By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — “You cannot hide from a drone strike,” says Elsadig. For the 27-year-old, that is the terrifying reality of life in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Obeid, where even the simplest routines carry the threat of sudden death. For much of Sudan’s civil war, which began more than three years ago,
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A scam that makes people believe their loved ones are in danger using artificial intelligence has hit Boone County, and the sheriff’s office is warning people after a resident reported a call.
According to a Facebook post, the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said the victim received a call Friday that showed their daughter’s contact name and number. The caller allegedly had the daughter’s voice and told the victim she had been kidnapped at gunpoint before another voice demanded money, essentially asking for a ransom.
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The University of Missouri has pulled its dining hall lettuce for possible contamination with Cyclospora, the parasite causing thousands of cases of diarrhea across the United States.
MU spokesperson Travis Zimpfer told ABC 17 in an email Saturday that there was a recall for the Cross Valley Farms-branded lettuce served at the university.
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. (KMIZ) One of the biggest media madhouses in all of college football will have Mizzou football take center-stage, on Monday morning. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company will tackle the opening day of ‘talkin’ time,’ otherwise known as SEC Media Days, in Tampa Bay. Over the course of a few hours, Coach
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Some Facebook and Instagram users reported international outages Sunday, leaving them unable to access their feeds, according to two internet watchdogs and a CNN check of the platforms. More than 23,000 users reported problems with Facebook in the United States alone between 3:44 and 5:02 a.m ET Sunday morning,
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A 26-year-old man was taken to the hospital with minor injuries early Sunday morning after shots were fired at a Columbia apartment complex.
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russia has launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks against Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion more than four years ago. Ukraine’s air force said Moscow had launched “a massive combined strike against Ukraine using attack UAVs and various types of air-
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By Anabella Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catira Alejandra couldn’t contain her excitement when she was reunited with her family. Tail wagging, frenzied leaping, and loving licks to the face marked the moment the small dog finally saw the familiar faces she didn’t know if she would see again. But several days earlier, Catira was hunched
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported from a structure fire in southwest Columbia on Saturday. An ABC 17 News Reporter arrived at the 4900 block of Craydon Drive at around 4 p.m. Saturday, where they saw Columbia Fire Department crews responding to a home with a hole in the roof and smoke showing. The
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Sedalia man died this Saturday morning after drowning in Truman Lake. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 36-year-old was swimming in the Shawnee Bend Recreation Area Beach in Benton County at around 8:20 a.m. when he went under the water and did not come back up. The man’s body was recovered by the
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One man was seriously injured in a car accident in Miller County Friday afternoon. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol Crash report, at around 12:15 p.m. yesterday, a 38-year-old Richmond, Missouri man was driving a 2020 Ford F-550 and waiting to take a left turn on State Route 52 near Meadowbrook
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By Holmes Lybrand, Dalia Faheid, Hannah Rabinowitz, Alea Motwane, CNN (CNN) — US Marshals arrested social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami Saturday on an extradition request from the United Kingdom following an investigation into sexual offenses reported by seven victims, according to the UK Crown Prosecution Service. UK officials accused the brothers
Continue Reading By Michael Williams, Curt Devine, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer connected to the fatal shooting of a man in Maine this week once told a court that he suffered lingering cognitive issues after sustaining a serious head injury. Those problems, which David Brouillette said resulted from a steel I-beam
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Some left-leaning political organizations are getting together on Saturday for a “Get Out The Vote” rally advocating that voters turn down August ballot Amendments 4 and 5.
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By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — You wake up nervous. Try the comfort of a lucky shirt, maybe the same one you were wearing last time your team won. Grimace and nod through meetings; your eye is on the clock. Finally it’s kick off. Ugh. The dread only rises. Wait a second
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Days after Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was arrested by federal officers in Nebraska last summer, government officials branded the Venezuelan delivery driver with incendiary labels: “a criminal illegal alien,” “a known Tren de Aragua terrorist” and even alleged he slammed one agent’s head into the ground and choked her. But that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after causing a crash Friday evening in Boone County. Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F shared on its social media just before 6 p.m. that troopers were investigating a multi-vehicle crash in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70. Troop F –
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Around 300 protesters clashed with riot police in Venice on Friday evening over the arrival of US ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta’s $450 million mega yacht Boardwalk during the city’s annual Redentore (Redeemer) festival, police said. Fertitta, a close ally of and donor to US President Donald
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By T.M. Brown, CNN (CNN) — This week, the English model Alexa Chung posted a carousel to her Instagram page with a series of photos from a security camera mounted outside her home in London. Even through the tiny, grainy fisheye lens, she looks chic and unbothered by the glass eye watching her come and
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian drone attacks have killed at least eight people at warehouses in Russia, according to regional officials. Seven of those killed were working at a distribution center at Kotovsk in the Tambov region. The eighth fatality was at a similar center in Elektrostal in the Moscow
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