By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean forces fired warning shots on Sunday after North Korean troops accidentally crossed their shared border, Seoul’s military said, as tensions simmer on the Korean Peninsula following a series of tit-for-tat exchanges between the two sides. In a news briefing Tuesday, the South Korean
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Continue Reading By Carlos Suarez, Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators accuse a south Florida man of traversing two continents, stealing license plates and obscuring a security camera to kidnap his estranged wife at her apartment in Spain earlier this year. But the man and his former attorney say he has never stepped
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight, Mia Alberti, Richard Roth, Abeer Salman and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — Israel has vowed to persist with its military operation in Gaza, saying it won’t engage in “meaningless” negotiations with Hamas, shortly after the United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly approved a US-backed ceasefire plan intended to bring an end to the
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HALLSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sturgeon police officer who was placed on paid leave after he shot and killed a blind-and-deaf dog responded to a standoff last week in the small town as a member of another law enforcement agency. Officer Myron Woodson was a part of the large response at a Sturgeon mobile home park
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The groups were showing worrying signs of trouble, according to the Italian Interior Ministry’s half-yearly report released in January 2024. Around the same time Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the G7 leaders’ meeting would be held in the southern Italian region of Puglia as part
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The execution of a man convicted of murder in the death of a Jefferson City couple will be carried out on Tuesday, a Monday press release from Gov. Mike Parson’s office confirmed. David Hosier, 69, was found guilty by a jury on Oct. 12, 2013, for first-degree murder, armed criminal action,
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Carlos Rodón pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning in his return to the mound where he hit his low point last September, winning his seventh straight start and leading the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 4-2. Juan Soto rejoined the Yankees lineup after missing a three-game
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education on Monday night unanimously approved its $292 million for next school year. The budget features $16 million more to go toward teacher salaries. The district ended this past school year with a $10 million budget surplus.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) June marks Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and nearly 7 million Americans live with the disease. The Alzheimer’s Association reports more than 11% of Missouri residents older than 65 years old suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia. A neurologist at MU Health Care said several key factors help decide what is natural memory loss due to
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Royals outfielder Hunter Renfroe fractured his left big toe when he fouled off two pitches from New York Yankees left-hander Carlos Rodón in the third inning. Renfroe fouled off seven pitches in all before striking out in a 12-pitch at-bat, hitting the toe twice when he fouled off
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hartsburg man who was accused in a 2023 Columbia burglary where a babysitter was assaulted and more than $12,000 in vape devices were stolen pleaded guilty on Friday. Justin Hudson, 28, pleaded guilty on Friday to first-degree burglary, stealing a gun and stealing more than $750. He was sentenced to 10
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A chase involving Callaway County deputies ended with a crash in Fulton on Monday and the arrest of two people.
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While summer doesn’t officially start for almost two weeks, temperatures reaching into the 90s and humidity are expected to smother Mid-Missouri this week.
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Violent crime dropped by more than 15% in the United States during the first three months of 2024, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI. The new numbers show violent crime from January to March dropped 15.2% compared to the same period in 2023, while murders fell 26.4% and
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, Christina Maxouris, Joe Sutton and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel is fully operational again, response officials announced Monday, more than two months after a massive cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers and cutting off access to the crucial shipping
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand, Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the federal criminal classified documents case against Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in Florida has denied efforts to dismiss nearly 10 of the 41 charges in the indictment against them on several technical issues. District Judge Aileen Cannon did,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A former reserve officer for the Jefferson City Police Department was charged in relation to a child sex abuse case, according to court documents. Christina Garza, 49, of Jefferson City, was charged on Monday with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and failure of a mandated reporter to report child
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A Habitat for Humanity house in Jefferson City has been rendered uninhabitable by a crash involving a man accused of driving drunk.
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong, Simone McCarthy, and Sarah Dewberry, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing of four US college instructors in a public park in the city of Jilin in northeastern China, police said Tuesday. Authorities identified the suspect only by his last name, Cui, who was
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