A Columbia man who was accused of murder and arson was indicted by a grand jury on Friday. Steven M. Strumpf, 31, was charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, second-degree arson and misdemeanor credit card fraud after firefighters discovered a body under debris Jan. 19 in a garage in the 3900 block of Deerfoot Way.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Michael Brown has been dead for a decade. The Black teenager’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted an eruption of protests in the suburban city and gave a boost to a then-nascent Black Lives Matter movement. It wasn’t just BLM, though, It was also Indigenous people defending water and land, Latino people opposing draconian
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews on
Continue ReadingFALLON, Nev. (AP) — Ten U.S. Navy crew members injured during a training incident involving two Navy helicopters in the northern Nevada desert have been released from a Reno hospital. The crew members’ injuries were not life-threatening. The Navy said Friday it is investigating the mishap that involved two MH-60S Seahawk helicopters Thursday night while
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A tiny Florida college is once again at the center of the state’s culture wars after a dumpster left the campus library filled with hundreds of books. The New College of Florida says its library was performing a routine culling of its collection, mostly of old and damaged volumes. But students and activists
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dirt track race car driver Scott Bloomquist has died in a plane crash in Tennessee. The sheriff’s office in Hawkins County said a small plane went down Friday into a barn in Mooresburg. The sole person in the aircraft who died is believed to be Bloomquist. He was 60. Bloomquist stood out with
Continue ReadingHATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi poultry processing plant has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires it to pay $164,814 in fines and put in place enhanced safety measures following the death of a 16-year-old boy at the facility. The agreement, announced Friday in a news release, comes after
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in dissent. At issue were protections for pregnant students and students who are parents,
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings. Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says many residents east of downtown woke up around 6 a.m. to firefighters
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials have decided to allow the Green Party’s presidential candidate to remain on the battleground state’s ballot. A Democratic National Committee employee filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday seeking to keep Jill Stein off the ballot. Her appearance on the ballot could make
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury is deliberating whether the parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting bear responsibility for what happened. Both sides presented their closing arguments in a Galveston court Friday, then the case went to the jury. A victims’ lawsuit alleges the
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A former Washington, D.C., city employee was found guilty of manslaughter Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old boy that sparked public uproar in the nation’s capital. Jurors found Jason Lewis not guilty of second-degree murder, but convicted him of manslaughter and other charges after the trial in D.C. Superior
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the planned sports streaming venture by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. United States District Judge Margaret M. Garnett in the Southern District of New York said in her 69-page ruling that
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian health officials say the first case of polio has been recorded in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah. The officials say that after discovering the child’s symptoms, tests were conducted in Jordan’s capital of Amman and the case was confirmed to be polio. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation. But the artificial intelligence tool used to create the harmful deepfakes is still easily accessible on the internet, promising to “undress
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A trial date has been scheduled for a former Cooper County Jail employee who was charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter for the death of an inmate. The jury trial for Robyn Pfeiffer, of Boonville, was scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Callaway County Courthouse, a Thursday court entry
Continue ReadingSUDZHA, Russia (AP) — A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and eventually into the town of Sudzha, where Associated Press journalists traveled Friday on a Ukrainian government-organized trip. Artillery fire has blown chunks out of a statue of Soviet
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By Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Deliberations have begun after attorneys presented their closing arguments Friday in the civil trial of the parents of a Texas high school shooter, more than six years after their son killed eight students and two teachers. Survivors and family members of those who were gunned down at Santa Fe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged with manslaughter in the deaths of two women in an Aug. 6 crash on Interstate 70 in Columbia received an additional charge following a grand jury indictment on Friday. Walter Montejo, 26, is now charged with two counts of first-degree manslaughter, one count of second-degree assault and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged on Thursday in Callaway County with multiple child sex crimes. Matthew John Middleton was charged with statutory sodomy of a person younger than 12 years old, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and misdemeanor furnishing pornographic material to a minor. A warrant was issued for his arrest
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