By Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Numerous tornadoes — including a few intense ones — are possible Tuesday evening for parts of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi as severe storms rake the area, a situation that moved forecasters to issue a special tornado watch alerting residents to an unusual level of risk. Track the storms
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN The United States and Chinese militaries exchanged harsh words Tuesday after a US Navy warship performed the first freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea since the leaders of the two powers met earlier this month in an attempt to ease tensions. In a statement, the Chinese military
Continue ReadingBy Kiely Westhoff and Tavleen Tarrant, CNN The 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy who allegedly confessed over Instagram video chat to killing a young girl told police when he was taken into custody that “it was an accident,” according to a criminal complaint. Police in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, responded Friday afternoon after a girl reported receiving a video
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN A monstrous trio of tornadoes, damaging winds and hail are expected to create challenges across the Southeast and Mississippi Valley today as more than 40 million people are under severe weather threats. CNN’s storm tracker and current satellite images show areas of Mississippi and Louisiana have the greatest potential for severe
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business The rare protests that spread across China over the weekend often featured demonstrators holding pieces of blank white paper, a phenomenon that has caused problems for the country’s top stationery chain. In a symbolic protest against censorship, young demonstrators held up sheets of white paper — a metaphor for the
Continue ReadingBy Meera Senthilingam, CNN A woman in Minnesota lost part of her vision and inadvertently put her entire household at risk of mercury poisoning, most likely from using beauty creams containing high levels of the toxic chemical, according to a case report shared exclusively with CNN. The report, shared by Dr. Erin Batdorff with the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Room at the Inn in Columbia opened Monday night for the winter season in its new location. This is one of several shelters that are part of the city’s plan to minimize the impact of chronic homelessness in Columbia. Room at the Inn’s winter overnight shelter will opened Monday and will run
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Police were sent to a shots-fired call Monday in a commercial area of north Columbia.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Kirksville (36) Rock Bridge (71) FINAL Hickman (76) Hazelwood West (34) FINAL Eldon (60) California (52) FINAL St. Dominic (62) Battle (55) FINAL Cuba (42) St. James (45) FINAL
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Michelle Watson, CNN Five police officers have been arrested and charged in connection with the transportation incident that left a man paralyzed from the chest down, according to a Monday news release from the New Haven, Connecticut, State’s Attorney’s Office. Randy Cox, 36, was arrested on June 19 on suspicion of
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN Shanquella Robinson arrived in the picturesque Mexican town of San José del Cabo on October 28 with six of her friends. One day later, the 25-year-old student at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina died while staying in a luxury rental property in Baja California Sur. Now, nearly one month after
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A Kansas City man accused of murdering two people inside a Jefferson City bar early Saturday was denied bond in his first court appearance Monday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Central Bank of Boone County posted an alert on Facebook on Monday warning their customers of fraudulent activity on some cards. The bank turned off debit and credit cards of those who were either affected by a fraudster, or were at high risk. Mary Wilkerson, the senior vice president of marketing at
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear, 42. TOMORROW: Warm and windy with gusts up to 35 mph. A cold front will bring a chance for a few showers and storms east of Highway 63. Highs in the upper 60s. EXTENDED: Temperatures won’t be too cool this evening as we drop into the lower 40s. Tomorrow
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever and Matthew Chance, CNN A pool of blood-stained water and the charred wreckage of a car mark the spot in Kherson where Russian shells tore into this city Thursday, killing four, according to local officials, and shattering any sense of calm. Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he’s annexed this region, and that
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The average highs and overnight lows continue to drop as we approach the end of of November heading towards December. This means more people will be finding ways to crank up the heat in their homes to stay warm. When this happens, an increase in house fires occur. As early as Tuesday afternoon, a cold
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia Solid Waste Utility will be hosting its second customer input meeting to discuss proposed ordinance changes around the use of City logo refuse bags. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 701 E. Broadway. This meeting will also be live-streamed. The public will have the opportunity to ask
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Americans gathered for Thanksgiving last week amid a flu season that’s worse than any has been in more than a decade, and experts continue to urge caution as multiple respiratory viruses circulate at high levels nationwide. A growing number of US states — now 33 — are experiencing “high” or “very
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter searches for the widespread Covid-19-related protests in China are returning a flood of spam, pornography and gibberish that some disinformation researchers say at first glance appear to be a deliberate attempt by the Chinese government or its allies to drown out images of the demonstrations. Beginning late last week
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Amanda Watts and Tina Burnside, CNN Roughly 10 days after a former Virginia state trooper was hired by a sheriff’s office in that state, he traveled to Southern California and allegedly killed the family of a teenager he had catfished online, officials said. Austin Lee Edwards, 28, died in a shootout with
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