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Columbia officials weigh options for recycling after tornado damage to facility

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Columbia City Council ward representated by Don Waterman has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia council members discussed the future of recycling on Monday, during its pre-council meeting.  The meeting comes after the city’s Material Recovery Facility was destroyed by an April 20th tornado. According to a presentation shown

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Task force holds first meeting on school funding modernization process

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) An 18-month process begins on Monday for the Missouri School Funding Modernization Task Force appointed by Gov. Mike Kehoe. The 16-member task force, established by Executive Order 25-14, is looking to modernize the state’s K-12 foundation formula and recommend updates to the state’s foundational funding structure. Missouri’s school funding formula was

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Prosecutors present fired investigator’s sexist texts in Karen Read’s retrial as defense chooses not to read them

By Dakin Andone, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Jurors in the retrial of Karen Read on Monday heard a spate of sexist messages the lead investigator of the case sent his friends, after the judge ruled to allow the since-fired Massachusetts State Police trooper’s texts into evidence. “She’s a whack job c*nt,” Michael Proctor wrote

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New footage reveals the impact of Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian air bases

By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Vasco Cotovio, Frankie Vetch, Eve Brennan, Benjamin Brown, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mitchell McCluskey, Helen Regan, Tim Lister, Henry Zeris, Lou Robinson and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian airfields was audacious and daring. But most of all, it was meticulously planned and flawlessly executed. New

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