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Columbia residents give feedback on Orr street park developments
Columbia Parks and Recreation is looking for the public’s feedback on developments to a park being built on Orr Street.
Continue ReadingColumbia Parks and Recreation is looking for the public’s feedback on developments to a park being built on Orr Street.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California school board has resolved a dispute with Gov. Gavin Newsom over a social studies curriculum. The Temecula Valley Unified School District on Friday voted to adopt the curriculum for elementary school students. The board had previously rejected the curriculum in part because it mentioned Harvey Milk.
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodians go to the polls Sunday with incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition. Critics say he has made a farce of democracy in
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Oregon say a suspect is dead after opening fire in a hospital in downtown Portland Saturday, a shooting that left one person dead and another injured. Authorities say the suspect, who fled Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after the shooting, was stopped in a
Continue ReadingBY KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The fight over Alabama’s congressional map is shifting back to federal court after Republican lawmakers declined to create a second majority-Black congressional district. Lawmakers adopted new lines after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a finding that the previous map likely violated the federal
Continue ReadingBy DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets’ third practice of training camp marked the first session open to the public. It gave about 2,000 ecstatic fans their first in-person glimpse of their team’s new quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. They greeted him with chants that turned to
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras left their game against the Chicago Cubs because of right hip tightness. Contreras drove in two runs against his former team. He hit an RBI double in the fifth inning, and then was replaced by Iván Herrera behind the plate before the Cubs batted in the
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mountain climber and a cliff diver have died in separate incidents at national recreation spots in the American West. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that 36-year-old Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender of Cincinnati died while cliff-jumping at Lake Powell. The lake is located in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the
Continue ReadingTONIGHT: I’m tracking isolated showers/weak thunderstorms starting this evening and lasting through early Sunday morning. Temperatures will be dropping into the mid 60s across mid-Missouri. TOMORROW: After the isolated morning showers, I’m tracking a brief break until the afternoon hours, where we’ll see another round of weak thunderstorms and rain, again not looking like anything
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A man stabbed four people Saturday morning in Montgomery County, Maryland, before a police officer fatally shot him. The four victims are expected to survive, according to local police. Authorities said they believed the stabbing incident was a “random” act. “We have total of four stabbing
Continue ReadingHAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor but caused no injuries. The accident comes less than a month after a railroad bridge collapse in southern Montana sent tanks cars with oil products plunging into the Yellowstone River, spilling molten
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A police officer in a Washington, D.C., suburb shot and killed a man after reports he had committed an unprovoked stabbing attack on four apparently random people late Saturday morning, according to Montgomery County police. The victims are all expected to survive, including two women who were stabbed
Continue ReadingHALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages. Torrential downpours started on Friday afternoon across the Halifax region, dumping more than 200 millimeters of rain in some
Continue ReadingBy Macie Goldfarb and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The remains of four people aboard an Alaska Department of Natural Resources helicopter that crashed last week were recovered Sunday morning from the wreckage site in a tundra lake, officials said. The remains of employees Ronald Daanen, 51, Justin Germann, 27 and Tori Moore, 26, along
Continue ReadingA Connecticut man has been convicted of murder in the stray-bullet killing of the mother of a two-time Olympian rifle shooter from Puerto Rico. A jury found Franklin Robinson guilty on Friday in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi. The 56-year-old was in her sewing and crafts room in Waterbury when a bullet flew through
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican state Sen. Jeremy England says he intentionally wore what he considers a “very embarrassing” Halloween costume to raise money for breast cancer research — a shiny pink bodysuit with a short pink skirt. Now, England says a photo of him in the outfit
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s National Guard says security forces killed a heavily-armed gunman who broke into a private house in Moscow’s suburbs and fired at them. The assailant reportedly threatened to march on the Kremlin. The man was spotted by security guards after he had broken into an unoccupied house located in an elite cottage
Continue ReadingBy CHARLES O’BRIEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — D.J. LeMahieu hit the go-ahead home run in the 7th inning, Gerrit Cole struck out 10 and the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-2. Giancarlo Stanton homered and drove in three runs and Anthony Volpe doubled and stole a base for the Yankees,
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press A police officer in Fargo, North Dakota, who was ambushed and fatally shot by a heavily armed man was laid to rest on Saturday. Twenty-three-year-old Jake Wallin was killed July 14 when a man armed with 1,800 rounds of ammunition, multiple guns and explosives began firing on officers who were
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters marched into Jerusalem on Saturday evening and hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities in a last-ditch show of force aimed at blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul. Also Saturday, more than
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