WEDNESDAY: Another gorgeous afternoon taking shape today! We’ll pick up some clouds as we go throughout the day, but nothing that will keep us out of the upper 50’s. Our breeze out of the southwest will get up around 20 mph at times. TONIGHT: Partly cloudy skies will remain throughout the night. Lows will settle
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A man smashed the glass front doors of New Zealand’s Parliament building with an axe early on Wednesday morning, according to authorities in the country. Police officers were called to the scene in the capital Wellington, and arrested the man without incident, a New Zealand police spokesperson said. “The man caused some damage to glass
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The US reported its highest daily number of Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday with more than 4,320 fatalities attributed to the virus. It marked the second time — both this month and since the pandemic’s start — that the US reported more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths in a single day. Over the past week, the US
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Public opinion is split on whether the vote was the correct course of action amid high coronavirus case rates.
Continue Reading Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and one of the country’s most important political figures, has criticized South Korea’s “idiot” authorities after they called attention to an apparent military parade held in the capital Pyongyang over the weekend. “We are only holding a military parade in the capital
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The US set a record Tuesday for the most Covid-19 deaths reported in one day since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday evening, 4,197 deaths were reported, according to JHU. This is not the complete total for Tuesday, though, because final numbers come in overnight. The
Continue Reading The man who was photographed hanging off the Senate balcony and then sitting in the Vice President’s chair during the riots at the US Capitol has been identified and is in custody, according to officials. In a sworn affidavit, an FBI agent says a relative of Josiah Colt confirmed that Colt is the person seen
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Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday.
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Federal investigators are chasing thousands of leads in twin efforts to prosecute people involved in last week’s attack on the US Capitol and to try to prevent feared follow-up attacks in Washington and around the country. But while the FBI has opened more than 160 case files in the six days since pro-Donald Trump rioters
Continue Reading A Florida firefighter was arrested for unlawful entry of a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to court documents, after a photo surfaced of him wearing a Trump 2020 hat and pointing at a placard for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi inside the US Capitol. Andrew Williams, a firefighter-paramedic with the
Continue Reading TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to carry out the first execution of a female death-row inmate in almost seven decades. The rulings, handed down just after midnight on Wednesday, allow the federal Bureau of Prisons to proceed with the execution of Lisa Montgomery.
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Security footage released Friday shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol last month after a Republican state legislator allegedly opened a side door and walked out. Oregon State Police have opened an investigation into state Rep. Mike Nearman’s actions, according to spokesman Timothy Fox. “I don’t condone violence nor participate in it,” Nearman said in a
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AUXVASSE, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton police conducted a narcotics search warrant a residence on the 9000 block of county road 1006 in Auxvasse and found meth, THC wax, marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. According to court documents, law enforcement arrested Darrell Cartee. During a search of Cartee’s bedroom, law enforcement says they found glass smoking pips,
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Multiple House Republicans announced Tuesday evening they would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his role inciting last week’s riot as congressional Republicans made their clearest break with Trump to date after he showed no remorse for the US Capitol mob. While the vast majority of House Republicans are expected to oppose the
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A New York man who allegedly gave a video interview while in the US Capitol was released on bond after being charged with crimes related to Wednesday’s riot. Aaron Mostofsky, the 34-year-old son of a state Supreme Court judge, appeared remotely for the Brooklyn federal court proceeding. US prosecutors in Washington, DC, have charged him
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The British government will fine companies which hide connections to China’s Xinjiang region where Uyghurs and other minorities are allegedly subject to forced labor, under a raft of new measures. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday announced the new measures, which the Foreign Office says are designed to ensure that all British organizations “are
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police are on scene of a wreck on the 700 block of 703 S 5th St according to the dispatch page. An ambulance was on scene but left after ABC 17 News crew arrived on the scene. The ABC 17 News crew reports seeing Providence northbound lane is currently blocked as
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Here are the local basketball scores from Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2020. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS HOOPS Capital City (24) Hickman (48) FINAL HS BOYS HOOPS Rock Bridge (68) Jefferson City (47) FINAL Capital City (68) Moberly (54) FINAL Boonville (62) Centralia (57) FINAL North Callaway (44) Vienna
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he believes that impeaching President Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of the President and Trumpism from the Republican Party, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Another person with direct knowledge told CNN there’s a reason McConnell has been silent on
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