By Steve Almasy and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A 98-year-old woman and her 73-year-old daughter were among the three people killed by an 18-year-old high school student who roamed through his neighborhood Monday firing indiscriminately at homes and passersby in their vehicles, according to authorities in the northwestern New Mexico town of Farmington. In
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man has been charged after allegedly trying to film a child while they were showering with a hidden camera. Jeremy Judd, 52, is charged with attempted sexual exploitation of a minor child. He was arrested and booked into the Boone County Jail on Saturday, but was released on bond. His
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged with domestic assault after allegedly breaking a woman’s leg on Monday. Antonio Hazlett, 36, is charged with first-degree domestic assault and resisting arrest. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has yet to be announced. According to the probable
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump on Tuesday for implying Florida’s new six-week abortion ban is “too harsh,” stepping up his attacks on the former president as he prepares to challenge him for the 2024 Republican nomination. DeSantis was responding to a question about Trump’s comments in an article published
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Rivers swollen by days of downpours flooded some towns in northern Italy on Tuesday, forcing some residents to rooftops, while in Venice, authorities prepared to activate a mobile barrier in the lagoon in hopes of sparing the city from a rare May high-tide flooding. After the Savio
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say customs police and a dog with a fine nose for cocaine found more than 2,700 kilos (about 3 tons) of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador. Police estimated the cocaine could have brought traffickers more than 800 million
Continue Reading ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Police say a girl who was allegedly abducted by her mother in suburban Chicago nearly six years ago has been found safe hundreds of miles away in North Carolina after she was spotted at a business Officers found a woman and a minor child at the business in Asheville, North
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The Jefferson City Council voted Monday to amend its city code and eliminate the city’s unmetered parking enforcement moratorium.
Continue Reading By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández has made it official that she will not be running for president again, putting the brakes on an effort by members of her party to push her to become a candidate in the October election. Fernández, who was president 2007-2015,
Continue Reading By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A seat on the Supreme Court is one of four appellate judicial positions for which voters are choosing party nominees in Pennsylvania primaries. On the Democratic ticket in Tuesday’s race are Dan McCaffery of Philadelphia and Deborah Kunselman of Beaver County. Both of them currently sit
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ROCHEPORT, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation announced on its social media that there will be intermittent lane closures on the Rocheport Bridge on Interstate 70 this week. The closures will occur day and night in the left lanes heading in both directions, according to the post. ALERT!I-70 Rocheport BridgeDay & night this week,
Continue Reading By ED KOMENDA and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers approved and Gov. Jay Inslee quickly signed a major new drug policy, saying it strikes a balance between public order and compassion for those struggling with substance abuse. Democratic and Republican leaders reached a compromise between liberals who believe drugs should
Continue Reading By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials terminated the Republican attorney general’s emergency rule that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults. The move was announced Tuesday without explanation on the Missouri Secretary of State’s website. The website says: “This emergency rule terminated effective May
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Criminal charges in Minnesota against R&B singer R. Kelly were dropped Tuesday, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Kelly was charged in 2019 by Hennepin County prosecutors with two counts of engaging in prostitution with a person under the age of 18. “We believed then and continue to believe the victim survivor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia City Council met Monday night and passed an agenda item that would create traffic calming improvements on Northland Drive. Traffic calming improvements include things like speed bumps or traffic signs. The project passed unanimously and will cost roughly $55,000 paid by the annual Traffic Calming Fund. This project will bring eight
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Columbia’s police chief will not discuss an Internal Affairs investigation into two officers’ use of force outside a downtown bar earlier this month will be affected by those officers’ resignations.
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By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials on Tuesday abruptly terminated an unusual emergency rule proposed by the Republican attorney general that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults. The move was announced without explanation on the Missouri Secretary of State’s website, which said: “This
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri terminates rule limiting gender-affirming care for transgender minors, some adults without explanation.
Continue Reading By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With the Louisiana House’s approval, a bill that would ban gender-affirming medical care to minors is advancing to the Senate. The bill would prohibit doctors from performing “gender transition procedures” — such as hormone treatments, gender reassignment surgery or puberty-blocking drugs — on anyone under
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Retired Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and one of his best players in Johnny Dawkins are among five inductees to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The others are North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough, longtime Division II coach Herb Magee and the late high school scout Tom Konchalski. Krzyzewski retired last
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