COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged on Thursday in Cole County after authorities claim he ran over a woman’s leg with his car. Matthew Hope, 35, is charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. He waived his arraignment, pleaded
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By Faith Karimi Boston (CNN) — The trial of a former police officer accused of killing a young woman five years ago in her suburban Boston apartment opened Friday with two vastly different accounts of Sandra Birchmore’s final days. Birchmore, 23, was found slumped on her bedroom floor in Canton, Massachusetts, with a duffel bag
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 has been put on “alert” by FEMA as Hurricane Isaias approaches the Gulf Coast, the Boone County Fire Protection District announced in a Friday press release. The release says Task Force 1 was placed on alert as a Type 3 Urban Search and Rescue Task Force. “Team members
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By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Luigi Mangione should go to trial in state court for fatally shooting United Healthcare’s CEO because murder “has nothing to do” with the federal stalking charges he pleaded guilty to in August, Manhattan prosecutors said in a court filing Friday. “The stark differences in
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CNN, WEAR, WALA, CSU, CIRA & NOAA, WEBCAMS DE MEXICO, WBRC, THE FLORIDA CHANNEL, CSU/CIRA & NOAA By Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, CNN Meteorologists Conditions are deteriorating quickly along the Gulf Coast with Hurricane Isaias, a ferocious Category 3 storm, only hours from making landfall. Thousands of residents are without power and the storm surge
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HARTSBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) A hot, dry summer left Hackman Farms short on pumpkins ahead of this weekend’s Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival. The festival takes place every October in Hartsburg, a small village in southern Boone County. This year’s event will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Jeri Cooper, vice president of the
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CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton Mayor Steve Myers will not seek reelection, the city announced in a Friday press release. Myers cited health concerns as the reason for not running. He was elected in 2022 after serving as the city’s police chief from 2002-21. “Due to health concerns, I will not be seeking re-election. It is
Continue Reading CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches
Continue Reading CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches
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By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe has expanded restrictions on dyed diesel to all drivers, not just farmers. Executive Order 26-20 allows all motor vehicles to use dyed diesel fuel on Missouri highways. The action follows an executive order President Donald Trump signed on Monday. “Haulers in Missouri will now be able to utilize tax-free
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Across the Show-Me State, more than 122,000 Missourians aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the latest data from the Department of Health and Senior Services. One-in-three seniors die from Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia across the country. “That is a staggering figure,” said Senior Program
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By Eyad Kourdi, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The alleged Flydubai hijacker had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and was inspired by the 9/11 attacks, a preliminary investigation has found. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on board last week’s flight from Dubai to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Friday or early Saturday as a Category 3 storm after rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico. Watch the storm’s approach on Panhandle beach cameras. Sharky’s, Panama City Perdido Key, Florida Santa Rosa Island, Florida Destin, Florida
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By Issy Ronald, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law. As her colleagues in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: A name misspelled because of a source error has been corrected. A five-hour-long manhunt in Montgomery County ended Thursday night with a man with a nationwide extradition warrant arrested. According to a press release from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called at 6:30 a.m. to the 100 block
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By Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — In a damning interview, a former senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the Israeli leader was warned internally of the potential for war ahead of the October 7 attacks and that there remain “enormous gaps” between what the public knows and what really happened.
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By Kathleen Magramo, Barbie Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Masked thieves broke into a warehouse in Cortona, Italy and made off with around 30,000 bottles of wine from the prestigious Marchesi Antinori vineyard worth more than $5 million, in what the company says could rank among the largest wine thefts ever reported. The thieves disarmed the
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By Tori B. Powell, Briana Waxman and CNN Staff Hurricane Isaias’ powerful center made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a 105 mph Category 2 hurricane at around 8:30 p.m. CT Friday. Isaias is packing a punch. In addition to damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge continues along the Gulf Coast and flooding rain is spreading inland.
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