COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council will begin discussing changes to its late-night rideshare/taxi stand ordinance on Monday. Currently, there are 34 parking spaces in five downtown Columbia locations designated as taxi stands between 11 p.m.-2 a.m. The revised ordinance would expand to 66 spaces and allows the ordinance to begin earlier at 9
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By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s handpicked board of the Kennedy Center has voted a second time to close the performing arts institution for a two-year renovation, according to two people who were briefed on the decision. The board on Thursday also voted to add an inscription below the Kennedy Center’s sign, saying
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County judge on Wednesday allowed three Republican groups to step in on a lawsuit challenging a certificate of insufficiency the secretary of state issued on a referendum to get the 2025 congressional map on the November ballot. Judge Daniel Green allowed the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee
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By Betsy Klein, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of August, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. The imminent departure of one of the president’s closest allies inside the White House marks a major shakeup for the president’s press operation, with less than three months
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LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen on Tuesday unanimously approved a youth curfew, prohibiting anyone younger than 18 from being on the Bagnell Dam Strip after 11 p.m. without a guardian. The ordinance will stretch from the Lake Ozark Christian Church to the Bagnell Dam Strip and last from 11 p.m.-5
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University of Missouri System President Mun Choi has not kept a low profile in putting pressure on Columbia and Boone County officials when it comes to violent crime. After high-profile incidents downtown, one of which resulted in a young woman’s death, Choi has repeatedly pressured local leaders to take action to stop crime, particularly downtown.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is hosting a set of meetings regarding a transmission line project that was originally approved in 2015, but has been stalled amid residents’ concerns about high-power lines near homes. The meetings will be held on Tuesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – While more individual voting precincts in Columbia voted against Proposition 1, big turnout in parts of west Columbia powered the measure to pass. Results for Proposition 1, the 1% increase in Columbia’s sales tax to help fund public safety, analyzed by ABC 17 News, show the race stayed tight across town.
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By Kevin Liptak, Alejandra Jaramillo, Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump secretly slipped out of Turkey last month on an alternate military plane, which he boarded while hidden inside a catering truck, as part of an elaborate ruse prompted by an Iranian threat, according to a US official. The clandestine security plan — first
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Results from Boone County’s elections were certified on Monday, County Clerk Brianna Lennon announced. An email from Lennon shows 55 provisional ballots were accepted and counted, 18 ballots that “could not be counted by the tabulator at the polling place,” were accepted and counted and two military/overseas ballots were accepted and counted.
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By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday aimed at reshaping the federal government’s approach toward childhood vaccines, according to a draft of the document obtained by CNN. The sweeping order proposes reducing the total number of immunizations recommended for children in their earliest years and dividing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri schools are finally starting to see money from the state’s sports betting industry, which was legalized in December. According to Liz Hoffman of the Missouri Gaming Commission, $1.084 million was transferred to the Sports Wagering Education Fund on June 9, marking the first distribution to education since sports betting was legalized.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Respect Missouri Voters held a rally on Friday at the Missouri Secretary of State Office this afternoon. The rally comes after Secretary of State Denny Hoskins decided on Tuesday to reject the group’s proposed constitutional amendment from appearing on the November ballot. The group filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an
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By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Hillary Clinton blasted President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the White House in an interview posted Friday, telling podcast host Kara Swisher that Trump’s “tackied up” decor is “reminiscent” of dictator Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Iraq. “It’s sad to me — it’s sad that it’s so tackied up, and it’s
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A divided federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump is unlawfully constructing a massive new ballroom at the White House, possibly teeing up a high-stakes showdown over the issue before the Supreme Court. “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and
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By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is calling on Goldman Sachs to sever all remaining ties with Kathy Ruemmler, the firm’s former chief legal officer, following her testimony last month about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter sent on Friday to Goldman CEO
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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Journalist Don Lemon asked a judge to dismiss an indictment tied to his presence at a protest in a Minnesota church earlier this year, arguing the charges violate the First Amendment and are a result of a vindictive prosecution. “The record could not be more clear that Mr. Lemon
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By Kaanita Iyer, Alayna Treene, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump distanced himself from voters’ ire with Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, telling Punchbowl News in an interview released Friday he thinks voters are angry with the party more generally, but not him. “The question is will they vote? ‘Cause a
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris thinks Joe Biden had too much faith in Republicans, and she’s jabbing at him for it. “We cannot sit around hoping Republicans will have an ‘epiphany’ and do the right thing,” the former vice president will say in a speech Friday night in New Orleans, “because the
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By Kaanita Iyer, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said Friday she will vote against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, narrowing his chances at Senate confirmation for the role. With Sen. Mitch McConnell absent and all Democrats expected to vote against the confirmation, Blanche cannot afford to lose
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