By The Associated Press No. 17 Indiana visits 18th-ranked Iowa on Saturday in one of the top Big Ten openers. Indiana quarterback Michael Penix Jr. will be making his return after missing the last two games in 2020 with a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Penix was a All-Big Ten
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A coalition of abortion rights advocates, clinics and advocacy groups have filed a suit seeking to block recent anti-abortion legislation from taking effect. The lawsuit filed Thursday in a state district court in Oklahoma City aims to block legislation due to take effect Nov. 1. The pending restrictions on abortions include
Continue Reading By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona nurse has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman about three years ago at a long-term care facility where she later gave birth. Nathan Sutherland also entered a guilty plea Thursday to a charge of abuse of a vulnerable adult stemming from his
Continue Reading GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. (AP) — Gene Elliott won the U.S. Senior Amateur on Thursday, beating Jerry Gunthorpe 1 up at the Country Club of Detroit. The 59-year-old Elliott, from West Des Moines, Iowa, won for the first time in 36 starts in USGA events. He also won the Senior British Amateur this summer at
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Locast, a service that streamed local TV for free in about three dozen U.S. cities, is suspending operations after losses in court against the broadcast industry. The owners of the country’s major broadcast TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — had sued Locast in 2019, saying it
Continue Reading By MALLIKA SEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many people are asking why no one foretold of the deadly ramifications of Hurricane Ida’s remnants in the Northeast, but some did. The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday increased the urgency of the warnings. It heralded the potential for “significant and life-threatening flash
Continue Reading CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri homeowner who shot and killed an intruder will not be charged. St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell said Thursday the shooting in Webster Groves was a case of the homeowner protecting his home and family. Police say 43-year-old Brian Vazquez was shot when he entered the home through
Continue Reading By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman reluctantly has taken the witness stand against R. Kelly to recount how he struck up a relationship with her in 2006 when she was 15. But she dodged a prosecutor’s questions on Thursday about when they first had sex. The witness stood apart from
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first Afghan refugee to arrive in Utah since the nation’s swift takeover by the Taliban is a man who built a life as an air-traffic controller in Kabul before he had to flee. Azim Kakaie said Thursday that his wife tried to leave the
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN The Louisiana Department of Health on Thursday reported the deaths of four nursing home residents who had been evacuated to a facility in Tangipahoa Parish ahead of Hurricane Ida on August 27. The coroner classified three of the deaths as storm-related, the health department said in a news release. After Ida
Continue ReadingGabriel Kinder, CNN While the scope of the damage from Hurricane Ida is just coming into focus, Liz McCartney and her team at SBP are already mobilizing to help residents take the first steps in rebuilding. SBP started as the St. Bernard Project in the months after Hurricane Katrina, when McCartney and her now husband
Continue ReadingGabriel Kinder, CNN While the scope of the damage from Hurricane Ida is just coming into focus, Liz McCartney and her team at SBP are already mobilizing to help residents take the first steps in rebuilding. SBP started as the St. Bernard Project in the months after Hurricane Katrina, when McCartney and her now husband
Continue Reading By REBECCA SANTANA and MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, La. (AP) — Louisiana health officials say four nursing home residents died after being evacuated to a large warehouse during Hurricane Ida. Louisiana Department of Health spokesperson Aly Neel said Thursday that 843 residents from seven nursing facilities were moved to the warehouse in the town
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After a beautiful couple of days around Mid-Missouri, the Stormtrack weather team is keeping a close eye on a cold front to our northwest that will bring the threat of showers and thunderstorms Friday into Saturday. Showers and storms are expected to move in early Friday morning, making for a wet commute across northwest Missouri.
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Columbia Public Schools is reporting all four high schools, all seven middle schools and 17 out of 21 elementary schools currently have students out due to COVID-19.
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting 110 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. There are currently 591 active cases in the county, an increase of 87 from Wednesday. The county now has a reported total number of 23,176 COVID-19 cases. The county reported 22,444 cases removed from isolation, an increase of 23 from
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CoMo for Progress sent out a letter and petition to members of the Columbia Board of Education, CPS Chief Equity Officer Carla London and Superintendent Brian Yearwood outlining their concerns with the BLM and Pride materials being taken down.
Continue Reading By PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Police reform advocates say the indictments of three suburban Denver officers and two paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain could be a pivotal step toward meaningful accountability for law enforcement. The 23-year-old Black man was put into a chokehold and injected with a
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia prosecutor has been indicted on misconduct charges related to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. A grand jury on Thursday indicted former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson on charges of violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer. Arbery
Continue Reading By MELINDA DESLATTE and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A critical port that serves as the primary support hub for the Gulf of Mexico’s deepwater offshore oil and gas industry sustained less damage from Hurricane Ida’s direct hit than initially feared and should be able to return to working operations “in
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