COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The State of Missouri is set to receive millions of dollars as part of a $17.1 billion settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. According to a news release from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, Missouri will receive between $100 million and $150 million. “As a mother, I know how critical it is to shield
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Changes are coming to MU Health Care employees’ paid-time off. An MU Health Care spokesman confirmed the changes were approved by the Board of Curators during an Aug. 4 meeting. MU Health Care had announced pending changes earlier this summer when it announced a slew of layoffs and the closure of Hy-Vee
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police say a 15-year-old boy is the suspect in a shooting that left another youth with critical injuries Tuesday. Columbia Police Department officers responded to a shots-fired call on Tuesday in the 5700 block of Canaveral Drive. According to a news release, officers responded to the call around 5:16 p.m. Officers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A City of Columbia internal audit found significant deficiencies in the parking administration’s coin collection and deposit procedures, including violations of a same-day counting policy, unrestricted management access to uncounted money and outdated meter technology. The Finance Department rated parking administration as “partially effective” and identified five areas that presented a high
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) U.S. Capitol police announced on its social media on Tuesday that officers had arrested a man who had a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck. Capitol police wrote that officers spotted the truck illegally parked in the 100 block of East Capitol Street in Washington D.C. around 3 p.m. Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman has been charged with three felonies after a 3-week-old baby fell and allegedly tested positive for multiple drugs. Tayvian Brown was charged on Wednesday with three counts of child endangerment. A no-bond warrant was issued on Wednesday and she was not listed on the Cole County Jail’s online
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Home sales were down 6% in Columbia this July compared to last, while sales in Boone County remained flat against the backdrop of a struggling national market. Boone County’s sales were down three from last year, finishing the month with 214 transactions, according to the Mid-Missouri Board of Realtors’ monthly home sales
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several road projects in Columbia and Boone County were announced on Wednesday. The Missouri Department of Transportation announced that the ramp from Highway 63 to westbound Interstate 70 will close at 8 p.m. Thursday for temporary barriers to be placed. The release says the ramp will reopen “no later than” 6 a.m.
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By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — A Kentucky police officer was arrested after authorities said he used the Flock Safety license plate reader camera system to track his ex-girlfriend over 2,000 times, marking the latest in a string of recent law enforcement officer resignations or arrests for alleged abuses of the controversial technology. Shively Police
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By Gina Park, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! We’re starting with more sad news today: Tim Curry, the actor whose unforgettable performances in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue” and the TV miniseries “It” made him a beloved cult icon, has died. He was 80. 📸 In pictures: Remembering actor Tim Curry Here’s
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By Maria Aguilar Prieto, Taylor Galgano, CNN (CNN) — An American Airlines plane blew two tires while taxiing for departure at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration – the fourth tire mishap in a month at the airport. Passengers used stairs to deplane and were taken by bus
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) West Stadium Boulevard will be repaved overnight beginning Wednesday between West Edgewood Drive to Missouri Boulevard, according to a Wednesday press release from Jefferson City. Crews will work Wednesday and Thursday nights from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. The road will not be closed, traffic could be delayed, the release says. Jefferson City Public
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A partial collapse occurred Tuesday night at a dilapidated building in Sedalia. The east wall of the building at 104 Main St. collapsed and sent debris into an adjacent parking lot and Ohio Street, the city announced in a Wednesday press release. The release says multiple addresses in the 100 block of
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By Taylor Romine, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — Sheltered from the oppressive August heat, attorneys, members of the public, media and jurors sat listening in a cramped, windowless Las Vegas courtroom as prosecutors worked to prove one thing: that Duane Davis, also known as “Keffe D,” is responsible for Tupac Shakur’s murder. Following a week
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By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A pair of court hearings have been scheduled for next June as Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, attempts to take back his guilty plea, court records show. Kohberger filed a petition to reopen the case late last month, blaming his plea
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By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — The prosecution in Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial rested its rebuttal case and testimony is now over as the case moved toward its final stages. The final witness was an FBI psychiatrist who said Clancy could still appreciate right from wrong and control her behavior when
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By Todd Leopold, Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Tim Curry, the English actor who became a massively popular cult figure thanks to his performances in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue” and the TV miniseries “It,” has died. He was 80. Curry “passed away peacefully at his home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles” on Tuesday,
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By Magdalena Sofia Vitores Moreno, Billy Stockwell and Laura Paddison (CNN) – Catastrophic flash flooding has hit China and Nepal, with more than 150 people confirmed killed and the death toll likely to rise. Hundreds of tourists, including at least 47 Americans, are reported to be missing. The small Himalayan nation has been badly hit.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 34-year-old Newburg man was flown to the hospital with serious injuries after a crash in Phelps County just before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was driving a 2000 Harley-Davidson motorcycle east on County Road 3060, east of Highway V, when he crossed
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Meta said Wednesday it has agreed to pay about $18 billion as part of a settlement to resolve a multistate lawsuit claiming that it intentionally designed addictive platforms that harmed young people’s mental health. The settlement ends a landmark legal battle for the social media giant. As
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