TODAY: The word of Thursday’s forecast is GUSTY. Winds will gradually turn from westerly to northwesterly into the afternoon, while sustained near 15-20 mph. Gusts will range from 25-35 mph this afternoon. Partner this with a relative humidity below 20% and we have a recipe for dangerous fire behavior. The National Weather Service offices in
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A federal appeals court has agreed to suspend enforcement of Texas’ social media law restricting content moderation, in the face of a looming request by tech industry groups for the Supreme Court to review the case. In an order on Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Social Security recipients will receive an annual cost-of-living adjustment of 8.7% next year, the largest increase since 1981, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday. The spike will boost retirees’ monthly payments by $146 to an estimated average of $1,827 for 2023. The hefty increase, which follows a 5.9% adjustment for this
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Bethany Mann, a Democrat from Brentwood in suburban St. Louis, is trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer.
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Selina Wang, CNN When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he inherited a country at a crossroads. Outwardly, China seemed an unstoppable rising power. It had recently overtaken Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, the country still basking in the afterglow of the dazzling 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. But deep
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police were dispatched to the 5400 block of Kelsey Drive and closed off the intersection at Kelsey and Shamrock drives near Indian Hills Park. Neighbors told ABC17 someone was shot and crashed into multiple cars. The age of the shooting victim is not known. The shooter allegedly ran away. Lt. Michael
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN In September 2011, Dr. Theodore Tapper treated 17-year-old CJ Rice for lingering and debilitating injuries after he was shot in the abdomen. Six days later, Rice was arrested and ultimately convicted on charges of attempted murder in a shooting of four people in South Philadelphia. Nearly a decade after Rice’s trial,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Alex Jones owes $965 million to eight family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims and a first responder. But it is far from clear how much of that money they’ll ever see. Jones was hit with that staggering jury award Wednesday for compensatory damages caused by his repeated lies about
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOFTBALL MOBERLY (1) HALLSVILLE (2) FINAL TOLTON (4) CALIFORNIA (0) FINAL CENTRALIA (7) SOUTHERN BOONE (4) FINAL JEFFERSON CITY (4) MARSHALL (0) FINAL SOUTH CALLAWAY (5) NORTH CALLAWAY (15) FINAL HELIAS
Continue ReadingBy Pamela Brown, CNN A Trump employee has told the FBI about being directed by the former President to move boxes out of a basement storage room to his residence at Mar-a-Lago after Donald Trump’s legal team received a subpoena for any classified documents at the Florida estate, according to a source familiar with the
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Missouri Task Force 1 is expected back in Columbia around noon on Wednesday after more than a week in hurricane-ravaged parts of Florida.
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TONIGHT: Passing clouds with cooler temperatures settling in. Gusty winds up to 20 mph will help drop temperatures into the lower 40s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and breezy with highs in the mid-60s. EXTENDED: A few clouds slide by tonight with a weaker, dry front moving in overnight. That will help drop temperatures to the low
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica and Kit Maher CNN Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman on Wednesday declined to say whether he would release more medical records in the wake of his near fatal stroke in May — only suggesting he would do so if something about his health changed. In the nearly hour-long livestreamed interview with
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This past summer and fall Mid-Missouri has seen various grass fires due to drier conditions. Temperatures around Mid-Missouri are continuing to cool down as we head off into the second half of the week and the weekend. This might have you motivated to go outside and enjoy an afternoon or evening fire, but conditions are
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Far-right talk show host Alex Jones should pay eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder $965 million in compensatory damages, a Connecticut jury decided Wednesday, capping a wrenching weeks-long trial that put on display the serious harm inflicted by the conspiracy theorist’s lies. With
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Firefighters were at the scene Wednesday morning of a house fire in west Columbia.
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen, Justin Lape and Danielle Herman, CNN After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, an obstetrician who works at a hospital in the Northeast thought she could make a difference by publicly describing what she was seeing, by telling the stories of the patients she saw suffering in the
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Willie Spence, a singer who as a teen went viral with his rendition of Rihanna’s hit “Diamonds” and was the runner up on Season 19 on “American Idol, has died the show confirmed in a social media posting on Wednesday. He was 23 years old. “We are devastated about the
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Western governments are furious after OPEC+ decided last week to slash oil production by the largest amount since the start of the pandemic. They have good reason to be upset: The cartel’s actions may tip the global economy over the edge, the International Energy Agency has warned. “With unrelenting inflationary
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