Those aren’t olives… An Ohio restaurant seems to have found a use for the Brood X cicadas pestering parts of the Midwest. The Pizza Bandit in Dayton tested out a Spicy Thai Cicada Pie. Yes, that’s a pizza with cicadas on it. Before you get too excited — or repulsed — know that the restaurant
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Public awareness campaigns launched by governments are usually anodyne affairs. Not in Germany, where officials have managed to spark a number of controversies during the pandemic in their push to keep the public safe. From spending millions on videos deemed insensitive, commissioning an alleged Hamas supporter to promote the vaccine for the country’s Arabic-speaking population
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Leaders from CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post will meet with US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to discuss the Trump administration’s controversial leak investigation that involved seeking reporter records from all three media outlets. The planned meeting comes after the revelation that Department of Justice officials took aggressive steps to
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Square Enix, maker of the popular “Final Fantasy” franchise, got off to a rough start with its Sunday afternoon E3:2021 showcase of new games, which opened with developer Eidos Montreal’s “Guardian’s of the Galaxy” title. The game is based on the Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel comic books, which were adapted into a series of
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As the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando on Saturday, it has a staggering and grim new statistic to contend with for 2021. So far this year, we have suffered 270 mass shootings. From Friday afternoon to Sunday, at least nine people were killed and another 47 were injured
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou soccer coach Stefanie Golan in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As coronavirus vaccinations in Missouri continue to increase, ages 20 to 35 are making up a large percentage of positive cases across the state. Sara Humm with the Columbia/Boone County Health Department said we have seen 244 cases of COVID-19 in Boone County in the last month. Humm said 32% of the
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Over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region are experiencing dire hunger, finds a new report by the United Nations and other aid groups. “There is famine in Ethiopia right now,” United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock warned on Thursday. According to the global Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, which evaluates food insecurity
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One of 14 people injured in a mass shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, has died, police say. Douglas John Kantor, 25, died from his injures around noon local time Sunday, Austin Police said in a release. Authorities have arrested one person in connection with the shooting early Saturday morning, Mayor Steve Adler’s office said earlier.
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Tonight: We will continue to see clear skies throughout the overnight hours with temperatures dropping down to 65 degrees. Winds continue out of the northeast at 5-10 mph. Tomorrow: Monday looks to be a very similar story to the past two days as the high tops out at 92 degrees with winds continuing out of
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Naftali Bennett was sworn in as Israel’s new prime minister on Sunday, after winning a confidence vote with the narrowest of margins, just 60 votes to 59. His victory ends a 12-year grip on power by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving leader. After four elections in two years, Bennett’s incoming government breaks
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A 15-year-old girl died Saturday after she was struck by lightning while swimming off the coast of Georgia, according to the Tybee Island Police Department. Police say they got a 911 call around 2:37 p.m. about a female who possibly had been struck. Firefighters and lifeguards performed CPR on the girl. She was taken to
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As more Americans get vaccinated against Covid-19 and states and cities further ease pandemic restrictions, more people are flying for vacations, family visits or just getting away. The Transportation Security Administration screened more than 2 million passengers Friday, the highest number since March 7 of last year, just before lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions started keeping
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For many people, it’s just another cute dog show, but for the serious dog lovers, the 145th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is no joke. And if you love going awwww over your furry friends, here’s what you need to know: What is the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 700 kids participated in Tyreek Hill’s youth football camp at Cosmo Park on Sunday afternoon. This is Hill’s fourth camp so far this summer. He said each of his camps are unique, but the goal remains the same. “I wasn’t always the tallest or the biggest or the fastest –
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Christian Eriksen “was gone” before being resuscitated from cardiac arrest, Denmark’s team doctor said at a press conference Sunday. The Danish soccer player collapsed on the pitch during his team’s opening Euro 2020 match against Finland. “Well, what should I say? He was gone. And we did cardiac resuscitation and it was cardiac arrest. How
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When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother — an Irish American born with the surname Finnegan — had a piece of advice. “Don’t you bow down to her,” she told him in 1982, according to a memoir Biden published several years ago.
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Novak Djokovic came back from two sets down in a grand slam final for the first time in his career, as he narrowly got the better of Stefanos Tsitsipas in a thrilling French Open final. The 22-year-old Greek star, appearing in only his first grand slam final, displayed experience and poise beyond his years to
Continue Reading A houseplant with just nine leaves has sold for a record-breaking $19,297 on a New Zealand auction site. Bids for the “very rare white variegated Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma” closed Sunday night, rising in the last four minutes as bidder “foliage_patch” battled the eventual winner, tagged “meridianlamb.” Trade Me spokesperson Millie Silvester told CNN that the plant
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