TODAY: Wednesday is a Weather Alert Day, as storms this morning and afternoon may pack a severe punch. While damaging winds are the most likely threat from this system, all severe types are possible, including the possibility of tornadoes. For more detail, read our latest blog. Otherwise, Wednesday will be warm, with temperatures approaching low-to-mid
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Eric Levenson and Taylor Ward, CNN A powerful winter storm set record low temperatures in the northern Plains of the US, while a heat wave in the Southeast set record highs for the month of February — leaving the country with an unusually stark temperature difference of more than 100 degrees. Much
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy Carter announce that his cancer — metastatic melanoma — had spread to his brain, but he didn’t focus solely on his own disease. Rather, he used the international attention to talk about an illness he did not
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon and Haley Britzky, CNN China’s navy has significant advantages over its US rival, including a bigger fleet and greater shipbuilding capacity, as Beijing seeks to project its power across the oceans, the head of the United States Navy said Tuesday. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US Navy Secretary
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team was able to secure an overtime win 66-64 credit to a Nick Honor 3-pointer with seven seconds left to play. The game came down to the wire, but the Tigers managed to get it done to end a two-game losing streak. The Tigers were led by Kobe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL JEFFERSON CITY (68) BATTLE (70) FINAL SMITH-COTTON (49) CAPITAL CITY (47) FINAL VERSAILLES (39) ELDON (67) FINAL CENTRALIA (42) HALLSVILLE (68) FINAL MOBERLY (52) FULTON (68) FINAL SOUTHERN BOONE
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The Ashland Board of Aldermen reviewed its police department’s proposed budget during its Tuesday night budget work session. The board is currently in the process of listening to the head of the department to review its fiscal year 2024 budget, as it works to finalize its preliminary budget. The department is looking to increase its
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, Katie Carver and Devan Cole, CNN The foreperson of the Atlanta-based grand jury that investigated former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election told CNN on Tuesday that the panel is recommending multiple indictments and suggested “the big name” may be on the list. “Can you imagine doing this for
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen, CNN Rahman, 3, has lived half his young life in Los Angeles — without his mother. They see each other, sometimes, via video chat from Kabul, Afghanistan. “I see my kids on camera, but I cannot touch them,” his mother said recently from a home she may not leave without a male
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City officials admitted Monday night to not properly testing drinking water for lead or copper over the past year.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge will soon decide what to do about Columbia Public Schools removing the name of a donor from Rock Bridge High School’s athletics field. The Columbia Board Of Education unanimously voted to rename the field in 2020 after Wayne Sells – on Facebook — criticized professional athletes who were protesting
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds with warming temperatures overnight. Morning temperatures reaching the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Strong storms with heavy rain and potentially damaging winds through early afternoon. Highs reaching the mid-60s. Rain amounts between 1-1.5″. EXTENDED: A strong low pressure system is moving across the Plains tonight, bringing a warm front north across
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We’ve seen nothing but sunshine the last several days and temperatures into the 50s and 60s. But heading off into Wednesday morning. That’s going to be changing as ABC 17 Stormtrack weather team has issued a weather alert date in effect until Wednesday afternoon. Conditions will continuously switch from winter storms back towards severe spring
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who fabricated a large portion of his biography, sat down for an extended interview with Piers Morgan — and lied about his lies. Morgan got Santos to explicitly concede that he has “been a terrible liar” on certain “subjects.” But while
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local activist group that “fights attacks against Southern Culture.” Haley, who was running for South Carolina governor at the time, made
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local activist group that “fights attacks against Southern Culture.” Haley, who was running for South Carolina governor at the time, made
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Starbucks wants you to give olive oil coffee a shot. Really. The coffee chain is rolling out a new line of beverages made with extra virgin olive oil. To be clear, the drinks are not simply flavored with olive oil, nor do they have just a hint of it. Each
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By Dakin Andone, Randi Kaye and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Alex Murdaugh was “destroyed” by the fatal shootings of his wife and son, his surviving son testified in his father’s double murder trial Tuesday, as the defense worked to counter prosecutors’ allegations that Murdaugh is responsible for the killings. “He was heartbroken. I walked in the
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An emergency spending budget to raise state workers’ pay unanimously passed out of a Missouri Senate committee Tuesday, putting it one step closer to the governor’s desk.
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A Republican lawmaker wants to block counties or cities from requiring businesses besides gas stations to have electric car charging stations.
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