COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison last week for a downtown Columbia shooting. Deandre L. Denny pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree assault, second-degree assault and armed criminal action in the November 2024 gunfight on Ninth Street. Denny was shot in his legs and foot and
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of the late Pope John Paul II. He was canonized as a saint on April 27, 2014. Personal Birth date: May 18, 1920 Death date: April 2, 2005 Birth place: Wadowice, Poland Birth name: Karol Jozef Wojtyla Father: Karol Wojtyla, officer in the Polish
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 54-year-old Barnett man was seriously hurt after a motorcycle crash in Miller County just before 4 p.m. Monday. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the man was riding a 2012 Kawasaki in the 150 block of Route Y near Eldon when he tried to avoid another
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By Rebekah Riess, Ramishah Maruf, CNN (CNN) — Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, according to an update the company posted Monday. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms,
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in three years, Americans’ wages are no longer outpacing inflation. Prices rose 0.6% on a monthly basis, driving the annual rate to 3.8%, the highest since May 2023, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN It’s been 100 days since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, with few concrete answers emerging in the case. It’s also reigniting debate over whether crime dramas like “CSI” have inflated the public’s expectations of which cases police can realistically solve — and how quickly. Here’s what else you need to know to get
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — If you’re shopping for your favorite Calbee chips in Japan and see that familiar bag in black and white – it’s not a printing mistake. The Japanese snack maker said on Tuesday it will temporarily change the packaging to grayscale and ditch its typically bright and eye-catching colors in
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By Simone McCarthy, Teele Rebane, Isaac Yee, Yong Xiong, CNN Cangzhou, China (CNN) — A few hundred miles from where Chinese leader Xi Jinping will roll out the red carpet for President Donald Trump this week, a shadowy ecosystem has long been at work pumping billions of dollars into Iran’s economy – now helping keep
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By Lex Harvey, Deidre McPhillips, Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Stephen Kornfeld was taking the trip of a lifetime aboard a cruise sailing across the Atlantic Ocean when he was called on to care for other passengers who fell ill. Now, he’s the only MV Hondius passenger in a biocontainment unit at the University
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Hamas militants and their allies raped, assaulted and sexually tortured their victims during and after the October 7, 2023 terror attack on southern Israel “to maximize pain and suffering,” a landmark new report has concluded. Shared first with CNN, the report presents the most comprehensive body of evidence yet
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Teresa Shaw walked through the grounds at Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery on Monday, she counted vase after vase that had been stolen from gravesites in recent months. “My grandmother’s is missing, my grandmother’s daughter’s is missing,” Shaw said. “My stepfather’s was missing. You can go on over there and there’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education on Monday approved a salary increase for Superintendent Jeff Klein. The increase was on the agenda for Monday’s Board of Education meeting, which began at 6 p.m. Under the proposal, Klein will receive a 6% salary increase ($15,300) for the next school year. Klein currently makes $255,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Laurel, Mississippi, police chief said Monday that Mizzou running back Ahmad Hardy was a victim in a shooting that occurred over the weekend. The police department is currently working the case. Laurel Police Sgt. Macon Davis, in an interview with ABC 17, said that Hardy was attending a concert at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Documents for a Columbia City Council work session on Monday shows the city can expect to spend millions in the red through fiscal year 2031. Meeting documents show general revenue and expenditures are expected to look as followed: Fiscal YearRevenueExpendituresDeficit2026$130,045,273$137,792,238$7,746,9652027$131,668,045$135,897,485$4,229,4402028$132,816,321$139,207,543$6,391,2222029$133,981,664$142,599,122$8,617,4582030$135,170,623$146,074,251$10,903,6282031$136,371,944$149,635,010$13,263,066 Some of the biggest expenses from the general fund are employee wages
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Volunteers were set to return to the Rudolf Bennitt Conservation Area in Randolph County to continue searching for a missing 16-year-old on Monday. Kayla Huff has been missing since Wednesday. Dozens of volunteers have been searching the 3,500-acre conservation area southeast of Higbee on foot and horseback for the past several days.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rocheport man accused of manslaughter in deadly crash from February 2024 is set to go to trial on Wednesday, court filings show. Matthew Shilling is charged in Boone County with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of armed criminal action, one count of second-degree assault and a count of driving while revoked, a
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and mild with lows in the lower 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and warm with gusty winds. Highs in the upper 70s to low 80s with wind gusts as high as 30 mph. EXTENDED: I’m tracking a mild night as we drop into the 50s, with a warm Tuesday ahead. Highs get into
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Buy now, pay later. It can seem like a great deal for more than a quarter of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. Make a purchase today, and split the cost over about four interest-free payments. The “Buy Now, Pay Later” payment plan is growing rapidly in popularity as consumers face higher prices and tighter budgets. Recent data shows nearly half of Americans have turned to BNPL services. And some statistics are startling experts like Jared Reynolds, CEO and Founder of Freedom Wealth Planning in Columbia.
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By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to keep his job after his appeal for a “reset,” following disastrous results in last week’s local elections, was met with scores of lawmakers in his governing Labour Party calling for him to quit. In a speech to the Labour faithful
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By Chris Boyette, Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man, weeks away from standing trial for the death of his pregnant wife, showed up in Italy this month with what a US criminal complaint says was a fake passport and forged documents. When Italian authorities confronted him, he proclaimed his innocence of the
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