JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A group backing a referendum petition to put the “Missouri First” map on the November 2026 ballot will have to wait to argue before a judge. A Monday bench trial in a lawsuit the group People Not Politicians filed against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was delayed after Judge Daniel Green
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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Max Saltman, CNN San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico (CNN) — The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of flower petals, the scent of smoldering
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Winter trout season has officially kicked off at city ponds around Mid-Missouri. The City of Columbia announced in a Monday press release that today was the official start to its winter trout season at Cosmo-Bethel Park. All trout that are caught must be released and unharmed through Jan. 31, 2026. Only artificial
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Increasing the number of steps you take each day could slow cognitive decline in older adults, a study found. Physical activity helps prevent the buildup of proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣
Continue ReadingBy David Culver, Joe Merkel and Sean Walker, CNN Black River, Jamaica (CNN) — The air smells of damp earth and drying mud. Smoke from debris fires mixes with a faint tang of fuel from the few generators that still have gas. Every sound carries: the strike of hammers and the scrape of shovels as
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Human remains discovered earlier this year in a remote area of northwestern Washington state are those of an Indigenous woman who had been missing since 2020, police say. Authorities announced Friday they used DNA analysis to confirm the remains matched Mary Johnson. Johnson, an enrolled citizen of the
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By Tami Luhby, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration said Monday that it will provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown. But recipients are not likely to see the payments immediately. Some $4.65 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri officials said Monday that they’re waiting to receive federal guidance amid reports that the Trump administration has a plan to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The administration has committed $4.65 billion to the program but said using the emergency funds could take “a few weeks up to several months,”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A November ballot in an odd-numbered year is usually pretty thin. But this year, if you live in Hallsville, you have the chance to decide on three big questions: The first is whether the Hallsville School District should continue its four-day week for another 10 years. The district has used the abbreviated
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 83-year-old Belleville, Illinois, man is dead after he drowned at Truman Lake in Benton County, just before 10 a.m. Friday, according to an incident report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states the man fell into the water under a boat lift at the Osage Bluff Marina and couldn’t
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – A Cole County judge denied the Missouri NAACP’s request to put an early hold on the state’s new congressional map. Judge Chris Limbaugh’s two-paragraph order on Friday rejected the group’s ask for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. The NAACP, along with three Missourians, wanted a judge to halt
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) An Old Navy store in Jefferson City opened Sunday after a deadly shooting outside the store Saturday night. Jefferson City police said one person was killed after a disturbance in the parking lot escalated into gunfire. Officers found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the area of 3500 Missouri
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump caused alarm across Nigeria over the weekend when he said he was contemplating military action in Africa’s most populous nation in response to what he claimed was a “mass slaughter” of Christians by Islamist insurgents. The reality on the ground, experts and analysts say, is
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested. Eleven victims were hospitalized in the attack, including one railway worker who is in critical but stable condition,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 19-year-old Steelville man is dead after a head-on crash in Camden County just after 11 p.m. Sunday, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states the 19-year-old was driving a 2011 Chevrolet Impala on Highway 5, just under a mile from Dry Hollow Road, when
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Senators are returning to Capitol Hill today as the government shutdown enters its 34th day — with no end in sight. The record for the longest shutdown in US history is likely to be broken in less than 48 hours as Democrats and Republicans show no signs of reaching an end
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Senators are returning to Capitol Hill today as the government shutdown enters its 34th day — with no end in sight. The record for the longest shutdown in US history is likely to be broken in less than 48 hours as Democrats and Republicans show no signs of reaching an
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Four suspects in custody in relation to their alleged involvement in the spectacular heist at the Louvre museum last month are local petty criminals with no association with organized crime, according to investigators. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the quartet, comprising three men and one woman, were living in
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Ryan Young, and Cynthia Salinas Cappellano, CNN (CNN) — When Brian O’Hara took over the Minneapolis Police Department in 2022, he saw a department in free fall. The murder of George Floyd and the ensuing riots in 2020 had fractured the public’s trust in law enforcement. Crime and shootings were rising at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A motorcyclist is seriously hurt after a multi-vehicle crash around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, at the intersection of Range Line Street and Rainforest Parkway, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department. A preliminary investigation shows a vehicle heading south on Range Line St. made a turn eastbound onto Kennesaw Ridge
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