By Anna Bahney, CNN Business New home sales were up in November from the month before, even as prices remained elevated and buyers faced some of the highest mortgage rates of the year. Sales of newly constructed homes rose 5.8% in November from October, but were down 15.3% from a year ago, according to a
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri will host the 16th annual One-for-One Holiday Food and Fund Drive on Wednesday. Anyone who wants to donate can stop at the parking lot at the Columbia Mall or at Buchheit of Jefferson City (formerly Orscheln Farm & Home) from 6 a.m. to 6
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn With the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX dominating the headlines, celebrities who hawked cryptocurrency are now finding themselves under fresh legal scrutiny. Tom Brady, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and baseball Hall-of-Famer David Ortiz are just some of the big names facing lawsuits from investors as the crypto world crumbles in the wake of
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Ellen DeGeneres has issued a statement regarding the death of her former talk show’s longtime DJ and co-executive producer, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, saying on Wednesday that she’s “heartbroken” over his passing. “I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light,” she wrote on Instagram. “He was my family, and I loved him
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium — an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart — his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder announced on Wednesday. The aneurysm was slowly growing and had gone undetected, she wrote in a statement on Substack.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday asked his state’s Supreme Court to green-light an investigation of “any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to Covid-19 vaccines,” his latest move to cast doubt on the vaccines’ effectiveness and amplify fears about side effects. In the petition filed with
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN Grant Wahl, the American soccer reporter who collapsed and died while covering the World Cup in Qatar last week, died of an aortic aneurysm that ruptured, his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, said Wednesday. “It’s just one of these things that had been likely brewing for years, and for
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri says volunteers are essential to efficiently run the organization. According to the director of communications and marketing for the Food Bank of Central & Northeast Missouri, all of the volunteer hours donated equates to 40 full-time employees. “Volunteers are so incredibly important,” said Katie
Continue Reading
TODAY: Today will be sunnier than Thursday, but we’re still dealing with clouds from the same system that brought inches of rainfall across the region yesterday. Some high clouds will get pulled in from the southwest through the morning, leaving us progressing from partly cloudy to mostly cloudy through the day. This will bring a
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Robert Shackelford, CNN The deadly storm system that destroyed homes in the South was producing more tornadoes, freezing rain, treacherous travel and power outages Wednesday. At least two people were killed Tuesday in Louisiana as the system’s vicious winds tore through communities from Oklahoma to Texas to Mississippi. Another
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN Grant Wahl, the American soccer reporter who collapsed and died while covering the World Cup in Qatar last week, died of an aortic aneurysm that ruptured, his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, said Wednesday. “It’s just one of these things that had been likely brewing for years, and for
Continue ReadingCompiled by CNN Staff They were pianists and painters, swimmers and dancers, budding readers, little brothers and big sisters. Then, in a flash of violence, their 20 bright smiles were snuffed out forever in a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary that haunts the nation to this day. Also stolen that chilly Friday — just 11
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Beijing has vowed to go all out next year to save its Covid-hit economy by boosting consumption and loosening control over private industry, including the struggling tech and property sectors. The new pledge marks a big shift from leader Xi Jinping’s years-long effort to rein in private businesses, which were perceived
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Phil Mattingly, CNN As administration officials considered a border proposal reminiscent of the Trump era this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called Ron Klain, President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, with concerns, according to three sources with knowledge of the call. The call — one of many that have come
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, Joe Sutton and Jason Hanna, CNN At least three people have died and more than a dozen were left injured across Louisiana over the past 24 hours as severe weather moves across the South carving a path of destruction. A tornado touched down in New Orleans around 4 p.m. CT Wednesday, the
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Cheng Cheng, CNN China’s abrupt and under-prepared exit from zero-Covid could lead to nearly 1 million deaths, according to a new study, as the country braces for an unprecedented wave of infections spreading out from its biggest cities to its vast rural areas. For nearly three years, the Chinese government has
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Rob Shackelford, CNN A massive cross-country storm is producing damaging tornadoes in the South, where a child has died, and punishing blizzard conditions in Colorado and the Plains that have resulted in shuttered interstates and snarled travel. The storm system moving east across the nation — currently lingering over the central
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Investors withdrew as much as $3 billion from Binance on Tuesday, according to blockchain analytics firm Nansen, as a deluge of negative headlines about the cryptocurrency industry rattled users of the world’s largest exchange. Andrew Thurman, content lead for Nansen, told CNN that at its peak, Binance saw “as high as
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou safeties coach and defensive coordinator Ryan Walters will be the next head coach of the Purdue football team, following an official announcement on Tuesday morning. Walters most recently served as the defensive coordinator at Illinois. In his second season with the Fighting Illini, he was named 247sports’ defensive coordinator of
Continue Reading