SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) The Southern Boone girls basketball team fell just short of a trip to the state championship game after a 55-40 loss in the Class 4 semifinals to Vashon. The Eagles went into the half down 26-19, but a 19 point Wolverine third quarter put the game out of reach. Watch the full
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) The Father Tolton boy’s basketball team fell in the Class 4 state semifinals 49-45 to Vashon on Thursday at Great Southern Bank Arena. This marks the second-straight season that the Trailblazers have fell to the Wolverines in the state tournament with Vashon knocking them off in last year’s state championship game. Watch
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The Columbia Police Department has released a video about the November 2021 shooting that killed a man downtown after pressure from community groups to reopen the investigation.
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Pete Buttigieg, criticized former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent remark that the transportation secretary had gone on “maternity leave,” telling ABC’s “The View” that the dig “flies in the face” of Pence’s family values. Over the weekend, Pence delivered the line at the annual Gridiron Club
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Women don’t belong out at sea working on ships with men, the 62-year-old engineer told the 19-year-old trainee just weeks before she says he raped her. The young woman, Hope Hicks, was a student at the US Merchant Marine Academy. The man, Edgar Sison, was her boss. He worked
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TONIGHT: Rain changing to light snow for a few hours, tapering off around midnight. A dusting of accumulation is possible on grassy surfaces north of I-70. Road impacts are not expected. Lows in the mid-20s with gusty winds. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny, breezy, and cold with highs in the lower 40s. Wind chills in the 30s.
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Living in Central Missouri, various types of weather is common. We see different types of precipitation depending on the season. Heading towards spring, the majority of systems bring storms to the Midwest. Each of these storms are tied to a low pressure system. Just where do these low pressure systems come and how do the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN In the spring of 2019, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota was busy putting the finishing touches on a bill that sought to expand mental health care access for kids in schools. But she couldn’t shake the feeling she was being less than honest about just how personal the issue of
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN Aspiring rapper Irvo Otieno streamed his music — with titles like “Man in the Middle,” “Can’t Wait,” “Trapped Out,” and “Frenzy” — under the name Young Vo. Otieno was 28, could write a song in less than five minutes, and wanted to start his own record label, said his mother, Caroline
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The governments of Missouri and Columbia don’t have to worry about whether they’re going to lose money from the biggest American bank collapse in decades.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The risks of severe complications during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum can vary drastically depending on where the person lives, a new study suggests. Among people with Medicaid insurance in the United States, rates of severe maternal morbidity — life-threatening complications during pregnancy, delivery or after childbirth — range dramatically from about
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN A conservative commentator with a substantial Twitter following went viral late last week by making false claims about the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — and Twitter owner Elon Musk amplified some of the misinformation, pushing it to millions of people. The conservative commentator, Chuck Callesto, inaccurately
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Callaway County Sheriff Clay Chism told ABC 17 News that deputies arrested Kelley S. Young just after 2 a.m. Saturday, March 4. Chism said a deputy stopped Young around Highway 54 near New Bloomfield
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TODAY: Scattered showers and storms continue across the region until late this afternoon. By 6 PM, a cold front pushes across Mid-Missouri leading to more widespread showers and storms. This system can bring heavier downpours and a few rumbles of thunder with severe storms staying well south towards Arkansas. Afternoon highs top out near 60
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Credit Suisse is not out of the woods just yet. Shares in the Swiss lender fell by as much as 12% Friday, erasing most of Thursday’s gains, as investors feared that a $54 billion lifeline from the Swiss central bank might not be enough to rescue the beleaguered bank. By comparison,
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The city of Columbia finished cleaning up a homeless encampment near the Columbia Mall on Thursday morning.
Continue ReadingBy Livvy Doherty and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Regulators in Italy issued a temporary ban on ChatGPT Friday, effective immediately, due to privacy concerns and said they had opened an investigation into how OpenAI, the US company behind the popular chatbot, uses data. Italy’s data protection agency said users lacked information about the collection of their
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Jim Sciutto, CNN US European Command released footage of the Tuesday encounter between a US surveillance drone and the Russian fighter jets as it played out over the Black Sea. The newly declassified video depicts critical moments in the mid-air encounter, which the Pentagon said lasted between 30 and
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Is my money safe? That’s the question on many bank customers’ minds after the stunning failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the past week, along with the takeover of Credit Suisse — though the Swiss bank’s issues are very different from what took down the two US regional
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown, CNN Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to ex-President Donald Trump, testified Wednesday afternoon in front of a New York grand jury as part of an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. “This isn’t a question of vindication. It’s not a question, as I stated before,
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