Next steps after Boone County housing study to be discussed at housing summit next week
A 2024 housing study released Thursday by Boone County and the City of Columbia show the local market is plagued with high prices.
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The Temptations to perform `My Girl’ and national anthem before NLCS Game 5 between Mets and Dodgers
NEW YORK (AP) — Mets fans will get a little help when they sing “My Girl” at Game 5 of the National League Championship Series on Friday: The Temptations will be in the ballpark. The team says the four-time Grammy Award winners will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Citi Field before the Mets play the
Continue Reading Mountain West commissioner says she’s heartbroken over turmoil surrounding San Jose State volleyball
AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mountain West Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday the forfeitures that volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is “not what we celebrate in college athletics” and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surrounding the Spartans and their opponents.
Continue Reading Efforts to combat deforestation in Colombia hindered because of armed groups, report finds
Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The International Crisis Group is reporting that Colombia’s government efforts to control deforestation in the Amazon are being hampered by the actions of left-wing dissidents who control the area. The report on Thursday details what needs to be done in the short and long term to curb environmental destruction
Continue Reading The world is at a dangerous moment as conflicts spread, UN rights chief says
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief is warning that the world is at an especially dangerous moment in history, with disregard and disrespect for international law “is reaching a deafening crescendo.” Volker Türk said this week that conflicts are spreading and intensifying and humanitarian and human rights laws are being
Continue Reading Harris campaign features less talk of joy and more head-on digs at Trump as Election Day nears
Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Joy Olson proudly wore a “Make America Joyful Again” button Thursday as she waited in line to attend a Kamala Harris rally. But that doesn’t mean the 70-year-old retiree with the happiest of names wants the Democratic nominee to shy away from taking the heat to Republican Donald
Continue Reading New Hampshire’s port director and his wife, a judge, are both facing criminal charges
Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has announced more charges related to an investigation into the state’s director of ports and harbors. State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted on charges alleging she solicited Gov. Chris Sununu to influence an investigation into her husband. Authorities
Continue Reading Georgia school shooter and his father indicted on new counts in Apalachee High School killings
By Mallika Kallingal and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia grand jury indicted a father and son on murder and other charges Thursday in the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, last month that left four people dead and another nine injured. Colt Gray, 14, was indicted on a total
Continue Reading What we know about the death of Liam Payne
Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities continue to investigate the death of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died Oct. 16 at age 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. An official tells The Associated Press that there was cocaine in Payne’s system. But it’s not yet clear how
Continue Reading 15-year-old Kansas football player’s death is blamed on heat
Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Outdoor conditioning while a heat advisory was in effect during the humid summer left 15-year-old football player Ovet Gomez Regalado pale and asking for water. After a 15-minute exercise, he collapsed as he walked to a building at his suburban Kansas City high school and died two days later.
Continue Reading Alabama man arrested in SEC social media account hack that led the price of bitcoin to spike
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama man has been arrested for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said. Eric Council Jr. is accused of helping to break into the SEC’s account on
Continue Reading Sinwar’s killing opens up opportunity and much uncertainty for the war in Gaza
Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months
Continue Reading Bouncing back from a hurricane, making veggies tasty, California’s rattled nerves: Catch up on the day’s stories
CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Election Day will be here before you know it, and Americans across the country are already casting ballots.
Continue Reading Bouncing back from a hurricane, making veggies tasty, California’s rattled nerves: Catch up on the day’s stories
By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Election Day will be here before you know it, and Americans across the country are already casting ballots. What
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MU leader calls racist incidents on campus ‘abhorrent,’ 2 juveniles who aren’t students banned from campus
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi called a pair of recent racist incidents on campus “abhorrent” in a letter sent to students this week. The Mizzou Legion of Black Collegians shared information – on its Instagram page on Sunday — about students being called racial slurs on campus on Oct. 6
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Man charged with murder in death of Columbia teen now charged in St. Louis County
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged with murder for the death of a Columbia teenager is now charged with stealing the vehicle used in the killing. Byron Sampson, 20, of St. Louis, was charged with second-degree murder after he was accused of killing 18-year-old Traquan Reed on Oct. 10. Sampson is being held at
Continue Reading Indian government employee charged in foiled murder-for-hire plot in New York City
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against an Indian government employee in connection with a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader living in New York City. Vikash Yadav, 39, faces murder-for-hire charges in a planned killing that prosecutors first disclosed last year. They have said it was
Continue Reading Megan Marshack, aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with him at his death in 1979, dies at 70
Associated Press Megan Marshack, an aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with the former vice president when he died in 1979, has died. Marshack died on Oct. 2 of liver and kidney failure in Sacramento, California. She had a long and varied career in journalism. But she suddenly gained national attention after Rockefeller collapsed and
Continue Reading Colorado gold mine where tour guide was killed and tourists trapped ordered closed by regulators
Associated Press DENVER (AP) — State regulators have ordered a former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident to remain closed while its operations are reviewed. The move was announced Thursday. A spokesperson for the state’s mining division said it
Continue Reading ‘Everyone wants actual accountability,’ attorney for Tulsa Race Massacre survivors says as DOJ visits site
By Omar Jimenez and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre want the individuals who carried out the violence “to be identified,” an attorney representing them said Thursday, days after the Department of Justice began interviewing survivors and descendants as part of the first-ever federal probe into the
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