An entire crew of workers at a fast food restaurant in Pakistan were allegedly detained on the weekend after refusing police officers’ demands for free burgers, according to a statement from the company. Burger joint Johnny & Jugnu in the eastern city of Lahore said in a statement on Facebook that a group of police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman has been placed on two years of unsupervised probation in connection with a Columbia arson case from April. According to online court records, Alruekia Brown-Wells pleaded guilty to two counts of fourth-degree assault. Brown-Wells was arrested on felony charges of first-degree arson and endangering the welfare of a
Continue Reading The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report into the May 29 plane crash that killed seven people, including Remnant Fellowship Church founder and Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara and her husband, “Tarzan: The Epic Adventures” actor William J. Lara. The plane crashed into Percy Priest Lake in Smyrna, Tennessee, after taking off
Continue Reading When the Tokyo Olympics put out a call for volunteers, Nima Esnaashari signed up along with thousands of others in Japan eager to soak up the atmosphere of the world’s biggest sporting event. But the closer the Games get, the more anxious he’s becoming about the risk of catching Covid-19. Like the majority of Japan’s
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As pediatricians vaccinate newly eligible children and teens against Covid-19, some of them say they are giving just as many shots to adults. When the Biden administration kicked off a “month of action” this June, aimed at vaccinating 70% of the adult population with at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose by July 4, US Surgeon
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After four elections in two years, and with the country trapped in an agonizing parliamentary stalemate, Naftali Bennett appeared to be on the outside looking in, unable to reach the levers of power in Israeli politics. Having failed to cross the electoral threshold in the first election in April 2019, his right-wing party had a
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STURGEON, Mo. (KMIZ) The city of Sturgeon was awarded $128,643 from the Missouri Department of Economic Development. The money is going towards the demolition of nine homes. The homes are being torn down due to environmental concerns saying they have asbestos. The project will also include verifying ownership of each property and conducting environmental assessments.
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Updates related to the coronavirus pandemic in Mid-Missouri.
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The “No PFAS in Cosmetics Act” was introduced in the US House and Senate on Tuesday, following the release of a new study that found high levels of a marker for toxic PFAS substances in 52% of 231 makeup products purchased in the United States and Canada. Some of the highest levels were found in
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Buying Girl Scout cookies has become a long-awaited yearly tradition for many people in the US. But this year, the organization is faced with an unusual problem: Millions of boxes of cookies remain unsold, all because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Girl Scouts of the USA has has 15 million boxes of unsold cookies in
Continue Reading A Colorado jury on Tuesday found one of the suspects in a deadly Colorado school shooting guilty of more than 40 charges, including murder. Devon Erickson was found guilty of first-degree murder degree with extreme indifference, first degree-murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and 30 counts of criminal attempt of first-degree murder. He also was
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Tuesday brought reopenings in two of the largest states, with New York reaching an important vaccine milestone and joining California in dropping most of its Covid-19 restrictions. “This is a momentous day, and we deserve it because it has been a long, long road,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “We can now return to
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now calls the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus, also known as B.1.617.2, a “variant of concern.” The variant of concern designation is given to strains of the virus that scientists believe are more transmissible or can cause more severe disease. Vaccines, treatments and tests that detect
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Thousands of Israelis marched in a controversial flag-waving procession through east Jerusalem on Tuesday, risking a new round of tensions with Palestinians and posing the first test for Israel’s new government. The right-wing Jewish march was originally planned for last month as part of “Jerusalem Day” festivities, but was canceled minutes after starting when Hamas
Continue Reading After a mistrial was declared last month in the murder trial of Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, a judge in Ohio acquitted Biles-Thomas of the charges against him in a retrial on Tuesday, court records show. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Joan Synenberg granted a Rule 29 motion for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — MedStar said it is prepared for a long week, expecting an increase in heat-related illness calls to come along with the high temperatures and higher heat indices. By 7:00 p.m. on Monday, June 14, seven people were taken to local hospitals, with two
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — Military veterans, women and the socially disadvantaged. People in those categories who own restaurants were supposed to get high priority from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund which was part of this year’s COVID-19 Relief Act. But through a series of legal twists and turns most
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VAN ZANDT COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — Found in a small, filthy mobile home filled with feces, urine and other debris, 12 dogs who didn’t have access to food and water for days are now safe. The SPCA of Texas removed them from a trailer on a property in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Tuesday morning, dozens joined in front of Mission Hospital in Asheville to express concerns about safe staffing and improvements they say the hospital needs, to retain and recruit experienced registered nurses. The demonstration, organized by National Nurses United (NNC) was held on the
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The US reached another sobering milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic, with 600,000 lives lost to the disease as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data. While daily deaths have decreased in recent months, hundreds of Americans are still dying every day from the disease that’s largely preventable by vaccines. Over the past week, the
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