COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect Monday as planned after judge declines to block it.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged in relation to a fight at Columbia’s Activity and Recreation Center in June has been arrested. Kameron Mearidy, 19, of Columbia, was booked into the Boone County Jail at 6:22 p.m. Thursday and is being held on a $20,000 bond. He was charged earlier this month with first-degree assault. An
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By David Close, Patrick Sung and Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Hermoso, Spain’s star player on the winning Women’s World Cup team, said Friday at no point did she consent to an unwanted kiss by the country’s soccer chief and she has refused to give in to “continuous pressure to make a statement” that
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — “Dune: Part Two,” the long-awaited sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune” from 2021, has been delayed, Warner Bros. announced on Thursday. The film, starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, was originally slated for release on November 3rd of this year. In an email to CNN on Thursday, the studio
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Interest rates in the European Union will need to stay high “as long as necessary” to slow still-high inflation, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said Friday. Lagarde’s remarks, at an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, came against
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TONIGHT: Isolated storms will be possibility this evening, as our upper level ridge continues to break down. These storms will largely remain sub-severe and pose primarily a lightning risk, but an isolated strong storm cannot be ruled out. Storms that develop will die with or before sunset. The bigger story will be the continued heat.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — The new dark comedy “Bottoms” is getting a lot of buzz. The R-rated movie, directed by Emma Seligman, stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri, and previously premiered at this year’s SXSW Festival in March. Seligman broke through in 2020 with the hit movie “Shiva Baby.” On the festival circuit,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. air defense has scrambled fighter jets to wave off a civilian aircraft that had entered temporarily restricted air space near Lake Tahoe, where President Joe Biden and Jill Biden are vacationing. The crews of two F-16s fired flares to catch the attention of the pilot of the civilian craft
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Boston officials say a new plan to address homelessness includes giving police the power to remove tents and other makeshift shelters at an intersection where a sprawling encampment for the homeless has sprung up. Mayor Michelle Wu and other city officials announced the plan Friday. The plan also calls for a new
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A beloved Las Vegas neighborhood peacock named Pete was killed with a hunter’s bow and arrow, and authorities are trying to find who was behind it. Animal Protection Services officers are investigating the death of the peacock, which belonged to a resident in a small gated
Continue ReadingBy Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — Two women held in Suffolk County jail say they had encounters with the Gilgo Beach killings suspect Rex Heuermann, describing the meetings with him as “violent” and “aggressive,” sheriff’s department spokesperson Vicki DiStefano said Thursday. The alleged encounters with the two female sex workers are believed to have happened
Continue ReadingBy Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Cells within the Oklahoma County Detention Center were in the process of being sanitized and restored on Thursday during an effort to clean up the jail. “We’re going to have to be here for another three to five years. It’s a
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a large and mysterious dark spot within Neptune’s atmosphere, and it has an unexpectedly bright companion. The observation was made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Space-based observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have observed vortex-like storms — which appear as
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The grassland birds that bring sweet song to North America’s prairie are in decline, with habitat loss, land degradation and climate change threatening what’s left of a once-vast ecosystem. Biologists, conservation groups, farmers and ranchers are ramping up efforts to tag birds, track them, and foster best practices for land use
Continue ReadingBy Emily Maher, Jamy Pombo Sesselman, Phil Tenser Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WCVB) — A proposed ordinance would give the Boston Police Department the authority to remove tents and tarps from the crime-ridden encampment that has become a permanent fixture in a troubled area of the city known as “Mass and
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from the 20-member K-pop super group NCT, ”Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” swings into streaming. Also, the new live-action fantasy series “One Piece” comes to Netflix after having been adapted from a beloved Japanese manga and anime series. The third “Power”
Continue ReadingBy Randi Rousseau Click here for updates on this story GARYVILLE, Louisiana (WDSU) — Emergency crews are responding to a fire and leak at Marathon Petroleum in Garyville Friday morning. The company tells WDSU that local emergency responders are currently responding to a naphtha release and fire at a storage tank at the St. John
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of Iowa’s largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling — after a Christian organization threatened legal action, part of a deepening national movement to challenge protections
Continue ReadingBy Tori Yorgey Click here for updates on this story MILL RUN, Pennsylvania (WTAE) — Residents were waking up to storm damage in Mill Run, Fayette County, on Friday morning. Trees were down throughout the area, particularly on Mill Run Road, near and in the Yogi Bear Jellystone Park Campground. “After 2 a.m., when the
Continue ReadingBy Marlei Martinez Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — Rowby Severe, 37, is in the Orange County jail accused of shooting and killing one of his sisters and hurting another. The shooting happened at their house on Charles Street in Pine Hills around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, according to
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