By George Ramsay, CNN At least 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion less than a month ago, the head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said Sunday. That figure accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s population, which was calculated at 44 million by the
Continue Reading By George Ramsay, CNN At least 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion less than a month ago, the head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said Sunday. That figure accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s population, which was calculated at 44 million by the
Continue ReadingBy Laura Studley, CNN Virginian-Pilot newspaper reporter and former CNN news assistant Sierra Jenkins was among the individuals shot and killed in an early Saturday morning shooting that left one more person dead and three others injured, Norfolk, Virginia, police said. She was 25. Jenkins was leaving a downtown Norfolk restaurant, Chicho’s Pizza Backstage, when
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By CNN’s Beijing bureau, Yong Xiong, Lizzy Yee and Wayne Chang, CNN A China Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying 132 people crashed in the mountains in southern China’s Guangxi region on Monday afternoon, according to the country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC). The Boeing 737 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council is set to discuss roll cart repeal proposals and new ward boundaries at Monday night’s meeting. Roll Cart Agenda Items The first proposed roll cart agenda item up for a first read deals with a petition signed by 3,244 Columbia residents to repeal the ban on roll carts
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s what
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s what
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s what
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 20 million people across the Southeast US are bracing for extreme weather this week — including tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail. The severe storms will be felt across the Gulf Coast region, but portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are expected to be hit the hardest. Here’s what
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MONDAY: Monday will start warm and quiet. Some high clouds overhead are a sign of what’s to come. A brief break in the clouds may yield more of a mostly sunny sky, but an overall forecast of partly cloudy is in place thanks to increasing clouds again this afternoon, ahead of rain chances. Showers are
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By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN While firefighters grapple with wildfires across Texas, a bit of good news emerged Monday: the Big L Fire is now “under control,” Hood County officials said. “It burned more than 11,000 acres. The evacuation order for the City of Lipan has been lifted,” Hood County officials tweeted Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Laine, Maryna Marukhnych and Natalie Gallón, CNN This is the final bus out of the last position Ukraine holds on the road to Kherson — the first and only major city Russia has taken. Villagers have standing room only, while the elderly have been rushed into a van. “Grandpa, we are here,” shouts the daughter of one local, Viktor, from the bus doorway, as
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) NEW: A citizen reported that they had discovered human remains in one of the bodies of water within Rocky Fork Conservation area. Officials recovered the body of an adult female, who is believed to be that of Angie Rice. Angie Rice, age 45, was reported missing in December 2021. Her vehicle
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Callaway County, MO. (KMIZ.) Several community members in both Callaway and Audrain county are speaking out against the company’s recent announcement of temporarily limiting services because of IT issues. Some argue IT issues are not the case and the hospital is just struggling to keep up with its finances. While others say the hospital is
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Fred Pleitgen and Byron Blunt, CNN The sound of rockets launching in the distance breaks the silence of an otherwise quiet morning in Kyiv. “That’s us, we’re attacking Russian positions close to Hostomel,” a Ukrainian soldier says, as the shots fire in a synchronized rhythm. In this particular instance, the rockets the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on former Mizzou basketball star Laurence Bowers in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 17 Mizzou softball team beat Stanford 5-0 in its final game of the Mizzou Classic on Sunday night. The Tigers went 1-3 in their home tournament, including a 4-3 loss to Ball State on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers are now 19-9 overall. Up next – MU will host Western Illinois
Continue ReadingTonight: Slight cloud cover pulls in from the west leading to partly cloudy skies overnight. Winds remain out of the south at 5-10 mph as the overnight low falls to the lower ’50s. Tomorrow: Winds begin to increase in the mid-morning hours along with cloud cover with gusts up to 25 mph possible. By late
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By Uliana Pavlova and Brian Stelter, CNN A Russian journalist working for the independent news site The Insider was killed in a shelling incident in Kyiv, the outlet said in a statement on Wednesday. Oksana Baulina had been filming the shelling destruction in the capital’s Podilskyi District by Russian troops when she came under rocket
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business As inflation and Russia’s war on Ukraine force consumers to pay more at the pump, some states are temporarily suspending their gas tax — and others may follow. Lawmakers in California, which has the highest gas tax in the country at 51-cents-per-gallon, are proposing a $400 gas tax rebate, after
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