By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Fourth of July celebrations are going to be a lot more expensive this year. The silver lining? Beer is still relatively cheap. In the four weeks ending on June 12, the price of a hot dog package jumped about 17% compared to last year, according to the market research firm
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway patrol’s annual Fourth of July Counting period starts on Friday at 6 p.m. and will run until 11:59 p.m. on the Fourth of July. The counting period is a way for the departments to track traffic trends on the busy holiday weekend. “So it gives us an idea
Continue ReadingBy Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN Steps from an interstate and minutes from an airport sits a nondescript building with a tenant never more in demand. Whole Woman’s Health is one of the nation’s largest independent abortion providers, and the location of its Minnesota clinic is no accident. “Some patients may fly, some may
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Another pool has opened up in Columbia. The Douglass Family Aquatic Center will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday through Sunday for the rest of the summer. The pool will also be open Monday on the Fourth of July. Columbia Parks and Recreation delayed the Douglass Family Aquatic Center
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AAA expects there to be over 47.9 million Americans will travel this weekend with 3.6 million of those expected to be to traveling by air.
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with spotty storms possible, becoming more widespread overnight. Lows in the upper 60s to around 70. TOMORROW: Showers and storms likely, becoming less widespread by late afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. EXTENDED: Spot showers have developed, but coverage of storms into tonight will continue to be spotty until early tomorrow morning as showers
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business With safe, legal abortion access in the United States being restricted in numerous states after last week’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion-seekers are increasingly turning to online resources to seek medical care. Traffic to telehealth abortion platforms has skyrocketed in the last several days and weeks,
Continue ReadingToday: Temperatures will top out into the lower 90’s as showers and storms will move in from the northwest ahead and along an incoming cold front. A few strong to severe storms are possible with strong winds being the main threat along with large hail. Tonight: Scattered showers and storms will continue along the incoming
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Amtrak and railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe have sued the company that employed a dump truck driver killed in a train crash this week in Chariton County.
Continue Readingby Chiara Grimes, CNN Business For the 44 million Spanish-speaking individuals in the United States, opening a bank account can be an intimidating journey with an array of obstacles. Seis, a new bank targeting Spanish-speaking people, is trying to reshape the mobile banking experience to be more inclusive of immigrants. Trevor McKendrick, the company’s founder,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A local organization and the Missouri State Highway Patrol plan to give out free lifejackets to Mid-Missouri veterans and families over the Fourth of July weekend. The U.S. Exercise Tiger Commemorative Foundation (USTF) and troopers with the highway’s patrol Troop F Water Patrol unit will host the second annual “Operations Sgt. Rosie’s
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN US Android app developers will be able to claim money from a new $90 million fund Google will establish as part of a wider settlement with app makers over the tech giant’s app store practices, the company said Thursday. The proposed settlement is designed to address app developers’ years-long allegations that
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is on the front lines of protecting abortion rights in Michigan, where a court injunction is the only thing keeping the state from reverting to a 1931 law that banned and criminalized abortion. “I don’t think many knew that Michigan would snap back 91
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TODAY: Dewpoints will trend a little higher today, and so will temperatures through the morning. At the same time, a cold front will drop into mid-Missouri by the early afternoon. Along and ahead of the front, showers will try to drift into our northern counties. Folks north of I-70 may encounter a sprinkle or two
Continue ReadingBy Sara Sidner, Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN Family members of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black teen whose murder in the Jim Crow South spurred the civil rights movement in America, say they have unearthed an unserved arrest warrant for the White woman who accused him of making advances toward her, sparking the events
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN The grandmother placed her head in her hands and began to sob. “She didn’t have to suffer,” Adela Aguilar said, shaking her head as she recalled the moment when her granddaughter bid her farewell last month. Adela Ramírez had just turned 28 and made a major decision: She was leaving
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN After Robin Williams died by suicide in August 2014, his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, would soon learn about a disease she had never heard of, but one that had haunted both of their lives. That disease is Lewy body dementia, with which the actor was diagnosed in October 2014 following an
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Kohl’s is no longer for sale. The department store announced Friday that it has ended its strategic review process and will no longer consider selling itself to Franchise Group, a holding company that owns The Vitamin Shoppe and other retail brands. Kohl’s blamed extreme market volatility and said its finances
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