COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive lineman Mekhi Wingo plans to enter the transfer portal. He confirmed his decision to ABC 17 News on Thursday. PowerMizzou was the first to report the news. The SEC All-Freshman Team member played in 12 games for the Tigers this past season. Wingo had 27 tackles, including two for a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Tiger quarterback Connor Bazelak announced his commitment to Indiana on Thursday afternoon, just two weeks after he entered the transfer portal. The quarterback will have three years of eligibility left with the Hoosiers. Bazelak appeared in 11 games and threw for 2,540 yards, 16 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions through the 2021
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By Chris Boyette, CNN The fire that destroyed a Planned Parenthood facility in Tennessee on New Year’s Eve was intentionally set, the Knoxville Fire Department said Thursday. The fire took place just after 6:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve when firefighters responded to the facility with nine firefighting units and 30 fire department members. The
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By Lauren M. Johnson, Amy Simonson and Sara Smart, CNN Kentucky State Police is working to clear what they say is a more than 20-car pile-up on the Western Kentucky Parkway due to winter weather conditions. Drivers told CNN that they have been stuck anywhere from four to five hours, moving very little or not
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home. The group flew to Cancun from Montreal on December 30 aboard a
Continue ReadingBy Greg Clary Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio indicated he doesn’t plan to cooperate with a request to meet to meet with the House select committee investigating January 6, according to a defiant letter he sent to committee Chair Bennie Thompson on Sunday. While Jordan — a top congressional ally of former President Donald
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Senate leaders will have relationships to repair this new year. Republican lawmakers in the senate are once more at odds with each other. There seems to have been a loss of trust among the members of the Senate as the session begins. State Senator Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, says, “The point
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TONIGHT: Cold air sticks around tonight. Temperatures will drop into the single digits overnight, with a slight breeze making it feel even colder. At worst, it may feel like subzero temperatures early Friday. FRIDAY: After a cold start, temperatures will make their greatest jump in two days, with highs expected in the mid 20’s. Southerly
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Hawley became a central figure in the violence in the minds of many after his vote objecting to Pennsylvania’s presidential count and an infamous photo circulated showing him raising a fist into the air toward Trump supporters outside the Capitol.
Continue ReadingBy Geneva Sands, CNN There has been an increase in online extremist content in the past 48 hours, including threats to lawmakers and the President, according to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence memo obtained by CNN. While there is still no indication of a specific and credible plot, officials fear the content could inspire
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Police have arrested a man they suspect of shooting four people in downtown Columbia early New Year’s Day.
Continue ReadingBy Whitney Wild In the three weeks leading up to the January 6, 2021, insurrection, the US Capitol Police intelligence division produced four Special Event Assessments showing mounting evidence of a potentially volatile situation, as part of its overall effort to help the agency determine its security posture that day. The assessments, obtained by CNN,
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Actress Betty White died after suffering a stroke six days prior, according to her death certificate. The official cause of death listed on the Los Angeles County document obtained by CNN is cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for a stroke, when blood flow to the brain is blocked causing impairment due
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Officers arrested Brandon L. Welty, 25, of Columbia, after a fight among three people near the intersection of Ninth and Cherry streets, University of Missouri police said.
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, is questioning former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday, Judge
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Jessica Chastain suffered a dangerous head injury while filming her latest movie. The actress appeared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on Wednesday and said that while she was filming “The 355,” she ended up having to go to the hospital. “I was doing a fight scene and it
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar and Taylor Ward, CNN Meteorologists Winter weather alerts stretched from coast to coast Thursday with nearly 100 million people impacted as multiple storm systems moved across the US. There are two separate storm systems hitting both sides of the country and plunging temperatures across the central US, so let’s break down the
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business January 6 was a clear turning point for major social media companies — proving that they would, under certain circumstances, be willing to deplatform a sitting US president. But some experts worry that they still haven’t done enough to address the underlying issues that allowed Trump supporters and others on
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TONIGHT: Cold air sticks around tonight. Temperatures will drop into the single digits overnight, with a slight breeze making it feel even colder. At worst, it may feel like subzero temperatures early Friday. FRIDAY: After a cold start, temperatures will make their greatest jump in two days, with highs expected in the mid 20’s. Southerly
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The BMW Flow electric SUV concept can change hues at the press of a button, going from white to gray or black and back again in moments. While it can’t go beyond shades of gray and, even at that, it lacks the subtlety and depth of real car paint, the
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