JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has voted to limit when police can use chokeholds. The bill’s 31-2 bipartisan passage Wednesday in the GOP-led Senate represents a rare step by state lawmakers to take action in response to police violence. Little has been done by Missouri’s Republican Legislature since a white Ferguson police
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Click here for updates on this story FRANKLIN, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Franklin, TN, couple was arrested on Tuesday on charges they attempted defraud an elderly widow of $1.7 million, Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee announced. Karl Hampton, 63, and his wife Deborah, 59, were arrested at their
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — The family of a woman shot while pregnant is sharing their grief after she died on Tuesday from her injuries. Her child remains in extremely critical condition. Metro police said Laquisha Terrell’s ex-boyfriend, Brian Mitchell, shot her at an apartment complex in Antioch last month.
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The Molly Bowden Neighborhood Policing Center in north Columbia includes community meeting space in addition to serving as a northern precinct for CPD, according to a news release. The nearly $10 million project is being paid for with voter-approved capital improvement sales tax revenue.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Jon Nelson and J Nelson Farms checks off all the boxes for your typical farm: dog, chickens, and cows. “Always enjoyed the farming, really loved being outdoors, producing things, the manual labor,” Jon Nelson said. That much was obvious when he a tour of
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisers voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend giving Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to kids as young as 12.
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisers voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend giving Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to kids as young as 12. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices agreed the benefits of vaccinating children and teens outweigh any risks from the vaccine. The US Food and Drug Administration extended its emergency use authorization
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Kansas City police say they have been made aware of posts in Northland Facebook groups claiming there have been a series of attempted kidnappings from big box stores. In a Facebook post, the police department says most of the claims happened along the
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The benefits of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine outweigh any harms, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told the agency’s vaccine advisers Wednesday. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is holding a public meeting to discuss whether to recommend Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in youth as young as 12. The US Food
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Prosecutors have charged a Columbia man with three felonies including murder in a 2017 killing in an upscale subdivision that investigators have tied to a drug-trafficking ring.
Continue Reading The Rev. Megan Rohrer made history when they became the first transgender pastor in the Lutheran church. This month, they again broke new ground — this time, as the church’s first transgender bishop. Rohrer was elected the Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America earlier this month. Throughout their
Continue Reading An investigation that began in March 2020 into Dr. Robert Anderson, a former University of Michigan physician, details decades’ worth of allegations that Anderson sexually assaulted and abused at least several hundred patients and that the university failed to act on reports it received about his conduct. The investigation, completed by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KILLINGLY, Connecticut (WFSB) — The Frito-Lay company in Killingly will expand its operations, the town announced on Wednesday. Gov. Ned Lamont said the company is investing $235 million for the expansion, which is expected to create 120 new jobs. “As we emerge from this [COVID-19] pandemic, we are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A 26-year-old Menasha man is facing charges after investigators say he left a gun on a kitchen table and a 3-year-old boy got ahold of it, and fatally shot himself. The incident happened Saturday, May 8, near 31st and Michigan. According to a criminal complaint,
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The worst violence in years between Israelis and Palestinians showed no signs of letting up Wednesday, as continued Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket fire prompted the United Nations to warn the conflict could mushroom into “full-scale war.” Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza has now killed at least 56 people, including 14 children, and injured more
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A disease is threatening hundreds of Sacramento’s oldest and largest trees, and now the next time you’re out for a walk or bike ride, you can actually help protect these trees. The Sacramento Tree Foundation is building an army of “citizen scientists” who are
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MONTEREY, California (KSBW) — A man who escaped police custody Tuesday afternoon was rearrested after leading law enforcement on a chase in a police cruiser in Monterey. According to Lt. Mike Bruno with the Monterey Police Department, police were looking for a woman who had led police on
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — Orange County is considering an ordinance that would ban the retail sale of cats and dogs. At a workshop on Tuesday morning, more than 30 citizens spoke out on the issue. The burning question is, will existing pet shops be forced to close?
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WYFF) — Two people have been taken to the hospital with chemical burns due to a hazmat incident in Henderson County. Asheville fire officials said they responded to a machining manufacture company Tuesday morning. An Asheville Fire Department spokesman said the incident happened at Linamar
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Indiana (WLWT) — Police are investigating after an off-duty deputy hit and killed a skateboarder in Jefferson County, Indiana, Monday. Indiana State Police said it happened around 10 p.m. when Jefferson County deputy James Webster, 51, was driving a county cruiser while off-duty. He was traveling west
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