By Taylor Romine, Brandon Miller and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least one person was injured after a rare tornado hit a city just southeast of Los Angeles Wednesday, local officials said. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado “briefly touched down” in an industrial park and warehouse district in the city of Montebello and rated
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court on Wednesday delved into the complexities of federal trademark law in a case concerning a poop-themed dog toy that resembles a Jack Daniel’s bottle, at times erupting into laughter as the justices explored how much protection should be given to parodists that rip off trademarks they don’t own.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Olga Voitovich and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Russia unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine on Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping departed from Moscow following talks with President Vladimir Putin. Xi left Russia’s capital pledging to deepen ties with Putin but the meetings failed to achieve a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team managed to get back in the win column Wednesday night with a home victory over Drake 7-1. The Tigers were led in the mound by freshman pitcher Cierra Harrison who pitched five complete innings allowing just two hits and recording eight strikeouts. Lauren Krings closed out the final
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Wednesday, March 22, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL SMITH-COTTON (4) ROCK BRIDGE (13) FINAL CAPITAL CITY (0) JEFFERSON CITY (1) FINAL NEW FRANKLIN (0) MOBERLY (13) FINAL ST. FRANCIS BORGIA (5) BLAIR OAKS (3) FINAL SOUTH CALLAWAY (12)
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Six highway workers were killed when a vehicle crashed into a construction zone near Baltimore, Maryland, according to police. The crash happened around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday at a work zone between temporary concrete walls on Interstate 695 in Woodlawn, about 8 miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland State Police
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has stylized himself as a political brawler willing to take on all comers, from Disney and the corporate media to high school students wearing masks. But his brewing battle with Donald Trump was for months a one-sided affair. That changed this week when DeSantis for the first
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Shou Zi Chew is getting ready for his inaugural trip to Congress. The TikTok chief executive has, for the last week, participated in near-daily, multi-hour prep sessions, CNN has learned, as he readies to face a bipartisan grilling on Thursday from lawmakers on a number of issues, most notably data privacy
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Inflation in Europe has fallen to its slowest pace in more than a year, though stark signs of persistent underlying pressure on prices will complicate policymakers’ next move on borrowing costs. Prices in the 20 countries that use the euro rose 6.9% this month compared with a year ago, the European
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) When you’re away from your house is a likely time someone may prey on an unsuspecting home. According to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, there were 619,811 burglaries reported in 2021, the most-recent year for available data. That number has fallen every year for the past 10 years of data available –
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former President Donald Trump‘s defense attorney Evan Corcoran is scheduled to testify Friday before the grand jury investigating classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago after a new order from a federal appeals court, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals said
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A bill legalizing sports betting for Missourians over 21 passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning.
Continue ReadingAs we head into spring, we’re going to be tracking an increase in strong to severe storms. Meteorologists and photographers this year will be manning the ABC 17 StormTracker and the 360 Camera to help give you live up to date shots of what’s going on. If you have lived in Missouri long enough, you’ve
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A misspelled name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The City of Columbia has added delineators to South Sinclair Road outside of Mill Creek Elementary School. The dividers were installed on Monday, according to Columbia Public Works spokesperson John Ogan. Ogan said the City worked with the school and CPS at the request
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with isolated storms north of I-70. A few could be strong with quarter size hail before sunrise Thursday. TOMORROW: Cloudy to start, with temperatures falling from the 60s early into the 50s by afternoon. Heavy rain and embedded thunderstorms developing by late afternoon, especially for areas along and south of I-70. Tonight,
Continue ReadingBy Kyung Lah and Jason Kravarik, CNN Allene Jue used to vote in a simple, rapid manner — scan the names on the ballot and pick the Asian sounding names. That was before 2020. “Something turned on during the pandemic and lit a fire,” said Jue, a Chinese American mother of two girls, ages 3
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Some Missouri nurses are advocating for lawmakers to remove restrictions on their practice so they can stay in rural communities without needing a physician.
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ABC 17 News is interviewing each of the seven candidates running for three open spots on the Columbia Board of Education. At least two of them will be new members — only one incumbent is in the race.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Dakin Andone and Andy Rose, CNN One day after two faculty members were shot and wounded by a student at a Denver high school, the local school board voted unanimously to temporarily suspend its nearly two-year-old ban on armed guards and police officers in its schools. “Based on the emergency situation presented
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point on Wednesday as it attempts to fight stubbornly high inflation while addressing risks to financial stability. Investors and economists had widely anticipated the quarter-point increase despite the meltdown in the banking sector. Still, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and policymakers entered
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