An African American mother says she won’t sit down to talk with two men who came armed with about 13 other White people to her North Carolina home last year looking for a missing teenage girl — and she doesn’t care that a court acquitted them. Still, lawyers for the two men say they not
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TODAY: Many of us will see clear skies and a breeze with highs reaching the 70s this afternoon. A disturbance will slide by to the north in the morning that could bring showers but conditions will clear by the early afternoon. THIS EVENING: Unfortunately this warmth is gearing up ahead of a front moving through the SE
Continue Reading At last, the moment you dreamed of all year is here — your vaccination day. The thought of being pricked with a needle has never been more thrilling. Perhaps your city has converted a sports stadium, a local college or some big, empty parking lot into a mass vaccination site. Easy! All you have to
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The “enemies” will have fictional names, but when hundreds of US military personnel around the globe log on to their computers later this summer for a highly classified war game, it will be clear what a major focus of the scenarios will be — how the US should respond to aggressive action and unexpected moves
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Health officials are warning Americans not to relax in the fight against Covid-19, despite a record daily number of vaccine doses being administered to the population. At a briefing Friday, the White House’s Covid-19 response co-ordinator Jeff Zients said that 71% of individuals 65 and older had received at least one vaccination dose and that
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Only two states — Arkansas and New York — have yet to announce when they’ll open Covid-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone 16 and older, with the rest saying they’ll have done it no later than May 1, according to a CNN analysis. This comes as the pace of vaccinations has quickened. Yet with daily new
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They are 10 people who went to the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday and never returned. Now they are victims of yet another mass shooting in the United States, whose lives are being remembered by family and friends. Their names are: Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, 51; store manager Rikki Olds,
Continue Reading Oy vey! It’s a pandemic Passover. The good news is you don’t have to sit next to Uncle Morty again this year and hear the same story about the time he found that heirloom stamp that was worth 300 times what he paid for it in 1987. You can just mute him on Zoom. The
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A new daily record for administering Covid-19 vaccines was set Friday, but many experts reiterate that the pandemic is far from over. The total number of doses administered jumped by about 3.38 million, according to a tweet from White House Covid-19 Data Director Dr. Cyrus Shahpar. This is the fourth time the number of doses
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Legendary Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar has announced he tested positive for Covid-19. In a tweet Saturday, Tendulkar — widely considered the greatest batsman of all time — said he was experiencing mild symptoms. Others at his home had tested negative, he added. “I’ve quarantined myself at home and am following all the necessary protocols
Continue Reading Several people may have life-threatening injuries after a shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, police tweeted early Saturday. Police are investigating the incident that happened “at the oceanfront between 17th and 22nd St.,” the post said. There is a large police presence in the area and officials are asking people to stay away. This is a
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The man charged with killing 10 people in a Boulder grocery store passed a background check and purchased the weapon used in the slaughter, a Colorado gun shop owner said Friday. The suspected gunman, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, purchased a Ruger AR-556 on March 16 — days before the shootings, a senior law enforcement source
Continue Reading Don’t be surprised if you find your neighbors turning off their lights for a full hour Saturday night. They’re taking part in a global movement called Earth Hour. How did it start? Earth Hour is an annual tradition in which people switch off their lights to spread awareness about sustainability and climate change. Started by
Continue Reading A man being held on a murder charge in New Jersey was charged Friday with three counts of first-degree murder in New Mexico. Sean Lannon is accused of killing his ex-wife Jennifer Lannon, Jesten Mata and Matthew Miller and stuffing their bodies into a car that was left in the Albuquerque airport parking lot, according
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team dropped its second straight game to No. 1 Vanderbilt on Friday night. The Commodores beat the Tigers 11-3. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. Jack Leiter did not give up a hit in seven innings on the mound for Vanderbilt. He’s now pitched 16
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An attorney for Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon vowed that the Democrat will contest the charges she faces after being arrested Thursday for knocking on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office door while he signed a sweeping elections bill into law. “She’s facing up to eight years in prison,” Cannon’s attorney, Gerald Griggs, told CNN’s Don
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 18 Mizzou softball team beat No. 24 Auburn on a walk-off in extra innings on Friday afternoon. The Tigers beat Auburn 2-1 thanks to a throwing error in the bottom of the 9th inning. You can watch the walk-off play here. We’ve got extended highlights from the game in the
Continue Reading A Washington, DC, church discovered a noose hanging in a tree on its property Friday, and police are now investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Rev. Michele Morgan, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, told CNN the rope was found by a technician preparing for musical performances
Continue Reading Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry has died of heart failure, according to his publicist, Amanda Lundberg. McMurtry, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for “Lonesome Dove,” died on Thursday. “Larry McMurtry passed away last night, on March 25 of heart failure at 84 years old surrounded by his loved ones who he lived
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A Kansas man was arrested and charged with murder in the 1979 death of a woman in Colorado after a DNA profile linked him to the crime, officials said. James Herman Dye, 64, faces first-degree murder charges in the death of Evelyn Kay Day, who was sexually assaulted and strangled in November 1979, according to
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