COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The bill’s sponsor has been corrected. A Missouri house bill joining the national initiative to remove pennies from circulation is set to be read for a second time in the Missouri Senate on Monday. House Bill 2819, sponsored by Brenda Shields (R-St. Joseph), will allow vendors to round the total
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By Alejandra Jaramillo, Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he will deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if an agreement isn’t reached to fund the Department of Homeland Security as Transportation Security Administration workers go without pay and travel disruptions mount. “If the Democrats do not
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Firefighters were called to the headquarters for the Russellville/Lohman Fire District early Saturday morning after a vehicle caught fire inside one of the station’s bays.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 26-year-old man from Linn was seriously injured in a crash on Highway 63 in Osage County on Saturday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, around 5:11 a.m., the man was headed south in a 2012 Cadillac CTS when he drove off the right side of the road
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A duplex fire in north Columbia led police to shut down a city street Friday and led to a woman’s arrest on suspicion of arson. The fire on Newton Drive was called out at about 10 a.m., according to a Columbia Fire Department spokesperson. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 29-year-old Versailles man was seriously injured Friday in a motorcycle crash in Morgan County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, it occurred around 7:50 p.m. on Old Five Road, north of Leatherman Road. An 85-year-old Versailles woman was headed south in a 2016 Ford Explorer when she drove
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By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — At 20 airports in the United States, security screening is handled not by the Transportation Security Administration, but by private companies — and their checkpoints aren’t seeing long lines. Airports like San Francisco International, Kansas City International, Orlando Sanford, and 17 smaller facilities participate in TSA’s Screening
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By Joseph Ataman, Isobel Yeung, Brice Laine and Sarah Dadouch, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — Lebanon is a nation that’s no stranger to war, but this conflict feels different. Just 18 months ago, Israeli bombs rained down across the country for weeks. Intent on defanging the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah and uprooting it from its strongholds,
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a man attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, earlier this month, William Weimer received a call from employees at a Phantom Fireworks store in nearby Livonia. Agents at the store told Weimer, Phantom’s vice president and general counsel for over three decades, they had
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, Stephanie Elam, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Days before The New York Times published bombshell allegations of sexual abuse that would upend the legacy of famed labor rights leader Cesar Chavez, Delia Garcia answered a phone call from her longtime friend, Dolores Huerta. “She said, ‘Let’s have a conversation, and I need
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball was sent home by seventh seeded Miami, 80-66 despite senior guard Jayden Stone putting up a season-high 21 points. The Tigers led 54-52 with 7 minutes, 50 seconds left in the game, but a 13-3 run by the Hurricanes over the next four minutes gave Miami just what it
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, CNN (CNN) — Replying to a friend’s message, ordering a pizza or hailing a ride on your handheld device may seem like simple tasks in a fully wired 21st-century city like Moscow. But residents of the Russian capital are finding that their smartphones have been dumbed down amid an unprecedented
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By Laura Sharman, Kara Fox, Moriah Thomas, CNN (CNN) — As the US-Israel war with Iran enters its fourth week, the Trump administration granted a temporary license for Iran to sell around 140 million barrels of crude oil to calm jittery markets. Israel says that US and Israeli strikes will “increase significantly” this week. This
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia is down one animal hospital Friday. The closure was announced last week and many pet owners say the sudden shutdown is unfortunate and concerning. A reason for the closure has not been provided. Jada Sievers, a veterinary student and with two dogs, doesn’t use Columbia Animal Hospital herself but she understands
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israeli police attacked a group of journalists outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, including a CNN producer who suffered a fractured wrist in the violent incident. Police officers also damaged photographic equipment and confiscated memory cards from journalists who were outside the Lion’s Gate of the
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Since 1959, when Fidel Castro seized power, Cubans on the island have endured navigating a system defined by scarcity, surveillance and state control. Today, that system is under a level of strain not seen perhaps since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, when the
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Unpaid Transportation Security Administration workers are struggling to stay afloat — and on the job — amid a partial government shutdown that has frustrated travelers inching through security lines that have sometimes stretched for hours, with unpredictable wait times expected to continue this weekend. “I feel bad for everyone
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) Three homes at the Lake of the Ozarks caught fire on Friday afternoon, according to an email from the Lake Ozark Fire Protection District. Fire crews were called at 12:44 p.m. for a report of a house fire in an area off of Route W in Eldon. Firefighters found three residences on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Emergency crews in Fulton are asking residents to avoid the area around a commercial recycling center after a fire. The business, David’s Recycling, is a local car recycling and scrap yard. It buys old cars and sells the steel and parts. The City of Fulton shared on social media, alerting residents to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education has asked the district to raise health insurance premiums by 20% for the upcoming school year. That request came after a Thursday morning meeting. The district will take on the cost of the premiums next year, but will pass along costs of any dependents to employees. This
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