By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that the death of Jordan Neely at the hands of a fellow subway rider was “a tragedy that never should have happened” and pledged to do more to help people experiencing mental health crises. “My heart goes out
Continue Reading By WILSON RING Associated Press A New Hampshire electric utility is offering a new proposal for an electrical transmission line from Canada that would carry renewable power to New England. The proposed 211-mile, $2 billion Twin State Clean Energy Link would enter the United States in Canaan, Vermont. Unlike a separate, stalled project in Maine,
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Every summer Mid-Missouri sees afternoon pop-up storms during various afternoons. Even as early as this afternoon some areas to the south towards the Lake of the Ozark’s could see some pop-up storms. These storms are different from other forms of storms based off of what causes them to fire off. Typically, the four main ingredients
Continue Reading By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Organizers of northwest Arkansas’ Pride weekend say they won’t hold events in June at an arts center that has prohibited the group from having drag shows or drag story hours in front of minors. Northwest Arkansas Equality said it’s “pausing its partnership” with the Walton
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental skin patch is showing promise to treat toddlers who are highly allergic to peanuts — training their bodies to handle an accidental bite. Peanut allergy is one of the most common and dangerous food allergies. Parents of allergic tots are constantly on guard against
Continue Reading By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — In a nearly unanimous vote, the Minnesota Senate has passed a bill that would criminalize people who non-consensually share deepfake sexual images of others, and people who share deepfakes to influence an election. Deepfakes are videos and images that have been digitally created
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SHAWNEE, Ks. (AP) — A Kansas City suburb’s rule prohibiting more than three unrelated roommates from living together is being challenged in court. A property management company that wants to be able to rent homes to several roommates and a homeowner who said that Shawnee’s ban made her living arrangement illegal last year because her
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By Chandelis Duster, Carlos Suarez and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Florida rejected nearly 35% of social studies textbooks submitted by publishers for approval, including those that referenced social justice and “other information that was not aligned with Florida Law,” the state’s Department of Education announced Tuesday. Regarding K-12 social studies instructional materials, 66 of 101 submitted
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN The active search for those aboard a small plane that crashed off the Southern California coast is being suspended, the US Coast Guard announced Thursday. Coast Guard, Navy and US Customs and Border Protection crews covered approximately 334 square miles, locating a debris field, but none of the three people believed
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican governor is taking applications to replace the soon-to-depart St. Louis prosecutor. Gov. Mike Parson said Wednesday that he’s looking for a St. Louis lawyer with strong managerial experience and a commitment to the rule of law to take over from embattled St. Louis
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Heather Armstrong, an influential writer whose blog Dooce helped popularize mommy blogging, has died, her partner, Pete Ashdown, confirmed to CNN. She was 47. Ashdown told the Associated Press that Armstrong, who also used her maiden name, Hamilton, died by suicide. “Heather B. Hamilton (Armstrong) was a brilliant, funny, compassionate writer
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools held a special session Wednesday afternoon to accept Katherine Sasser’s resignation and discuss the process for appointing a board member. Sasser announced her resignation at Monday night’s board meeting. “My family is directly impacted by the legislation being considered in our state, that takes aim at LGBTQ+ family and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Ward 2 City Councilwoman Andrea Waner announced on social media on Wednesday that she will not seek reelection due to a medical issue. Waner’s term ends in April 2024. She plans to finish her term on the council. Waner said on social media that a 14 millimeter mass was found during
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with an isolated shower or storm. Lows in the lower 60s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Highs in the upper 70s. EXTENDED: A warm front slowly lifts through the area between Thursday and Friday, bringing the potential for scattered showers tomorrow along with a few rumbles of
Continue Reading By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term “floating solar,” he didn’t even know it was a thing. What he did know is that his tiny town needed an affordable way to get electricity and had no extra land. But
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MILLERSBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) An Arkansas man suffered serious injuries in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday on Interstate 70 near mile marker 139 in Callaway County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred as a 2017 Indian motorcycle – driven by Richard Millsap, 50, of Walnut Ridge, Arkansas – went off the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s golf team is headed to the 2023 NCAA Championship regional round in Morgan, Hill California, marking the program’s second-straight regional appearance. The Tigers are set to leave for California on Thursday and will enter the regional as the No. 7 seed on Monday. Head coach Mark Hankins says his
Continue Reading By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping immigration bill that bolsters his migrant relocation program and limits social services for immigrants lacking permanent legal status — key political priorities of the Republican as he prepares to launch a presidential campaign. The signing
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer More than 40 athletes from Iowa and Iowa State could be facing discipline from both law enforcement and the NCAA for impermissible online wagering. The NCAA consequences could be far worse than the legal ones. While the penalty for betting on sporting events in the state of
Continue Reading By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pioneering mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, who laid bare her struggles as a parent and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site Dooce.com and on social media, has died at 47. Armstrong’s boyfriend, Pete Ashdown, told The Associated Press that he found her
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