By Elizabeth Wolfe and Melissa Alonso, CNN Dewayne Tunstall had aspirations of running a food truck and planned to name it “EBE,” inspired by the phrase he lived his life by: “Everybody eats,” his friend Marcus Cash told CNN affiliate WMC. But in the early hours of Wednesday, Tunstall was shot and killed while visiting
Continue ReadingBy Derek Van Dam, Judson Jones, Brandon Miller, Allison Chinchar and Monica Garrett, CNN Hurricane Kay made landfall in Mexico, along the west coast of the central Baja California Peninsula on Thursday afternoon, triggering flooding concerns not just in that region, but in parts of California and Arizona too. Hurricane conditions were impacting the peninsula
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Andi Babineau, CNN Eliza “Liza” Fletcher routinely ran 8.2 miles in the predawn hours. But her final run ended tragically unfinished. Fletcher, a 34-year-old wife, mother and teacher, was violently abducted last week in Memphis, Tennessee; her body was found Monday behind a vacant complex. A week to the day after
Continue ReadingBy Sara Sidner and Meridith Edwards, CNN Six-year-old Charles Wilson V is scared to drink out of the water fountain at his school. “I will die,” he says matter-of-factly when asked the reason why. It’s a fear his father agrees with. At home in Jackson, Mississippi, Charles Wilson III — who lost his first namesake
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN When artist Robert McCurdy was taking the high-resolution photograph he would use to paint President Barack Obama‘s official portrait, he had some instructions: No smile, no gestures and look directly into the camera. And, Obama joked at the unveiling Wednesday, no tan suit. “We’re not looking for a gestural moment,” McCurdy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged in connection with a crash that killed his three-year-old child who wasn’t properly restrained was scheduled to appear in court for the first time Wednesday. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), crashes are a leading cause of death for children. CDC data shows that using
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will open up its 18-game conference schedule with a home match up against Kentucky on Dec. 28. The Tigers releases the group’s full SEC schedule on Wednesday morning. The slate includes home-and-home series against Arkansas, Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, Mississippi State, and Texas A&M. MU will have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will prepare for its throwback rivalry game against Kansas State, just as it would for any other opponent. “We’re just really focused on 1-0,” offensive lineman Javon Foster said. “We’re just trying to make sure we’re doing everything right and really just focusing on 1-0, get through this
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A Boone County firefighter killed while working at a crash scene on Interstate 70 last year was among nearly two dozen first responders honored at Missouri State Highway Patrol headquarters on Wednesday.
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The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved a $10 million plan Wednesday to demolish Mizzou North.
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The University of Missouri Board of Curators on Wednesday unanimously approved changes to time-off policies for employees that had been the subject of union-led protests in recent weeks.
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, Nick Watt and Chuck Johnston, CNN An arrest has been made in the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, police say. And his newspaper said the suspect is a public official who has been the subject of German’s investigative reporting. Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested
Continue ReadingBy Bob Ortega, Audrey Ash, Yahya Abou-Ghazala and Drew Griffin, CNN The evening before Michigan’s state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers — warning them about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore local election rules barring cell phones and pens
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers face a Friday midnight deadline for submitting proposals for how the special master review of the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago — including classified documents — should work. They’ll be filing the briefs even as the Justice Department appeals the order requiring the
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN A federal judge’s move to bring in a special master to review materials seized from former President Donald Trump’s home has opened up an extraordinarily murky, sensitive and high-stakes task of finding an attorney to serve in that role and defining what exactly he or she will
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and a cool with patchy fog in low lying areas. Lows in the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and warm with highs in the mid-upper 80s. EXTENDED: It’s nice and cool again overnight with lows falling to about 60, but with light winds we’ll likely have some patchy fog
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez and Amanda Musa, CNN Classes at Brigham Young University have just begun, and queer students are already being reminded of the complicated relationship they have with the private religious school. When LGBTQ students, alumni and friends gathered off campus at a park in Provo, Utah, for a back-to-school event last weekend, they
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People gathered Wednesday outside the Boone County Courthouse to honor a victim of an 1889 lynching.
Continue ReadingBy Bob Ortega, Audrey Ash, Yahya Abou-Ghazala and Drew Griffin, CNN The evening before Michigan’s state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers — warning them about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore local election rules barring cell phones and pens
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The days of using a paper clip to perform microsurgery to extract a tiny SIM card from a little tray in your iPhone may be coming to an end. At its closely-watched press event this week, Apple revealed that it is ditching the physical SIM cards and trays on its
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