COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dispensaries in Columbia can officially sell marijuana to anyone 21 years old or older as of Tuesday morning. According to a representative from the state, all six dispensaries in Columbia received their comprehensive licenses, allowing them to sell recreationally. An ABC 17 crew visited two dispensaries and overheard and observed people on
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN China refused a conversation with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following the downing of the suspected Chinese balloon, the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday. The Defense Department submitted a request for a call between Austin and China’s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe immediately after the US fighter jets shot
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PHOENIX, Ariz. (KMIZ) Super Bowl LVII will feature a match up between Kansas City and Philadelphia, both of which have been coached by Andy Reid, which is why this one is being pegged ‘The Andy Reid Bowl.’ ‘Big Red,’ as he’s fondly known in Missouri, coached the Eagles for 14 years. In that time he
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent New York Republican Rep. George Santos is expected to face an investigation from the House Ethics Committee, a probe that could derail his already imperiled political career depending on the secretive panel’s findings. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy initially told CNN “yes” on Tuesday when asked if the embattled freshman
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Matt Stiles, CNN Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is the “designated survivor” during President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The selection comes the same day CNN reported that Walsh is expected to depart the Biden administration soon — marking the first Cabinet secretary departure of Biden’s
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Everyone seems to be in a bit of a debt bind at the moment: The US government has run out of credit to spend, high inflation and interest rates have taken a big bite out of debt-laden tech companies that expected pandemic-era growth to continue and US credit card debt reached
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Today: Light scattered showers remain near Rolla, Missouri and south leading to a mostly dry afternoon across Mid-Missouri. Afternoon highs top out near 50 degrees with winds out of the northwest at 5-10 mph. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the mid-30s with mostly cloudy skies. Winds continue out of the northwest up to 5 mph.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) Beginning Tuesday, marijuana dispensaries in Columbia will be allowed to start selling weed for recreational use. This move comes after the Columbia City Council voted in favor of regulating business licenses for recreational marijuana at its council meeting Monday evening. It comes just a few days after the state started approving those licenses as
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN More than 8,000 people have been reported killed and tens of thousands of others injured by the devastating earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Thousands of buildings collapsed in the two nations and aid agencies are warning of “catastrophic” repercussions in northwest
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Inflation surged in January by the most in three months, according to the latest Consumer Price Index released Tuesday. But despite the monthly increase of 0.5%, inflation continued to slow on a year-over-year basis to 6.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s down from December’s 6.5% but higher than
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, Isil Sariyuce, Celine Alkhaldi, Gul Tuysuz and Jack Guy, CNN Survivors are still being pulled from the rubble in Turkey and Syria, more than 24 hours after a powerful earthquake toppled thousands of homes, killing at least 7,726 people. The 7.8-magnitude quake hit just after 4 a.m. local time Monday, sending tremors
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, Isil Sariyuce, Celine Alkhaldi, Gul Tuysuz and Jack Guy, CNN Survivors are still being pulled from the rubble in Turkey and Syria, more than 24 hours after a powerful earthquake toppled thousands of homes, killing at least 7,726 people. The 7.8-magnitude quake hit just after 4 a.m. local time Monday, sending tremors
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN The United Kingdom is pushing ahead with plans to create a digital pound issued by the Bank of England that would offer a stable alternative to bitcoin or ether. The central bank and the UK Treasury said Monday that an official digital currency is “likely to be needed in the future.”
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TODAY: Tuesday is overall, going to be a mild and cloudy day for mid-Missouri. Some, however, will see some scattered showers, while most stay dry. Rain showers are ongoing early this morning for folks in the south and east, near Lake of the Ozarks, Jefferson City, Vienna, Rolla, and Montgomery City. This is where we
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN In the HBO show “The Last of Us,” characters identify zombies among them by the fungi that bursts from their bodies, and fungal parasites manipulate the humans to infect the communities around them. In real life, the fungal species that inspired the story, Ophiocordyceps, infects insects and does not cause problems
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Authorities in the US are once again warning about a rise in domestic extremists plotting to attack the nation’s power grids — which government reports have warned could cause a domino effect and leave huge parts of the country in the dark. Efforts are underway to make vulnerable energy facilities more
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, Kara Scannell and Gregory Krieg, CNN In the fall of 2020, then-New York Rep. Lee Zeldin’s campaign submitted a report to federal regulators with a series of unusual expenses: 21 payments on a single day of exactly $199.99 each. The outlays — each just one penny below the dollar figure above which
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By Rob Frehse, CNN An 82-year-old woman who’d been pronounced dead at a nursing home on Long Island, New York, was found to be alive nearly three hours later at a funeral home, authorities said, spurring investigations by police and health officials. The woman was pronounced dead Saturday at the Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Russia has potentially lost up to half of all its operational tank fleet since the start of the Ukraine war, according to information collected by a monitoring group, as its military struggles to meet the goals of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Oryx, an open source intelligence website, has been collecting visual evidence
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden’s yearly State of the Union speech — his first in front of a divided Congress — will offer the best glimpse to date of his argument for another term, making Tuesday’s address a test run of sorts as he approaches a reelection announcement. In both
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