COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A South Carolina man has been accused of murdering a woman in Boone County in February 2000. Sentrell Wilson, 45, of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, was charged with first-degree murder in Boone County. He was arrested in South Carolina on Tuesday morning and is being held at the Spartanburg County Jail. Columbia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No warrant was served after Columbia police officers were seen in a standoff Tuesday evening on Sylvan Lane. Officers were seen investigating an area of Sylvan Lane between Vandiver Drive and Quail Drive and were asking for someone to come out of a residence. Sylvan Lane was closed off as officers worked.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services wants hotels to be inspected earlier due to the FIFA World Cup. A notice from the Health Department said annual lodging inspections are typically done by Aug. 31. The FIFA World Cup will be playing games in Kansas City throughout June and July. The health department
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By Katherine Koretski, CNN New York (CNN) — It started as a viral snowball fight in a historic blizzard. It ended up putting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the opposite side of his city’s police, creating a politically sensitive moment early in his tenure. Speaking at a news conference Tuesday that largely dealt with
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By Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the massive trove of files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Melissa Buchanan’s current job has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County’s top prosecutor wasted no time putting in his name for an associate circuit judge seat on Tuesday, while the term-limited state House member serving Jefferson City filed for Cole County clerk. Boone County Prosecutor Roger Johnson signed his paperwork less than
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The story has been updated to note that Dr. Lisa Thomas is a former House member. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The August Republican primary in Missouri’s Sixth Senate District is a crowded field after just the opening day of filing. Filing for the August primary opened Tuesday, including the seat that represents Cole,
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By Valeria León, Michael Rios, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — A group of Mexican mothers with years of experience looking for missing people in Mexico’s Sonora state has arrived in Arizona to help in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Initially, the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora (Searching Mothers of Sonora) applied for a permit to carry
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress tonight — and he warned that “it’s going to be a long speech.” Special coverage starts at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. These are four things to watch.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of candidates lined the third floor of the James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center as candidate filing for the August primary elections opened Tuesday morning in Jefferson City. All candidates are required to file in person with the Secretary of State’s Office, unless they are on active duty or cannot appear
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A suspect was seriously injured when a chase ended in a crash near the Blackwater exit on Interstate 70 in Cooper County. The chase started near Oak Grove, east of Kansas City, said Sgt. Justin Ewing with the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop A. The suspect was in a vehicle reported stolen
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Denita Jackson was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action after allegedly stabbing a Lincoln University student with whom she had a romantic relationship and a history of domestic violence incidents.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The two deputies who were killed by a suspect in southwest Missouri on Monday were U.S. Army veterans, the Christian County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. The sheriff’s office identified the men as Gabriel Ramirez, 30, and Michael Hislope, 40. They were killed during encounters with Richard D. Bird, 45, who later died,
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — A Utah County prosecutor’s office will be allowed to continue building its death penalty case against Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, despite the defense’s claims that it mishandled a potential conflict of interest. Robinson’s defense attorneys had asked for the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) People combing a creek bed in Moniteau County for deer antlers found human remains over the weekend, the sheriff said Tuesday. Sheriff Tony Wheatley said the shed hunters found a partial human skeleton along a creek on Indian Springs Road, west of Jamestown, and deputies recovered it Saturday night. The sheriff’s office
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By Billy Stockwell and Pierre Bairin, CNN (CNN) — The director of the renowned Louvre museum in Paris resigned Tuesday following last year’s “heist of the century” which saw €88m ($100m) worth of crown jewels stolen. French President Emmanuel Macron said he accepted Laurence des Cars’ resignation, and praised her decision to step down as
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By Eric Levenson, Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The day of his teenage son’s deadly rampage at a Georgia high school, Colin Gray asked his daughter to “cover for him” if investigators questioned her about what he knew leading up to the shooting, the girl testified Tuesday at her father’s murder trial. Jenni Gray, who
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By Hadas Gold, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract. He also threatened to put the AI company on what could amount to a government blacklist. At
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CNN By Taylor Romine, Lauren Mascarenhas, Randi Kaye, CNN (CNN) — The family of Nancy Guthrie is offering up to $1 million for information leading to her recovery, a tearful “Today” host Savannah Guthrie said in a video posted to her Instagram on Tuesday — more than three weeks after her mother vanished from her
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN The US government has to refund at least $134 billion in tariff revenue, which the Supreme Court ruled was collected illegally. You probably paid higher prices due to these tariffs, but unfortunately, you won’t get a slice of the refunds. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to
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