COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) James Egan in a Wednesday press release announced his campaign to become the Division 9 associate circuit judge in Boone County. The release says Egan is a Columbia resident who has spent more than three decades in public service. He first worked as an educator with “at-risk youth” before working as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was riding in a forklift was killed after the vehicle crashed Tuesday morning on Beechnut Street in Macon County, about three miles west of Ethel, a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says. The crash report says the Caterpillar DC60 Forklift – driven by a 19-year-old Ethel man –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Lottery announced in a Wednesday press release that a Boone County man bought a ticket from a Columbia gas station that won him $3.2 million. The Quick Pick ticket was bought at the Midwest Petroleum at 126 South Providence Road for the Oct. 15 drawing. The man claimed the prize
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was killed on Tuesday night after he was hit be a semi-truck on Interstate 70. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, a 44-year-old Columbia man was walking in the left lane of eastbound I-70 near mile marker 137 when he was hit by a semi-truck
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The first officer of a United Express flight that ran off the end of a wet runway in Roanoke, Virginia last month tried to get the captain to abort the landing twice, investigators say. The new findings are part of a preliminary report on the September 24 incident,
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By Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s strategic nuclear forces carried out a readiness test supervised by the country’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin said. “Today, we are conducting a planned – I want to emphasize, planned – nuclear forces command and control exercise,” Putin said in a
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By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ top court issued a legal opinion Wednesday stating that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to work with UN agencies to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, a rebuke of the blockade it imposed on the Palestinian enclave earlier this year. The International Court of Justice
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By Charlotte Reck, Pierre Bairin, CNN (CNN) — Two police officers accompanied former French President Nicolas Sarkozy during his first night in prison, staying in a neighboring cell for his security, according to the country’s interior minister. Laurent Nuñez confirmed that the former president, who is serving a five-year sentence after being found guilty of
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN More than a million federal workers are missing paychecks as the government shutdown stretches into its third week. Find out which workers are still being paid, who’s stuck in limbo — and who faces the possibility of losing compensation altogether. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As cooler, fall temperatures creep into Mid-Missouri, you might be turning on your heat for the first time in months. If you are turning up the heat, you may notice a burning smell; however, there’s likely nothing to worry about if the smell dissipates within a few minutes. When furnaces haven’t been
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Mizzou football has another big test this weekend on the road. The No. 15 Tigers will travel to Nashville to face the No. 10 Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt is usually an also-ran in SEC football, but this year the Commodores have rolled to 6-1 with an explosive offense led by quarterback Diego Pavia. This is the
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Svitlana Vlasova, Lex Harvey, Kosta Gak, Victoria Butenko, and Michael Rios, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Ukraine early Wednesday, causing power outages across most of the country, setting homes ablaze and killing at least six people, including a six-month-old baby, Ukrainian authorities said. The attack, which involved drones,
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By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Around 20 million people in India’s capital woke up on Wednesday breathing the most polluted air of any major city in the world, a day after celebrations for the Diwali festival, during which revelers typically set off fireworks and firecrackers. As of Wednesday, New
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — If you ever thought your vote doesn’t make a difference, this might change your mind. A three-day hearing is underway in Canada to decide whether a single vote that went uncounted because of an administrative error should overturn a result in April’s elections for the national legislature. Liberal candidate
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh, Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A mysterious object that cracked a windshield on a United Airlines flight, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing, may have been a weather balloon. WindBorne, a California start-up focused on advanced weather forecasting and atmospheric data collection, said in a statement Monday it believes one
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HALLSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A crowd of more than 60 community members, teachers and staff gathered Tuesday night in the Hallsville Secondary Cafeteria as district leaders outlined plans for Proposition 2 and the proposed continuation of the four-day school week on the Nov. 4 ballot. Superintendent Tyler Walker said the district’s goal is to ensure residents
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s Office of Violence Prevention Administrator D’Markus Thomas-Brown is looking to help youth reach their academic and career goals. “Anecdotally, CPS and different organizations have identified that 13-to-17 age range where we’re seeing some of the violence,” Thomas-Brown said. “So, a program that targets that directed demographic and seeing the success they
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Police Department announced on Tuesday evening that it arrested a man who was wanted for sexually assaulting a child last week. Augustus Armstead Jr., 37, was charged on Friday with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A mugshot was
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Editor’s note: A statistic about the number of fatal crashes has been updated. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The daughter of a 56-year-old Jefferson City man who died in a dump truck crash while riding his bicycle on Monday is hoping to raise awareness about the need for safety improvements along Business Loop 70. Columbia police identified
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KABC, KCAL, KCBS, CNN By Josh Campbell, Alex Stambaugh, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — A federal marshal and an undocumented immigrant were injured Tuesday after an agent’s weapon discharged during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles, officials said. Federal prosecutors allege a man, identified as Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a 44-year-old Mexican national living in
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