CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Police in a seaside community on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula say two Americans have been found dead in their hotel room. Police said Wednesday that the deaths occurred in the community of El Pescadero. The town is located between Todos Santos and the resort of Los Cabos, in Baja
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a female Mexican gray wolf has been returned to the wilds of Arizona after she was found wandering in northern New Mexico outside a zone created for recovery of her subspecies. The wolf had traveled more than 500 miles and
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has suspended the head of the West African nation’s anti-graft agency for alleged abuse of office. Abdulrasheed Bawa was suspended indefinitely as chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission following the “weighty allegations of abuse of office leveled against him,” the
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By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Justice announced Monday it reached an agreement with Madison County Schools in Kentucky to settle a federal investigation “into complaints of serious and widespread racial harassment of Black and multi-racial students.” Authorities launched an investigation into the district, located just south of Lexington, in October 2021,
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — The live-in boyfriend of Irene Gakwa was sentenced Wednesday to up to six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $13,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from her in the weeks after she vanished more than a
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government expects to introduce legislation on Thursday to prevent Russia from building a new embassy near Parliament House on security grounds. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the legislation to be presented to Parliament would extinguish Russia’s lease on the proposed site based on the
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MILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Brumley man was in jail Wednesday morning, facing charges related to a crash in late May. Carter Halley, 23, of Brumley, was booked Wednesday morning in the Miller County Jail after turning himself in, according to the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. He was released on his own recognizance, according to Casenet.
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Workers at the Shangri-La South marijuana dispensary in Columbia voted narrowly Wednesday in favor of forming a union with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 655.
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Mid-Missouri charities are helping the elderly and others get air conditioning as the hot summer months approach.
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As summer heats so does the traffic at pools and spas. Unfortunately, the number of drownings for children under 15 across the country is high and affects a disproportional number of minorities.
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors are expected to start deliberating Thursday in the criminal trial of three men accused of trying to scare a former Chinese official into returning to his homeland. U.S. prosecutors say the scheme was orchestrated by Beijing and reflects China’s “Operation Fox Hunt” effort to repatriate
Continue Reading By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. He was 88. Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda in which a Navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Citizens Police Review Board elected Reece Ellis as its new chair, and Charyl Miller as its new vice-chair during its Wednesday night meeting. State Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia) also addressed the board during the meeting. The Board was scheduled to have an official discussion about the Columbia Police Department’s
Continue Reading By Laura Ly, CNN (CNN) — A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing, selling and shipping human body parts, according to an indictment. Cedric Lodge, 55, who worked at the medical school’s morgue in Boston, “stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including…heads, brains, skin, bones, and other
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims of discrimination by police against its Black residents. Civil rights attorney Jill Jefferson was arrested Saturday by
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold has been indicted by a grand jury, an expected procedural step that will allow the criminal case to continue. Daniel Penny was charged by Manhattan prosecutors last
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The Regional Economic Development Inc. Board, more commonly referred to as REDI, is starting the first of its On The Road meetings at the NextGen Precision Health building on the university’s campus Wednesday morning. According to the agenda, the board will hear a presentation on the research reactor.
Continue Reading By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal prosecutors would not bring charges against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, a day after Trump was arraigned on dozens of felony counts related to classified documents, Pence described the allegations
Continue Reading By MARC LEVY Associated Press Pennsylvania will truck in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and crews will work 24 hours a day until they can reopen the critical commercial artery, officials said Wednesday. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews will
Continue Reading By PETER SMITH and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors. Southern Baptist church representatives at their annual meeting here also rejected a similar appeal
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