By 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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