COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several Boone County Sheriff’s deputies were seen in the 4300 block of W. Bethany Drive in Southwest Columbia on Saturday. An ABC 17 News reporter on scene observed law enforcement putting up crime scene tape. The reporter also saw at least eight evidence markers placed on scene. The reporter also saw an
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By Andrew McNicol, Gawon Bae, CNN Hong Kong, Seoul (CNN) — Kim Jong Un led the celebrations, and players wept with joy, as Asian club soccer’s newest women’s champions toasted a continental conquest that caps a remarkable run for North Korea’s female footballers. Pyongyang-based Naegohyang Women’s FC lifted the Asian Champions League trophy last month,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The city of Eldon lifted a four-day-long mandatory boil order Saturday morning, after routine testing found Total Coliform and E. coli in the water supply Tuesday. The city started an emergency sanitisation process earlier this week, which uses chlorine to kill harmful bacteria. Now that the boil order has been lifted, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday, Boone Health hosted its Mid-Mi Baby Expo, welcoming about 400 first-time and expecting parents for hands-on lessons focused on childbirth, infant safety and newborn care. The event ran from 8 a.m. until noon. Missouri has seen a slight rise in childbirths over the last few years, according to the Missouri Department
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By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — It was the kind of pitch-perfect evening amateur soccer players and their parents dream of all winter. Months of withering brutal weather gave way to soccer abandon on the turf, as two of Ottawa’s best junior teams clashed in the sunlight. Watching on the sidelines was Nathaniel Salhani,
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Dianne Gallagher, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Two months after the disappearance of an American woman in the Bahamas set off a frantic search effort, the Coast Guard has returned to the island country to scour the waters again for Lynette Hooker — this time in a new location. The 55-year-old disappeared
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By Rebekah Riess, Chris Boyette, Hanako Montgomery, CNN (CNN) — Search-and-rescue volunteers in Japan have found the body of an Auburn University student who went missing during a family vacation, his family said, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested mountains. James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, was found dead Saturday outside Kyoto,
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Luke Unger (CNN) — Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks against Russian refineries and military facilities around the city of St Petersburg on Saturday, in what one Russian official described as an “unprecedented” attack. Targets included naval facilities, as well as oil depots and terminals, the Ukrainian military said. It’s
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By Abeer Salman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Israeli soldiers opened fire on a car in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing a 7-month old Palestinian baby boy and wounding his parents, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Sam Fahd Abu Haykal was in a car with his parents when an Israeli
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Dave Fiji prayed for two days straight to stave off the rain forecast for the night of his wedding. In all his planning, the groom had been meticulous. He wasn’t concerned with flashy displays or luxury. But he was particular about the details close to his heart – like
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — “It’s just jokes,” 19-year-old Lucas “Luke” Nevcherlian told his mother. The two were outside their family home in Edgewater, Florida, this past October, going over Luke’s internet history. That might make for an excruciating private exchange between many teenagers and their mothers. But the Nevcherlians were being recorded on
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By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — In a slickly produced podcast interview published this week, Ivanka Trump talked about her latest real-estate project — what she described as an “unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean” plus five beautiful miles of Albanian beachfront intended to become resorts and hotels. But the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals on Friday rewrote the language of a ballot measure that seeks to eliminate Missouri’s income tax and expand sales taxes. The court heard the case after a Cole County judge ruled against a challenge to the ballot measure on Monday. The appeals court on Friday
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN Madrid (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV urged against division and said the world is crying out for peace as he gave a speech after arriving in Spain for the first major European trip of his pontificate. “Our age, seemingly shaken by terrible imbalances and conflicts, cries out from its depths for
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By Jessie Yeung, Rebekah Riess, Hanako Montgomery, CNN (CNN) — An American college student who went missing during a family vacation in Japan has been found dead by search-and-rescue volunteers, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested mountains. James “Weston” Higginbotham, a 20-year-old junior at Auburn University and a passionate environmentalist,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mom’s Demand Action Missouri and Powerhouse Community Development led a joint effort against gun violence Friday night. In light of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the groups gathered with and for survivors of gun violence at Douglass Park in Columbia. Attendees wore orange in solidarity. Two of those in attendance included Kimberly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 66-year-old Versailles man was killed in a crash on Friday afternoon on Route W in Morgan County near Old Marvin Cutoff Road, a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol says. The report says the man drove a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado southbound and it went off the left side of
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CNN By Hanako Montgomery, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One stranger from Tokyo is shutting down his business for a week to help. Another volunteer dropped everything to provide transportation and translations for American parents desperate to find their son. The weeklong quest to find James “Weston” Higginbotham in Japan has yielded no signs of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Allegiant Airlines started two new service lines from the Columbia Regional Airport to Destin and Orlando, Florida, earlier this week. The new destinations were made possible through a $1 million revenue guarantee that the Columbia City Council approved in May. The city has doled out $82,000 from the transportation sales tax as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Fayette announced on its social media on Friday that another lake will be closed until further notice. D.C. Rogers Lake closed at 4 p.m. Friday because of “recent storm impacts, elevated water levels, as well as ongoing work associated with the D.C. Rogers Wing Wall construction project,” the city
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