By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN) — When it comes to chimpanzee toddlers, girls rule. Skippy climbs with her hands and feet into the forest canopy, swinging through the spindly vines. The boys: they prefer to cuddle with their human carer. They are all orphans, rescued from across Sierra Leone and
Continue ReadingCNN By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN) — When it comes to chimpanzee toddlers, girls rule. Skippy climbs with her hands and feet into the forest canopy, swinging through the spindly vines. The boys: they prefer to cuddle with their human carer. They are all orphans, rescued from across Sierra Leone
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Audrain and Callaway counties are collectively owed nearly $528,000 in property taxes from Nobel Health while bankruptcy proceedings continue.
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Nearly one year later, adult-use marijuana has made nearly $2 billion in Missouri. With a 6% state sales tax, Missouri racked in around $120 million.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAINT CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — JJ Kalakon had 25 points in Western Illinois’ 79-71 win against Lindenwood on Thursday night. Kalakon had five rebounds for the Leathernecks (14-8, 7-2 Ohio Valley Conference). Ryan Myers scored 21 points, going 7 of 9 from the floor, including 5 for 6 from 3-point range,
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 50 years after a woman’s body was found dumped in a Colorado field, her killer has finally been identified, police announced Wednesday. Teree Becker was last seen on December 4, 1975, Westminster, Colorado, police said in statement. The 20-year-old was reportedly hitchhiking to see her boyfriend at the
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, WABC, WBFF, NYPD, NY GOV’S OFFICE, By Alisha Ebrahimji, Brynn Gingras, Gloria Pazmino and John Miller, CNN (CNN) — At least seven people were arrested and accused of attacking two New York City Police Department officers outside a migrant shelter Saturday evening, a police spokesperson told CNN. But four of the suspects were
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a memo to the league’s 32 teams reinforcing the league’s gambling policies while also noting exceptions with the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. The Kansas City Chiefs meet the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11. Goodell’s memo said any kind
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A look at recent product recalls affecting consumers.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey warned Missourians of possible Super Bowl ticket scams in a Wednesday press release, over a week before the big game. According to the release, Bailey advises that people be vigilant when buying their tickets, and know that if a deal sounds too good to be true, it
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Amanda Jackson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — A preliminary report published Friday morning shows three people were killed Thursday evening in a fiery crash when a small plane smashed into a mobile home park in Clearwater, Florida. The Federal Aviation Administration’s report lists three fatalities, one among the flight crew and two people inside
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The Maires County Sheriff’s Office is trying to help inmates with drug addictions with a new substance abuse assistance program.
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, Brynn Gingras, Gloria Pazmino and John Miller, CNN (CNN) — Four migrant men charged with felonies in an attack on two New York City Police Department officers Saturday outside a migrant shelter are en route to a California town near Mexico after they were released from custody and given bus tickets by
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia utilities customers who have their trash picked up on Tuesdays began receiving their roll carts on Thursday, the city wrote in a social media post. Distribution began on Monday. Back in March 2023 the city decided to switch its refuse pickup to an automated system that involves roll carts. The new collection system will
Continue ReadingBy Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews helped a woman having a medical emergency on a Thursday morning flight from Baltimore to Phoenix by sharing his diabetes kit, a passenger on the flight told CNN. Andrew Springs, a passenger in the row behind the woman, said he woke up mid-flight to
Continue ReadingWJZ By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews helped a woman having a medical emergency on a Thursday morning flight from Baltimore to Phoenix by sharing his diabetes kit, a passenger on the flight told CNN. Andrew Springs, a passenger in the row behind the woman, said he woke up mid-flight
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Helias Catholic High School announced on Thursday will be making some new additions to its campus. According to a press release from the school, it will build a performing arts center on the east side of the school, a baseball and softball complex on the southeast part of the campus and
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the nation’s largest real estate brokerages has agreed to pay $70 million as part of a proposed settlement to resolve more than a dozen lawsuits across the country over agent commissions. The agreement was filed Thursday with federal courts overseeing lawsuits in Illinois
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The City of Columbia could soon be home to pallet shelters to help solve the homeless crisis.
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the teenager who killed four people at a Michigan high school in 2021, admitted under cross-examination at her manslaughter trial that she and her husband gifted their son the firearm later used in the attack. “We didn’t just hand
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