COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Librarians at the University of Missouri voted to join LiUNA Local 955, a union that represents a number of public employees in the Mid-Missouri area. LiUNA announced in a Thursday social media post that library workers voted to join the union. Workers had announced their intent to unionize in December. MU librarian
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday to celebrate the start of construction from Rocheport to Columbia for the next phase of the Improve I-70 Project. MoDOT contractor Emery Sapp and Sons will begin strengthening the interstate’s shoulder from Route BB to Midway starting Monday with nightly lane closures.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Court documents filed on Thursday say a Sedalia police officer shot a man Wednesday during a chase after the man rammed him truck into the officer’s patrol vehicle. Justin Strickland, of Sedalia, was charged in Pettis County with first-degree assault, second-degree assault of a special victim, aggravated fleeing, leaving the scene of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 29-year-old Columbia man was charged with two misdemeanors on Thursday after he was accused of exposing himself at the Columbia library on April 29. Dennis Allen Jr. is charged in Boone County with first-degree sexual misconduct and driving without insurance. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.
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By Hanna Park, Ramishah Maruf, Emma Tucker, CNN New York (CNN) — A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials — at a time when many are taking or preparing for final exams. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A popular learning management system used by colleges and universities around the country is currently down. The University of Missouri in Columbia is among the thousands of schools who are having issues, the university announced in a social media post. “We are aware that the Canvas online learning management system is down,
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! When you fire off a DM to your friends on TikTok or Instagram it makes you feel connected, right? Not so fast. Using social media could actually make you lonelier. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Wind
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission talked standards and regulations for possible data centers at Thursday night’s work session. Commission members will discuss “broader” topic areas that they want to include in a working draft of the regulations and standards that would govern data centers in Columbia. “This is the process of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hermann High School in Gasconade County was evacuated at 10:45 a.m. Thursday after the district received a threat, according to a social media post from the Gasconade County R-1 School District. The district wrote it had “received a threat that required us to take immediate action to ensure the safety of our
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation hosted U.S. Rep. Mark Alford, Gov. Mike Kehoe and local officials to mark the start of the next phase of work on the Improve I-70 project. This phase includes work from Columbia to Rocheport. Watch the news conference here.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe is asking for federal assistance to help the state recover from storms that hit in late April, including several Mid-Missouri counties. Kehoe is asking FEMA to take part in damage assessments of public infrastructure for 11 counties, including Chariton, Howard, Monroe, Randolph and Saline, his office said Thursday
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By Eleni Giokos, Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Iran is trying to force shippers to comply with a new protocol for transiting the Strait of Hormuz — or risk attack. Tehran has laid out a set of new rules for vessels seeking to transit the strait, according to a document seen by CNN, pressing ahead
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County’s prosecutor’s office has dropped charges against a freshman Mizzou linebacker, who allegedly tried to evade police who were pulling him over. Jaden Jacobi “J.J.” Bush, 18, of Theodore, Alabama, was charged earlier this week with aggravated fleeing — a felony — and misdemeanor reckless driving after he was arrested and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 31-year-old Climax Springs man was flown to University Hospital with serious injuries after a crash in Benton County Wednesday night. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the man was a passenger in a 1997 GMC on Hastain Ave., south of Mulholland Road, around 8:15 p.m., when
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By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace and contain an outbreak of the hantavirus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that five confirmed infections had been identified among people connected to the cruise ship MV Hondius. Three people – a Dutch couple and a German
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By Steven Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — In a stunning move amid a continued purge of its military, China on Thursday gave two former defense ministers suspended death sentences for corruption. Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu were both convicted of bribery and given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve by the country’s military court,
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By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration plans to redirect $2 billion in funding intended for global health programs to cover the cost of closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID), according to a copy of the notification obtained by CNN. The funds would be pulled from money that Congress appropriated for
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN America’s appetite for weight-loss drugs is transforming a small Danish city into an unlikely hub of economic growth. Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, is pouring billions into its facility in Kalundborg, fueling rapid development in the once-quiet community. Here’s what else you need to know to get up
Continue ReadingBy Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s top spy agency has come out of the shadows to warn that its young people are being duped by foreign forces into shirking hard work and prioritizing their individual emotions at the expense of national development. It hasn’t landed well online. “Young people are China’s future
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia police officer shot a suspect during a chase Wednesday morning, the Missouri State Highway Patrol stated in a news release. The suspect suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and was taken to a hospital. The officer was also injured and hospitalized, though the injuries were not life-threatening, the Patrol stated.
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