COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia medical marijuana dispensary claims the city’s development rules conflict with the laws voters approved. A lawsuit filed by GRD Columbia, LLC asked a Boone County judge to stop the city from requiring changes to the property based on its development code. That includes landscaping and traffic design rules that the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some MU students could face disciplinary action after protests on campus. Dozens of students protested the restructuring of the university’s social justice centers Thursday. MU spokesperson Christian Basi confirmed that demonstrators walked through Jesse Hall and a student union after being told that disruptions were not allowed there. He says that any
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Houston police officers following up on a kidnapping report found more than 90 people jammed in a two-story home in what authorities said turned out to be a possible human smuggling operation. Officers were granted a search warrant to enter a home after following up on a kidnapping tip from Thursday night, Houston Police Assistant
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Hundreds of buses stretched over miles of winding road were ferrying thousands of worshipers off Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday after 45 people were killed and some 150 others injured in a crush at a mass Jewish gathering overnight. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident a “huge disaster,” while paramedics described
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Covid-19 deaths are declining in the United States — and some health experts credit this drop in death to the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. The seven-day average of new Covid-19 deaths in the United States was 670 newly reported lives lost each day as of Thursday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The United
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ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) Work to build the new Ashland campus of Ranken Technical College is expected to create 163 jobs and generate $9 million in private investment, according to local economic development groups. Officials gathered Friday to break ground on the project. The campus is set to open in 2023. St. Louis-based Ranken offers bachelor’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Sioux City Journal) — Don’t let anyone tell you that these NAIA championship tournaments Sioux City hosts are just another event, not all that important in the grand scheme of things. For Gary and Tyler Steinke, the NAIA tournaments are not just a father-son bonding
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Joe Liuni felt a little strange in a room full of mental health professionals in New York state. As a gun owner, general manager of a gun store and shooting range, and president of a federation overseeing local hunting, fishing and shooting clubs, he often finds himself on the opposite side to those declaring firearms
Continue Reading When US President Joe Biden urged Americans to “win the 21st century” in his joint address to Congress, he painted a picture of a new great power competition with China and repeatedly name checked its leader, Xi Jinping. “He’s deadly earnest on (China) becoming the most significant, consequential nation in the world,” Biden said of
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Americans have an easy way to crush Covid-19 — one that would let businesses fully reopen safely, ditch the need for social distancing and restore a mask-free return to normalcy. But many Americans don’t want to get vaccinated as myths and misunderstandings spread. “Facebook runs a survey every day … and that’s shown that vaccine
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — First, it was lead, now Flint residents may be facing new health concerns about how they were tested for it. “Kinda worried it harmed my child,” said Amber Stebbins, who is 28 weeks pregnant. Stebbins already had to live through the Flint water crisis,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — One man’s cross-country bike ride brings him to St. Louis for a stop in what he calls “The Organ Trail” to visit the man who inspired him to donate his kidney. From Madison, Wisconsin to here in St. Louis all the way to Louisiana,
Continue Reading The first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in the United States began this week in the Florida Keys — the culmination of a decade-long effort by local mosquito control authorities to see if a genetically modified organism is a viable alternative to spraying insecticides in the region. For the first 12-week phase, blue-and-white boxes containing
Continue Reading Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar has been banned from Major League Baseball following an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct in 2014, the league announced Friday. Alomar, who retired before the 2005 season, has also been terminated from his job as a consultant to Major League Baseball. Commissioner Robert Manfred said his office
Continue Reading Once there was a bustling construction zone here. Now it’s like a ghost town, frozen in time. Heavy machinery is parked and motionless. Stacks of steel bollards stretch as far as the eye can see. The Trump administration built more than 450 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border — including hundreds of miles of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A group of St. Paul high school students walked out of class Thursday to address the issues of social justice and racism. More than 100 Cretin-Derham Hall students dressed in black walked in solidarity to express their feelings about what some students have had to
Continue Reading Three Colorado officers who laughed at body camera footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are “no longer employed” by the department, Loveland Police Chief Robert Ticer said Friday. Karen Garner was arrested in June for walking out of a Walmart with $13.88 worth of items, according to a federal lawsuit
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Morgan and Camden County contractor is facing consumer fraud charges after an investigation by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Brandon Rusin of Rocky Mount, faces one count of financial exploitation of the elderly, a class C felony, and one count of deceptive business practice, a class E felony in Morgan
Continue Reading Ma’Khia Bryant loved styling her curly hair in front of her camera phone and posting about it on TikTok. “This was a child that had so much love in her heart,” her cousin Don Bryant said at her funeral on Friday. “A smart girl, capable, and deserving of fulfilling all her hopes and dreams in
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The remains found west of Boonville on April 15 have been confirmed as a missing Boonville man. The Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the remains as 42-year-old Andrew Sercu. Sercu was reported missing to the Boonville police on Sept. 8, 2020. Officials report no cause of death has been determined at
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