University of Missouri announces federal funding for students in need
The Federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) III grants are part of American Rescue Plan funding tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Car crashes into attached garage in west Columbia
Boone County dispatchers sent a public alert at 7:55 a.m. saying crews are working a crash at West Ash Street and Clinkscales Road. An ABC 17 News reporter saw a car partially covered with a tarp that had crashed into an attached garage.
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Tracking scattered storms this weekend
Tonight: Scattered showers and storms remain throughout the area tonight with the biggest threats being a few strikes of lightning and some brief downpours. The overnight low drops to 66 degrees as winds continue out of the south. Tomorrow: Scattered showers and storms will fire back up late Saturday morning with a chance of becoming
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Justice Sotomayor rejects request to block New York City school vaccine mandate
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied a request from a group of New York City teachers to block the city’s vaccine mandate for public school employees. Sotomayor did not refer the request to the other Supreme Court justices, or comment on her action, likely signaling they agreed
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Kamala Harris’ office doing clean-up after exchange with student on Israel
By Jasmine Wright and Jeremy Diamond, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris’s office is trying to contain the fallout from an exchange earlier this week between the vice president and a student who characterized Israel’s actions toward Palestinians as “an ethnic genocide and a displacement of people.” While visiting a political science class at George Mason
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WATCH: MU Health Care breaks ground on new Children’s Hospital
The hospital is being built on the main MU Health Care campus, adjacent to the University of Missouri campus.
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Scarlett Johansson and Disney agree to end lawsuit
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Scarlett Johansson vs. Disney is over. On Thursday, the actress and Disney resolved their dispute over the lawsuit that Johansson filed against the company in July. The lawsuit alleged Disney breached her contract by releasing “Black Widow,” a Marvel film starring the actress, on Disney+ on the same day it
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House passes 30-day extension for highway funding
By Gregory Wallace, Melanie Zanona and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House of Representatives on Friday night passed a resolution extending funding for the Highway Trust Fund for 30 days, hours after funding for the program had lapsed at midnight. The resolution now goes to the Senate, which has adjourned for the night, and will gavel
Continue ReadingTracking showers and storms this weekend with dry conditions next week
Today: Scattered showers and storms begin to move into Central Missouri today past 3 pm. Temperatures continue to crest above the average high of 74 to 81 today with winds out of the south at 5-10 mph. Tonight: Scattered showers and storms remain throughout the area tonight with the biggest threats being a few strikes
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Mizzou falls in first home SEC matchup of the season
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team fell to 3-12 overall, after South Carolina swept the group it their first home SEC matchup of the season. The Tigers managed to find some momentum in the second set, however, the Gamecocks’ Kyla Manning proved to be too much. She had a match high 11 kills and
Continue ReadingThe police officer took a bruised toddler from an abusive home. She took his heart.
By Adrienne Broaddus and Meridith Edwards, CNN A Christmas tree full of ornaments inside Lt. Brian Zach’s office tells you Christmas is his favorite time of year. But the police officer knows presents aren’t always perfectly wrapped under the tree. Zach, 40, met one of life’s greatest gifts during a welfare check four years ago
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A housing market so hot that a burned-out home listed for $400,000
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business The housing market has recently cooled from white hot to merely red hot. But it’s still a great time to get top dollar on a home, even one that needs a little work. Or one that is a charred shell of a house. That’s the case with a home outside
Continue ReadingMultimillion-dollar beach property taken from Black owners in Jim Crow era is cleared to be returned
By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate can now be returned to the descendants of its rightful Black owners, nearly a century after the parcel was taken by the city of Manhattan Beach. Known as Bruce’s Beach, the resort had offered Black families a place to enjoy the California
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America could be hit with a debt downgrade for the first time since 2011
By Matt Egan Fitch Ratings warned Friday that the fight in Washington over raising the debt ceiling could force the firm to downgrade America’s AAA credit rating. “The failure of the latest efforts to suspend the U.S. federal government’s debt limit indicates that the current stand-off could be among the most protracted since 2013,” Fitch
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh tests positive for Covid-19
By Karl de Vries and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19, the Supreme Court said Friday, the first publicly known case of coronavirus among the high court’s justices. Kavanaugh, who is fully vaccinated, tested positive on Thursday night, the court said in a statement. The justice’s immediate family tested negative
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Low-wage workers are getting ‘eye-popping’ pay raises, Goldman Sachs says
By Moira Ritter, CNN Business Low-wage workers are making “eye-popping” gains in their paychecks, according to Goldman Sachs. The bank told clients in a note Thursday that low-wage-worker pay rose 5.3% year-over-year in the second quarter. For the third quarter, the data isn’t complete yet, but preliminary readings are on pace for a three-decade high
Continue ReadingSchool board group asks for federal help to stop threats and violence in debates on Covid and critical race theory
By Mallory Simon, CNN A group representing national school board associations asked President Joe Biden and the federal government on Wednesday to help look into threats against school board members and educators to see if laws were broken regarding bullying, hate crimes, or domestic terror, as anger around masks and critical race theory have boiled
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Fact check: Did the Marine who Trump brought on stage at rally actually hoist a baby over a wall at Kabul airport?
By Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam and Greg Clary, CNN During a rally in Georgia over the weekend, former President Donald Trump invited Lance Cpl. Hunter Clark to the stage, implying he was the Marine in a viral video who lifted a child over a wall at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. “We’re also honored to
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Tracking more showers and storms later today
FRIDAY: Most of us look to start out the day dry outside of an isolated shower. That will change for many of us this afternoon. Scattered showers and storms look to get going again and will last into this evening. Highs will top out in the low to mid 80’s. TONIGHT: We’ll lose most of
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By Jodi Upchurch, CNN An Amazon delivery goes hilariously wrong, a man captures an alligator in a trash can, and a rock legend rolls through a bar unnoticed. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Signed, sealed … thrown on the roof? When an Amazon delivery driver accidentally hurled a package onto the recipient’s
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