Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — It has been a hard year for everyone, including children. In a now viral video, a little girl and a mail carrier in southeast Portland are warming hearts across the world. The two have kept up their special friendship, even during the pandemic. Every
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Local hospitals in mid-Missouri have been providing COVID-19 vaccinations to staff as they received the first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine.
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After a mild start to the week, winter is finally catching up with the calendar just in time for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A cold front moving in on Wednesday will usher in the coldest air we have seen so far this season, along with gusty winds through Thursday and Friday. Arctic air from
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The tight January political calendar means Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue won’t be in office when Congress meets for a joint session on the Electoral College on January 6, regardless of the results of the Senate runoff the day before. Sydney Butler, chief of staff to the secretary of the Senate — who oversees the
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ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman is accused of stabbing a man in Ashland Tuesday. Prosecutors charged 21-year-old SheyAnne Nichols today for second-degree assault and armed criminal action. Police say Nichols stabbed a man with a kitchen knife around 8:30 this morning in the 100 block of west Broadway. The man was treated for a stab
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As so many people around the globe contemplate what their lives might look like after the pandemic, new research on smallpox might help provide insight. Researchers revealed nearly three centuries of data showing repeated smallpox epidemics in London in a study published Monday in the open access journal PLOS One. “This study reveals detailed patterns
Continue Reading Researchers studying the new UK strain of the coronavirus think it likely arrived in the US in mid-November, and that many people in the United States could already be infected. “If I had to guess, I would say it’s probably in hundreds of people by now,” said Michael Worobey, head of the department of ecology
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PRICHARD, Alabama (WALA) — The Prichard Police Department on Tuesday fired a police officer charged with murder in the death of a neighbor. Prichard authorities said they also have launched their own investigation of Johnathan Murphy II, 35. According to Mobile police, officers responded at about 10:15 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An autopsy is planned after an inmate from the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center died. The State Department of Corrections tells ABC 17 news 58-year-old Randall Tangen was pronounced dead on Sunday at a hospital in Columbia. Tangen was serving his fourth year of a 10-year sentence at the prison in Fulton
Continue Reading A new strain of coronavirus first detected in the UK has prompted dozens of travel bans and widespread concern about what this means for the world. While scientists dig deeper, here’s what this new strain means for you: Why is this strain important? The new variant has a series of mutations, the US Centers for
Continue Reading Televangelist Pat Robertson, a prominent conservative backer of Donald Trump, said Monday that the President is living in an “alternate reality” and should “move on” from his 2020 election loss. “With all his talent, and the ability to raise money and draw large crowds, the President still lives in an alternate reality,” Robertson said Monday
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — He is one of the last surviving combat veterans of World War II. This weekend, Bernie Hoffman turned 95 years old. He was given a COVID celebration — military style. Hoffman is a member of the greatest generation and a decorated World War
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University of Missouri officials said Tuesday afternoon students living on-campus next semester will have to get tested for COVID-19 upon arrival to campus.
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden has been moving swiftly to fill out much of his Cabinet. Whether the Senate will do the same is another question. Biden faces the tricky task of navigating a narrowly divided Senate with competing factions within his own party, calls by conservative senators to bring the nomination process to a slow grind
Continue Reading Dr. Anthony Fauci, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins received their first doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine Tuesday. The shot, which Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received in the left arm, was administered at the NIH Clinical
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Americans to steel themselves for dark days ahead battling the coronavirus pandemic. He lambasted the Trump administration for the recent massive cyberattack on US federal agencies, and President Donald Trump for downplaying the attack. Biden also said Trump’s team has not been fully cooperating with his transition team and
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter on Tuesday that he attempted to sell the company “during the darkest days of the Model 3 program,” but that Apple CEO Tim Cook “refused to take the meeting.” Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment Musk made the claim in response to a post
Continue Reading Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, has filed a motion to dismiss the campaign finance charges against him, arguing he has been selectively prosecuted and blocked from providing information to lawmakers seeking to impeach President Trump. In a court filing Tuesday, Parnas’s attorney alleges New York federal prosecutors targeted their investigation of Parnas
Continue Reading Moon craters formed when meteorites and asteroids slammed into the lunar surface. Like fossils on Earth, they reveal something about the history of the solar system and how planets were formed. Using artificial intelligence, Chinese scientists have estimated that there are more than 100,000 craters on the moon, according to a study published Tuesday in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Usually days before Christmas, holiday concerts are taking place in school auditoriums and cafeterias across the region but that too is going virtual in 2020. And students at a school in Overbrook Park still found a way to make family members proud. The show must
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