JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A former technical English teacher at the Nichols Career Center is suing the Jefferson City School District, claiming age discrimination and retaliatory actions by supervisors. Kristin Imhoff filed the suit on Aug. 4, claiming two counts of retaliation against an employee resulted in damages. A court date has not yet been set. Court records
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse, Artemis Moshtaghian and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Two adults were killed and multiple students were injured after their bus “tumbled down a 50-foot ravine,” Thursday on Interstate 84 in Orange County, New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an evening news conference. The commercial bus was carrying 40 students from Farmingdale
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Migrant crossings are rising again at the US-Mexico border. Why is this occurring, and what could happen next? To better understand the situation, CNN spoke with Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington. Ruiz says there’s a key detail many
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The FBI in Louisiana has been asked to assist the Baton Rouge Police Department in its criminal and internal investigation after attorneys filed a second federal lawsuit against the department, several officers and the city in connection with an alleged torture warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave,” according to a
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, NASA said, where recovery teams have been training for months for its arrival. If all goes according to plan, a capsule will return the largest sample collected since Apollo astronauts brought back lunar rocks decades
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes according to plan, the spacecraft will release a capsule containing an estimated 8.8 ounces of asteroid rocks and soil
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A bus driver and eight Phelps County R-3 students suffered minor injuries Thursday morning after a school bus crashed on Route M, about a mile west of Edgar Springs, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Eight children, ages 4-12, and the bus driver – Judy Harris, 60, of
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit on Wednesday, he’ll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a “disaster” for workers. Union leaders say Trump’s record in
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, James Frater and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — The European Commission has sent a letter to Poland asking for “clarifications,” amid reports that Polish officials have been involved in an alleged cash-for-visas scandal. Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Polish consulates have been accused of participating in a widespread illegal scheme through
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, Adam Pourahmadi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s parliament on Wednesday passed draconian new legislation imposing much harsher penalties on women who breach hijab rules, days after the one-year anniversary of mass protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died last September after being detained
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Security improvements are planned at a jail in Pennsylvania following the brazen escape of a murderer who eluded law enforcement for two weeks before his capture this month. The Chester County prison board unanimously approved plans Wednesday to fully enclose the exercise yards with solid walls and a roof. The
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked for an accelerated withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, against a backdrop of successive anti-UN protests over its failure to rein in rebel groups more than 20 years after its deployment to the country. Parts of the
Continue ReadingCNN By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The Wisconsin-based company American Foods Group, doing business as Green Bay Dressed Beef, has recalled more than 58,000 pounds of raw ground beef due to concerns of possible contamination with the bacteria Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli, according to a Friday alert posted by the US Department of Agriculture.
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man is charged with two counts of murder in connection to the deaths of two women in the 1990s. Detectives in a newly formed cold case unit used DNA evidence to identify 52-year-old Gary Dion Davis. The Kansas City Star reports that Davis is jailed on a $500,000
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers working at a cave in southern Spain have found evidence that the skeletal remains of ancient humans buried there were dug up, modified and even used as tools by subsequent generations. The team, led by scientists from the University of Bern, Switzerland, examined remains found at the Cueva
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Julia Kesaieva and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian officials indicated Thursday that further inroads have been made on the southern front, with some units advancing “deep into the Russian defenses” – a possible sign of progress amid Kyiv’s grinding counteroffensive. Colonel Mykola Urshalovych, Deputy Director of Planning with the National Guard,
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to crimes. The disgraced former South Carolina attorney, who was convicted in March of murdering his wife and son, pleaded guilty to nearly two dozen fraud and money laundering charges Thursday morning in a federal courtroom in Charleston. The plea
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a work Thursday at 7 p.m. at City Hall to discuss the new text alterations made to the proposed draft of short term rental regulations. Some of the language changes made to the drafted document include changing the term “principal resident” to “long term
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Alray Nelson and his partner Brennen Yonnie are married in all but name. They’ve been together for 12 years. They’ve raised a child together. They wear wedding rings and refer to each other as husbands. Unlike straight married couples, however, they can’t benefit from each other’s insurance, file taxes
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, Eric Zerkel and Brandon Miller, CNN (CNN) — Water levels along the Mississippi River are plummeting for the second year in a row after this summer’s blistering heat and low rainfall triggered extreme drought across parts of the Central US. The low water levels have made a unique rock formation in the
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