By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela is entering a new and very uncertain era after the sudden capture and removal of Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president for the last 12 years. Amid widespread apprehension about what comes next, the streets of the capital Caracas and other cities have been quiet. People are apprehensive about
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old Columbia teen was arrested for firing shots and a carjacking in the Shoppes at Stadium area Saturday night, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department. CPD spokesman Colin Imhoff said officers were called to the area just after 7 p.m. for reports of an active assailant and
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By Billy Stockwell and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 were among the victims of the deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, police said Sunday, raising questions about whether sufficient age checks were in place. Police in Valais canton, where the fatal blaze occurred
Continue ReadingBy Tal Shalev, Dana Karni, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen said she endured repeated sexual assault, harassment and intimidation during her 471 days of Hamas captivity, speaking publicly for the first time about her experience and her fear of becoming a “sex slave” in Gaza. Gonen, now 25, was kidnapped at
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — At Fardowsa Ali’s restaurant in Minneapolis, she said the usual steady flow of diners seeking Somali sambusas or desserts has been replaced with threatening phone calls. “It’s really sad,” said Ali, who opened Albi Kitchen last summer. “I called police because one guy called here and said he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball upsets No. 22 Florida in its first conference game of the season. You can watch extended highlights of the victory in the video player below. After a tough loss to Illinois, head coach Dennis Gates’ squad returned home for the first SEC game of the year, and pulled off
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS Boys Basketball East St. Louis (83) Battle (55) FINAL John Burroughs (56) Hickman (57) FINAL Mill Valley (69) Tolton (37) FINAL Oak Park (47) Rock Bridge (58) FINAL Hallsville (64) North
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) Eldon residents are still under a boil order as of Saturday, marking the 18th day. The city posted on its social media, saying it collected eight water samples from four locations that previously tested positive for Total Coliform, and one sample came back with traces of the bacteria. That sample was taken
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CNN By Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español (CNN) — Following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro during a US military operation in Venezuela, the command of the South American country has fallen into the hands of Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. That is what Venezuela’s constitution outlines in its different scenarios anticipating a president’s absence.
Continue Reading By Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español, and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — When Delcy Rodríguez chaired her first council of ministers meeting as the acting president of Venezuela on Sunday, the portraits of the two leaders who preceded her loomed on the wall behind her. These were Hugo Chávez, who transformed Venezuela into a socialist
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin, Isaac Yee, Avery Schmitz, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — A dramatic new phase of President Donald Trump’s showdown with Venezuela started Saturday, when the United States launched a large-scale series of strikes – followed hours later by Trump’s announcement that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro had been captured by US forces, and removed
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — After word spread early Saturday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by US forces in Caracas, jubilant demonstrators sang and danced on streets more than 1,300 miles away in the heart of South Florida’s Venezuelan community. In Venezuela, however, the reaction to Maduro’s ouster was
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CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — After word spread early Saturday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by US forces in Caracas, jubilant demonstrators sang and danced on streets more than 1,300 miles away in the heart of South Florida’s Venezuelan community. In Venezuela, however, the reaction to Maduro’s ouster
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By Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN) — Captured along with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday was his wife and top adviser, Cilia Flores, who was dragged from their bedroom along with her husband by US troops. The couple were quickly spirited out of the country to stand trial on US drug-trafficking charges. “Cilita,” as Maduro calls
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 21-year-old Texas man was killed in a crash in Phelps County early Saturday morning during a police chase, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Around 12:15 a.m., the man was driving a 2017 Hyundai Sonata westbound on I-44 near mile marker 176 when he drove off the left
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The Columbia Police Department is hitting some installation delays with Flock cameras more than a year after the technology was approval by the city council in 2024.
101 of 118 camera locations have been installed, according to CPD Assistant Chief Lance Bolinger.
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By Joseph Ataman, Nic Robertson and Clayton Nagel, CNN Crans-Montana, Switzerland (CNN) — The flames of Le Constellation touched far too many young people on New Year’s Eve. Even so, the scars of that night already run much wider than the bar. In the days since the blaze, locals told CNN they were lost in
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By Toni Odejimi, CNN (CNN) — When Indiana state lawmakers were under pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to redistrict and create more GOP-friendly seats in Congress, Nick Roberts, an Indianapolis city-county councilor, was among a legion of Democrats who testified against it at the state capitol. After his testimony last month, messages
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By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The immense joy of Spencer and Monique Tepe was unmistakable on their wedding day in a 2021 video shared by the family, which captured them exchanging vows. The then-newlyweds embraced and laughed in their Columbus, Ohio, home as friends and loved ones cheered them. But just one month before
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — In the days since the Trump administration announced it would freeze federal child care payments to Minnesota amid an alleged fraud investigation, fear and confusion have spread almost as fast as the viral video that launched the scandal. Minnesota receives about $185 million annually in federal child
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