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Boone County prosecutor seeks judgeship, Jefferson City legislator seeks clerkship on filing’s first day

EDITOR’S NOTE: Melissa Buchanan’s current job has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County’s top prosecutor wasted no time putting in his name for an associate circuit judge seat on Tuesday, while the term-limited state House member serving Jefferson City filed for Cole County clerk. Boone County Prosecutor Roger Johnson signed his paperwork less than

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Congressional candidates file for primary elections as legal questions remain about new ‘Missouri First’ map

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of candidates lined the third floor of the James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center as candidate filing for the August primary elections opened Tuesday morning in Jefferson City. All candidates are required to file in person with the Secretary of State’s Office, unless they are on active duty or cannot appear

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Sheriff’s office honors deputies killed in southwest Missouri shootout

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The two deputies who were killed by a suspect in southwest Missouri on Monday were U.S. Army veterans, the Christian County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. The sheriff’s office identified the men as Gabriel Ramirez, 30, and Michael Hislope, 40. They were killed during encounters with Richard D. Bird, 45, who later died,

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Judge declines to dismiss prosecutors from the case against alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — A Utah County prosecutor’s office will be allowed to continue building its death penalty case against Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, despite the defense’s claims that it mishandled a potential conflict of interest. Robinson’s defense attorneys had asked for the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office to

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A person looks on from the bank of the Potomac River near where a US Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 29

House rejects quick passage of bill that some say would have prevented deadly DC midair collision

By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives rejected a measure Tuesday afternoon that would have swiftly mandated collision avoidance systems on every plane in the US. Supporters have advocated for the ROTOR Act, saying it could have prevented last year’s deadly midair collision near Washington, DC. Sixty-seven people were

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Travelers look for information at Guadalajara International Airport.

US tourists stranded in Mexico amid ‘really scary’ cartel violence following drug lord’s killing

CNN By Jack Guy, Sarah Dewberry, Nic Anderson, CNN (CNN) — The killing of Mexican cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes on Sunday set off a wave of retaliatory violence from his gunmen, affecting areas popular with foreign tourists such as Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara. The US State Department advised Monday that more areas

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Police officers secure an area where vehicles were set on fire following the operation against Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera

How Mexico hunted ‘El Mencho’ with help from his lover’s ‘trusted man’ and US intelligence

CNN, US DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KING, ANNIE GARCIA, DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, GETTY IMAGES, JIM BECK, TV AZTECA By Mitchell McCluskey, Gonzalo Zegarra, Avery Schmitz, Sol Amaya, and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Mexican security forces killed the country’s most-wanted cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes in a high-stakes operation on Sunday that set off

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