As the Biden administration works to speed up the country’s Covid-19 response, reopening schools has become one of the primary benchmarks of recovery. Across the country as vaccines are being administered to essential workers, often including teachers, calls for restarting in-person learning are growing more urgent. Vaccine distribution, one of the key parts of getting
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Click here for updates on this story SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (KOVR) — A South Lake Tahoe man is thankful to be home safe after being rescued by two strong women when he got stuck knee-deep in snow. Every day, Robert ‘Brian’ Spencer laces up his shoes and heads out the door to take his
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Raising the federal hourly minimum wage to $15 would reduce poverty — but would also cut employment by 1.4 million workers and increase the federal deficit by $54 billion over a decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released Monday. The proposed hike, which would take full effect by 2025, would increase worker pay
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Angry and grief-stricken, the wife of crash victim Sheria Musoyaka has taken to social media to lash out at San Francisco police over their response at the scene of a deadly multiple-vehicle crash near Lake Merced. Sheria Musoyaka was the pedestrian killed in an
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Police say a 79-year-old man was attacked and robbed in the Lone Mountain neighborhood on Thursday at 4:55 pm. Residential video shows the victim walking alone down the street, and two men following closely behind. They punched the victim, knocking him to the ground
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Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama announced Monday that he will not run for reelection in 2022, after serving 42 years in Congress. “Today I announce that I will not seek a seventh term in the US Senate in 2022,” the 86-year-old Republican said in a statement. “For everything, there is a season.” Shelby’s announcement
Continue Reading A man attending a baby shower was killed when a small cannon exploded in the back yard of a home near Flint, Michigan, police said. Evan Thomas Silva, 26, died Saturday after he was struck by shrapnel from the cannon, which was fired to “celebrate the baby’s pending arrival,” Michigan State Police said in a
Continue Reading Experts hailed the discovery in 2015 as “stunning” — 47 teeth found in a cave in southern China dated back to 80,0000 to 120,000 years ago, challenging widely accepted ideas about human evolution. It suggested that Homo sapiens were in China at least 20,000 years earlier than early modern humans had been previously believed to
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On Friday, Cole County prosecutors filed charges against two men accused of involvement with a late December shooting.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team moved up eight spots to No. 10 in the latest AP poll released on Monday. This is the highest the Tigers have been ranked since December of 2012. MU is also now the highest ranked SEC team in the country. Here’s a link to see the entire
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football star Jeremy Maclin will be the next head football coach at his alma mater, Kirkwood High School, pending board approval. https://twitter.com/khspioneers/status/1358841578039742467 Maclin joined the Pioneers staff after retiring from the NFL in 2019. He’s been Kirkwood’s wide receivers coach as well as quarterbacks coach/offensive coordinator in his two seasons
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As his predecessor is tried in the US Capitol this week for inciting a deadly riot, President Joe Biden will work to keep his first-100-days agenda on track from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. He’ll virtually tour a vaccination center as the impeachment briefs are filed on Monday. He will pay his first visit
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The V-shaped recovery in the stock market is gathering serious momentum. The S&P 500 is now 75% higher than its low point last March. The Nasdaq has more than doubled since its pandemic low. Tesla shares are up a staggering 900% over that span. And an army of traders on Reddit were able to send
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Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A woman has been reunited with her dog, who ran away when her fiancé was killed in a car crash. Annmarie Fasano and her fiancé, Michael James March, adopted “Shadow” two years ago. “We got the dog, and it was our dog. We bought
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Sources tell CBS2 a victim of a home invasion in Queens was likely targeted after displaying money on social media. Investigators said two armed men broke through a basement window at the home in Woodhaven just before 3 a.m. Friday. The men allegedly used
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teamed up in New York Monday to introduce $2 billion in special FEMA funds for families who have not been able to afford proper funerals for their loved ones who passed away as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Democrats announced that families
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Click here for updates on this story BROCKTON, Massachusetts (WBZ ) — A quick-thinking Brockton teacher is being credited for helping get fire crews to a student’s home during an emergency. “My student, Teresa, is saying ‘my fire alarm is going off, my fire alarm is going off,’’ said teacher Betsy Doyle. Doyle tells WBZ-TV
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The Biden administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday — its latest bid to reverse the policies of the Trump administration and return to a foreign policy with roots in multilateral institutions. In a statement, the top US diplomat said that President Joe Biden “has
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THIS EVENING/OVERNIGHT: Mostly cloudy with patchy snow north of I-70 with light freezing drizzle moving in south. A dusting to a half-inch of snow is expected along with a glaze of ice for our southern counties. Precipitation ends by midnight, mostly cloudy into Tuesday. Lows in the low teens. EXTENDED: This unusually cold stretch continues
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Arkansas Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin departed the 2022 governor’s race Monday, opting instead to run for attorney general, in a move that signals former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ strength just two weeks after she announced her campaign. Griffin’s exit underscores the hold former President Donald Trump, who quickly endorsed Huckabee Sanders’ bid,
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