COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team will host Super Regionals this weekend for the first time since 2013. The Tigers will face James Madison for a best of three series starting Friday at 8 p.m. You can hear from head coach Larissa Anderson in the video player above. James Madison is 37-1 on the
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President Joe Biden said Wednesday he has directed the US intelligence community to redouble their efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days. The announcement comes after a US intelligence report found several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and
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After yet another apparent noose was discovered at the construction site of an Amazon fulfillment center in Windsor, Connecticut on Wednesday, local NAACP officials and town leaders voiced their outrage with Amazon and law enforcement authorities for not taking the proper precautions before workers returned earlier this week. The latest discovery of a noose at
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Here are the local scores from Wednesday, May 26, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL STATE QUARTERFINALS Eugene 3 | Putnam County 4 FINAL St. Elizabeth 14 | Lockwood 0 FINAL Wellsville 8 | Leeton 9 FINAL/9
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One of New York City’s newer tourist attractions is reopening to the public with a focus on suicide prevention after three young adults took their own lives there over the last year. The climbable, 150-foot-tall staircase, known as the “Vessel,” located at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, closed for visitors in January after a 21-year-old man
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“The Five,” one of the most popular shows on Fox News, is losing its liberal co-host — and Fox fans seem thrilled. Juan Williams, the lone dissenter on the conservative program, is stepping down from his co-host spot. He announced his departure on Wednesday afternoon’s broadcast. His exit is effective immediately. Fox says another liberal
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Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday reflected on the frustration he had felt in office when his “institutional role” limited his ability to comment on federal investigations into the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. “I went as far as I could just commenting on cases like Trayvon Martin or what was happening
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Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are objecting to changing protections police currently enjoy from civil lawsuits, underscoring the challenges facing a trio of lawmakers who are furiously working to cut a deal that would overhaul policing in America. The issue — known as qualified immunity for police officers — has long been the biggest
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A New Mexico man is facing a federal charge for allegedly threatening to kill President Joe Biden and others in text messages he sent to people in two states. John Benjamin Thornton is charged with using interstate commerce communications to send a threat to injure another person. The rambling texts allegedly from Thornton provided as
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President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid
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San Jose, California, officials said for more than a year, local transit employees battled the dangers of Covid-19 — only to now fall victim to another epidemic: gun violence. At least eight people were killed Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire at a public transit rail yard in San Jose. The victims were employees
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A chance to win a $1 million prize has helped boost Ohio’s Covid-19 vaccination rate by 45%, Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday. The jump came after DeWine’s May 13 announcement of special lotteries offering millions of dollars in giveaways to adults — and full scholarships to younger Ohioans who get vaccinated. Across the country, governments,
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Three individuals have been found safely after a search in Pinnacles Park in northern Boone County. Boone County Fire District crews reported searching for the individuals just after 7:40 p.m. The three individuals did not need medical attention.
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Eric Carle, the author and artist of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and dozens of other popular children’s book, has died at 91. On Wednesday, Carle’s Twitter account acknowledged the death, indicating he died Sunday. “From the Eric Carle Team: It is with heavy hearts that we share that Eric Carle, author & illustrator of The
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is seriously injured after a wreck on Interstate 70 at mile marker 163, two miles east of Williamsburg Wednesday morning just before 7 a.m. The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report shows Princeston Little was driving west in a 2013 Dodge Durango when it slid off the roadway,
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A transgender woman placed in a men’s prison after filing a lawsuit alleging abuse at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to an out-of-state women’s facility, according to her lawyer. Rae Rollins had filed a lawsuit in March, alleging she was one of several inmates attacked by corrections officers at
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President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to “take immediate action” on gun legislation in the wake of a shooting in San Jose, California, that killed eight people earlier in the day, noting that he was ordering the flag lowered to half-staff just weeks after other mass shootings around the country. “Enough,” Biden said in
Continue Reading Several Republican senators raised fresh doubts Wednesday that enough of them would join Democrats in breaking a filibuster of the Endless Frontiers Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting US competitiveness with China that faces a key procedural vote Thursday. Their comments came after a GOP lunch where there was a “robust conversation” over concerns
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When members of the National Park Service’s (NPS) turtle patrol were scouting the South Texas shore for sea turtles, they spotted an unusual visitor — an American alligator. The alligator was discovered on the sandy Malaquite Beach on the Padre Island National Seashore in Corpus Christi on Monday. The reptile is thought to have floated
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