Person impersonates Columbia police officer to scam coffee shop
A Columbia coffee shop said Monday that it was scammed this week by a crook pretending to be a cop.
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Biden to sign executive orders related to ‘equity’
President Joe Biden is slated to sign a series of executive actions revolving around racial equity policy on Tuesday, focusing on nondiscrimination policy, prison reform and public housing, according to a senior Biden administration official. “America has never lived up to its founding promise of equality for all, but we’ve never stopped trying. Today, I’ll
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Two of TikTok’s competitors are merging
Two of TikTok’s rivals in the United States are joining forces at a time when TikTok itself now appears to be here to stay. On Tuesday, Clash announced it was acquiring Byte, a short-form video app launched by a cofounder of Vine, the beloved six-second video app owned and shut down by Twitter. Terms of
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Truck breaks through ice on Vermont bay, two inside escape danger
Click here for updates on this story COLCHESTER, Vermont (WPTZ) — Two people driving in a pickup truck escaped serious injury this weekend in Colchester, Vermont, after they drove on the frozen surface of Lake Champlain’s Mallets Bay Sunday night and broke through the ice, sinking into the water below. The two people in the
Continue Reading Family thrown out of youth basketball game, league after mother wears mask below her nose
Click here for updates on this story LEBANON, Ohio (WLWT) — A 10-year-old and his family were kicked out of a youth basketball league after his mother, attending the game, refused to wear her mask over her nose. The family, from Lebanon, wants the league’s decision reversed and said the incident never should have gone
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CPS parent group donating thousands of N95 masks to Columbia Public Schools employees
A community group says it plans to donate more than 2,000 N95 masks Tuesday for Columbia Public Schools employees.
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Tracking snow chances for tonight
TUESDAY: A few lingering flurries to start out the day for some, but that should clear up by this afternoon. We’ll be left with the cloud cover for the rest of the afternoon as temperatures struggle to warm up again. Highs will top out in the low to mid 30’s. TONIGHT: Another disturbance will come rolling through
Continue Reading Soldier arrives just in time for son’s birth
Click here for updates on this story TOWSON, Maryland (WBAL) — A U.S. Army soldier got home to Maryland just in time for the birth of his son. Pvt. Tyrell Hicks obtained leave from Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri and was able to get home just in time to witness the birth of his third
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US airport screeners confiscated guns at record rate in 2020
Airport security screeners are finding guns at US checkpoints at about twice the rate they did in 2019, according to new Transportation Security Administration data. TSA said it found about 10 firearms per million passengers in 2020, compared to five per million passengers in 2019. The agency said it found 3,257 guns in total last
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Biden to address increasing vaccine supply Tuesday
President Joe Biden is set to speak Tuesday afternoon on his vision to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, and is expected in part to focus on actions his administration plans to take to increase the supply of vaccines, a senior White House official tells CNN. The President is also expected to address ways his administration hopes
Continue Reading Officials: Paramedic arrested for stealing vaccines
Click here for updates on this story WINTER HAVEN, Florida (WESH) — A paramedic with the Polk County Fire Rescue Department has been arrested for allegedly stealing COVID-19 vaccines. Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said 31-year-old Joshua Colon stole three doses’ worth of the Moderna vaccine, then forged the vaccine screening and consent
Continue Reading Nurse collects clothes for homeless COVID-19 patients
Click here for updates on this story WORCESTER, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A registered nurse working at a COVID-19 field hospital in Massachusetts is going above and beyond the call of duty. Rebecca DeCoteau, who works in the field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester, says a number of the patients are homeless and many
Continue Reading These ‘Puppygram’ deliveries offer snuggles, kisses from dogs in need of a home
Click here for updates on this story MERRIAM, KS (KCTV) — Throughout the month of February, puppy love can be delivered across the Kansas City area. Great Plains SPCA volunteers will deliver puppygrams to recipients to play with, smooch and snuggle for 15-30 minutes. They can be delivered to businesses or residences. “Puppygrams are a
Continue Reading Grandson charged in death of woman
Click here for updates on this story PINE GROVE, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Assault charges have been filed in Schuylkill County against a man in connection with the death of his grandmother. Police were called to a home along North Tulpehocken Street in Pine Grove around 3 p.m. Sunday. Kalvin Clark, 32, of Pine Grove, told
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TUESDAY UPDATES: Cole and Moniteau County report COVID-19 related deaths
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Continue Reading READ: Acting US Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman’s statement to Congress on the January 6 riot
In prepared remarks obtained by CNN, acting US Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman told congressional members the department was aware of a “strong potential for violence” and did not take the appropriate steps to prevent the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Read the statement as prepared:
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What the Biden administration means for the future of Silicon Valley
The biggest tech companies spent much of the last four years in Washington playing defense: Answering to threats of regulation and repeatedly being called before congressional committees; serving as former President Donald Trump’s foil on social media moderation; and protesting his approach to immigration and tariffs. Now, with President Joe Biden in the White House,
Continue Reading ‘Bizarre’ dinosaur Spinosaurus behaved like a giant, flightless stork, study says
Paleontologists have long been puzzled about how the Spinosaurus — a giant dinosaur and aquatic predator — would have behaved. Now, they believe it would have been less like an otter, and more like a huge, flightless stork or heron. Rather than hunting fish in the water, the massive dinosaur would have likely caught prey
Continue Reading Acting Capitol Police chief tells Congress the department ‘failed’ during Capitol riots
The acting head of the US Capitol Police told congressional members during a closed-door briefing Tuesday that the “department failed to meet its own high standards” on January 6 when a crowd of pro-Trump rioters overran the Capitol building. Acting US Capitol police chief Yogananda Pittman called the insurrection a “terrorist attack” and offered her
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Pizza buffet chain Cici’s files for bankruptcy
Cici’s, a restaurant chain best known for its pizza buffets, has filed for bankruptcy. In a court filing late Monday, Cici’s blamed its Chapter 11 filing on the “unpredictable and unprecedented scale” of the pandemic, which decimated its bottom line and customer demand because it relies heavily on its dining rooms. The Texas-based company has
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