COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columba will file an application for a grant that will allow it to study Business Loop 70. At Monday night’s City Council meeting, the Downtown Leadership Council asked the city to file an application for the funding needed to improve the street. The City Council unanimously approved to file. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council at its meeting on Monday approved tourism development funds for the True/False Film Festival, which takes place annually in Downtown Columbia. The resolution authorizes a tourism development sponsorship between the city and True/False this year. The festival will take place March 2-5. There will be roughly 130 screenings.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday night that aims to improve 911 response times. The city authorized an agreement between the City and Cole County for integrated computer-aided dispatch Cole County implemented a new emergency dispatch system last week. The dispatch system can combine the Cole County Communications
Continue ReadingBy Kyung Lah, CNN Kris He walked into Arcadia Firearm & Safety in Arcadia, California, three days after his gun license became official. The 22-year-old immigrant from mainland China walked past a Trump flag, past the rifles, and headed to the glass case displaying handguns. He didn’t grow up around guns, but after seeing the
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and breezy with lows in the lower 30s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and slightly cooler with highs in the mid-50s. EXTENDED: A weak disturbance rolls through tonight, bringing more clouds and perhaps a sprinkle or two. Temperatures drop to the low 30s by morning, and tomorrow is a touch cooler in the mid-50s
Continue ReadingBy Claire Colbert and Amy Simonson, CNN An 85-year-old woman walking her dog was killed Monday when an alligator pulled her into a nearby retention pond in southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials. Gloria Serge was walking her small dog along the pond in her community in Ft. Pierce when the alligator attempted to take
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN On Saturday, the Carter Center announced that former US President Jimmy Carter will be receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia. “After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN The church where Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school for decades marked his poignant absence this weekend as the former president receives end-of-life care. Carter, 98, has taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, since the 1980s. Not even a cancer diagnosis stopped him from teaching
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Rob Shackelford, CNN A massive winter storm bringing a mix of heavy snow, rain and gusty winds is poised to lash much of the US West and North this week and has put more than 60 million people across 28 states under winter weather alerts Tuesday. At the same time, it
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will look to come out on top in the second meeting of the season with Mississippi State on Tuesday night. Last time out, the Bulldogs won by 11 points in Starkville. However, MU will have the home court advantage this time. The Tigers are 14-3 at home
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team is building a new identity after graduating several seniors after the 2022 season. Head coach Larissa Anderson said her team’s new motto is ‘never go alone.’ “That’s what they’ve been saying to each other. Like, if you’re going to go to the field to take reps, don’t go
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Flower and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN The manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin relating to the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of the movie “Rust” have been downgraded by prosecutors in New Mexico, which will reduce the prison time the actor could face for the death of the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. The
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TODAY: Monday is easing us into the week, with plenty of sunshine, and highs in the low 60s. Some clouds will be with us to start, but we’ll have mostly sunny to partly cloudy conditions through the day with a breeze from the west-southwest. TONIGHT: We’ll keep partly cloudy skies tonight, ahead of a weak
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night, President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine’s week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House. The next time he was seen in public was 36 hours later, striding
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Planning the 20th annual True/False Film Festival is truly a numbers game. Over the course of three days, March 2 through 5, the event will feature 130 screenings of 35 full-length documentaries and 20 short films. Large crowds often follow the festival, but the Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board estimates over
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, CNN A suspect in the shooting death of a prominent Los Angeles-area Catholic bishop has been charged with murder, a district attorney said Wednesday. Carlos Medina, the 61-year-old husband of the housekeeper for Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, was arrested Monday in connection with O’Connell’s death, authorities said. O’Connell was found fatally shot
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine sparked anger and embarrassment among many of Russia’s hawkish military pundits on Monday, increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as the Russian leader prepares to justify his stuttering invasion in a national address. Biden’s historic visit came days
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN The oldest Black church in California’s East Bay was devastated by a massive fire Sunday night that the church’s pastor said gutted its interior structure. Video showed heavy smoke and flames shooting from the roof of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland, where the fire erupted
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden slipped into Kyiv on Monday for the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, demonstrating in dramatic personal fashion his commitment to the country and its struggle as the war enters an uncertain new phase. The highly secretive visit — which
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TODAY: Monday is easing us into the week, with plenty of sunshine, and highs in the low 60s. Some clouds will be with us to start, but we’ll have mostly sunny to partly cloudy conditions through the day with a breeze from the west-southwest. TONIGHT: We’ll keep partly cloudy skies tonight, ahead of a weak
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