COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An assassination attempt at a Saturday rally in Pennsylvania for former President Trump that left Trump injured after a bullet grazed his ear likely won’t have a major change in the November election, a political professor says. The attack left an attendee dead and two more injured. The shooter was killed on-site
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council approved an ordinance on Monday that updated its short-term rental regulations, but voted on some additional amendments before doing so. The amendments updated Chapter 13 of the City Code, which governs miscellaneous business regulations. According to the council memo, the amendments include defining “short-term rental” and “transient guest.”
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s state government has launched a mega-operation with a force that includes nearly 2,000 military and civil officers across 10 low income neighborhoods to regain control of areas dominated by organized crime. The officers deployed Monday in Rio’s western zone, an area that has been the target of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy agency says a North Korea diplomat based in Cuba has defected to South Korea. The National Intelligence Service said Tuesday that media reports on the defection of a North Korean counselor of political affairs in Cuba are true. It gave no further details, and North
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities in the Gulf Arab state of Oman say several gunmen burst into a Shiite mosque and opened fire, killing six people and wounding nearly 30 more. The attack stunned the peaceful sultanate and was the deadliest there in recent memory. The Islamic State, through an affiliated news agency,
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — New York’s attorney general and the local affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union are both separately suing a New York county after it again banned transgender women from playing on female sports teams. The new legislation affecting Nassau County facilities takes the place of an executive order
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In the shadow of what looks like Seoul’s colossal chrome space station, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, hundreds of defectors from North Korea gathered for lively celebrations on Sunday marking the first nationwide North Korean Defectors’ Day. The inaugural event, declared by the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are scheduled to take place in the Seine, where it has been illegal to swim for more than a
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were seriously injured Monday in a Cole County crash on Route C at St. Michael’s Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states that a 2016 Ford Taurus – driven by Seth Miller, 20, of Lohman – was heading eastbound on Route C when
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Republican presidential ticket came together when Donald Trump named JD Vance as his running mate. In turning to the 39-year-old Ohio senator, the Republican nominee injected new energy into a campaign that has centered in recent weeks on questions of age following President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance. The
Continue ReadingCNN By John Miller, Casey Tolan and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — In the 48 hours before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks made a series of stops in and around his suburban Pittsburgh hometown. On Friday, he went to a shooting range where he was a member, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of Interstate 70 in Columbia closed on Monday evening after a crash was reported in the eastbound lanes. Boone County Joint Communications sent a notification about a crash in the eastbound lanes at mile marker 125 at 7:04 p.m. BCJC then wrote that the eastbound lanes west of the Business
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia and Boone County will be hosting an affordable housing summit in the fall, according to a City Council memo. Columbia Housing and Neighborhood Services Director Becky Thompson said the summit is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 24, with a location still to be determined. This will coincide with the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LELILEF SAWAI, Indonesia (AP) — On a steep trek up to his forest farm on the Indonesian island of Halmahera, Librek Loha let out a cry of dismay. “Aduuuuh,” he said, his voice trailing off. “Landslides, again. They happen all the time now.” The mudslide below Loha´s plantings of cacao, nutmeg and pineapple
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The Voluntary Action Center started its Back to School Program on Monday which provides school supplies to students in need in the Boone County area.
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plunged 29% in June, the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to figures released Monday that provide another window on the impact of a new rule to temporarily suspend asylum. Arrests totaled 83,536 in June, down from 117,901 in May to mark
Continue ReadingDICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — The president of Dickinson State University in North Dakota has announced his resignation. Steve Easton’s move Monday comes days after the school’s seven nursing faculty quit, with one member citing turmoil around their accreditation being in jeopardy. Easton says the state Board of Nursing had prohibited him and other administrators from
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Paul Skenes looked like a summer intern reporting for duty in a light gray suit, white shirt and cream-colored tie, teenage acne on his face and wonder in his voice. In a ballpark filled with six dozen All-Stars, the 22-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher with 11 major league appearances
Continue ReadingLA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s embattled president has announced the discovery of vast natural gas reserves just north of the capital, describing it as the biggest find in nearly two decades that could help the cash-strapped country reverse its falling production. President Luis Arce calls the find a “mega field,” saying it has some
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UPDATES: Monday Morning Update: This morning’s update extends the Heat Advisory for few our southern most counties through Tuesday, as rain and clouds keep most of us cooler on Tuesday. BLOG: The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for dangerous heat for the first half of the workweek. A Heat
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