TODAY: We’re starting with sunshine this morning after clouds and rain left overnight. In their wake, we have a cold breeze! We’ll fall into the mid-20s through the early morning, but winds from the northwest will be sustained around 15-20 mph making us feel like low teens. These winds will have a cooling impact on
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Anna Chernova, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping will fly to Moscow next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin in his first visit to Russia since Putin launched his devastating invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. The visit will be seen as a powerful show of Beijing’s support for
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN China has approved 27 foreign video games, including titles to be released by Tencent, NetEase and Bilibili, as it gradually reopens the world’s largest mobile entertainment market to international titles. It was the second batch of foreign games to be allowed to enter the Chinese market since December. The latest titles
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN With just a few days to go until the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate decision, US policymakers are sitting between a rock and a hard place. The recent banking sector meltdown, triggered partially by Silicon Valley Bank crumbling under the weight of higher interest rates, has led some economists and analysts
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau New Zealand will ban TikTok on all devices with access to its parliament by the end of this month, becoming the latest country to impose an official bar on the popular social media platform owned by a Beijing-based tech conglomerate. Led by the United States, a growing number of Western nations are
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team took down Illinois State in the first round of the WNIT, 61-51, at Mizzou Arena. The Redbirds kept it close with the Tigers until the end, but a scoring attack led by Hayley Frank and Sara Rose-Smith pushed MU over the top. Frank ended with 15 points
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) The Southern Boone girls basketball team fell just short of a trip to the state championship game after a 55-40 loss in the Class 4 semifinals to Vashon. The Eagles went into the half down 26-19, but a 19 point Wolverine third quarter put the game out of reach. Watch the full
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) The Father Tolton boy’s basketball team fell in the Class 4 state semifinals 49-45 to Vashon on Thursday at Great Southern Bank Arena. This marks the second-straight season that the Trailblazers have fell to the Wolverines in the state tournament with Vashon knocking them off in last year’s state championship game. Watch
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The Columbia Police Department has released a video about the November 2021 shooting that killed a man downtown after pressure from community groups to reopen the investigation.
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Pete Buttigieg, criticized former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent remark that the transportation secretary had gone on “maternity leave,” telling ABC’s “The View” that the dig “flies in the face” of Pence’s family values. Over the weekend, Pence delivered the line at the annual Gridiron Club
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Women don’t belong out at sea working on ships with men, the 62-year-old engineer told the 19-year-old trainee just weeks before she says he raped her. The young woman, Hope Hicks, was a student at the US Merchant Marine Academy. The man, Edgar Sison, was her boss. He worked
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TONIGHT: Rain changing to light snow for a few hours, tapering off around midnight. A dusting of accumulation is possible on grassy surfaces north of I-70. Road impacts are not expected. Lows in the mid-20s with gusty winds. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny, breezy, and cold with highs in the lower 40s. Wind chills in the 30s.
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Living in Central Missouri, various types of weather is common. We see different types of precipitation depending on the season. Heading towards spring, the majority of systems bring storms to the Midwest. Each of these storms are tied to a low pressure system. Just where do these low pressure systems come and how do the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN In the spring of 2019, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota was busy putting the finishing touches on a bill that sought to expand mental health care access for kids in schools. But she couldn’t shake the feeling she was being less than honest about just how personal the issue of
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN Aspiring rapper Irvo Otieno streamed his music — with titles like “Man in the Middle,” “Can’t Wait,” “Trapped Out,” and “Frenzy” — under the name Young Vo. Otieno was 28, could write a song in less than five minutes, and wanted to start his own record label, said his mother, Caroline
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The governments of Missouri and Columbia don’t have to worry about whether they’re going to lose money from the biggest American bank collapse in decades.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The risks of severe complications during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum can vary drastically depending on where the person lives, a new study suggests. Among people with Medicaid insurance in the United States, rates of severe maternal morbidity — life-threatening complications during pregnancy, delivery or after childbirth — range dramatically from about
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN A conservative commentator with a substantial Twitter following went viral late last week by making false claims about the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — and Twitter owner Elon Musk amplified some of the misinformation, pushing it to millions of people. The conservative commentator, Chuck Callesto, inaccurately
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Callaway County Sheriff Clay Chism told ABC 17 News that deputies arrested Kelley S. Young just after 2 a.m. Saturday, March 4. Chism said a deputy stopped Young around Highway 54 near New Bloomfield
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TODAY: Scattered showers and storms continue across the region until late this afternoon. By 6 PM, a cold front pushes across Mid-Missouri leading to more widespread showers and storms. This system can bring heavier downpours and a few rumbles of thunder with severe storms staying well south towards Arkansas. Afternoon highs top out near 60
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