By Martin Goillandeau and Hilary Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, a key figure in the creation of the euro currency, has died aged 98 on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Jacques Delors Institute, a think tank he founded. Delors, a Socialist, had a high-profile political career in France, where he
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people are running or Camdenton’s Ward 3 Board of Aldermen seat, according to an email from the Camdenton City Clerk. Steve Eden and Don Neuharth are running for the Ward 3 seat in the April 2 election. Aldermen serve two-year terms in Camdenton. The deadline for candidate filing was Tuesday. Ward
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins have agreed to terms with right-handed reliever Josh Staumont on a one-year contract, the team’s first major league free agency move of the offseason. The 30-year-old Staumont pitched five seasons for the Kansas City Royals, saving eight games with a 4.01 ERA. The hard-throwing
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid says he has talked with Travis Kelce after the star tight end’s sideline outburst in which he chucked his helmet toward the benches during a loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Christmas. Reid didn’t elaborate on what
Continue ReadingCNN, WLS By Amanda Jackson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The two men had gone out the day after Christmas, scouting for fishing holes at a creek in northwest Indiana, when something shiny in the distance caught their attention. Mario Garcia and his son-in-law Nivardo Delatorre had been ready to call it a day.
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of the former King of Spain. Personal Birth date: January 5, 1938 Birth place: Rome, Italy Birth name: Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon Father: Don Juan de Borbon y Battenburg, Count of Barcelona, third son of King Alfonso XIII of
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A spokesperson for Columbia Public Works, John Ogan, said the department has a crew in place who are ready to address any weather that comes throughout the day.
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Human remains found in 1976 by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Lake Mohave, just a few miles from the Arizona-Nevada border, have finally been identified. Luis Alonso Paredes, who was originally from El Salvador, was positively identified thanks to national fingerprint records, “which was not an available resource at the
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two bodies found inside a car, believed to belong to a missing Texas teen who was nine months pregnant and her boyfriend, each had a gunshot wound, police said Wednesday. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters earlier on Tuesday that authorities believe the bodies belong to
Continue ReadingKSAT, LEON VALLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT, CNN By Paradise Afshar and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two bodies found inside a car, believed to belong to a missing Texas teen who was nine months pregnant and her boyfriend, each had a gunshot wound, police said Wednesday. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters earlier on
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — This year held some truly out-there moments in the world of science and space travel. With SpaceX’s Mars rocket erupting into a ball of flames over the ocean (twice) and a spacecraft swinging by Earth to drop off pieces of an asteroid that could contain solar
Continue ReadingCNN, WBBM By Amanda Jackson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The two men had gone out the day after Christmas, scouting for fishing holes at a creek in northwest Indiana, when something shiny in the distance caught their attention. Mario Garcia and his son-in-law Nivardo Delatorre had been ready to call it a day.
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RANDOLPH COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was seriously injured after a crash in Randolph County Tuesday evening. The Highway Patrol reported the crash happened when Zachary Rice, 37, was traveling eastbound on Randolph County Road about three miles southeast of Moberly when his 2018 Buick Encore went off the road and hit a tree.
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a significant power surge over a part of the planet that included the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia. People at the time probably never even noticed the fluctuation, but signs of the anomaly, including previously unknown details, were preserved in the mud
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Blizzard and ice storm warnings across the Central and Northern Plains are due to expire today, but parts of the region could still see snow and freezing rain. Travel safe out there! 1. Gaza Israel’s defense minister says the country is in a “multi-arena war,” facing attacks from multiple
Continue ReadingCNN By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Blizzard and ice storm warnings across the Central and Northern Plains are due to expire today, but parts of the region could still see snow and freezing rain. Travel safe out there! 1. Gaza Israel’s defense minister says the country is in a “multi-arena war,” facing attacks from
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN (CNN) — Although Robin Williams has been a ballet dancer for more than 60 years, she experienced a first during her performance of The Nutcracker this December. Williams said when she danced the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, it was the first time she didn’t have to slather pink pointe
Continue ReadingBy Isabelle Chapman, CNN. Photographs by Austin Steele, CNN Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — On a dark, drizzly morning this fall in rural South Carolina, a team of federal agents wearing tactical gear quietly assembled for a mission that was part raid, part rescue operation. The stakes were high: Agents feared the victims would be
Continue ReadingCNN By Isabelle Chapman, CNN. Photographs by Austin Steele, CNN Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — On a dark, drizzly morning this fall in rural South Carolina, a team of federal agents wearing tactical gear quietly assembled for a mission that was part raid, part rescue operation. The stakes were high: Agents feared the victims would
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ali Hajimiri has spent a decade researching how to put solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth. Yet when the Caltech electrical engineering professor talks about his work, people always have three questions, usually in this order: Why not just put solar panels on Earth?
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