By Jen Christensen, CNN Doctors don’t know yet exactly how well the current Covid-19 vaccines protect people against the new Omicron variant that is now in the US, but what they do know is that people shouldn’t wait to get a vaccine or booster. “Getting the maximum protection now is more important than ever and
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Hundreds of people in the central Montana town of Denton have been forced to flee flames pushed by strong winds. Officials said that fire started Tuesday evening and led to an evacuation order for the town of about 300 early Wednesday afternoon, including the school. A fire near Great Falls
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans woman who played a supporting role as a former child actress in the Oscar-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was killed in a weekend shooting in her native Louisiana. Police said Jonshel Alexander and a man were shot in a vehicle Saturday night in New Orleans. Alexander
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services reported 84 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. There are currently 439 active cases in the county and 26,747 cases since the pandemic began. The county reported 26,128 cases removed from isolation. Boone County ranks 11th in the state with the most coronavirus cases in total volume in
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By Sara Smart, CNN What started out with an incorrect phone number is now a friendship that has lasted 20 years. One day in the early 2000s, Gladys Hankerson of Delray Beach, Florida, was trying to call her sister in Maryland, according to CNN affiliate WPBF. Her sister’s area code was 410, but Hankerson kept
Continue Reading NOVI, Mich. (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed in the fireworks-related death of Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks at a Detroit-area home during a July 4 celebration. The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday the death has officially been ruled accidental, and the case is now closed. The accident occurred Sunday, July
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Amigos, familiares y toda una escuela secundaria de Michigan están de duelo por la pérdida de cuatro estudiantes después de que un niño de 15 años abrió fuego durante el día escolar, matando a cuatro compañeros y disparando a otros siete en el campus. Un sospechoso está detenido después del tiroteo
Continue Reading By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan prosecutors are charging a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his high school, a novel approach made possible by a law enacted after the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago. The state’s 2002 anti-terrorism law defines a terroristic act as one intended
Continue Reading By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A man who worked with Jussie Smollett says the former “Empire” actor recruited him and his brother to fake a homophobic and racist attack. Abimbola Osundairo is testifying Wednesday at Smollett’s trial. Osundairo was friends with Smollett and worked with him on the TV
Continue Reading By Iyani Hughes Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A husband and wife have pleaded guilty to defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration or SBA by obtaining approximately $1.9 million in fraudulent loans from the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Impact Disaster Loan program. Atlanta natives Tiyari Collins, 38, and Farah
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A 37-year-old Kansas man has been convicted of raping a patient at a hospital in Missouri. Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, of Overland Park, was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree rape after a bench trial. He was charged in 2019 after a patient at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence reported she was raped in
Continue Reading INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A 37-year-old Kansas man has been convicted of raping a patient at a hospital in Missouri. Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, of Overland Park, was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree rape after a bench trial. He was charged in 2019 after a patient at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence reported she was raped in
Continue Reading Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — Llegó diciembre y con ello YouTube da a conocer un recuento no solo de sus videos más vistos en la plataforma, sino también de los videoclip musicales más consumidos, en este caso en español, en Estados Unidos. Y quizás para muchos ya no es sorpresa que Bad Bunny lidera las
Continue Reading By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is holding a massive rally in Mexico City to mark the mid-way point in his six-year term, amid polls showing about two-thirds of Mexicans approve of his administration. López Obrador’s masterful use of televised news briefings, his folksy style and
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By Tierney Sneed When Justice Brett Kavanaugh was facing tough questions during his 2018 confirmation battle about his views on the Supreme Court’s abortion rulings. he returned time and time again to the importance of precedent and their “precedent on precedent.” Speaking more broadly, Kavanaugh at the time described the circumstances that the justices overturn
Continue Reading By JILL COLVIN Associated Press A book by Donald Trump’s ex-chief of staff says Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden and days earlier than that diagnosis was previously disclosed. Mark Meadows writes that the then-president received a negative test shortly after the positive test
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that climate change isn’t causing the devastating drought and famine in Madagascar. World Weather Attribution looks at weather extremes and uses established techniques to see if climate change is a factor. In the case of Madagascar, the international scientists could not find a significant impact
Continue Reading By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge is weighing arguments about whether to dismiss the 25-count murder case against a central Ohio doctor accused of ordering excessive painkillers for hospital patients. William Husel’s lawyers say he was providing comfort care to the dying, not trying to kill them. Defense attorneys argued
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By Ryan Struyk and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN A stunning leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and wipe out nationwide abortion protections that have lasted for half a century is sparking a sharp debate over the role of precedent in the American judiciary. Supporters of upholding Roe point
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer During Wednesday’s historic oral arguments on abortion rights, Chief Justice John Roberts pulled back the curtain on internal Supreme Court negotiations and referred to the papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe v. Wade. Roberts usually scorns any courtroom references to
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