COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou athletic community is mourning the loss of former wrestling coach and Hall of Famer Vernon Hap Whitney, who passed away on Wednesday. “This morning, we lost a great man in Hap Whitney,” current head coach Brian Smith said in a press release. “Hap brought Mizzou Wrestling into the modern era and
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN An “unknown yet highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease” has plagued a federal wild horse holding facility in Colorado, killing 67 horses. The Cañon City facility, located 115 miles south of Denver, is under voluntary quarantine due to the outbreak, the Bureau of Land Management said in a news release. The
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Two people from Boone County were charged Wednesday in Audrain County with first-degree
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WARSAW (AP) — Poland’s air navigation agency says it has agreed to implement all of the demands of the country’s air traffic controllers’ union. The agreement prevents the threat of a mass cancellation of flights in Warsaw in the coming days. Earlier this week Poland’s government announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw’s two
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una serie de explosiones inexplicables sucedieron en partes de Transnistria, un territorio separatista de Moldova que ha albergado a tropas rusas por décadas, suscitando temores de que la guerra de Moscú podría expandirse pronto más allá de Ucrania y generar un nuevo espacio de conflicto en el este de Europa. Dos
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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The St. Louis Blues are no longer the big, bruising team they were when they won the Stanley Cup in 2019. This incarnation is reliant far more on speed, skill and scoring. The Blues will try to win that way this time around starting with their first-round series against
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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The St. Louis Blues are no longer the big, bruising team they were when they won the Stanley Cup in 2019. This incarnation is reliant far more on speed, skill and scoring. The Blues will try to win that way this time around starting with their first-round series against
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner remains detained in Russia and it’s unclear how an unexpected prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that freed marine veteran Trevor Reed will affect the status of the WNBA star. Griner has been detained in Russia since mid-February. The deal announced by both countries involving
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organizations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft says in a report released Wednesday. Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times simultaneous to physical attacks, the report notes. A top
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By Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN New York’s highest court blocked the state’s Democratic-drawn congressional map Wednesday, concluding that the new boundaries represented a partisan gerrymander that violates the state constitution. The court ruled that a new map must be created for the 2022 election. New York’s primary election is scheduled for June 28, but the
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By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris does not have Covid-19 symptoms a day after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a White House official on Wednesday. Harris has been working from the Naval Observatory, where an official said Tuesday she would isolate. “The vice president remains asymptomatic. She is feeling good and
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Sana Noor Haq, CNN The world’s largest blue diamond ever to come to auction has sold for 450,925,000 HKD, or $57.5 million. Named “The De Beers Cullinan Blue,” the massive 15.10-carat step-cut gem sold at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong after an eight-minute bidding war among four hopeful buyers, according to Sotheby’s. The
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer During his final week ever of Supreme Court oral arguments as a justice, Stephen Breyer often hung his head, toward the lawyers in the well of the courtroom, and held his balding pate in his hands. The last disputes of the 2021-22 argument session were
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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday honored an Ohio history instructor who teaches courses rooted in exploring oppression and Black history as the 2022 Teacher of the Year. The President and first lady Jill Biden honored Kurt Russell, the veteran educator at Oberlin High School named the teacher of the year by
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA, ANDY TSUBASA FIELD and DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are close to approving a measure authorizing sports betting that would dedicate most of the state’s revenues from it to efforts to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area. Lawmakers
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA, ANDY TSUBASA FIELD and DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are close to approving a measure authorizing sports betting that would dedicate most of the state’s revenues from it to efforts to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area. Lawmakers
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s air navigation agency says it has agreed to implement all of the demands of the country’s air traffic controllers’ union. The agreement prevents the threat of a mass cancellation of flights in Warsaw in the coming days. Earlier this week Poland’s government announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw’s
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By Sharon Browne-Peter, CNN Business Hundreds of Budweiser employees in the United Kingdom could go on strike, threatening to create a shortage of some of the country’s most popular beers. The UK staff of the world’s biggest brewer have refused to accept the company’s new pay package. According to GMB Union, the offer from the
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Fueron más de 120 ejecuciones extrajudiciales en medio del conflicto armado de Colombia. Solo una parte de los más de 6.400 casos estimados en todo el país. Y en la audiencia pública de este martes, 10 militares retirados y un civil reconocieron haber participado en ellas. Este caso, que se
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer The NCAA is looking for a new president. Mark Emmert will step down from the job no later than June 2023. Observers say the NCAA should first decide what they want the function of the NCAA to be. The organization is making sweeping changes and handing more
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