By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Senate says she will step down from her leadership post. Toni Atkins was the first woman and the first openly gay person to lead the California Senate. State Sen. Mike McGuire will replace her. Atkins said the transition will happen some
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department wrote on its Facebook page on Monday night that a juvenile suffered a gunshot wound in northeast Columbia and was brought to an area hospital. The department wrote it believed the wound was not life-threatening. CPD also said on its social media that there is no suspect information
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — News organizations are in a cold war with OpenAI. While a shot has yet to be fired, some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an already
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of protesters on cars and motorbikes took to the streets of Colombia’s main cities on Monday to reject recent hikes in gasoline prices that have drastically increased the price of fuel in the South American country. Protesters say that the monthly price hikes set by
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer Georgia attorney Sonny Seiler has died at the age of 90. He was owner of the University of Georgia’s famed line of “Uga” bulldog mascots. He also served as lead defense counsel in a notorious case chronicled in the book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” The
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By Oren Liebermann, Heather Chen, Brad Lendon, Angus Watson and Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — Three US Marines who died when their Osprey aircraft crashed during a military exercise in Australia have been identified by their unit. Corporal Spencer R. Collart, 21, Captain Eleanor V. LeBeau, 29, and Major Tobin J. Lewis, 37, were among
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Es la pesadilla de cualquier persona que tenga una mascota: llevártela de viaje y que se pierda. Eso es justamente lo que Paula Rodríguez está viviendo, luego de que el personal del aeropuerto de Atlanta —el más transitado del mundo— perdiera a su perra Maia cuando ella debía tomar un vuelo
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people have been charged in relation to an alleged kidnapping that took place Saturday in Audrain and Boone counties. Axil Carrero-Ojeda, 22, was charged on Monday with first-degree kidnapping and second-degree domestic assault. Jonder Gilvergada, 34, and Raimari Janez-Almao, 24, were each charged with second-degree kidnapping and fourth-degree domestic assault. A
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Rhea Mogul, Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui, CNN Harayana, India (CNN) — Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops. “I’ve suffered a tremendous loss,” said the third generation farmer, who relies solely on growing the grain to feed his young
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The bodies of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia have been retrieved from the crash scene. They were from Illinois, Virginia and Colorado. The V-22B Osprey with 23 Marines on board crashed Sunday in tropical forest on
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Yale University agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging the prestigious university discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, according to a joint statement from the university and plaintiffs. The lawsuit, filed in Connecticut federal court last November by current students and the non-profit Elis for Rachael,
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its leader, Kim Jong Un, has called for the military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart plots to invade, as the U.S., South Korea and Japan hold a trilateral naval exercise to deal with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats. It
Continue Reading By Natasha Chen, Anna-Maja Rappard and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — Hawaiian Electric Company said that power lines falling in high winds seem to have caused a fire during the early morning of August 8, but power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours by the time a second afternoon
Continue ReadingMUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police have arrested a second man in a July shooting at a massive block party in central Indiana that left one person dead and 17 others wounded. Muncie police say the 29-year-old man was arrested on preliminary felony charges of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and being a serious violent
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ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Ashland announced in a Monday press release that school bus traffic will be allowed to use South Main Street as a waterline and resurfacing project takes place. The first day of school for the Southern Boone School District is Tuesday. Local traffic, such as residents, emergency vehicles, businesses and
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it has sent 1,200 more troops to the cartel-dominated western state of Michoacan after a weekend of violence. State prosecutors say three convenience stores and five trucks and cars had been set afire, a tactic often used by drug cartels in the state to enforce extortion demands.
Continue ReadingBLENDON, Ohio (AP) — Police officials in an Ohio suburb say officers shot and killed a pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting after she accelerated her car toward an officer trying to stop her. Twenty-one-year-old Ta’Kiya Young died Thursday in Blendon, outside Columbus. Police Chief John Belford says the officers were at a supermarket on an
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite recent crashes and complaints from the Governor, the Missouri Department of Transportation has no projects planned to work on the tri-level overpass in Jefferson City. Aside from some resurfacing — which will be occurring all across the Jefferson City area — there are no projects planned to address the tri-level.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City’s Parks, Recreation and Forestry director has been placed on leave without pay. City records show the Parks and Recreation Commission put Todd Spalding on leave. The group voted 7-0 in a closed meeting on Thursday. Spalding will stay on leave until Oct. 7, and can only return after completing
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo was confirmed the winner of Guatemala’s presidential election by the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Monday, but the same day another government body ordered his political party suspended. Arévalo has faced a slew of legal challenges and allegations
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