COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged with three felonies after he allegedly assaulted a woman at Best Western Motel in the 2900 block of Clark Lane. Justin Allen Thomas, 33, was charged on Wednesday with first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping and stealing more than $750. He is being held at the Boone County
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly rule out Israeli governance over Gaza and to lay out his post-war plans, warning that he opposes Israeli rule in the Palestinian enclave. “The ‘day after Hamas,’ will only be achieved with Palestinian entities
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man was charged on Wednesday with five counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old. Jimmy Joe Culbertson is accused of sexually assaulting a child several times. He is not listed on the Boone County Jail roster, as of Wednesday afternoon. A warrant was issued
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received a small brain sample in his lab. Although tiny, the 1 cubic millimeter of tissue was big enough to contain 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million
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By PETER SMITH and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative politics and Catholicism on Saturday, but he received a standing ovation from graduates and other attendees of the May 11 commencement ceremony at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. The
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The NFL’s Mike North wasn’t considering Christmas Day as part of the 2024 regular-season schedule when preliminary planning began. Ratings and interest from current and prospective broadcast partners changed that. Not only is the NFL playing on a Wednesday for only the third time since 1950, it brought on
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Zarqa trembled with fear as he watched panicked crowds of people, screaming and covered in blood, rush into his small village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. “You have to run,” he remembers a woman crying out, shocking Zarqa out of a daze and sending him racing home to
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have approved a more than $4 billion hospital tax program essential to the state’s Medicaid budget. The GOP-led House on Wednesday renewed the program, which for months has been used by a Republican faction as a bargaining tool. The heart of the program
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military is calling on the United Nations to investigate the presence of armed militants at a UN facility in southern Gaza after releasing video that shows armed men at the facility. Drone footage published by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday, and geolocated by CNN,
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Egypt could consider downgrading relations with Israel if it presses on with a military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah on the Egyptian border, an Egyptian official told CNN. “Everything is possible and is on the table, including the downgrade of the relations. But we are not there
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both accepted an invitation from CNN to debate on June 27, nearly four years since they last clashed onstage. Biden, who was first to accept the invitation Wednesday morning, posted on X: “I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer with multiple Grammys just didn’t think he had one. McDonald, a member of both Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers who became a singular soul solo artist
Continue ReadingPOTOSI, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing six women 20 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, has died. The Missouri Department of Corrections says 62-year-old Terry Blair died Saturday morning. An autopsy is planned. Blair was imprisoned at the Potosi Correctional Center on six counts of first-degree murder. All six of the women
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold-blooded like reptiles? It’s one of paleontology’s oldest questions, and gleaning the answer matters because it illuminates how the prehistoric creatures may have lived and behaved. Challenging the prevailing idea that they were all slow, lumbering lizards that basked in the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A filibuster from Missouri Democrats past the 41-hour mark on Wednesday morning, as they continued to block Republicans in the Missouri Senate from passing legislation that would make it harder for voters to amend the state constitution. Currently, initiative petitions only need a simple majority of more than 50% to pass. However,
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) – The man accused of driving under the influence and causing the deaths of eight farm workers in a crash in north-central Florida told officers he smoked marijuana oil the night before the incident, an arrest report says. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, faces eight charges of DUI manslaughter stemming from Tuesday’s fatal crash, in which authorities
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The cargo ship Dali experienced two blackouts while moored in the Port of Baltimore a day before its catastrophic collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and efforts to resolve those blackouts may have impacted the ship’s operations, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Sugam Pokharel and Zahid Mahmood, CNN (CNN) — Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was hospitalized on Wednesday after he was shot five times in an assassination attempt that shocked the country. The attack took place after an off-site government meeting in the central Slovak town of Handlova. The suspected gunman was among
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Niamh Kennedy and Pierre Bairin, CNN (CNN) — A rare episode of violence disrupted the peaceful region of Normandy in northern France on Tuesday when gunmen ambushed a prison convoy to spring a notorious prison inmate known as “The Fly.” The attack took place while prisoner Mohamed Amra, 30, was being transported
Continue ReadingCNN By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — There was no doubting the message from Antony Blinken’s musical debut in Kyiv on Tuesday night. The US secretary of state made a surprise appearance on stage in a bar in Kyiv, as he appeared alongside Ukrainian band 19.99 in a rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the
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