CNN By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani went hitless for a second straight game as the Los Angeles Dodgers fell to the Los Angeles Angels 6-0 on Monday at Dodger Stadium. Playing in the team’s second Freeway Series exhibition game since returning from South Korea, Ohtani went 0-for-2,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged on Sunday after he was accused of firing a gun during a fight at a Jefferson City home on Saturday evening. Derrek Maurer, 28 was charged with unlawful gun possession and second-degree assault. His address is listed as Jefferson City on Casenet, but a press release from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia and Boone County leaders are learning more about tiny homes and what they could look like in Mid-Missouri. A city spokesperson said 10 city leaders visited Eden Village last week, a tiny home community in Springfield, Missouri. The group included City Manager De’Carlon Seewood, Police Chief Jill Schlude and Housing and
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — The Illinois governor announced the resignation of a member of the state’s prisoner review board on Monday, 10 days after a man who was released on parole was charged with attacking a former girlfriend and killing her 11-year-old son. LeAnn Miller recommended the release of 37-year-old Crosetti Brand
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Lisa Meyer, Robert Schreiber III and certified write-in candidate Lucio Bitoy are all running for the Ward 2 seat on the Columbia City Council.
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A regularly scheduled audit of Randolph County began on Monday, according to a press release from the State Auditor’s Office. The State Auditor’s Office will have an entrance meeting with the Randolph County Commission on Tuesday. The release stats that Randolph County was last audited in 2017. The county’s previous audit resulted
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia officials asking the federal government to study another deepening of Savannah’s harbor have picked up a key endorsement in Congress. Republican U.S. Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri threw his support behind the study Monday while visiting the Port of Savannah. Graves is chairman of the
Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! During the last total solar eclipse in 2017, there was a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the United States. It wasn’t due to the eclipse itself but rather because millions more people were traveling, researchers said. The hours after the eclipse were
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! During the last total solar eclipse in 2017, there was a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the United States. It wasn’t due to the eclipse itself but rather because millions more people were traveling, researchers said. The hours after the eclipse were especially
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — For McCall Mirabella’s 21st birthday party last month, she asked guests to bring only one gift: A PowerPoint presentation. Mirabella, a TikTok and YouTube personality with over 1.3 million followers across both platforms, assembled her closest friends and asked them to present a slideshow on anything they could think
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Ameren customers in Jefferson City will soon receive upgrades to their gas meters, according to a Monday press release from Ameren. Ameren plans to install upgraded natural gas modules to existing meters later this spring, the release states. A specific date for when upgrades begin was not announced. Ameren says there
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man was charged with multiple sex crimes after he was accused of sexually assaulting children. Richard Arlen Smith, 54, was charged with first-degree child molestation and second-degree sodomy. He is being held in the Callaway County Jail without bond. He was booked into the jail at 10:22 p.m. Thursday,
Continue Reading By Heather Law and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27-year-old Brigitte García, was found shot dead Sunday morning, the country’s national police said. In a statement posted on X, police said that García, the mayor of San Vicente, a small coastal city, was in what is believed to be a rental car
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According to online jail records, Daqwon Jackson and Anthony Warren Jr. were both booked into jail over the weekend.
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MILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man wanted for questioning regarding a death and drug investigation is now in custody, according to the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies took Kendrick Terrell Cook, 33, of Eldon into custody late Friday night. He was charged with drug possession and is being held in the Miller County Jail without
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, Larry Madowo, Xiaofei Xu and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Former Senegalese Prime Minister Amadou Ba has conceded defeat to leading opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the western African country’s presidential elections. “With regard to the provisional results and awaiting the official proclamation, I congratulate President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye for
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Microplastics have been found in historic soil samples for the first time, according to a new study, potentially upending the way archaeological remains are preserved. Researchers found microplastics in soil deposits more than seven meters (23 feet) underground, which were deposited in the first or second century CE
Continue Reading CNN By Richard Roth, Ivana Kottasová, Lauren Izso and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Tensions between the United States and Israel were exposed on Monday when Washington stood aside and allowed the UN Security Council to pass a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The US decision to abstain on the vote prompted
Continue Reading By Heather Law, Brandon Miller and Derek Van Dam, CNN (CNN) — At least 27 people have been killed in southeast Brazil as rainfall continues to ravage parts of the country, according to CNN affiliate CNN Brasil citing state authorities. The death toll in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo rose to 19, and at least eight
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The clerk of court accused of jury tampering in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial resigned Monday, almost two months after a judge questioned the Colleton County, South Carolina, official’s credibility but ruled the allegations were not enough to grant Murdaugh a new trial. Rebecca “Becky” Hill will not run for
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