COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man on Thursday was charged in Cole County with having child pornography. Austin Russell, 27, is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A court date has not been scheduled. The probable cause statement says the Boone County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Task Force received a tip
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CNN By Andy Rose, Elizabeth Wolfe, Samantha Waldenberg, Karina Tsui and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Harvard University is opening a new front in its legal battle against the Trump administration, filing suit in federal court Friday in response to the government’s move to revoke the school’s ability to enroll international students. The complaint by
Continue Reading CNN By Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A limited amount of food was delivered to desperate Gazans for the first time since early March on Wednesday, but senior United Nations officials warned the supply was “nowhere near enough” to forestall the worsening humanitarian crisis. UN officials say they are hoping
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools will have its last day of classes on Friday. CPS wrote in an email to students’ families that state officials gave the district a waiver allowing classes to be out of session next Tuesday. The district had planned for a shortened day Tuesday — one day after Memorial Day
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Oren Liebermann, Lauren Kent and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim hailed from different parts of the world, but their paths led them both to pursue careers in diplomacy and to the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC – where they found each other and fell in love. Their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A press release from AAA shows that drivers in Columbia are paying more for gas this upcoming holiday weekend than anyone else in the state. The average price of fuel at Columbia gas stations is $2.98 per gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to AAA. The statewide average is $2.87 per gallon,
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration on nationwide from terminating the legal status that allows foreign students to study at colleges and universities in the US. The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Jeffrey White of the federal district court in San Francisco is the
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, Elizabeth Wolfe, Samantha Waldenberg, Karina Tsui and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs ruled hours after the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college filed suit Friday. Harvard argued revocation of
Continue Reading By Pierre Bairin and Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Fifty-five men from across France were arrested between Monday and Thursday morning as part of a large-scale operation to dismantle a pedophile network operating through the messaging service Telegram, according to France’s Office for the Protection of Minors. The suspects, aged between 25 and 75, are
Continue Reading By Svitlana Vlasova, Anna Chernova and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Russian armed forces are creating a “security buffer zone” along the border between Russia and Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. “I have already said that a decision was made to create the necessary security buffer zone along the border. Our armed forces are
Continue Reading By Gabriela Frias and Daniela Patiño, CNN (CNN) — Organized crime and violence in the Mexican state of Sinaloa has forced a local sanctuary to close and transfer at least 700 animals – including elephants, tigers, lions, ostriches, chickens, monkeys, crocodiles, and hippos – to a new location 212 kilometers (approximately 131 miles) away. The
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — A team of over 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers and agents is working around the clock to capture the remaining missing inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail in a stunning overnight escape last week, according to Louisiana State Police. Investigators have
Continue Reading KFMB, CNN By Chelsea Bailey, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, Alaa Elassar, Stephanie Elam, Matthew J. Friedman, CNN San Diego (CNN) — Hours after an aircraft slammed into a San Diego neighborhood Thursday, the smell of jet fuel remained thick in the air as investigators scoured the area for clues to uncover what caused the plane
Continue Reading By Chelsea Bailey, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, Alaa Elassar, Stephanie Elam, Matthew J. Friedman, CNN San Diego (CNN) — Hours after an aircraft slammed into a San Diego neighborhood Thursday, the smell of jet fuel remained thick in the air as investigators scoured the area for clues to uncover what caused the plane to crash,
Continue Reading CNN By Chelsea Bailey, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, Alaa Elassar, Stephanie Elam, Matthew J. Friedman, CNN San Diego (CNN) — Hours after an aircraft slammed into a San Diego neighborhood Thursday, the smell of jet fuel remained thick in the air as investigators scoured the area for clues to uncover what caused the plane to
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma’s top court that found the proposed Catholic school unconstitutional. The 4-4 split was made possible because conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A limited amount of food was delivered to desperate Gazans for the first time since early March on Wednesday, but senior United Nations officials warned the supply was “nowhere near enough” to forestall the worsening humanitarian crisis. UN officials say they are hoping for
Continue Reading By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Should the Department of Government Efficiency be required to release public records under the Freedom of Information Act, or can it keep such files hidden due to executive privilege? That’s the question the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to decide. What is known is that in the past
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A former University of Missouri basketball prospect accused of sexual assault is set to be in the Boone County Courthouse for a preliminary hearing on Thursday. Keiner Asprilla, 18, was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree kidnapping. A police report states the alleged assault happened in September at the Tiger Hotel in downtown
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — An immigration judge in Louisiana on Thursday denied a request to terminate Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation proceedings after his attorneys argued that he was arrested illegally and without a warrant over two months ago. Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and lawful permanent resident who played
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