By CHRIS MEGERIAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders said Tuesday that they would allow Ukraine to join the alliance “when allies agree and conditions are met,” hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd.” “We reaffirmed
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press Dozens of insurance companies are suing Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy to recoup money paid out to homes and businesses lost in Colorado’s most destructive wildfire in 2021. The lawsuit was filed last week, after investigators announced that a sparking power line owned by Xcel was one of the causes of the
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief used a special debate on burnings of the Quran in Sweden and other European countries to tread the fine line between freedom of expression and respect for religious belief. Volker Türk, speaking to the Human Rights Council, broadened his call for respect
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy skies may result in a spot shower this evening, but on a very isolated basis. Anyone particular person seeing rain is very unlikely. Skies will clear after sunset, and temperatures will fall into the low 70s. TOMORROW: Wednesday is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert day. It’s likely that we’ll be tracking
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders. Van Houten “was released to parole supervision,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in
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By Nick Watt, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless population actually grew. Half of all Americans living outside on the streets, federal data shows, live in California. Across
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Chandler Murphy became the third Tiger to be drafted in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday. Murphy was taken in the 12th round with pick 363 by the Tampa Bay Rays. Murphy spent one season at Mizzou finishing with a 4-5 record and a 5.47 ERA. His best outing
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Luke Mann heard his name called in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday afternoon. The Oakland Athletics drafted Mann with the No. 406 overall pick in the 14th round. The St. Louis native came back for his fifth season in the black and gold in 2023 and what a
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A Columbia private daycare owner charged in relation to a baby’s death made her initial court appearance Tuesday.
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By Danny Freeman and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — Escapee Michael Burham is likely still in the area around a northwestern Pennsylvania jail and is probably getting help as he seeks to evade 200 law enforcement officers looking for him, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a news conference Tuesday. Burham on
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A judge has sided with Kansas’ Republican attorney general, ruling the state cannot allow transgender residents to choose gender identity on driver’s licenses. Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson issued a temporary restraining order Monday, three days after Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit against two individuals
Continue Reading By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Protesters in Israel have blocked highways and thronged the country’s main international airport in a day of countrywide demonstrations against the government’s divisive plan to overhaul the judiciary. The demonstrations on Tuesday came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition gave an initial approval to a
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. Regulators sought to ax the deal saying it will hurt competition. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said in a ruling that the merger deserved scrutiny, noting it
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This Afternoon: Highs reach the upper 90s with the heat index brushing 100 degrees. The UV Index reaches extreme levels with sunburn possible under 15 minutes. Tonight: Lows fall to the lower 70s as skies remain partly cloudy. Storms will move in from the west near sunrise. Extended: A Weather Alert Day has been issued
Continue Reading By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a Las Vegas police officer accused in a series of casino heists are listening to opening statements Tuesday morning. Prosecutors for the federal government were expected to paint Caleb Rogers as a gambling addict who grew increasingly desperate as his debts
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Romanian man who was part of an international human smuggling ring has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck trailer in 2019. Marius Mihai Draghici was sentenced Tuesday in London’s Central Criminal
Continue Reading By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Protesters gathered in the Iowa Capitol rotunda as the Legislature convened a special session Tuesday focused exclusively on abortion restrictions, where Republican lawmakers will work to pass a new ban on almost all abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. The day will be a
Continue Reading VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO allies are pledging to spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on their national military budgets but have set no timeframe for achieving the goal. After Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the organization agreed to halt spending cuts they had made after the Cold War and
Continue Reading The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No winning ticket drawn Monday means the Powerball jackpot is an estimated $725 million ahead of Wednesday’s drawing. No ticket matched the Monday drawing of white balls 7, 23, 24, 32, 43 and red Powerball 18. The new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is the seventh-highest in the
Continue Reading By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A state judge has thrown out obstruction of justice charges against two of the five Louisiana lawmen indicted in the fatal 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, a death authorities initially blamed on a car crash before long suppressed body-camera video showed the white officers beating, stunning and dragging the Black
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