School districts find success in hiring teachers ahead of school year
Local school districts say they have hired more teachers ahead of the start of the school year after dealing with a shortage last year.
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Columbia police review board member outlines reasons for resigning in email
A member of the Columbia Citizens Police Review Board outlined his reasons for resigning in an email to the city Monday.
Continue ReadingHow Australia’s deepest cave was discovered
Story by Lilit Marcus, Video by Teodora Preda During the week, Ciara Smart is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Tasmania. On the weekends, she’s a member of a caving club that discovered the deepest cave in Australia over the weekend of July 31. Smart and seven fellow members of the all-volunteer
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Bus driver shortage remains an issue nationwide as Mid-Missouri students return
Thousands of Mid-Missouri students will be starting the 2022-2023 school year within the next two weeks but getting to school might be an issue.
Continue ReadingHuman remains are found at Lake Mead’s Swim Beach for the third time amid dramatically dropping water levels
By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN More human skeletal remains were discovered at Lake Mead’s Swim Beach area Monday night, officials said, marking the third time authorities have reported finding remains at the beach amid the lake’s rapidly receding shoreline. So far this year, authorities have recovered human remains at the lake five times, three of which
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Parson says details on special session coming next week
Gov. Mike Parson said Tuesday that more details about his call for a special session to take up tax cuts will come out next week.
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Fall severe storm season
Most people associate strong to severe storms typically during the season of Spring. Generally, the majority of stronger storms are more present during this period. However, many people are unaware that there is another surge of strong to severe storms here in the Midwest. This secondary surge is during months of Fall. Although not typically
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Tracking less cloud cover tomorrow, warmer temperatures
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy early with gradual decreasing into the morning. Lows in in the lower 60s. TOMORROW: Decreasing clouds and pleasant with highs in the lower 80s. EXTENDED: As showers wind down, we ended up with about 1.7″ at the airport in Columbia and 1.5″ in Jefferson City. Clouds hold on through this evening with
Continue ReadingArizona Republican secretary of state nominee kept ‘Treason Watch List’ and posted about stockpiling ammunition on Pinterest
By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona is a self-proclaimed member of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers who repeatedly shared anti-government conspiracies and posts about stockpiling ammunition on social media. CNN’s KFile team uncovered previously unreported posts from Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative
Continue ReadingMore Americans are relying on credit cards. That could be very costly
By Matt Egan Interest rates on credit cards are so high these days that consumers with a $5,000 credit card balance could pay an extra $1,000 in interest over the course of a year, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Fed has been aggressively raising interest rates this year in a bid to
Continue ReadingEV credits are now harder to come by. These buyers snuck in deals under the wire.
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday, and it will reshape the electric vehicle tax credit. Automakers and consumers have scrambled in the last week to brace for its impact. Some car buyers are relieved to have finalized purchases before today, when qualifying became generally more
Continue ReadingBiden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law
President Joe Biden will sign a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.
Continue ReadingArtemis I is go for launch to the moon and back, NASA says
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mission is ready to launch. That’s the result of NASA’s Flight Readiness Review, which was conducted on Monday. The review was an in-depth assessment of the preparedness of the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) stack, consisting of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, currently sitting on the launchpad at
Continue ReadingTracking scattered light showers and cooler temperatures
Today: Scattered showers are expected to remain throughout much of Central Missouri throughout the afternoon and evening hours. The heaviest downpours are expected to remain in southwestern parts of Central Missouri exiting by 4 PM. Some areas to the south could see up to 0.75″ of additional rainfall, while most should see less than 0.5″.
Continue ReadingTrump considering releasing surveillance footage of FBI Mar-a-Lago search
By Gabby Orr, Sara Murray, Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Some allies of former President Donald Trump are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago residence, a proposal that has drawn mixed reaction inside his orbit, CNN has learned. The CCTV footage has been
Continue ReadingEnd of the Zoom boom? Citi analyst cuts stock to a rare ‘sell’ rating
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Zoom was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the work-from-anywhere trend that took hold during the height of the pandemic in 2020. But, as more people go back to the office on a regular basis, the stock has plunged. And one top Wall Street analyst thinks the worst
Continue ReadingEnd of the Zoom boom? Citi analyst cuts stock to a rare ‘sell’ rating
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Zoom was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the work-from-anywhere trend that took hold during the height of the pandemic in 2020. But, as more people go back to the office on a regular basis, the stock has plunged. And one top Wall Street analyst thinks the worst
Continue ReadingSuspect accused of shooting a coach during a Dallas-area youth football game turns himself in
By Claudia Dominguez, Ed Lavandera, Raja Razek and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The suspect in a shooting that killed a 43-year-old coach during a weekend youth football game outside Dallas turned himself in Monday, police said. Yaqub Salik Talib, 39, the brother of former NFL star and Super Bowl winner Aqib Talib, pulled out a gun
Continue ReadingA man narrowly missed a large metal object that likely fell from a plane in Maine
By Amy Simonson, Jennifer Feldman, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Maine Capitol Police screener Craig Donahue was returning from his lunch break when he heard a “loud thud” and the sound of metal rolling. Lucky for Donahue, he narrowly missed being hit Friday afternoon by a large “sleeve-like object” that likely fell from a
Continue ReadingA woman was killed by an alligator after she reportedly slipped into a pond while gardening
By Jamiel Lynch, Amanda Watts and Holly Yan, CNN An 88-year-old woman was killed by an alligator after she slipped into a pond while gardening at an adult living community, authorities in South Carolina told CNN and its affiliate WTOC. Around 11:15 a.m. Monday, authorities were called to Sun City Hilton Head on reports of
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