SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Sedalia Police Department has confirmed in a Tuesday press release that the victim of an April shooting in Sedalia died in late May. Police did not state the name of the victim, but said she died from her injuries. Two men were charged in relation to the shooting in the 400
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By Jhasua Razo, CNN (CNN) — When Mexico’s recently elected first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, takes office October 1 she will join a group of more than two dozen women serving as heads of state or government worldwide. CNN has compiled a list of the countries with women at the top. Learn more about each
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man was charged Tuesday in a sports betting scandal that spurred the NBA to ban Jontay Porter for life, with the charges marking the first known criminal fallout from the matter. Porter is not named in the court complaint, but its specifics about
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! As if people weren’t already upset about how much money CEOs make… a new analysis found that the median chief executive officer in the S&P 500 earned nearly 200 times as much as the median employee. The pay gap — and the outrage — just seem to
Continue Reading By Louis Mian, Sean Lyngaas and Andrew Raine, CNN (CNN) — A cyberattack on a contractor to England’s National Health Service has forced several major hospitals in London to cancel operations, blood tests and appointments and send patients elsewhere. King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ have all been affected, as have numerous primary care providers in
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who owned a marijuana business was charged on Tuesday with forging documents and other felonies. Kelly Waggoner, of Peculiar, Missouri, was charged with forgery, filing false documents and identity theft. A criminal summons was issued and an initial court appearance was set for 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 17. According
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters in August will weigh in on a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend more money on its police force. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday changed the date of the special election from November to the Aug. 6 primary. It had previously
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his innocence claim. The order on Tuesday came hours after it ruled that Gov. Mike Parson was within his rights last year when he dissolved a board
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, is scheduled to begin on September 9, according to the prosecutor’s office and Matar’s defense attorney. In August 2022, Rushdie was stabbed several times onstage shortly before he was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of charges have been filed against the brother of Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. Jevon Porter, 20, of Columbia, was arrested in April on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. He was charged in Boone County on Tuesday with DWI and exceeding the posted speed limit by 26 miles per
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A high-profile federal fraud trial in Minneapolis was rocked this week by allegations that someone tried to bribe a juror with more than $120,000. The FBI says the cash bribe was delivered by an unidentified woman to the home of a person identified as Juror #52. The juror was dismissed
Continue Reading By Mohammad Al Sawalhi and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military launched a new ground and air assault in central Gaza on Tuesday, as its forces ramp up attacks amid a deepening humanitarian crisis. The IDF claimed Tuesday afternoon local time that fighter jets were attacking Hamas targets in the Bureij area “at
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — As a record number of school districts face bans on certain books and lawmakers enact measures that limit what can be taught about race and sexual identity in the classroom, some states are moving to counter the measures with laws that prohibit banning books. Last month, Minnesota became the
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — An undocumented migrant accused of shooting two New York City police officers on Monday had his immigration case dismissed by a judge less than a month ago, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata, a 19-year-old from Venezuela, opened fire on two officers after they tried
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The NFL is bringing the kickoff back to life with some radical rule changes designed to create more returns. League executive and former player Troy Vincent described the previous kickoff as a “dead, ceremonial play.” The new rules say most players can’t move while
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul and Kunal Sehgal, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s transformative yet divisive Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory in national elections on Tuesday evening, but his goal of winning an unassailable majority was left in tatters after voters delivered a shock result that reduced the extent of his party’s grip on power. “Today is
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, Lauren Mascarenhas and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require a diversity and inclusion statement as part of its hiring process, according to an email from a senior school leader obtained by The Harvard Crimson and The New York Times. The change
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A Cole County judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the status of a Republican candidate for a local state Senate seat.
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The parent company of a Virginia facility that bred beagles to be sold to laboratories for drug experiments will now have to pay more than $35 million – the largest ever fine in an Animal Welfare Act case in history – prosecutors say. About 4,000 beagles were rescued from the facility
Continue Reading CNN By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – saw of tens of thousands of troops from countries including the United States, the United
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