By Kareem El Damanhoury and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Doctors in war-torn Gaza have detected a case of polio for the first time in 25 years, health officials said, as international aid bodies call for a pause in the conflict to make way for a vaccination drive. Traces of poliovirus were found in a 10-month-old child
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Pulaski County woman was charged on Thursday after a foster child who was in her care died and another was injured. Alyssa Sierra Jackson, of St. Robert, was charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death, two counts of child abuse and a count of first-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of college students have returned to Columbia for the new school year. Dan Rader, owner of MyHouse Sports Bar and Nightclub — who just finished an $800,000 renovation of the bar — is expecting an influx in business with the new school year beginning next week. “We’re very excited to debut
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is marking 79 years of independence with a ceremony in its future new capital of Nusantara, a city still under construction. Relocating the capital to Nusantara, on the island of Borneo, has been a long-delayed project, meant to ease the burdens on the congested and polluted
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CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Sudzha, Russia (CNN) — Bodies decomposing in the street. Bullet-marked civilian cars lining the road. Half of Lenin’s face blown away from the statue on the square. Streets littered with shrapnel. Locals huddling in a bomb shelter. The smell of death, in buildings torn open. It is a scene achingly familiar to Ukraine,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mookie Betts and Kevin Kiermaier homered in a five-run sixth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers came back to beat the skidding St. Louis Cardinals 7-6. The offensive outburst gave Justin Wrobleski his first major league win. The left-hander was called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City earlier in the
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Two Alaska State Troopers have been charged with misdemeanor assault after using pepper spray, a taser and a canine while arresting a man on a warrant that had been issued for a different person, authorities announced Thursday. Sgt. Joseph Miller and canine handler Jason Woodruff have
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Waynesville man was seriously injured Thursday in a crash on Route T in Pulaski County, about a mile south of Swedeborg, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, a 2022 Harley Davidson LiveWire – driven by Scott Gay, 46 – was heading northbound when
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Militants with ties to the Islamic State group have killed 16 villagers in northeastern Congo and kidnapped 20 others. A local civil society group said Friday that the attacks occurred between Wednesday and Friday and that some of the victims were farmers. Dozens of villages across Congo are besieged
Continue ReadingBy Andrew McNicol, CNN (CNN) — Tears streamed down Bisan Abuaita’s face as she reunited with her teammates at Jordan’s Queen Alia Airport in May. It was the first time members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team had met since the start of the war in Gaza, an ongoing trauma for Palestinians inside and outside the
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. homered, doubled and singled to boost his major league-leading average to .352, Michael Lorenzen pitched into the sixth inning to get his first win since being traded and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 in the opener of an interleague series. The Royals’
Continue ReadingTIARET, Algeria (AP) — An outpouring of fans greeted Algerian boxer Imane upon arrival back in her hometown on Friday and at a parade in Tiaret, the nearby regional capital. She and track star Djamel Sedjati were honored by local leaders and then paraded through the streets atop a city bus as hundreds of residents
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Portions of both driving lanes of Cherry Street in Downtown Columbia will be closed through Friday, Aug. 23, according to a Friday press release from the city. The closure is impacting a portion of Cherry Street between Seventh and Eighth streets. The release says contractors are placing items on the roof of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow has been placed on the 15-day injured list with right elbow tendinitis. It’s the second IL stint this season for the 31-year-old right-hander. Glasnow is 9-6 with a 3.49 ERA over 22 starts in his first season with the Dodgers. He has a
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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Sudzha, Russia (CNN) — Bodies decomposing in the street. Bullet-marked civilian cars lining the road. Half of Lenin’s face blown away from the statue on the square. Streets littered with shrapnel. Locals huddling in a bomb shelter. The smell of death, in buildings torn open. It is a scene achingly familiar to Ukraine, yet
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CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Sudzha, Russia (CNN) — Bodies decomposing in the street. Bullet-marked civilian cars lining the road. Half of Lenin’s face blown away from the statue on the square. Streets littered with shrapnel. Locals huddling in a bomb shelter. The smell of death, in buildings torn open. It is a scene achingly familiar to Ukraine,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen in northern Nigeria have ambushed vehicles conveying some university students and abducted 20 of them. Police in the Benue state in north central Nigeria said on Friday that the gunmen ambushed the students on Thursday evening. It is the latest case of kidnap along Nigerian roads where dozens
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, her first response was “What?!” Her second: What’s an elector? “I was shocked and surprised by it all. I didn’t even know what an elector was,” Mitchell
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that slammed the Tokyo area with heavy rains and brought mudslide warnings in northern Japan is heading eastward in the Pacific Ocean away from the coast. There were no reports Saturday of major damage. Tokyo and nearby areas were back to normal under sunny skies. Bullet trains
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Niamh Kennedy and Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz raised eyebrows on Friday when he said Israel would expect international partners such as the United Kingdom and France to join Israel in responding to a potential strike from Iran, “not only in defense, but also in attacking significant targets
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