MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials are reporting a nearly 40% increase in early in-person absentee voting over 2020. Early in-person absentee voting began Tuesday in the battleground state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission announced that as of Friday morning 292,702 people had voted early in-person compared with 209,665 as of the morning of Friday,
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana voters will decide which presidential candidates will receive their eight electoral votes in the Nov. 5 election. Also on the ballot are races for the U.S. House and a pair of statewide ballot measures. The state has been reliably Republican in presidential contests since 2000. Four of the state’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A term-limited state lawmaker running for a seat on the Boone County Commission said Friday that she turned in nearly 5,000 petitions to the county clerk to put a measure freezing senior property tax on the ballot in 2025. Cheri Toalson Reisch, a Republican being term-limited from her Missouri House seat after
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is looking to continue his winning streak in Oklahoma as he competes with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for the state’s seven electoral votes. Oklahoma voters will also decide races for Congress, the state Legislature and will consider an effort to amend the state constitution to
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A makeshift aquarium that popped up this summer in a puddle beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant is no more. City workers have paved over the Bed-Stuy goldfish aquarium days after fire officials fixed the leak. The pond’s disappearance comes to the dismay of area residents who
Continue Reading Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court in the battleground state of Georgia has declined a request for expedited review of an appeal of a judge’s order that county election officials must vote to certify results by the legal deadline. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled this month that those officials cannot
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say a former U.S. border inspector has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for taking bribes to allow people and drug-laden vehicles to enter the country. Witnesses testified at trial that 42-year-old Leonard Darnell George agreed to allow the vehicles through his lane in late 2021 at the San
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A public information meeting has been announced for a bridge replacement project on Highway 22 in Audrain and Boone counties, according to a Friday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. The release says a bridge over a railroad that’s just west of Highway 151 will be replaced in 2027. Most
Continue Reading Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A conservative federal court said Mississippi cannot count mail-in ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day, however Friday’s decision was not expected to affect the Nov. 5 election. Although the appellate judges firmly asserted that counting late ballots violates federal law, even if those ballots are postmarked by Election
Continue Reading Associated Press YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday. The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Students at Laura Speed Elliot Middle School in Boonville were temporarily evacuated from the building on Friday after its dedicated outdoor air system had a leak, according to a notification on the school district’s website. Students were brought outside “to allow fresh air to be recirculated throughout the building,” the alert says.
Continue Reading AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam police say they have found a prematurely born baby who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital earlier this week. The baby, Santiago, was discovered Friday in a hotel with his parents and taken to a hospital. Police say in a message on X that his parents were
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer A new league format on the U.S. beach volleyball tour is bringing a team concept to what has always been a two-person sport. Instead of competing for tournament titles, the AVP is combining a men’s and women’s pair into teams that will play for a spot in the season-ending championship. Teams also
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota voters will decide on Election Day how to award the state’s 10 presidential electoral votes, including whether to promote their two-term governor to the vice presidency. The state briefly loomed as a possible presidential battleground in 2024, but Democrat Kamala Harris nudged the state back onto safer Democratic ground
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was found with injuries after a Friday shooting in Fulton has died, according to the Fulton Police Department. The Fulton Police Department said earlier on Friday that officers were called to the 1400 block of Route C (Mokane Road) and found a man inside a home with life-threatening injuries
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least one U.S. airline has temporarily canceled flights to Haiti’s capital after gang members opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter flying near the country’s main airport. Spirit Airlines said in a statement Friday to The Associated Press that its daily flight to Port-au-Prince has been suspended through
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Indian airlines have received more than 100 hoax bomb threats in a span of a few days, forcing planes to delay, reroute and make emergency landings – throwing the country’s aviation industry into costly disarray right before one of the biggest festivals of the
Continue Reading Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine. The appeal Friday by Ted Chaiban, deputy head of the U.N. children’s agency
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old in Washington state fled home in the early morning hours to escape a shooting that left her bloodied and wounded, and killed her entire family. For days this week, authorities have been investigating the gruesome, fatal shootings of five people in Fall City, Washington. Now, the girl’s
Continue Reading BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A man who kidnapped the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store and then stole 123 handguns has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. A judge sentenced Darnell Bishop on Friday. Bishop now joins his brother behind bars. Investigators say they handcuffed a Dunham’s Sports manager outside his
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