The latest round of stimulus payments that started going out over the weekend are open to being seized by private debt collectors — a problem lawmakers are rushing to fix. Recipients with unpaid credit card or medical bills for which a company has obtained a judgment against the debtor could see the fresh infusion taken
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Visiting the warehouse of a flooring company here Tuesday to begin selling his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law, President Joe Biden seemed ready to sign something else. “Anything else we can be doing?” he asked the business owners, who seemed grateful to chat up the visiting president. If the primary goal of Biden’s “Help is
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Click here for updates on this story TIGARD, Oregon (KPTV) — A retirement community in Tigard is finally getting the COVID-19 vaccine for people living there. Tuesday was the first clinic at Summerfield Estates Retirement Community. This community is an independent living community and wasn’t included in the assisted living or skilled nursing rollout. One
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Kamala Harris declared “the status of women is the status of democracy” on Tuesday, in her first speech before the United Nations as the first female vice president of the United States. “Eleanor Roosevelt, who shaped the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, once said, ‘Without equality, there can be no democracy.’ In other words, the
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The WallStreetBets community is moving beyond GameStop and AMC. But its latest investment target isn’t a stock, bitcoin or even NFTs. It’s gorillas. That’s not monkey business. Members of the Reddit group — who gained national attention for their role in pumping up the January trading frenzy of GameStop, AMC and other meme stocks —
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police said Tuesday they’ve arrested a man accused of fatally shooting another man at a Columbia Waffle House. The Columbia Police Department said in a news release that officers had arrested Leo B. Robinson Jr., 50, without specifying where or how he was arrested. Robinson was wanted on charges of second-degree murder
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President Joe Biden will hold his first formal news conference since taking office on March 25, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. Biden is behind his 15 most recent predecessors, who all held a solo news conference within 33 days of taking office, according to a CNN analysis of the past 100 years.
Continue Reading Three people died, including a child who passed away at a hospital, after a single-engine plane crashed into a car on a Florida road, officials said Tuesday. Two victims were on board the Beechcraft Bonanza plane, which went down Monday near the North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, Fire Chief Marcelino Rodriguez told CNN. A
Continue Reading A soon-to-be high school graduate started his job search in a unique way — he wrote a candid open letter and posted it on LinkedIn. Ryan Lowry has autism and wants future employers to understand that while he may learn in a different way, he is worth taking a chance on. “I realize that someone
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Tonight: Temperatures will fall into the mid-40s for an overnight low as clouds stubbornly hang on. A few spot showers will begin after midnight with the main event gearing up to start just before sunrise. Tomorrow: As many of us wake up to venture out for our morning commute, our first round of storms will
Continue Reading In a sign that one small part of March Madness is inching back to normalcy, Chicago’s favorite basketball-loving nun will soon be in the stands. Loyola University Chicago chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt got the green light from the NCAA to cheer on her beloved Ramblers in person this Friday, but it will be from
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Columbia-area pharmacies are helping in the effort to give out coronavirus vaccines to members of Missouri’s newly opened tier of eligible residents.
Continue Reading In 1838, the Jesuits who ran Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to pay off the university’s debts. Many of them baptized Catholic, they were bought by planters to work in sugar plantations in Louisiana. The transaction was one of the largest sales of human beings in US history. Now, the Jesuit Conference of Canada
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) — A judge has denied bond for a southwest Missouri real estate agent who is accused of attempting to hire a hit man to kill her former mother-in-law. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Camden County Judge Heather Miller said Tuesday that she believed that 43-year-old Leigh Ann Bauman posed too much
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITITZ, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Marking the one year anniversary of Pennsylvania’s pandemic shutdown: Many nursing home residents say periods of isolation — minimal to zero family visits at times — left them feeling lonely and depressed. “There were times I’d think, ‘We’re both so old. Suppose we’d get
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — Actress Jane Fonda joined protesters at the site of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement in northern Minnesota on Monday, advocating for the treaty territory of Anishinaabe First Nations and voicing environmental concerns about the surrounding river water. Shortly after receiving her COVID-19
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 87-year-old veteran Democrat, insisted on Tuesday that she is committed to serving out her full term in office even after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had a list of “multiple” potential replacements and would appoint a Black woman to replace her should she retire. “There’s nothing to it,” Feinstein told
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Vivi Zayas remembers how relieved she felt when a woman she’d never met helped her dad sign up for a coronavirus vaccine. That moment marked the end of one journey and the beginning of another. Zayas had tried desperately for three weeks to get a vaccine for her dad, with no luck. Finally, she felt
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team is gearing up for its trip to the WNIT. The Tigers will face Fresno State in the first round on Friday at 2 p.m. in Fort Worth, Texas. We spoke with head coach Robin Pingeton on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the tournament. You can watch our full
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Officials are planning for a full Missouri State Fair after the event was canceled last year because of the coronavirus. Missouri Agriculture Director Chris Chinn on Tuesday confirmed plans to bring the fair back this year. Officials canceled the event last year over concerns about safety during the pandemic. The Sedalia
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