COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the seventh time in program history, the Columbia College women’s basketball team won the AMC Championship on Monday night. The Cougars took down Missouri Baptist 73-56. You can watch extended highlights of the win in the video player below. https://youtu.be/_mAsEqoylu4 South Callaway alum DeLaney Horstman led the scoring attack with 20
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group called Hold CoMO Accountable has been formed with the goal of holding more accountability and transparency from the City of Columbia. According to its website, the group is comprised of Columbia community members who are “concerned that we are living in a police state” and also claims the city’s Citizens
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz said that two of his quarterbacks will be limited to start spring camp, but one of them should be able to participate in a fuller capacity by the weekend. You can watch the full press conference with Drinkwitz in the video player below. https://youtu.be/EF9jVFnCqSM Brady Cook, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri has paid $100,913 to Service Master for water damage after pipes burst at Faurot Field in December. Significant water damage was caused from pipe bursts on the sixth floor of the west tower and near the south end zone due to extremely cold temperatures. An official said more information
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, Jon Passantino, Marshall Cohen, Nicki Brown, Kate Trafecante, Anna Bahney and Jeanne Sahadi, CNN A trove of text messages, emails, and other material from Fox News executives and on-air personalities were made public Tuesday as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing channel. Among the the hundreds
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Hundreds of workers gathered in the Harry S. Truman Building atrium Monday to witness the governor sign their pay raise into existence.
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The trial of a Columbia man accused of killing his ex-wife and throwing away her remains has been pushed back to June.
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds and breezy with wind gusts between 20-25 mph. Lows in the upper 30s. TOMORROW: Partly sunny with a breeze shifting to the southeast during the day. Highs in the lower 60s. EXTENDED: Winds will drop off significantly tonight, but we can still expect a few gusts up to 20 mph into Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ new book, “The Courage to Be Free,” leans into the culture wars that established him as one of the early Republican favorites for the GOP nomination for the presidency. While more sparse on biographical details than most political memoirs, the 256-page book offers some
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Twitter has unveiled a new policy on violent speech that expands restrictions on some types of threats uttered on its platform, including new prohibitions on using coded language to incite violence indirectly as well as a ban on wishing harm on others and on making direct threats against physical infrastructure. “Healthy
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, acknowledged in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Murdoch’s remarks were made public in a legal filing as part of Dominion’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News. In his
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The Canadian government is banning TikTok from official electronic devices, making it the latest to announce restrictions on the short-form video app in light of cybersecurity concerns. The ban is set to take effect on Tuesday. Government-issued devices will be blocked from downloading TikTok, and existing installations of the app will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 24 Mizzou softball team will hit the road for a weekend tournament one last time before conference action begins on March 10. The Tigers are 12-4 to start the season. Head coach Larissa Anderson and company have travelled quite a bit in the first few weeks, hitting tournaments in Florida,
Continue ReadingBy Claire Colbert and Kelly McCleary, CNN A winter storm moving across the Northeast has dropped 1.8 inches of snow on New York’s Central Park, marking the biggest snowfall of the season for the city in what has been an unusually warm winter. The snow measurement at 7 a.m. Tuesday brings the total for this
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COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) A road in Callaway County was closed before noon Monday as contractors replaced electric poles broken by heavy winds overnight. The damage was part of what was left behind by the late-winter storm system that’s been accompanied by spring-like temperatures. About 300 Callaway Electric Cooperative members were dark just before noon as
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By Isabella Roberts JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson is planning on signing the emergency spending budget Monday at 2 p.m. at the Harry S. Truman office building. House Bill 14 is the supplemental budget for the 2022 fiscal year. It has funds for several state programs, including $149 million for the Department of
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Appearing at the doorstep of Walt Disney World, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that gives him new power over Disney, effectively punishing the entertainment giant for speaking out against the Republican’s political agenda. The new law amounts to a state takeover of the Reedy Creek
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TODAY: After storms overnight, the remnants of this system will still have windy implications for us the rest of the day. Winds will be sustained around 15-25 mph, and potentially gust as high as 50 mph at times through the afternoon. Clouds will break shortly this morning, before they fill back in from the north.
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit against Paramount Friday, claiming the rival media company breached its half-billion-dollar exclusivity contract with HBO Max by airing “South Park” on its own streaming platform, Paramount+. HBO Max is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, which also owns CNN. Nearly all “South Park” episodes air
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features from its flagship social networking application and forcing people to download a separate app to chat with friends, the company is now testing out reversing the move. In an interview with CNN, Facebook head Tom Alison said the
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