COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: According to MUPD, the stolen Nissan Sentra has been located. It was found on a residential street in Columbia. ORIGINAL: The University of Missouri Police Department is asking for the public’s help to identify two suspects in an alleged carjacking early Saturday morning. The University of Missouri sent out an alert
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A reckoning with the deaths resulting from institutionalized racism, a resurgence of almost-daily gun violence and 3.1 million pandemic deaths worldwide, there has been trauma piled upon trauma upon trauma. It turns out these collective traumas are taking a toll on all of us, according to Roxane Cohen Silver, a professor of psychological science, medicine
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — A woman has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl in February 2019 outside Central High School. Jamya D. Norfleet, 28, was convicted of second-degree murder and 10 years for unlawful use of a weapon. The shooting
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Click here for updates on this story BLUE SPRINGS, MO. (KCTV) — Saturday was a proud but emotional day for Armenian Americans. President Joe Biden became the first president in history to recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide. In a statement marking the 106th anniversary of the massacre’s start,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A politician from the Queen City made a stop in the mountains Saturday. As part of his 100-county campaign for U.S. Senator, N.C. state Sen. Jeff Jackson held a town hall in Asheville Saturday afternoon, April 24. Jackson currently represents the 37th District, which
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta, GA (WGCL) — Atlanta police are searching for a man who they said jumped into a city of Atlanta work truck and drove off. The work truck was a 2009 Blue Ford, according to police. The reported theft happed on Wednesday near the 100 block of Marietta
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — Craig Roberts has stories — lots of them. You could call him an expert on Mobile’s Mardi Gras. “In the early days they only had to give up for God for lent — 40 days and 7 days before Easter — fatty meats and
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The wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine missing since Wednesday has been found on the sea floor and all its 53 crew are confirmed dead, Indonesia military commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said Sunday. The news came a day after debris believed to be from the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine was found floating about two
Continue Reading Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is not included in the fatality
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) — You’re running to the store when that addictive ding chimes on your cellphone. Someone’s sent you a video. Like many of us, this happened to Murfreesboro mom Selena Carlton, as she was heading to Home Depot with her son Isaiah, who has autism. She
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At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday. Another 110 people were injured in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, according to ministry spokesman Major General Khaled Al-Muhanna. The fire started after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — A 10-year-old male died in a house fire that happened near 118th and Florist Avenue at approximately 10 p.m. in Milwaukee. Milwaukee police say other occupants of the residence are being treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation. According to officials from the
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the 2003 CIA leak involving then-operative Valerie Plame and senior members of the George W. Bush administration. After a lengthy investigation, one member of the Bush administration, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was brought to trial and convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements. Timeline February 2002 – Joseph
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Newly elected St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones led a group of elected leaders on a tour of the Criminal Justice Center (CJC) and the Medium Security Institution, known as the Workhouse, on Saturday. The group emerged from the Workhouse and had harsh criticism
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story St. Louis, MO (KMOV) — Proms across the country were canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, this prom season, high schoolers are doing whatever it takes to make prom memories while also following CDC guidelines. “We’re not necessarily having a prom tonight, we are doing
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — A vigil took place Saturday, April 24, for the 17-year-old shot dead in Sherman Park on Thursday. Family, friends, local activists, and pastors all joined hands today in honor of Roy Thomas Jr. Thomas Jr. — also known as Kash — who will not
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Everybody is talking about the “finish line.” After more than a year of trauma and heartbreak, state and local officials are pointing to an end point — a return to the normalcy we’ve craved for months — that they say is just around the corner. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said last month the state was
Continue Reading The trial for a former Louisville police officer charged in connection with Breonna Taylor’s shooting has been pushed back to February 1, 2022, according to a pre-trial hearing held in Kentucky’s Jefferson County on Friday. Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Ann Bailey Smith postponed the trial of Brett Hankison from its original date of August
Continue Reading While the family of George Floyd, supporters and civil rights activists celebrated a Minneapolis jury’s decision to convict Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaughter, they insist it’s only a small step toward progress in an unjust policing system. The announcement of the guilty verdict has renewed calls for police reform, placing increasing pressure on Congress
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FULTON, Mo, (KMIZ) A teenager is recovering from serious injuries after being thrown from a clothes basket that was being towed by a vehicle with a rope. Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports show it happened around 2 p.m. Saturday in the 3800 block of County Road 318 in Fulton. That’s when a 13 year
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