COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The PedNet Coalition has received 2-year grant from Missouri Foundation for Health to support transportation equity. PedNet will allow it to lead a two year advocacy campaign to develop and advocate for a new gold standard Complete Street policy in Columbia. PedNet helped lead Columbia to become one of the first cities
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Authorities looking into a suspected human smuggling event after panicked callers to 911 reported being inside a tanker trailer in Texas have taken one person into custody. According to a statement from a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson, “One individual has been taken into custody in relation to the alleged incident.” How the person
Continue Reading It all started with damning allegations from book excerpts published in France’s prestigious Le Monde newspaper as the new year began. “I was 14 and I let it go (…). I was 14, I knew and didn’t say anything.” “My stepfather would come into my brother’s room. I could hear his footsteps in the hallway
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COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) Salvation Army shelter locations in Columbia and Jefferson City are becoming near capacity with bitterly cold temperatures. Lori Benson, Regional Director of Community Relations of the Midland Salvation Army, said there’s been a significant increase in guests at the shelter since the low temperatures began. Benson said the shelters in both Columbia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The IRS has started accepting tax returns Friday. It may seem early but it’s later than usual this year. You can typically file in the second half of January, though many don’t have the necessary documents by then. The IRS had to delay tax season because it dedicated resources to the second
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TRENTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a St. Louis-area psychiatrist and his son were killed when their plane crashed earlier this week in northern Missouri. The crash killed 82-year-old Philip Joseph LeFevre III, of Glendale, and 47-year-old Philip Joseph LeFevre IV, of Sunset Hills. The younger LeFevre was the president and CEO of Lending Partners.
Continue Reading Authorities are investigating a fire that broke out at a summer camp started by the late actor Paul Newman for seriously ill children and their families. Connecticut state troopers and the Fire & Explosion Investigation Unit (FEIU) responded Friday afternoon to a report of a structure fire at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
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For the week ending on Thursday, 161,991 doses have been administered — it’s an average of around 23,141 people per day.
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO (KMIZ) Missouri has seen major improvements in COVID-19 cases, but still faces issues with vaccine supply. Governor Mike Parson said at his briefing Thursday that Missouri’s current rate for positive COVID-19 cases is at 7.6%, this is the first time the state has been under 10% since October. The state’s current 7-day
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Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — Thomas Connell, 15, of Fremont recently set an American power lifting record for his age division at a USAPL competition in Lincoln. Connell deadlifted 465 pounds, which set new best for the 14-15 age division in the entire country. “I felt a sigh of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WNEM) — A female passenger hid more than $60,000 in undeclared U.S. currency while traveling from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport earlier this month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. CBP officers were conducting outbound enforcement operations at the airport when they encountered the passenger on Feb.
Continue Reading When contractors came to her Himalayan forest to cut down thousands of trees, Gaura Devi rallied the women of her village and marched into the woods. Armed with only their bare hands and fierce determination to save the forest upon which their livelihoods depended, Gaura Devi and the women put themselves between the trees and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Madison, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal ) — A Wisconsin judge has ordered the state Department of Natural Resources to schedule a wolf hunting season this month rather than waiting until fall. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed gray wolves from the endangered species list on Jan. 4,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CLARKS SUMMIT, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Ice sculptures lining the streets of Clarks Summit…it’s something people see here every year, but this time around, it feels a bit more special. “Socially, what else can you do but get outside? The kids will all be here,” said Elaine Keeler, office
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Though travel and parties may be discouraged in much of the world right now as Covid-19 casts a shadow over Lunar New Year for the second year in a row, that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways we can still mark the occasion. Lunar New Year falls on February 12 this year as we bid farewell
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a multi-state listeria outbreak linked to fresh and soft cheeses such as queso fresco, queso blanco and queso panela. According to the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and state officials, these cheeses are a likely source of an outbreak that put seven people in the
Continue Reading A United Nations Special Rapporteur has issued a scathing report on the international pressure campaign on Venezuela, calling on the United States, United Kingdom and European Union to lift “devastating” economic sanctions. The comments conclude a 12-day trip in the country by Alina Douhan, Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures. Speaking
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When AJ McCulloch received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, she said a wave of emotions overcame her — but the strongest was relief. McCulloch, 27, lives with type 1 diabetes, as do her twin sister and father. The disease puts them at an increased risk for severe illness if they get Covid-19. “One of
Continue Reading Ravi Zacharias, the prominent head of a global Christian organization who died in May, engaged in sexual misconduct that included “sexting, unwanted touching, spiritual abuse, and rape,” according to a statement from the ministry he founded summarizing the results of an investigative report. Allegations came from four female massage therapists who said Zacharias “would either
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