TODAY: Chances for isolated showers all day, with the most activity picking up late afternoon and early evening. Highs in the low 90s with a heat index a couple degrees warmer. No severe storms are expected but there could be isolated downpours and high winds. TOMORROW: A cold front will waver near the area to
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By Michael Warren, CNN Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is in a stand-off with local school officials in the rural Cherokee Nation, with the school board insisting they can require that students wear masks in their Covid-ravaged community and the GOP governor claiming the board is in violation of state law. Stitt is one of eight
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By Ben Church, CNN Three-time grand slam champion Andy Murray says he hopes more tennis players decide to get a Covid-19 vaccine in order to keep the “wider public” safe. The 34-year-old said he was happy he had got the vaccine but is aware not everyone on the tennis tour is as keen. “Ultimately I
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Anastasia Pagonis is, in many ways, a typical teenage girl. The New Yorker loves trying out TikTok dance trends and is obsessed with her dog. But Pagonis is far from average. She’s a record-breaking swimmer who made it to the Tokyo Paralympics. She has more than 2 million followers on TikTok.
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By Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Jason Hoffman, CNN President Joe Biden on Sunday watched stoically as 13 flag-draped cases carrying the remains of American service members killed in Afghanistan arrived in the United States. The President’s attendance at the “dignified transfer” is among the gravest responsibilities for any American commander in chief. After meeting
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By Emiko Jozuka and Chie Kobayashi, CNN Two people have died in Japan days after receiving doses from a batch of Moderna Covid-19 vaccines whose use was suspended Thursday following concerns over a contamination risk, the country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Saturday. A causal link between the vaccine and the deaths has
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Car accidents are the number one reason teens die. A national nonprofit visiting mid-Missouri is trying to change that.
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic unemployment benefits expire this coming weekend in the 26 states still offering them. But that probably won’t make a huge difference in the job market. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Saturday, August 28, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS SOCCER: Southern Boone (0) Capital City (5) FINAL Christian (1) Father Tolton (6) FINAL Battle (3) Fulton (4) FINAL 2/OT Rock Bridge (1) Nixa (2) FINAL/OT Camdenton (0) Jefferson
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team is still on the hunt for its first win of the season after going 0-3 in the Mizzou Invitational on Saturday. The action started on Friday morning, when the St. Louis University Billikens swept MU, 3-0, to start the tournament and it all ended on Saturday with another
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN Ciao ciao, Alitalia. Italy’s storied flag carrier has announced it will no longer issue tickets, triggering a countdown of just a few weeks until its familiar red and green livery vanishes from our skies for good. The nationally owned airline is to be replaced in October by ITA, a smaller company with
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Tonight: Southwesterly flowing winds at 5-10 MPH lead to a warmer night in Central Missouri with a low of 74 degrees. Skies will be mostly clear as a high-pressure system parked overhead keeps our atmosphere dry. Tomorrow: Winds continue to flow out of the south, while a low-pressure system slides into the area allowing afternoon
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The rate of Covid-19 deaths has increased in 42 US states in the last week, according to new data, as the spread of the more virulent coronavirus Delta variant has upended a spring of reopenings and led to increasing concern headed into autumn. In 14 states, Covid-19 deaths increased by more
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By Paul LeBlanc, Oren Liebermann and Brian Rokus, CNN US Marine Corps Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has been relieved of command after he posted a video online questioning military leaders’ handling of the situation in Afghanistan, a Marine Corps spokesperson said Friday. Scheller had posted a video to his Facebook page on Thursday stating: “People
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ultiple new laws are set to take effect on Saturday, including compensation for student athletes, limits on health orders, multiple relating to law enforcement and others.
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By Laura Smith-Spark, Barbara Starr, Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu, CNN The US military carried out a drone strike against what it said was an ISIS-K planner in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, amid warnings of possible further terror attacks targeting the last-ditch US evacuation effort from Kabul. The desperate mission to airlift US citizens
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By Daniel Dale Republican former football star Herschel Walker announced this week that he is running for a US Senate seat in Georgia. Some senior Senate Republicans have expressed concerns that Walker’s past words and actions threaten his chances to beat incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock. But Walker was urged to run by former President Donald
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN Fast food restaurant chain Bojangles will close all stores for two Mondays to give staff a “well-deserved break” following the challenges the restaurant industry has been facing during the pandemic, the company said. All company-owned stores will close August 30 and September 13 to allow 8,000 staff members and managers time
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Another terrorist attack on Kabul’s airport is “highly likely in the next 24-36 hours,” President Joe Biden said Saturday, citing US military commanders, while hours later, the US Embassy in Kabul issued a security alert. “Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of
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TODAY: Mostly clear with highs in the low 90s and a heat index near 100. TOMORROW: A cold front will waver near the area on Sunday and bring scattered showers and storms. No severe weather is expected, though highs will fall a couple degrees with a heat index in the mid-90s. EXTENDED: The front lingers
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