COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County man was charged with two counts of first-degree harassment after he allegedly threatened to kill two workers who were ordered to trim trees for Callaway Electric Cooperative. Christopher Cockrum, 45, of Fulton, is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A mugshot was not immediately available and
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Hutter, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! We’re seeing delays and flight cancellations at major airports across the country amidst the government shutdown. This is what you should do if you’re affected, whether you haven’t left your house yet or are already trapped at your terminal for the night. Here’s what else
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former officer of the Doolittle Police Department has been charged with several child sex crimes. Carl Swanson, of St. James, was charged in Phelps County with first-degree child molestation, second-degree statutory rape and second-degree statutory sodomy. A warrant was served on Thursday and he posted a $250,000 bond, according to court
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By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Rhode Island said Thursday that the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. “People have gone without for too long,” US District Judge John McConnell said during a hastily called hearing Thursday. “Not making
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man detained by ICE in September after returning from a trip to Europe had his first court hearing on Thursday. Owen Ramsingh — who has had a green card since the 1980s, according to his family — had a court date set for Thursday, Nov. 6 after being detained at Chicago’s O’Hare
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department has confirmed that a man who was hit in a crash on Range Line Street this past weekend has died. Police wrote that Ethan Cash, 25, of Columbia, has died from his injuries on Thursday. The post says the crash involved multiple vehicles and a vehicle heading south
Continue ReadingStory by Associated Press Vienna (AP) — Austria’s domestic intelligence service has uncovered a weapons cache in Vienna that is believed to be linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for use in “possible terrorist attacks in Europe,” the government said Thursday. A 39-year-old unidentified British citizen allegedly “having close ties to the weapons cache”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri State Highway Patrol vehicle was involved in a crash with a moped at the intersection of East Elm Street and Clark Avenue in Jefferson City, according to a crash report from MSHP. The report says the crash occurred as the trooper – a 37-year-old Jefferson City man — tried making
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CNN By Bill Kirkos, Priscilla Alvarez, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN Chicago (CNN) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible. One of the incidents in question was a confrontation between federal agents and
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By Matt Stiles, Byron Manley, Gillian Roberts, Curt Merrill, Alex Leeds Matthews, Pete Muntean, Amy O’Kruk, Rosa de Acosta, Soph Warnes, CNN (CNN) — Air travel is recovering from the effects of the government shutdown as federal agencies return to normal operations, with about 2% of flights canceled Friday, according to aviation analysts at Cirium.
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are requesting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor come to Washington to be questioned as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices. In a letter to Andrew on Thursday – published soon after he was formally
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CNN By Chris Boyette, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A jury on Thursday awarded $10 million to Abby Zwerner, the former Virginia teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in 2023, in a civil trial that offered a preview of the criminal case to come against the school administrator accused of ignoring warnings
Continue Reading By Bill Kirkos, Priscilla Alvarez, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN Chicago (CNN) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible. One of the incidents in question was a confrontation between federal agents and protestors,
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By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Canada’s Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on the proposed culling of a British Columbia ostrich herd, in a case that has attracted the attention of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement. The court’s dismissal paves the way for the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A federal judge will allow a lawsuit against the University of Missouri to continue over the exclusion of a Palestinian rights student group from the 2024 Homecoming parade. Judge Stephen Bough ruled against MU on Wednesday in its request to dismiss the case against system president Mun Choi. The school argued
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By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — It’s the smoking gun behind the most spectacular heist this side of the Millennium. A French court released a report Thursday slamming the leadership of the Louvre for its focus on headline-grabbing purchases and renovation projects over maintaining the security of on of the world’s largest museums. The
Continue ReadingBy Daria Tarasova-Markina, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind. Dmitriy Kurashov, 27, was convicted by a court in Ukraine’s southeastern city
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By Dana Karni, Tal Shalev, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military carried out a series of strikes across southern Lebanon on Thursday, saying it was targeting Hezbollah in response to what it described as the militant group’s attempts to rebuild operations in the region. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the strikes targeted
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By Holly Yan, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Travel plans for millions of Americans could come to a screeching halt this month as more flights get canceled during the longest government shutdown in US history. More than 1,000 Friday flights were slashed on the first day of the Trump administration’s mandatory cuts to reduce US
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 44-year-old Eldon man is seriously hurt after he crashed his UTV around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in Miller County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states the man was riding a 2015 Polaris Razor with a 17-year-old Eldon boy on Spring Garden Road, east of Short Road.
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