MONDAY UPDATES: Missouri DHSS adds 16 coronavirus related deaths after analyzing death certificates
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By Ben Westcott, CNN Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan refused to condemn the Chinese government’s alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim-majority Uyghur people in Xinjiang in an interview with Axios Sunday. When pressed on reports of widespread detention and abuse of Uyghurs, Khan said China had been “one of the greatest friends to us
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications is reporting a downed power line and transformer fire in southwest Columbia. Boone Electric Cooperative first reported an outage in the area around 9:38 p.m. and is currently affecting 77 customers. Boone Electric reports a tree in the line caused the damaged. The fire is reported to be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) If you’ve got some debris left on your property from the overnight storms, experts say call the professionals. Storm damage remained across Business Loop 70 East, Monday night. Experts say the small debris can be dropped at local recycle hubs but you should leave the big debris, like live wires and major
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis and adjoining St. Louis County have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Missouri’s new law barring state and local authorities from enforcing federal gun laws. The suit filed Monday argues that the Republican-backed law would increase the risk of gun violence. It seeks an injunction to halt enforcement of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark has been arrested in Los Angeles after police say they saw a submachine gun in his car. LAPD spokesman Tony Im says Clark was pulled over for a vehicle violation south of downtown Sunday night and officers noticed an Uzi sticking out of a
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Deanna Hackney, CNN Three people are dead, including a police officer, after a shooting in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday. A bystander and the suspect were also killed, officials said. The officer, Gordon Beesley, was a 19-year veteran of the police department, Arvada police Det. David Snelling told CNN. Earlier, Arvada Deputy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia city leaders heard from community members about how they want American Rescue Plan funding to be spent. Congress passed the $1.9 trillion plan last spring. To be eligible, expenses must fall into four categories – public health response or negative economic impacts Premium pay, investments in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure
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Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, has played in the NFL for five years and said he “agonized over the decision” to announce that he is gay.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is inviting residents and travelers to share their thoughts regarding the 2022 improvements along Highway 63 in Boone and Callaway Counties. The project will make several improvements along Highway 63 including resurfaced between Boone County Route B and Highway 54 in Callaway County, as well as
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A New York woman is giving back to the community after more than 150 Amazon boxes that did not belong to her showed up at her house. Jillian Cannan told CNN started receiving packages at her home on June 5 thinking they were related to her business. “I thought my
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors in a case against a Columbia man accused in a 2017 killing are now required to present GPS data by July 6th. The GPS data is crucial in the case against 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams. McWilliams is charged with second-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action in the death of Augustus Roberts.
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Some states are making great strides in vaccinating their residents against Covid-19, but the ones that are not may soon be contending with a more transmissible variant, experts say. About 45.2% of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed, and in 16 states and Washington, DC, that
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By Andy Rose, Hollie Silverman, Keith Allen and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Authorities say the incident in which two pedestrians were hit by a truck at a Pride parade near Miami Saturday — leaving one dead and the other injured — was a “tragic accident” and not an intentional act. The 77-year-old driver of the truck,
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Parson’s office said in an advisory sent Monday that the event will focus on the federal reimbursement allowance that helps fund Medicaid.
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin, CNN Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, became the first active NFL player in league history to announce that he is gay. “What’s up, people,” Nassib said Monday in a video on Instagram. “I’m Carl Nassib. I’m at my house here in Westchester, Pennsylvania. I just wanted to
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By Saskya Vandoorne, Xiaofei Xu and Lorraine Poupon, CNN The murder trial of a woman who killed her abusive husband got underway in the French city of Chalon-sur-Saône on Monday.​ In her bestselling book Tout Le Monde Savait (Everyone Knew) published in May, Valerie Bacot, 40, admitted to shooting Daniel Polette dead in self-defense in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is injured after a stabbing on the 4300 block of Bethany Drive at 1:30 p.m. According to Capt. Brian Leer, the victim was stabbed multiple times after a disturbance with the mother of the man’s unborn child. Capt. Leer says the wounds were not believed to be life threatening. The
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Amanda Jackson, CNN A man accused of killing three people in three separate incidents Friday in North Bend, Oregon, and then allegedly forcing a woman to drive him to Wisconsin, has turned himself in to authorities, officials said. The incidents began Friday morning, when Oen Evan Nicholson, 30, allegedly killed 83-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN A Southern California sheriff’s deputy is under criminal investigation after surveillance video showed him kicking a pursuit suspect in the head after the man surrendered, an incident that one official called “alarming” and “disturbing.” The incident occurred early Wednesday in Victorville, about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, after a motorcyclist
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