COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team is getting set for its matchup with No. 1 Auburn on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Head coach Cuonzo Martin and a few players spoke with reporters on Monday. MU is coming off a road loss to Alabama on Saturday. The Tigers are 8-10 overall and 2-4 in
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The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and 250 Missouri businesses and employers sent an open letter to Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri General Assembly asking for them to throw out legislation that prohibits employers from deciding for themselves whether or not to implement a vaccine requirement.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, CNN A teacher in Utah is suing her former employer after she said it retaliated against her for reporting sexual harassment among her students, according to court documents filed last week. Kathryn Moore is suing Utah’s Park City School District “for violations of Title IX” and “state breach of contract,” according to
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On Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will host a free COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Columbia.
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The Biden administration says it is sending the masks to increase access to high-quality masks as the omicron variant continues to spread.
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Temperatures have settled into the upper teens to around 20 as skies clear out this evening, with wind chills falling into the single digits. Overnight lows will hover between 5 to 7 degrees above zero, with wind chills a few degrees below. We’re about 20-25 degrees cooler than Monday evening. SETUP An Alberta clipper moved
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The City of Columbia is opening a temporary overnight warming center at Wabash Bus Station Tuesday night.
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TONIGHT: Becoming mostly clear with diminishing winds. Lows in the single digits with wind chills between -3 and 0. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and cold with highs in the upper 20s to around 30. EXTENDED: It’s been quite a chilly day in comparison to yesterday with most places struggling to get to or past 25 degrees. Northwesterly winds
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By Nick Watt, CNN A rash of package thefts from freight trains passing slowly through downtown Los Angeles has raised a fundamental question facing this city and others: how to balance attempts at criminal justice reform with the need for crime prevention. “What the hell is going on?” asked an exasperated Gov. Gavin Newsom last
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines has condemned her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments about Anne Frank, who was murdered by Nazis as a teenager, which he made during a rally against vaccine mandates. Kennedy, a longtime opponent of vaccines, invoked Nazi Germany in his screed against vaccine mandates on
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen In the last few weeks, more details about how former President Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election have come to light, specifically about an effort by his campaign to subvert the Electoral College process and install fake GOP electors in seven swing states. The situation is far from self-explanatory. It
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Jeremy Herb, CNN A senior US official suggested Wednesday that the Winter Olympics beginning next week in China could affect Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calculations over a possible invasion of Ukraine. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said that the Winter Olympics in Beijing could impact Putin’s thinking about potential military
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The pandemic will continue to stoke uncertainty and inflation in its third year, undermining the global recovery from the coronavirus and pushing total economic losses toward $14 trillion. That’s according to the International Monetary Fund, which on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2022 by half a percentage point
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar and Monica Garrett, CNN Meteorologists A rapidly intensifying storm known as a bomb cyclone could bring crippling winter weather across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this weekend. Snow, ice, strong winds and flooding are all on the table, giving rise to potentially hazardous travel conditions in those regions. “Confidence is increasing that a
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN Former President Donald Trump has been relentless in his attacks against Senate Minority Mitch McConnell, making Republicans uneasy as they battle for the majority in the November midterms. But McConnell doesn’t see his clash with the former President emerging as much of an issue — at least not
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By Robert North, Radina Gigova and Sana Noor Haq, CNN A car that can transform into a small aircraft has passed flights tests with flying colors in Slovakia, developers say. The “AirCar” was awarded an official Certificate of Airworthiness by the Slovak Transport Authority after completing 70 hours of “rigorous flight testing,” according to Klein
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House says a Russian invasion of Ukraine is “imminent,” even as diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis proceed. “When we said it was imminent, it remains imminent,” press secretary Jen Psaki said during a daily briefing. “But again, we can’t make a prediction of what decision President Putin will
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Attention parents: Hold onto that Internal Revenue Service letter about your enhanced child tax credit payments. You’ll need it when you file your 2021 tax return. The IRS has mailed families Letter 6419, which states how much they received in monthly child tax credit payments from July through December. It also
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By Madalena Araújo, Arnaud Siad and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN NATO will send a written proposal to the Kremlin later this week to “try to find a way forward” amid growing tensions over Russia’s troop build-up on Ukraine’s border, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “We will outline that we are ready
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services announced the news on its Facebook page Friday.
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