Associated Presss WASHINGTON (AP) — A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that it says is already limiting the federal government’s ability to provide security clearances and briefings to the incoming administration. Without it, says Max
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with seven felonies after he was allegedly found with hundreds of doses of fentanyl. Kyle Shepherd, 32, was charged with second-degree drug trafficking, two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and four counts of unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Boone
Continue Reading SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police said that unidentified gunmen in a black car killed at least one person and wounded another three Friday afternoon at Sao Paulo’s international airport in Guarulhos. Police said the fatal victim is Antônio Vinícius Lopes Gritzbach, who had previously received death threats from the First Command of the Capital,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Conservation has stocked rainbow trout at Cosmo-Bethel Lake in Columbia, marking the start of the winter trout season. The catch-and-release winter season typically begins on Nov. 1, but the MDC was not able to stock trout last week in Columbia and Jefferson City due to high-water temperatures at
Continue Reading AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency says Tesla is telling drivers in public statements that its vehicles can drive themselves. That conflicts with owners manuals that say the vehicles need human supervision. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking the company to make sure its messages are consistent
Continue Reading Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Women won a majority of seats in the New Mexico Legislature in the general election, stirring expressions of vindication and joy. New Mexico now joins a small cadre of states that have achieved gender parity or elected female majorities. Nevada voters were the first in 2018 to elect
Continue Reading LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police officer has been reprimanded years later for firing non-lethal rounds at a TV camera crew during street protests over Breonna Taylor ‘s death in 2020. A crew from WAVE-TV was filming live as Louisville Police Officer Dustin Dean fired two rounds of pepper balls at them in May
Continue Reading Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Chinese national is jailed on trespassing charges after police say he tried to enter President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in violation of a court order that he stay away following a previous attempt. Zijie Li was being held Friday without bond after being arrested Thursday when he
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Pentagon is easing restrictions to allow a small number of private American defense contactors to work inside Ukraine, helping repair and maintain equipment. The officials say the contractors will be far away from the front lines during Russia’s invasion and will not be taking part in
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Spain’s largest telecommunications operator will pay more than $85 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a scheme to bribe Venezuelan officials with a lavish Caribbean vacation and expensive watches. The agreement with Telefónica S.A. announced Friday is the second time that the telco giant has faced bribery accusations in
Continue Reading Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump put billionaire Elon Musk on the line with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the Ukrainian leader called to congratulate the incoming U.S. president, according to a Ukrainian official with direct knowledge of the phone call. The person, who was not authorized to comment on the matter publicly,
Continue Reading Associated Press Two men who co-founded a militia group have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a planned trip to the Texas-Mexico border to shoot at immigrants illegally crossing there and any federal agents who might try to stop them. A jury at the U.S. District Court in the Missouri state
Continue Reading Associated Press Two men who co-founded a militia group have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a planned trip to the Texas-Mexico border to shoot at immigrants illegally crossing there and any federal agents who might try to stop them. A jury at the U.S. District Court in the Missouri state
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has filed a new request for bail, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean he should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail. Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court on Friday. His requests for bail have been
Continue Reading MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama’s brother and his wife have settled a lawsuit they filed in 2022 alleging a private school in Milwaukee refused to reenroll their children after the couple raised concerns about racism. Craig and Kelly Robinson alleged in the lawsuit that the University School of Milwaukee terminated their
Continue Reading NEW BROCKTON, Ala (AP) — Officials say a 14-year-old football player who collapsed during practice this summer died from congestive heart failure. Coffee County Coroner Arnold Woodham announced the cause of death Thursday following a state-conducted autopsy. Semaj Wilkins was a freshman at New Brockton High School. He died in August after collapsing during afternoon
Continue Reading AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them was sick. Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps publicly discussed their spaceflight for the first time since returning from the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new Westlake Ace Hardware location has opened in in the Rock Bridge Shopping Center on East Nifong Boulevard in Columbia. There are two other Ace Hardware locations in Columbia at 1910 West Worley Street and 1900 Business Loop 70 East. The company announced the third location would open in March. A
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been charged with staging a car accident for insurance fraud purposes last month in a case that received wide publicity after the victim shared dashboard camera footage of the crash. Prosecutors say the 28-year-old Brooklyn man was in a car whose driver cut
Continue Reading Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Nearly two dozen retired research chimpanzees will be relocated from New Mexico to a sanctuary in Louisiana. The decision announced Friday by the National Institutes of Health follows a long battle with animal advocates over the fate of the remaining chimps at a facility at Holloman Air Force Base
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