By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conor McGregor posted on Instagram on Friday that a broken toe was the reason he had to pull out of his headline UFC 303 bout against Michael Chandler after previously not specifying the injury. Light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will face top-ranked challenger Jiri Prochazka
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Watt, CNN Oakland, California (CNN) — Lance Clark was 9 years old when he was shot dead in a robbery. A man named Ernest Dykes was convicted of the 1993 Oakland murder and sentenced to death. But the boy’s family says prosecutors just told them Dykes could be released from prison in nine months to
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money trial last month led to the two largest single days of fundraising for his White House campaign this cycle, newly released campaign finance reports show. On May 30 and May 31 — the day of the conviction and the day
Continue ReadingBy Merlin Delcid, CNN San Salvador (CNN) — At least 30 people have died in the heavy rains pounding Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador this week, according to authorities in each country. In El Salvador, 19 deaths have been recorded due to the storms, the director of Civil Protection, Luis Alonso Amaya, told local media. Among
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Izso and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has spoken about preventing the occupied West Bank from becoming a part of an independent Palestinian state, according to leaked audio of a speech he gave earlier this month. Smotrich, a leading far right member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet,
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BELLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The court case against a former city official in Belle has been moved to Phelps County. Former Belle Mayor Daryl White Jr. was charged last year with stealing and official misconduct, both misdemeanors. He was accused of misusing the city’s credit card, stealing paint cans and taking a gun. On Friday, a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with three felonies after he allegedly stabbed another man with a pen in a public bathroom on Wednesday. Timothy Dale was charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and tampering with evidence. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. Dale appeared
Continue ReadingBy Julian Paras Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Natalie Padilla has been missing her daughter, Anastasia Ferriera, since May 15, 2023. Anastasia is now 20. “Just trying to get through every day and continue to look for her,” Padilla said. More than 400 days have passed. Yet nothing
Continue ReadingKATV, CNN By Taylor Galgano and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Families were shopping at a local grocery store in a small Arkansas town on Friday when the sound of gunfire reverberated through the store, sending them running for cover or huddling in a freezer. Katrina Doherty – who had been shopping for dinner with
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GRAVOIS MILLS, Mo. (KMIZ) A sex offender in Morgan County was charged with 30 counts of failing to register as a sex offender on Friday. Travis Duane Whistler, 37, of Gravois Mills, allegedly had 30 accounts on social media, dating and sex websites that he did not register with authorities, according to the probable cause
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A 14-year-old driver was flown to a Columbia hospital after a crash early Friday in Pettis County.
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile and Justin Lear, CNN (CNN) — Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, the Arkansas State Police said in a news conference Friday. The 10 people wounded include two police officers. The suspected shooter, identified by authorities as 44-year-old Travis Eugene Posey,
Continue ReadingBy Tatiana Arias and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of several Americans recently charged with having ammunition in Turks and Caicos is expected to go home after a court issued a suspended sentence and fined him $2,000. Ryan Tyler Watson of Oklahoma pleaded guilty last month to possessing four rounds of ammunition, a spokesperson for the
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Jennifer Tucker (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s willingness to uphold the ban on access to firearms for domestic abusers will save many hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. On Friday, the court rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that bans the possession of a gun by someone who has been the subject of
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A Pennsylvania couple drowned after being swept away by a rip current Thursday off the coast of Hutchinson Island, Florida, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. The couple went for a swim Thursday afternoon with two of their teens when they got into trouble while
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Friday declined to charge Edan On, the 18-year-old accused of attacking pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA in April, citing insufficient evidence and referring the case to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing consideration. On was identified
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ governor has signed legislation enabling the state to lure the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Royals away from neighboring Missouri. The measure signed Friday by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would help the teams pay for new stadiums by allowing Kansas
Continue ReadingBy Nick Watt, CNN Oakland, California (CNN) — Lance Clark was 9 years old when he was shot dead in a robbery. A man named Ernest Dykes was convicted of the 1993 Oakland murder and sentenced to death. But the boy’s family says prosecutors just told them Dykes could be released from prison in nine months to a
Continue ReadingCNN By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines flight that descended to just 525 feet above ground as it approached Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, triggering an altitude warning from air traffic control that it was getting too low. Southwest
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A California man accused of deliberately driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal highway in January 2023 was granted a mental health diversion, meaning the criminal trial is now suspended, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office said in a news release
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