COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia City Councilwoman Betsy Peters is in the process of selling her land to the Voluntary Action Center. The VAC has been looking for land to build it’s homeless shelter, called Homeless Opportunity Campus. Project coordinators submitted a plan to the Columbia Boone County Health and Human Services on Friday. Peters purchased
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Scores from Week 6 of Mid-Missouri high school football.
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Starting in January, those who sleep on the streets could face legal consequences if found on state land in Missouri.
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A Columbia pharmacist says it’s a good idea to get the flu and COVID-19 vaccines at the same time.
Continue ReadingBy Caroll Alvarado, CNN Hope Labriola stood naked on her bed, the water rising in her mobile home, as Hurricane Ian roared overhead. For a few moments, the 45-year-old Fort Myers Beach woman was able to talk on her cell phone with her friend Lisbeth Whelan before losing phone service. The phone call, which Whelan
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Scores from Week 5 of Mid-Missouri high school football.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Overflowed levees and flooding left the Jefferson City Memorial Airport temporarily out of service in 2019. The levees were 30-feet high, but water rose three feet about it, spilled over the wall and caused damage, according to the Army Corps Engineers. Only recently has the Jefferson City levee been repaired and
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with lows in the mid-upper 40s. Patchy fog in low lying areas. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny with highs in the mid-70s. EXTENDED: We’ll cool into the 60s after sunset tonight, with lows dipping back down into the mid-40s. There could be some areas of patchy fog in river valleys once again, but we’re
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business About 15% of Nick Wishnatzki’s 650-acre family strawberry farm sustained damage from Hurricane Ian. His fields in Duette, Florida, are underwater, and plastic used to protect the carefully prepped fields for planting season in November, were ripped off by Ian’s 100-mph winds. That’s sent Wishnatzki scrambling to get back on
Continue ReadingBy Allie Malloy and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday called the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines a “deliberate act of sabotage” and accused Russia and President Vladimir Putin of “pumping out disinformation and lies,” though he did not directly accuse Moscow for the leaks. Biden’s strong words mark the first time
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, Alaa Elassar, Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Ian, now a post-tropical cyclone, was moving farther inland Friday night after pummeling South Carolina with fierce winds and a destructive storm surge, less than two days after killing at least 45 people in Florida and leaving behind an apocalyptic path of destruction. The
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TODAY: Mostly clear and mild with highs again in the lower 70s. TONIGHT: Mostly clear skies are the rule overnight as a light breeze remains out of the east. This allows lows to cool to the lower 40s. EXTENDED: Temperatures on Saturday are expected to warm slightly in the mid-70s by the afternoon. Expect mostly
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Berlinger, Anna Chernova and Tim Lister, CNN President Vladimir Putin announced Russia would seize of nearly a fifth of Ukraine on Friday, declaring that the millions of people living there would be Russian citizens “forever.” Under the annexation process, which is illegal under international law, Moscow will recognize four Ukrainian regions as Russian
Continue ReadingBy Bill Weir, Paul P. Murphy and Ray Sanchez, CNN An older couple who rode out Hurricane Ian in their home on Sanibel Island in Florida could not agree on evacuating after parts of the causeway to the mainland were destroyed. “We’re going. We’re going,” the unidentified man told his partner as she looked down
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The American Red Cross is sending people and equipment from Columbia to help with Hurricane Ian recovery efforts.
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft, CNN Particularly hard hit by Hurricane Ian, the Fort Myers area in southwest Florida is in shambles. “It’s horrific,” Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson told CNN’s John Berman Friday morning at the city’s devastated marina, its boats strewn about and cement slabs ripped from the water and dropped onto land. “Look at
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN A new treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA announced approval of Relyvrio, developed by Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, on Thursday. The oral medication can be taken as a standalone therapy or with other treatments, according to the company, and it
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan The apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines running from Russia underscore Europe’s massive energy vulnerabilities, former US energy regulator Neil Chatterjee told CNN. “It’s a scary situation. They are basically hoping and praying for a mild winter,” Chatterjee, a former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said in
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN In the wake of a devastating Hurricane Ian, theme parks and other sites of interest to tourists worked to reopen in hard-hit Florida as well as the Carolinas. Here’s a status report of the latest plans of various theme parks and other tourist attractions in Florida along with what’s going on
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, Gregory Wallace and Marnie Hunter, CNN Hurricane Ian dealt another blow to air travel as the storm moved up the East Coast. The main airport in Charleston, South Carolina, closed on Friday, while many airports in Florida were reopening. Charleston International Airport’s airfield closed because of high winds from Hurricane Ian, the
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