MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Moberly says animal fat from a nearby meat-processing facility and the ongoing drought over the summer are the cause of an odor coming from a wastewater-holding basin located just off Rollins Street near Highway 63. Last week Moberly received its second warning from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Continue ReadingCNN By Nouran Salahieh, Mary Gilbert, Joe Sutton and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — A powerful storm that battered a large swath of the eastern US, knocking out power across several states and leading to multiple rescues, delivered its final blow to New England Wednesday. Here’s the latest: • Swollen waterways force evacuations: Multiple rivers were
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By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — A group of media executives urged lawmakers on Wednesday to enact new legislation that would force artificial intelligence developers to pay publishers for use of their content to train their computer models. The hearing before the US Senate comes after a blitz of new AI chatbots, most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT, set off a wave of existential panic among media organizations, threatening to further upend the
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly renewed her call to expand Medicaid and countered an anticipated single-rate flat income tax for individuals with a plan that would instead cut taxes by doing things like accelerating the phasing out of the state’s sales tax on groceries. Kelly said in her annual State of
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will dispatch an unofficial delegation, including former senior US officials, to Taiwan following its election this week, according to senior administration officials, as the White House closely watches the vote on the self-governing island. The delegation has the potential to spark anger from China at a
Continue Reading By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — It’s the end of an era for Fruit Stripe, the decades-old gum brand that was known for its fruit-inspired flavors and zebra-print product: The brand’s owner is discontinuing the striped treat. “The decision to sunset this product was not taken lightly,” a representative for Ferrara, Fruit Stripe’s owner, told
Continue ReadingBy Averi Kremposky Click here for updates on this story HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for a man they say battered an Orlando woman and fled from police after witnesses observed her yelling for help from a car he was driving. Just after 2 p.m. on Jan. 9, FHP
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — Después de una salida en falso el martes, la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores (SEC, por sus siglas en inglés) dio su aprobación este miércoles para que algunas empresas de inversión ofrezcan fondos cotizados (ETF) en bolsa de “bitcoin al contado”. Con esta medida tan esperada, se busca que
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Ohio House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The 65-28 vote comes after the governor announced last month that he would veto the ban because he believes the state should not be
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Un juez de Bogotá le concedió este miércoles la libertad condicional a Andrés Felipe Arias, exministro de Agricultura de Colombia y quien purgaba una pena de 17 años, bajo el beneficio de haber cumplido tres quintas partes de su condena, informó en un comunicado el equipo legal del político colombiano. “El
Continue ReadingBy James Maloney Click here for updates on this story CONCORD, New Hampshire (WMUR) — Nashua fifth-grader Ellie Lively took the oath of office to be sworn in as New Hampshire’s new “Kid Governor” at the State House in Concord Tuesday. Ellie attends Bicentennial Elementary School. She took the oath from Supreme Court Chief Justice
Continue ReadingBy Greg Ng Click here for updates on this story LINTHICUM, Maryland (WBAL) — Transportation Security Administration officers stopped 20% more guns in 2023 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport over the previous year. TSA released a statement Wednesday, saying officers stopped 105 handguns at airport security checkpoints in the Baltimore-Washington region last year, which
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Health Care and Capital Region Medial Center in Jefferson City completed the integration of its health systems last week, but leaders aren’t sharing any numbers related to the cost of the merger. A celebration event was held Wednesday in Jefferson City, but financial experts were not available. ABC 17 News
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Netflix’s ad-supported tier has hit more than 23 million monthly active users, Amy Reinhard, the streaming service’s president of advertising, said Wednesday. That’s about an 8 million increase in roughly two months; the streaming giant announced it had 15 million global monthly active users in November 2023. “We’re
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly renewed her call to expand Medicaid and countered an anticipated single-rate flat income tax for individuals with a plan that would instead cut taxes by doing things like accelerating the phasing out of the state’s sales tax on groceries. Kelly said in her annual State of
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By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is working with a French drugmaker to temporarily allow imports of a medication that treats syphilis amid an ongoing shortage of the front-line treatment. French drugmaker Laboratoires Delbert says in a letter that it’s working with the FDA to temporarily import 3.5 million units of
Continue ReadingBy Tolly Taylor Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WBAL) — Parents of students in a Baltimore City Public Schools virtual learning program recently learned their program could be shut down. The main reason — millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funding will soon expire. Parents said the virtual school created a
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN and JANIE HAR Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has released his proposed budget for the upcoming year. He has set out to close a projected $37.9 billion budget deficit. He proposes to tap into the state’s reserves, make cuts to housing and climate programs and delay some
Continue ReadingBy Fletcher Keel Click here for updates on this story GOLF MANOR, Ohio (WLWT) — A woman has been charged after her child was determined to have overdosed on fentanyl, according to court documents. Court records allege Alexis Scarborough, 34, was visiting the child’s Golf Manor home in November of last year and was believed
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By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Two men incarcerated in New York state prisons allege they were waterboarded and beaten by corrections officers during a days-long lockdown spurred by a prisoner-on-guard assault last October. In separate civil lawsuits filed in December, Charles Wright, 44, and Eugene Taylor, 32, claim they were brutally beaten and pepper sprayed in
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