Boone County Commission to hear public input on courthouse murals
The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the commission chambers at the Boone County Government Center.
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Lawmakers race the clock to avert shutdown ahead of midnight deadline
By Clare Foran, CNN Government funding expires at midnight and Congress has not yet passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown, though Democratic leaders are on track to do so later Thursday. Lawmakers are racing the clock with the Senate and House both expected to vote to approve a short-term funding patch to
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Tracking another day in the 90s before rain chances cool us down later this week
TONIGHT: Mostly clear and mild with lows in the lower 60s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and hot. Highs in the lower 90s. EXTENDED: Tuesday is looking steamy as we’ll top out in the lower 90s once again, but the record high is 99 so we’ll stay out of breaking territory. We’ll be in a blocking pattern for
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Hickman students return to school after gun scare at Homecoming dance
Students at Hickman High School returned to class Monday without new information on what led to the chaos that followed a gun scare at Saturday’s Homecoming dance.
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Lawmakers set to grill top military leaders on Afghanistan for first time since troop withdrawal
By Zachary Cohen, CNN Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley are set to testify publicly before Senate lawmakers Tuesday, marking the first time that top military officials will appear before Congress since the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Austin and Milley will be joined by
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R. Kelly convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in New York
By Sonia Moghe, CNN Jurors have found R&B singer R. Kelly guilty of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child, along with separate charges of sex trafficking. In this federal case in the Eastern District of New York, Kelly faced a total of nine counts — one count of racketeering, with
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Biden receives his Covid-19 booster shot: Vaccines ‘can save your life and … can save the lives of those around you’
By Kate Sullivan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN President Joe Biden received his Covid-19 vaccine booster shot on Monday afternoon at the White House just days after booster doses were approved by federal health officials. “We know that to beat this pandemic and to save lives … we need to get folks vaccinated,” Biden said during
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Tracking near record highs with late week showers
Today: Monday afternoon will be clear and breezy with wind gusts into the upper 20’s. Highs will climb to 92 degrees in Columbia placing Central Missouri just one degree cooler than the previous record set in 1897. Tonight: Winds begin to calm down remaining out of the south cooling us down to the mid-’60s with
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Cheryl Burke and Cody Rigsby will compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ virtually as they recover from Covid
By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Cody Rigsby has tested positive with a breakthrough case of Covid-19. Rigsby’s diagnosis comes days after his partner Cheryl Burke revealed she had tested positive and would be unable to perform live since she would be in quarantine. The two appeared on “Good Morning America” on
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She broke baseball’s glass ceiling. Now she has to fix one of the league’s worst teams
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Derek Jeter had a problem. In 2020, his third year as chief executive and part-owner of the Miami Marlins, the team broke their long streak of missing the playoffs. But after the team had traded away nearly every big-name player on its roster in recent years, he was looking at
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More than 300 people are involved in manhunt for a suspect after a Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot during a traffic stop
By Deanna Hackney, Melissa Alonso and Susannah Cullinane, CNN More than 300 people are hunting for a suspect accused of shooting and killing a Florida sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop. Nassau County Deputy Josh Moyers was shot twice during a traffic stop in Callahan early Friday and died from his injuries Sunday, officials said.
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Meet Olaf Scholz, the man set to replace Angela Merkel as Germany’s next chancellor
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Olaf Scholz has some big shoes to fill. The German Finance Minister will be sworn in as German chancellor next month, barring any 11th-hour setbacks — weeks after he led his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to a narrow victory in September’s parliamentary elections. Under the agreement announced in Berlin on Wednesday,
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How this milk alternative wants to stand out from the crowd
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Given the dizzying array of options in the dairy aisle of the grocery store these days, some may think that the last thing we need is another type of milk. Yogurt maker Danone disagrees. Executives at the company, which owns plant-based dairy brands Silk and So Delicious, as well as
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Facebook is hitting the brakes on Instagram for kids
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Instagram is pressing pause on plans to develop a version of its service for kids under 13 after facing pressure from lawmakers to back down on the effort and new questions about the impact the photo-sharing service has on teen girls. “While we stand by the need to develop
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Tracking record-territory heat
MONDAY: We’ll start off comfortable this morning but quickly jump back into warm weather to start the week off. Plenty of sunshine and a breezy southwest wind will help get us into the low 90’s this afternoon. The record high in Columbia is 93, which has a chance to fall. TONIGHT: Things settle down a
Continue Reading Wall Street’s week is all about Washington dysfunction
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Wall Street could take its cues this week from Washington, which is in the throes of a heated debate over spending on infrastructure, health care and education with the deadline to keep funding the US government just days away. What’s happening: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working to rally Democrats
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Missed deadlines, GOP blockades and the week that makes or breaks Biden and Democrats
By Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden enters the most seismic week of his legislative agenda explicitly set to miss one deadline and implicitly knowing he’ll soon have to bow to a Republican blockade on another. Feverish talks over the course of the weekend led to a rhetorical intraparty pressure release, but
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Scott Morrison may snub the COP26 climate talks as Australia becomes more isolated
By Helen Regan and Angela Dewan, CNN Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday he might not show up at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November, as his government becomes increasingly isolated in international efforts on the crisis. More than 100 world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have confirmed their attendance at
Continue Reading Freed from Canada, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou hailed as hero upon return to China
By Nectar Gan, CNN Business Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who spent nearly three years in house arrest in Canada, returned home late Saturday, ending a prolonged extradition fight with the United States and sparking an outburst of national pride in China, where her release has been portrayed as a diplomatic victory for Beijing. Meng, who
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The road to Aduhelm: What one ex-FDA adviser called ‘probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history’ for an Alzheimer’s treatment
By Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Dr. Aaron Kesselheim had been on an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration for a half-dozen years, but he had never been to a meeting like this one. The FDA establishes advisory committees to assist the federal agency with one of its most important duties: deciding whether to
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