Boone County to decide senior property tax while cities see use, marijuana sales taxes
Another April, another election full of use taxes and sales taxes.
Continue ReadingAnother April, another election full of use taxes and sales taxes.
Continue ReadingSchools around Mid-Missouri are packing ballots with requests for more money, whether it be bond issues or a request to increase property taxes.
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces last week launched another military operation on Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, bringing the sprawling medical facility north of the enclave back into the spotlight. Now in its 11th day, the operation is the second of its kind at the hospital, which sits in the western part of
Continue ReadingBy Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — A French high school student is being sued by the government for falsely accusing her former principal of assaulting her after he made her remove her headscarf on school premises, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said the government would “always stand with these officials, those who are on the front line faced with
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) People will gather in Columbia Thursday afternoon to protest the death toll of Palestinians and Gazans in the Israel-Hamas war. The protest is set to take place outside Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt’s Columbia offices. The protest is scheduled to begin at 12:15 p.m. at the St. Francis House on Rangeline.
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Danaher and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles III gave public remarks for Maundy Thursday, addressing the importance of acts of friendship, following his and Catherine, Princess of Wales’ cancer diagnoses. The King’s audio message — which was played at the annual Royal Maundy service at Worcester Cathedral in England on
Continue ReadingBy Lou Robinson, Renee Rigdon, Amy O’Kruk, Matt Stiles, Henrik Pettersson, Annette Choi, Alex Leeds Matthews and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of Tuesday, a 984-foot container ship collided with a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, causing the bridge to collapse. Six people are presumed dead.
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say changes in the human diet over the last century have led to the prevalence of cavities today. A new study compared ancient teeth to modern samples and found a particular cavity-causing bacteria has become widespread due to the popularization of sugar and cereal grains. Here’s what
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say changes in the human diet over the last century have led to the prevalence of cavities today. A new study compared ancient teeth to modern samples and found a particular cavity-causing bacteria has become widespread due to the popularization of sugar and cereal grains. Here’s what else
Continue ReadingBy RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Taylor Ware’s mom just wanted to get her son the help he needed. But her home was 400 miles away and Ware was deep into a manic episode at an interstate rest stop in rural southern Indiana. “I need someone to come, OK, so that he can get help
Continue ReadingBy Lucas Lilieholm, Sania Farooqui and Aishwarya S. Iyer and Rhea Mogul, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s Ministry of External Affairs summoned a US State Department official after the department called for a fair legal process for opposition leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal following his arrest last week. “We take strong objection to
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — As a first-generation college student, Andrea Morquecho was looking forward to walking in the Latinx graduation ceremony at the University of Texas at Austin this spring. Morquecho said she has family members traveling from Mexico who would have appreciated the ceremony because it’s delivered in both Spanish and English. She was also excited to
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis and John Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The largest apex predator in the tropical seas, tiger sharks are notoriously fierce. They can grow to more than six meters (20 feet), have sharp serrated teeth and are second only to great whites in number of reported attacks on people. But in The Bahamas, tiger
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Human trafficking-fueled fraud is exploding in Southeast Asia with organized crime rings raking in close to $3 trillion in illicit revenue annually, the head of Interpol has said in comments that reveal the huge profits being earned by cartels. One international organized crime group makes $50 billion a year,
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering theories on behavioral economics, has died. He was 90. The Israeli-American psychologist died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a release from Princeton University, whose faculty he had joined in 1993. His cause of death was not provided.
Continue ReadingBy Himari Semans and Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese authorities have ordered three “red rice” dietary supplements to be pulled from store shelves nationwide after four users died and more than 100 others were hospitalized, sparking a health scare in the country and across the region. Japan’s Ministry of Health on Wednesday told stores to
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, Angus Watson and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Hong Kong/Sydney (CNN) — China has announced it is lifting punishing tariffs on Australian wines more than three years after imposing penalties that devastated the industry and were a major point of friction between the trading partners. China’s Ministry of Commerce on Thursday said that “in
Continue ReadingA total solar eclipse will take place April 8. Much of it will be visible here in Mid-Missouri.
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Aditi Sangal and Tori B. Powell, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators unveiled new details about what occurred in the minutes before a hulking cargo ship lost power and slammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, including the pilot’s urgent call for assistance and authorities’ efforts to clear people off the bridge. The
Continue ReadingWBAL, WMAR, CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Aditi Sangal and Tori B. Powell, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators unveiled new details about what occurred in the minutes before a hulking cargo ship lost power and slammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, including the pilot’s urgent call for assistance and authorities’ efforts to clear people off
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