AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens placed running back Rasheen Ali on injured reserve and signed linebacker Josh Ross to their active roster just hours before they opened the season against the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night. The Ravens also activated defensive back Ka’dar Hollman and running back John
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs agreed with tight end Noah Gray on a three-year, $18 million contract extension hours before they played the Ravens to open the NFL season Thursday night, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The rollout of updated Covid-19 vaccines has begun in the US, but for the first time, the shots will no longer be free for people without insurance at their local pharmacy. Some states are still offering free vaccines to those who can’t afford them, but it will cost
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A wrongful death lawsuit was filed on Thursday by the mother of an inmate who died last year at the Tipton Correctional Center. Brandon Pace died on April 7, 2023, according to Missouri Department of Corrections records. Tammy Reed filed the lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections, former Director Anne
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Three police officers have been shot and wounded while trying to serve a warrant on a man inside a Milwaukee apartment building. Police Chief Jeffrey Norman tells reporters that the injuries suffered by the officers in Thursday morning’s shooting were not considered life-threatening. Norman said the 35-year-old suspect was wanted on false
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the start of construction
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two members of the House of Representatives say the have lined up enough votes to make Billie Jean King the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey said Thursday they have about 300
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A nasty rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland school massacre and some families of the 17 murdered has erupted in court. At a Thursday hearing fight over dueling lawsuit settlements each side recently reached with the shooter, opposing attorneys accused each other of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A 44-year-old man accused of randomly shooting at vehicles on Interstate 5 near Seattle has been charged with five counts of assault. Six people were injured in the shootings Monday evening, including one who is critically hurt. Eric Jerome Perkins is accused of shooting at three cars driving north on
Continue ReadingBy Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Casey Tolan, Scott Glover, Josh Campbell, Curt Devine and Allison Gordon, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — Authorities searching the home of the 14-year-old accused of killing four people at a Georgia high school this week found documents that they believe he wrote referencing past school shootings, a law enforcement source familiar with
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were sharply at odds Thursday over prospects of reaching a deal for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release, with Netanyahu saying it was “exactly inaccurate” that a breakthrough was close. “There’s not a deal in the making,” Netanyahu said in an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro broke the law by publicly endorsing the reelection of President Joe Biden and criticizing former President Donald Trump in several statements he made while on official duty overseas. The watchdog agency says Del Toro’s remarks came in a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The final phase of a bridge rehabilitation project on the Highway 54 overpasses over Highway 50 and McCarty Street in Jefferson City will begin this month, according to a Thursday press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. Both directions of traffic are using the eastbound lanes while work is done
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Thirteen former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are accusing overseers of the Connecticut school of failing to prevent sexual violence on campus and covering it up. The administrative complaints filed Thursday seek $10 million for each of the former cadets, who all say they were sexually assaulted on campus from the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Women in the Nebraska Legislature largely took the reins in a recent special session called by Gov. Jim Pillen to lower property taxes. And many are seeking to get more accomplished to lower taxes for working families in the upcoming legislative session that begins in January. Eighteen women currently
Continue ReadingAssociated Press People gathering wild rice from Minnesota’s third largest lake have stumbled across human skeletal remains that are believed to be several hundred years old. Authorities suspect erosion caused the remains of at least three people to surface on the shores of Leech Lake. The remains were discovered Saturday on the shores of the
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CALIFORNIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Power for electricity customers in California, Missouri, will be switched off for a few hours on Sunday, Sept. 15, according to a Thursday social media post from the city. Electricity will be switched off at 1 a.m. Sept. 15 for about two-to-six hours, the post says. Those with questions can call
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As billionaire Elon Musk’s clash with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice came to a head last week, there were legal twists, insults, ultimatums, defiance and then, finally, capitulation. When the digital dust settled, X had become an ex. Musk’s social media platform was banned nationwide and Justice Alexandre
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has refused to take Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name off the state’s presidential ballots. Superior Court Judge Rebecca Holt on Thursday rejected the request from Kennedy’s lawyers. State law directs the first absentee ballots for the November elections be mailed Friday to the more than
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer club Corinthians, the team turning over its stadium for the first NFL game ever to be played in South America, dislikes anything green so much that its executives tried to paint the field black about a decade ago. It was an effort to steer Corinthians fans
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