BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Road closures have been reported throughout Mid-Missouri after multiple days of rainfall. Boone County Joint Communication sent a notification at 3:24 a.m. Friday morning, stating that West Gillespie Bridge Road was flooded at Perche Creek, creating a traffic hazard. The road was reopened by 9 a.m. Friday. Route CC near Centrailia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County firefighters rescued a father and daughter who were stranded on top of a pickup truck in floodwater on Thursday. The truck was stranded in water at Perche Creek on Akeman Bridge Road north of Columbia, Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp said. Emergency radio traffic indicated the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 5-year-old boy is recovering after he almost drowned in Benton County just after 9 a.m. Thursday morning. According to an incident report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the boy was looking at the rising flood waters from a bridge at the intersection of Rambow Road and Beeman Ave., when he
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Gas averaging $4 a gallon may feel steep to American drivers, but it’s nowhere near the global ceiling. In one major Asian city, prices are nearing $16 a gallon. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Cabinet shakeup President Donald
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Gas prices just keep going up. The average price in Missouri hit $3.578 on Thursday, up from $2.808 just a month ago. GasBuddy reported prices on Thursday at Columbia stations between $3.39 and $3.49. Meanwhile, oil continued to trade at more than $110 a barrel. Prices aren’t likely to fall soon — those barrels sold
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Newly released body camera footage capturing the moments before and after Tiger Woods was arrested following a rollover crash in Florida offers a more textured account of the encounter, adding new layers to what deputies say led them to conclude he was impaired, while also surfacing new details about
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CNN, WPBF, MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, WPBF/Martin County Sheriff’s Office By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Newly released body camera footage capturing the moments before and after Tiger Woods was arrested following a rollover crash in Florida offers a more textured account of the encounter, adding new layers to what deputies say led them to
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — Cuba’s government will free 2,010 prisoners in the largest such release in years, it announced Thursday, as the island buckles under increasing pressure from the Trump administration. The government decided to grant its pardon based on the inmates’ good conduct, their health status, and the nature
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Crews are working to restore the “Rock M” at Faurot Field, Mizzou football shared in a Thursday afternoon social media post. The photographs shared online showed workers placing rocks in an “M” outline. The “Rock M” was temporarily moved out of the stadium as the university made upgrades to the north end
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CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE, CANADIAN GOVERNMENT By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Asuka Koda, Lily Hautau and Elise Hammond Merritt Island, Florida (CNN) – Four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are on their way to journey around the moon after successfully conducting the translunar injection burn, or TLI. “Humanity has once again shown what
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A mother was charged in Boone County after she allegedly refused to take her child with third-degree burns to a hospital. Elizabeth Moore, 33, was charged with child abuse on Thursday in Boone County. A warrant was served and she was held on a $10,000 bond. She was listed on the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was convicted of murder in the 2022 death of a woman near the Interstate 70/Highway 63 connector in Columbia had his appeal sent back to a circuit court. Jessie Williams, 33, was found guilty by a jury on May 16, 2024, of second-degree murder in the October 2022 death of Kaylen Schmit. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Faculty Council voted to approve an artificial intelligence use scale policy. According to council documents, MU educators are responsible for labeling graded assignments and assessments on a level from zero to three. Assignments where an instructor allows no AI use are considered a “Level Zero,” but “Level Three”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Centralia man pleaded guilty to three felonies for a drunken October 2024 crash that killed a man. Nathan Timpe pleaded guilty on Wednesday to driving while intoxicated that caused the death of another and two counts of DWI causing serious injury. He was sentenced to 120 days of shock incarceration and
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By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — One day after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, the world’s largest group of police chiefs urged the White House to organize a sit-down with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders to better coordinate immigration enforcement and ensure community safety. While the White
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Steven Wolfe COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Phelps County man was arrested and charged after he allegedly yanked off the skin from a woman’s neck on Monday. Steven Wolfe, 25, of Rolla, was charged on Wednesday in Phelps County with first-degree assault. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A
Continue ReadingBy Jordan D. Brown, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Police released body camera footage of Tiger Woods’ arrest after the golf legend was charged with driving under the influence in his latest crash last week. See the full video. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cole County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Thursday press release that a bus driver was accused of assaulting a student on a bus on Wednesday morning. The release says a Blair Oaks school resource officer was called by the district’s superintendent “in reference to an alleged assault that occurred on a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Boone County Road and Bridge closed a bridge in the southern part of the county Thursday afternoon. The department announced in a news release that it closed the Rippeto Road bridge over the Bonne Femme Creek at Harold Cunningham Drive due to a “bridge approach failure.” Road maintenance supervisor Chris Jennings
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By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said. The president wrote on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning to a much
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