COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Commission announced in a Thursday press release that it is beginning the review process for the first round of American Rescue Plan Act funding. The 20-person review team met for its first meeting early this week, quickly following the March 31 application deadline. The Commission said it received more
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macamilarincon (CNN) — Más de 90.000 personas en Estados Unidos esperan una donación de riñón, pero la Dra. Aleksandra Gmurczyk ayudó a sacar a dos personas de la lista de espera al donar su propio riñón a Ginger, una mujer a la que no conocía, y poner en marcha una donación de riñón emparejado. La
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an apparent effort to reduce inventory. The South Korean technology giant disclosed the move while forecasting another quarter of sluggish profit. The company said in a regulatory filing Friday that it has been
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Un hombre de Brooklyn acusado de la muerte por sobredosis del actor y productor Michael K. Williams se declaró culpable este miércoles de cargos de distribución de drogas. Irving Cartagena, también conocido como “Green Eyes”, es uno de los cuatro acusados de formar parte de una organización de tráfico de drogas que
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Corrections announced in a Thursday press release that an inmate has died at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. The DOC said Mark Immekus died at 9:56 a.m. Thursday. He was 66. The DOC said he was serving a 60-year sentence for assault, armed-criminal action and felonious restraint.
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal regulatory group has voted to officially close king salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast after near-record low numbers of the fish returned to California’s rivers in 2022. The Pacific Fishery Management Council approved the closure of the 2023
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project. The $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian
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By VICTOR R. CAIVANO and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At the start of the long Easter weekend, the airport in Argentina’s capital is eerily quiet before dawn, hours before it will fill with travelers. About 100 people who sleep inside the facility are getting ready to start their day. One
Continue Reading INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — One of four men charged in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He also pleaded guilty Thursday to home invasion robbery. Because he was only 17 at the time of the 2020 attack, he was sentenced to
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Josh Campbell and Brad Parks, CNN The stabbing death of CashApp founder Bob Lee has prompted comments perpetuating the notion that San Francisco is dangerous and crime-riddled, but data shows violent crime — especially homicides — are well below that of many other cities of a similar size. George Tita, a criminal
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them “any of us” can fall into sin. The Casal del Marmo facility on the outskirts
Continue Reading By RICH PEDRONCELLI and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A man fleeing police in Northern California took two hostages at a public park on Thursday, killing one of them and wounding a California Highway Patrol officer before surrendering, authorities said. The events played out in Roseville, a city of about 150,000 northeast
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Swift Prepared Foods, has opened its newest facility – Principe Foods, which produces Italian meats and charcuterie., according to a press release from the company. The Principe Foods facility is located at 5008 Paris Road in Columbia. Company executives were joined by local, regional and state leaders as they cut the ribbon
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Mick Mars, guitarist for the 1980’s heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the band that he was a part of for four decades. Mars is requesting that seven corporate entities associated with Mötley Crüe hand over records related to their business dealings following a 2022 dispute
Continue Reading By Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN A California dermatologist was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly poisoning her husband with liquid drain cleaner, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Yue “Emily” Yu, 46, has been indicted on three felony counts of poisoning and one felony count of domestic battery with corporal
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York, donated $35 in political contributions to Democrats in 2020, including a $15 contribution to the campaign of Trump’s opponent, President Joe Biden. The political donations are undoubtedly small, but they nevertheless raise
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile and Denise Royal, CNN A Florida man was freed from prison in 2021 after serving three decades for a murder he says he didn’t commit. But the conviction was reinstated in 2022, and now a judge has ruled he has to return to prison this month. US District Judge Roy Dalton ruled
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — La debacle bancaria que causó el reciente colapso del Silicon Valley Bank y del Signature Bank ha aumentado las probabilidades de una recesión en EE.UU., dijo el CEO de JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, a Poppy Harlow de CNN en una entrevista exclusiva este jueves. En su primera entrevista desde
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Two University of Missouri medical students plan to train other students Thursday on using naloxone, the drug also known as Narcan, in the case of suspected overdoses.
Continue Reading By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat
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