COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some Columbia Public School leaders and state representatives are concerned about the Missouri House’s passing of Senate Bill 727 Thursday. SB727 mentions that school districts in Boone County would be added to the list of districts where a charter school could be operated. The bill would also expand K-12 private school scholarships
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Wednesday issued civil investigative demands into four Missouri businesses. Three of the businesses were accused of using deceptive businesses practices to sell Delta-8 products. Delta-8 is a chemical compound found in cannabis plants. Consumers can get high from Delta-8, but the effects are not as strong
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By Eva Roytburg, CNN (CNN) — After watching her older sister float through the lazy river, 4-year-old Demi Williams wanted in. The lazy river loop at the Myrtle Beach resort was about three feet deep; Demi was 3-and-a-half feet tall. Her mother, Destiny Morgan, granted permission for the toddler to go in, then patiently waited for
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Five teenagers were injured, including one who remains in critical condition, after gunfire erupted at a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday afternoon where hundreds of high school students gathered for senior skip day. Police said they do not have a suspect in custody or a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education on Thursday approved a pay raise for Superintendent Brian Yearwood. The measure passed 5-2. It gives Yearwood a 5% raise to $261,640, according to meeting documents. The raise will begin next school year. The board voted in February to extend Yearwood’s contract through June 30, 2027.
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Official reports show a fire that closed Noodles and Company in downtown Columbia last month was sparked by a “warming fire” that was started too close to the building.
Continue Reading By Aqeel Najim and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — The Iraqi army said on Saturday that a command post at Kalsu military base, south of the capital Baghdad, had been hit by an explosion overnight, killing one member of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and injuring eight other people. The PMU, also known as the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men who were accused of robbing a Centralia home in May 2023 were indicted on Friday by a grand jury. Curtis Lamar Russell, 45, of Columbia, was charged with first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action, first-degree burglary, stealing more than $750 and third-degree assault. He was initially charged with
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 30 years after three boys were found dead, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled new DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene can proceed, overturning a circuit court which had denied a request by one of the men convicted of the crime. Damien Echols,
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Kim and Steven Dragoo of St. Joseph, Missouri, have been sentenced to serve 14 days each in jail for a misdemeanor offense on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, based on preliminary information.
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A 43-year-old Columbia man who police say has “no permanent address” remained in the Boone County Jail on Friday on charges of trespassing, sexual misconduct and resisting arrest on the University of Missouri campus.
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A court case filed last year against the Pettis County Commission and the head of its IT department was dismissed without prejudice on Thursday. The case centered around cameras installed in the courthouse, with Pettis County Clerk Nick La Strada claiming in the petition that the audio and video recordings violated voters’
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About 10 firetrucks and police cars were outside a Columbia house that had smoke pouring from it Friday afternoon.
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly woman was sentenced to five years of supervised probation on Wednesday after she pleaded guilty to two counts of income tax evasion. A five-year suspended sentence was also included for Cathy Colleen Maddix. According to the complaint, she was accused of evading paying her income taxes from 2018-20.
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Dengue cases are surging in the Americas, with cases reported topping 5.2 million as of this week, surpassing a yearly record set in 2023, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). PAHO spokesperson Ashley Baldwin told CNN Thursday that 5,214,480 cases of dengue have been reported in the
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a select list of convicted American serial killers and notable open or unsolved cases. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. Serial murders are relatively rare. Fewer than one percent of homicides during a given year are committed
Continue Reading By Alex Leeds Matthews and Christopher Hickey, CNN (CNN) — Marijuana may remain illegal federally, but in most states, it’s accessible for adult medical or recreational use. In November 2023, voters in Ohio made it the 24th state to approve legal recreational marijuana. Florida voters will have the chance to weigh in on recreational use
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted what they believe to be a rainbow-like phenomenon occurring on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and it could reveal new insights about alien worlds. Observations from the European Space Agency’s Cheops space telescope, or Characterising ExOplanet Satellite, detected a “glory effect”
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for causing a downtown accident that resulted in the amputation of the legs of a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee. Daniel Riley was convicted last month of second-degree assault, armed criminal action, fourth-degree assault and driving without a valid
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey, Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukraine’s air defenders say they notched up two significant firsts on Friday morning, taking down a Russian Tu22M3 strategic bomber and hitting two Kh-22 hypersonic cruise missiles in flight. News of the groundbreaking midair interceptions will come as a boost
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