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Charges filed after chase allegedly exceeds 70 mph on busy central Columbia streets

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged Thursday with three felonies after leading police on a chase through busy city streets, according to court documents. Dejon M. Woltkamp-Linzie, 29, was charged with aggravated fleeing, second-degree kidnapping and armed criminal action after the chase that started Wednesday afternoon on West Worley Street. An officer tried

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Jefferson City Board of Education approves door lock contract, pay raise for substitute teachers

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Board of Education approved a contract for door locks at the Jefferson City Academic Center, a pricing amendment for substitute teachers and other staff and heard the preliminary budget at its meeting Thursday. The board approved a $65,783.70 contract with Riverside Technologies Inc. to put in new door locks

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British man charged with cybercrimes in Dubai for allegedly filming missile strikes, UK authorities confirm

By CNN staff LONDON (CNN) — A British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai for allegedly filming Iranian missiles over the city, UK authorities confirmed. The 60-year-old man, reported to be a tourist, was charged under a law that prohibits publishing or sharing material that could disturb public security. “We are in

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Police block an entrance road after a gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk

Terror attacks at Michigan synagogue and Virginia university rattle sense of safety in American communities

CNN, WDIV, WXYZ By Emma Tucker, Elizabeth Wolfe, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A pair of attacks more than 700 miles apart on Thursday struck at the heart of community safe havens, leaving shocked Americans with an uneasy sense of security. First, a deadly shooting being investigated as terrorism devastated a Virginia university

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Police block an entrance road after a gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk

Terror attacks at Michigan synagogue and Virginia university rattle sense of safety in American communities

By Emma Tucker, Elizabeth Wolfe, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A pair of attacks more than 700 miles apart on Thursday struck at the heart of community safe havens, leaving shocked Americans with an uneasy sense of security. First, a deadly shooting being investigated as terrorism devastated a Virginia university in a military

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Sen. Josh Hawley calls for ban on abortion pill as critics cite decades of safety research

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)  Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is pushing to ban the commonly used abortion pill mifepristone.  On Wednesday, Hawley unveiled the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, during a press conference in Washington, with a companion bill expected to be introduced in the House by Tennessee Rep. Diana Harshbarger. Hawley’s proposed bill would

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