TODAY: Friday is the last of the warm and dry trend we’ve been witnessing all week. Expect a high near 80 again today, with mostly sunny skies and a light southwest breeze. There may once again be another window of elevated fire risk this afternoon. TONIGHT: Clouds will increase overnight as showers and storms approach.
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Officials are trying to determine what caused a fire that heavily damaged the concession stand and office building at the Ozarks Amphitheater in Camdenton.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Blues are making changes to Craig Berube’s coaching staff after missing the playoffs. Assistants Craig MacTavish and Mike Van Ryn have been fired. General manager Doug Armstrong announced the moves the day after the end of the regular season. Berube figures to return for next season now four
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the potential of severe storms on Saturday afternoon through mid-evening. Watch live coverage of warnings in the player. SATURDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Isolated storms have already started to develop along the cold front across southwest Missouri, bringing golf ball to tennis ball sized
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge took the jury’s recommendation Friday, sentencing a Columbia psychologist to seven years in state prison for child sex crimes. Kurt Bumby was convicted of two counts of second-degree sodomy connected to events in 2010 and 2011. A victim told authorities in 2019 that he and Bumby had a sexual relationship
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Stacker compiled data from state maternal mortality review committees and the CDC to examine how pregnancy-related death disproportionately impacts Black people.
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Stacker cited data from the Energy Information Administration to identify the 50 biggest power outages in 2022.
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Stacker looks at the proposed laws that aim to restrict certain topics from being taught in U.S. classrooms.
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Homebuyers in the Southeast are the most likely to get denied for a mortgage, according to a new Stacker analysis of federal lending data.
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and will temporarily take down the app as it undergoes a “strategic assessment.” The deal came months after another acquisition agreement with rapper Kanye West, legally known as Ye, collapsed in November. The terms
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Automoblog examines the impact of the recent negative equity surge across the automotive industry.
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Stacker compiled data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information to detail the temperature changes over 120 years across every state except Alaska and Hawaii, where data was not available.
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Experian examined the reasons behind the decline in the number of new mortgages created and why balances are increasing.
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SUVs are often thought to be among the safest vehicles—but as heavier cars hit roads, which SUV is deadliest? Stacker used IIHS data to find out.
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Using a variety of historical and news sources, Stacker compiled the most significant events that transpired during the Cold War.
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By Sara Smart, Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia. At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges Friday alongside Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram and
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 60 years ago, a historic Black church was forced to give up its sanctuary, compensated for what it says was a fraction of its value, to an urban renewal project that wiped out the heart of an African American neighborhood known as the Hill District.
Continue Reading By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities in Venezuela have charged with corruption a businessman who is a fugitive in a separate U.S. money laundering case targeting a top ally of President Nicolás Maduro. Images shared by Venezuela’s government show Alvaro Pulido escorted by a masked security agent on his way to an
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss federal chancellery says that Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the environment who was the first woman elected to Switzerland’s seven-member executive branch, has died. She was 86. Kopp died on April 7 in Zumikon, southeast of Zurich, from complications related to an
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