CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Baseball Hall of Fame player Yogi Berra. Personal Birth date: May 12, 1925 Death date: September 22, 2015 Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri Birth name: Lawrence Peter Berra Father: Pietro Berra, bricklayer Mother: Paulina Berra Marriage: Carmen (Short) Berra (January 26, 1949-March
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several roads in Mid-Missouri are flooded after multiple rounds of storms came through the area on Sunday and Monday. Boone County Joint Communications sent a notification at 9:41 a.m. stating that Strawn Road in Columbia was closed because of flooding between Interstate 70 Drive Southwest and West Worley Street. A viewer submitted
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By Hanna Ziady, Mostafa Salem, Sarah Tamimi CNN London/Abu Dhabi (CNN) — The United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC, a decades-old cartel of the world’s top oil exporters, delivering a shock that will ripple through global oil markets at a time of unprecedented turmoil caused by the Iran war. The UAE plans to withdraw from
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By Andy Rose, Hannah Rabinowitz, Rob Kuznia, Taylor Romine, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — A long-running investigation of fraud involving federal funding in Minnesota entered a new, highly visible phase Tuesday morning as uniformed law enforcement agents executed search warrants in the Minneapolis area. Twenty-two federal search warrants were executed in Minnesota, including raids at daycares,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 2000 Columbia murder suspect has been booked into the Boone County Jail after being extradited from South Carolina. Sentrell Wilson, 45, of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, is charged with first-degree murder for the 2000 death of University of Missouri student Candace Richie. Wilson was arrested in South Carolina on Feb. 23
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A German tourist has died after being bitten by a snake while on vacation in Egypt, authorities have said. The 57-year-old man, who has not been identified, had attended a snake-charmer show while on vacation with his family when he was bitten by the animal earlier this month, according
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By Karina Tsui, Isabel Rosales, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As the suspect accused of killing two doctoral students in Florida faces murder charges, authorities have laid out disturbing and grisly details surrounding the students’ disappearance. Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, both 27 and originally from Bangladesh, were last seen nearly two weeks ago in
Continue Reading BAY NEWS 9 (SPECTRUM NEWS), HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, CNN By Karina Tsui, Isabel Rosales, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As the suspect accused of killing two doctoral students in Florida faces murder charges, authorities have laid out disturbing and grisly details surrounding the students’ disappearance. Zamil Limon and
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Portland recently gave birth mid-air to a healthy baby girl, with two paramedics on board assisting with makeshift tools. It just goes to show that even in an era of chronic flight delays, some arrivals still come ahead of schedule.
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By Lucas Lilieholm, CNN (CNN) — Sri Lankan authorities said 22 Buddhist monks were arrested for possession of over 110 kilograms of cannabis – illegal in the South Asian nation – at the international airport in the capital Colombo, the largest ever drug bust at the terminal. Authorities said the men, who were returning from
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By Issy Ronald, Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III will emphasize the long history and democratic values his country shares with the United States in an address to a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, delivered while relations between the two nations are at an unusually low ebb.
Continue Reading CNN, POOL By Issy Ronald, Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III will emphasize the long history and democratic values his country shares with the United States in an address to a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, delivered while relations between the two nations are at an unusually
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Satish Cheney, CNN (CNN) — A French teenager is facing up to two years in a Singapore prison after he allegedly licked a straw in an orange juice vending machine – then placed it back in the dispenser. Singapore, a small, highly-developed and wealthy financial hub in Southeast Asia, is well-known
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By Tim Lister, Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Asal, a freelance designer in her 30s living in Tehran, used to get projects from abroad all the time. But after nearly two months without the internet, she told CNN by phone, “no new projects, no replies. It’s like everything just stopped overnight.” On the verge of
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) A culvert break along North Route F near Harrisburg forced the closure of part of the roadway Monday evening after rushing water damaged the road surface. The failure happened around 5 p.m. in the 17100 block of North Route F when water surged through a rusted pipe and caused several holes in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) During Monday’s Columbia Collegiate Advisory Board meeting, Office of Violence Prevention Administrator D’Markus Thomas-Brown detailed his department’s efforts and gave an update on the progress of an anticipated violence analysis report. In January, city leaders started collaborating with the National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform to curb violent crime in the community.
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Tedd Wiseman got a call Monday morning that led him to a shocking discovery.
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CNN By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski, Casey Tolan, Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — The suspect charged in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting shared posts comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and encouraged others critical of his presidency to purchase guns, according to a CNN review of two social media accounts that appear to
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Fallen trees and other damage was seen across Randolph and Monroe counties after severe storms swept through the area Monday morning. Randolph County Emergency Management Director David Gaines said the first warning of tornadoes out came out of Chariton County around 6 a.m. “A lot of damage related to the wind and
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UPDATE: This brief was updated after a Tuesday morning press release from MoDOT gave an update. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rolling roadblocks are planned this week on Interstate 70 near the Missouri River, according to an updated press release from the Missouri Department of Transportation. “Blasting operations” are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday as part of
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