It was after 10 p.m. Monday when officials leading President Joe Biden’s ambitious vaccine effort received some alarming news. The US Food and Drug Administration, in conjunction with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was preparing an announcement for the following morning. It concerned Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine, whose manufacturing delays and
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Plans for a Jefferson City High School sports complex are moving forward. The Jefferson City Board of Adjustment just gave initial approval for the conditional use permit for the complex. If given final approval the complex will house a soccer field and baseball diamond on 800 acres of land. Other plans
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said for the first time that she would be open to establishing a select committee to probe the January 6 riot at the US Capitol if attempts to create an independent 9/11-style commission remain stalled. “It’s always an option,” Pelosi told USA Today in an interview published Tuesday. “It’s not my
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A 23-year-old man is facing murder charges in connection with a shooting that left an 11-month-old baby girl dead and two other children injured in Syracuse, New York, according to the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA). Syracuse Police arrested Chavez Ocasio, 23, on Monday, according to OCDA. Ocasio was charged with second degree murder,
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday formally invited President Joe Biden to address lawmakers in a joint session of Congress later this month. Pelosi wrote in a letter to Biden that she was inviting him to speak to Congress on April 28 “to share your vision for addressing the challenges and opportunities of this historic
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cole County Health Director is expected to make some more money for her role during the pandemic. Cole County Commissioner Sam Bushman says Kristi Campbell will earn an extra seven dollars per hour for the rest of 2021. She is expected to make about $100,000. The cost of her raise
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Dr. Jerry Abraham is determined to ensure California’s most vulnerable communities have access to the Covid-19 vaccine. Abraham has spent the last several months calling state officials to demand vaccine doses for Black and brown people in hard hit South Los Angeles, developing vaccine sites that welcomed walk-in patients, hosting mass vaccination events featuring entertainers
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The police officer who shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb over the weekend has submitted a resignation letter — as has the police chief who said the shooting was accidental, the suburb’s mayor said Tuesday. However, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott — who earlier told CBS he wanted to fire Officer
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Three months into her historic vice presidency, Kamala Harris and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, have finally unpacked their suitcases and are enjoying the comforts of their official residence. The unseasonably warm temperatures and sunny spring skies in Washington over the last week have led them on most recent evenings to walk around outdoors
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Vaccinators in Missouri are asked to hang onto their doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after distribution was halted on Tuesday The Department of Health and senior services held its weekly COVID-19 with health providers across the state on Wednesday and addressed concerns surrounding the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine. US officials
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A history of being consistently active is strongly associated with a reduced risk of severe Covid-19, according to a new study released Tuesday. The Kaiser Permanente study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, looked at nearly 50,000 adults with Covid-19. The research found that those who met the target of the US Department
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are considering setting aside a day each January to honor the late Rush Limbaugh. The Cape Girardeau native gained national fame before he died in February at age 70 after a battle with cancer. A Missouri Senate committee debated legislation Tuesday to designate Jan. 12, Limbaugh’s birthday, as
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So many Americans have been so focused for so long on getting vaccinated, reaching herd immunity and moving beyond the Covid-19 pandemic that news Tuesday that US agencies were recommending a pause in the use of one vaccine was a real kick in the gut. That’s especially true for anyone, like me, who has rolled
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Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times while responding to a domestic incident last year, has returned to active duty, according to a statement from Police Chief Daniel Miskinis. “Although this incident has been reviewed at multiple levels, I know that some will not be pleased with the outcome,”
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A well-funded new group formed by former senior aides to then-President Donald Trump launched on Tuesday with the goal of permanently fusing the ex-President’s “America First” agenda with the Republican Party. The newly minted nonprofit is called the America First Policy Institute and boasts a staff of 35 former Trump aides, including former Cabinet secretaries,
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMIZ) The No. 25 Mizzou volleyball team has its NCAA Tournament opening round matchup on Wednesday. The Tigers will take on South Dakota at 11 a.m. You can hear from the team in the video players below. https://youtu.be/3T42n6s3ZLU https://youtu.be/GdkXSi_hQzg https://youtu.be/v0BzLRNsG70 Mizzou is one of 48 teams in this year’s tournament – which is
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration are recommending that the United States pause the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot. One person is currently in critical condition and another, a 45-year-old
Continue Reading A US appellate court decision on Tuesday upholding an Ohio law that prohibits abortions because of fetal Down syndrome evades major Supreme Court precedent and is certain to reverberate in cases nationwide. The decision by a 9-7 vote implicitly challenges Supreme Court decisions dating to 1973 that protect the abortion choice in the early weeks
Continue Reading The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an Ohio law that prohibits abortions because of fetal Down syndrome. Read the various opinions and dissents here:
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President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 — the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — prompted a split on Capitol Hill among both Republicans and Democrats, creating some strange bedfellows over what to do about America’s longest war. Many Republicans slammed the decision as premature,
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