COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Centralia fire crews responded to an early morning camper fire at the corner of West Southgate Street and Switzler Street in Centralia. Sergeant Jerry Stoebe with Centralia Police Department told ABC 17 News crews that police were dispatched to the fire around 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Stoebe also says fire crews were able to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As you are getting your Easter weekend underway, you may be considered doing some easter egg coloring along with other Easter activities with your family. If you are planning active that involve the use of eggs, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is giving guidelines for people to follow. According
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SATURDAY: Temperatures climb a few degrees relative to yesterday, putting highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the southwest could gust up to 20 mph. EASTER SUNDAY: The morning starts out cooler in the lower 40s as clear skies persist. Highs reach around 70 degrees making for a perfect spring day. EXTENDED: A weak
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines said she was assaulted Thursday on the campus of San Francisco State University. Gaines was at the school to speak about her views opposing the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports, according to the event announcement. “I was physically assaulted by one
Continue ReadingBy Amir Tal, Irene Nasser, Sharon Braithwaite and Christian Edwards, CNN An Italian tourist was killed and seven people wounded in a car-ramming attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday evening. Israeli police said a vehicle was driven onto the bike path of the Tel Aviv boardwalk, hitting pedestrians before it overturned
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A pair of conflicting federal court rulings on Friday created arguably the most contentious and chaotic legal flashpoint over abortion access since the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the right to an abortion nationwide. Within less than an hour, two major rulings came down
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who was accused of shaking a baby has been charged with murder. Kristopher J. Ruiz, 28, is charged with second-degree murder, abuse or neglect of a child, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree domestic assault. A warrant was issued Friday. No
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Jeremy Renner sat down with Diane Sawyer for his first interview since being crushed by a snow plow he was operating on New Year’s Day. The Marvel star was the subject of “Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph,” which detailed the accident
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN A homeless shelter resident in Vermont attacked and killed a staff member at the shelter with an axe, according to police. Zaaina Asra Zakirrah Mahvish-Jammeh, 38, attacked Leah Rosin-Pritchard, 36, Monday morning at a homeless shelter in the southern Vermont city of Brattleboro, according to an affidavit from the Brattleboro Police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia College baseball and softball teams both won each game in their doubleheaders on Friday afternoon. The baseball Cougars shutout Williams Baptist University in two games and the softball Cougars allowed just one run through two outings. The baseball team notched a 10-0 win and a 4-0 win on Friday afternoon.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa and John Bonifield, CNN In picturesque Bonner County, Idaho, Leandra Wright, 40, is pregnant with her seventh child. Wright is due in August, but three weeks ago, the hospital where she had planned to deliver, Bonner General Health, announced that it would be suspending its labor and delivery services in May. Now,
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Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the upper 30s as wind remain out of the east at 5-10 mph. Skies remain mostly clear thanks to a nearby high pressure system. Tomorrow: Saturday beings on the chilly side, but by the afternoon hours temperatures top out into the upper 60s with mostly sunny skies. Winds switch out
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Randolph County, Mo. (KMIZ) Troopers arrested a driver involved in a deadly crash near Moberly on suspicion of two counts of second-degree murder, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. An arrest report shows troopers arrested Steven Garrett, 47, of Moberly on Thursday afternoon after the wreck on Route M. Troopers said Garrett was driving
Continue ReadingBy Linh Tran, Brynn Gingras and Holly Yan, CNN Oklahoma’s attorney general is asking for a new trial in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has spent a quarter of a century in prison for the death of his boss in 1997. “While the State has previously opposed relief for Glossip, it
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Wright, Sam Fossum and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Nashville on Friday where she delivered an impassioned speech advocating for gun control and met with a pair of state lawmakers who were expelled from the General Assembly after protesting on the state House floor. “Let’s not fall for the
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THIS AFTERNOON: With winds slowly turning in from the south, expect temperatures to climb into the mid-60s after a frosty start this morning. TONIGHT: Temperatures fare a bit warmer than this morning, but still may bring some frost potential in the north with lows in the 30s. EXTENDED: Saturday looks mostly sunny and in the
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Catherine Nicholls, CNN South African authorities are applauding a pilot’s courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. The pilot, Rudolf Erasmus, told CNN he was piloting a small aircraft on Monday with four colleagues aboard when he felt a “cold sensation
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Easter weekend gets underway, you should expect to see more cars on the roads as millions of people plan to travel. Reports have shown about 59% of people plan to spend more money on their biggest trip this spring compared to spring 2022. If you’re traveling for Easter this year, there are a
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden often envisions what he could accomplish with a second term, advisers and allies who speak with him say, but he has expressed no urgency to formally launch a campaign to win another four years in office. The president has not settled on a
Continue ReadingBy Kelly McCleary, CNN Just hours after the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic lawmakers, their pictures and profiles had already been removed from the state’s General Assembly website, a symbol of the vacant seats that now need to be filled. Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were kicked out of the
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