By Chris Boyette, CNN Georgia public school teachers who test positive for the virus that causes Covid-19 no longer have to isolate before returning to school, according to a letter from Gov. Brian Kemp and Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey to school leaders that was released Thursday. The Georgia Department of Public Health on Wednesday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Central (44) Rock Bridge (85) FINAL Cardinal Ritter (53) Father Tolton (68) FINAL Blair Oaks (71) Boonville (44) FINAL California (69) Hallsville (54) FINAL Hickman (64) Ozark (74) FINAL
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou defensive lineman Kobie Whiteside has officially declared for the 2022 NFL Draft. The graduate student took to Twitter on Friday evening to make the announcement. He said, “the experiences I had here were truly amazing, from the roaring crowds to the time I spent in class. These experiences helped form
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team announced that two coaches will take the reigns of the defensive line heading into the 2022 season. Current assistant Al Davis will take over the interior defensive line and former Indiana assistant Kevin Peoples will coach the edge defensive line. “Al Davis and Kevin Peoples are strong coaches
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will play is first game of 2022 on Saturday when No. 15 Alabama comes to town. Head coach Cuonzo Martin said he expects to be without three scholarship players due to COVID-19. https://youtu.be/ir21o3e6w3I The Tigers were on a brief pause due to COVID, as the program had
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Moon, CNN Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California, became the first woman and the fourth person on “Jeopardy!” to earn more than $1 million in winnings on Friday’s episode. Schneider’s $42,200 score in her 28th victory brought her total winnings to $1,019,001, according to the game show. “It feels amazing, it
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The surge in the omicron variant cases plus several open positions at the Columbia Police Department is changing the way officers are dispatched to a 911 call.Â
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The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday appeared ready to reject one of President Joe Biden’s most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of Covid-19 — a vaccine or testing requirement aimed at large businesses.
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TONIGHT: Winds out of the south have begun to slowly warm us into the mid 20’s. A south wind will serve as a double edged sword overnight, keeping temperatures from dropping much, but also adding a gnarly wind chill through early Saturday. SATURDAY: Those winds will pick up our temperatures through Saturday afternoon. We likely
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By Michelle Watson, Haley Brink and Allison Chinchar, CNN Record rain and snow will cause floods, possible landslides, and higher avalanche risks across western Washington state, with more forecast to fall through the weekend. Residents living in the Skokomish Valley area of Mason County are under an evacuation order due to rising water and “imminent
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Three White men who chased and murdered 25-year-old Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in south Georgia were sentenced to life in prison Friday, with two having no chance of parole. Travis McMichael, 35, his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday appeared ready to reject one of President Joe Biden’s most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of Covid-19 — a vaccine or testing requirement aimed at large businesses. But in a separate challenge, some justices seemed more open
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FRIDAY: Sunny and cold again with highs stuck in the 20s. A wind shift out of the south will bring a nice change for the weekend. TONIGHT: Southerly winds will keep temperatures relatively constant overnight with lows still in the low 20s and upper teens. EXTENDED: We’ll warm up decently on Saturday, reaching into the 40’s once again.
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday touted the unemployment rate dropping to a new pandemic low in December and credited his economic agenda with getting America “back on its feet,” even as Friday’s job report showed the US economy added fewer jobs than expected last month. The US economy added 199,000 jobs
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business The calendar changed, but the roller coaster ride for GameStop’s stock continues. GameStop shares jumped as much as 20% Friday morning after the Wall Street Journal reported the company is creating a nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace. After a wild 2021 for the video game retailer as a “meme stock”
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Griggs, CNN Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.
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By Allison Morrow and Anneken Tappe, CNN Business One of the more insidious myths this year was that young people didn’t want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. People had too much money, went the narrative. Only trouble is, the numbers don’t back it up. Instead, early retirement —
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