Wild, stomach-churning moments are part of the experience when you buy a ticket to the crypto circus. But the past week’s volatility was enough to make some of the crypto faithful wonder whether they’ve been bamboozled. On Wednesday, a broad crypto crash wiped out about $1 trillion in market value — a staggering drop from
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Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR, CT (WFSB) — Security has been beefed up at Amazon’s construction site in Windsor. In the past month, seven ropes tied like nooses have been discovered at the company’s new warehouse. Construction workers found them, and police are treating it as a hate crime. The construction company
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Over 50 protesters have blockaded four McDonald’s UK distribution centers and are calling for the world’s largest fast-food chain to become entirely plant-based by 2025. Animal Rebellion is stopping workers from accessing four sites across England using trucks, beacons and bamboo towers with people locked into concrete blocks at the base, said the climate and
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There are countervailing storylines that complicate the pandemic recovery. Millions of Americans remain unemployed while companies big and small are reporting extreme difficulty in finding workers. That’s prompted a push by Republican governors — 22 so far — to reject the $300-per-week unemployment benefits that were included in the Democrats’ Covid relief bill this past
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They had the artsy, rustic venue, the tailored dress and a guest list including about 150 of their closest friends and family. But the pandemic had other plans, forcing Carly Chalmers and Mitchell Gauvin to make a difficult decision about their wedding — twice. “Everything was changing,” said Chalmers, a Toronto-based marketing manager whose nuptials
Continue Reading When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its new mask guidance last week, it didn’t include guidance to vaccinated parents who have unvaccinated children, leaving many parents confused about what to do. The new guidance says people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 may go without masks in most circumstances and don’t
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TODAY: We’ll see showers early today before rain chances become more scattered in the afternoon. A bit of sunshine is possible by the late afternoon today. Highs reach the low 80s. TOMORROW: Skies stay clearer with a few clouds and highs reach the mid-80s. EXTENDED: Next week starts off largely dry on Monday, but the upper
Continue Reading Four Seattle Mariners relief pitchers were placed on the injured list after a potential positive Covid-19 test on the team was reported, the team’s general manager said in a press release. The person with the potential positive test was not named, but relief pitchers Robert Dugger, Anthony Misiewicz, Drew Steckenrider and Will Vest were placed
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After enduring months of lockdown, travel restrictions and unseasonably bad weather, people in the UK were finally given permission to head overseas for a vacation this week. It prompted an online rush to find flights, hotel rooms and sunshine. But many would-be travelers faced a very significant problem: They didn’t know exactly where they were
Continue Reading Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to a tweet from police early Saturday morning. Seven of the victims are at local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries and one man is in the hospital in critical condition, said the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). Of the
Continue Reading China’s Zhurong rover left its landing platform and drove on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state media reported — making the country only the second after the US to land and operate a rover on the red planet. The six-wheel solar-powered rover, which weighs about 240 kilograms (529 pounds), touched down on Mars on
Continue Reading Protesters are expected to rally in cities across the United States this weekend in support of Palestinians, as Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire ending days of destruction and bloodshed. Since May 10, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 243 people in Gaza, including 66 children, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Twelve
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Covid-19 vaccination rates in some regions need a boost to reach the levels that experts say the US needs to hit — and some state leaders have begun offering incentives to motivate those who are still wary. In Vermont, for example, that incentive comes in the form of a promise of an early return to
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For many, a nationwide return to normalcy from the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to accelerate into the summer as more businesses and state governments prepare for a large-scale reopening. Sports stadiums are filling up, mask mandates are being shed, and travel and tourism industries anticipate a rebound with cruise lines planning for passengers once again.
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HIGBEE, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: The suspect was taken to a local hospital around 12:45 a.m. after law enforcement took him into custody. According to Randolph County Sheriff’s Captain James Alley, law enforcement negotiated with the suspect over the phone before firing pepper bag rounds into the suspect’s car. Alley says the suspect shot himself when
Continue Reading Police in Minnesota brought a murder charge this week in the killing of a woman 11 years after her death. Nicholas James Firkus, is accused of fatally shooting his wife, Heidi Firkus, in their Minnesota home in 2010, according to a criminal complaint. “After years of tenacious work by investigators and our law enforcement partners,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team fired on all cylinders in a 8-0 win over the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday night. You can watch full interviews with Mizzou catcher Hatti Moore and pitcher Jordan Weber in the video players below. https://youtu.be/fpyzNYFk6I8 The game started about five hours after its original time
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HARRIS, Mo. (AP) — A rural north-central Missouri woman has died after being attacked by a mother cow. KTVO-TV reports that 76-year-old Jane Heisey died about 8 a.m. Thursday on a farm near the Sullivan County town of Harris. Sullivan County Coroner Bob Wyant says Heisey and her husband, Glenn, were in a lot near
Continue ReadingMARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) — State fire officials say a massive fire and explosion at a Marshfield propane tank plant was accidental. The Missouri Division of Fire Safety said this week the fire at the Kosan Crisplant facility on May 13 likely was started when a spark from a dropped tank ignited the propane. Investigators said
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Two years after Ronald Greene died after an encounter with Louisiana State Police, the agency released the video footage recorded by body cameras that night, Superintendent Col. Lamar Davis said at a Friday news conference. The news comes the same day that CNN obtained an autopsy report from the night Greene died in 2019 as
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