COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 18-year-old Columbia man was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison Monday in connection with a deadly shooting in May 2024. Cordero Riley Jr., 18, admitted to unlawful use of a weapon and second-degree assault in a plea deal with prosecutors in July that took a second-degree murder charge off the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police say they arrested a Columbia man early Monday in a domestic stabbing. Lawrence Johnson, 60, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, assaulting a police officer and felony resisting arrest, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. Information related to his case
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By Tim Lister, Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones. Radoslaw Sikorski’s remarks follow an intrusion last week by Russian drones into Polish airspace. NATO fighter jets and air defenses shot
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 67-year-old Roach man was seriously hurt after an ATV crash in Camden County Sunday afternoon, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. According to the report, the man was driving a 2005 Yamaha Kodiak west in the 400 block of Ski Valley Drive at 3:20 p.m.,
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Three octogenarian nuns have defied their diocese, run away from their nursing home and returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, which they are now occupying. On September 4, Sister Regina, 86, Sister Rita, 81, and Sister Bernadette, 88, returned to Schloss Goldenstein, the Alpine convent and girls’
Continue ReadingBy Tal Shalev, Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — The former chief of the Israeli military said more than 1 in 10 Palestinians in the enclave have been killed or injured since the war began nearly two years ago. Speaking at the community of Ein HaBesor in southern Israel last week, former Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — At Sunday morning church services around the country, conservative religious leaders found the same word to describe Charlie Kirk, the podcaster and political activist killed on Wednesday: martyr. “Today, we celebrate the life of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old God-fearing Christian man, a husband, father of two, a patriot, a
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By Hanna Park, Adam Cancryn, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he’s taking executive action to establish a “Memphis Safe Task Force” aimed at leading a crime crackdown, leaving the Tennessee city bracing for the arrival of the National Guard as his administration intensifies its efforts to crack down on
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink is back online after experiencing a brief service outage overnight. The cause remains unclear, but it appears to have affected tens of thousands of users — including the Ukrainian military on the frontlines. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed
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The Republican-dominated Missouri General Assembly achieved exactly what they’d hoped to in last week’s special session. The supermajority passed both a new congressional map and initiative petition reform despite Democratic opposition in each chamber. Senate Republicans even cut off debate early, using their majority to prevent any long filibustering of special session legislation. The new
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Central Missouri Honor Flight (CMHF) is preparing for its final flight Monday, marking the end of a 16-year tradition of taking Mid-Missouri veterans to Washington, D.C. The organization was founded by Mary Paulsell, her brother Steve and his wife Sharon, along with Sarah Hill, Barbara Brueggeman, and Scott Schaefer. “Central Missouri honor
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — History-making wins, exciting ovations, freshman winners and more. The 2025 Emmys, like television itself, had a little something for everyone. Read below for some of the highlights from TV’s biggest night. ‘The Studio’s’ record-breaking night Sorry, “The Bear.” There’s a new comedy hit in town. Apple TV+’s “The Studio”
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — With their home city Hong Kong unable to honor their wish to get married, Dino Wong and his boyfriend Geoffrey Yu flew more than 2,000 miles across the ocean to Guam to tie the knot in 2019. The trip wasn’t cheap – $5,000 just for the return
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) People Not Politicians, a non-partisan organization, filed a referendum on Friday, aimed at giving voters the chance to approve or deny Gov. Mike Kehoe’s “Missouri First” map. This is the third challenge to the governor’s map. Lawmakers are calling this referendum a ‘citizen’s veto.’ Sen. Doug Beck (D-St. Louis County) said at
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By Pau Mosquera, Jonny Hallam, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Madrid, Spain (CNN) — The final stage of the Vuelta a Espana was suspended on Sunday after several large pro-Palestinian protests disrupted the premier cycling event in the Spanish capital Madrid, according to organizers. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the final distance of the race route on
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By Ibrahim Dahman, Eugenia Yosef, Tim Lister, Eyad Kourdi, Oren Liebermann, Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military struck multiple high-rise buildings in Gaza City on Sunday, after warning people to leave several neighborhoods, in the latest round of destruction since Israel ordered a complete evacuation of the city. Israel’s assault on Gaza City
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One man was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Camden County on Saturday, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. It happened on Cup Tree Road just south of Cup Tree Drive.
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One man and one woman were seriously injured in a motorcycle crash Saturday in Morgan County on Route W just south of Old Barn Road, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Cristiana Moisescu and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Romania has condemned Moscow’s “irresponsible actions” after alleging that a Russian drone breached Romanian airspace during an attack on neighboring Ukraine, prompting Bucharest to scramble fighter jets. The Russian drone used in attacks on Ukraine entered Romanian airspace at 6.05 p.m. local time on
Continue Reading A Mokane teenager was seriously injured in a crash Sunday in Callaway County on Route C near Julie Street, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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