COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A $50,000 donation from the Columbia Public Schools Foundation was made Friday to reduce student lunch debt, according to a press release from CPSF. The donation was made to the Lunch For Learners Fund. A Thursday email from a CPS spokesperson stated that school lunch debt sat at $124,613. CPS spokeswoman Michelle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was arrested in relation to a large police response that occurred Thursday at Forest Village Apartments has been charged. Ramelus Bradley, 19, was charged in Boone County on Friday with unlawful use of a weapon, third-degree domestic assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree domestic assault. He is being held at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Another man has pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge in a June 2023 fatal shooting on Dove Drive. Jajuan Crockett, 23, of Columbia, pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree murder, tampering with a motor vehicle, two counts of stealing and one count of tampering with evidence. He was sentenced to 10
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There will be 5,954 people graduating during next weekend’s commencement ceremonies at the University of Missouri, according to a Friday press release from MU. Graduation ceremonies will occur Friday through Sunday and a total of 6,428 degrees will be awarded. Of that total, 4,638 are bachelor’s degrees; 1,101 are master’s and education
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 74-year-old man from Black, Missouri, was seriously injured in a Wednesday crash at the intersection of Route D and County Road 9000 in Phelps County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says the crash occurred as a 1998 Yamaha motorcycle was heading westbound when it went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged after authorities say he allegedly assaulted a tenant at a Boone County residence on Thursday. Frederick Garver, 53, was charged with third-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and resisting arrest. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A hearing was held
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man was charged on Friday with several felonies after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in 2023. Jeffrey Wilcox, 28, was charged with first-degree sodomy, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A court date has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man who is accused of firing a gun at a woman on Wednesday has been charged with multiple felonies. Josiah Willis, 21, was charged with first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Pettis County Jail on a $35,000 bond. Willis
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured after he was hit by a vehicle on Thursday night on Route J in Camden County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The youth was flown to University Hospital, the report says. The crash occurred when a 2017 Nissan Rogue –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 39-year-old Higbee man was seriously injured in a crash after midnight Friday morning on Route A, about three miles south of Moberly, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says that the man was riding a 2021 Harley Davison southbound when it went off the roadway. The
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Story by Reuters Palermo, Italy (Reuters) — A diver died on Friday during preliminary operations to recover British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht from the waters off the coast of northern Sicily, local police said. The 56-meter-long (184-foot) Bayesian was moored off the small port of Porticello, near Palermo, in August last year when it
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused of stealing an ambulance from Phelps Health Hospital in Rolla on Thursday has been charged. Jason Johnson, 44, of Bland, Missouri, was charged on Friday with first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle and aggravated fleeing. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail. According to the probable cause
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino, Rebekah Riess, Dalia Faheid, CNN Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on Saturday arrived in her home state of Massachusetts after she was snatched by masked federal agents near her home and spent six weeks in ICE detention as part of the Trump administration’s effort to deport noncitizens who have spoken out
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb and Kara Fox, CNN Rome (CNN) — On most days, the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, but this week it served as the world’s most secretive polling station as 133 cardinals voted for the 267th pope. On Friday, the chapel was restored to
Continue Reading CNN By Christian Edwards, Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb and Kara Fox, CNN Rome (CNN) — On most days, the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, but this week it served as the world’s most secretive polling station as 133 cardinals voted for the 267th pope. On Friday, the chapel was restored
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday after being found guilty of killing an 88-year-old woman in 2021. Lyle Miller, 68, of Madison, Missouri, was convicted by a jury in March of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the December 2021 death of Betty Hayes, 88. Miller was arrested in July 2023. According
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s Western allies including the US are threatening to slap Russia with more sanctions if Moscow fails to sign up to the 30-day truce in Ukraine proposed by the United States. US President Donald Trump on Thursday added the threat of additional sanctions from the US and “its partners”
Continue Reading By Bob Ortega and Robert Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) filed a complaint against him, along with other church leaders, to the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The group alleged Prevost “harmed
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, Alex Marquardt and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee outlined an American-Israeli plan to funnel humanitarian aid into parts of Gaza that he acknowledged will initially feed only about 60% of the population. Huckabee said the aid mechanism, which will be administered by a newly formed private
Continue Reading By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Air traffic controllers handling flights approaching and departing Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another outage early Friday morning. The blackout included losing radar for about 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. “There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications
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