Bench trial scheduled for Basye-CPS lawsuit
An emergency hearing in a former state representative’s lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools to get his name on the April election ballot is set for Tuesday afternoon.
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Experts say be to ready for slide-offs ahead of winter storm
One of the major dangers of winter storm driving is the chance of running off the road.
Continue ReadingA Florida diver was swept away by a current and lost at sea for hours until his family rushed to his rescue
By Jillian Sykes and Faith Karimi, CNN Dylan Gartenmayer has been diving and spearfishing along the Florida coast since he was 10. That experience helped him survive a frightening ordeal that left him stranded at sea for hours. The 21-year-old was free diving at the Western Sambo Reef near Key West Thursday afternoon when a
Continue ReadingTicketmaster gets grilled: 6 takeaways from hearing over Taylor Swift concert fiasco
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Lawmakers grilled a top executive of Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, on Tuesday after the service’s inability to process orders for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour left millions of people unable to buy tickets late last year. During the three-hour hearing, senators pressed Live Nation president and CFO Joe
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MoDOT warns drivers to prepare ahead of upcoming winter weather
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missourians should expect to see decent snowfall Tuesday night as the snow makes a return to Mid-Missouri. The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team is tracking a winter storm that could bring in heavy snow across the southern and southeast part of the state between Tuesday night and Wednesday. This means drivers will
Continue ReadingCNN Exclusive: Pence classified documents included briefing memos for foreign trips
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, Elizabeth Stuart and Evan Perez, CNN The roughly 12 classified documents found at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence included materials described as background briefing memos that were prepared for Pence’s foreign trips, multiple sources told CNN. One source said some of those classified documents were likely
Continue ReadingViktor & Rolf couture show features upside-down and sideways gowns
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Paris Haute Couture Week is in full swing with dramatic runway shows and surreal, lavish looks worn by front-row A-Listers — with an unrecognizable, red-crystal-covered Doja Cat lighting up the internet earlier this week. On Wednesday, the label Viktor & Rolf (literally) turned fashion-upside down. At the Spring-Summer 2023 show, models walked
Continue ReadingRecently identified inflammatory disease VEXAS syndrome may be more common than thought, study suggests
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN David Adams spent half a decade fighting an illness he couldn’t name. He was in and out of the hospital several times per year. His inflamed joints made his hands feel like they had been squeezed into gloves — and he could no longer play his beloved classical and jazz guitars.
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Elon Musk is back on the stand in trial over controversial ‘funding secured’ tweet
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla CEO Elon Musk returned to the witness stand for a third day in a California court room Tuesday, as he testified in a class-action lawsuit over his controversial “funding secured” tweet from 2018. It will likely be Musk’s final day of testimony. Musk, Tesla and company directors are facing
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Suspect in Yakima, Washington, triple killing fatally shot himself after calling his mom, police say
By Amanda Watts and Amy Simonson, CNN The suspect in a shooting that left three people dead in Washington state killed himself hours later after he borrowed a stranger’s phone, called his mom and made “incriminating statements, including, ‘I killed those people,’” the Yakima police chief said Tuesday. The suspect had “a large amount of
Continue ReadingFormer high-level FBI official pleads not guilty in alleged schemes to help sanctioned Russian oligarch
By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence
Continue ReadingFact check: McCarthy’s false, misleading and evidence-free claims since becoming House speaker
By Daniel Dale, CNN Since winning a difficult battle to become speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy has made public claims that are misleading, lacking any evidence or plain wrong. Here is a fact check of recent McCarthy comments about the debt ceiling, funding for the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI search
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Tracking a snowy system moving in overnight
TODAY: Tuesday is starting warm and dry, with southwest winds pushing temperatures into the low-to-mid 40s despite partly to mostly cloudy skies. Clouds should thicken through the day, after a chance at some breaks in clouds this morning. TONIGHT: Temperatures will fall this evening, as rain moves in from the south. Today is a Weather
Continue Reading5 things to know for Jan. 24: Mass shootings, Covid, Oath Keepers, Ukraine, Twitter
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like the
Continue Reading11 victims of Monterey Park mass shooting ranged in age from 57 to 76 years old, coroner says
By Nouran Salahieh, Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN All 11 victims of the mass shooting at a dance studio on Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California, were between the ages of 57 and 76, the LA County Coroner Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. The victims, five men and six women, were
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Columbia Board of Education approves April 4 ballot language without Basye’s name
An initial hearing in a former state representative’s lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools to get his name on the April election ballot has been set for Tuesday.
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Local highlights and scores: Jan. 23, 2023
MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL BOONVILLE (40) MEXICO (66) FINAL EUGENE (73) MOBERLY (70) FINAL HS GIRLS BASKETBALL ELDON (53) SOUTHERN BOONE (60) FINAL BATTLE (88) ST. CLAIR (32) FINAL FULTON (19) CENTRALIA (58)
Continue ReadingHalf Moon Bay shooting suspect legally owned his gun and targeted specific people, authorities said. Here’s what we know about him
By Christina Maxouris, Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN The man suspected of killing four people at a California mushroom farm and three others at a nearby site Monday had legal possession of a semi-automatic weapon that was registered to him, a sheriff said. The suspect, Chunli Zhao, 66, was not known to local law
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Fire report indicates Golden Corral New Year’s Eve fire started from grill
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 News investigates how a fire started at an east Columbia restaurant on New Year’s Eve. A report from the Columbia Fire Department indicates the fire at Golden Corral off Clark Lane on Dec. 31 started on a grill at the restaurant. An investigator says it didn’t appear the grills were
Continue ReadingFormer Wagner commander describes brutality and incompetence on the frontline
By Muhammad Darwish, Katharina Krebs and Tara John, CNN A former Wagner mercenary says the brutality he witnessed in Ukraine ultimately pushed him to defect, in an exclusive CNN interview on Monday. Wagner fighters were often sent into battle with little direction, and the company’s treatment of reluctant recruits was ruthless, Andrei Medvedev told CNN’s
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