By Pete Muntean, CNN A FedEx cargo plane trying to land at an Austin, Texas, airport had to change course Saturday to avoid a potential collision with a Southwest Airlines jet that was taking off from the same runway, officials said. The National Transportation Safety Board said it’s investigating “a possible runway incursion and overflight”
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STARVILLE, Ms. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team took a road loss to Mississippi State 63-52 Saturday in the Tigers lowest scoring game this season. The Tigers are now 2-4 on the road after shooting just 31% from the field and 23% from three in the loss. After coming off a 26 assist game against
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL GATEWAY (53) BLAIR OAKS (55) FINAL BISHOP DUBOURG (19) ROCK BRIDGE (81) FINAL FT. ZUMWALT SOUTH (57) BATTLE (78) FINAL JEFFERSON CITY (58) KIRKWOOD (69) FINAL HOGAN PREP
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 23 ranked Mizzou Softball team hosted its annual Black & Gold Game Saturday at the Devine Pavilion ahead of the start of the 2023 season. The Tigers enter the 2023 season after hosting an NCAA Regional for the second-consecutive year and making the SEC Tournament Championship game for the second
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) A man from Mexico, Missouri, was found guilty of raping two girls under the age of 15. The Audrain County prosecuting attorney announced that 36-year-old Gregory Saulnier was found guilty by a jury of several charges, including rape, sodomy and child molestation. The rapes happened between 2020 and 2021 in Mexico. One
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Baptist University men’s basketball team nailed a three-pointer with 1.8 seconds left to lift them to a 72-71 win at Columbia College on Saturday at the Southwell Complex. Missouri Baptist improved to 13-12 (9-4 AMC) with the win, while Columbia fell to 17-7 (9-3 AMC). The Cougars remain in first place in
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The U.S. Military took down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon Saturday afternoon. A U.S. official confirmed the balloon was shot down with a single missile fired by a fighter jet over the Atlantic Ocean. For the past several days, the balloon drifted over the United States after its first spotting in Montana.
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COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) UPDATE AT 6:55 PM: Columbia Police said 58-year-old James Scott Duncan is the man arrested in connection to this incident. COURTESY: Columbia Police DepartmentJames Scott Duncan, 58 ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A man is in custody after barricading himself inside an east Columbia home for several hours. Christian Tabak, Public Information Specialist with Columbia
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy skies for Mid-Missouri, with winds still going strong from the south west. If you’re going out, make sure to secure any loose belongings, as we could see gusts up to 25 mph. TOMORROW: Winds are calming down for our area and shifting west at about 8-12 mph, and we’re looking at a
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand The transiting of three suspected Chinese spy balloons over the continental US during the Trump administration was only discovered after President Joe Biden took office, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday. The official did not say how or when those incidents were discovered. The official said that the intelligence community
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Kevin Liptak, Oren Liebermann and Phil Mattingly, CNN US military fighter jets shot down the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed Saturday. The operation ended a remarkable public drama that prompted a diplomatic fallout between Washington and
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN It was only two weeks ago that Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix from Ohio, was named the oldest living dog. Now, he has been utterly dethroned. Bobi, at the age of 30 years and 268 days, has been crowned the world’s oldest living dog — and the oldest dog to ever
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN It was only two weeks ago that Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix from Ohio, was named the oldest living dog. Now, he has been utterly dethroned. Bobi, at the age of 30 years and 268 days, has been crowned the world’s oldest living dog — and the oldest dog to ever
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TODAY: Temperatures start off chilly but warm dramatically to the mid-50s thanks to gusty southerly winds. These will reach up to 30 mph today, and also work to dry out the atmosphere by the afternoon. This combination of dry air and high winds will lead to a low fire risk so it’s best to avoid
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Nic Robertson, Kareem Khadder and Luis-Graham Yooll, CNN Mohammed Abu al-Hayja was sleeping alongside his wife and two young daughters last month when loud gunfire woke them up. Minutes later, Israeli soldiers rammed down his door and burst through his apartment. “They spread through the house in seconds,” 29-year-old al-Hayja told CNN.
Continue ReadingBy Sonnet Swire, CNN A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States has sparked national security and diplomatic concerns, adding to already tense Washington-Beijing relations. The incident prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone his highly anticipated trip to China, saying Friday that the high-altitude Chinese balloon entering US
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Nadeau, CNN Italian anti-Mafia police have arrested another mobster on the run, just two weeks after the sensational arrest on January 16 of Sicilian Cosa Nostra superboss Matteo Messina Denaro at a health clinic in Palermo, Sicily. This time it was Edgardo Greco, 63, who was apprehended in Saint-Etienne, France, where he was
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, Dianne Gallagher and Alta Spells, CNN Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh never told the family of his late housekeeper that he collected more than $4 million in insurance settlements after she fell at his home, according to testimony at his double murder trial Friday. Outside the presence of the jury, Judge
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN As the US and its Canadian partners continue to monitor a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon floating above the northern United States, one question stands out among the rest: Why hasn’t it been shot down? Officials have said that the balloon’s path carries it over a “number of sensitive sites” in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department introduced its new arson dog to the community Friday morning. The arson dog — named Tony — is used to help fire investigators at the scene of a fire. Dogs use their enhanced sense of smell to find things that could be used to start a fire, specifically things
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