One deceased person has been found and 12 others are missing after a commercial vessel capsized Tuesday several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, according to the US Coast Guard. There were 19 individuals on board at the time of the capsize, Captain Will Watson, Commander of Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, said on Wednesday.
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No classes were held for the last two days at a school in Knoxville after a student was killed and a police officer was shot and injured during an encounter at the high school. A decision about the rest of the week’s classes at Austin-East Magnet High School is pending, Knox County Schools Superintendent Bob
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MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) One of the suspects in the killing of a mid-Missouri snake breeder wants his trial date moved up and a new judge to preside over it. An attorney for Michael Humphrey made the requests Wednesday afternoon in Montgomery County court. Attorney T.J. Hunsaker told Judge Jason Lamb that Humphrey was “re-invoking”
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President Biden’s decision to announce a date for pulling all US troops out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 sets the stage for a predictable disaster. The absence of American troops doesn’t equal peace, although, in the minds of many on both the left (the Biden administration) and the right (former President Donald
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About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN. Some became seriously ill and 74 people died, the CDC said. It said 396 — 7% — of those who got infected after they were vaccinated required hospitalization. It’s the first indication
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The Republican-controlled Arkansas legislature this week passed a handful of bills that would add restrictions to the voting process in the state, sending them to the governor’s desk. One of the more controversial bills, dubbed the “no water bottles for voters” bill by opponents, would prohibit people from entering the perimeter of a polling place
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Colton Underwood is returning to reality TV — but this time on Netflix. The former “Bachelor” star, who for the first time on Wednesday publicly revealed he is gay, is currently in production on an unscripted series for the streaming service, according to a source with knowledge of the project. Representatives for Netflix did not
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Eric Garner‘s mother saw her son’s last minutes after police put him in a chokehold six years ago. This week, she revealed that another family member — US Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario — was also involved in a controversial police encounter. Nazario was stopped by two police officers in Windsor, Virginia, in December. During
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The fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Black man named Daunte Wright by a White police officer outside Minneapolis has prompted protests and clashes with law enforcement. Wright was killed by Officer Kim Potter during a routine traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, according to police. Potter has been charged with second-degree
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Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday evening that he disagreed with Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a fellow progressive, after she called for “no more policing, incarceration, and militarization” in the wake of Daunte Wright’s fatal encounter with police in Minnesota. “No I don’t,” Sanders told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” when asked if
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Have you had the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine within the last month? If you experience a severe headache that does not go away, significant abdominal or leg pain that does not subside, or increasing shortness of breath, health officials want you to call your doctor immediately. Those could be signs of an extremely
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The Covid-19 pandemic is approaching a moment of truth as more and more vaccines are administered. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 Data Tracker, in the US, more than a third of the country has received at least one dose of a vaccine and just over 23% are fully vaccinated. An
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An ex-police officer who shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter, authorities said Wednesday. Kim Potter, who resigned as a Brooklyn Center police officer this week, is charged in Sunday’s shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete
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The first thing some of the women were asked to do when they got to the house parties in the gated community in suburban Orlando was to put away their cellphones, according to two women in attendance who spoke to CNN in recent days. The men inside, a who’s who of local Republican officials that
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A police officer who shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter in the case, authorities said Wednesday. Kim Potter, who resigned as a Brooklyn Center police officer this week, is charged in Sunday’s shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Washington
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday named Erika Moritsugu to a senior-level Asian American and Pacific Islander liaison position, the White House announced in a statement. Moritsugu, whose official title will be deputy assistant to the President and Asian American and Pacific Islander senior liaison, “will bring her experience and expertise to the Biden-Harris Administration where
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The police chief of Windsor, Virginia, said Wednesday that a traffic stop in which two officers pointed guns at a US Army officer, pepper-sprayed him and pushed him to the ground was “a teaching moment” and that he wished the soldier had followed commands. Second Lt. Caron Nazario feared for his life during the December
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Bernard Madoff, whose name became synonymous with financial fraud, died while serving a 150-year sentence in Federal Prison. He was 82 years old. His death Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in the prison in Butner, North Carolina, was confirmed by the US Bureau of Prisons. A cause of death was not released. In February
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Bird Scooters have returned to the city of Columbia, and the excitement can be felt by students and local downtown businesses. Following a unanimously approved contract by the city council on March 15, Bird brought 500 scooters back to Columbia. Bird Rides will pay an initial fee of $10,000 each to the
Continue Reading The city of Placerville, California, also known as Hangtown, is losing the noose on its logo. The logo, which the city manager believes is only about 40 years old, depicts a miner and a noose hanging from a tree in the background. It alludes to California’s Gold Rush and the rise in crime that came
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