Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing a college student and raping the murder victim’s older sister in a national forest 30 years ago has been executed. Loran Cole received a lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison for the 1994 killing of the 18-year-old man. Cole was also
Continue Reading Associated Press POTTERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free for families. However, the former president did not detail how he would fund it or how it would work. Trump spoke at events Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin. He says
Continue Reading AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America’s prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad. The number of high school seniors who have completed their Free Application for Federal Student Aid is down 9% compared to this
Continue Reading Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A conservative law firm is suing Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey over an initiative the state launched earlier this summer targeting “crisis pregnancy centers” that Healey calls strictly “anti-abortion.” The federal lawsuit by the Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice says the initiative, which warns people against seeking help from
Continue Reading Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Angelina Jolie portrays renowned opera singer Maria Callas in a film premiering at the Venice Film Festival Thursday. From Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, “Maria” focuses in on her life in Paris in the 70s before her death at 53. Jolie has made a grand entrance on the docks of
Continue Reading Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge to move the trial to a larger city during a hearing Thursday, citing the widespread media coverage of the case and the impact that coverage can have on potential juror
Continue Reading Associated Press Life, death, crime and taxes will be on ballots for voters to decide this fall. More than 140 measures are going before voters in 41 states during the general election alongside choices for president and other top offices. The ballot questions will give voters a chance to directly decide some consequential issues, instead
Continue Reading Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born. Thanks to livestream video, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these enigmatic — and often misunderstood —
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is working on updating its city code to comply with a new law that officially went into effect on Wednesday, that will limit the power of the Citizens Police Review Board. Senate Bill 754, which was signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson in July, focuses on modifying
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Tigers will face Murray State in its season opener on Thursday, which has some local businesses preparing for large crowds. On Wednesday, MU Athletics announced it had achieved its goal of extending its sellout streak to six straight games at Faurot Field. While many will be inside the stadium, others
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Robert Shackelford and Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Almost 4 million people in southern Japan were urged to evacuate as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall Thursday, leaving thousands of residents without power and lashing Kyushu island with hurricane-force winds, torrential rain and dangerous storm surges. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a rare
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced 92 additions to its list of Americans banned from entering the country. That includes some journalists who formerly worked in Russia and American law enforcement and business figures. A ministry statement said the bans were imposed because of the so-called Russophobic course of the Biden Administration. It
Continue Reading Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nolan Arenado drove in Masyn Winn with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres. Winn reached on a single off Robert Suarez (8-2), who came in to pitch the ninth. Rookie Victor Scott II kept the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the sixth-straight game, the No. 11 Mizzou football team will be playing in front of a sellout crowd at Faurot Field. On Wednesday, MU Athletics announced that it had achieved its long-awaited goal of selling every single seat in Memorial Stadium. Much to the pleasure of head coach Eli Drinkwitz, who
Continue Reading Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors are defending their case against Republicans accused of plotting to overturn the results of the close 2020 presidential race in Arizona after defense attorneys painted them as politically motivated. An Arizona judge is considering requests from at least a dozen people to dismiss charges of forgery, fraud and conspiracy.
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has met with U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan as the latter wound up a three-day visit to Beijing with the stated aim of keeping communications open in a relationship that has become increasingly tense in recent years. Sullivan said on Thursday that the United States
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has approved a proposal that could make undocumented immigrants eligible for affordable housing assistance under a state program offering loans to first-time homebuyers. It is now up to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to decide whether to sign the bill into law. The bill has led to contentious debate
Continue Reading Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet in a sedition case seen as a barometer for the future of media freedoms in a city once hailed as a bastion of free press in Asia. Stand News had been one of the city’s
Continue Reading Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is debating whether it should remove statues, signs and monuments with colonial ties and how those spaces should be used instead. The nation is the latest to embrace a movement to abolish colonial-era symbols as it reckons with its past
Continue Reading GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Four significant breaks in the water pipeline that serves the Grand Canyon means visitors won’t be able to stay overnight in hotels inside Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim through the Labor Day holiday. The pipeline is the primary water source for about 2,000 year-round residents of Grand
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