By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Millions of children in America became eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine this week. And some officials are sweetening the deal by including them in various incentive programs. In New York City, children can claim $100 if they get their first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine at city-operated vaccine site. Alternatively, they
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the Biden administration’s new timeline for mandating vaccinations or weekly testing for those working at private businesses with 100 or more employees, critics in the public and private sectors are quickly positioning themselves against the measure. The rules, long-anticipated in an effort to get further ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic
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The city of Fulton will soon begin its search for a new police chief as its current chief prepares for retirement.
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MU Health Care says it will offer COVID-19 vaccinations to kids ages five to 11 starting Nov. 10.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team wrapped up exhibition play with a 55-point win over Southwest Baptist at Mizzou Arena. You can watch the highlights from the Tigers’ win in the video player above. Junior guard Aijha Blackwell had a double-double with a team-high 21 points and 10 rebounds. Junior Hayley Frank and
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By Maggie Fox, CNN Even if they get a breakthrough infection, vaccinated people don’t get as sick with Covid-19, two different teams of researchers reported Thursday. Both studies show the vaccines strongly protect against severe disease and death, even months after people were first vaccinated and as the more transmissible Delta variant renewed the spread
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them on the national stage, according to tapes of their depositions obtained exclusively by CNN. The new footage of sworn testimony from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will open up the season against Central Michigan at Mizzou Arena on Nov. 9. Head coach Cuonzo Martin said the team is excited to show fans and other teams their identity. “They treated the scrimmages like they were games because they were so excited to play and,
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Joseph Elledge’s murder trial is set to continue Thursday, after he was charged with killing his wife in February of 2020.
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN When former President Donald Trump fired off a letter in September demanding that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger decertify the election, investigators in Georgia were paying attention. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made clear to her staff she wanted that letter — the original copy, complete
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The ongoing supply chain shortage and the holidays right around the corner, The Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri is feeling the impact.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) United Airlines announced Thursday it will indefinitely discontinue flights out of the Columbia Regional Airport (COU). The suspension is scheduled to start on Jan. 4, 2022. According to a press release from the City of Columbia, the airport is one of eight locations that is impacted by the suspension. The decision to
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Many of us are familiar with the northern lights, the green glow in the night sky that we typically don’t see around here. The scientific name for this phenomena is the aurora borealis. When solar energy reaches earth’s magnetic field, it is channeled to the poles. When this energy collides with gasses in our atmosphere,
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on Friday stonewalled the House select committee investigating January 6, responding to a subpoena demanding he appear for an interview with the panel, but not answering questions posed to him, sources familiar with his appearance told CNN. Instead, Clark provided a letter
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and chilly with lows in the low 30s. Patchy fog possible by daybreak. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the mid-upper 50s. EXTENDED: With warmer air trying to move in overnight into tomorrow, we’ll likely see some fog develop in low lying areas and river valleys. Tomorrow afternoon is mild and only slightly
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings and cousins decorated placards and started climate protests in her home city of Kampala, the capital
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN Laurie Bedell feels trapped inside her home and her ailing body. “I pretty much live here in the living room,” Bedell said from her house near Pittsburgh. “I feel like I’ve lost the life that I had.” Last November, she and her family contracted Covid-19. The virus killed her father. Nearly
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Princess Diana lived a life so sensational and so public that it’s no wonder writers and directors have mined it for TV and film since the world first learned her name. Just a 19-year-old aristocrat when she got engaged to Charles, a 20-year-old princess when she became one of the most
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Texas real estate agent who previously claimed she was “definitely not going to jail” for storming the US Capitol on January 6 was sentenced to 60 days behind bars on Thursday — the harshest punishment so far for a rioter who has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston, CNN During the final Virginia gubernatorial debate in late September, Republican Glenn Youngkin’s aides knew they had struck campaign gold. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” Democrat Terry McAuliffe said in a line that would soon be taken out of context and spliced into stump speeches
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