By Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologist More than 20 million people remain under a heat advisory for Sunday across the Northeast as record temperatures stretch from Virginia to New Hampshire. “If highs reach the mid to upper 90s, this will be record highs for the day and the month!” the National Weather Service (NWS) office in
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN The US Forest Service is hitting a pause on prescribed fire operations in all the system’s lands across the country because of “extreme wildfire risk conditions,” Chief Randy Moore announced Friday. The move follows a meeting federal officials had earlier in the day with the governor of New
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) K-9 Officer Adam Hoskins and his dog, Burbon, have been assisting in bomb searches across Mid-Missouri since 2018. Hoskins and Burbon train every week in Columbia with the master trainer out here. Hoskins said that they were in the middle of a training exercise when the Columbia Police Department requested their
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A biology teacher at a Michigan private school for gifted students is on administrative leave after distributing an assignment worksheet last week in which a picture of former US President Barack Obama was included among pictures of several animals, including primates. The teacher’s choice to use the curriculum with the “disturbing
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Families and scholars of Columbia Public Schools will be attending graduation ceremonies with no COVID-19 restrictions in place for the first time in three years.
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN The first flights of the Biden administration’s latest effort to expedite baby formula delivery to the US amid a nationwide shortage will include US military aircraft, a White House official says. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the first flights supporting the newly created Operation Fly Formula program, and they will
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OSAGE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Osage County Sheriff’s Office has suspended a case involving a Mid-Missouri daycare. Sheriff Michael Bonham announced the suspension Friday morning after investigating allegations that substances were given to children at the Busy Bee Learning Academy in Linn, Missouri. Bonham said the decision to suspend the case was made after consulting
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By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Two Florida deputies saved a 9-year-old boy’s life Thursday night, pulling him through the window of a burning home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies arrived shortly after 11 p.m. ET at a home engulfed in flames and were told there was a child still in the house, according to a news
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While it’s storming and mid-80’s here in Central Missouri, it’s snowing and into the lower 30’s along the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado. Large snowflakes began falling around 3 a.m. just to the west of Denver on Friday. From then on, rain began to slowly switch to snowfall finally approaching the eastern downslope of the
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By Josh Campbell and Jason Kravarik, CNN Ryan Last received a message on a school night in February from someone he believed to be a girl. Within hours, the 17-year-old, straight-A student and Boy Scout had died by suicide. “Somebody reached out to him pretending to be a girl, and they started a conversation,” his
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Several businesses are excited to see the Special Olympics make its way to the city, students graduate from Columbia Public Schools and fans attending regionals for Mizzou softball.
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and storms. Some storms may produce heavy rain and isolated hail. Lows in the low to mid-50s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Temperatures fall into the low 50s by early evening. EXTENDED: Showers and storms will continue
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team put up another lights out pitching and defensive performance in a 3-1 win over Missouri State on Friday. Sophomore Laurin Krings had a shutout going until the 6th inning when Missouri State sent one in on a shot to center field. She tossed for a complete game with
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Investors took a break from selling in May and going away, for one day at least. Stocks soared Monday, as positive news about earnings from banking powerhouse JPMorgan Chase and comments from President Joe Biden about the possibility of lifting some US tariffs on China boosted sentiment on
Continue ReadingToday: This afternoon, showers and storms will begin to develop along and behind a stalling cold front in Mid-Missouri after 4 pm. Afternoon highs will see some inconsistency across Central Missouri thanks to the location of this cold-front. The northwestern half of Mid-Missouri will see highs into the mid-70s while Columbia and to the southeast
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Devan Cole, CNN Trevor Reed, an American citizen and former Marine recently freed after two years imprisoned in Russia, detailed his harrowing experience surviving a psychiatric treatment facility in the country in an exclusive interview with CNN. “The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Devan Cole, CNN Trevor Reed, an American citizen and former Marine recently freed after two years imprisoned in Russia, detailed his harrowing experience surviving a psychiatric treatment facility in the country in an exclusive interview with CNN. “The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart agreed in talks Saturday to begin discussions on restarting and potentially expanding joint military drills that had been halted under Biden’s predecessor — a step likely to draw fury from North Korea as it intensifies its provocations. The move was a signal Biden
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