COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former corrections officer at the Morgan County Jail has been charged after they were allegedly in a sexual relationship with an inmate while they were employed. Ashley Jacobson, of Jefferson City, was charged with sexual conduct in the course of public duty. A warrant was issued on Friday and a $25,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Pulaski County substitute teacher and paraprofessional charged with 19 felonies a year for allegedly offering children money, drugs and alcohol for sex has been sentenced to prison. Carissa J. Smith, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to one count of child endangerment and two
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Charges against Jimmy Kenda were dropped after officers learned that the suspect gave a false identity. The suspect’s name will be released after formal charges are filed, police say. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A report of a man repeatedly harassing a woman at a gas station kicked off a high-speed pursuit early Friday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A co-defendant in a 2024 Columbia murder case wanted more time on Friday to consider a possible plea. Daevion McCray and his attorney told Judge Joshua Devine they wanted more time to discuss the plea at a 9 a.m. hearing in Boone County court. Devine reset the hearing for Monday at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The sole occupant of a boat on the Lake of the Ozarks was not hurt in a Thursday afternoon explosion and fire. Firefighters were called to the 3.5 mile marker a little after 4 p.m. Thursday for a call of a boat and dock fire, the Lake Ozark Fire Protection District stated
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A one-time leading figure in Britain’s right-wing populist Reform UK party has been jailed for accepting cash bribes in exchange for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, was sentenced to ten and a half years at London’s Central Criminal Court on Friday after he admitted
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By Svitlana Vlasova, Catherine Nicholls and Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept his plan – widely seen as favoring Russia – to end the war, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country faced “one of the most difficult moments” in its history. “I’ve
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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed their display as merely “potentially divisive.” The newest memo expressly prohibits the display of nooses, swastikas or
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Vice President JD Vance has expressed hope that his Hindu wife will convert to Christianity. His comments have sparked a backlash in India and stirred debate about interfaith marriage. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Mamdani meeting President Donald
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Vice President JD Vance has expressed hope that his Hindu wife will convert to Christianity. His comments have sparked a backlash in India and stirred debate about interfaith marriage. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Mamdani meeting President
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Vice President JD Vance has expressed hope that his Hindu wife will convert to Christianity. His comments have sparked a backlash in India and stirred debate about interfaith marriage. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Mamdani meeting President
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By Andy Rose, CNN Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) — The upbeat, Spanish music still floats through the aisles of Sav/Way Foods, the Latino supermarket in the heart of the bustling and boisterous Plaza Midwood neighborhood. But at 8:30 on a chilly morning this week, the songs on the loudspeakers are about all the Spanish you
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People in Mid-Missouri were sickened to learn the macabre details after a Boone County woman had been charged with animal abuse. Under Missouri law, no authorities were under an obligation to inspect Sanders’ operation, legally classified as a “hobby,” unless complaints were filed. Do you think the state should have tougher requirements? Let us know
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By Dalia Faheid, Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — Even with a federal indictment hanging over her, claiming she had been a threat to law enforcement, Marimar Martinez was confident she could eventually prove her innocence. “I know the truth,” Martinez told CNN Friday in an exclusive interview. “I know what really happened that day.” After
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By Nimi Princewill, Hira Humayun, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Armed bandits kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have drawn the attention of the Trump administration. Despite some students managing to get to
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than 1.2 million Canadian dollars he had stored in bizarre locations around his home. On December 1, 2009, police visited Marcel Breton’s rural property on the outskirts of Thunder Bay, a city in northwest Ontario, looking
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CNN By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Larry Madowo, Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only rocks and sticks, a CNN investigation has found. Geolocated videos from the scenes,
Continue Reading By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Larry Madowo, Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only rocks and sticks, a CNN investigation has found. Geolocated videos from the scenes, audio
Continue ReadingBy Karina Tsui, Matthew Rehbein, CNN (CNN) — When JD Vance told a stadium of thousands he hoped his wife would one day be moved “by the Christian gospel” the same way he was, he inadvertently stepped into a contentious dialogue in India and among the diaspora about religious freedom and, for some, evoked memories
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four more people have been charged after more than 20 stolen guns were recovered in Columbia this week. Two people were initially charged on Thursday after 14 guns were found in an apartment and vehicle on Radcliffe Drive while police served a search warrant Wednesday, according to court documents. Another nine were
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