By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — In a tradition dating back more than 300 years, towering pyres have been lit every July in Northern Ireland to mark the Battle of the Boyne, which effectively cemented Protestant rule. They’re held in loyalist neighborhoods – communities that strongly support the union with the United Kingdom – and
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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The fatal shooting of a man in Memphis by an armed Tennessee National Guardsman on Sunday brought shock and concern to some members of the community. Those feelings were still fresh Wednesday when word arrived that another person had been killed by a member of the Memphis Safe Task
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 has been activated and will be deployed to Sikeston for a flood response, the Boone County Fire Protection District wrote in a Friday morning social media post. BCFPD said it was activated by SEMA to head to the Scott County town “as a Type III Task Force with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The D.C. Rogers Recreation Area in Fayette has reopened, according to a Thursday social media post from the City of Fayette. D.C. Rogers Lake closed on June 4 after significant rainfall affected the area. Peters Lake closed days before and will remain closed. Previous reporting shows D.C. Rogers Lake need to be lowered
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Thousands of people were without power in Morgan County and surrounding counties on Friday morning. There are 4,912 electricity customers without power in Morgan County between Co-Mo Electric Cooperative (2,780) and Ameren (2,132) users. Additionally, 895 Ameren customers in Miller County were without power on Friday morning. Benton County saw 269 Co-Mo
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By Meg Dunn, CNN Syracuse, NY (CNN) — Andrew Lunetta saw the same pattern over and over while working at homeless shelters in Syracuse, New York. Men would leave, move into the cheapest housing available, and soon return looking for a bed. “It was a matter of months, sometimes weeks, that the same men would
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By Billy Stockwell and Magdalena Vitores Moreno, CNN (CNN) — At least 12 people have been killed in one of southern Spain’s worst-ever wildfires, local officials said Friday, as tragic stories emerge of victims’ attempts to flee the inferno. More than 460 emergency workers have been deployed to battle the fire near the town of
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CNN By Billy Stockwell, Todd Symons, Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — At least 12 people have been killed in one of southern Spain’s worst-ever wildfires, local officials said Friday, as dozens remain missing and tragic stories emerge of victims’ attempts to flee the inferno. Around 150 emergency workers were deployed to battle the forest fire
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By Rhea Mogul, Ayushi Shah, CNN (CNN) — The shocking rape and murder of a girl in eastern India has sparked widespread unrest that led to the mob-killing of an innocent man and police killing their main suspect in custody. The grim chain of events lays bare the nation’s problems not only with sexual violence,
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The City of Columbia had its first in a series of forums over its proposal for a public safety sales tax that would pay for a new Columbia Police Department headquarters at a building formerly owned by IBM. The plan would spend $35 million to convert the building. Do you like the idea? Let us
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By Julianna Bragg, Priscilla Alvarez, Alisha Ebrahimji, Caroll Alvarado, Danya Gainor, Carolina Peguero, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Days after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a Houston man, frustration is growing among local officials who say federal agencies are resisting collaboration on the investigation into the contentious shooting. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China has successfully recovered the first stage of a carrier rocket during an orbital launch test, state media reported Friday – a breakthrough for the country as it vies to catch up with American rivals in reusable rocket technology. The Long March 10B rocket was launched from Hainan
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County family is asking a judge to stop the county from euthanizing its pit bull, arguing the dog does not meet Missouri’s definition of a dangerous dog and that previous biting incidents occurred only when law enforcement officers entered the family’s property without advance notice. Keith Nilges filed the lawsuit
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By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Millions of HIV/AIDS patients, many of them in Africa, face an uncertain future as a financial cliff-edge for US-funded global programs fast approaches. In September, 120 funding awards for HIV/AIDS work carried out by the US Centers for Disease Control are set to expire, with no concrete replacement system
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe on Thursday signed an online age verification rule into a state law. House Bill 1839 was made official Thursday and now requires age verification for websites that have more than one-third of its content containing sexual material, including social media. The sites would have to use a third-party for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia held the first of six public forums Thursday night to explain how police and fire leaders would use a proposed 1% public safety sales tax that will appear on the city’s August ballot. Leaders from both departments plan to visit each city ward throughout the month to answer
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported Thursday after a home in the 300 block of Union Street caught fire, according to a press release from the Jefferson City Fire Department. Firefighters were called at 6:37 p.m. by multiple people and had the fire under control fewer than 20 minutes after arrives. The home’s only
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By Sylvie Zhuang, Shuai Zhang, and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — It sounds like the script of a low-budget horror movie – a community besieged by hundreds of snakes. But in Hengzhou, a southern Chinese city of some one million residents, floodwaters have brought that terrifying reality to their doorsteps. Around 900 snakes
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 1,300 Ameren customers were without power in Cole County on Thursday. The outage began at 7:14 p.m., after a strong cell entered the area. There were 1,264 customers without power at 7:54 p.m. Power was mostly restored before 9:50 p.m. Ameren’s map then showed Osage County having 537 customers without power
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 3-year-old girl and 33-year-old woman from Newburg were both seriously injured in a Thursday morning crash at a Phelps County intersection, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the crash occurred at County Roads 6120 and 6110. The woman drove her 2005 Chevrolet Malibu
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