By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker is running for governor after she was kicked out of the state House Democratic caucus for her ties to a man described as a Holocaust denier. Suburban St. Louis state Rep. Sarah Unsicker announced she’s running for governor Monday in Washington, D.C. Voters
Continue ReadingBy Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A man who was seen on video leaping over a court table and attacking a Nevada judge while in court last week has been charged with attempted murder, according to a criminal complaint. Deobra Redden, 30, also faces counts of battery on a protected person, battery of an
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A data breach of Navvis and Company LLC from over the summer affected “a limited number of SSM Health patients,” according to an email from an SSM Health spokesperson. The spokesperson did not state how many SSM Health patients were affected. The email also states that it was not a direct breach of
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing some lengthy delays, the space agency has announced. The Artemis III mission, planned to hit the the crucial milestone of landing humans on the moon for
Continue ReadingBy Ana María Cañizares, Abel Alvarado, Tara John, Michael Rios, Karol Suarez and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country, ordering security forces to “neutralize” several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation. The decree came shortly
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins have lost 10 consecutive games when the temperature is 40 degrees or colder, a streak that goes back to a loss to Pittsburgh in 2017. And the forecast for Saturday night’s wild-card playoff game in Kansas City calls for temps to
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, will lay off about 600 employees as it seeks to reshuffle its resources in response to technological changes in the financial industry. “We see our industry changing faster than at any time since the founding of BlackRock,” wrote CEO Larry Fink and
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — The 94-year-old Hilton Head Island woman who made headlines with her legal battle to keep her family’s ancestral land has died. Josephine Wright died “surrounded by family, loved ones, and prayers” on January 7, according to an update her family posted on their Go Fund
Continue ReadingBELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a firetruck responding to a fire at a fast-food restaurant crashed into an SUV and rolled onto its side Tuesday in southern Illinois, injuring three firefighters. Belleville fire Chief Stephanie Mills says the firetruck collided about 5:50 a.m. with an SUV near Belleville East High School and flipped onto
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team grabbed the No. 8 spot in the final AP Poll of the 2023 college football season, on Tuesday. It marks the program’s best finish in the poll since 2013. The Tigers jumped up one spot, from No. 9, after beating then-No. 7 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Norway could become the first country in the world to push ahead with deep sea mining after it voted Tuesday to open its waters for exploration, provoking an outcry from environmental groups. In a major step towards kicking off commercial deep sea mining, the country’s parliament formally agreed to
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A Macks Creek, Missouri, man was charged last week with four felonies on allegations that he severely abused a child, putting the victim in critical condition.
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — A woman who interviewed for the position of senior pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City is suing the church and a former chair of the search committee for gender discrimination, court documents show. Eboni Marshall Turman, an associate professor of theology and African American religion at Yale Divinity School and a former assistant minister at Abyssinian, says the decision not
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — In the early 1990s, long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least eight women in his travels across the United States. To gain notoriety, he sent anonymous confession letters to journalists and investigators, many of them signed with smiley faces. Since Jesperson’s arrest in 1995, investigators in at least
Continue ReadingKABC By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — In the early 1990s, long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least eight women in his travels across the United States. To gain notoriety, he sent anonymous confession letters to journalists and investigators, many of them signed with smiley faces. Since Jesperson’s arrest in 1995, investigators in at
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ABC 17 News went live at 4 a.m. Tuesday as snow continued to fall on Mid-Missouri during the first major snowstorm of the season.
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Israel is appearing before the International Court of Justice in a high stakes case that could change the course of the brutal war in Gaza. It is an unprecedented case. Experts say it is the first time that the Jewish state is being tried under the United Nations’ Genocide
Continue ReadingCNN, KVVU By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A man who was seen on video leaping over a court table and attacking a Nevada judge while in court last week has been charged with attempted murder, according to a criminal complaint. Deobra Redden, 30, also faces counts of battery on a protected person, battery
Continue ReadingBy Angela Dewan, Krystina Shveda and Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — Global warming in 2023 hit 1.48 degrees Celsius, data published Tuesday shows, as the hottest year on record propelled the world just hundredths of a degree away from a critical climate threshold. Analyses last year had already confirmed 2023 to be the warmest on
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A teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student at a Pulaski County school was arrested last week in Texas, according to authorities there.
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