By Max Saltman, Isa Soares, Madalena Araujo, CNN (CNN) — As Venezuelans in La Guaira continued to pick through the rubble of downed buildings yesterday, a government excavator stood immobile next to a pile of concrete and bent rebar. There is plenty of work to do nearly a week after two massive earthquakes destroyed much
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old Stover woman was seriously injured Tuesday in a crash on Ivy Bend Road in Morgan County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 20-year-old Stover man and the woman were riding on a 2006 Yamaha Road Star 1700 motorcycle that was heading
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Commission on Tuesday passed a multi-million-dollar contract for gravel road pavement throughout the county. The commission unanimously approved a $4.62 million purchase order with Capital Paving and Construction LLC. The total and locations, according to meeting documents, includes: LocationDollar AmountBoothe Lane (North) upgrade)$516,099.90Boothe Lane (South)/Brennen Drive/Finnegan Court upgrade$842,121.05Coats Lane
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department announced on a Tuesday evening social media post that it was looking for an at-risk man with dementia. Police were looking for John Linder, 76, of Columbia. He was last seen around 6:15 p.m. in the 200 block of North Stadium Boulevard while driving a dark gray 2025
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (Kmiz) Missouri leaders are getting ready to discuss further restrictions on transgender athletes following Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. The higher court upheld the power of the states to ban transgender athletes from participating in certain sports, ruling that these restrictions do not interfere with Title IX regulations. Missouri state Rep. Brian Seitz
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has sent its proposed “A-F” grading system for school districts to the governor’s office. A Tuesday release from DESE says this submission responds to an executive order signed in January. The release says DESE will give annual grades for districts, school and charter schools.
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COLUMBIA MO. (KMIZ) The Salvation Army hosted its annual fan drive on Thursday, giving away 190 free fans to the public. The group said the donation was a community effort, with partners at the Westlake ACE Hardware donating the fans to the Salvation Army for distribution. The drive comes as temperatures have started to rise
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri saw an increase in the turnover and vacancy rates for nurses in 2025, according to data provided by the Missouri Hospital Association. A report shows the nursing turnover rate was at 18.9% in 2025, compared to 16.1% in 2024, bucking a four-year downward trend. The vacancy rate also increased 10.9% in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Osage Beach’s Independence Day celebration has been postponed to July 11, the city announced in a Tuesday afternoon press release. The city wrote that it has to reschedule its Heart of the Lake FreedomFest because “the City’s contracted pyrotechnics company was unable to fulfill its contractual obligation to provide the fireworks display
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By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a passenger tried to open the cabin door and led a regional jet to make an emergency landing on Tuesday. United Airlines Flight 3989, operated by Mesa Airlines, landed back in Indianapolis after being in the air for just
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! In a big setback for President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to end birthright citizenship for millions of people. The justices also ruled that states can ban transgender athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams. Here’s what else you might have missed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said Tuesday that he is filing legislation to amend the U.S. Constitution to “rein in” birthright citizenship. The decision comes after the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s initiative to end birthright citizenship on Tuesday. “Under the Supreme Court’s erroneous interpretation, American citizenship is extended to anyone who
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police in Mexico arrested a man for allegedly stabbing someone on Monday. Police Chief Brice Mesko said in a news release on Tuesday that Darrell Smith, 42, was taken into custody for allegedly stabbing a man in the 700 block of Singleton in Mexico. Smith is charged with second-degree assault and armed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Marshall woman with dementia who walked away from a nursing home amid extreme heat on Tuesday was found safe. Shirley L. Swift, 89, was last seen at Hartland Residential Care Center at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to an alert issued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. She suffers from dementia.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people suffered serious injuries in a head-on crash in Camden County on Monday night. According to the online crash report, a 39-year-old Springfield woman was driving a 2024 Jeep Wrangler eastbound on Highway 54 west of Route W at 10:15 p.m. Monday. The report states that the vehicle crossed the center
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) While Americans celebrate 250 years of freedom in July, Missouri will reach 205 years of being a state in August. When Missouri became a state in 1821, it was at the center of a war between America and itself: the Civil War. “Missouri played an important role very early on in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Gasconade County man was charged last week after investigators accused him of killing a man who had been living in his garage in 2018. Daniel W. Russell was charged Thursday with first-degree murder, abandonment of a corpse and evidence tampering. The case had been sealed until this week. The Gasconade County
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CNN By Osmary Hernández and Lex Harvey, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN La Guaira, Venezuela (CNN) — Relatives are desperately searching for their loved ones after a hotel holding more than 100 Venezuelans who were deported by the US on Wednesday collapsed during deadly earthquakes that same evening. The deportees were taken to Hotel Santuario in La
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — A rebel group of traditionalist Catholics has gone ahead with the ordination of four bishops without the approval of Pope Leo XIV, in the first major challenge to his papal authority. The Society of Saint Pius X, a group that rejects reforms made by the Catholic Church in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A Cole County judge will let some of Columbia Public Schools’ lawsuit over a new charter school in Boone County proceed. Judge Emily Fretwell decided on Monday to let CPS pursue claims against the state, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and the State Board of Education over a 2024 law that permitted
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