If she’d waited to get vaccinated until it was her “tier’s” turn, Isabela Medina wouldn’t have gotten the Covid-19 vaccine until late summer. She wasn’t willing to wait. Medina, a healthy 25-year-old, moved across the country to live with her parents on the East Coast after her work in the film industry dried up. Anxious
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Tulsa, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — Four years ago, a friend mentioned that McLain High School’s football players hadn’t eaten since lunch and went on the field hungry to play a Friday night game. It wasn’t unusual from what Keri Fisher heard. The players didn’t have time to run
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Romania’s Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. More than 59,000 people have signed a petition urging the Romanian Orthodox Church to change the baptism ritual. “Given the tragic situations in which infants died after
Continue Reading A former secretary from the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has been charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said Friday, in what is a rare case involving an alleged female concentration camp staff member. Prosecutors in Itzehoe did not name the woman but said in a statement that they charged her
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Click here for updates on this story Houston (KTRK) — It’s no longer unusual to know or hear about someone who’s at least 100 years old these days. In fact, there were more than 90,000 people in the U.S. who were over 100 years old in 2020, according to the Census Bureau. But, a Houston
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The state teamed up with the Missouri National Guard and Department of Health and Senior Services to host a mass vaccination clinic in Jefferson City on Friday.
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He didn’t want to be fired, so he quit. Former President Donald Trump on Thursday submitted his resignation from SAG-AFTRA, the union representing roughly 160,000 professionals, from actors and musicians to media professionals. Trump’s resignation comes just weeks after the union’s National Board voted to have his membership reevaluated by a disciplinary committee, relating to
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A federal court will hear a case involving a Fulton man arrested on multiple counts after a teen found a hidden camera in their bedroom.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Greenwood, Louisiana (KTBS) — As of Monday, Feb. 8, people over the age of 65 will be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine. But some of the people who qualified in the first phase of the vaccine rollout are still waiting because they can’t get to a vaccination
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story St. Ann, Missouri (KMOV) — A St. Ann man is suing the city’s Papa John’s Pizza after experiencing what he calls employment discrimination and getting fired after filing complaints. George Mitchell said racist remarks were common when he worked at the Papa John’s and were so frequent he
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The man arrested Thursday afternoon in Columbia on suspicion of a 2016 Kansas City homicide is in the Boone County Jail.
Continue Reading Gabbi Tuft is ready to show the world who she is. Tuft, a former WWE wrestling star, announced she is transgender this week. “This is me,” she wrote in an Instagram post coming out as transgender. “Unashamed, unabashedly me.” The former wrestler was active in the WWE from 2009-2012 under the ring name “Tyler Reks.”
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The Boone County Fire Protection District said no one was injured in a barn fire early Friday morning.
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Thursday brought havoc to the roads in Iowa and left dozens of people stranded by ice floes in Wisconsin, with a powerful winter storm showing no signs of abating in the Midwest. Whiteout conditions along Interstate 80 west of Newton, Iowa, led to a 40-vehicle pileup there, the state patrol said Thursday afternoon. Troopers, who
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The debate over when and how and whether to put American kids back in school is taking on a predictably partisan tinge in Washington, with Republicans targeting teachers’ unions and Democrats over perceived resistance to reopening. But it’s more complicated than that. The fight over schools slices through red and blue America. In San Francisco,
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Vaccines are being rolled out in phases, and each state decides precisely who is eligible for each phase in its jurisdiction. When can YOU get the vaccine? Below are phone numbers and website links to find out who is eligible now in your state, and where the eligible can make appointments or find walk-in clinics.
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African nations are being left behind in obtaining Covid-19 vaccines as richer countries stockpile vaccines and prioritize their own populations — despite a surge in cases and a new variant affecting the continent. On Monday, South Africa took delivery of its first million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, with another 500,000 expected later this
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It’s called COVAX — and it may be the best hope in vaccinating the world. The relative obscurity of this vaccine program belies its critical role in the global battle against Covid-19. Indeed, COVAX may well be the most important acronym of 2021. As vaccine nationalism rears its ugly head, it’s the best — perhaps
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — The federal government says the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received only one report of a travel-related falsified COVID-19 test certificate, despite warnings from other countries. Under rules implemented Jan. 7 to help limit the spread of COVID-19, Canada requires all arriving air passengers
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You might be among the more than 26.6 million people in the United States who have had Covid-19 — and when it comes to coronavirus vaccines, emerging variants or the risk of re-infection, you might have a lot of questions. “We are continuing to learn a year into the pandemic,” Dr. Becky Smith, medical director
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