JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Republican-led Missouri House is advancing another version of a Missouri voter photo identification law that was gutted by the state Supreme Court. Judges last year permanently blocked a central provision of the 2016 voter identification law that required voters without a photo ID to make a sworn statement in
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Capitol was evacuated as a precaution just before 7 p.m. Monday. At least four House committee hearings were in progress at the time. Division Chief Jason Turner said a malfunctioning detector went off in the Capitol. There was no fire or no smoke.
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The suspect in the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of two others at a gun store in Louisiana was asked to unload a firearm shortly before he opened fire, authorities said Monday. Deputies were called to the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie just before 3 p.m. Saturday, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto
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Then-President Donald Trump in 2019 offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One following their Vietnam summit, a former senior administration official who was on the trip confirmed to CNN. The former official said Trump did not ask any of his aides whether there would be any problems in
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Restaurant Week in the District in downtown Columbia began Monday, and local restaurants say the event could help boost businesses for the industry during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Jessica Watkins, a leader in an alleged Oath Keepers conspiracy in the US Capitol insurrection, changed her story Monday about meeting with Secret Service agents in describing her actions on January 6. In a court filing over the weekend, Watkins said she was given a VIP pass to the Trump rally, had met with Secret
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A 28-year-old man died after a device meant to be used at a gender reveal party exploded, according to New York State Police. Police responded to a report of an explosion just before noon on Sunday. Christopher Pekny, of Liberty, New York, was building the device that exploded. He was the father-to-be, according to police.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Grocery store workers across Missouri were honored today for their efforts during the pandemic. Governor Mike Parson met with employees at the Hy-Vee in Jefferson City to announce supermarket employee day in Missouri. There are around 100,000 grocery store workers across the shoe-me state. Supermarkets in Missouri also make up a
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A sprawling lobby and bar with only a handful of people. Confused guests asking where everybody went. Elegant, but empty hallways. These are the scenes CNN observed inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, this month as the once-humming destination confronts a new reality without its namesake in the White House. The hotel had
Continue Reading Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester who was knocked to the ground by police officers last year in Buffalo, New York, filed a civil lawsuit against the city Monday, according to court documents. Gugino is also suing Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown; officers Robert McCabe, Aaron Torgalski and John Losi; Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood; and Deputy Police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge says the wait time for some poor defendants to get legal help is unconstitutional. Circuit Judge Will Hickle in an order said a group of poor defendants likely will succeed in a class-action lawsuit against the state. The defendants’ attorneys say some waited in jail for months before
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Airlines in the United States, South Korea and Japan have grounded dozens of Boeing 777 aircraft after one of the jets suffered engine failure Saturday, sending debris crashing down over Denver. Boeing on Sunday recommended that airlines stop flying versions of the aircraft that are equipped with Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines while US authorities
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged after a fire in Columbia. Police arrested 28-year-old Seth Vaughn early Sunday morning at a home in the 2000 block of Ammonette street. Vaughn could appear at a court hearing scheduled on Wednesday afternoon. According to court documents, Vaughn set stuff on fire in the kitchen of
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Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen have teamed up to host a new podcast about masculinity, race, fatherhood and their professional and personal journeys. The podcast, called “Renegades: Born in the USA,” is part of the multi-year partnership between Spotify and Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. Spotify revealed the new show on Monday,
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President Joe Biden honored the 500,000 American lives lost to coronavirus on Monday, speaking of the collective grief of a nation and in personal terms. “The people we lost were extraordinary. They spanned generations,” he said. “Just like that, they took their final breath alone, in America.” Biden spoke from experience when it came to
Continue Reading The head of San Francisco’s public school system said the plan to rename dozens of its schools after controversial public figures will be pushed to the backburner as the district focuses solely on school reopening. “There have been many distracting public debates as we’ve been working to reopen our schools,” San Francisco Unified School District
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Shannon was used to her socially awkward son being bullied by other boys at the private school he attends in Atlanta. But when she picked him up from school in mid-January and her eighth grader told her he was being called a “simp,” Shannon, who’s only using her first name to protect her son’s identity,
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Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee, vowed Monday to keep politics out of the Justice Department and to fully prosecute the “heinous” crimes committed in the attack on the US Capitol in the deadly riot on January 6. Garland was praised by Republicans and Democrats alike in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Board of Education did not approve 70-minute early dismissals almost every Monday next school year. Treasurer of the board Ken Enloe presented a motion to approve the school’s calendar without the proposed early dismissal times the district wants for teacher development. The motion passed with one objecting vote.
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President Joe Biden honored the 500,000 American lives lost to coronavirus on Monday, speaking of the collective grief of a nation and in personal terms. “The people we lost were extraordinary. They spanned generations,” he said. “Just like that, they took their final breath alone, in America.” Biden will participate in a moment of silence
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