By Alexandra Banner, CNN More shoppers are pausing in the grocery store to take a closer look at ingredient lists, especially since many products nowadays contain mysterious additives. A new poll suggests those concerns are widespread, with 77% of Republicans, Democrats and Independents now calling for large warning labels on ultraprocessed foods. Here’s what else
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Jefferson City’s ruling body is in a battle over bicycle traffic laws. Cyclists there successfully lobbied the city council to approve a version of the “Idaho Law,” which allows people on bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs — if no other traffic is approaching, there’s no need to stop. Supporters say it makes
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By Kosta Gak, Anna Chernova, Helen Regan, Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian drones rained down on St. Petersburg overnight, striking key infrastructure and wounding several people, just hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s signature economic forum drawing thousands of attendees opened in the city. Hundreds of drones hit several Russian cities, with Kyiv
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A proposed Idaho Stop ordinance for cyclists was sent back to committee for further review on Monday after Jefferson City Mayor Ron Fitzwater vetoed the idea. The Jefferson City Council passed the ordinance, also known as the “Idaho Law,” in May by a 6-2 vote, allowing cyclists to treat intersections with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla woman was charged with two felonies and three misdemeanors after she allegedly crashed a stolen tractor into a fence and on Thursday and ran off with camouflage boots in Gasconade County. Ashley Walser was charged with second-degree burglary, first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle, second-degree tampering with a motor vehicle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A convicted murderer has been accused of killing an inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center. Zachariah Peterson, 38, was charged with second-degree murder and causing violence to an inmate after a grand jury indictment was filed on Tuesday. A no-bond warrant was issued. Details were scant because of the lack of a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Board of Education President Mary Schrag resigned from her position on Tuesday, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Schrag was appointed to the state board in 2019 by then-Gov. Mike Parson. Her term officially expired in 2024, but state law allows that person
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Parks and Recreation discussed plans for renovations to the Rainbow Softball Complex at Cosmo Park during an interested parties meeting Tuesday night. The city plans to install LED lighting and concrete backstops to all six fields at the complex. The upgrades are expected to cost $750,000 and are funded by the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Black drivers in Missouri were once again stopped at higher rates last year than white drivers, according to the annual Vehicle Stops Report. The Attorney General’s Vehicle Stops Report is due on June 1 each year. It provides data related to vehicle stops statewide, including an index that measures the rate at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Local group No New Jail Boone Co. is pushing back against a sales tax increase set to appear on the November ballot. No New Jail Boone Co. includes members who are volunteers at other local groups. This includes COMO Mobile Aid, Room at the Inn, Loaves and Fishes and Boone County Community
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The suspect’s age has been corrected. A murder charge was filed Tuesday against a Columbia man accused of putting his significant other’s body in a City of Columbia trash bin and dumping it into a body of water. Andrew B. Acton, 53, was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder in Boone
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is developing Project Green, a new data center in New Florence, Montgomery County, that will draw water from an aquifer deep beneath the city. And Amazon hopes to tap the source with a high-yield well. Project Green Site Plan. Courtesy of Amazon Web Services. The data center complex will be located
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people have filed to run for the open Fourth Ward seat on the Columbia City Council in the Aug. 4 election. Tuesday was the deadline to file for the August election. The city clerk’s office confirmed the field includes former Columbia Utilities Director David Sorrell, Ryan King and attorney Sharon Jones,
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By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — A Frontier Airlines flight heading to Chicago on Sunday had to divert to Miami International Airport because a passenger choked an off-duty flight attendant shortly after he tried to open an emergency exit door and enter the cockpit, police records show. The passenger, Juan Gabriel Reyes, 51, has been
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard has taken custody of the small dinghy where Lynette Hooker’s husband said he last saw his wife as part of its criminal investigation into the American woman’s disappearance in the Bahamas, according to a US official familiar with the investigation. A Coast Guard vessel equipped
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The legal guardian of a child with cerebral palsy filed a discrimination lawsuit on Monday against the Russellville School District and a number of its employees. Daryl Matheis sued the Cole County R-1 School District, along with teachers and paraprofessionals, after claiming disability discrimination, sex discrimination, retaliation, battery, assault and false imprisonment.
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Sorry, not sorry. Why do women tend to apologize so much? It’s complicated. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Job market In an encouraging sign for workers whose industries have been shrinking, US job openings surged to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told a House subcommittee Tuesday that the Trump administration will not establish a $1.776 billion fund to benefit its allies. Blanche said during testimony before the subcommittee that “We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” according to The Associated Press. Congressional Republicans had expressed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s parking revenue is up substantially in the first six months of this year after the city raised parking rates in January. On-street parking rates increased to a $1 an hour on during the first week of January and has resulted in a 50.4% gain in revenue compared to the same time
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By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A California judge dismissed charges against a dermatologist accused of poisoning her husband with liquid drain cleaner, ruling that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office had withheld evidence from the grand jury that indicted her. According to a news release from her attorney, Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick
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