Missouri Senate ends filibuster over congressional redistricting proposals
State senators started talking around 6 p.m. on Monday about the proposals to redraw Missouri’s eight U.S. Congressional districts.
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Family-fun arcade coming to Jefferson City this March
A family-fun arcade and bowling alley, called Strikers, is coming to Jefferson City on March 1, with help from a tax break.
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Mizzou MBB loses to Vanderbilt on the road
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team lost to Vanderbilt 70-62 on Tuesday night. MU trailed by as many as 11 points in the second half, but the Tigers came back to take a 58-57 lead with 4:52 to go in the game. Shortly after – Kobe Brown committed his fourth foul and went
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Local highlights and scores: Feb. 8, 2022
Here are the local scores from Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Helias 47 | Battle 40 FINAL Capital City 33 | Jefferson City 56 FINAL HS BOYS BASKETBALL Jefferson City 67 | Hickman 75 FINAL Rock Bridge 73 | Smith-Cotton 35 FINAL NAIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Stephens 37 | Columbia College 72 You can
Continue ReadingNews orgs call on Biden admin to allow journalists to embed with military forces as they deploy to Europe
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Reporters who cover the US military are alarmed by a lack of access right now. For decades, American journalists have been granted embed opportunities when American military forces deploy abroad.
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Mother of Michigan school shooting suspect pleaded to keep her job shortly after the shooting, boss says
By Mark Morales, Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN Shortly after learning that her 15-year-old son had shot fellow students at his Michigan high school, Jennifer Crumbley sent a text message to her boss at the real estate company where she worked as a marketing director. “I need my job,” she wrote to Andrew Smith.
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Omicron may be on the decline, but this South Dakota hospital is still feeling its peak
By Gary Tuchman and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Omicron may be declining across much of the United States, but the Monument Health hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota, is still running an expanded intensive care unit, in the midst of a Covid-19 surge fueled by low vaccination rates and a lack of coronavirus restrictions. “We are
Continue ReadingStacey Abrams apologizes for maskless photos with schoolchildren
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams apologized Tuesday for not wearing a mask when she posed for photos with masked schoolchildren last week, after she received intense backlash from political opponents. “Protocols matter, and protecting our kids is the most important thing, and anything that can be perceived as undermining
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As COVID cases drop, so does the demand for testing
A drop in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations is being reflected in lower demand for tests, causing at least one local health care provider to pull back on testing.
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Day 5 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
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Continue Reading Day 5 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
By Aditi Sangal, Helen Regan, Adam Renton, George Ramsay, Ben Church and Patrick Sung, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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Columbia City Council approves new job position aimed at improving trash collection reliability
Columbia City Council voted Monday night to add a full-time position for solid waste packers in efforts to help make trash collection operations more reliable.
Continue ReadingA woman was rescued after floating on an air mattress for 2 days on Lake Texoma
By Sara Smart, CNN A woman spent two days floating alone on an air mattress atop a frigid lake. A pair of watchful freight train workers came to her rescue on Thursday. Conductor Cristhian Sosa told CNN on Monday the BNSF southbound train was headed to Irving, Texas, from Madill, Oklahoma, in the afternoon. That
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Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations still too high for changes to mask guidance, CDC director says
By Jacqueline Howard and Nadia Kounang, CNN The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is standing by the agency’s mask guidelines, emphasizing Tuesday that now is not the time to change the recommendations or loosen restrictions aimed at preventing Covid-19. The CDC “still recommends that all schools encourage students to wear
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Tracking a mild Wednesday, continued temperature swings
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear with lows in the upper 20s to around 30. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy and breezy with highs near 50. EXTENDED: We’re clear overnight with temperatures dropping down to near 30. Tomorrow will bring a couple more clouds as a cold front works through to our southeast, but we still manage to make
Continue ReadingMcConnell and McCarthy split over RNC censure resolution
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The top two Republican leaders in Congress were at odds Tuesday over the Republican National Committee’s recent resolution that formally censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju on
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Leslie Jones can keep commenting on the Olympics, NBC says
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Leslie Jones can keep posting unfiltered videos of herself commenting on the Olympics, according to NBC. On Monday, Jones said she would stop making the videos, because they were routinely getting blocked. But NBC said Tuesday that the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member can continue offering her commentary while
Continue ReadingProsecutors plan to call defendant’s children to testify in first US Capitol attack trial
By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN As the first trial for a January 6 US Capitol riot defendant approaches, prosecutors are laying out a strategy that includes calling a member of former Vice President Mike Pence’s security detail and the defendant’s two children to the stand. The trial of Guy Reffitt, a Texas Three
Continue ReadingUS report finds Mexico is dominant source of fentanyl trafficked into US
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A new government report out Tuesday details how opioid trafficking in the United States has changed in recent years, with Mexico now a “dominant source” of the country’s fentanyl supply and synthetic opioids rapidly saturating drug markets. In its report, the federal Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking — a bipartisan
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MoDOT supports hands-free cellphone proposal for Missouri drivers
The Missouri Department of Transportation is putting its support behind a proposal to ban the use of cellphones while driving.
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