By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. This weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” was, in the words of one reviewer, an “instant classic,” which is something of a rarity, since critics love to lament that the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the second-straight year, a Father Tolton cross country team finished first in state. The Trailblazer girls captured the class three state title at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course on Saturday afternoon. Tolton freshman Elyse Wilmes finished in first place, while her teammate Madison Taylor also finished in the top-five. Meanwhile,
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By Ramishah Maruf and Jacob Lev, CNN Prevea Health and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers announced they are ending their partnership in a joint statement issued by the company Saturday. Rodgers tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week and is unvaccinated against the virus. He has been a spokesperson for Prevea Health, which is
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Schneider and Kaitlan Collins, CNN The Department of Justice argued Monday night against a more permanent block of the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate in a filing to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, saying that Republican-led states and private businesses challenging the mandate have not shown that their claimed injuries “outweigh
Continue ReadingTonight: Winds out of the southwest tonight will keep Central Missouri slightly above the average overnight low to 42 degrees. Sky conditions will remain mostly clear. Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight before bed for fall daylight saving. Tomorrow: Sunday looks to be a warm day with continuing southwesterly flowing winds
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Friday, the House passed a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Columbia Mayor, Brian Treece, spoke to ABC 17 News about how these funds will be utilized in the area. Treece says Missouri is going to receive up to $8 billion, and about 6.5 million of this is reserved for roads and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri State Highway Patrol criminalist said soil found on Joseph Elledge’s boots closely matched soil found at the site where his wife was buried. Prosecutors led the sixth day of the Joseph Elledge murder trial with testimony from Will Randle, the patrol’s lead trace evidence analyst. Randle said he inspected a
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN TK Tellez knows that festivals can get crazy. But nothing, he says, could have prepared him for the tragedy that unfolded Friday night at the Astroworld Festival in Houston. It began an hour before Travis Scott was set to perform, as Tellez and his girlfriend stood near the stage in hopes
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Houston’s sold-out Astroworld Festival was packed Friday night with about 50,000 people in another sign of a nation anxious to escape the pandemic gloom and let loose. Then, just after 9 p.m., with rapper and event organizer Travis Scott performing, the densely packed crowd began pushing toward the illuminated stage, officials
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The effort from two Mizzou quarterbacks was not enough to top No. 1 Georgia at Sanford Stadium on Saturday afternoon, as the Tigers fell 43-6. The loss puts the Tigers at 4-5 this season. MU struck first in the contest, courtesy of a 36-yard field goal from Harrison Mevis. However, the Tigers
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf and Jacob Lev, CNN Prevea Health and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers announced they are ending their partnership in a joint statement issued by the company Saturday. Rodgers tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week and is unvaccinated against the virus. He has been a spokesperson for Prevea Health, which is
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By Alanne Orjoux, CNN Two high school students, a mechanical engineering technology student from Illinois and a man who was trying to save his fiancée are among the eight people who died at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night, authorities said. Rapper Travis Scott, who was performing, has said he will pay for
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Devan Cole, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Saturday his newly adopted son is doing well “after a terrifying few days” in the hospital. Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, first announced that Gus had come home on Friday. “After 3 weeks in and out of hospitals, 125 miles in an ambulance, and a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In a press release sent out on Saturday morning, the Columbia Police Department says one woman was shot along the area of North Blvd. and North 8th St. around midnight. CPD confirmed to ABC 17 News crews that one woman was injured in the incident and there was property damage from the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Final passage of a massive public works bill Friday provided President Joe Biden what had increasingly seemed like a vanishing ideal: A major, bipartisan accomplishment that has the power to improve the lives of millions of Americans. The vote came after weeks of torturous negotiations among Democrats, and is likely to
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By Travis Caldwell and Keith Allen, CNN A crowd surge at a Houston music festival on Friday crushed concertgoers as they were left trampled and gasping for air, struggling to survive against a wall of people pressing forward toward the stage. Police are investigating the potential causes of the surge, which occurred at the Astroworld
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By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The detentions follow a dramatic escalation in the war last week, when the federal government declared a state
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TODAY: Mostly sunny and warm with highs in the mid-60s. TOMORROW: Warming up under clear skies. Highs in the upper 60s. EXTENDED: Don’t forget to turn your clocks back an hour and gain some extra sleep on Saturday night for the end of Daylight Saving Time! Expect a breezy weekend across Mid-Missouri with steady southwesterly
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, CNN The first police officer to respond to the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Georgia, testified in court Monday he did not render first aid to Arbery due to the danger of the situation as well as his lack of medical training and equipment. Former Glynn County Police Officer Ricky Minshew
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By Jen Christensen, CNN When Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler sent a survey to parents in his Toledo-area district to see how many wanted to get their children vaccinated against Covid-19, he got more than 20,000 “no” responses. His district only has 5,700 students in it. “Clearly someone spent a lot of time in their
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