By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Thailand’s top court ordered the influential former prime minister and billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra to prison for one year on Tuesday in a dramatic turn of events for the embattled political titan. Thaksin, 76, a towering and divisive figure, served as prime minister from 2001 until he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education on Monday evening approved the calendar for next school year. The first day of the 2026-27 school year will be Tuesday, Aug. 25. Winter break for students begins on Dec. 23, 2026, and students would return to class on Jan. 5, 2027, the calendar shows. Spring break
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) House Republicans signaled Monday that they’re willing to set a higher bar for measures to make the statewide ballot in Missouri and to redraw the state’s congressional map. The House voted 96-55 on a bill to reform the state’s initiative petition process, by which citizens can get questions onto the ballot.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kaiser, Missouri, man was seriously injured Monday afternoon in a crash on Highway 52, about a half mile south of Eldon, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report says a 2005 Cadillac SRX – driven by the 37-year-old man – was heading westbound when it went off
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The man’s hometown has been corrected. HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released the name of the man that was killed after a shooting involving Boone County Sheriff’s deputies Sunday night. Ty B. Lewis was 31-years-old and from Columbia, according to a release from MSHP. A press release from the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Athletic Department is changing how students can claim their tickets for football games after widespread issues occurred while trying to get tickets to this past week’s game against Kansas. A university spokesman shared an email showing the school is switching to a lottery system. “The long ticket queue? Gone. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman whose blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit to drive was charged after she allegedly hit multiple cyclists Sunday morning at Binder Park in Jefferson City, court documents say. Tatum Townsend, 25, of Fulton, was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, second-degree assault, misdemeanor fourth-degree assault,
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Everybody knows that eating too much sugar isn’t good for you. Scientists found a surprising reason why people are doing it nonetheless. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Steel deal US Steel is shutting down a mill
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man has been charged with two felonies after he was allegedly found with child pornography. Lance Larkin, 35, was charged with first-degree promoting child pornography and child porn possession. He is being held at the Cooper County Jail without bond. An arraignment is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The probable
Continue ReadingBy Becky Anderson, Jeremy Diamond, and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Qatar’s prime minister pressed Hamas to “respond positively” to the new US ceasefire proposal in a meeting in Doha, according to an official familiar with the meeting. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met with Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas’ chief negotiator, on Monday to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A now-former Miller County deputy has been charged with five counts of first-degree child molestation. Kyle Carroll was arrested on Saturday in Cooper County and was brought to the Eldon Police Department, according to a probable cause statement filed on Monday. Court documents say he is being held at the Osage County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri lottery player who won half of the $1.787 billion jackpot over the weekend bought their ticket at a QuikTrip in the St. Louis area, according to a Monday press release. The Powerball ticket was bought at the QuikTrip at 12110 Lusher Road in St. Louis, the release says. A second
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 14-year-old boy had non-life-threatening injuries after he was shot Saturday afternoon in the 10000 block of I-70 Drive Northeast, according to a Monday afternoon email from Boone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Brian Leer. Leer wrote deputies were called to a report of shots being fired around 3 p.m. that day. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge ordered the county clerk to remove a bond question for the Boone County Fire Protection District from the Nov. 4 ballot. BCFD had filed a petition on Monday asking the clerk to remove the question after it “decided it was no longer necessary to hold a special election,”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The number of fire victims has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department has confirmed the death of a man in a house fire in north Columbia early Monday morning. A second adult was hospitalized in serious condition. Capt. Wayne Cummins, of the Columbia Fire Department, said firefighters were called to
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — A check-in area at London’s Heathrow airport was briefly evacuated on Monday due to a possible hazardous substance incident, but police later said no harmful substances were found at the scene. “Service and conducted a thorough search of the area. No trace of any adverse substance was found,”
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s new attorney general was sworn in behind closed doors Monday as her predecessor leaves for a new job in Washington, D.C. Catherine Hanaway was sworn in Monday morning during a private ceremony at the Missouri Supreme Court, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office says in a news release. Gov. Mike Kehoe
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By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — French lawmakers voted to oust Prime Minister François Bayrou Monday, plunging the country into a new political crisis and leaving it without a government at a time of increasing economic strain and geopolitical tensions. A total of 364 MPs voted against Bayrou and 194 voted for him after
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Officials at Fort Leonard Wood on Monday released the name of a soldier who died last week on a rifle training range. Private Andrey Okunev, 18, was a National Guard soldier from California, the fort posted on its Facebook page. Fort Leonard Wood police and Army investigators are continuing their probe of
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By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A train collided with a double-decker passenger bus in Mexico on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 41, an official at the Civil Protection of the State of Mexico said. The cause of the collision is not yet known but a video shared on social
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