By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Few of us want summer to end, but there’s some good news coming this winter: holiday discounts. Major retailers including Best Buy and Walmart say the holiday shopping season will be packed with promotions to entice inflation-strained customers. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Aya Elamroussi and Alaa Elassar, CNN After a wildfire raging in Los Angeles County swelled to more than 5,200 acres in less than 48 hours, a top fire official warned the explosive growth should be a “wake-up call” to residents. The Route Fire began Wednesday around noon near Castaic Lake and grew
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Andy Rose and Omar Jimenez, CNN The state of Texas, which for several months has bussed thousands of newly arrived migrants at the US-Mexico border to New York City and Washington, DC, has set a new metropolitan area as a destination: Chicago. Undocumented migrants on board a charter bus from Texas arrived
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa, Dakin Andone and Michelle Watson, CNN Police in Columbus, Ohio, have released body camera video that shows a police officer serving a felony warrant fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in bed. Donovan Lewis, 20, died Tuesday after being shot by Police Officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran with the Columbus Division
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova, Olga Voitovych, Sarah Dean, Hannah Ritchie and Tara John, CNN Most of the international team of nuclear experts visiting the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Thursday have left, after overcoming initial challenges in reaching the facility, which included an hours-long delay, and a drive through an active war zone to reach
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN An intense heat wave will blanket much of the West this week, prompting officials in California to urge residents to slash their energy consumption for the second day in a row to avoid straining the electrical grid. The California Independent System Operator — which manages 80% of the state’s grid —
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN An intense heat wave will blanket much of the West this week, prompting officials in California to urge residents to slash their energy consumption for the second day in a row to avoid straining the electrical grid. The California Independent System Operator — which manages 80% of the state’s grid —
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Julia Jones, CNN Pastor Hector Silva gets emotional as he describes how he had to recently turn away mothers, with infants in their arms, from the gates of his migrant shelter. “It’s very difficult,” Silva said with a broken voice. “To stand at the gate and see a mom with a
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Chris Liakos, CNN The European Union has agreed to reduce the number of new visas available to Russian citizens, but stopped short of an outright ban on travel to the bloc. EU foreign ministers decided Wednesday to fully suspend a visa facilitation agreement between the European Union and Russia that gives
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia shooting suspect remains at large after a search at an apartment complex in east Columbia Wednesday night. Police initially believed a man involved in a shooting Wednesday afternoon may have been barricaded in an apartment at The Links on Clark Lane. At least five patrol cars responded to the scene
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat who won a special election that sent her to Congress this summer, will once again thwart former Gov. Sarah Palin‘s bid for a political comeback. CNN projected Wednesday that Peltola will win the race for Alaska’s at-large House seat after the state’s ranked choice voting
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Paula Hancocks and Gawon Bae, CNN US and South Korean combined forces on Wednesday held their first live-fire exercises since the formation of their unit in 2015, a drill that commanders said showcased the strongest military alliance in the world. The drill, based on a counterattack against invading forces, comes after the
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The return of Mizzou football is just one day away and the game is expected to bring several thousand fans to Columbia.
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Tonight: Winds remain variable at 5 mph as overnight lows cool to the lower 60’s. Skies become partly cloudy. Tomorrow: Skies remain partly cloudy as the humidity stays low. Afternoon highs increase into the upper 80’s nearing 90 degrees. Winds switch back out of the south at 4-8 mph. Extended: Friday morning sees slight chances
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, Kara Scannell, Holmes Lybrand and Marshall Cohen, CNN Former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing Wednesday that the National Archives should have expected to find classified material among the 15 boxes Trump turned over in January from Mar-a-Lago because they were presidential records. The filing, his closing written
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department’s court filing Tuesday laying out the case that classified documents had been concealed at Mar-a-Lago raises new scrutiny for former President Donald Trump‘s lawyers who worked with federal investigators to return classified material to the government. The FBI’s search on August 8 uncovering scores of
Continue ReadingEmergency roadside workers and first responders came together Wednesday in Columbia to remind drivers about the slow down, move over law ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend. Last year three people were killed and more than 70 were hurt in 246 crashes with parked emergency vehicles that had their emergency lights on in Missouri. Missouri
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. This annual international campaign is designed to end overdoses, remember those who have died without stigma, and to increase awareness of addiction. Fake prescription pills have risen to popularity with people thinking they are taking a certain drug, only to be taking a combination of others
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Police closed off part of an east-central Columbia street Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business California lawmakers want more control over how fast food chains treat workers. Restaurants, including McDonald’s, are fighting back. Earlier this week, the state’s legislature passed AB 257, a bill that would create a fast food council to “establish sectorwide minimum standards on wages, working hours, and other working conditions,” for
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