JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A settlement has been proposed for former employees who worked at Nobel Health facilities in Fulton and Mexico. Nobel Health announced the closure of its hospitals in 2022. Rural health care has been an issue across Missouri. according to the 2021 Health in Rural Missouri report, there are 55 rural counties
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By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The death sentence handed to a real estate tycoon in a $12.5 billion financial fraud case is the latest punishment meted out by Vietnam in the Southeast Asian country’s sweeping “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign. Thursday’s ruling against Truong My Lan, the former chairwoman of property developer Van Thinh Phat
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso homered and Luis Severino earned his first win for the New York Mets, who snapped Kansas City’s seven-game winning streak with a 6-1 victory over the Royals. Brett Baty hit a two-run double and the Mets scored all five of their runs off
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — One is an erratic billionaire entrepreneur and self-declared free-speech absolutist, prone to profanity-laden rants against “wokeness” and obsessed with making humanity a multi-planetary species. The other is an iconoclastic Latin American leader and self-declared anarcho-capitalist, prone to cloning his dead dogs and obsessed with destroying
Continue ReadingOpinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) — Funcionarios de Estados Unidos se reunieron con representantes del Gobierno de Nicolas Maduro con el “propósito de expresar su preocupación acerca del proceso electoral de Venezuela”, le dijo a CNN en Español un portavoz del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional del país norteamericano. La reunión ocurrió en México, según reportó Reuters,
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By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — One compared it to getting hit by a train, another to going 12 rounds against Mike Tyson. Believe it or not, these are both sound bites from a golf tournament. Whipping winds pummeled Augusta National during the second round of the Masters on Friday, whisking some of the game’s
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — One person died and multiple people were injured when a shuttle bus collided with pedestrians and concrete barriers at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal. Honolulu police said the crash occurred Friday when the shuttle bus driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake. The driver had dropped off customers at Pier 2
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By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has rejected several attempts by Hunter Biden to throw out his felony gun indictment in Delaware. The trial — the first-ever against the child of a sitting US president — is scheduled to begin in early June, as his father, President Joe Biden, campaigns for reelection. Federal Judge
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A severe drought has pushed Colombia’s capital to start rationing tap water. Officials in Bogota moved to ration water starting this week after reservoirs hit historically low levels due to the combination of high temperatures and lack of rainfall prompted by the El Niño climate phenomenon. The rationing will affect neighborhoods
Continue Readingmondemanola (CNN Español) — Javier Milei y Elon Musk tuvieron finalmente su selfie time en la fábrica de Tesla, en Austin, Texas, este viernes durante la gira del presidente argentino en Estados Unidos, donde también recibió la distinción de la comunidad judía de “Embajador internacional de la luz”. “¡Por un futuro apasionante e inspirador!”, tuiteó el
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a bill restricting paramilitary training in response to a neo-Nazi who wanted to create a training center for a “blood tribe.” The measure allows the attorney general to file for a court injunction to stop paramilitary training that’s
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police are searching for gunmen who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus in the country’s southwest. The abductions happened Friday in Baluchistan province, which has long been the scene of a separatist insurgency. Police say the gunmen stopped the bus, went through
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MEXICO, Mo (KMIZ) Audrain County officials and Boone Health signed a non-disclosure agreement at the Audrain Courthouse Rotunda on Friday afternoon. The agreement allows Boone Health to review the needs of Audrain County to help develop a master plan to get a hospital back in the area that best suits the needs of the community.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En 1969, Stefano Ripamonti tenía una buena vida. Tenía veintitantos años y un glamuroso trabajo en una firma italiana de zapatos de alta costura. Se acababa de casar con su novia de la infancia y los recién casados se estaban instalando en un departamento cerca de las murallas del Vaticano, en Roma,
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A guilty plea by the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border is at risk of being thrown out due to an unmet condition of his deal that hinged on whether others charged in the case also would plead guilty. Under the terms of Samuel Bateman’s deal, prosecutors can
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By Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — The world’s biggest election kicks into gear next week when the first ballots are cast in India’s mammoth national polls, considered the most consequential in decades with the potential to shape the country’s future. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to decide whether to grant Prime
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) — Prince Harry scored a goal in a charity polo match as his wife, Meghan, and cameras for a Netflix miniseries looked on. Harry played in a Florida match on Friday to benefit his charity, Sentebale. It provides assistance to children and young adults in the southern
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick inside his Bronx apartment five years ago will not face internal discipline. The city’s police commissioner, Edward Caban, announced his decision Friday, writing in a statement that the officers “acted within the
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de México presentó este viernes al secretario General de Naciones Unidas una denuncia en la que acusa violaciones del Gobierno de Ecuador por la irrupción de sus fuerzas de seguridad en la embajada mexicana en Quito, informó la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México. El documento contiene evidencia
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