The University of Missouri and the Red Cross are teaming up for the 34th time to collect life-saving blood donations. The Greek Week blood drive will take place at the University of Missouri recreation center on campus from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will also run during the same time Wednesday.
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LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) Lake Ozark Fire Protection District Board of Directors named its new fire chief on Monday. According to a release from the agency, Jerry Blomberg was promoted from Deputy Chief of Professional Development to his new role earlier this month. A spokesperson said in a news release on Monday that Blomberg started
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By David Goldman and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump backed down from an extraordinary trade war escalation Tuesday that had threatened a massive surge in tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum and new tariffs on Canadian electricity. In turn, Ontario paused surcharges on electricity to US customers. After the back-and-forth tariff threats
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By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands following his dramatic arrest in Manila the day before over a brutal, years-long anti-drugs crackdown that left thousands of his citizens dead. Duterte was placed on a flight late on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman is claiming she shot another person in self-defense Friday in Jefferson City. Skyler Allison, 23, of Jefferson City, was charged on Saturday with shooting at a person, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of second-degree assault. She is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Charges were updated for a man accused of setting a house on fire last month with a propane torch. Robert Merritt, 51, of Columbia, was charged on Friday with first-degree arson and three counts of first-degree domestic assault after a grand jury indictment was filed. He is being held at the Boone
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Fire Protection District responded to a car fire on South Smith Hatchery Rd. just before 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, causing the road to close for a brief period of time. A fire official at the scene told ABC 17 News crews that two Boone County fire crews responded
Continue Reading By Asim Khan, Saleem Mehsud and Sophia Saifi, CNN Quetta, Pakistan (CNN) — Separatist militants killed at least 10 people after hijacking a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, according to government and railway officials. Nine of those killed were security personnel, Imran Hayat, a senior railway official,
Continue Reading By Tricia Escobedo, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis is improving and no longer in “imminent danger” from the infection he was hospitalized with nearly a month ago, a Vatican source said Monday. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Stock market plunge US stocks
Continue Reading CNN By Tricia Escobedo, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis is improving and no longer in “imminent danger” from the infection he was hospitalized with nearly a month ago, a Vatican source said Monday. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Stock market plunge US
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — An Air India flight from Chicago to New Delhi last Wednesday was forced to return several hours into its journey after multiple bathrooms on the plane were clogged with rags, clothes and plastic bags, according to the airline. The flight, Air India AI126, was five hours
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Immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian activist tied to protests at Columbia University over the weekend. However, a judge has blocked the federal government from deporting Mahmoud Khalil before a conference can be held Wednesday. Khalil helped organize the massive, disruptive campus protests against the war in Gaza. Khalil’s detention came after threats by President Donald
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, Christian Edwards and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of Britain after a cargo ship smashed into an oil tanker transporting jet fuel for the US military. The crash ignited a huge fire, which is still burning on one of the vessels
Continue Reading By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has likened Mahmoud Khalil to a terrorist sympathizer. Others portray him as a Palestinian activist, singled out for his outspoken support for his own people. But long before he was arrested by federal agents Saturday night, Khalil told CNN he felt called to advocate for the
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Edward Szekeres and Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russia said it was hit by a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack overnight Tuesday, just hours before critical talks between officials from Washington and Kyiv began. Moscow’s defense ministry said it had downed 343 drones it claimed Ukraine had fired at Russia, of which 91
Continue Reading By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — There are some things in life you just don’t do – like steal someone’s ice cream. So when the mom of a 4-year-old boy in Wisconsin did just that, he took it upon himself to teach her a lesson: by calling 911. Police were dispatched for a 911 hangup
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Police Department has named the woman who was killed during an officer-involved shooting on Friday. JCPD wrote in a Monday release that Julie Knehans, 53, of Jefferson City, was killed in the shooting. The release says the officers who are involved in the shooting have been placed on
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, Rafael Romo, Jessica Hasbun and John Miller, CNN (CNN) — A 20-year-old college student has gone missing while on vacation in the Dominican Republic, sparking a search that spans land, air and sea. Sudiksha Konanki, a junior at the University of Pittsburgh, was last seen on surveillance camera with seven other people
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India, where booming economic growth is fired largely by coal and where hundreds of
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Elections in Greenland, an island home to about 57,000 people, are usually a local affair. There is little opinion polling, with only two newspapers in the Danish autonomous territory. Greenlanders mull over politics in private Facebook groups, with key issues in the past centering on the economy, mining, fishing
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