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Marie Moyer

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The United States Exercise Tiger Foundation is set to break a personal record Saturday at the group’s 5th annual Valentine’s for Veterans event.

Hosted at Captain’s Quarters hair salon in Columbia, the event will provide free haircuts and blankets to veterans from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Blanket donations will be accepted until 11:45 a.m.

“In battle, our vets and guardsmen or guardswomen leave no one behind, nor do we,” Susan Haines, USTF Director and owner of the Captains Quarters, said in a press release. “I have two stylists coming in from other salons to donate their time to cut our vets or members of the Missouri Guard or active duty hair, we will stay until we cut them all.”

The UTSF Veterans Foundation alone has donated 393 blankets, and organizers expect to donate around 450 or more this year, the release says. In previous years, the group averaged around 125 blankets.

Veterans will also be able to receive medals, coffee, flowers, boots and military food like MRE’s.

Additional blankets will be given to the Room at the Inn in Columbia.

The salon will be accepting walk-ins, but reservations can be made through (573) 449-2629.

Captain’s Quarters is located at 25 N 10th St. in Columbia.

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Madison Stuerman

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Cole County judge ruled this week that Gov. Mike Kehoe acted within his legal authority when he called a special session for redistricting.

The decision, issued by Judge Christopher Limbaugh, confirms the legality of the session and the resulting House Bill 1, which redraws Missouri’s congressional district.

The NAACP challenged the constitutionality of the special session. The organization argued that the governor’s proclamation did not meet the legal requirements to justify an extraordinary legislative meeting.

State attorneys argued that the decision to call such a session is subjective and remains within the governor’s purview.

Limbaugh determined that because the basic requirements for the proclamation were satisfied, the special session was legal. He explained in his ruling that the state constitution provides the governor with the necessary leeway to manage legislative priorities during extraordinary circumstances.

“As long as the basic requirements for the proclamation are met, the governor has the constitutional discretion to decide whether an extraordinary occasion exists, to decide whether or not to proclaim an extraordinary session of the legislature and then to decide what action is deemed necessary to address it,” Limbaugh wrote.

In addition to the primary ruling, the judge stated that all other pending motions and claims for relief in the case were denied.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

One person is in critical condition after a shooting in Osage County Friday afternoon.

Osage County Sheriff Mike Bonham said deputies responded to County Road 703 around 4:30 p.m. and found a 45-year-old man outside a mobile home with a gunshot wound.

Due to the rural location, a medical helicopter landed nearby, and the victim was flown to University Hospital in Columbia.

Bonham said the shooting may have been related to a love triangle. One man has been detained and is being questioned, and authorities have taken possession of a firearm.

A woman was also stopped while attempting to leave the scene in a black pickup truck. Bonham said she is not considered a suspect, but deputies wanted to speak to her as part of the investigation.

The identities of the victim and the detained suspect have not been released.

The case remains an active investigation.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Moniteau County commissioner who resigned from his position earlier this week has been charged with three felonies.  

Former Northern District Commissioner Doug Naros was charged on Friday in Moniteau County with forgery and two counts of stealing. A warrant was issued for his arrest on Friday. He had resigned from his position after submitting a letter of resignation on Tuesday.

Previous reporting shows the Moniteau County Sheriff’s Office requested on Jan. 28 for the Missouri State Highway Patrol to investigate stealing allegations made against an elected official.

The probable cause statement says on Jan. 22, Naros was “observed by Road and Bridge employees with his personal vehicle in the Road and Bridge shop. A Road and Bridge employee was observed installing parts on Naros’s vehicle.”

A $227.52 invoice was submitted to the Moniteau County Cleark by O’Really Automotive, the statement says. The invoice had a handwritten note with “#5036” and the initials “DN” to indicate the parts were used on Vehicle 5036. The parts were not installed on a county vehicle with that number, the statement says.

“O’Reilly Automotive personnel searched their database and verified the vehicle searched during the transaction on January 22, 2026 matched the description of the vehicle owned by Naros, but not the vehicle owned by Moniteau County (Vehicle 5036.),” the statement says.

Naros allegedly confessed to charging it the account for his personal vehicle. A similar invoice regarding a 100-gallon fuel tank was also charged to the county about a week before that cost $959.99, the statement says.

Court documents also allege Naros told county road-and-bridge employees to trim trees at the driveway of his home in November.

“Additionally, Naros directed an on-duty Road and Bridge employee to transport the county’s mini-excavator to Naros’s residence for Naros’ personal use. During a non-custodial, voluntary interview, Naros confessed to directing these events,” the statement says.

Naros allegedly also OK’d an invoice worth $1,07.27 to put new gravel on roads and spread an inch of road rock on his own driveway, court documents say. The statement makes several more allegations of Naros using equipment for personal use.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man who the Missouri State Highway Patrol says has held “several law enforcement positions” was charged on Friday in Pettis County with first-degree rape.

Collin Goodsell, 28, of Peculiar, Missouri, is being held at the Pettis County Jail without bond. A mugshot was not immediately available on Friday afternoon and a court date has not been set.

According to an email from a Missouri Department of Public Safety spokesman, Goodsell as of Friday has a valid peace officer license and is commissioner by the Belton Police Department.

Charging documents allege Goodsell raped a woman in 2017 “by the use of forcible compulsion and in the course thereof the defendant displayed a deadly weapon in a threatening manner.”

A Friday press release from MSHP says Goodsell was arrested on Thursday after the Division of Drug and Crime Control was requested in December to investigate sexual assault allegations against a Belton Police Department employee.

MSHP wrote that Goodsell has held “several law enforcement positions in Cass and Livingston” counties.

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Ryan Shiner

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

Jefferson City police officers responded to a shooting Friday on East Cedar Way.

A Friday press release from the Jefferson City Police Department says officers were called at 12:06 p.m. to the 900 block of East Cedar Way after someone had been shot.

A 37-year-old Jefferson City man was found with a gunshot wound. That person was brought to an area hospital and is stable with non-life-threatening injuries, the release says.

The suspect — a 26-year-old Jefferson City man — was seen driving away in a vehicle and a chase with police occurred until the alleged shooter pulled over in the 1700 block of East Elm Street, the release says.

He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and endangering the welfare of a child, a second release says.

The name of the alleged shooter was not released by police on Friday afternoon.

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Alison Patton

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is asking local election authorities to verify voters’ citizenship status after a federal program flagged people for potential illegal status. However, many county clerks have spotted citizens on the list.

Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon said Hoskins sent her a list of 74 voters in November whose immigration status needed to be confirmed.

“We could see just from looking at the numbers and looking at the actual voters that were on it, that many of them were naturalized citizens,” Lennon said. “One [voter] we actually registered at their naturalization ceremony.”

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements is a federal program that allows the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to verify a person’s status. Hoskins uploaded Missouri voter rolls to the program within the past year.

The Secretary of State’s Office sent lists of voters who needed status verification to county clerks across the state in November. In December, over half of Missouri county clerks signed a letter addressed to Speaker of the House Jon Patterson about Hoskins’ overreach and the inaccurate data the SAVE program provided.

The letter provides two solutions for lawmakers to consider: the Department of Revenue shares immigration statuses with local election authorities, or pass a law that modifies the opportunities noncitizens and citizens have to register to vote.

Lennon said Patterson and other lawmakers didn’t respond to the letter.

About a month after the letter was sent, Hoskins sent another list of flagged voters, which cut down the voters on the first list. Lennon said the second, refined list had only 33 names on it.

“So we didn’t give anything back to the Secretary of State’s Office. I don’t know what happened between the first and the second, really only the Secretary of State’s Office know,” Lennon said.

Lennon said her office still hasn’t done anything to verify the status of the people on either list because the voters indicated on their voter registration that they were citizens.

Clinton Jenkins is the Miller County clerk and the president of the Missouri Association of County Clerksand Election Authorities.

He said members of the association agree that citizen status needs to be checked, but it needs to be done accurately.

“The last thing we want to do is have an actual verified voter removed from the record by mistake,” Jenkins said. “We have time to do this, especially before the August primary election. So let’s pump the brakes and let’s figure this out to do it the right way.”

Jenkins said counties with large cities, like Boone County or Jackson County, will have to deal SAVE data more often than rural counties.

Jenkins said the Secretary of State flagged a registered Mille County voter, but not a citizen. He said the person indicated on the voter application that they weren’t a U.S. citizen, and the county made a mistake in processing the paper work.

Jenkins said another person was flagged earlier this year, but the Secretary of State’s Office retracted that shortly after issuing the notice to Jenkins.

Miller County election officials only received two names.

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Matthew Sanders

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Jefferson City woman was charged Friday with domestic assault and armed criminal action for allegedly stabbing her mother in the face.

Michelle I. Ritchie, 33, was charged Friday with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action in the Thursday stabbing at 221 Dover St. Police came to the home after Ritchie called 911, saying she had cut her mother’s face and was sitting in a vehicle in the Target parking lot, according to a probable cause statement.

Police found blood on the kitchen floor, countertops and cabinets, along with a bloody steak knife and spoon, the statement says. The victim told officers that she tried to keep her daughter from leaving in her vehicle, and after they went back into the house, her daughter stabbed her in the face with a knife and a spoon.

Ritchie allegedly told officers that she aimed for her mother’s eye in an attempt to kill her, and that she knew the assault was illegal.

Ritchie was in the Cole County Jail on Friday without bond. No hearings have been set.

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Madison Stuerman

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

One person was hurt after a crash in Southeast Columbia on Friday morning.

Columbia police confirmed the crash happened at 8:20 a.m. on Southbound Highway 63.

A Boone County Joint Communication alert went out minutes later that Highway 63 southbound at the Discovery Parkway onramp was closed due to the crash.

ABC 17 News photographer saw a red car in the ditch on the side of the highway.

At least five Columbia police vehicles were seen parked temporarily on the highway.

Sgt. Chris Hobbs with the Columbia Police Department told ABC 17 News on scene that the passenger of the car was taken to the hospital.

The man was reported to have moderate injuries.

Columbia Fire assisted police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol at the scene.

The scene was cleared at 9:40 a.m.

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