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Month: May 2024

Local highlights and scores: May 11, 2024

WASHINGTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Saturday, May 11, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER JEFFERSON CITY (0) PACIFIC (5) FINAL CAPITAL CITY (0) ROCKWOOD SUMMIT (4) FINAL MEXICO (1) CHRISTIAN (3) FINAL FULTON (0) ST. CHARLES WEST (8) FINAL CALIFORNIA (0) BARSTOW (7)

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Three Tigers named to SEC All-Tournament Team

AUBURN, Ala. (KMIZ) Although Mizzou Softball fell one win short of capturing its first SEC Championship in program history on Saturday, the Tigers were still well-represented on this season’s SEC All-Tournament Team. The league announced Jenna Laird, Maddie Gallagher and Laurin Krings were honored as SEC All-Tournament Team selections. Laird and Gallagher both had great

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Paul Manafort backs away from supporting role with Republican National Convention following media scrutiny

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Paul Manafort, former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman whom he later pardoned, is backing away from a role with the Republican National Convention following media scrutiny and questions over his involvement in the planning process, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Manafort had been in discussions with Trump’s team to help with the convention

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First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

BOSTON (AP) — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday. Richard “Rick” Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in March at the age of 62. Surgeons said they believed

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NY court strikes down Nassau County order that banned transgender athletes from competing on girls’ sports teams

By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge struck down an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in girls’ or women’s sports leagues and teams at Nassau County facilities on Long Island. Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Francis Ricigliano found on Friday Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman did not have the

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Two inmates dead, others injured after ‘operational error’ led to gang-related disturbance at Oklahoma prison

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Two inmates are dead and several others are injured after a “group disturbance” at a privately run prison in southern Oklahoma, according to prison authorities. The incident took place at Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility on Friday and is being investigated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, according to

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Switzerland wins Eurovision after politically charged song contest overshadowed by Israel controversy

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Switzerland’s Nemo won a chaotic and politically fraught Eurovision Song Contest, triumphing in a competition overshadowed by controversy and booing over the presence of Israel. The typically jovial event – one of the most watched in the world’s cultural calendar – descended into turmoil in recent days, as organizers

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Biden calls Trump ‘unhinged’ and says ‘something snapped’ in former president after he lost 2020 election

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election. “It’s clear that … when he lost in 2020, something snapped in him,” Biden told supporters in Seattle at a private fundraiser Saturday, according

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Small pro-Palestinian protests held Saturday as college commencements are held

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Small pro-Palestinian protests popped up sporadically Saturday as colleges and universities from North Carolina to California held commencement ceremonies, including dozens of graduating students at Virginia Commonwealth University who walked out on an address by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. While some of the estimated 100 students and family members who left

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