CNN By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s agenda has been thrown into chaos after a group of GOP hardliners blocked the bill in a key committee vote on Friday – dealing a major embarrassment to House Republican leaders and Trump himself. Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe says he’s considering calling a special session to discuss incentives the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to renovate or build new stadiums. In a email Kehoe’s office said, “a special session is under consideration. It has not yet been called, so that is why dates and subjects of
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CNN By John Miller and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey was interviewed by US Secret Service agents at their Washington, DC, field office on Friday afternoon, according to law enforcement sources. Comey was interviewed by agents investigating a social media post he posted Thursday showing shells in the sand on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri will begin the first day of commencement ceremonies on Friday, celebrating the class of 2025. There will be commencement ceremonies throughout the weekend for 5,954 graduates, leaving the chance for heavy traffic around downtown Columbia. Free parking will be available on campus for commencement guests from Friday, May
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The dust has settled on the 2025 legislative session, and there were some casualties. One of them was a bill that included incentives to help finance stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Royals. The stadium bill and another that included money for several Mid-Missouri construction projects were left hanging when the Senate decided
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Missouri House lawmakers ended their regular session a day ahead of the deadline. The House passed 11 bills on Thursday, limited to only those the state Senate had already passed. The upper chamber called it a year on Wednesday after Republican leaders broke a Democratic filibuster on bills dealing with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A youth was shot around 6 p.m. Thursday, according to a social media post from the Columbia Police Department. CPD wrote that police responded to a shooting in the 2100 block of Meadowvale Court, a street off of Rice Road in northeast Columbia. Police wrote in a later press release that they
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri nursing homes rank among the worst in the country for the amount of care provided to residents, and ongoing staffing shortages may be adding to the problem and putting residents’ health and safety at risk. Federal guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require skilled nursing facilities to provide
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Both the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals have publicly expressed interest in moving from Missouri to Kansas after Jackson County voters rejected a proposal last year to extend a sales tax to help finance a downtown baseball stadium and upgrades to Arrowhead Stadium. In response, Gov. Mike Kehoe proposed to fund
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By Josh Campbell, CNN It was news that Pauline Stuart thought might never come: The man believed to be responsible for the death of her teenage son years earlier is finally behind bars. “It still seems a little unreal that it happened,” she told CNN on Thursday. “I kind of believed that it would never
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of abortion and Proposition-A advocates gathered at the Capitol on Thursday to protest the recent passage of two bills during the legislative session. On Wednesday, the senate ended its session after republicans forced a vote to approve a ballot measure to send abortion rights back to the voters. It also
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A hearing was held Thursday morning for a Columbia man who was sentenced for a triple murder more than 20 years ago. Deandra Buchanan, 51, was found guilty by a jury in 2002 on three counts of first-degree murder. He was initially sentenced to death but was resentenced to life in prison without
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Shelter Insurance Concert in the Gardens series will return on Sunday after a several-year hiatus. The Columbia Community Band will perform at 5-7 p.m. Sunday, May 18 at Shelter Gardens – 1817 West Broadway — in Columbia, a press release from Shelter Insurance says. The series ran for 43 years until
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rhonda Allen-Lewis will be the next principal of Belair Elementary School in Jefferson City, according to a Thursday press release from the Jefferson City School District. Allen-Lewis is currently an assistant principal at Lewis and Clark Middle School and will replace current Todd Shalz, who was recently named as the district’s new
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Residents in Jefferson City will have to wait one extra day to visit the public outdoor pools this year. JC Parks said on Wednesday that the outdoor aquatic facilities will open on Sunday, May 25, instead of the original date of May 24. The adjustment is to allow last-minute adjustments at
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, said President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “too high” and it will raise prices on some items as Trump’s global trade war increases the company’s costs. “We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible. But given the magnitude
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Missouri’s Republican legislative leaders took extraordinary steps to repeal sick leave requirements approved by voters in November. The chamber’s GOP majority invoked a “previous question” motion to shut down debate and force a vote on the bill that would make changes to Proposition A, which more than 57% of voters approved in November. The bill
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Juvenile Justice Center currently houses 19 youth, although the facility holds 45 beds. Justice Center Superintendent Tara Eppy said she thinks there’s discussions every few years about whether detention is intended to be correctional, restorative or rehabilitative. She said she thinks it’s a mix of them all. “I think
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two juveniles who escaped from the Juvenile Justice Center in northern Boone County earlier this month did so by climbing a recreation area fence, court documents revealed. Documents claim one of the juveniles involved in the escape is 17-year-old Ja’mez Thompson-Bey. Documents alleged that he, along with another juvenile, climbed over a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Senate Republicans opted for a rarely used procedural measure Wednesday to stop debate and force votes on a ballot measure that would repeal Amendment 3, which enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, and a bill to repeal voter-approved sick leave requirements. Republican leaders put forward a “previous question” motion to
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