By Travis Caldwell, CNN Nearly three weeks after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, resulted in a violent arrest and subsequent death of a driver, police are expected to release footage of the incident to the public. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was hospitalized after the arrest on January 7 and died three days
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China saw 226 million domestic trips during the Lunar New Year holiday, state media reported, a 74% surge from last year after the government lifted all travel curbs under its now-abandoned zero-Covid policy. For the first time in three years, Chinese people were free to travel without the
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Hartfield, Jay Croft, Eric Bradner and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN [Breaking news alert, published at 8:23 p.m. ET] The city of Memphis has released police body camera and surveillance video showing the January 7 traffic stop and violent police confrontation that led to the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. One camera — a remotely
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell and Jay Croft, CNN Video footage of a traffic stop that led to the deadly beating of a 29-year-old Black man shows “acts that defy humanity,” the Memphis chief told CNN’s Don Lemon on Friday. “You’re going to see a disregard for life, duty of care that we’re all sworn to and
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By Theresa Waldrop and Dakin Andone, CNN The officer who was first to respond to the scene where Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were found killed testified Thursday that one of the first things Murdaugh mentioned after the officer arrived was a boating accident involving his son years ago. Murdaugh, a now disbarred attorney and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Rock Bridge (54) Hickman (52) FINAL Tolton (54) Richland (48) FINAL Hermitage (11) St. Elizabeth (67) FINAL Russellville (50) Belle (44) FINAL Eldon (73) Lee’s Summit West (84) FINAL
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Lincoln University Athletics will be leaving the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) to join the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) in the 2024-25 school year. The GLVC Council of Presidents approved the university for full membership on Monday. Lincoln University will be the 15th member of the GLVC and will be
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN The former boyfriend of New York Rep. George Santos says the Long Island Republican facing growing calls to resign for extensively lying about his past will never do so, even as he faces multiple investigations, including into his finances. “His ego is too big. He’s not gonna resign. If they don’t
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill that would ban TikTok from all American devices. TikTok is already banned on federal government devices following a bill introduced by Hawley, but now he wants to take it a step further. Hawley (R-Missouri) said he doesn’t like any social media platform to harvest data, but his
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Missouri senators speculate that LGBTQ+ issues may take up a lot of the legislative session.
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Interview by Coy Wire, CNN If Eileen Gu’s account of last Saturday’s Freestyle Ski World Cup event in Calgary is anything to go by, a day in the Olympian’s life is as varied as it is busy: She took first place in morning qualifiers, wrote two essays, read some René Descartes and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia’s Citizens Police Review Board has scheduled two training sessions for the first two weeks of February. The board was disbanded in August following a series of contentious meetings. The training sessions will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 and at the same time on Feb. 8. The meetings will
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Kevin Liptak, CNN Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries at the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday evening. McCarthy, leaving the meeting with Musk in his office, declined to comment other than to say: “He came for my
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A quick glance at the extended forecast outlook reveals a cooling trend with below average temperatures expected. This might have some people excited to break out their ice skates to shave some ice. Although this activity is fun, it can be dangerous on ponds and lakes if you are not aware how to check for
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan, Audrey Ash and Zachary Cohen, CNN “There might be someone getting shot tomorrow.” That was the warning from Twitter staff at an internal meeting on Jan. 5, 2021, the eve of the deadly attack on the US Capitol. It wasn’t the only stark warning Twitter management received ahead of the insurrection, according
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds with lows in the lower 20s. Gusty winds bring wind chills into the teens overnight. TOMORROW: Partly sunny, warmer and breezy with highs in the mid-upper 40s. EXTENDED: Winds will shift to the south-southwest overnight as high pressure settles in to our south, allowing temperatures to warm up by daybreak to the
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Organizations on Thursday hosted an event in downtown Columbia to provide a one-stop-shop for services for the homeless.
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, Kevin Liptak and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The discovery of classified documents at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home immediately raised questions at the Justice Department about whether yet another special counsel investigation was in the offing. For now, the department’s course isn’t clear, people briefed on internal deliberations say. The Pence documents
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Rents are climbing across the US, and those high costs are among the many compelling reasons to try to buy a home. But with mortgage rates double what they were a year ago — and home inventory at a historic low — both options can be a magnet for stress. For
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Ray Sanchez, CNN Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of murder by a federal jury for using a rented truck to fatally strike eight people on a New York City bike path on Halloween Day in 2017. Jurors deliberated about six hours over two days in the case involving the deadliest
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