COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged on Tuesday with second-degree statutory rape in Cole County. Page Guss, 22, is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. An arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. The probable cause statement says the victim’s mother called Columbia police on May 16 to say their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against former Cuban leader Raul Castro and five others at Miami’s Freedom Tower. The charges are related to a 1996 incident in which two planes carrying humanitarian aid were shot down. Watch the full news conference announcing the charges.
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CNN By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Former Cuban leader Raul Castro has been indicted for his alleged role in the shooting down of two civilian planes 30 years ago that killed three Americans and sent US-Cuba relations plunging. Here’s what you need to know about the deadly incident. What happened? In the 1990s, a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman initially charged with attempted murder for sneaking a poisonous plant extract into her husband’s smoothies has been given probation. Judge Daniel Green last week sentenced Sarah E. Scheffer, who now lives in Sullivan, Missouri, to five years of supervised probation with a suspended sentence after she pleaded guilty to third-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Board of Curators is expected to vote Thursday on a 4% across-the-board tuition increase for undergraduate courses at the system’s four campuses. The increases will range from $16.50 per credit hour at UMKC to $21 at UMSL. The Columbia campus would see a $19.11-per-credit-hour increase if the curators
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Prince, an entertainer famed for his eclectic sound, glittery wardrobe and provocative lyrics. Personal Birth date: June 7, 1958 Death date: April 21, 2016 Birth place: Minneapolis, Minnesota Birth name: Prince Rogers Nelson Father: John Nelson, jazz pianist Mother: Mattie Shaw, social
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN The Maldives is known for its luxury resorts and crystal-clear waters, but this week it became the site of a frantic underwater search for missing tourists. Five experienced Italian divers ventured into an underwater cave system on what was supposed to be an exciting expedition — but they never returned. Here’s
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Republican lawmakers in Missouri are joining up to call for a special session for gas tax relief. Multiple GOP state representatives have issued statements pushing for Gov. Mike Kehoe to call a special legislative session to vote on suspending Missouri’s 29.5-cent gasoline tax. This coincides with President Donald Trump’s proposal to suspend the federal 18.4-cent
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By Lex Harvey, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Deep beneath the crystal turquoise water, white sandy beaches and thatched overwater bungalows of the Maldives lies a deep and narrow system of caves, devoid of light and the colorful marine life that inhabits higher waters. The seas were rough and the wind was picking up late
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed ties with Russia as a force for “calm amid chaos” during a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, days after Xi hosted President Donald Trump for a landmark US-China summit. Xi alluded to an increasingly fractious international situation – and took
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Yang, John Liu and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — China said Wednesday it will buy 200 Boeing aircraft and work with the US to reduce tariffs, confirming some details from the outcome of President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing last week. The deal, which would end a virtual sales freeze on Boeing aircraft
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz said that running back Ahmad Hardy has been released from the hospital and is now beginning his recovery process, after getting shot after a concert in Laurel, Mississippi in the early hours of May 10. The leader of the Tigers caught up with the media at the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia is continuing the crack down on unregulated gaming machines with a new ordinance. An ordinance was passed at Monday night’s council meeting against the maintenance and offering of illegal gaming or lottery machines. Previous reporting shows the city has been targeting unregulated machines known as “gray machines” or “no-chance
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia public safety leaders are making their case to voters after the City Council on Monday approved putting a proposed 1% public safety sales tax on the August ballot, saying the measure is needed to address decades of understaffing, aging facilities and increasing strain on the city’s general fund. The tax would
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Go COMO, the City of Columbia’s public bus service, will restore its full fixed-route service on Tuesday, May 26, according to a press release from the city. The bus system has been using combined routes since August 2023 because of staffing shortages. The release says the change back to full, fixed routes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty to felonies in a case surrounding a 2023 overdose death. Chase Rieves pleaded guilty on Monday to first-degree involuntary manslaughter, delivery of a controlled substance and two counts of drug possession. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was previously charged with second-degree murder. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged Tuesday with dumping a body enclosed in a trash bin into Perche Creek in Boone County over the weekend. Capt. Brian Leer with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the victim was a woman. Andrew B. Acton, 53, was arrested Monday after a surveillance photo showed his
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was jailed in Texas on Tuesday after violating the terms of his probation. Rice was booked into the Dallas County Jail just after noon local time Tuesday, according to online jail records. An order from a Dallas County judge says Rice is to serve 30
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Alisha Ebrahimji, Kyung Lah, Norma Galeana, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Less than two weeks before his death, Amin Abdullah said his view of success was based not on what people thought of him in life, but whether he had a “pure soul” at the end. “May Allahu ta’ala (God almighty) grant
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By Audrey Ash, Thomas Bordeaux, Brynn Gingras, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Jeff Winter, Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) — The attackers who killed three people Monday at a San Diego mosque shared a live video of the shooting as well as a lengthy written document citing racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic ideology. The graphic video, which CNN
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