By Helen Regan and Emiko Jozuka, CNN (CNN) — When Japan Airlines flight 516 touched down at Tokyo’s Haneda airport carrying hundreds of people on Tuesday it erupted into a terrifying fireball. The Airbus A350 passenger plane had collided with a coast guard aircraft on the runway – killing five people – and the crew had just
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery, Junko Ogura and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Nanao, Japan (CNN) — Minae Akiyama had traveled from southern Japan to Ishikawa prefecture to celebrate New Year’s with her family, when the ground began to shake. “Thinking about it now still makes me tremble. My heart was pounding, my mind went blank, we just scrambled,” she
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City and MU Health Care have completed the integration of their health systems, according to a Tuesday press release. The two hospitals will combine under the MU Health Care name, the release states. Both hospital systems have worked together for the past 25 years and announced
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was Bangladesh’s opposition leader in 2007, when hundreds of troops raided her home and took her to a court in the capital of Dhaka, where she was arrested on extortion charges. Hasina, who had served as premier in 1996-2001,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Applications for the MOBUCKS program opened Tuesday morning and closed at 4 p.m. due to “extraordinary demand,” according to a press release from the State Treasurer’s Office. A spokesman for the treasurer’s office told ABC 17 News in an email that the portal was open just from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. “because the
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MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported in a Montgomery County fire on Tuesday morning, according to a social media post from the Montgomery Fire Protection District. According to the post, the fire was reported around 7:45 a.m. and firefighters saw a car, garage and breezeway on fire. Minor damage was reported in the
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Ecuador confirmó este martes a CNN que las preguntas para la consulta popular que promueve el presidente Daniel Noboa fueron enviadas a la Corte Constitucional para su control previo de legalidad. Las preguntas fueron enviadas a través del sistema virtual de la Corte, y este jueves se
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Tuesday night, Jefferson City council members unanimously approved a bill that will give Unilever a tax rebate that will allow the company to build a new warehouse at its location on Truman Boulevard. This new warehouse will be 46,000 square feet and will be built on the existing Unilever property,
Continue ReadingKUTV By Pete Muntean and Lauren Koenig, CNN (CNN) — Police in Utah are investigating the death of a man who crawled into the engine of a Delta Air Lines jet on the ground at Salt Lake City International Airport late Monday. The airport says the 30-year-old man got onto the secure ramp area of
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Gov. Mike Parson will sign an executive order Tuesday dealing with foreign-owned farmland.
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VERSAILLES, Mo. (KMIZ) A Macks Creek man has been charged with several felonies after authorities say he hit a police officer with a truck. Charles Daniel Gonzales, 43, was charged with two counts of first-degree assault, resisting arrest, two counts of first-degree property damage, DWI and misdemeanor operating a vehicle on a highway without a
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez and Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court will allow Mississippi to create a state-run court system in the majority Black and Democratic capital of Jackson. The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday vacated a temporary administrative stay issued earlier this week that delayed the creation of the
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The Boone County Sheriff’s Office believes mail was stolen from multiple mailboxes just southeast of Columbia.
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MARSHALL, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire was reported Tuesday morning at the Saline County Jail, according to a press release from the Saline County Sheriff’s Office. The fire was discovered at 10:45 a.m., the release states. Inmates were evacuated and the fire was extinguished by the Marshall Fire Department. The release states that the cause of
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she has found a way to forgive her mother — and herself. But it has been a long journey from years of abuse and the darkest parts of her life splashed across tabloids to living in prison. Blanchard, now 32, was paroled last week from a
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CENTRALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old Centralia woman has been charged after she was accused of crashing into a house with her vehicle early Saturday. Mayda Martinez-Perez was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that cause more than $1,000 worth of damage. She is being held without bond at the Boone County Jail. A
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chinese and Russian companies no longer can purchase land near Missouri’s military sites. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday issued an executive order banning new land purchases by companies from countries that are considered foreign adversaries. Along with China and Russia, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a ruling by Maine’s Democratic secretary of state barring him from the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was expected to also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on his eligibility to return to the presidency in a related Colorado case.
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Gun rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on so-called ghost guns. Those are firearms without serial numbers that are difficult for law enforcement to trace and allow people to circumvent background checks. The challenge filed Monday is the latest of several
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County man was arrested early Monday after he was accused of shooting a gun at three youth that were in his yard late Sunday. Mark A. Turner, 49, of Jefferson City, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and three counts second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
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