MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Gilma has strengthened in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is forecast to remain away from land this week. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect Monday for the storm, which was located about 720 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. The
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — This was expected to be the season the Milwaukee Brewers finally took a step back after making five playoff appearances over the last six years in Major League Baseball’s smallest market. It hasn’t happened. Milwaukee has won five straight and leads the NL Central by 11 games over the
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WFSB, CNN By Lauren Mascarenhas, Caroll Alvarado and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — The governor of Connecticut declared a state of emergency after historic flooding left two dead and prompted hundreds of evacuations over the weekend, he said in a Monday news conference. “This declaration can help expedite some of the resources needed for us
Continue ReadingTwo people who drowned off South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island where rip current warnings related to Hurricane Ernesto were posted have been identified as Ohio men. A coroner said Monday that autopsies will help determine whether 66-year-old Ralph Jamieson, of South Euclid, and 73-year-old Leonard Schenz, of Loveland, died because of Ernesto. The storm has
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — Police say a shooting at a gathering in Baltimore has left one person dead and seven others wounded. Police Commissioner Richard Worley says it appears that “multiple people opened fire” just after 8 p.m. Sunday on a block near a park in east Baltimore and multiple firearms were found at the scene.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German officials have rejected suggestions that national budget constraints could hurt weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Berlin is its biggest supplier after the United States. The German government hopes a $50 billion international loan package funded by interest on profits from frozen Russian assets will ease some of the strain of financing military
Continue ReadingBy Aishwarya S Iyer and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Ukraine, officials said Monday, weeks after he made his first trip to Moscow since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. His forthcoming visit to Ukraine – also his first since the start of the war – comes at a crucial
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CNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers were on Monday searching for six people – including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – who went missing after a luxury yacht was hit by a tornado and sank off the coast of Sicily, killing one of the 22 people on board. The vessel was hit
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By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The warlord leader of Chechnya has mounted a machine gun on a Tesla Cybertruck that he says he plans to send to Russian forces on the battlefields in Ukraine. Ramzan Kadyrov published a video on Saturday of himself driving the vehicle, which he said had been sent to him
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The combination of a supermoon and blue moon will peak at 2:26 p.m. ET today, treating sky-gazers worldwide to a rare celestial sight. The last time this lunar event occurred was August 2023, and the next super blue moons are projected for January and March of 2037. Here’s what
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Monday marks the first day school for the Jefferson City School District. This school year, the district will be welcoming students with a new school bus service. In December, the district decided to hire Student Transportation of America, which resulted in the district getting 62 new buses from the company. The
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The recent announcement of charges against five people in connection with actor Matthew Perry’s 2023 ketamine-related death marks the latest example of authorities holding drug dealers and enablers accountable in high-profile, celebrity deaths. Investigators said those charged include two doctors, Perry’s live-in personal assistant and Jasveen Sangha, whom
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers were on Monday searching for six people – including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – who went missing after a luxury yacht was hit by a tornado and sank off the coast of Sicily, killing one of the 22 people on board. The vessel was hit by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have released their initial impeachment inquiry report into President Joe Biden, alleging an abuse of power and obstruction of justice in the financial dealings of his son Hunter Biden and family associates. The nearly yearlong inquiry by Republicans stops short of alleging any criminal wrongdoing by the president.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier. The U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 280 aid workers were killed in 33
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and Vietnam have pledged to further their economic ties and gave a nod to their shared communist ideology during the first visit by Vietnam’s new president to Beijing. To Lam, who took office in May, made China the destination of his first state visit, signaling the
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons from becoming overcrowded as hundreds of people are sentenced for their roles in the civil unrest that gripped the country earlier this month. Under the measures, defendants in northern England will be held in police cells while awaiting early court appearances, and they will
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Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Brian Yearwood says he looks forward to the 2024-25 school year.
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Summer is now behind most Mid-Missouri kids as school districts open their doors for another year.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, has again been vandalized. The Shinto shrine called the act deplorable. Japanese media reports say graffiti was found on a stone pillar near the arch. In May, a stone pillar at Yasukuni was spraypainted red.
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