Columbia Parks and Rec announces pool opening schedule
Albert-Oakland Family Aquatic Center opens this weekend
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‘Joe died of a broken heart’: Husband of beloved teacher killed in Texas shooting dies two days later
By Joe Sutton and Christina Maxouris, CNN Fourth-grade teacher Irma Garcia chose a few short lines to include on her school biography page, highlighting what she loved most: her husband, her four children and teaching. “I love to BBQ with my husband,” she wrote on the Robb Elementary School website, among other details about her
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Columbia Public Schools offers advice, resources to help children cope after Texas elementary shooting
The head of Columbia Public Schools sent a message to families Wednesday with advice for helping children cope with the massacre of 19 elementary school children in Texas.
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Uvalde school shooter was in school for up to an hour before law enforcement broke into room where he was barricaded and killed him
By Isabelle Chapman, Daniel A. Medina, Nicole Chavez, Dakin Andone and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school Tuesday was on the premises for up to an hour before law enforcement forcibly entered a classroom and killed him, officials said Wednesday. “It’s going to be
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Asian American restaurant owner shares culture through food
One Korean American in Columbia is contributing to the cultural exchange through his love of cooking.
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Tracking scattered showers and storms, cooler temperatures on Thursday
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Lows in the upper 50s. TOMORROW: Cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Highs in the mid-upper 60s. EXTENDED: The better environment for severe weather for the rest of the afternoon and evening is going to be east of Highway 54. The risk will
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Weather Alert Day: Severe threat diminishing tonight
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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What past survivors and families have to say about the Texas school shooting
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 ReadingWhat past survivors and families have to say about the Texas school shooting
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
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May 25 Texas shooting news
By Travis Caldwell, Seán Federico-O’Murchú, Adrienne Vogt, Aditi Sangal, Melissa Macaya and Mike Hayes, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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Police called to fight involving knife at Columbia gas station
No one was injured during a fight involving a knife at a Columbia gas station Wednesday.
Continue ReadingSupreme Court may soon loosen gun laws as nation reels from massacres
By 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 ReadingWhat to know about the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston
By 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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Prices on almost everything at the grocery store are up – except rotisserie chicken. Here’s why
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
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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.
Continue Reading Uvalde school shooter texted a teenaged girl ‘Ima go shoot up a(n) elementary school’ before massacre
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 ReadingTracking chances for isolated severe storms this afternoon
Today: 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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Ukraine has a message for Cloudflare and SAP: Get out of Russia now
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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Uvalde school shooting suspect was a loner who bought two assault rifles for his 18th birthday
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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Virtual learning apps tracked and shared kids’ data and online activities with advertisers, report says
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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