COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) New members arrived at City Hall on Wednesday for the Columbia Police Citizens Review Board’s first scheduled training session. The CPRB was disbanded in August after several contentious meetings. The first training session focused on discussions on the form of government, Sunshine Law, conflicts of interest and the board’s operations and procedures.
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Attorneys for Hunter Biden on Wednesday asked state and federal agencies to investigate a computer repair shop owner, Rudy Giuliani and number of right-wing political figures involved in disseminating contents of his laptop, alleging that they committed computer and other criminal violations in their effort to
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski The transformation of George Santos began in 2019, the year he went from Anthony Devolder, just another New Yorker sharing political musings on social media, to a Republican congressional candidate with a compelling fictional resume. His improbable rise to the House of Representatives started as he joined a group of pro-Donald Trump
Continue ReadingBy Randi Kaye, Dakin Andone, Dianne Gallagher and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Two witnesses in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh told the court Wednesday they are “100%” certain that Murdaugh’s voice is on footage prosecutors say undermines the disgraced former South Carolina attorney’s claim he was not at the scene of the killings when his
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Drug overdose deaths have been on the rise in Missouri since 2018, according to data on the Missouri Health and Senior Service website.
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Fred Pleitgen and Sana Noor Haq, CNN A fresh barrage of missiles ripped through the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine Thursday, sending flames and thick plumes into the air as screaming civilians scrambled to find shelter. A CNN team had just arrived at the scene and heard the first incoming strike
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear with lows in the low to mid-20s. Breezy with wind gusts up to 20 mph. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny early with highs in the mid-upper 40s. Breezy with clouds moving in late in the day. EXTENDED: Winds pick up from the west/southwest tomorrow, sending our temperatures into the mid-upper 40s
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Missouri senators spent hours debating the legislation known as the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” Wednesday afternoon.
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February 1st marks the first day of Earthquake Preparedness for Missouri. Each year the United States sees thousands of earthquakes with nearly 200 of them occurring across the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This area consist of various ancient faults and spans across five state lines. The majority of earthquake activity that occurs around this region
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not walk away from his highly anticipated White House meeting on Wednesday with an agreement in hand to address the debt limit, but signaled optimism that both he and President Joe Biden can reach consensus “long before” the United States reaches default. McCarthy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team has suffered six straight SEC losses to end January, but a new opportunity for a fresh start starts Thursday as the Tigers get set to host Vanderbilt. Head coach Robin Pingeton said after the last loss against Kentucky that her team needs to win six of the
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Interest rates are higher (again), courtesy of the Federal Reserve, which hiked its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, for the eighth time in a row since last March. So how come you’re not getting a higher rate on your bank savings? If your hard-earned money is just sitting in an account at
Continue ReadingBy Randi Kaye, Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Two witnesses in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh told the court Wednesday they are “100%” certain that Murdaugh’s voice is on footage prosecutors say undermines the disgraced former South Carolina attorney’s claim he was not present at the scene of the killings when his wife
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TODAY: South to southwest winds this afternoon will be enough to warm us above freezing this afternoon. Expect highs to top out in the mid-30s under partly cloudy skies. TONIGHT: Not a big warm up, but the progress holds overnight, as temperatures drop only to near 20 by early Thursday morning thanks to a continued
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN A top executive of the Trump Organization is expected to appear Thursday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money payment scheme, people familiar with the matter said. The executive, Jeffrey McConney, the controller of the Trump Organization, is one of the highest-ranking
Continue ReadingBy Laura Ly, CNN A player for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles has been indicted on rape charges in Ohio, according to an indictment announced Wednesday by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. A grand jury indicted Josh Sills, 25, accusing him of raping a woman and holding her against her will on December 5, 2019, in
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn A record $3.8 billion worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from various services last year, with much of those thefts driven by North Korean-linked hackers, according to a report Wednesday from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The increase in crypto heists, from $3.3 billion in 2021, came as the overall market for cryptocurrencies suffered
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Exposure to air pollution may be tied to the risk of developing depression later in life, a large new study finds. Scientists are finding more and more evidence that people who live in polluted areas have a higher risk of depression than those who live with cleaner air. But this study
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Frederik Pleitgen and Konstantin Hak, CNN Southwest of the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers Andriy and Borisych live in a candle-lit bunker cut into the frozen earth. For several weeks they have been confronting hundreds of fighters belonging to the Russian private military contractor Wagner throwing themselves against Ukrainian defenses. Disguised in
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq, Jennifer Hauser and Jessie Yeung, CNN Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza early on Thursday after intercepting a rocket attack from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. In a Twitter post, the IDF said Israeli fighter jets targeted a chemical production site and a weapons manufacturing facility owned by
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