By Kylie Atwood, Jack Forrest and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russian forces make significant gains on the battlefield in Ukraine. Blinken’s visit was the first by a Biden administration official since the long-delayed passage
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The northbound lanes of Range Line Street in Columbia were shut down on Monday evening as first responders worked a crash scene. Columbia Fire Department spokeswoman Katherine Rodriguez told ABC 17 News in an email that a crash between a car and motorcycle occurred at 8:55 p.m. in the 3400 block of
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Priti Gupta and Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Photographs by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN Mumbai, India (CNN) — Chanu Gupta has lived in India’s financial capital Mumbai nearly his whole life, since arriving as a child from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. But when polls open in the city, the 59-year-old street vendor won’t
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The Missouri legislatures passed a $51 billion fiscal 2025 state budget Friday, including funding to implement firearm detection software in schools.
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger (CNN) — Scientists have accomplished a whale of a feat. They’ve identified previously unknown complexity in whale communication by analyzing thousands of recorded sequences of sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence. Variations in tempo, rhythm and length of the whales’ click sequences, called codas, weave a rich acoustic tapestry. These variables hint
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Drug overdose deaths continue to climb every year across the U.S. and in Mid-Missouri. And one Mid-Missouri county is among the top in the state.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman who is accused of stabbing an MU student to death last year and burning the body in the backyard of a residence has not been evaluated yet by the Department of Mental Health. Emma Adams, 22, was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with physical evidence and
Continue ReadingBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Arkansas coach John Calipari is bringing his Razorbacks to his last home in Kentucky as part of next season’s Southeastern Conference basketball schedule. The league released home and away schedules for each of its 16 teams on Monday with Oklahoma and Texas joining the conference for next season. Dates and times
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kingdom City business owner who pleaded guilty last year to a federal fraud charge was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison without parole. Scott Allen Maples, 40, was also ordered to pay $684,034 in restitution to the Small Business Administration. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 7, 2023, to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with four felonies after he allegedly fired six shots at another man on Sunday during a road rage incident. Nathan Allen Griffin, 33, was charged on Monday with first-degree attempted assault, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Richard Roth, Jeremy Diamond and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations on Monday clarified that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza remains unchanged, at more than 35,000, since the war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7. The clarification
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof says he has fled his home country to an undisclosed location in Europe after a court in Iran sentenced him to prison on national security charges. Rasoulof condemned the Iranian government in an Instagram post on Monday, calling it a tyrannical and oppressive regime,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Roku will carry Major League Baseball games on Sundays beginning this week. Viewers will be able to watch for free and not be required to use a Roku device. Roku secured multi-year rights for MLB Sunday Leadoff games beginning with the Boston Red Sox at St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. The
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools are urging the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps aimed at stemming the tide of abuse. Three Christian boarding schools in southern Missouri have shut down since 2020
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — On the rare days that the hills surrounding Port-au-Prince fall silent, people notice. “If you can’t hear shooting somewhere, the gangs are probably running low on ammunition,” a police source in the Haitian capital told CNN. “But when there’s a lot of shooting,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged with three felonies after he allegedly stabbed a police patrol vehicle and threatened others on Sunday. Lawrence Boose Jr. was charged with first-degree attempted assaulted, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Missouri man who crashed a rental truck into White House barriers and showed a Nazi flag before his arrest last year has pleaded guilty to damaging government property. Court records show that 20-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of firing a gun during a fight in Jefferson City saw his assault charge upgraded and received an additional charge. Derrek Maurer, 28 was charged on Thursday with illegal gun possession, first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He was previously charged with illegal gun possession and second-degree
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military has renewed its fighting in northern Gaza where it previously claimed to have dismantled Hamas’ command structure. But it now says the Palestinian militant group is trying to “reassemble” in the area, raising doubts about whether Israel’s goal to eradicate the group in the enclave is
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More than 15 million people from Texas to Florida were under threat of severe storms and the potential for more tornadoes Monday, many of them in areas previously hit during one of the most active periods for twisters on record.
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