutors called the shooting a case of jealousy and said in their opening that they would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Bryant was guilty using eye-witness accounts, testimony from responding law enforcement and phone records.
They said Bryant’s phone records would show him on Grand Ave. the night of the shooting and at various other locations connected with the case following the shooting. Prosecutors also explained that they plan to show the link between the gun used in the murder and Bryant.
The defense said that the state’s eyewitness gave inconsistent accounts of the night of the shooting and that she initially told the police she did not know what happened. Bryant’s defense said they will prove that no scientific evidence places the gun in Bryant’s hand.
His lawyers also plan to use surveillance footage from nearby to weaken the eyewitness’ identification of Bryant. They say it’s not possible to identify the driver of the car, nor is it able to confirm the car, leading them to pose the question of ‘how could the witness be able to from his rearview mirror?’
Bryant’s defense claimed that the phone data the state is referencing is not reliable and said police narrowed their investigation to focus only on Bryant once they named him as a suspect.
Two witnesses also took the stand Tuesday, including one of the first responding officers on scene that night and Quirteasha Brown-Wells, the state’s eyewitness.
Brown-Wells said she and Bryant went out for a few months and planned to see Bryant the day of the shooting, but she claimed she had no relationship with him on or around the day of the shooting.
Brown-Wells said while on the stand that Bryant was returning keys to her, but was not allowed in the house. She explained this was because she shares a child with Ware and he did not want Bryant around them. She also said she was not in a romantic relationship with either of the men at the time of the shooting.
Brown-Wells said she was in her kitchen when she first heard the gunshots, but didn’t think anything of them because it was common in the area. Ware had just left the home about two minutes later when she said she found Ware in the road, shot.
Brown-Wells explained that she identified Bryant in his rearview mirror after seeing him for about two seconds. She added that she knew it was him because he was supposed to be picking her up.
The courtroom started to heat up during the defense’s turn to question Brown-Wells. Bryant’s Lawyers referenced a deposition she gave to them on Sept. 28, 2022, about four months after the shooting.
In that deposition transcript, Brown-Wells was quoted as saying she was sexually active with Bryant at the time of the shooting and that they had seen each other almost every day of the week leading up to the shooting. She claimed on the stand that she was referring to Ware, but the defense specified Bryant in its question in the transcript.
She also said she did not know she was coming to the defense office to give a deposition. Brown-Wells was subpoenaed for that deposition and sworn under oath at the time. She also said on the stand that she did not have any memory of giving her deposition.
The trial is expected to go through the end of the week, with it set to resume on Wednesday morning.
Columbia Public Schools working to identify improvements at schools
Nia Hinson
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Columbia Public Schools is working to get a handle on work that needs to be completed within its schools.
The Long-Range Facilities Planning Committee met Tuesday afternoon to provide an update on its facility condition assessment. CPS narrowed down each facility’s needs into four categories: Immediate, critical, noncritical and deferred maintenance.
Immediate needs are identified as work that the school district needs to complete this school year, Chief Operating Officer Lazell Ofield said.
Ofield said a facility audit was completed on the building that identified fire and life and safety as the most immediate needs. Ofield said there are 17 buildings within the district that need work done that falls within that category. The buildings include elementary, middle and high schools within the district.
“There’s opportunity in our electro closets to make sure that those conduits that go throughout the building, that the area around it is still tight,” Ofield said.
However, Ofield said the buildings have still passed the fire inspection and CPS is in compliance with all fire codes. He said CPS is looking to make the changes for an extra layer of safety.
Critical non-recurring projects refer to work such as weather-proofing walls or working to keep water from getting into buildings. Non-critical projects are one-time jobs that can include upgrading lights within buildings to LED lights or motion-censored lights.
Deferred maintenance is work that requires a full replacement, such as fixing roofs or updating floors within buildings. CPS has estimated that work would cost $150 million, but wouldn’t be completed for many years.
Board member April Ferrao said she didn’t find that number surprising.
“I think when you see the total at first, it’s like ‘wow’ but you have 42 buildings and we only have about $2-$3million each year from our funding that we use towards planned capital improvement,” Ferrao said. “There’s always things that are growing, or unexpected things that come, so I don’t think there’s anything that’s concerning to me. Even the amount, because like I said, over 10 years we’ve been focused on building buildings.”
The audit was conducted in 2018 by an outside vendor. Ofield said CPS is now hoping to comb through that audit and update it with work the district has already completed over the years since then. He said CPS is hoping to have that updated within the next couple of months.
“Based on the categories of the facility audit, we’re able to update our current facility audit with the work that we’ve already completed,” Ofield said.
The projects will be paid using the operation budget, Ofield said.
Ofield said the next steps include working with the facilities and construction team to begin building a package to identify the scope of the work and then sending out an RFP for vendors to bid on.
CPS will then share the updated information with the community and with building administrators, laying out the different categories and priorities, Ofield said.
CPS is also starting the planning process for its 10-year master plan. Ferrao said the district is slightly behind working on the plan, in part due to Ofield recently joining the board, after Randy Gooch retired last year.
Ferrao said the board is looking for the community’s involvement in the plan.
“This public school serves almost 19,000 students, it feeds people into our workforce. We’re one of the largest employers,” Ferrao said. “We want to have community input to help guide us in what is it that the community wants and I think it’s very important to have the teachers and the taxpayers involved in what does that plan look like.”