COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 7-year-old boy from Versailles was seriously injured Monday morning in a crash on North Mt. Zion Road in Morgan County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 15-year-old boy rode a tractor northbound and the 7-year-old – who was riding a bicycle –
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By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Minutes before he was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Caleb Flynn sobbed as his in-laws read letters written by his two daughters, asking him heartbreaking questions about their mother’s death. “Mommy was the perfect person, the absolute perfect person. What did she
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KINGDOM CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A homicide investigation is underway in Kingdom City. Maj. Curtis Hall with the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday that an arrest was made in connection with the investigation. Jonathan G. Houston, 44, was booked into the Callaway County Jail on Sunday night on suspicion of first-degree murder and kidnapping. Callaway
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WARSAW, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman on Monday afternoon pleaded guilty to helping kill a child in Benton County. Kourtney Aumen, 27, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree assault. She will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21. The hearing appeared suddenly on the CaseNet court records website Monday morning ahead of Aumen’s trial,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Saline County authorities captured a kangaroo on Sunday after it escaped a petting zoo the day before at the Saline County Fairgrounds, according to a Monday press release from the Marshall Police Department. The release says on Saturday, a child walked out of the kangaroo enclosure and the gate was accidentally left
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No one was injured, but a highway was blocked in Cooper County temporarily on Monday when a tractor-trailer rolled onto its side. The truck rolled on Highway 179 near Big Lick Road, south of Wooldridge, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The road was blocked for more than 30 minutes while
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman was arrested over the weekend after new charges were filed against her in a man’s 2024 beating death. Felicia Hay, 35, was charged earlier this summer with first-degree assault after a manslaughter charge was dropped in the November 2024 death of Antonio Davis, 56, of Columbia. Davis died in
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By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — The alleged hijacker of the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv likely wanted to target Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, the country’s main international gateway, according to an Israeli official and an Israeli source familiar with the matter. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) An appeal hearing in the murder of a snake breeder stalled Monday in Audrain County after an attorney failed to appear. Michael Humphrey filed the motion seeking to vacate or set aside his sentence in the killing of Ben Renick in Montgomery County, claiming his constitutional rights were violated by ineffective legal
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged after a woman died following a crash in Jefferson City. Damon L. Crocker, 57, of Centertown, was charged with one count of DWI resulting in the death of another. Court documents state that Crocker was seen on surveillance footage leaving the Office Bar around 3:54 p.m. Friday.
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CNN By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova, Lex Harvey, and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness. The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has launched legal action against police in England over the search warrants issued prior to his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office following revelations from the Epstein files in the United States. Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, has asked for a
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By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi fraternity
Continue Reading CNN By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi
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By Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — Since the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging she had been drugged and gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024, the national storm of attention and media coverage has unveiled previously undisclosed evidence about what she says happened
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By Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — Before the botched execution of Christa Pike, Frank Strada reportedly had a history of overseeing execution missteps in two states. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday announced Correction Commissioner Strada would step down later this month following the backlash after the attempted execution left Pike on a ventilator, unconscious
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By Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister and Laura Sharman, CNN Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called an early election in an apparent effort to seize the initiative following nationwide protests over a housing crisis sparked by the eviction of a 87-year-old woman. The election, scheduled for November 29, will bring
Continue Reading By Alessandra Freitas, Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Brasília, Brazil (CNN) — Brazil is heading for another Lula-Bolsonaro showdown. But this time it is Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son Flávio who stands between leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and another term in power. A Bolsonaro victory would push the region further towards the right, hand US
Continue Reading By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Samoa’s prime minister has apologized after an old video of him surfaced performing the Nazi salute while leading a chorus of “Heil Hitler” at a family reunion in 2007. Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt said his words were “not intended for the public” and apologized in a statement published
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