Callaway County continues to seek a mass vaccination clinic
The Callaway County Health Department continues to seek to host a mass vaccination clinic with the Missouri National Guard, as it struggles with vaccine supply.
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Widespread vaccinations are seen as one path on the journey back to normalcy in the Covid-19 pandemic
If they’re vaccinated, they will come. At least, that’s the hope of many state and federal officials who are trying to envision the road ahead in the coronavirus pandemic. If more people get vaccinated, there will be more people who are protected against Covid-19. That means fewer people will get sick and be hospitalized, more
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New body cam video shows man telling officers ‘I can’t breathe’ before he died in 2017
Newly-released police body camera footage shows a California man telling Fresno police officers, county sheriff’s deputies and paramedics that he can’t breathe as they restrain him in the moments before he died in 2017. In an introduction to the edited video released Friday, former Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall said 41-year-old Joseph Perez was contacted
Continue Reading 12-year-old arrested for four carjacking incidents in Washington, DC
A 12-year-old boy was arrested Thursday evening after a series of attempted armed carjackings and one successful one in Washington, DC. All four incidents happened in the span of one hour, according to a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) news release. The boy was arrested by the MPD on the same day and charged with four
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Amount of people hesitant to get Covid-19 vaccine dropping rapidly
The release of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and its partnership with Merck means that President Joe Biden expects the US to have enough Covid-19 vaccines delivered to cover every adult by the end of May. If Johnson & Johnson and fellow vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer meet their vaccine pledges, the bigger question we
Continue Reading Family trying to bring back father’s body from Puerto Rico after drowning while saving daughters
Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connectitcut (WFSB) — A Hartford father lost his life after heroically saving his daughters from drowning. The tragedy happening on a family vacation to Puerto Rico. The family is now running into obstacles in bringing their father’s body back home. On Christmas, the Gonzalez family surprised their
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SATURDAY UPDATES: State reports fewer than 400 new COVID-19 cases
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 386 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. There have been 480,352 cases reported in the state since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Troopers investigating after fatal head-on collision in Camden County
CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) State troopers are investigating after a fatal head-on collision in Camden County Saturday morning. In a tweet, the Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F said the crash happened on Route A just east of Route C in Camden County. https://twitter.com/MSHPTrooperF/status/1368202893564739584 A spokesperson for the MSHP said one person was ejected as
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Tom Brady rookie card sells for record $1.32 million
The most expensive trading card in football history, a Tom Brady rookie card, has sold for $1.32 million. FitBit CEO and co-founder James Park made the purchase. “I lived in Boston for 10 years and so am a huge fan of Brady,” Park said in a statement on the Instagram page of PWCC Marketplace, the
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Spring break could be a perfect storm for spreading coronavirus variants. Don’t let that happen
Highly contagious variants will soon have a ridiculously easy chance to spread rapidly across the US. Spring break starts for hundreds of universities this month. And typical spring break revelry could lead to countless more Americans getting infected as coronavirus variants threaten to outpace vaccinations. “It’s the perfect storm,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the
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‘A violent gamble.’ Crash that killed 13 undocumented migrants highlights perils of desperate border crossings
Hours after 13 undocumented migrants were killed in a collision on a desolate stretch of California’s Imperial Valley, Hugo Castro said a prayer and planted small crosses on the sandy, rocky edge of the cordoned off highway. The crosses were fashioned from cedarwood at a shelter just across the US-Mexico border by other migrants —
Continue ReadingUniversity of South Alabama professors on leave – but some students say that’s not enough
Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Responding to a growing controversy over 7-year-old Halloween photos the recently resurfaced, the University of South Alabama on Friday put three professors on leave and launched an internal investigation. But several dozen angry students who gathered outside a board of trustees meeting said the
Continue Reading Contractor accused of home improvement theft
Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — From accused to charged, public records show that a contractor, first reported upon by News4 Investigates, has been arrested on Home Improvement Fraud. Joshua Murphy, a man customers have complained they’ve had trouble getting to respond, is facing charges for Fraud by Home Improvement Services
Continue Reading Three dads, a baby and the legal battle to get their names added to a birth certificate
Meet Ian Jenkins and his partners, Alan and Jeremy. They’re a “throuple”: a committed polyamorous relationship involving three people. And after a complicated and expensive court battle to all become legal parents, the trio are raising two toddlers in Southern California — and proving how families come in all forms. They’re part of a unique
Continue Reading Biggest, fastest-known asteroid to pass by Earth later this month
Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — The biggest and fastest known asteroid of 2021 is expected to make a flyby of Earth later this month. The space rock, officially called asteroid 231937 (designated 2001 FO32), will zoom past Earth on March 21 travelling at a speed of 123,887 kilometres
Continue Reading Milder reinfection may follow severe bouts of COVID-19, study suggests
Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — One serious bout of COVID-19 may not be enough to keep you from getting sick a second time, a new case study suggests. The peer-reviewed study published in ‘BMJ Case Reports’ in February looked at a 43-year-old man who had severe COVID-19 in
Continue Reading Relatives of inmates protest conditions amid COVID-19 outbreak
Click here for updates on this story MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV) — According to the Department of Public Safety, 75 inmates and one staff member have tested positive for COVID-19 and there are 43 active infections inside the Maui Community Correctional Center. People protested outside MCCC Friday evening, demanding safer living conditions for the inmates
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Pope Francis condemns extremism as ‘betrayal of religion’
Visiting Ur, the ancient Iraqi city where Jews, Christians and Muslims believe their common patriarch Abraham was born, Pope Francis denounced extremism as a “betrayal of religion.” The Pope visited Ur on Saturday, the second day of the first ever papal visit to Iraq. Addressing a meeting of inter-faith leaders, Francis condemned the violence that
Continue Reading Mark Pavelich, member of ‘Miracle on Ice’ 1980 Olympic hockey team, dies at 63
Mark Pavelich, a member of the “Miracle on Ice” 1980 Olympics US men’s hockey team, has died at age 63. He died in North Sauk Centre, Minnesota, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Ramsey, Minnesota, which is investigating the cause of death. The Star Tribune reported Pavelich died Thursday morning at a residential
Continue ReadingFamily gives up on 911 after hearing automated please hold message
Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV/KSMO) — When you call 9-1-1, you expect to be able to talk with some immediately, But if you live in Kansas City, be prepared to sit on hold and wait. You’ll likely hear a recorded message before you get a dispatcher. One Kansas City
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