By Tori Mason Click here for updates on this story CENTENNIAL, Colorado (KCNC) — The Cherry Creek School District is looking for a different approach to teaching history, but some families aren’t on board with proposed changes. At the end of the school year, the CCSD announced their commitment to making lessons more racially and
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MADISON, Mo. (KMIZ) Nobody was hurt after a train derailed in Monroe County Thursday afternoon. The Norfolk Southern train derailed one mile east of Madison. The railroad company says the train was carrying cars from Kansas City to Decatur, Illinois. The company is assessing the damage after eight cars derailed before clearing the tracks. Officials
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN When Britney Spears asked a court this week to end her years-long conservatorship, she renewed attention on a little-understood section of US law. A convervatorship is a legal arrangement that gives a court-appointed individual, known as the conservator, the power to handle the financial and/or personal affairs of another adult who
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Office of Emergency Management is warning residents of risks of flooding ahead of rainfall predictions over the next 72 hours. Officials from OEM said while in contact with the St. Louis National Weather Service, they are forecasting four plus inches of rain for Boone County over the next 72-hour
Continue ReadingDavid Keene, a former head and current board member of the National Rifle Association, was duped by a gun control activist group into giving a fake graduation speech to empty chairs that represented the victims of gun violence who would have graduated this year.
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN The parents of a student who died during the Parkland school shooting tricked a former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to give a speech in front of thousands of empty chairs representing victims of school gun violence. Video posted online shows David Keene addressing a makeshift field in Las Vegas. Keene thought
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TONIGHT: Another round of storms are bubbling up now and will slide southeast overnight. Damaging winds hail, isolated tornadoes, and flash flooding look to be the biggest threats with this round. Lows will hold in the middle 70’s. For the latest on these storms throughout the evening, head over to our Insider Blog. TOMORROW: Stormy conditions will
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By Kristen Rogers Universe, we’ve got a problem: The payload computer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope that has shaped our understanding of the cosmos for over 30 years has stopped working. After the June 13 malfunction, Hubble’s payload computer stopped receiving the “keep-alive” signal that’s a “standard handshake between the payload and main spacecraft computers
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By Pedram Javaheri and Hannah Gard, CNN An extraordinary heat wave is taking shape this weekend, potentially unlike any other the Northwest US has experienced. As temperatures surge into the triple digits, Seattle could feel more like Las Vegas, while Portland could experience Phoenix-level warmth in an area where having air conditioning isn’t always the
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New video from inside a Biden-Harris campaign bus shows the 2020 incident where Trump supporters surrounded the bus, and allegedly collided with one staffer’s car.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, Jenni Marsh and Caitlin Hu, CNN Jimmy Lai fled mainland China more than 60 years ago, smuggling himself into Hong Kong on a fishing boat at age 12 to escape the chaos of the Communist Party. This week, Beijing finally caught up with him, after a law it had imposed on
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A new book by reporter Michael Bender reports that President Donald Trump wanted the military to “beat the f*** out” of protesters in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN A manhunt continued Thursday after a police officer was shot in Daytona Beach, Florida, authorities said. “A $100,000 reward is now available for anyone who can help authorities locate the man who shot one of our officers in the head earlier this evening,” the Daytona Beach Police Department said in a
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Vandergriff Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — Many North Texas teachers will see bigger paychecks or COVID-19 bonuses at the start of the next school year. Fort Worth, Arlington, Mansfield, and Denton all approved pay raises Tuesday night, in large part as a response to the challenges brought on
Continue ReadingBy Rachael O’Neil Click here for updates on this story McKINNEY, Texas (KTVT) — A McKinney man’s world was flipped upside down when he was diagnosed with breast cancer two months ago. “Since I was 40, I’ve been going to the doctor, getting prostate and colon cancer screenings. Never once did I think about getting
Continue ReadingAt least 99 people are unaccounted for after a building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida. At least one person was killed and at least 11 were injured. The Miami-Dade mayor said at least 102 people have been accounted for as rescue efforts continue.
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Victory Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Two of the top young speakers in the nation live right here in the south suburbs of Chicago. But, as CBS 2 Morning Insider Lauren Victory reports, there’s so much more to their stories. Meet Nyah Ware, a national championship speech competitor
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OSAGE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A 23-year-old Jefferson City woman was seriously injured Thursday morning after her car went airborne on Highway 50 in Osage County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, Sue Archibong was traveling eastbound on Highway 50 in her 2012 Nissan Sentra when it veered off the road and became
Continue ReadingBy Marie Saavedra Click here for updates on this story WOODBRIDGE, Illinois (WBBM) — Blue tarps and boards cover homes in Chicago’s western suburbs. The owners were forced out while repairs are made following a tornado that ripped through the area Sunday. But repairs could take a while. For families wanting to stay in the
Continue Reading By Lauren Hakimi, CNN A GOP congressman was called “racist” during a House Committee on Education and Labor virtual hearing Thursday, as he pressed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona over the teaching of critical race theory. Rep. Bob Good, a Virginia Republican, repeatedly pressed Cardona over the teaching of critical race theory and the 1619 Project.
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