By Daniel Dale, CNN The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland. And the members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday and Friday made false claims about a variety of topics. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep.
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Bempedoic acid may be an alternative for people who need to lower their cholesterol but can’t or won’t take statins, according to a large study published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Statins are the most commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help lower what’s known as the “bad” cholesterol,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Four residents of a Jefferson City home were displaced after a house fire Friday evening, according to the Jefferson City Fire Department. Firefighters responded to a fire on the 100 block of West Franklin Street around 8:15 p.m. Crews said firefighters arriving at the scene found heavy fire showing from a side
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Natural Resources lifted the boil water order for Fayette on Friday. The Department issued the order on February 24, 2023 after feathers were found in the Park Tower overflow pipe screen. After the order was issued, officials with the department isolated the Park Tower. The Givens Tower was
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TODAY: Fog is possible early morning around river valleys and areas that received healthy precipitation on Friday. A few sprinkles from a weak front are possible just before noon but most will just see clouds. These are expected to break away by the afternoon with highs reaching the upper 50s. TOMORROW: Winds kick up early
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HOLTS SUMMIT, Mo. (KMIZ) The Holts Summit Fire Department and the Central and Northern Missouri Red Cross Chapter are teaming up to install working smoke alarms Saturday in residents’ homes at J&L Mobile Home Park in Holts Summit. The installation is scheduled to take place from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Saturday. The effort is
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland. And the members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday and Friday made false claims about a variety of topics. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Here are your local scores from Friday, March 3, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Tolton (42) Fatima (36) FINAL Grain Valley (36) Rock Bridge (58) FINAL Battle (69) Hickman (45) FINAL Helias (38) Jefferson City (52) FINAL Hallsville (61) Kirksville (69) FINAL Thomas Jefferson
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Events got started Thursday but the big public reveal — the March March through downtown — happens Friday. Watch it live in the player.
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Tonight: Overnight lows cool near or just below freezing tonight as winds remain out of the northwest at 5-10 mph. Skies look to clear throughout the overnight hours becoming mostly clear. Tomorrow: Skies look to become partly cloudy as winds switch out of the west starting the upcoming warming trend with highs reaching into the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Lee, CNN With the third anniversary of the Covid-19 outbreak, the secondary pandemic of hunger still looms for many Americans. According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service, nearly 34 million people in the US live in food-insecure households. It’s a figure that just scratches the surface according to Claire
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The Columbia Police Department asked the public to be on the lookout for a shrouded “porch pirate” Friday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services is partnering with other local organizations to host a naloxone education and distribution event PHHS is partnering with the Boone County Overdose Response Coalition to host the event at 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday at CenterPoint Hospital. It is part of a series of events that is free
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Betsy Klein, CNN After being shot multiple times during a grueling, nearly 19-hour firefight against enemy North Vietnamese soldiers, most people would have given up. But then-Capt. Paris Davis wasn’t most people — he was willing to risk his own life to protect his fellow soldiers during an attack
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Steve Contorno, CNN An appointee to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new oversight board in control of Disney’s special tax district called homosexuality “evil” last year and shared a baseless conspiracy theory that tap water could be making more people gay. On Monday, the Republican governor appointed Ron Peri, an
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN This had been a quiet little town of about 4,700 people nestled in the rolling hills of Northeast Ohio. A sign posted on State Road 14 welcomes visitors to East Palestine, “the place to be.” But for the past month, ever since a freight train derailed and caught fire, the town
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN New Yorkers’ beloved owl, Flaco, escaped from his Central Park Zoo enclosure a month ago. After eluding various rescue attempts, Flaco has settled in quite nicely to his new expansive home — and he might just be there to stay. The Eurasian eagle-owl’s enclosure was vandalized on February 2, allowing the
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed a law that prohibits gender-affirming care for minors, the latest state to do so as part of a wider Republican-pushed effort nationwide. Senate Bill 0001 prohibits health care providers “from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn and Carma Hassan, CNN Walgreens on Friday said it will not distribute abortion medication in 20 states, bowing to pressure from anti-abortion lawmakers and lawsuits targeting the legality of medication abortion. The company said it will not dispense mifepristone, the first of two drugs in the medication abortion process, in 20 states
Continue ReadingBy Olesya Dmitracova, CNN Russia could find itself with no money as soon as next year and needs foreign investment, outspoken Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has said. “There will be no money already next year, we need foreign investors,” he said at an economic conference in Siberia Thursday, according to comments reported by TASS, a
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