Here are the local scores from Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Staley 35 | Rock Bridge 45 FINAL North Callaway 35 | Montgomery County 45 FINAL HS BOYS BASKETBALL Battle 49 | Mexico 60 FINAL NAIA MEN’S BASKETBALL Harris-Stowe 67 | Columbia College 105 FINAL NAIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Harris-Stowe 43 | Columbia College
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By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN David Bracho became a nurse after nearly two decades in the US Army Reserve. He’s now working in a Covid-19 ward at Rush Medical Center in Chicago — and he recognizes the parallels. He was deployed twice, Bracho said, and what he saw in Afghanistan is similar to what he has
Continue Reading By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN David Bracho became a nurse after nearly two decades in the US Army Reserve. He’s now working in a Covid-19 ward at Rush Medical Center in Chicago — and he recognizes the parallels. He was deployed twice, Bracho said, and what he saw in Afghanistan is similar to what he has
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Tonight: Temperatures bottom out near 20 degrees tonight with winds out of the northwest at 4-8 mph. Tomorrow: Temperatures slightly warm-up into the mid-’30s with winds gusting into the mid-’20s making for a cold Superbowl Sunday watch party. Skies remain mostly sunny. Extended: Temperatures continue to warm into the upper ’50s at the start of
Continue ReadingBy Sonnet Swire While protests by truckers and others against Covid mandates continue to occupy Canada’s capital, block US-Canada border crossings and add to supply chain headaches, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said he hopes trucker protests come to the United States as soon as this weekend to “clog up” major US cities. Asked
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The United States’ largest trading partner isn’t China, or Mexico. It’s Canada. And the Ambassador Bridge, which separates the US and its neighbor to the north, may be the most economically important one-and-a-half miles of roadway in the Western Hemisphere. Until this past week it got very little attention for
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Super Bowl tickets have never been a bargain. At least not for the last LIV years or so. But for those looking to attend the big game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday, the prices won’t be as high as they were only a few weeks ago. There
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Hillary Clinton jokingly jabbed at former President Donald Trump in a tweet amid reports that he periodically flushed papers down the toilet in the White House residence. “Just in time for Galentine’s Day, and the news that Trump was flushing documents down White House toilets…,” Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate
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By Xiaofei Xu and Lauren Kent, CNN Protesters in a so-called “Freedom Convoy” made it past police checkpoints in central Paris on Saturday, with demonstrators completely blocking traffic in the French capital before they were met with tear gas fired by officers. The rallies against France’s Covid-19 vaccine pass follow Canada’s “Freedom Convoy,” which has
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By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Janice Cooke remembers the first time she heard bugs murder a tree over the phone. It was at the height of the petulance plague, when the warming Canadian Rockies gave rise to swarms of beetles so Biblical they were able to kill 100,000 big lodgepole pines in a
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By Kim Berryman, Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A police crackdown to remove protesters decrying Covid-19 mandates could soon restore some normalcy to American and Canadian businesses hit hard by a blockade at the border. Windsor Police have started arresting protesters blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest land border crossing in North America. The
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Oren Liebermann, CNN The United States has moved some US forces out of Ukraine and ordered the evacuation of most of its embassy staff on Saturday as fears mount that a Russian invasion of the country could take place in the next few days. The moves are signs of growing concerns
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Saturday: Cold with gusty northerly winds up to 25 mph. Highs in the mid-20s and wind chills in the teens. Sunday: Partly cloudy and breezy with highs in the low 30s. Extended: Clouds roll in late Saturday night into Sunday ahead of a weak clipper system that will keep our temperatures near freezing during the day. The best chance
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN This weekend when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals take the field on Super Bowl Sunday, it will mark the return of cheerleaders to the biggest sports event in the United States, after they were barred from the field last year due to pandemic restrictions. And though today the commercials and
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By Jonathan Hawkins and Becky Anderson, CNN AC Milan CEO Ivan Gazidis believes football needs to do more to fight issues such as domestic abuse — not just in society, but also within the game itself. In the wake of several domestic violence accusations in the English Premier League, including against Manchester United and England
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By Miguel Marquez, Jason Hanna and Kim Berryman, CNN Canadian police on Saturday attempted to clear protesters from the Ambassador Bridge across from Detroit, intending to end a six-day blockage of North America’s busiest international crossing by demonstrators decrying Covid-19 measures. Dozens of police officers approached protesters near the foot of the bridge on the
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) Warming shelters in both Jefferson City and Columbia are opening their doors to the community this weekend as temperatures will drop around 19 degrees overnight. According to a press release written by the City of Columbia, on the evening over the next three days, the city will open a temporary overnight warming
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By CNN staff In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics — to very different reactions in China. All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on
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By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was hit
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By Giselle Rhoden, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN Three weeks ago, Brittany Murphree enrolled in Law 743, a unique class for the University of Mississippi. Despite the skepticism from fellow Republican friends and family, the second-year law student wanted to take the class “to see what it’s all about.” “Honestly, I love it,” Murphree
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