By Rhea Mogul, Adam Renton, Jack Guy Aditi Sangal, Melissa Macaya and Melissa Mahtani, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Sonia Moghe and Amir Vera, CNN A lawsuit filed on behalf of two survivors of the deadly Oxford High School shooting in Michigan accuses the school district and a number of its employees of not doing enough to prevent the attack that left four students dead, despite multiple red flags. The lawsuit alleges Ethan
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Experts say the omicron variant causes a milder case of COVID-19, but many hospitals in Mid-Missouri are at max capacity as the surge continues to infect thousands.
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Here are the local scores from Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Hickman 58 | Tolton 82 FINAL Helias 67 | Fatima 65 FINAL
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team was no match for Arkansas on Wednesday night. The Razorbacks dominated MU 87-43. Arkansas started the game on a 7-0 run, and that lead quickly increased. The Tigers trailed 49-15 at halftime. MU shot just 3-for-25 in the first 20 minutes. On a positive note – MU
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, Annie Grayer and Tara Subramaniam, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke to reporters on Thursday, a day after he had announced he would not cooperate with the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The committee had asked McCarthy to voluntarily provide information about topics including
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN According to Machine Gun Kelly, “Love is pain!” That is what the rapper and actor told Vogue in a joint interview with his new fiancée, actress Megan Fox. Kelly was explaining the “thoroughbred Colombian emerald” and diamond engagement ring he had designed for Fox with the emerald “just carved into
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By Andrea Kane and Nadia Kounang, CNN The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is causing Covid-19 cases to spike, with an average of more than 747,000 new cases a day, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University. That’s almost three times the average daily cases from a year ago, when the country was
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Pandemic price hikes didn’t let up in the last month of 2021: A key inflation gauge hit a fresh a 39-year high. The US consumer price inflation index rose 7% over the past year before seasonal adjustments, the steepest climb in prices since June 1982, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Grocery store shelves across America are wiped clean, and they’re staying empty as stores struggle to quickly restock everyday necessities such as milk, bread, meat, canned soups and cleaning products. Disgruntled shoppers have unleashed their frustration on social media over the last several days, posting photos on Twitter of bare
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two current Mizzou football coaches will have additional duties heading into the 2022 season. MU said that special teams coordinator Erik Link will now also coach tight ends, while linebackers coach D.J. Smith will also serve as the recruiting coordinator. The announcement comes after Mizzou’s former tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou gymnastics team will have to wait until February to bring an SEC opponent to the Hearnes Center, as the group’s original conference opener was postponed due to COVID-19. The Tigers were set to host LSU on Jan. 14, however, the SEC announced the postponement on Wednesday due to COVID issues
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Boonville girls basketball standout Addison Brownfield cemented herself in history on Tuesday night, as the senior now holds the school’s all-time scoring record. Heading into Boonville’s game against Smith-Cotton, Brownfield needed just 20 points to break the record. “When we finally got to 20 points it was just so unreal,” she said. “I get chills
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN Angelina Gonsalves received an unexpected, yet cherished, delivery from the US Postal Service last month — a letter her late husband wrote to his mother while deployed overseas in 1945. The letter was written by Sgt. John Gonsalves, a 22-year-old Army soldier stationed in Germany. He was writing to check in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on across the country and here in Missouri, the amount of at-home tests available to Missourians is scarce and people are facing long lines at testing centers. This comes as Governor Mike Parson put an end to the state of emergency on December 31st, 2021.
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The value of a car went up in the past year causing a personal property tax increase for car owners in Missouri.
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN In the weeks after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump’s allies sent fake certificates to the National Archives declaring that Trump won seven states that he actually lost. The documents had no impact on the outcome of the election, but they are yet another example of how Team
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As COVID-19 continues to spread in schools across the nation, some locals are taking extra steps in order to keep students learning inside of the classroom.
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday appeared before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The meeting was virtual. McEnany, who worked in the Trump White House and was a spokesperson for Trump’s 2020 reelection
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden was not making a “human” comparison between opponents of pending voting rights bills and historical racists and segregationists in his address in Atlanta this week, the White House says. In his speech calling for new voter protections, Biden asked whether lawmakers wanted “to be the side of Dr.
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