By Parija Kavilanz, CNN At the end of a long wooden California pier that juts out above the Pacific ocean sits the Wharf House. It’s now almost entirely unreachable. The Wharf House restaurant, an iconic establishment for the residents in the seaside town of Capitola in Santa Cruz County, sits alone, boarded up, damaged, with
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COLUMBIA, MO The American Red Cross, Columbia Police Department, and Boone County Sheriff’s Department are teaming up to host an annual blood drive in memory of fallen CPD officer, Molly Bowden. The drive is scheduled to take place Friday at the Grace Bible Church in Columbia from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Officer Molly Bowden was with Columbia
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Tim Lister and Olga Voitovych, CNN Russia said Friday its forces had captured Soledar, a salt mine town in eastern Ukraine, as Kyiv rejected the claims. Should Russian troops indeed take the town, it would mark Moscow’s first gain in the Donbas for months — potentially offering President Vladimir Putin some welcome
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN The world economy is still in a sticky spot, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund, despite cautious optimism among economists and business leaders that slowing inflation means the worst of last year’s crises may be over. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, said on Friday that conditions
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Apple CEO Tim Cook recommended the company cut his pay this year after shareholders rebelled. The world’s largest tech company said it would reduce Cook’s target pay package to $49 million, 40% lower than his target pay for 2022 and about half Cook’s $99.4 million total compensation that he was granted
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TODAY: Mostly cloudy with patchy fog early. Clouds gradually exit with highs in the mid-30s. Wind chills in the upper 20s. TOMORROW: More sunshine, with highs jumping to the mid-40s as breezes relax. EXTENDED: Sunday will be the better day to get outside with highs in the upper 50s before clouds roll in by the
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US government has received more than 350 new reports of “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” commonly known as UFOs, since March of 2021. According to the Pentagon, about half of the reports have been preliminarily identified as “balloons or balloon-entities,” while a handful of others have been attributed to drones, birds, weather
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US government has received more than 350 new reports of “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” commonly known as UFOs, since March of 2021. According to the Pentagon, about half of the reports have been preliminarily identified as “balloons or balloon-entities,” while a handful of others have been attributed to drones, birds, weather
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US government has received more than 350 new reports of “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” commonly known as UFOs, since March of 2021. According to the Pentagon, about half of the reports have been preliminarily identified as “balloons or balloon-entities,” while a handful of others have been attributed to drones, birds, weather
Continue ReadingBy Susan Scutti and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Heart disease is a leading killer around the world and the top cause of death in the United States. It killed an estimated 17.9 million people in 2019, representing 32% of all deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. But not all heart disease is the same.
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson, CNN Surviving President Vladimir Putin’s poisoners was just a warm-up, not a warning, for Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. But his defiance, according to his political team, has put him in a race against time with the Russian autocrat. The question, according to Navalny’s chief investigator, Maria Pevchikh, is whether he can
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Jason Hanna and Joe Sutton, CNN Recovery and search efforts continued in the South on Friday, a day after severe storms and tornadoes raked the region, killing at least nine people, blowing roofs off homes and cutting power for thousands. At least seven people were killed in central Alabama’s Autauga County, with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team took its second-straight SEC loss Thursday night at Mizzou Arena falling to No. 5 LSU 77-57. You can watch the full press conference with Mizzou head coach Robin Pingeton and players in the video player below. https://youtu.be/mBB3_ls-akQ The Tigers shooting troubles trickled into this game putting together
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Capital City (24) Rock Bridge (57) FINAL St. Francis Borgia (45) Blair Oaks (58) FINAL Hallsville (64) Mexico (30) FINAL Christian (27) Father Tolton (42) FINAL Versailles (57) Boonville
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri System said in a Thursday press release that it is expecting to get more $130.4 million from the federal omnibus spending bill passed last month. The system said the funding will be for quote “top priorities” including the NextGen Precision Health initiative along with research and construction projects.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France and Chuck Johnston, CNN Lisa Marie Presley’s cause of death has not yet been determined after an initial autopsy examination, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. “Presley was examined on Jan. 14 and the cause of death was deferred. Deferred means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Board of Education approved the school board election ballot and approved a question for the April election at its meeting on Thursday. There are three spots that are up for election. Scott Hovis, Brad Bates, Michael Harvey, Tapiwa ‘Felix’ Madondo and Suzanna Luther were all confirmed on the ballot.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France and Chuck Johnston, CNN Lisa Marie Presley’s cause of death has not yet been determined after an initial autopsy examination, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. “Presley was examined on Jan. 14 and the cause of death was deferred. Deferred means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman accused of murder refused to appear in court on Thursday. Emma Adams, 20, is charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with evidence and abandoning a corpse. She is being held at the Boone County Jail on a $1 million bond. An initial arraignment hearing should have taken
Continue ReadingBy Sonnet Swire, CNN Former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that he believes he “had too much power” when he wielded the gavel. “I think I had too much power as speaker,” Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead,” adding that what bothered him “most” were omnibus bills — massive spending packages
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