Former Dallas Mavericks center Shawn Bradley was left paralyzed after a car struck him from behind while he was riding his bicycle in January, the team said. Bradley released the details Wednesday for the first time since the accident on January 20 one block from his home in St. George Utah, the Mavericks said in
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The Biden administration is considering sending some AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses stockpiled and waiting for official usage approval in the US over the border to Mexico and Canada, according to a senior administration official. Intense discussions are taking place following a request for doses from both countries and, for Mexico at least, an agreement could
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) According to Columbia Parks and Recreation, common areas that tend to flood are along the MKT Trail, The Hinkson Creek Trail, and the Grindstone Nature Area. It says as of Wednesday afternoon, most of those places were underwater. The Director of Columbia Parks and Recreation Mike Griggs says visitors should watch out
Continue Reading The House of Representatives passed legislation in rare bipartisan fashion Wednesday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to officers of the US Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department for their work protecting the Capitol on January 6. The legislation provides for a third gold medal to be given to the Smithsonian to be displayed
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A restaurant was spray-painted with the message “Kung flu” in Texas. A travel agency employee in California was nearly blinded. An 84-year-old man from Thailand died after being shoved to the ground during his morning walk. Many Asian Americans across the United States have been verbally harassed, spat on and injured for months in a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLLINSVILLE, Illinois (KMOV) — A local 11-year-old is making history with IKEA! Nick was one of over 66,000 children from around the world to submit a drawing for IKEA’s Soft Toy Drawing Competition. Out of all the entries, IKEA selected five unique drawings, including Nick’s, to be made
Continue Reading George Washington is said to have told Thomas Jefferson that they should create the Senate to “cool” House legislation — like a saucer cools hot tea. But using that notion of cooling what the House passes to outright kill a bill by filibuster is not in the US Constitution, and likely not what Washington had
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With obesity a factor in Covid-19 vaccine eligibility, many Americans are scrambling to find out their body mass index, or BMI. But experts say the meaning behind those numbers — and how to lower them — isn’t always so clear-cut. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists obesity as an underlying medical condition,
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Mayor Carrie Tergin said she wanted the Cole County Emergency Management Office and power companies to sit down together to go over what the public should know if something were to happen.
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The Internal Revenue Service plans to delay this year’s tax filing deadline by roughly a month, to mid-May. Democratic Reps. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey and Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said that the new deadline would be May 17. The IRS late Wednesday put out a
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State and federal investigators are scrambling to learn more about Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in a string of deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, and his alleged motive. Not much information has surfaced about the 21-year-old from Woodstock, about a half-hour drive north of Atlanta. He is presently detained without bond in Cherokee
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — BeLoved Asheville launched a new project called BeLoved Camp Clean on March 13, which provides access to cleanup supplies, trash and recycling cans, and pickup to residents in the City of Asheville who camp because they do not have a home. BeLoved organizers
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The founder of the WallStreetBets is heading to Hollywood. Jaime Rogozinski, the investor who started the subreddit that shook up Wall Street, has signed with United Talent Agency, the company confirmed to CNN Business on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Bloomberg. The agency reps some of biggest stars in Hollywood including Kevin Hart,
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind (KMIZ) The Oklahoma men’s basketball team announced that sophomore guard De’Vion Harmon will not play for the first two rounds of the tournament due to a positive case of COVID-19. Sooner head coach Lon Kruger said the team got the results on Monday, however, only found out for sure on Tuesday, after a
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The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to renew the lapsed Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation championed by President Joe Biden. The final tally was 244 to 172 with 29 Republicans voting with Democrats in support. The chamber passed a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the VAWA, as it is known, that was introduced in
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An Amazon warehouse employee testified before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday about the “grueling” working conditions that led her and others to organize the milestone union election currently underway in Bessemer, Alabama. “Amazon brags it pays workers above the minimum wage. What they don’t tell you is what those jobs are really like,” said
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Distribution of White supremacist propaganda reached the highest amount ever recorded since the Anti-Defamation League began tracking it, the group said in a report released on Wednesday. There were 5,125 documented cases of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters distributed in the US — an average of 14 incidents per day and
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US intelligence agencies believe that “narratives of fraud in the recent general election” and “the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the US Capitol” will “almost certainly” spur domestic extremists to try to engage in additional acts of violence this year, according to the unclassified summary of a new joint assessment released Wednesday. That
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Many Senate Democrats are preparing for a key moment they believe will help make their case to gut the filibuster once and for all: when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues block a major voting rights bill they say is critical to beat back restrictions imposed in GOP-led states across the country.
Continue Reading After Sebastian Araujo’s parents spent a week on a waitlist for leftover Covid-19 vaccines, the family was relieved when the pharmacy called to let him know that two spots had opened up. On Saturday, the trio showed up for their appointments at a Rite Aid in Mission Hills, California, a suburb outside of Los Angeles,
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