By Madeline Holcombe, Keith Allen and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Minnesota police believe that what started as a traffic altercation on a highway this week ended in the homicide of a youth baseball coach, officials said. Jay Harrison Boughton, 56, of Crystal, Minnesota, died Tuesday in the emergency room at the North Memorial Hospital after a
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President Joe Biden this week announced plans to send volunteer teams door to door in some areas to get more Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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By David McKenzie, CNN Patients are crammed into every corner of the hospital’s emergency room ward. They lie on beds and gurneys, or sit slumped in wheelchairs. Many suck on oxygen, but nobody talks. Some die while waiting for a bed. On the worst nights in Johannesburg, currently in the grips of a terrible wave
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South Africa is experiencing a crippling third wave of Covid-19 cases driven by the Delta variant and a lack of vaccines in the country. CNN’s David McKenzie reports.
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By Jake Kwon and Angus Watson, CNN The capital of South Korea and Australia’s largest city announced Friday they would increase their Covid-19 prevention measures to combat growing outbreaks of the Delta variant in both cities. Seoul will raise its distancing measures to its highest level ever to counter surging Covid-19 numbers, Prime Minister Kim
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Health departments and health experts are begging people to get vaccinated as the Show-Me-State hits the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the country. Margret Day, Physician and Co-Chair of the COVID-19 vaccine committee at MU Health said hospitals are filling up with unvaccinated individuals with severe cases of the virus. “What
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By Amir Vera, Carma Hassan and Keith Allen, CNN A 17-year-old who died Thursday was shot following a road rage incident after a major league baseball game in Houston, a police spokesman said Friday. David Castro and his brother were passengers in his father Paul Castro’s car on Tuesday when an unidentified suspect in another
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A wreck on US 54/63 eastbound near the Airport road exit closed the middle and right lane for one hour after a tire went flat around 8 p.m. Thursday. According to a release by the Jefferson City police, a 1997 Peterbilt dump truck was traveling eastbound on US 54 crossing the
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By Miguel Marquez, Meridith Edwards and Ray Sanchez, CNN Louie Michael and his wife, Pattie Bunch, were both hospitalized last month with Covid-19 in Springfield, Missouri. An ambulance first had rushed her, with respiratory failure, to an emergency room one day; he was admitted the next night. “You may not make it through the night,”
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By David Williams and Kevin Dotson, CNN Zaila Avant-garde wasn’t focused on her place in history on Thursday when she became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 93 editions of the competition. Instead, she was thinking about Bill Murray. The 14-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana, won the 2021 crown
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou athletic director Jim Sterk gave a summer update on the state of the athletic department on Thursday afternoon. He spoke about how the NCAA’s new ruling on NIL has impacted the athletic department as well as COVID protocols for the upcoming fall sports season. You can hear the full news conference
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The crime carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail. The sentencing memo filed June 30 does not come with a recommended sentence for Heese, but notes that her chance of committing future crimes is low.
Continue Reading CNN’s Miguel Marquez meets with recovering Covid-19 patients Louie Michael and Pattie Bunch, who talk about not getting vaccinated and their experience in fighting coronavirus.
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An independent budget review warned the Champlain Towers South condo association that its financial reserves were critically underfunded in the face of urgently needed structural repairs a little over a year before the building collapsed, a document obtained by CNN shows. CNN’s Leyla Santiago reports.
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By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A 6-year-old girl who was kidnapped Friday was then rescued in about 30 minutes by two Louisville Metro Police Officers, according to the citation given to CNN by the police department. The suspect, who has no relation or custody of the girl, allegedly told police he saw the girl “playing outside
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By Dakin Andone, Madeline Holcombe, Paul Vercammen and Amir Vera, CNN The death toll in a condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida, has risen to 64, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said, after authorities made the decision to shift the search effort from rescue to recovery. Four more victims were recovered Thursday, Levine Cava
Continue Reading By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN An independent budget review warned the Champlain Towers South condo association that its financial reserves were critically underfunded in the face of urgently needed structural repairs a little over a year before the building collapsed, a document obtained by CNN shows. The condo association only had
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The Missouri Department of Labor announced Tuesday waivers are available for the federal portion of the overpaid unemployment. The waivers would not cover the state’s portion of the $146 million in overpaid unemployment aid.
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