Tonight: Skies remain mostly cloudy with isolated light showers. Overnight lows cool to the lower 50s with winds remaining out of the northeast. Tomorrow: Scattered showers begin early Friday morning before becoming more widespread for the northern half of Mid-Missouri. Rainfall totals look to remain below 0.25″ in most areas with chances of weak storms
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Dianne Gallagher, CNN A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including funneling funds into projects linked to prominent Mississippians like former NFL star Brett Favre. Officials from the US
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The Police Foundation of Hallsville is scheduled to host its second annual Brews & BBQ charity event, including a gun raffle.
Continue ReadingBy Maria Santana, CNN The migrant says he had been living on the streets of San Antonio for nearly a month when he met a woman named “Perla” who made a compelling offer. She offered him clothes, food and money, he told CNN, and in exchange, he would go out and find other migrants to
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN A passenger who allegedly took psilocybin — the hallucinogenic chemical found in certain mushrooms — before boarding a United Airlines flight in Miami last week was arrested after allegedly assaulting two members of the flight crew. Cherruy Loghan Sevilla is charged with interfering with a flight crew and assaulting two flight
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as local health officials, are warning of a dangerous new trend on social media.
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A dump truck overturned at a job site in west Columbia on Thursday, trapping the driver inside until rescuers arrived at the scene.
Continue ReadingBy Ivan Watson, Masho Lomashvili, Simone McCarthy, Tim Lister and Uliana Pavlova, CNN Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization” of citizens for his war in Ukraine has already set in motion sweeping changes for many Russians, as drafted men bid their families emotional goodbyes, while others attempt to flee, scrambling to make it across land border crossings
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones tangled Thursday in an explosive courtroom exchange with an attorney for families of Sandy Hook victims who have sued him in Connecticut, prompting an admonishment from the judge and warning that they could be held in contempt if they violate court rules moving forward. The warning
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Railroad company BNSF is asking a federal court to throw out lawsuits over a deadly Chariton County Amtrak crash in a move some passengers’ attorneys are calling “unconstitutional.”
Continue ReadingBy Bob Ortega, Curt Devine, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash and Drew Griffin, CNN Months after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory over Donald Trump in Michigan had been certified, and confirmed by audits and voting reviews, a clerk in rural Barry County received an unusual and confusing request from Matthew DePerno, an attorney in Kalamazoo. DePerno, who’d
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron is warning about a “crisis of democracies,” including in the United States, following years of “pressure” and “destabilization” efforts in an exclusive US interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Asked by Tapper if he’s worried about American democracy, Macron replied, “I worry about all of us.” “I hate
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN Vladimir Putin’s announcement of increased military conscription to bolster Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine shows that the Russian President “has been outsmarted” by Kyiv, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss told CNN in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview. The new British leader, who takes power at a time of historic upheaval, told
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Alaa Elassar, CNN More than a million people in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are without power or running water again Thursday as crews work to repair critical utilities disabled by Hurricane Fiona, which is now a Category 4 monster heading toward Bermuda. The first major hurricane of this year’s
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen The special master overseeing the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation has ordered former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to back up out-of-court assertions that the FBI may have planted evidence at the property during their search last month. Judge Raymond Dearie, the court-appointed special master, said in a filing Thursday that Trump’s team needs to
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business It began by mailing out DVDs, then evolved to become a production and streaming powerhouse. Now Netflix appears to be making its next big bet on the future of gaming. The streaming giant is building its first in-house video game studio in Helsinki, Finland, as it expands its empire over
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed Former President Donald Trump’s vague claims that he may have declassified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago are running into a brick wall in the way the litigation over the search is playing out in court. The US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals — in an unanimous opinion from an appellate panel that included
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn and Chris Isidore, CNN Business FedEx will raise ground and express shipping rates by an average of 6.9% next year, the company said Thursday. Freight rates will increase by an average of 6.9% to 7.9%. Both mark an increase from FedEx’s rate hikes for this year. Last week, FedEx warned that a
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden participated in a briefing Thursday afternoon on the situation in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Fiona and announced he was authorizing 100% federal funding for debris removal, search and rescue and power restoration as a result of the storm. During the briefing, which
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified on Capitol Hill Thursday for the second straight day. This time, he faced his longtime critic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren began her line of questioning by asking how many instances of fraud had been reported to his bank from customers using Zelle, a popular
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