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Continue Reading By Associated Press Kansas City, Missouri (AP) — An 86-year-old Kansas City man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester was charged with first-degree assault and armed
Continue Reading By Billy Stockwell and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Wednesday that it had received the “heart-shattering news” that Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, are among the four dead hostages expected to be released from Gaza on Thursday. The body of Oded Lifshitz is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A second teenager who was accused in an October shooting in Columbia pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two felonies. Amare Carter, 19, of Columbia, pleaded guilty in Boone County to second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to five years of supervised probation with a 15-year suspended sentence.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Public hearings will be held in April to receive customer comments for a potential natural gas rate increase by Ameren, according to a Wednesday press release from the Missouri Public Service Commission. The release says that Ameren requested to change natural gas rates to reflect upgrades to its system. The proposed rate
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Traffic on Interstate 44 west of Rolla was backed up more than 20 miles Wednesday after a morning crash. The Missouri Department of Transportation said in a news release that I-44 westbound was closed in Phelps County at mile marker 176 near Rolla due to weather-related incidents. MoDOT reported the road
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The octogenarian who pleaded guilty last week in the shooting of a Black teenager in 2023 died before he could be sentenced. Andrew Lester, 86, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree assault in the shooting of Ralph Yarl. Lester had shot Yarl after the teenager knocked on the door
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN (CNN) — A young girl’s death by suicide is being investigated by school police after her mother says she was bullied by other students who hurled insults at her, claiming her family was in the US illegally. Eleven-year-old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza died on February 8 –
Continue Reading By Alexandra Skores and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two people are dead after two small aircraft collided in midair at an Arizona airport Wednesday, authorities said. A Cessna 172S and Lancair 360 MK II collided at 8:28 a.m. near the Marana Regional Airport, just northwest of Tucson, according to preliminary information from the National
Continue Reading By Max Saltman and Angélica Franganillo Diáz, CNN (CNN) — A British journalist living in Brazil has been missing in the South American country for nearly two weeks, according to an association of foreign correspondents. Charlotte Peet, 32, last contacted a friend in Rio de Janeiro on February 8, according to a Tuesday statement from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) All departures and arrival flights at Columbia Regional Airport were canceled on Wednesday. This comes after a flight from Dallas-Fort Worth had to turn around after American Airlines advised the airport there was a malfunction with the deicing truck at COU. The Airport Director at COU, Mike Parks, confirmed the plane had
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — While Trump administration officials were preparing to install a seasoned conservative lawyer as the top prosecutor in Washington, DC, the firebrand right-wing activist in the job on a temporary basis was waging a public campaign to keep the job permanently. Within hours of becoming interim US
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order on Tuesday that directs Missouri state agencies to eliminate initiatives implementing diversity, equity and inclusion. A press release from the governor’s office claims that it does not apply to “to any requirements in federal or state statute that uphold the rights and freedoms of
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Updates on the winter storm that covered the area in snow and bitter cold.
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — There is currently about a 3% chance that an asteroid the size of a large building could collide with Earth in 2032, according to NASA calculations. The good news is that experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s what else you need
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces demolished more than a dozen apartment buildings at a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a Palestinian official told CNN, the latest move in a military operation that has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians. Since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack,
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Food recalls seem to be making headlines more than ever, with many involving familiar brands and household staples like eggs and produce. A new report reveals there were about 300 food recalls in the US last year, associated with nearly 1,400 illnesses. Here’s what else you need to
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Food recalls seem to be making headlines more than ever, with many involving familiar brands and household staples like eggs and produce. A new report reveals there were about 300 food recalls in the US last year, associated with nearly 1,400 illnesses. Here’s what else you need to know
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for dangerously cold temperatures through tomorrow morning. Temperatures will be near zero again Friday morning, potentially recording more records across Mid-Missouri. The record low in Columbia on Friday morning is 2 degrees, set back in 1939. Wind chills will be close to the
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Kostya Gak and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump falsely called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Trump’s accusation, posted on his social media network Truth
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