COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol is urging everyone to make good decisions regarding their New Year’s celebrations and to end 2021 on a safe note. MSHP says no one wants to start 2022 with a traffic crash or a DUI arrest. The Missouri State Highway Patrol began their New Year’s Holiday crash
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SATURDAY: A Weather Alert Day is in effect for New Year’s Day for impacts from a winter storm. Showers are moving through southeastern Missouri, with a transition to a wintry mix along and north of I-70. Far northern counties in our area are also likely to see snow near sunrise. As temperatures continue to drop throughout
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar and Alaa Elassar, CNN As we ring in the new year, severe storms and flooding will be hitting some of the same areas ravaged by tornadoes just two weeks ago, and some parts of the Midwest will be looking at their biggest snowstorm of the season so far. “Both winter weather and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department confirmed to ABC 17 News four people were shot outside the area of at Silverball Bar on Ninth Street in downtown Columbia on Saturday morning. Police were called to the scene because of a fight and were seen investigating around 1 a.m. Three people shot in the area
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN The US is ringing in the new year amid a Covid-19 surge that experts warn is exploding at unprecedented speed and could alter daily life for many Americans during the first month of 2022. “Omicron is truly everywhere,” Dr. Megan Ranney, a professor of emergency medicine at Brown University’s School of
Continue ReadingBy Alanne Orjoux and Devan Cole, CNN New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday delivered his first speech since taking office earlier in the day, declaring the city “will not be controlled by crisis” as it grapples with a surge of Covid-19 cases nearly two years into the pandemic. “We have lived through two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After a 19 day hiatus due to the holidays, the Columbia College Cougars fell to Evangel in their return to action, 74-69. Sophomore guard Trendon Tisdale led the Cougars with 16 points along with five rebounds and five assists. Up next – Columbia College will hit the road to meet Health Science
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As you’re gassing up the car for your holiday plans, you may want to include an ice scraper and other items to help you survive the incoming winter weather.
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Emergency first responder crews are starting to prepare for the potential of severe weather on Saturday. According to Policy.net, about 900 people are killed in the US every year in vehicle crashes due to snow
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By Amir Vera and Steve Almasy, CNN Two people remain missing in Boulder County, Colorado, as authorities work to survey the damage left by a vicious wildfire, the cause of which is under investigation. Sheriff Joe Pelle said at a briefing that searchers are actively working two scenes looking for the people who are unaccounted
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Betty White wasn’t supposed to play Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls,” but we are so grateful that she did. White was originally supposed to portray the hot-to-trot widow Blanche Devereaux on the comedy series about four senior women living together in Miami. It ran from 1985 to 1992. The
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(CNN) — Betty White, the self-described “lucky old broad” whose sweetly sarcastic senior citizen characters were a beloved fixture on TV shows and movies such as “The Golden Girls,” “Boston Legal” and “Hot in Cleveland,” died Friday, her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told People magazine in a statement. At 99, she was just weeks away from
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, several days after Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease an unremitting military crisis on Ukraine’s border. Biden, a White House official said, “plans to speak by phone with President Zelensky of Ukraine on Sunday to reaffirm US
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TONIGHT: A big warmup has temperatures pushing upper 50’s and low 60’s this afternoon. A big influx of warmth and moisture will end us warm with a chance for showers late tonight. These are part of a strong system that will pull in cold air early Saturday that will turn showers into a wintry mix
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee deleted a tweet Friday morning that spread disinformation about Covid-19 booster shots. The false tweet from the House Judiciary Committee Republicans’ official account, which was posted Thursday afternoon, read: “If the booster shots work, why don’t they work?” The tweet received a wave of backlash before
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN A day after reporting its highest average daily Covid-19 case number, the US shattered the record Thursday, with an average of 355,990 infections reported every day in the past week, according to Johns Hopkins University. As the latest surge sweeps across the US, pushing cases and hospitalizations to unprecedented levels and
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist The year 2022 will start with a bang, as snow, ice, severe storms, flooding and plummeting temperatures impact millions from coast to coast. “This is a classic winter storm set-up with rain and thunderstorms across the South, a line of ice near the storm’s track and an area of heavy
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By Dakin Andone and Christina Maxouris, CNN No deaths have been reported as a result of a swift and vicious wildfire that consumed at least 500 homes in Boulder County, Colorado, and forced some 35,000 people to flee, authorities said Friday. “We might have our very own New Year’s miracle on our hands if it
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FRIDAY: A Dense Fog Advisory is in effect for the northern half of the area through midmorning. Visibility is reduced to less than 1/4 of a mile for some. A big warmup is in store for the final day of 2021; more sunshine today will boost highs to the upper 50s. SATURDAY: A Weather Alert Day
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Ikea said its customers will pay more when they shop at its stores in 2022. Like many companies with tight profit margins, the world’s biggest furniture seller is struggling to absorb higher costs because of ongoing global supply chain problems. Ikea said prices at its stores will increase by an
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