On the road toward a return to normalcy, the rapidly climbing number of Covid-19 vaccinations is good news. But a major challenge may lie ahead, a leading health expert says. Tens of millions of Americans haven’t started their vaccinations yet, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins told CNN on Wednesday, and “a lot
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Ma’Khia Bryant’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to be remembered by the incident that ended her life. “I want the world to know that Ma’Khia Bryant was a very loving 16-year-old girl. She was my daughter, my baby. I loved her. She was very talented and smart. She was funny. Her favorite color was blue,”
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This time last year, Indian entrepreneurs were in panic mode. The government had locked down the country’s entire population in a dramatic step to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Company founders feared the restrictions would leave them in a severe funding crunch that could hurt their ability to expand, pay salaries or even stay afloat. The
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About two hours after Sri Lanka announced they would reopen their borders to travelers in January 2021, I bought tickets to go there. I live in Hong Kong, which has done a good job containing the pandemic. But the tradeoff is that it has been extremely difficult to travel anywhere. Due to Hong Kong’s tough
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications is reporting northbound Providence at Business Loop closed due to a police incident at 10:40 p.m. Columbia police responded to a report of shots fired on northbound Providence at Business Loop around 10:40 p.m. CPD report one person was shot with a BB gun. The person had a
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Basketball player Terrence Clarke, who last month declared for the 2021 NBA draft after playing his freshman season for the University of Kentucky, died Thursday after sustaining fatal injuries in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to the Kentucky athletics department. He was 19 years old. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon as Clarke’s vehicle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Thursday, April 22, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Rock Bridge 2 | Capital City 1 FINAL/20T Hickman 2 | Jefferson City 0 FINAL HS BASEBALL Hallsville 0 | Southern Boone 8 FINAL Smith-Cotton 10 | Battle 4
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A bill aimed at changing the mail-in voting process in Arizona, including stopping some voters from automatically receiving ballots, has stalled following an intense back-and-forth between the bill’s sponsor and another GOP lawmaker on Thursday. The legislation in question, SB 1485, would revise the state’s permanent early voting list, which allows a voter to automatically
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Amal Clooney is doing what so many people have been doing during the pandemic — watching “ER.” But according to husband and actor George Clooney, the many dalliances of Dr. Doug Ross have been met with disapproval. “This has been a very, very disastrous thing for me because I forgot all of the terrible things
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A Pentagon commission on sexual assault in the military is recommending that independent authorities decide whether to prosecute service members in sexual assault cases instead of commanders, a senior defense official told CNN. If adopted, the change would mark a significant departure from how the military handles sexual assault, which the Pentagon has argued for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Vaccine rates in Missouri are on the decline which could cause a problem with supplies outweighing demand. MU Health Care vaccine co-chair Laura Morris and Columbia/Boone County assistant director Scott Clardy spoke about a variety of topics tonight from vaccine side effects to in-person events held at schools this year.
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An Iowa woman who told police in 2019 that she ran over a girl because she “was a Mexican” pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges, according to court records filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Nicole Marie Poole Franklin had actually been involved in three separate racist
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TALLULAH FALLS, Georgia (WGCL) — Emergency responders worked to recover the body of a woman who fell or jumped from a ledge at a north Georgia state park. According to Habersham Emergency Services officials, a hiker fell or jumped from a ledge at the Tallulah Gorge on Thursday
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting one person is injured after a two-vehicle wreck on Highway 50 east of Big Horn drive in Cole County. According to the crash report, Barbara Wolf, 85, was driving a 2010 Lincoln MKT and rear ended a 2019 International Work Start 7500. Wolf was taken
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Any sober analysis of “Mortal Kombat” already risks overthinking it, but even taking this adaptation of the game on its decidedly R-rated terms, the movie offers few of the visceral thrills that might produce a collective audience response, which makes its consumption on HBO Max perfectly adequate. Of course, in that setting, chuckling at the
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Click here for updates on this story AVON, Connecticutt (WFSB) — It’s that time of the year where more and more people are starting to see bears walking around their yards. In fact, a family in Avon got an unpleasant surprise visit recently when a bear ripped their garage door right open. “I was actually
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOLALLA, Oregon (KPTV) — An 11-year old Molalla girl has quite the story to tell. She delivered her baby brother with the help of a 911 dispatcher Thursday morning. Jordan Eck says Thursday morning she felt some pains, she was still over two weeks from her due date
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Ma’Khia Bryant and two other young women argued over a messy house and unmade bed before a fight that ended with the fatal police shooting shooting of the Black teenager, the woman who cared for Ma’Khia in foster care said Thursday. Angela Moore said two of her former foster children had come to her Columbus,
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About two hours after Sri Lanka announced they would reopen their borders to travelers in January 2021, I bought tickets to go there. I live in Hong Kong, which has done a good job containing the pandemic. But the tradeoff is that it has been extremely difficult to travel anywhere. Due to Hong Kong’s tough
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting two people are seriously injured after a two-vehicle wreck on Highway 5 at Deer Valley road in Camden County. According to the crash report, a 2010 Hyundai crossed over the center turning lane and hit a 2008 Lincoln head on. Marie Capps, 32, the driver
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