By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The days of millions of monthly job gains are behind us: America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, the same as in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Although that was more than the 391,000 that economists had predicted, the slowdown in job growth is no surprise. It
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Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN | Illustrations by Leanza Abucayan If the thought of retiring your comfortable sweats and choosing a new outfit to leave the house in each morning is an intimidating prospect, you’re in good company. For the better part of the pandemic, I’ve lived in a pair of stretchy, soft wool trousers in
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TODAY: Showers ongoing this morning will mostly come to an end around sunrise for most, with those south and east of Jefferson City holding on to the moisture a little bit longer. While drier weather is forecast for much of the late morning, a spot shower or sprinkle will still be possible until early afternoon,
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The WNBA’s 26th regular season starts Friday without one of the league’s most exciting players, Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner, who remains detained in Russia. The seven-time All-Star was arrested in February at a Moscow airport and accused by Russian authorities of smuggling significant amounts of a narcotic substance — an
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By Aya Elamroussi and Paul Vercammen, CNN Taming the second-largest wildfire in New Mexico history has been a nightmare for crews who have been battling the blaze for more than a month, a firefighter said. At one point, the ferocious Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire was spreading at 50 miles per hour, said Travis Regensberg, a
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Vicky White, a former assistant director of corrections for Lauderdale County in Alabama, was once considered to be the perfect employee and a person whom her colleagues could trust. So when she disappeared alongside Casey White — an inmate being held on murder charges — in a swift escape that officials
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the employees in
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After a crash in Miller County last night took the life of a 16-year-old, ABC 17 looked at how many crashes have happened on Highway 42.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Thursday, May 5, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Tolton (0) Hickman (2) FINAL Laquey (1) Battle (2) FINAL Fulton (0) Moberly (1) FINAL Boonville (0) Smith-Cotton (8) FINAL HS BASEBALL Blair Oaks (7) Rock Bridge (6) FINAL
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, Chandelis Duster and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The opinion is the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades and will transform the landscape of women’s reproductive health in
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Thirteen students in a now-defunct University of Missouri fraternity under scrutiny after a freshman pledge’s alcohol poisoning are being sanctioned, MU said in a news release Thursday.
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By Omar Jimenez, CNN Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Amber Heard took the stand again on Thursday, with at times emotional and graphic testimony in her defense against a defamation claim brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. In her second day of testimony, Heard described alleged physical abuse by Depp that she said escalated into the couple mistreating each other.
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN Karine Jean-Pierre will become the new White House press secretary when Jen Psaki departs her role next week, President Joe Biden announced in a statement Thursday, becoming the first Black and out LGBTQ person to hold the position. Jean-Pierre currently serves as the White House’s principal deputy press secretary. “Karine not
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Tolton basketball guard Tahki Chievous announced his commitment William Woods University on Thursday, following a standout senior season. Chievous helped lead the Trailblazers to the Class 4 state championship game, where the team finished as the state runner up. Chievous is also the son of Mizzou hoops legend Derrick Chievous.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics announced that women’s golf coach Stephanie Priesmeyer will be stepping into a new role within the athletic department. She will now work in a development role. https://youtu.be/FyA1MWe2eRA “This University has been a part of my heart and sole for more than 30 years,” Priesmeyer said in a press release on
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Most Americans say now is not the time to end a pandemic-era border restriction that the Biden administration hoped to drop this month, but those who say it ought to continue are divided over how long it should remain in place, according to a new CNN poll conducted
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