CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The California Board of Aldermen on Tuesday stated that it is looking for its next police chief. This comes after Chief Daniel Hurt resigned from his position on Aug. 23. City officials previously acknowledged a staffing shortage for its police department — according to previous reporting – and aldermen said at Tuesday’s
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) –– La Secretaría de Educación de Bogotá ordenó suspender las clases en todas las escuelas públicas este miércoles, debido a las afectaciones de las recientes protestas y bloqueos del sector transporte por el alza ordenada por el Gobierno al precio del combustible diésel en Colombia. El organismo dijo este martes en
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — US prosecutors say the Chinese government gave Linda Sun lavish, expensive gifts in return for violating internal rules and state government protocols while she served as an aide to two New York governors in a scheme that enriched her family by millions of dollars. The former deputy chief of
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Perú relevó a su canciller, a solo dos meses de celebrarse en Lima la Cumbre del Foro de Cooperación Asia-Pacifico (APEC, por sus siglas en inglés), a la que han confirmado su participación varios presidentes, entre ellos Joe Biden, de Estados Unidos, y Xi Jinping, de China. El Gobierno
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By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Aryna Sabalenka is heading back to the US Open semifinals for the fourth consecutive year, with a dominant 6-1, 6-2 win against China’s Zheng Qinwen in the quarterfinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night. Sabalenka, the favorite to win the title in New York, has now reached the
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By Rebecca Wright, Anna Coren, Salman Saeed and Mark Phillips, CNN Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) — The banging on the door started just after sunrise, when law student Iftekhar Alam was still sleeping in his fifth-floor apartment. Around half a dozen armed police officers pushed inside, shouting obscenities and telling him he had wronged the nation
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Two French rugby players are heading back to France nearly two months after their arrest in the South American nation on charges of aggravated sexual assault. The French national team players, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, arrived at the Buenos Aires International Airport on Tuesday ahead of their midnight flight
Continue ReadingMEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Attorneys representing both living and deceased patients of an Oregon hospital filed a $303 million lawsuit against the facility on Tuesday after a nurse was accused of replacing prescribed fentanyl with nonsterile tap water in intravenous drips. The wrongful death and medical malpractice complaint accuses Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in
Continue Reading CNN By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Two people have been rescued after a terrifying night at sea as six-meter (20-foot) waves tossed their stricken yacht nearly 200 miles (322 kilometers) off Australia’s eastern coast as they drifted at speed towards New Zealand. Authorities were first alerted to the crew’s crisis around 1
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Another offshore wind project in New Jersey is encountering turbulence. Leading Light Wind is asking the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to give it a pause through late December on its plan to build an offshore wind farm off the coast. The company says it is having difficulty securing a manufacturer for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some Columbia residents say an apartment complex located on the south side of town has a history of its residents’ vehicles being broken into. A social media post from a woman shows a vehicle’s windows smashed in at what she claims are the Corporate Lake Apartments–located in the 4800 block of John
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A new teen center opened Tuesday on Lincoln University’s campus in Jefferson City. The center which will be rent free for five years in thanks to a partnership with LU and Central Bank. It will include a gaming area, an academic area for students and more. The center also includes a
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) –– Los gobiernos de Brasil y de Colombia se sumaron este martes a los países que se han pronunciado en contra de la orden de arresto que un tribunal de Venezuela concedió a la Fiscalía para detener al candidato presidencial opositor Edmundo González Urrutia, de acuerdo con un comunicado conjunto. Ambos
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A prominent Chinese artist known for his scathing political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, according to his brother and artistic partner. Gao Zhen, 68, was detained last week in a police raid on his art studio on the outskirts
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge says New Mexico election regulators and prosecutors discriminated against a Republican-backed group in refusing access to voter registration information. The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Browning on Friday bars the state from refusing to turn over voter data to Voter Reference Foundation. The decision
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Four Las Vegas teenagers have pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal beating of their high school classmate. Their pleas were entered Tuesday in Clark County juvenile court as part of a deal with prosecutors that kept them from being tried as adults. They originally were charged as adults with
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — A group of seven Republican-led states filed a fresh lawsuit Tuesday, seeking to block new student loan forgiveness plans that the Biden administration expected to start rolling out this fall. The lawsuit marks yet another legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s student loan policies and could potentially tie
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton woman was seriously injured Monday night in a motorcycle crash in northern Boone County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash report states that Sherri Zajdel, 57, crashed a 2020 Harley Davidson while heading southbound on Route Z about half a mile north of Rob Cook
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The world’s attention on Venezuela has focused lately on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the persecution of critics and the arrest warrant issued this week against the former opposition presidential candidate. But as political tensions escalate,
Continue Reading By Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to appear later this month to discuss its report on the US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The Committee is holding this hearing because the Department of State was central to the Afghanistan withdrawal and served as the
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