COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Supporters of Columbia resident Owen Ramsingh, a citizen of the Netherlands who is being held in an El Paso, Texas, immigration detention center, rallied Friday night ahead of his detention hearing next week. Ramsingh was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Chicago O’Hare Airport in September as he returned from a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Lincoln University’s police chief says safety is everybody’s concern for its Centennial Homecoming tradition. The department is using multiple forms of technology to keep those attending homecoming events safe, along with more than 600 Flock security cameras across campus. The campus uses the RAVE Guardian app, which allows users to directly message
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of four men charged with stealing an ATM pleaded guilty Thursday. Augustus C. Sherman, 25, pleaded guilty to vehicle theft Thursday in Camden County. A charge of felony stealing was dropped. Sherman was sentenced to five years in prison for being a prior and persistent offender, court records show. Sherman was
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Open burning season in Jefferson City will start Saturday. The season runs from Nov. 1 to March 1 under city ordinance, and residents can burn yard waste between sunrise and sunset, the city wrote in a news release Friday. Fires should be attended to while they’re burning, and they should be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council will vote on Monday to allocate $50,000 to the Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri, as the federal government shutdown continues. The item appears on the city council’s consent agenda in Monday’s meeting. Consent agenda items are voted on in a block without discussion. The city government
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A second wrongful death lawsuit against the truck driver in a crash that killed two women on Interstate 70 in Columbia was filed Thursday. The lawsuit, filed by three of Melvina Colin’s children, seeks damages from the driver, Walter Montejo, and four companies connected to the load he was carrying when he
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Ankara, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Friday sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison after convicting them of severe negligence in connection with a deadly fire that swept through the property, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The blaze hit the 12-story Grand Kartal
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CNN By Max Foster, Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — The brother of Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, has called for a meeting with Britain’s King Charles to tell his sister’s story and ask the monarch to use his influence to bring to light more information about
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By Max Foster, Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — The brother of Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, has called for a meeting with Britain’s King Charles to tell his sister’s story and ask the monarch to use his influence to bring to light more information about Epstein’s
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By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Two federal judges said Friday that the Trump administration must tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to at least partially cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. The rulings from judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island reject a controversial US
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Missouri’s Cold Weather Rule restricting when utilities can shut off people’s gas or electricity is expanding under a new state law. Investor-owned utilities cannot shut off people’s services for nonpayment for 72 hours after temperatures reach below freezing during the day from November 1 to March 31. Those shutoffs were before
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — A fortnight ago, he was Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Now, he is simply Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. On Thursday night, Buckingham
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CNN By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — A series of encrypted phone calls – secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source – tipped off federal agents that a group was allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Michigan on behalf of ISIS, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday. Mohmed Ali, 20, and
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CNN By Aleks Klosok, Darren Lewis, CNN London (CNN) — Alex Iwobi vividly remembers the day: Friday, August 8, 2019. The transformative moment? A late, unexpected move for the then 23-year-old on transfer deadline day from his boyhood club of Arsenal to Premier League side Everton. The day, that as he says, he “became a
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — A group of people who allegedly chatted online about an ISIS-inspired attack went to a shooting range with AK-47s, practiced high-speed reloads and made a reference to “pumpkin day,” authorities said. That’s when investigators jumped into action. Multiple people were arrested Friday when the FBI averted a
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Trick-or-treaters made their rounds at the White House on Thursday as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted their annual Halloween event. For once, there was consensus in Washington … on making sure no candy bucket went empty. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to
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By Cindy Von Quednow, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Abby Zwerner instinctively raised her hand toward her heart when she saw the 6-year-old holding the gun. After the bullet hit her, “I thought I was on my way to heaven or in heaven,” Zwerner testified Thursday during her civil case against a former school official
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has issued a warning about a psychoactive product many people have probably never heard of. The department says Missourians should stay away from products containing 7-OH — a natural compound derived from the plant kratom that is marketed as a way to deal with stress, pain and
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — The scandal surrounding King Charles’ brother Andrew took yet another dramatic turn after the British sovereign’s decision to essentially evict him from the monarchy as well as the 30-room mansion where he’s lived for more than 20 years. The monarchy has been under intense pressure to
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By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Leaders of Pacific countries and territories, including China’s Xi Jinping, adopted a joint declaration on trade and investment at a major summit in South Korea Saturday. But the leader of one global powerhouse is conspicuously absent: Donald Trump. The US president flew out of South Korea Thursday, moments after
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