Just in time for warmer weather, fully vaccinated Americans can now safely enjoy more pre-pandemic activities without a mask, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But health officials are seriously concerned about sputtering vaccine interest in some areas. The CDC defines fully vaccinated people as those who are
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A 12-year-old in North Carolina used the downtime he had during the pandemic to take on a few extra classes in school. Now, one year later, Mike Wimmer, of Salisbury, is getting ready to graduate high school and college — in the same week. Wimmer completed four years of school in one year — two
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The last time Missouri’s voters weighed in on the issue, they voted against a gas tax increase. However, legislators are working on a plan that would raise the tax by 2.5 cents each year for the next five years. The plan would also allow drivers to get rebates for their gas taxes. Missouri’s current 17
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A new video shows that no more than four seconds passed between when Pasquotank Sheriff’s deputies’ arrival at Andrew Brown Jr.’s home and when shots began to ring out, a family attorney said Tuesday. “This was, in fact, an extrajudicial killing, an execution if you will,” Brown family attorney Wayne Kendall told CNN’s John Berman.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Attorneys for Leigh Ann Bauman have filed a Motion to compel discovery for two key pieces of evidence in the murder for hire trial. According to the motion, Bauman’s legal team wants the state to turn over an audio recording and a business card. These two items have not been disclosed
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The family of a 73-year-old woman who alleges that she was violently arrested is calling for the firing of the arresting officers involved and the removal of “city leadership that hired these individuals and fostered this culture of abuse,” according to a statement from the family’s attorney released Tuesday Karen Garner, who has dementia, was
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Police told people protesting last week’s police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. to head home ahead of an 8 p.m. curfew imposed by Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It was the seventh night of demonstrations since Brown was fatally shot by deputies who came to his home to serve arrest and search warrants. The protests came
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Missouri’s wasted coronavirus vaccine from Feb. 1 through April 5 cost taxpayers more than $100,000, and Missouri providers lost out on more than $200,000 in payments from giving the shots.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Charges have been filed in a reported from January Columbia rape. Jay Strausbaugh is accused of assaulting the victim while she was unconscious. According to court documents, the victim told police that she was drinking at Strausbaugh’s residence and started to fall asleep. The victim then woke up and was in a
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO (KMIZ) Public Works crews are preparing for possible flash flooding in areas throughout Cole County, as heavy rain and thunderstorms are forecasted until Thursday. The forecast shows possible flooding from anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of rain, as heavy rainfall is expected to flood some areas throughout mid-Missouri. Jefferson Public Works
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A captain with the New York City Department of Correction has been charged with criminally negligent homicide for allegedly ordering subordinates not to help a detainee as he hanged himself in a cell. Rebecca Hillman, 38, was charged in the death of Manhattan Detention Complex inmate Ryan Wilson, according to a grand jury indictment. Hillman
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man is charged with several sex crimes involving a child after an investigation began on March 10. According to court documents, Chad Smith would go into the bedroom of a 14-year-old female at night from Nov. 2013 to Nov. 2015 and assaulted her at least three time. The victim told
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A Miami private school has asked its employees to wait to get the Covid-19 vaccine until the end of the school year, but still cautioned that if they do, they won’t be allowed to return next year, the school told staff this month. The school’s CEO and co-founder Leila Centner sent a letter to faculty
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PETTIS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Pettis County Sheriff’s Department investigation leads to two people charged with drug trafficking after money, guns and meth are found. According to a social media report, a search warrant was executed at a residence on Monday evening on the 2900 block of Oak Ridge Circle. Deputies found two ounces of
Continue Reading With police training programs across the country under intense scrutiny after Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction, one department in California is using several high-profile police killings of Black Americans as it trains the next generation of officers to better anticipate and respond to high-risk encounters. The Sacramento Police Department’s training techniques have been largely shaped by
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The 19-year-old’s eyes are so swollen he cannot open them properly. His face is marked with big purple welts and bruises. Etched into his shoulders and back are long, dark lacerations that have yet to heal over — wounds, he said, that were inflicted when Myanmar military officers who had detained him whipped him repeatedly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Rafiqul Khan was sentenced Tuesday to five years’ probation and a fine of $35,100 after he pleaded guilty to federal charges for selling synthetic marijuana. Khan, the owner of Mari’s Gas Station on Prathersville Road in Columbia, admitted to buying synthetic marijuana from another person and selling it at his store. According
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signaled Tuesday that he will not renew any public health orders, saying “Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency in our state,” though only 25% of the state’s population is fully vaccinated. “A widely available vaccine changes everything and it’s a new season in Tennessee,” Lee said in a tweet. Health
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Police told people protesting last week’s police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. to head home ahead of an 8 p.m. curfew imposed by Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It was the seventh night of demonstrations since Brown was fatally shot by deputies who came to his home to serve arrest and search warrants. The protests come
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was sentenced to seven years in prison in connection with a shooting that happened in October. 25-year-old Xavies Parks pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a concealed firearm. His sentence will run concurrently with other charges against him. He was on
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