COOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters contained another fire early Monday morning near the Interstate 70 bridge over the Missouri River. An ABC 17 News crew saw the small fire from the bridge in Cooper County around 4:15 a.m. There were no reports of injuries, according to the Boone County Fire Protection District. Over the weekend,
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is not included
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Rebekah Riess and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The 19-year-old gunman who killed two people and wounded several others at his former high school left a note saying his struggles led to “the perfect storm for a mass shooter,” St. Louis police said. Orlando Harris graduated from Central Visual and Performing Arts High School
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Prosecutors said in opening statements of Harvey Weinstein’s second criminal trial Monday that eight women will testify in court they were sexually assaulted by the powerful Hollywood mogul. “Each of these women came forward independent of each other, and none of them knew one another,” prosecutor Paul Thompson
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist The storm system crisscrossing the country right now may be one of the most robust we have seen in a while. It came onshore in the Pacific Northwest last Friday, bringing rain to the region for the first time since July and clearing out the smoky skies in Seattle in
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Last week, Stephen Balka found himself living a parent’s nightmare. His 2-month-old son Adrian was struggling to breathe, sometimes going as long as seven seconds between gasping breaths, the father said. “It’s a very terrifying situation,” Balka said. “It’s one of my biggest fears.” After rushing
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN Orange and pink fireworks colored the skies over south London on Monday, as members of the local South Asian community celebrated Diwali. This year, the holiday aligned with Rishi Sunak, 42, becoming Britain’s first prime minister of Indian descent, as Hindus like him celebrated the festival of lights. Sunak’s rise
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Former finance minister Rishi Sunak will be the United Kingdom’s next prime minister after his lone remaining rival dropped out of the fast-tracked race to become Conservative party leader on Monday. This is a breaking story, more to follow… The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on America’s children. The alarming findings are based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading and math exams, often called the
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks will face the huge challenge of projecting stability after a period of historic political and financial market chaos. But their other task — shepherding the country through a recession — is poised to be just as daunting. Rishi Sunak emerged over the weekend
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Today: Scattered showers move in from the west by midmorning. Widespread showers and storms continue all afternoon as temperatures hover in the mid-70s. Tonight: More showers possible overnight as a cold front slowly slugs eastward. Low pressure tracking along this boundary will lead to a resurgence in storm activity early Tuesday. Temperatures steadily drop all
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN NASA has a team in place that will begin a study today on unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs. The group of 16 people — consisting of astronomers, astrophysicists, biologists, former pentagon officials, and a former astronaut — will gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky and release its
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN NASA has a team in place that will begin a study today on unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs. The group of 16 people — consisting of astronomers, astrophysicists, biologists, former pentagon officials, and a former astronaut — will gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky and release its
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN NASA has a team in place that will begin a study today on unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs. The group of 16 people — consisting of astronomers, astrophysicists, biologists, former pentagon officials, and a former astronaut — will gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky and release its
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, CNN With children back in school and daycare after the holidays, weary parents fear what illness awaits them next during this brutal respiratory virus season. Since October, RSV, a respiratory virus which often is most severe in young children and older adults, hit early and cases started rising quickly. Cases of influenza
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN NASA has a team in place that will begin a study today on unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs. The group of 16 people — consisting of astronomers, astrophysicists, biologists, former pentagon officials, and a former astronaut — will gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky and release its
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Sugam Pokharel, CNN Former finance minister Rishi Sunak will be the United Kingdom’s next prime minister after seeing off his lone remaining rival in the fast-tracked race to become Conservative party leader on Monday. The other potential candidate, Penny Mordaunt, conceded after failing to meet the threshold of nominations from lawmakers
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Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Janelle Chavez, CNN When Covid-19 patients younger than 5 also test positive for another respiratory virus, they tend to become sicker and develop more severe disease, a new study suggests. Among hospitalized children younger than 5, testing positive for both Covid-19 and another respiratory virus at the same time is associated
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on PowerMizzou.com publisher Gabe DeArmond in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.
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