By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The application for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is expected to go live as soon as this week. But the nation is divided over the program, flooding social media platforms with praise or criticism. Additionally, ongoing legal challenges and lawsuits aiming to block the plan are creating a few
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near where her father lives. So she transferred to a school in Madera,
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TODAY: Wednesday brings a cold front back to mid-Missouri. Impacts of the cold front are minimal, with only an increase in cloud cover and a chance for sprinkles expected. At the most, some north of I-70 may see a quickly passing light shower, but otherwise this front is a bit noneventful. We will see a
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych, CNN A Crimean beauty queen has been fined 40,000 Russian rubles (around $680) by occupying Russian authorities for singing the patriotic Ukrainian song “Chervona Kalyna,” according to Russian state media and pro-Russian regional authorities. Olga Valeeva, who was named Mrs Queen Beauty — Crimea 2022, was spared a jail sentence because she
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will take a road trip to Gainesville, Florida on Saturday to meet the Gators at the Swamp, after nearly upsetting then-No. 1 Georgia in week five. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz noted that wide receiver Dominic Lovett and defensive back Kris Abrams-Draine are both day-to-day with injuries after the
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Thursday that the jury in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case will not see a “death list” of Georgia election officials allegedly written by a defendant, saying that it is “too prejudicial.” The document was found in a search of defendant Thomas
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOFTBALL Southern Boone (4) Blair Oaks (15) FINAL Iberia (4) Capital City (6) FINAL Rolla (0) Camdenton (3) FINAL Hickman (6) Tolton (7) FINAL HS BOYS SOCCER Rock Bridge (2)
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Authorities in California’s Central Valley are investigating what they believe is a series of killings that has claimed the lives of six people since last year. Police in Stockton are offering a $125,000 reward for any information regarding the homicides, which began in April 2021 with the most recent killing reported
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First responders in Boone County blocked off a northeast Columbia road on Tuesday night.
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By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business A board seat accepted and then rejected. A stunning $44 billion takeover offer with uncertain financing. And a surprise early morning tweet putting the deal on hold, temporarily. Even by the standards of Twitter, a company that has known plenty of chaos and dysfunction in its history, the weeks-long effort
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some neighbors to a possible resource center for the homeless are pushing back on its location. Several groups in the city are wanting to build the Opportunity Campus on Business Loop 70 near Bowling Street. The person who used to own the land for the center is against the plan. The Voluntary
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korean state media has broken its silence over the country’s recent spate of missile tests, claiming they were part of a series of simulated procedures intended to demonstrate its readiness to fire tactical nuclear warheads at potential targets in South Korea. The Kim regime has
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday approved a $40 million tax-incentive package for agricultural businesses after a nearly three-week special session. The measure passed 26-3 and will benefit meat processing, biodiesel and urban farming companies. House Bill 3 extends the incentives for six years with a $2 million credit available each year, according
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Battle’s Devin Harris and Justin Goolsby are our Week 6 SportsZone Football Friday player of the week winners! You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Spartans will host Rock Bridge in a cross-town rivalry on Friday night at 7:00 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Among the items seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were clemency requests, health care documents, IRS forms and paperwork that appears to be related to the 2020 election, according to a Justice Department list made public this week. The collection also included apparent communications about former President
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, Natasha Bertrand and Phil Mattingly, CNN The Biden administration has launched a full-scale pressure campaign in a last-ditch effort to dissuade Middle Eastern allies from dramatically cutting oil production, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The push comes ahead of Wednesday’s crucial meeting of OPEC+, the international cartel of oil
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) The City of Columbia is looking to work with others and build a permanent opportunity campus to house unsheltered people but for now, the city’s talking about buying a temporary shelter. The temporary shelter would be located on the 1500 block of Ashley Street and is expected to cost around $865,000 according to the city. City
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds and cool with lows in the upper 40s to around 50. TOMORROW: Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered light showers possible. Highs in the upper 70s to around 80. EXTENDED: Clouds start to filter in tonight ahead of a cold front that could bring a couple sprinkles through tomorrow afternoon, but we
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN The US is expected to issue new sanctions this week against law enforcement officials and those directly involved in the crackdown on protests in Iran, a source familiar with the planned movement told CNN. President Joe Biden, who has moved quickly to throw his support behind the demonstrators, issued an intentionally
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, Allie Malloy and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his administration is not going to “sit by and let Republicans throughout the country enact extreme policies” when it comes to reproductive health care, announcing new steps to enhance abortion protections as he marked 100 days after Roe v.
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