COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The No. 17 Mizzou softball team is preparing for a tough weekend series with No. 15 LSU. MU is riding a four-game winning streak, after sweeping South Carolina over the weekend. Mizzou’s bats have been on fire recently, as nine different player have hit a home run. Hatti Moore leads the team
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Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are introducing a bill to ban transgender girls from competing in women’s school sports teams. The “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” bars anyone assigned male at birth from competing with female players. Rep. Martina White (R-Philadelphia) is a sponsor of the bill,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The body of an Upper Darby pregnant woman, who had been missing since last week, was found in a wooded lot in Southwest Philadelphia overnight. Philadelphia police say the body was identified as 21-year-old Dianna Brice who was last seen last Tuesday and was four-and-a-half
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A Navy sailor shot and injured two other sailors at a facility in the Maryland city of Frederick on Tuesday morning before driving to the US military’s nearby Fort Detrick, where police shot and killed him, authorities said. The US Navy tweeted that the shooter was a Navy hospital corpsman, and Fort Detrick officials told
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WLWT) — Cincinnati Zoo’s first zoo babies of 2021 are undergoing swim lessons. The two little blue penguin chicks, Mars and Rover, hatched in January. The penguins are also called fairy penguins due to their tiny size. A little penguin torpedoes through the middle of a school
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Besides the green jacket, the adulation and the acclaim, one of the greatest honors for a Masters winner is putting on a spread for his fellow champions at the next year’s tournament. Although he’s had a shorter time to prepare than most — the 2020 Masters was held in November rather than its typical slot
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — We may not talk about it as much with the pandemic, but the opioid crisis continues. An estimated 10.1 million people abused opioids last year. Now doctors are looking for alternatives and using prescriptions less. “If you can prevent somebody from ever turning to opioids,
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Starbucks is launching an experimental “borrow a cup” program at select locations in its hometown, Seattle. The program is part of Starbucks’ aim to make its cups more sustainable, and it will kick off as a two-month trial in five Seattle stores. Customers at those stores will have an option to receive their drinks in
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Click here for updates on this story PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland (WJZ) — A Prince George’s County man is facing multiple charges after he and a group of other drivers were caught on camera doing donuts in the middle of the I-495 Beltway on Saturday. Those drivers weren’t just wreaking havoc on the Beltway. As
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“60 Minutes” is facing backlash for a story it aired Sunday on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — including from the supermarket chain Publix and two prominent Democrats in the state. As part of a larger story about Florida’s vaccine rollout, the renowned newsmagazine program spotlighted a recent $100,000 donation that Publix made to DeSantis’ re-election
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Business leaders had a lot on their plates over the past year, and many have let cybersecurity fall by the wayside. Nearly half of businesses say work-from-home policies have hurt their cybersecurity practices, according to Verizon’s 2021 Mobile Security Index, published Tuesday. The report includes findings from a survey of 856 professionals responsible for buying,
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A Minneapolis Police use-of-force training instructor testified Tuesday that Derek Chauvin’s kneeling on George Floyd’s neck is not a trained neck restraint tactic. “We don’t train leg-neck restraints with officers in service, and as far as I know, we never have,” Lt. Johnny Mercil said. While neck restraints may be allowed on suspects actively resisting,
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Peters is seeking her third term in a race that includes business owners Philip Merriman and Randy Minchew.
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Before Reddit became the “front page of the internet,” and before Tumblr and Twitter took off, there was one place online where you could seriously ask questions like, “Did I accidentally summon a demon?” or “Why do we here?“ It was one of the few sites where students seeking homework help, curious and ill-informed adults
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s golf team claimed its first overall, team win of the season, finishing the tournament at 25-under par. MU and Kansas State were neck-and-neck over the two days, however, the Tigers pulled ahead by seven strokes. Rock Bridge alum and MU golfer Ross Steelman won the overall tournament, closing out
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The city is launching an investigation and clean-up efforts after “abhorrent racist graffiti” was spray-painted onto a football field house. The football field is used by the Southside Bears, a local youth organization that gets kids of all ages in the neighborhood together. Inside the
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Click here for updates on this story FOLSOM, California (KOVR) — Heaps of trash from newspapers, empty food containers, feces — and everything in between — is packed into a Folsom home. The 81-year-old woman named Gene who lives there is in disbelief that this is how she was living for the last 10 or
Continue Reading Here’s a look at Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Since 2003, worldwide concern over Iran’s nuclear program has increased as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spar over investigation and details of Iran’s program. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has repeatedly denied Iran is building a bomb and says weapons of mass destruction are forbidden
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Click here for updates on this story PLACERVILLE, California (KOVR) — More tragedy has struck the family of Roman Lopez, the 11-year-old boy who was found dead in his Placerville home last year. His father and stepmother are facing charges for abuse and neglect. CBS13 is learning Roman’s biological mother, Rochelle Lopez, died in Wisconsin
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President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package will boost the US economy and drive faster global growth this year, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday, though it warned that many countries continue to suffer from the pandemic and are at risk of being left behind. The US economy will surpass its pre-pandemic size as growth
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