JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Frank Tennant is the director of the State Technical Assistance Team. He spends his time tracking down missing Missouri children, living by his motto, “Every kid counts.” According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol missing persons records, there are about 700 active missing children cases, and 475 of those are from
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, destacó la desigualdad y la crisis climática en el discurso que abrió este martes el Debate General anual de la ONU en Nueva York. Durante su intervención, el mandatario lamentó que la comunidad internacional se haya “adormecido” ante su responsabilidad de atender
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TONIGHT: Clouds increase as low pressure approaches the area, keeping temperatures in the lower 60s. A few showers are possible after midnight, becoming more widespread by morning. TOMORROW: Scattered showers and storms likely. Mostly cloudy with highs in the mid-70s. EXTENDED: A small scale low pressure system skirts across southern and southeast Missouri tomorrow, bringing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TikTok said on Tuesday it will begin launching a new tool that will help creators label their AI-generated content. TikTok said in a news release that the tool will help creators easily comply with the company’s existing AI policy, which requires all manipulated content that shows realistic scenes to be labeled in a
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion Sanders stood up for Henry Blackburn on Tuesday after the Colorado State safety received death threats for a late hit that sent Colorado’s two-way star Travis Hunter to the hospital with a lacerated liver. “That’s absurd for people to be threatened,” the Colorado coach
Continue ReadingBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is asking the Biden administration for permission to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for people age 15 and above on its most comprehensive annual survey of life in the country. The statistical agency publicized the request in a Federal Register notice on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is urging Serbia and Kosovo to respect an agreement meant to end tensions between them and set their relations on a more normal path. The call Tuesday came after talks between their leaders last week ended in acrimony last week. At
Continue ReadingBy: Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — No ticket matched all six numbers drawn Monday night – white balls with the numbers 2, 21, 26, 40 and 42 and red Powerball 9 – so the Powerball jackpot has now climbed to an estimated $672 million. This means there’s still hope for lottery players to become immediate
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Democratic US Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia is demonstrating what integrity and service look like. In 2018, Wexton flipped a district that had been red for nearly 40 years and sailed into office along with a wave of other Democratic women, in a midterm backlash to the election of former President
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz announced that starting quarterback Brady Cook is currently day-to-day and will not practice on Tuesday, after hyperextending his knee in the win against No. 15 Kansas State. You can watch extended highlights of Cook and the other quarterbacks at practice in the video player below. https://youtu.be/N9hFMNmTkMQ Coach
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, Jillian Sykes, Brynn Gingras and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A man who attended Sunday night’s New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, said he witnessed a “violent confrontation” leading up to the death of a fan, according to an interview with CNN affiliate WCVB. Dale Mooney, 53, from
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have briefly detained an opposition Polish lawmaker in violation of her parliamentary immunity after she interrupted a campaign speech by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Critics of Morawiecki’s right-wing government denounced the behavior of police, calling it an example of the deterioration of rule of law. The lawmaker, Kinga Gajewska,
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer charged in the shooting death of a driver last month is back in custody following the revocation of his bail. Officer Mark Dial was taken into custody in the courtroom Tuesday after the ruling. He had surrendered Sept. 8 and posted 10 percent of $500,000 bail. But prosecutors
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being revictimized by his superiors. They said Tuesday that Pope Francis’ recent gestures and an apparent effort to exonerate the priest publicly showed church pledges of “zero tolerance” were just a
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are giving the world the first look at their second child together, a boy they’ve named Riot Rose. The 35-year-old pop star and the 34-year-old rap star dropped photos Tuesday of their family of four, including their second son, who was born Aug. 1, according to People
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Millions of Fortnite users can now claim their small part of the $245 million that the game’s parent company agreed to pay as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission. Epic Games in December settled allegations with the FTC that it used deceptive tactics
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man has been charged with multiple felonies following a chase with law enforcement on Monday. Mark Helmich, 36, was charged with illegal gun possession, resisting arrest by fleeing and driving while revoked. He is being held in the Boone County Jail on a $50,000 bond. Helmich’s address is listed
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By Arlette Saenz (CNN) — Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and White House senior adviser Gene Sperling are no longer deploying to Detroit this week, a White House official said, and instead will engage with United Auto Workers leadership and the automakers from Washington, DC. Sperling and Su had previously planned on traveling to Detroit
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing fresh challenges to his leadership, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to accomplish what at times seems impossible — working furiously to convince House Republicans to come together and pass a conservative bill to keep the federal government open. It’s a nearly futile exercise
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