MARIES COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged in Maries County with two felonies and a misdemeanor following a multi-county chase on Monday. Jacob Pitucha was charged with aggravated fleeing causing physical injury, first-degree property damage and misdemeanor driving while revoked. He is being held at the Maries County Jail without bond. A court date
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Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island’s crumbling power grid as widespread outages persist. Robert Mujica, the board’s executive director, said Wednesday that only $1.2 billion out of more than $17
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with a pair of felonies related to child pornography on Wednesday. Keegan Parnell, 21, was charged with child porn possession and second-degree promoting child pornography. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has not been set. According to the probable
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man serving two life sentences for a double-murder in Boone County wants a federal judge to give him a new trial. Darious Lucas filed the federal writ on Tuesday in the Western District of Missouri’s federal court. Lucas said his judge at trial should have allowed him to present evidence that
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Officials in Tokyo say a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures. A suspect is in custody. Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said the boy’s death was regrettable
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Former University of Missouri Athletics Director Desiree Reed-Francois will owe the school $2 million for leaving in February for another job.
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Investigators believe they have found the body of a man they say shot five people and a dozen cars on an interstate highway in Kentucky this month, state police said Wednesday – ending an 11-day manhunt that stretched deep into the sprawling Daniel Boone National Forest and put surrounding
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new “grab-and-go” market has opened at Columbia Regional Airport. Tailwinds Market will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and allows travelers to make purchases by swiping a credit or debit card or using a payment cellphone application and then grabbing items, a press release and officials say.
Continue Reading Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the world’s divided nations on Wednesday to compromise and approve a blueprint to address global challenges from conflicts and climate change to artificial intelligence and reforming the U.N. and global financial institutions. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters that discussions on the “Pact of the
Continue Reading Associated Press A former sheriff’s deputy at a northern Virginia jail has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for smuggling drugs into the jail and for running a sex trafficking operation out of a Baltimore apartment. Court records show 37-year-old Robert Sanford Jr. worked night shifts at the Fairfax County jail between 2021
Continue Reading Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats. The tests appeared to be the same as the multiple missile launches that neighboring countries said North
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has returned his key to New York City after a request from Mayor Eric Adams in response to the release of a video showing the music mogul attacking R&B singer Cassie. The mayor’s office on Saturday confirmed Combs returned the key after Adams sent letters to the embattled
Continue Reading Howard University is cutting ties to Sean “Diddy” Combs, rescinding an honorary degree that was awarded to him and disbanding a scholarship program in his name. The decision Friday follows a recently released 2016 video that appeared to show him attacking singer Cassie. A statement released on behalf of the Board of Trustees says the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story published May 20, 2024, about Sean “Diddy” Combs’ apology for attacking ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway, The Associated Press misspelled Cassie’s first name. It is spelled Casandra, not Cassandra.
Continue Reading AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016. The video obtained by CNN and aired Friday shows Combs punching and kicking Cassie, who was his girlfriend at the time. The video closely resembles the description of a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Delays are expected for those driving into Jefferson City on Highway 54 during the final phase of a bridge rehab project, a Wednesday Missouri Department of Transportation press release says. Delays can be attributed to the bridge rehabilitation over Highway 50 and McCarty Street, the release says. Those delays are expected
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The Jefferson City Council approved a contract this week that will allow the city to move forward with its plans for a riverfront market.
Continue Reading Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California now has some of the strictest laws on election deepfakes. The state could be among the first to test out the new regulations ahead of the 2024 election. However, two of three laws signed Tuesday are being challenged in court through a complaint filed in Sacramento Tuesday. Those
Continue Reading Associated Press/Report for America FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Opening statements and testimony have begun in the trial of a former northern Virginia police sergeant charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man. Prosecutors said former Sgt. Wesley Shifflett recklessly discharged his service gun. The victim, Timothy McCree Johnson, was suspected of
Continue Reading Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols sent his ex-girlfriend a photo of the badly injured man on the night he was punched, kicked and hit with a police baton following a traffic stop. That’s according to testimony Wednesday from Brittany Leake, a
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