MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 19-year-old Moberly man has been charged with several felonies after he was accused of assaulting someone in a parking lot and taking their belongings. Jayden Kuhne was charged on Thursday with second-degree robbery, stealing and third-degree assault. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $40,000 bond, according
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers in California have revealed a sweeping set of legislative proposals aimed at providing reparations for state residents who are descendants of enslaved Africans. The California Legislative Black Caucus announced the 2024 Reparations Priority Bill Package Wednesday, which lists 14 measures, including providing a formal apology for “human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific to near Hawaii. Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky. They occur globally but are especially significant
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Very few teams in the NFL have had head coaches as coordinators on each side of the ball. One happens to be the Kansas City Chiefs, where Andy Reid’s offense has benefited from the experience of former Bears coach Matt Nagy and his second-ranked
Continue ReadingHOOVER, Ala. (AP) — All 16 Southeastern Conference teams will compete in a single-elimination baseball postseason tournament after the league expands next year with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. SEC officials announced the new baseball tournament format Thursday after athletic directors approved the switch. Under the existing format, only 12 of the SEC’s 14
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sporting Kansas City signed Memo Rodríguez on Thursday to a one-year contract that includes a club option for 2025, giving the club a veteran midfielder after the earlier signings of defender Zorhan Bassong and forward Alenis Vargas. Rodriguez has 34 goals in 227 appearances over eight seasons spent mostly with
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Patrick Mahomes is chasing Tom Brady. Brock Purdy is playing in the shadow of Joe Montana. Winning the Super Bowl would be another major step for either quarterback. Mahomes and the Chiefs seek to become the first team in 19 years to win back-to-back Super Bowls when they
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — Ricky Ian Gordon’s ”This House,” with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber, will be given its world premiere at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis in June 2025. The commission was first announced in 2022 and was to have premiered this year. Daniela Candillari
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Microscopic fragments of protein and DNA recovered from bones discovered in 8-meter-deep cave dirt have revealed Neanderthals and humans likely lived alongside one another in northern Europe as far back as 45,000 years ago. The genetic analysis of the fossils, which were found in a cave near the town
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta. Personal Birth date: May 14, 1984 Birth place: Dobbs Ferry, New York Birth name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Father: Edward Zuckerberg, dentist Mother: Karen (Kempner) Zuckerberg, psychiatrist Marriage: Priscilla Chan (May 19, 2012-present) Children: Aurelia, August
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Yulia Kesaieva, Radina Gigova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military intelligence says it sank a Russian warship off the coast of Crimea overnight into Thursday, landing the latest in a series of blows to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after mounting a “massive” missile attack on the occupied peninsula hours earlier.
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America A passionate student letter prompted a southern Pennsylvania school district to change its Native American logo years ago. But the mascot is back after a conservative school board acted on its campaign promise to reinstate it. The decision goes against a larger trend of removing the Native American
Continue ReadingBy 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, took the stand in her manslaughter trial Thursday and testified it was her husband’s responsibility to store their son Ethan’s gun safely. “I just didn’t feel comfortable
Continue ReadingBy Benjamin Brown and Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — About six million people in more than 200 towns, villages and cities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars or filling swimming pools as the regional government on Thursday declared a state of emergency due to a water shortage
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — The number of men that a former suburban St. Louis police officer is charged with sexually assaulting has grown to 19. Grand jurors returned a 36-count superseding indictment Wednesday against 34-year-old Marcellis Blackwell naming additional victims. Blackwell had worked for the North County Police Cooperative, which polices eight small municipalities, for
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo and Faith Karimi, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — It had been three months since Maggie Mbitu was found dead at Boston’s airport, and authorities seemed no closer to finding the man suspected of killing her and fleeing the country. But this week, they finally got a break. On Monday night an undercover
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Fayette police investigated a report of a threat against the local public school district and determined the threat was not legitimate, the district said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Sonia Lemos doesn’t know how she will put food on the table until the next harvest, two months from now. Lemos, 42, is a seasonal worker from northern Argentina. Six months a year, she harvests yerba, the leaves of a native South American shrub that are the basis of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether changes should be made to the state’s Senate districts. The high court heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit contending the current map illegally splits Buchanan County and the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood into multiple districts. The
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether changes should be made to the state’s Senate districts. The high court heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit contending the current map illegally splits Buchanan County and the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood into multiple districts. The
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