COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A former daycare operator pleaded guilty to four felonies Monday ahead of her bench trial on child abuse charges in Randolph County. Naomi Hess pleaded guilty on Monday to four counts of first-degree child endangerment. The class D felonies carry a maximum seven-year prison sentence. Hess will be sentenced on November
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By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Svitlana Vlasova CNN (CNN) — Ukraine is urgently trying to develop interceptors capable of countering a new generation of Russian jet-powered drones that have wreaked havoc across the country in recent months. Along with the Kremlin’s ballistic weapons and a new type of cruise missile, the jet-drones have caused
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By Celina Tebor, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — For eight brutal days, residents of Boyle Heights watched smoke billow from a burning warehouse and prayed the flames would spare their homes. There was no escaping the black pollution that choked the neighborhood then, and no reprieve now, even five weeks after the fire was extinguished.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged in a deadly 2020 Columbia shooting will not have his bond revoked after arguments in Monday morning’s pre-trial hearing. Curtis Allen Lewis is charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, and two counts of armed criminal action in connection with a shooting that killed Tershawn Kitchen. Kitchen was a
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By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir has made it a point to post videos of himself on social media taunting or mocking Palestinian prisoners. He boasted of threatening the most high-profile Palestinian prisoner. He showed off activists from a Gaza flotilla bound on the floor. And he
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By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown and Jean Casarez, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — The Massachusetts jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial resumed deliberations for a fourth day Tuesday, as they work to decide if prosecutors have proven the 36-year-old murdered her three children beyond a reasonable doubt. Jurors returned to the courthouse here in Plymouth
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Patients and visitors to University Hospital in Columbia are being encouraged to allow extra time due to construction at the main entrance. MU Health Care shared on Facebook that the main entrance and circle drive will be closed until the end of September for construction starting Monday. This includes both vehicle and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 34-year-old St. Robert man was seriously hurt during a crash in Miller County just before 2:15 p.m. Sunday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was driving a 2011 Harley-Davidson motorcycle south on Highway 17 near Livingston Road when he hit a deer in the road. The
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CNN, DAVID J GREGORY, ERICA VIOLA, KPHO, KTVK, WIEKE DE BOER By Maria Aguilar Prieto, Tyler Ory, Mounira Elsamra, Sarah Dewberry, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of the nation’s most famously arid landmarks succumbed to deadly flash flooding over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and roughly a dozen unaccounted for as
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hopes are fading for a quick rescue operation as Nepali crews and foreign specialists race to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. Around 900 workers are missing at various hydropower projects
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, Hanna Park, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Korean-born US Army veteran who self-deported last year has been pardoned for the crimes that led to him leaving, raising hopes that he can return to the United States. Sae Joon Park, 57, is among a number of noncitizen US military veterans who
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ). The Columbia Public Schools Policy Committee will continue its discussions around changes to the district’s bullying policy, with new revisions giving employees a more hands-on role. The policy would give school employees a more active role in prevention methods when it comes to bullying. Not only are they required to report it,
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SUNRISE BEACH, Mo. (KMIZ) Officials believe a me mechanical malfunction cause a boat fire at a popular Lake of the Ozarks beachfront bar on Saturday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F posted the aftermath of the fire to its social media. The post said it happened at Frank and Louies Beachfront Bar and Grill.
Continue Reading By Maria Aguilar Prieto, Tyler Ory, Mounira Elsamra, Sarah Dewberry, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of the nation’s most famously arid landmarks succumbed to deadly flash flooding over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and roughly a dozen unaccounted for as more rain could lash Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on
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By Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Iran and the United States traded attacks for the first time in over a month overnight into Monday, in an exchange that risks reigniting the damaging conflict after weeks of relative military calm. Iran said it fired missiles toward US military targets in Jordan and
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and seized a home while its owner was inside in the latest brazen settler attack in the area. Despite the Israeli military saying there were “dozens of rioters” when they arrived at the
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A juvenile was arrested after an armed robbery in south Columbia on Saturday evening.
According to a news release from the Columbia Police Department, officers were called to the 400 block of Maple Grove Way around 6:45 p.m.
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By Holly Yan, CNN The lush grass blanketing this scenic Texas field belies the grisly horrors discovered underneath and the agonizing mystery that has tormented families for decades – until now. Between 1984 and 1991, the bodies of four young women were found in a rural, isolated 25-acre patch of terrain near Calder Road in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A high-speed boat crash Saturday at the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout left one person with serious injuries, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol post. MSHP said the boat “Dirty Duck” got some air time while traveling at 200 miles per hour during the 38th annual boat race for charity. The
Continue Reading By Ross Adkin, Hanako Montgomery, Daniel Campisi and Balmukunda Humagain, CNN (CNN) — As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal’s Trishuli river.
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