Click here for updates on this story YORK, PA (WPMT) — On Jan. 14, Dr. Anita Chandra, of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, a nonprofit research organization that seeks to improve the health, social, and economic well-being of populations and communities throughout the world, spoke with FOX43’s Jackie De Tore about the role that racism
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LA PLUME, PA (WNEP) — Educators said there has been an explosion of interest. It was already popular but has become even more so in the past year during this pandemic: video game coding and esports. “It’s a way for kids to connect to still have fun, to
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Over 90,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in the next three weeks, according to new predictions from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is occurring as the United States has surpassed 388,000 reported deaths, with the country shattering the record of over 4,000 deaths per day for two days last week. The
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Officials say one reason for the decision was because active membership had dwindled over the years.
Continue Reading For the first time in more than 100 years, Lee-Jackson Day will not officially be celebrated in Virginia. The holiday, which was observed on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January, celebrated Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson as “defenders of causes.” The event typically involved Civil War-themed parades, wreath
Continue Reading At the current rate of daily fatalities, the US death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic may surpass 400,000 before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Wednesday. Another 14,400 Americans are projected to die from the virus over the next six days, according to an ensemble forecast published by the Centers for Disease Control and
Continue Reading It’s estimated that 80% of people abandon their resolutions by the end of January. This number is likely even higher for fitness-related resolutions as too many people, driven by the “new year, new you” marketing mantra, attempt to reinvent themselves to match an unrealistic ideal. Overwhelmed by the burden of making sweeping lifestyle changes based
Continue Reading At least 34 people were killed and hundreds more injured after a 6.2-magnitute earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island early Friday, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said. The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 1:28 a.m. Jakarta time, was six kilometers (3.7 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles),
Continue Reading At least seven people, including the bus driver, were injured after a bus crashed through a overpass barrier in New York City’s Bronx area, according to the New York Police Department. The tandem bus is now dangling over the roadway below, the NYPD said. The crash happened close to midnight Thursday on the westbound Cross
Continue Reading Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in California, is running out of space to store the bodies of Covid-19 victims and officials are scrambling to secure additional capacity. About 900 bodies are currently being held at the Los Angeles Medical Examiner Coroner’s Office, which usually has a capacity of 500, according to
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services extended coronavirus health orders for the city and county Thursday.
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic is not only having an immediate impact in terms of the deaths of thousands of Americans, it’s also taking more than a year off the average US life expectancy. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences projects that Covid-19 will reduce US life expectancy in 2020
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With high winds and snow in the forecast, officials say driving conditions could deteriorate quickly late Thursday into Friday morning. The ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day through early Friday night for the potential of accumulating snow and strong gusty winds. MoDOT issued a warning about travel, saying
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police are on scene at Heather Ridge Apartments after receiving multiple calls of a shooting. A resident told an ABC 17 News crew on scene that she heard three shots fired. Columbia police report one person was shot and taken to Unviersity Hospital. Officials say they don’t know the condition of
Continue Reading Children across the globe have seen their schools closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the World Bank, 1.6 billion students were out of school during the first peak of the pandemic in April 2020, and almost 700 million remained out as 2020 drew to a close. It may take years for the full
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) An Alabama man is charged with kidnapping, two counts of statutory rape and statutory sodomy after an August incident involving a Mexico teen later found in Alabama. According to court documents, a 13-year-old victim was reported missing in Mexico, Mo. and then located in Limestone County Alabama. According to court documents, Bailey
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man is charged with DWI – death of another and 1st degree involuntary manslaughter after a fatal wreck in December. Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to the wreck just before 9:30 on US Highway 40. According to court documents, Richard Nichols was driving in the eastbound lane of Highway 40
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Some Ameren Missouri customers should see an increase on their electric bills after a a fuel adjustment charge was approved by the Missouri Public Service Commission. Ameren Missouri made two filings with the Commission affecting your bill. Customers should see a current FAC credit of $1.89 flip to a charge. Ameren
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSION VIEJO, California (KABC) — As a symbol of solidarity, a team of local ICU nurses is honoring each other and their work to save coronavirus patients with some ink. “We all decided to get a tattoo to commemorate our time together. So we got a tattoo, we
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