By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China has warned its citizens against traveling to Japan as it escalates a backlash over comments by the country’s prime minister about the island of Taiwan. The dictum is Beijing’s most substantive retaliation yet to Sanae Takaichi’s remarks. Even as it may be more symbolic than anything, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Week 12 of the Missouri high school football season is tonight. Scores from Mid-Missouri teams will be posted below.
Continue ReadingBy Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — Doaa Musallem’s high school grades were so good that she got a congratulatory call from the Palestinian Minister of Education. But for the 18-year-old, the celebration was bittersweet. Like some 56,000 other students from Gaza’s class of 2025, the last two years of her education have been nearly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Utilities Department uses a mini truck that has a camera on it to regularly check storm drain pipes, but that tool came in handy Thursday when a child got stuck in the pipes and needed assistance getting out. “We use that camera to run through the system, once we had
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By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Disney and YouTube TV struck a multi-year deal late Friday to get the entertainment giant’s content back onto the streaming site, ending the two-week blackout that spanned a historic election night. The new carriage deal means Disney sports, entertainment and news programming, such as ESPN and ABC, will return
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega, much like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro today, had become public enemy number one in Washington, amid
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, Joyce Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — As US duties on Chinese imports spun higher and higher earlier this year, Derek Wang braced for major disruption. With US orders ground to a halt, Wang, 36, who sells intelligent cookware out of southern China’s Guangdong province, looked elsewhere to fill the gap. After finding
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has pleaded guilty to multiple drug charges in relation with an overdose death from 2023. Derek Miltimore, 33, pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree drug trafficking, two counts of drug possession and one count of unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to 120 days of shock jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is looking at proposing an ordinance that would ban camping near streams. A proposal shared to ABC 17 News by a city utilities spokesperson says the ordinace aims to reduce the amount of pollutants in waterways. The city was told by the state’s Department of Natural Resources earlier
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A water problem led to part of the Callaway Energy Center nuclear plant being shut down this week. An executive with plant owner Ameren Missouri said Friday that “restoration of the affected systems on the non-nuclear side” of the plant was underway. “Our focus is on returning the facility to full power
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The owner of a dog-breeding and boarding business in Boone County has been charged with several counts of animal abuse after several dead dogs and remains were found. Melissa Sanders, 26, of Columbia, has been charged with three counts of felony animal abuse and 15 counts of misdemeanor animal abuse. She is
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Britney Spears, pop singer and Grammy Award winner. Personal Birth date: December 2, 1981 Birth place: McComb, Mississippi Birth name: Britney Jean Spears Father: Jamie Spears, former building contractor and chef Mother: Lynne (Bridges) Spears Marriages: Sam Asghari (June 9, 2022 –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Vienna man was charged with several felonies in Maries County after he allegedly assaulted a woman on Nov. 7. Brian Wagner was charged with second-degree domestic, unlawful use of a weapon, second-degree kidnapping and armed criminal action. A court date has not been scheduled. The probable cause statement says Wagner began
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COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia will hold an “interested parties” meeting next week on the potential remodel of the first floor of city hall. The post on the city’s BeHeard website says the meeting will be held 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19 in the Daniel Boone Lobby at City Hall. Public comments will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported after a duplex caught fire Thursday in Moberly in the 1200 block of Shepherds Drive, according to a social media post from the Moberly Fire Department. The fire was reported at 4:13 p.m. and firefighters responded within three minutes and found smoke and flames coming from the building,
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for stealing a signed print of Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon” artwork in a smash-and-grab theft from a London gallery. Larry Fraser, 49, was sentenced to 13 months in prison on Friday for stealing the 2004 print
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested in Wales on suspicion of imitating a highly distinguished navy officer at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony has been charged. Jonathan Carley, from the Harlech area of Gwynedd in northern Wales, has been charged with wearing uniform or dress bearing the mark of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty to murdering his mother’s roommate in October 2022 on Friday. Adam Conner, 40, appeared by video and changed his plea of not guilty to a plea of guilty before a Boone County judge. Conner was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. He pleaded guilty to second-degree
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger must pay for the urns of two of the University of Idaho students he killed, an Idaho state judge ruled. Thursday’s ruling comes after prosecutors asked the judge at a hearing last month to require the convicted killer to pay about $3,000 to reimburse the families
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace has marked King Charles III’s 77th birthday Friday with the release of a new photo of the monarch. The image, taken in May by photographer Millie Pilkington, shows Charles in the gardens of Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, with the sprawling stately home behind him. Other photos, seemingly
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