COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved law that increases the minimum wage and requires employers to provide paid leave. Chief Justice Mary Russell wrote the majority opinion, joined by five of the court’s seven judges. The remaining judge wrote in a separate opinion that the court does not have
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By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday to have “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days. The claim came as both the United States and China
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Milwaukee judge accused of obstructing immigration officials would be “temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge” while the case moves through the legal system, court records show. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested last week at the Milwaukee
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Lines are forming outside at least one Columbia license office as people rush to get a new Real ID ahead of a pending deadline. Columbia’s license office on Vandiver had a line out the door Tuesday morning. An employee told ABC 17 News that it takes 5 to 10 minutes to process
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Final exams are just a few weeks away, and the end of the semester can be a stressful time for students. Between final exams, final project deadlines, final grades, and for some graduation, students may experience a deterioration of their mental health.
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team tracked severe storms that left quite a bit of damage across southern and southwest Missouri on Tuesday morning as a Weather Alert Day was in effect. Storms moved in from the Joplin area after 8:00 a.m., overturning tractor trailers on I-44 near Joplin. As the line of storms intensified,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested in Colorado in relation to a missing Missouri teenager. A press release from the Fort Collins Police Department says the Fort Collins Police Cyber Crimes Unit received a tip from a Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force about a possible kidnapping. A youth went missing in December. The release
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A basketball prospect for the University of Missouri has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a campus visit in September. Keiner Asprilla, 18, was charged in Boone County as an adult on Tuesday with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree kidnapping. A petition was filed in juvenile court on Jan.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Morgan County man who was accused of kidnapping his children from Nebraska before getting into a crash that killed one of them entered an Alford plea on Monday. Larry Lunnin Sr. entered an Alford plea to second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child abduction. An Alford plea occurs when a defendant maintains
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — At least 11 high school students in Syracuse, New York, have 48 hours to turn themselves in or face felony charges of kidnapping for their alleged involvement in victimizing at least five younger lacrosse players in an incident the district attorney says “goes way beyond hazing.” The incident took
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man pleaded guilty on Monday to three felonies and was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Freeman Myron Larnerd, 54, pleaded guilty to child enticement of a youth younger than 15 years old and two counts of child porn possession. He is being held at Callaway County Jail. Court
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Facebook’s parent company just launched a separate app for its artificial intelligence assistant, similar to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to strengthen Meta’s position in the competitive AI landscape. Here’s what else you might have missed during
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Indiana man who was in a crash this past summer after a chase with law enforcement in Callaway County was sentenced on Monday to eight years in prison. Christopher Voiles, 47, of Kokomo, Indiana, pleaded guilty in January to interfering with an arrest for a felony, resisting arrest by fleeing, leaving
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian medic who was detained during a deadly Israeli military attack on an emergency convoy last month was released on Tuesday, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). Assad Al-Nsasrah went missing after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked a convoy of emergency vehicles
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 82-year-old Boonville woman was seriously injured Tuesday morning in a crash on Highway 179 in Cooper County, just another of Highland School Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says that that the woman was driving a 2021 Buick Encore northbound when it went off the
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, Amanda Musa and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — As its legal battle over critical federal money plays out in court, two Harvard University task forces have released a pair of long-awaited internal reports: one on how antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias are handled on campus, and another on anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias.
Continue Reading By Henrik Pettersson, Catherine Nicholls and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Swedish police have detained a 16-year-old suspected of shooting and killing three people in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday. The individual is one of several being interrogated over the fatal attack, Sweden’s prosecution said Wednesday, according to Reuters. The three victims were aged
Continue Reading By Dana Karni, Jeremy Diamond and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara has been overheard on a microphone saying that “fewer” than 24 hostages are still alive in Gaza, outraging hostages’ families who demanded to know what the government knows about the fate of their loved ones. “We have
Continue Reading By Robert Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Electricity is pulsing through Spain and Portugal again after a massive outage knocked out power in both countries on Monday. So too are questions. It remains unclear what caused the sudden and staggering blackout, which plunged tens of millions of people into darkness and paralyzed life on the Iberian
Continue Reading By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans continue to grow uneasy about the economy as President Donald Trump wages an erratic trade war that could send US inflation rising and even trigger a recession. Consumer confidence sank 7.9 points in April to a reading of 86, the Conference Board said in its latest survey
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