COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi met with Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday to discuss public safety in the city, but some area leaders were absent. “I was disappointed, not just that I wasn’t there, that’s not a big deal, but that my police chief wasn’t there,” Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look back at the events of 2025. Notable US Events January 1 – Fourteen people are killed and dozens are injured when a driver rams his pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The FBI describe the event as
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By Larry Madowo, Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — The United States is reviewing its relationship with Tanzania following a brutal crackdown on protesters after contested presidential elections in October, the US State Department announced on Thursday. United Nations human rights experts have estimated that hundreds of people were shot dead while hundreds more were detained
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals rewrote ballot language Thursday for a measure that seeks to repeal a constitutional amendment that enshrined a right to abortion last fall, finding the language submitted by the state’s top election official needed more work. The woman who first brought the lawsuit, Anna Fitz-James, appealed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Arson charges were unsealed Wednesday against a Mexico, Missouri, man more than two months after a fire that caused significant damage to a home. Mexico police arrested Kent D. Erwin on Wednesday afternoon on warrants for second-degree arson, a felony, and third-degree arson, a misdemeanor. He was in Audrain County Jail custody
Continue ReadingBy Tal Shalev, Ibrahim Dahman and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — The leader of an anti-Hamas group that was armed and backed by Israel has been killed in Gaza, the group confirmed Thursday, in a potential blow to Israel’s post-war plans in the shattered territory. Yasser Abu Shabab, who led a militia controlling a patch
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By Charlotte Reck, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands announced their withdrawals Thursday from next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after organizers decided that Israel will be allowed to compete. Organizers of the pop music spectacle, which draws millions of viewers globally, met earlier Thursday to discuss Israel’s participation, amid calls
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested in Callaway County on Wednesday afternoon, following a standoff with the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office. According to an email from the Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 4400 block of Samantha Road outside Millersburg to arrest Antonio Watson on warrants out of Randolph County for failing to register
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CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — The FBI arrested a man from Woodbridge, Virginia, on Thursday who investigators believe planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Attorney General Pam Bondi
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN A pilot with the US Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds team ejected safely from a jet before it crashed in California on Wednesday. Video of the incident captured the fiery explosion as the plane plummeted into a dry lakebed. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With extreme cold temperatures across Mid-Missouri on Thursday morning, warming centers will be available, as there is potential risk of hypothermia. Thursday is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day, as arctic air and light winds combine to create wind chills near zero. Highs reach the low 20s under partly cloudy skies.
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By Jessie Yeung, Svitlana Vlasova (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would seize Ukraine’s Donbas region “by military or other means,” digging in on one of his key demands as Ukrainian officials prepare for more peace talks that have yet to yield a deal. Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday where he
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WCCO By Rob Kuznia, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Everything seemed normal at Minneapolis’s Somali markets: Men sat in barber chairs, women browsed colorful garments at the boutiques and patrons sampled fried sambusas and rice dishes at the eateries, sometimes as the Muslim call to prayer was sung at low volume over the loudspeakers. But beneath
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — China’s ruling Communist Party is using artificial intelligence to turbocharge the surveillance and control of its 1.4 billion citizens, with the technology reaching further into daily life, predicting public demonstrations and monitoring the moods of prison inmates, according to a new report. Many of these systems are already well-documented
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By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Andrew Field recalls how his school in south London used to hand out a little blue book listing all the students enrolled that year. He says one boy used to go through the book to count how many children had the common English surname Smith, and how many
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By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The number of children who die before age 5 is expected to rise for the first time this century, amid sweeping cuts to global health funding by high-income countries, according to a new report from the Gates Foundation. Child mortality around the world is projected to reach an estimated
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By Rob Kuznia, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Everything seemed normal at Minneapolis’s Somali markets: Men sat in barber chairs, women browsed colorful garments at the boutiques and patrons sampled fried sambusas and rice dishes at the eateries, sometimes as the Muslim call to prayer was sung at low volume over the loudspeakers. But beneath the
Continue ReadingBy Sashikala VP, CNN (CNN) — Thirty-eight-year-old Rosy Devi’s body aches most of the time, short walks have become difficult, she loses her breath easily, has chest pain and feels her health is generally getting worse. It has been a gradual decline, she says, since her hysterectomy in 2019 which led to her prematurely going
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Steve Tubbesing sits in his office on Brown Station Road in Columbia roughly four months after he and his family experienced what he called a “nightmare” with a newly found mindset. Tubbesing is the grandfather to 11-and 8-year-old children who attend Jefferson Middle School and Ridgeway Elementary. Two days into the school year,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just two months into the 2026 fiscal year, Columbia has already nearly exhausted its utility assistance funds. So far, the city has spent $580,000 of its $600,000 for the year, prompting the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services to request an additional $200,000 from reserves. According to a City Council memo,
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