WEDNESDAY LATE AFTERNOON UPDATE: The severe weather threat continues to wane this afternoon with scattered showers and storms showing weak rotation for areas just west of St. Louis. We’ll still see the potential of isolated storms with heavy rain into this evening, but the severe weather threat will be low with cells after 7:00 p.m.
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Again. That was the front page headline on the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday morning after 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman. It’s a sentiment many people are feeling. The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is the third mass shooting this week, according
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN Again. That was the front page headline on the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday morning after 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman. It’s a sentiment many people are feeling. The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is the third mass shooting this week, according
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No one was injured during a fight involving a knife at a Columbia gas station Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While the Supreme Court has been working behind closed doors on its first major Second Amendment opinion in more than a decade, three mass shootings have broken the country, including Tuesday’s massacre of 19 schoolchildren in Texas. Closed off from public view, the justices are penning opinions
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN The National Rifle Association is set to hold its 2022 annual meeting in Houston on Friday, bringing together its top brass and several notable conservatives, including former President Donald Trump, for the first time in three years. The NRA’s annual meeting was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business At the grocery store, shoppers have seen food prices increase at their fastest pace in decades. Yet the price of one hot, juicy, spit-roasted favorite hasn’t budged at several top chains: rotisserie chickens. Despite a 16.4% annual increase in chicken prices rotisserie chickens remain $4.99 at Costco and BJ’s Wholesale
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell, Seán Federico-O’Murchú, Adrienne Vogt, Mike Hayes and Aditi Sangal, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Isabelle Chapman, Daniel A. Medina, Nicole Chavez, Dakin Andone and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Just before killing 19 children and two teachers in a Texas elementary school Tuesday, the 18-year-old gunman allegedly texted a girl who lives in Germany about his intentions. According to screenshots reviewed by CNN and an interview with the 15-year-old girl
Continue ReadingToday: Storms will begin to develop this afternoon to the east of Columbia beginning around 2 PM. All forms of severe risk are on the table including a possible brief spin-up tornado. Thankfully, all risks are on the side of lower probabilities. These storms will continue to build in and push to the east exiting
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, hadn’t left the country since Russia invaded three months ago. But he traveled hundreds of miles from Kyiv to Davos, Switzerland, to send a message to some of the world’s biggest technology companies: We need you to do more. Fedorov said in an
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By Eric Levenson, Isabelle Chapman, Andy Rose and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The gunman who killed 19 kids and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was a local high school student with few if any friends who officials said legally purchased two assault rifles and scores of ammo last week for his
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Millions of students who participated in virtual learning during the Covid-19 pandemic had their personal data and online behaviors tracked by educational apps and websites without their consent and in many cases shared with third-party advertising technology companies, a new report has found. Human Rights Watch, an international advocacy
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Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Kid Rock had some fiery things to say about Oprah Winfrey and Joy Behar years ago. And he isn’t sorry about it. The rocker told Fox host Tucker Carlson during an interview for “Life of a Rockstar: Kid Rock” that he has no regrets about the 2019 incident in which
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has released weather preparedness guidance for residents, as The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team tracks the potential for severe weather on Wednesday.
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TODAY: A Weather Alert Day is in place for the possibility of strong storms in today’s forecast. A cold front will push through today, bringing a line of thunderstorms through mid-Missouri. There is a possibility that storms in this line along the cold front and any that develop out ahead of it, produce hail, damaging
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Andy Rose and Steve Almasy, CNN An 18-year-old gunman on Tuesday fatally shot 19 children and two adults at a Texas elementary school before he was killed by law enforcement officers, officials said. The shooter — identified by Texas officials as Salvador Ramos, of Uvalde — also shot his grandmother before crashing
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By Rob Picheta and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Vaccines, variants, natural immunity and better treatment options mean catching Covid-19 now isn’t the same as it was a year or two ago. But for millions of people who contracted the virus even in the pandemic’s first months, the impact of the disease lingers. As many as one
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