JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Hickman (70) Capital City (35) FINAL Fulton (62) Boonville (44) FINAL Southern Boone (63) Hermann (67) FINAL North Callaway (67) Van-Far (44) FINAL Centralia (44) California (38) FINAL
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official. The Pentagon’s plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before
Continue ReadingBy Fred Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Nikita Chibrin says he still remembers his fellow Russian soldiers running away after allegedly raping two Ukrainian women during their deployment northwest of Kyiv in March. “I saw them run, then I learned they were rapists. They raped a mother and a daughter,” he said. Their
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National Assessment of Educational Progress data presented Tuesday to the Missouri State Board of Education data that show how the COVID-19 pandemic hurt students in math and reading across the country and in Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. According to officials, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of adults in America each year. Heart attacks occur when an artery that carries blood throughout your body becomes blocked, stopping blood flow to the heart, killing a part of the heart muscle. Blockage can occur from plaque build up or damage to
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TONIGHT: Rain exits, mostly cloudy and breezy with lows in the upper 30s to around 40. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy and breezy with highs in the upper 40s to around 50. Winds gusting to 20 mph. EXTENDED: Showers exit tonight, leaving us with gusty winds up to 30 mph. Tomorrow is looking dry, but scattered cloud
Continue Readingby Gayle Harrington, CNN Netflix’s documentary about Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, debuted with a total of 81.55 million hours watched in its first week, the company said in a press release Tuesday. That’s the highest viewing time of any documentary to debut on the streaming service in its premiere week. The series
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam, CNN Across the country, overflow health care workers are struggling to catch their breath as hospitals fill with sick patients battling a trifecta of respiratory illnesses — Covid-19, RSV and the flu. “We’ve seen a real increase in cases … particularly since Thanksgiving,” said Dr. Christopher Longhurst, chief medical officer at UC
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade. Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act before thousands of invited guests
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade. Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act before thousands of invited guests
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Ashland Police Chief Gabe Edwards said Monday that his department is still trying to find a 15-year-old girl who went missing Dec. 4.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN After starting out well, “Kindred” gets lost in a maze of its own making, adapting Octavia E. Butler’s time-traveling novel into an eight-part Hulu series that spends far too much time spinning its wheels. In that regard, it joins “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Paper Girls” as recent examples of
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan and Kacey Cherry, CNN Days after video of a scuffle with an activist surfaced, and months after racist remarks on tape went viral, Los Angeles councilman Kevin de León told CNN he will remain on the city council but again faced protests at the council’s scheduled meeting Tuesday. The councilman has defied
Continue ReadingToday: Scattered showers remain throughout all of Central Missouri with some rumbles of thunder possible. Winds remain gusty out of the southwest gusting up to 25 mph. Afternoon highs warm into the lower 50s. Tonight: Scattered showers begin to push to the east after 10 pm allowing for drier conditions. Winds remain out of the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicide and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, a new study suggests, likely adding to growing scrutiny of the app’s impact on its youngest users. In a report published Wednesday, the non-profit Center for Countering Digital
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN After making groundbreaking discoveries about the mysterious interior of the red planet, the InSight lander’s mission has officially ended. The stationary lander spent nearly 1,500 days on Mars. Mission managers declared the program’s end on Wednesday after the lander failed to respond to two messages from mission control at NASA’s Jet
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Tuesday, the Missouri State Board of Education plans to talk about its priorities for the 2023 legislative session. MO-State-Board-of-Education-Agenda-12-13-2022Download Among other topics, board members expect to discuss the success of students and workforce development. Board members want to retain more educators in Missouri by pushing for a minimum starting salary
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official. The Pentagon’s plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN US Department of Energy officials announced a history-making accomplishment in nuclear fusion Tuesday: For the first time, US scientists produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy they used to power the experiment. A so-called “net energy gain” is a major milestone in a decadeslong attempt to source clean, limitless
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh and Jill Martin, CNN The global soccer players’ union, FIFPRO, said it is “shocked and sickened” by reports that Iranian soccer player Amir Nasr-Azadani faces the possibility of execution “after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country.” “We stand in solidarity with Amir and call for the immediate removal
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