Law enforcement in Columbia and Boone County are trained to do whatever is necessary to stop an active shooter threat and they said the practice is to move in without waiting for a response.
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A large number of firefighters are on the scene off of Sycamore Hills road in Boone County.
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Dana Bash, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The support staffer was not someone who routinely communicated
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A popular art piece has been recovered after it was stolen from Columbia Senior Activity Center off of Business Loop 70 East on Wednesday morning.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) stands by his statements at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and adds that he doesn’t think transgender women should participate in women’s sports. Hawley was accused of transphobia by a witness at the Senate hearings on the repercussions of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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A stolen vehicle was located by the Osage Beach Fire Protection District while they were using sonar radar submerged at the bottom of the boat ramp at All About Boats, 696 Passover Road on Tuesday.
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Tonight: Skies remain clear overnight with temperatures cooling to the upper 60’s. Winds begin out of the northeast and slow switch from the southeast at around 5 mph. Tomorrow: Skies remain mostly sunny as temperatures increase above Wednesday’s highs into the mid-90’s. Winds remain out of the south at 5-10 mph as conditions remain dry.
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Another lawsuit has been filed after the deadly Amtrak train derailment in June in Chariton County.
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business TikTok on Wednesday announced several updates intended to help users customize their viewing preferences and filter out content that may be problematic or too mature for young users, amid renewed scrutiny of the potential harms social media poses to teens. The short-form video app is tweaking its viewing experience so
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN In clarifying guidance announced Wednesday, the Biden administration says federal law does not allow pharmacies to turn away people who have a prescription for a drug that may end a pregnancy. The US Health and Human Services Department Office for Civil Rights sent guidance to more than 60,000 pharmacies across the
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The White House’s Covid-19 response team sent a clear message to the nation this week on the spread of the Omicron subvariant BA.5 and the importance of second vaccine booster doses for adults over the age of 50. “If you have not gotten a vaccine shot in the year 2022, if
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Americans are feeling slightly better about the economy, but painfully high inflation is still keeping consumer sentiment at close to an all-time low, according to preliminary survey data released by the University of Michigan on Friday. The preliminary index for the university’s Surveys of Consumers rose to 51.1 in July
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A mysterious radio burst with a pattern similar to a heartbeat has been detected in space. Astronomers estimate that the signal came from a galaxy roughly a billion light-years away, but the exact location and cause of the burst is unknown. A study detailing the findings published Wednesday in the journal
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden was greeted in Israel on Wednesday by a row of Israeli leaders offering open palms to the President. Biden offered a closed fist in exchange. The President doled out fist bumps and pats on the shoulder to the delegation stationed along the red carpet at the foot of
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TODAY: A clear and calm start this morning has us starting in the low 60s Wednesday morning. Skies stay clear today, and warm us into the low 90s this afternoon. With dew point values in the 50’s this afternoon, today’s heat should be relatively tolerable. TONIGHT: With surface high pressure near by, it will be
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Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re always waiting for something, whether it’s in line for your morning coffee, on hold with customer service, or behind cars in traffic. You may also find yourself waiting for something much deeper, like love or life-changing medical results. So how can we make the act of waiting during stressful periods
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re always waiting for something, whether it’s in line for your morning coffee, on hold with customer service, or behind cars in traffic. You may also find yourself waiting for something much deeper, like love or life-changing medical results. So how can we make the act of waiting during stressful periods
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse, CNN Two people died Tuesday afternoon after a boat capsized off New York City’s Midtown Manhattan, spilling relatives and friends onboard into the Hudson River, officials said. A 7-year-old boy was among those killed, said New York Police Department Assistant Chief of the Patrol Bureau Manhattan South James McCarthy. The boat, which
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN They were once seen as heroes of the nation, the almost mythical warrior-king leaders who defeated the separatists in a bloody civil war. Yet the final days of Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa dynasty tell a very different tale. In the early hours of Wednesday, embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made a hurried exit
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