The Neighborhood Opportunity and Community Accountability Proconsul (NOCAP) will discuss bringing a community center to East Columbia at its monthly meeting Tuesday night, according to Office of Violence Prevention Administrator D’Markus Thomas-Brown.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Greek Alliance set a goal to educate the public on the recently enacted “Danny’s Law” during this school year. In a press release Tuesday, MGA presented its goals for the year. The goals include gaining 501©(3) status to offer tax deductions for donors, promoting Greek housing in the Columbia area
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Although teams across the nation are in the thick of the 2025 college football season, the Southeastern Conference took a look ahead to the next four years, on Tuesday night. The league released each team’s schedules for the 2026-29 football seasons, as the SEC shifts to a nine-game slate. For the next
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order on Monday declaring a drought alert in Missouri. The executive order gives state agencies the authority to direct resources to communities and farmers struggling with dry conditions. The order, which runs through Dec. 1, covers 85 counties experiencing moderate, severe, or extreme drought. “This executive
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CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN The world’s first commercial space station is getting closer to launch. NASA is working with private companies to develop a modern successor to the aging International Space Station as its lifespan draws to a close. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) An Eldon man was charged Tuesday with murder after a woman shot outside an office building in Morgan County was declared dead. Robert J. Anselmo was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of Johnetta Yeager. Yeager was pronounced dead at University Hospital on Monday afternoon,
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Feeling a little down? I’ve got a grrreat distraction for you: Fat Bear Week! These hairy beasts have been chowing down as they prepare to hibernate for the winter, and now you can pick your favorite. Here’s what else you might have missed during your
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Feeling a little down? I’ve got a grrreat distraction for you: Fat Bear Week! These hairy beasts have been chowing down as they prepare to hibernate for the winter, and now you can pick your favorite. Here’s what else you might have missed during
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The number of visitors to the 2025 Missouri State Fair was more than 15,000 fewer than the year before. The fair announced Monday that more than 329,000 people attended this year’s fair in Sedalia. That’s compared to more than 345,000 in attendance last year. The fair, which takes place in Sedalia each
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By Randi Kaye, CNN Fort Pierce, Florida (CNN) — Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump as the former and future president played a round of golf on his Florida course last year – the second attempt on Trump’s life during his second campaign – has been found guilty on all
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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Despite what you may have heard recently, and contrary to what US President Donald Trump apparently believes, there is autism in Cuba. For years the island’s state-run medical system has operated clinics to treat Cubans with autism and carried out campaigns to raise awareness of the neurological
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The Tigers are undefeated heading into Homecoming. No. 20 Missouri is set to host UMass on Faurot Field for a 6:30 p.m. kickoff Saturday. Coach Eli Drinkwitz and players made themselves available for questions at noon Tuesday. Watch it in the media player.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors charged a Rolla man Tuesday with driving drunk and getting in a deadly crash in Maries County. Curtis A. Meyer is charged with DWI causing death, DWI with serious injury, driving on the wrong side of the road, driving without insurance and driving without a license plate, according to online court
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By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Some 160 states have signed up to recognize a Palestinian state. In the last week, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia have done so, but the prospect of it becoming a reality amid US opposition and Israeli resistance is at best a distant one. What does recognizing a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday for the first time during his second presidential term. Watch his remarks in the media player.
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Many parts of world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots including parts of North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa, according to a new study. It’s well known that climate change,
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — Backlash has been swift and forceful as other parts of the world woke up to US President Donald Trump’s comments blaming – without solid evidence – acetaminophen and certain vaccines for autism in children. “Don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine. In fact,
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By Kit Maher, Ellis Kim, Sarah Ferris, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump scrapped a White House meeting with top congressional Democrats later this week, as the threat of a government shutdown looms over Washington. “After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 65-year-old Vichy woman was killed in a head-on crash in Maries County just before 6:15 p.m. Monday, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states a 69-year-old Vichy man was driving a 2000 Ford F150 with the woman on U.S. 63 about a quarter mile
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two Versailles men were seriously hurt after a crash in Morgan County just after 3 p.m. Monday, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states that an 18-year-old man was driving a 1990 Dodge W-Series truck with a 19-year-old male passenger heading north on Camellia Road near Proctor
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