Nearly half a million residents in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus first emerged may have been infected with Covid-19 — almost 10 times its official number of confirmed cases, according to a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study used a sample of 34,000 people in the
Continue Reading The names of the three victims killed in a bowling alley shooting over the weekend were released by officials Monday. The Winnebago County, Illinois, State’s Attorney J. Hanley identified the victims as Thomas Furseth, 65, Jerome Woodfork, 69, and Dennis Steinhoff, 73. Three other people — including two minors — were injured in Saturday’s shooting.
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At one Los Angeles hospital there are five tents outside, one serving as a waiting room. So many patients are coming into Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital some are being put in the gift shop, a chapel or a conference room. Over the past week, almost 100,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in Los
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President Donald Trump has signed legislation that includes a fresh round of individual stimulus payments.
Continue Reading A billionaire Chinese gaming tycoon died on Christmas Day, his company announced, with police now investigating whether the 39-year-old was poisoned. The Yoozoo company board of directors released a statement on December 26 confirming the death of founder and chairman Lin Qi. “The directors, supervisors, senior management and all employees of the company express their
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Novavax on Monday announced the start of the Phase 3 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico. It is the fifth company to launch a large-scale trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States. The trial for the vaccine candidate, known as NVX-CoV2373, will evaluate safety, efficacy and immune response
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My business — documenting attacks on journalists in Asia and advocating on their behalf — requires a thick skin. I can’t let every case get to me, or I couldn’t function. But sometimes a case pierces through the armor. That happened Monday morning when I awoke to the news that a Chinese court had sentenced
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COLE CAMP, Mo. (KMIZ) James and Mary Mast, the parents of a 4-year-old Missouri girl that neighbors allegedly killed, have both pleaded not guilty to charges in their court cases. Mary Mast – Courtesy Benton County Sheriff’s Department Both of them entered their plea during a hearing Monday morning to charges of felony child endangerment
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We teach kids not to do it. It’s unsanitary. It’s just plain gross to see. Let’s be real, though. Most of us pick our noses — some 91% according to the only (small and old) study that seems to have ever been done on the subject, perhaps revealing how little even scientists want to think
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person in in the hospital after they were found with “apparent stab wounds” in downtown Columbia. Police shut down the intersection of 10th and Locust while investigating the incident. Police on the scene said they responded to a call around 6:50 p.m. about an assault on the street over, then found
Continue Reading In an instant, nursing director Chelsey Earnest can recall the worst day at work she has ever had. Sometimes it comes back without her trying to remember. What happened March 4 before the dawn and into the night haunts her. The sirens seemed to blare endlessly outside the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington. “That
Continue Reading Adam Coy, the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill, was fired Monday, according to a statement from Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. Coy’s termination follows a disciplinary hearing held earlier in the day. The local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police represented him at the hearing. “The information, evidence
Continue ReadingThree days after a Christmas Day explosion rocked downtown Nashville, investigators are still searching for a motive. Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, was identified as the bomber. Warner, a 63-year-old described by one neighbor as a loner, died when his recreational vehicle exploded on 2nd Avenue North in the city’s downtown. The blast injured at least
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri police detained a man with a past history of stealing bikes after seeing if he had any open warrants. According to court documents, Gabriel Paddock was detained and lied about his name to officers. Paddock also had a machete in his possession at the time of the arrest. Paddock
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An independent Chinese journalist who reported from Wuhan at the height of the initial coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years by a Shanghai court, her lawyer said Monday. Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” according to one of her defense lawyers Zhang Keke, who attended her hearing.
Continue Reading After going through their pandemic pregnancies together, two Minnesota sisters thought it would be pretty neat if they ended up giving birth on the same day. Their baby boys apparently agreed and arrived earlier this month about 90 minutes apart. Ashley Carruth told CNN that she and her sister Brittany Schille found out that they
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — While Congress tries to figure out whether your next COVID stimulus payment will be $600 or $2,000, those struggling here in the metro are waiting hours in line just to pick up some food. “We come early because we know the line is going
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In the second relief bill signed by President Donald Trump on Sunday, federal lawmakers set aside $284 billion for another round of forgivable PPP loans. The program runs through the Small Business Administration (SBA).
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