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One in custody after shots were fired in parking lot of Conley Road Walmart in east Columbia
Multiple police and fire units were parked outside a Columbia Walmart store Friday evening.
Continue ReadingMultiple police and fire units were parked outside a Columbia Walmart store Friday evening.
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has been charged in a long-running witness tampering investigation. Uribe was formally charged Friday with witness tampering and bribery for his efforts to discredit a political opponent who was digging into Uribe’s family ties to right-wing paramilitary groups.
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Exhausted and short on options after consulting two veterinary clinics, Kristie Pereira made the gut-wrenching decision last year to take her desperately ill puppy to a Maryland shelter to be euthanized. So she was stunned last week to find the dog up for adoption at the same pet rescue
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, rindió este viernes su primer Informe a la Nación, en el que aseguró que en los seis meses que lleva en el cargo ha alcanzado más resultados que los gobiernos pasados no tuvieron “ni en 10 años”. Frente a una Asamblea Nacional colmada, el
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has rejected a request by Alec Baldwin to dismiss the sole criminal charge against him in a fatal shooting on the set of the movie “Rust,” keeping the case on track for a trial this summer. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer on
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kerri Kennedy (CNN) — Earlier this month, our team of humanitarian workers had to stop distributing aid in Gaza. Like most of the population there, our aid workers urgently needed to find new places for themselves and their families to shelter. In recent weeks, Israel airdropped leaflets on eastern Rafah, instructing hundreds of thousands of
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, Josh Campbell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A judge in New Mexico denied Alec Baldwin’s motion to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter indictment against him in the “Rust” fatal shooting case, connected to the 2021 death of the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin’s attorneys had accused prosecutors of misconduct during the grand
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The rare special session Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called to pass legislation ensuring President Joe Biden appears on Ohio’s fall ballot could take several days. Due to differing interpretations of the proclamation DeWine issued Thursday, the Ohio Senate scheduled a single day of activity for
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Memorial Day weekend is shaping up to offer some of the best deals on new cars in years. The discounts vary widely by manufacturer and type of car – don’t expect too much off on a Toyota SUV, for example. But it’s a good time to be in the
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After failing an inspection earlier this week, the Lake of the Woods public pool has now passed an inspection that occurred on Thursday. Lake of the Woods pool failed an inspection on Wednesday by the Columbia/Boone Public Health and Human Services, citing “low chlorine concentration, inspector will return for opening.” The pool wasn’t
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines is changing law firms after a controversial filing in a lawsuit brought by the family of a 9-year-old girl who was recorded using an airplane lavatory. A spokesperson for American confirmed the change in lawyers on Friday. A former flight attendant has been charged with recording young girls
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press Google’s search engine used to spit out a ranked list of websites that might help you figure out an answer to your question. Now it provides instant answers generated by artificial intelligence that might tell you that cats have visited the moon. While the silliest answers shared
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN Piper HudspethBlackburn and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill Friday classifying the abortion-inducing drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances, a first-of-its-kind law that places them in the same category as narcotics and depressants. “Requiring an abortion inducing drug to be obtained with a
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — First-of-its-kind legislation that classifies two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances was signed into law Friday by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. The Republican governor announced his signing of the bill in Baton Rouge a day after it gained final legislative passage in the state Senate.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Christopher Joseph Quaglin argued with and insulted U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Friday before and after the judge handed
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) –Dos equipos de científicos descubrieron un planeta teóricamente habitable, más pequeño que la Tierra pero más grande que Venus, que orbita una pequeña estrella a unos 40 años luz de distancia. El exoplaneta, llamado Gliese 12b, orbita una fría estrella enana roja situada en la constelación de Piscis y tiene aproximadamente
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday during his campaign rally in the Bronx invited up on stage two rappers who have been indicted over an alleged conspiracy to commit murder. During his campaign speech, Trump introduced rappers Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow, whose legal names are Michael Williams and Tegan
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Advocates say they won’t slow their efforts to unionize college athletes even with the NCAA’s agreement this week to allow players to be paid from a limited revenue-sharing pool. The NCAA and the Power Five conferences have agreed to a landmark antitrust settlement that will pay
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A new South Dakota Board of Regents policy keeps employees from including their gender pronouns in school email signatures and other correspondence. That was adopted after Gov. Kristi Noem railed against “liberal ideologies” on college campuses. But the new policy is also keeping Native American employees from including their
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A campus safety officer at a public college in New York City has been suspended after footage circulated online showing him cursing at pro-Palestinian protesters saying he supported killing them all. The officer was filmed at a graduation event Thursday saying, “I support genocide.” College of Staten Island officials confirmed the
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