CNN By Jamiel Lynch and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the killing of an Augusta University College of Nursing student on the University of Georgia campus in Athens did not attend school at the campus and did not know the victim, authorities said Friday. The killing of Laken Hope Riley, a junior
Continue ReadingBy Louise McLoughlin and Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — An unexploded bomb from World War II has been taken out to sea and detonated after being found in a garden in the English city of Plymouth, authorities said Friday. As many as 10,000 people were impacted when parts of the southern English city were
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 62-year-old Eldridge man was arrested Friday morning after police say he pulled a gun on a woman in a parking lot at a doctor’s office. Marc Soulie was charged on Friday with unlawful use of a weapon, first-degree harassment and fourth-degree assault. He was arrested and brought to the Cole
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Roughly $900,000 worth of drugs were recovered during a Feb. 14 drug bust in Camden County, according to a press release from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies served a search warrant at a residence off of Bittersweet Road, according to the release. In addition to $25,000 in cash, deputies seized about
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — The student suspect in a deadly University of Colorado at Colorado Springs dormitory shooting had a handgun and a “fully loaded AK-47 assault rifle” in his vehicle at the time of his arrest, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Andrew Vaughan. Nicholas Jordan, 25, who made his first in-person
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The first of several projects to improve safety and extend the life expectancy of roads and bridges along Highway 54 in Jefferson City is set to take place at the beginning of March. Three projects in total will occur in March, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of
Continue ReadingBy Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Three escaped prison inmates may have killed two people, believed to be American citizens, on a yacht they are thought to have hijacked as they tried to make their way from Grenada to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to Grenada police. Police in the small Caribbean nation said Thursday
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City residents have until Friday, March 1 to burn their yard waste after the City Council this week decided to discontinue its yard waste drop-off services. The City Council stated in a Thursday press release that it decided not to move forward on proposals that would have provided subsidized yard
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Several of the Columbia Public Schools are being impacted Friday morning by a city internet outage.
Continue ReadingCNN By Sabrina Souza and Emma Tucker, CNN New York (CNN) — A jury in a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General’s Office against the National Rifle Association found Friday that the gun rights group mismanaged charitable funds when it failed to stop top executives — including longtime leader Wayne LaPierre — from
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Jean-Guy Talbot, one of 12 Montreal Canadiens players to win five consecutive Stanley Cups from 1956-60, has died. He was 91. The Canadiens announced Talbot’s death Friday morning after multiple media outlets reported the news. Born in Quebec on July 11, 1932, Talbot played 17 seasons in the NHL with five teams
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday. The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus, also called “Odie” or IM-1, as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country had opened a new phase with Sweden during a joint press conference with Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson on Friday as Budapest prepares to ratify Stockholm’s long-delayed NATO bid. Hungary is the last member of the military alliance to
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His prosthetic
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza and Emma Tucker, CNN New York (CNN) — A jury in a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General’s Office against the National Rifle Association found Friday that the gun rights group mismanaged charitable funds when it failed to stop top executives — including longtime leader Wayne LaPierre — from diverting
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 23-year-old woman was pulled from a burning vehicle by police after a Thursday morning crash in Sedalia, according to a press release from the Sedalia Police Department. The woman was not named in the release, but police say she is from Grain Valley, Missouri, and was brought to an area hospital
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army, sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. Personal Birth date: March 12, 1942 Birth place: Kalnovik, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) Birth name: Ratko Mladic Father: Nedja Mladic Mother:
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of road closures were announced for Columbia and Boone County on Friday. In a press release from the City of Columbia, Garth Avenue between Oak and Ash streets will be closed Monday through Friday for a sewer line improvement project. The sewer utility plans to straighten the sanitary sewer pipes
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with multiple child sex crimes on Thursday. Jonathan Wong, 25, was charged with first-degree child molestation, statutory sodomy and incest. He was arrested on Thursday and a warrant was listed as “served” on Friday. Police received a report about a sexual assault on Feb. 13
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