By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman who claims Jerry Jones is her father and that she was forced to stay silent about it for decades refiled her defamation lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys owner and his associates Tuesday. Alexandra Davis, 26, says Jones and the other defendants harmed her reputation by claiming
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A new judge has been assigned to a Jefferson City murder case. Judge Cotton Walker recused himself from the murder case involving Sergio Sayles last month. Judge Jon Beetem was assigned to the case on Wednesday. Sayles 36, of Jefferson City, was charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, evidence tampering, first-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged on Wednesday after allegedly leading police on a chase in northern Columbia on Tuesday night. Alec McCabe, 32, was charged with second-degree robbery, second-degree kidnapping, third-degree domestic assault and resisting arrest by fleeing. He is currently being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love is producing as many long pass completions as anyone in the league in his first year as a starter. Yet the key to his recent surge has been his willingness to settle for a smaller gain when a
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Dewberry and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A 36-year-old woman slipped and fell several hundred feet from Oregon’s highest mountain right before the eyes of a group of volunteer rescue workers who rushed to her aid – and helped save her life. The woman was coming down a popular path on Mt. Hood,
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have used two different exoplanet-detecting satellites to solve a cosmic mystery and reveal a rare family of six planets located about 100 light-years from Earth. The discovery could help scientists unlock the secrets of planet formation. The six exoplanets orbit a bright star similar to the sun named
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A grand jury indictment was filed on Monday for a Holts Summit man accused of multiple child sex crimes. Dennis Wayne Gallatin, 72, was charged with two counts of statutory sodomy of a victim younger than 12 years old and tampering with a witness. He is being held at the Callaway County
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people suffered minor injuries Wednesday in a crash at the tri-level overpass in Jefferson City, according to a crash report from the Jefferson City Police Department. Officers responded to Highway 50/54 shortly after noon, the report states. The report states the crash occurred as a 2017 Nissan Rogue – driven
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Water has been shut off in Keyetsville due to a water main break, according to a Facebook post from Chariton County EMS.
Continue ReadingIRVING, Texas (AP) — National rushing leader Ollie Gordon II from Oklahoma State was named the Big 12’s offensive player of the year Wednesday after a vote of the league’s 14 coaches, who also chose Texas defensive lineman T’Vondre Sweat as the top defensive player. Those players will be on opposite sides Saturday when the
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez, Denise Royal and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A Florida school district has temporarily removed a high school principal and other members of staff from their positions while it investigates allegations that a transgender student played on a girls’ volleyball team, education officials said. Transgender girls are banned from playing female sports
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years were pressed into soft mud by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s, a new analysis of the tracks has revealed. The footprints, found at several sites in southern Africa, were recently identified as the oldest birdlike tracks
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit. Copper inductive charging coils allow vehicles equipped with receivers to charge up their batteries while driving, idling or parking above the coils. The quarter-mile
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs rookie Rashee Rice could be exactly what the struggling Kansas City passing game has needed this season. As the second-round pick has gotten more comfortable in coach Andy Reid’s complex system, Rice has started to produce in ways that no wide receiver has
Continue ReadingBy Skylar Harris and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A Vermont girls’ high school basketball team deemed ineligible to play in future activities after forfeiting a game against a team with a transgender student-athlete is now suing educational authorities in the state for religious discrimination, arguing they are punishing the school for its religious beliefs. In a lawsuit filed
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A former Camden County prosecutor’s office investigator used his position to intimidate another person in a dispute over damage to a van, court documents say.
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those stories intertwine with the lineage of museum specimens still on display today. New details about the misdeeds of one prolific collector of human and animal
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, Barbara Arvanitidis, Nima Elbagir, Abeer Salman and Alex Platt, CNN (CNN) — The release of Palestinian prisoners by Israel, as part of a deal with Hamas to free hostages held in Gaza, has put a spotlight on a controversial practice that allows Palestinians to be detained for indefinite periods without trial
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Barbara Arvanitidis, Nima Elbagir, Abeer Salman and Alex Platt, CNN (CNN) — The release of Palestinian prisoners by Israel, as part of a deal with Hamas to free hostages held in Gaza, has put a spotlight on a controversial practice that allows Palestinians to be detained for indefinite periods without trial or
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Loved ones thought the three Palestinian college students who’d grown up like brothers would be safer in the United States – certainly in Vermont, celebrating a classic American holiday – than back in Israeli-occupied Ramallah. Now, they are living their worst nightmares. “Kinnan grew up in the West Bank, and we always thought that that could
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