By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Texas wildlife rehabilitator nursed over 1,600 frozen bats back to health in her attic after many of them fell from their roosts during Houston’s plunging temperatures last week. Mary Warwick, the wildlife director at the Houston Humane Society, told CNN that she has been working with bats since 2019, when
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Looking for New Year’s resolutions that can extend your life? Master these three science-based healthy habits during 2023, and you’ll reduce stress, improve your sleep, raise your immunity, lower inflammation, increase muscle strength and mobility, boost your brain power and mood, battle disease and more — all keys to a long,
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Are you celebrating the first day of 2023 with a hangover? If so, you might be looking for a method to ease your misery. There are certainly a lot of so-called hangover cures, some dating back centuries. “The ancient Greeks believed that eating cabbage could cure a hangover, and the Romans
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Law enforcement officials are reminding everyone to keep safety as a top priority ahead of the new year as the New Year’s counting period has already begun for the Highway Patrol as of 6 p.m. Friday. The Highway Patrol said during the 2021 New Year’s counting period, one person was killed and 331
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy skies with temperatures dropping down into the upper 40’s by midnight. If you’re going out to any New Year’s Eve parties, make sure to grab a light jacket just in case. TOMORROW: We’re starting off the New Year with temperatures possibly reaching the 60’s in the afternoon. We could experience some fog
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Over the course of a half-century interviewing American presidents, Barbara Walters interviewed the most powerful men in the world about their regrets, their mothers, their marriages — even their sleeping arrangements with their wives. “Double bed,” Jimmy Carter told the newswoman in 1976. “Always have.” Perhaps like no one else in
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Dionne Warwick wishes younger artists today would be more cognizant of what they are saying and the possible ramifications. The legendary singer told CNN she believes social media factors into some reckless commentary, one of the reasons she decided to join Twitter. “I was with my nieces and nephews and
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman, Allison Morrow and Alicia Wallace, CNN After years of legal battles, pontificating and theorizing, former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020 are now part of the public record. Many critics and political opponents have theorized that Trump fought the public disclosure of his tax returns because they potentially provided
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New Year’s Eve: Partly cloudy skies with temperatures warming to the lower 50s. Isolated drizzle is possible by midnight but expect a dry night overall. New Year’s Day: Sunday sees more clouds thanks to an approaching warm front and conditions remain dry. This front will boost temperatures to the upper 50s. Extended: The warm front
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN This was a bad, bad week for holiday travelers in the United States. First there was the raging storm that caught many people in perilous situations far from home: Here are some of their stories. Then Southwest went into an almighty days-long meltdown that left hundreds of thousands of passengers delayed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The past year has not only seen its fair share of news stories from across Mid-Missouri, but weather and sports had its time in the headlines. Feb. 2 would had a snow storm where some parts of Missouri saw close to 11 inches of snow. With 15.5 inches of our total snow fall for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Before you go out to ring in the New Year, make sure you have a safe and sober ride home. The Jefferson City Police Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Columbia Police Department and several other local law enforcement agencies will have extra officers on the roads looking for drunk drivers this New
Continue ReadingBy Todd Leopold, Emma Tucker and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Barbara Walters, the pioneering TV journalist whose interviewing skills made her one of the most prominent figures in broadcasting, has died, her spokesperson confirmed to CNN. She was 93. “Barbara Walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones. She lived her life with
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Fatima (57) Jefferson City (69) FINAL Blair Oaks (62) Mexico (56) FINAL Harrisburg (62) Southern Boone (51) FINAL Sturgeon (48) New Bloomfield (40) FINAL California (55) Winfield (44)
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy, Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar, CNN The man arrested in connection with the November killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death attended a nearby university in Washington state and traveled across the country in December to spend the holidays with his parents. Bryan Christopher Kohberger,
Continue ReadingStephy Chung and Kristie Lu Stout Advanced age and the pandemic have done little to deter Japan’s Yayoi Kusama. At 93, the world’s best-selling living female artist is still painting daily at the psychiatric hospital she voluntarily checked into and has lived in since the 1970s. Some of her latest creations feature alongside early drawings
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Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the lower 30s with partly cloudy skies and winds out of the southwest at 4-8 mph. New Year’s Eve: Skies look to remain partly cloudy as temperatures will begin to warm eventually topping out into the lower 50s. Conditions look to remain dry with an isolated light drizzle possible by
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Here is a look at some of the top stories of 2022, as chosen by the ABC 17 News staff:
Continue ReadingBy Duarte Mendonca, Philip Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Controversial internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother were ordered to be detained for a month on Friday as prosecutors pursued claims of human trafficking and rape. Authorities in Romania said police served search warrants on Thursday at five homes and took four suspects into custody
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TODAY: Temperatures moving into the high 40’s, and partly cloudy, clearing skies. TOMORROW: It’s New Year’s Eve, and it’s looking less likely for any rain to be observed in the area. Temperatures are trending to be warmer tomorrow, with partly cloudy skies. As the New Year’s Eve night moves on, temperatures do start to move
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