By 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 Reading By 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 Reading By 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.
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Food and football are strong allies, but this year’s slate of college football bowl games took snacking to a horrifying new level with eucharistic self-sacrifice and showers of milky goo. It got especially weird at the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando. After the Kansas State Wildcats beat the North Carolina
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — A long-awaited update to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as the FAFSA, was released on December 30. But some families are having trouble accessing the online form, which has so far only been available for short periods of time. During what the Department of
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel is defending itself in the United Nations’ highest court Thursday against allegations that it is committing genocide with its military campaign in Gaza. South Africa asked the International Court of Justice to order Israel to immediately stop the war, alleging it has violated the
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — A rusty bomb covered in debris washed up on a California shore days after heavy surf pounded the coastline. On New Year’s Eve, the Santa Cruz County sheriff’s bomb squad headed out to inspect the bomb at Pajaro Dunes, located between Santa Cruz and Monterey. After
Continue Reading 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 the
Continue Reading By Brammhi Balarajan and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — It took nearly 12 years and dozens of water searches, but a submerged vehicle connected to the missing person case of Sandra Lemire has finally been located. Detectives have contacted Lemire’s family and are “waiting on positive identification of the human remains that were located in
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of the Princess of Wales, the former Catherine (Kate) Middleton. Personal Birth date: January 9, 1982 Birth place: Reading, Berkshire, England Birth name: Catherine Elizabeth Middleton Father: Michael Middleton, former airline pilot, now mail-order business owner Mother: Carole (Goldsmith) Middleton, former flight attendant
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — The number of killings rose to a record level in one of Missouri’s two big cities last year, and it dropped substantially in the other. Kansas City police data shows 182 killings in 2023, 12 more than in 2022 and three more than the all-time high of 179 in 2020. The
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Nada Bashir, Tamara Qiblawi, Tara John and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said Tuesday that one of its senior leaders has been killed in an attack in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, raising fears of a potential escalation in fighting in the region. Hamas media outlet Al Aqsa TV
Continue Reading LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling. That’s in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan
Continue Reading CNN, KMGH By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of firing gunshots inside the building that houses the Colorado Supreme Court is scheduled to appear before a judge Wednesday morning, according to online jail records. The shooting happened Tuesday morning after 1 a.m. when a man who fled a two-car accident scene shot
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say that a Missouri robbery suspect was going the wrong way on an interstate highway while trying to evade police and crashed into an SUV, killing both drivers. The accident happened just after 4 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 435 in Kansas City. The names of those killed have not
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Chris Boyette and Rachel Webb, CNN (CNN) — A man was arrested early Tuesday after he broke into the Colorado Supreme Court overnight and opened fire inside the building, state police said in a news release. The preliminary investigation “confirmed a high probability” that the incident is not connected to “recent threats
Continue Reading In much of the sunny Mediterranean, mealtime is a means to an end. The food, while freshly prepared and delicious, is secondary to the main event — a gathering of friends and family, where boisterous talk about the events of the day is often mixed with loud and infectious laughter.
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