COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Allegiant Airlines’ first flight from Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport has touched down at the Columbia Regional Airport. The flight was set to arrive at Columbia Regional Airport around 9:06 a.m. Friday, but ended up arriving around 8:50 a.m. The flight to Destin will depart around 9:56 a.m. According to FlightAware, Allegiant Airlines’
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By Laura Sharman, Andy Rose, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending its policy of reporting deaths of recently released detainees, the Department of Homeland Security said – a change in policy amid increasing scrutiny over the deaths of immigrants in federal custody. The previous policy, adopted during the Biden
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By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — AI models are rapidly improving – so fast that they may soon be able to develop themselves without human involvement. That’s why Anthropic is warning the AI industry: It needs to build a “brake pedal,” or companies risk losing control of their creations. AI systems that can advance themselves,
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By Issy Ronald, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sublet and generated an income from three cottages on his estate in Windsor, England, an independent report into the British royal family’s property arrangements revealed on Friday. Mountbatten-Windsor — known as Prince Andrew until his brother King Charles III stripped him of his titles
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office says the search for an alleged armed man who ran away during a traffic stop has been resolved, after he died by suicide. The law enforcement agency wrote on its social media on Thursday night that it is looking for a man near Route E, East
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By Alexandra Banner, CNN Healthcare is one of the few sectors still reliably adding jobs in America, now accounting for roughly 15% of the nation’s workforce. A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics expected today will reveal which other industries are holding steady and which are beginning to lose momentum. Here’s what else
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By Lianne Kolirin and James Frater, CNN (CNN) — Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a transplant due to “life-threatening chronic lung disease,” the country’s royal household has announced. The 52-year-old princess will not be able to fulfil her duties as a working member of the royal family, according
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By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officials in New York are employing their version of a full-court press off the basketball court this month, ramping up security with the NBA Finals coming to Madison Square Garden for the first time since 1999 and as President Donald Trump plans to attend a game. Extra
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after spending almost a week on the mountain with no food or bottled oxygen. For six days, there had been no radio contact or sign of Hillary Dawa
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By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Brendan Banfield, the Virginia man convicted of killing his wife and a stranger as part of an elaborate plot with the family’s au pair, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole after facing his victims’ loved ones in court. “The level of cruelty, calculation and inhumanity in
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia Public Works opened its doors Thursday evening to address safety concerns about a residential road on the east side of town. City officials hosted an open house from 6-7 p.m. to discuss a traffic calming project on Hoylake Drive between East Broadway and South Rolling Hills Road. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Ashland police officer has settled his lawsuit with the city, according to his attorney. Andy Hirth of TGH Litigation said former officer Tom Whitener settled his claims over wrongful firing with Ashland for $1 million. The two sides were set to go to trial on July 6. Whitener sued Ashland
Continue Reading By Sylvie Zhuang, Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week for a rare visit just weeks after the Chinese leader hosted US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin for separate, nearly back-to-back visits. Xi will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Community members gathered Thursday to discuss the future of the Shops at Sharp End, a retail incubator created to support local entrepreneurs in one of Columbia’s most historically significant Black neighborhoods. The meeting comes as organizers face a looming funding deadline and growing questions about whether the current model adequately reflects the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tractor-trailer loaded with cheese crashed on Interstate 70 westbound on the west side of Boonville on Thursday, closing the road temporarily. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the injury crash happened at the 102-mile marker near the Ashley Road exit in Boonville. Crews were working late Thursday afternoon to clean up
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KM(Z) American Shaman has agreed to suspend the sale of kratom and 7-OH products in Missouri, the state’s Attorney General’s Office shared in a Thursday press release. AG Catherine Hanaway announced in March that her office was suing the business and its affiliated companies under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, claiming that its
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Peters Lake in Fayette is temporarily closed, the City of Fayette announced in a Wednesday social media post. “Due to the recent heavy rainfall, the spillway at Peter’s Lake has been washed out,” the post says. “For the safety of the public, Peter’s Lake will be closed until further notice while the
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By Victoria Butenko, Katharina Krebs, Nina Subkhanberdina, Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin rebuffed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for a face-to-face meeting, saying there was “no point.” Zelensky urged Putin to end the countries’ four-year war in an open letter posted Thursday, as the Russian leader was preparing to
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The father of 16-year-old Kayla Huff, who was found dead in a Randolph County conservation area last month, says he’s working with a domestic violence shelter to bring awareness to teen dating violence and abuse. “We are working with this amazing organization to try to educate our children on the dangers of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The headline has been corrected to remove an erroneous mention of the older Orton, A Harrisburg student was killed Wednesday when a train hit his father’s semi-truck in Iowa. Robert Orton, 14, was killed when a 2015 Kenworth truck driven by Michael Orton, 38, of Palmyra, Missouri, crossed tracks in
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