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A year after Breonna Taylor’s death, Kentucky lawmakers limit, but don’t ban, use of no-knock warrants
The Kentucky state legislature passed a bill on Tuesday setting restrictions on warrants authorizing entry without notice, more commonly known as no-knock warrants. The legislation comes a little more than a year after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville EMT who was killed by police in March of 2020 after they executed a no-knock
Continue Reading Ohio woman arrested over an April Fools’ Day text about a possible active shooter
A 57-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after an apparent April Fools’ Day joke about a possible active shooter at the manufacturing plant where she works in Springfield, Ohio, the local sheriff’s office. Pamela Sisco was at the Navistar plant when she texted her sister that a man who had been fired the day before had
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Salmonella infections in 8 states could be tied to wild songbirds, CDC says
Investigators are looking into an outbreak of salmonella infections in 19 people that could be associated with sick or dead birds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections have occurred in eight states, including California, Tennessee, and New Hampshire, with eight people requiring hospitalization. No deaths are currently reported. The agency cites
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Extreme policies, average statistics raise questions around Florida’s Covid-19 data
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, policy decisions in Florida have been among the most extreme — often among the first, the only or the few. Florida was one of the first states to roll back capacity restrictions on restaurants and bars and require schools to offer in-person learning. It is one of a few states that
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Local health departments prepare for the activation of Phase 3 next week
COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) All Missourians will be eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine next Friday, April 9. Local health departments are preparing on how to accommodate a larger group becoming eligible. The state is moving forward with its vaccine distribution plan as Phase 3 will become eligible on April 9. Phase 3 allows for all
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Demand and supply for vaccines in mid-Missouri seems to have flipped as appointments are taking longer to fill or are left open
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the vaccination rate for Boone County rises along with vaccine supply, demand for the vaccine seems to be leveling off according to appointment openings. On Wednesday, The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Twitter page tweeted out that there were available shots at the United Church of Christ vaccination event in California, Missouri.
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Audrain County woman charged with sex crimes against a child
AUDRAIN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman is now charged in Audrain County for sex crimes against a child Troopers arrested Jennifer Huddleston Wednesday. According to court documents she sent pornographic pictures of a child to a man. Huddleston is also accused of having conversations over social media involving the sexual solicitation of the child. Investigators
Continue Reading An 8-year-old cancer survivor sold over 30,000 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies. She’s using proceeds to help ‘fellow childhood cancer warriors’
An 8-year-old cancer survivor in San Bernardino, California, is using some of the proceeds from her Girl Scout cookie sales to give back to others fighting cancer. Lilly Bumpus, who has been a girl scout for four years, said she sold 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, crushing the previous record of roughly 26,000 boxes
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ABC 17 News April 1 coronavirus roundtable discussion
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In just eight days all Missourians will be eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The state is moving along with its vaccine rollout after entering phase two on Monday, under this phase nearly 900,000 state residents became eligible for a shot. ABC 17 News spoke with Ashton Day with the Columbia/Boone County
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Philippines says illegal structures found on reefs near where Chinese boats gathered
The Philippines said Thursday it has discovered illegally built structures on features in the Union Banks, a series of reefs in the South China Sea near where Manila says a flotilla of Chinese fishing vessels, allegedly manned by militias, had gathered in recent weeks. The country’s military said the structures were spotted during maritime patrols
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At least 20 mass shootings have taken place in the two weeks since the metro Atlanta spa attacks left 8 dead
Two weeks have passed since the three Atlanta-area spa shootings claimed the lives of eight people, and in that time at least 20 other mass shootings have taken place, from California to Washington, DC. Analysis: A return to normal in America means a return to violence At least seven mass shootings occurred in the week
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Parson says he won’t require vaccine passports in Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson says he won’t require what are known as vaccine passports in Missouri. But Parson told reporters Thursday that he’s OK with private companies adopting them. Vaccine passports are documentation that shows travelers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus. Technology companies and travel-related
Continue Reading US Olympic hopefuls will be allowed to protest racial and social injustice at trials
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has announced that it will not sanction athletes who kneel for the national anthem at the Olympic trials in support of social or racial justice movements. The committee released guidance for the athletes, providing examples of the demonstrations that are allowed. They include raising a fist at
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Pavement repair project begins next week on Interstate 70 in Boone and Callaway County
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pavement repair project will improve the driving surface along sections of Interstate 70 throughout Boone and Callaway County beginning next week. Starting Monday, a Missouri Department of Transportation contractor will begin making pavement repairs at various locations along both directions of the interstate between the Cedar Creek bridge, located east of
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The first Korean American first lady in the US: We will not stand silent any more
Forty one years. That’s how long I have lived in the United States since emigrating from South Korea to pursue the American dream. Twenty years. That’s how long I spent working multiple jobs, often 14 or 16 hours a day, to raise three daughters as a single mother, all so they could have access to
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J&J says Covid-19 vaccine still on track despite manufacturing snafu
Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it still expects to meet its commitments for the promised delivery of an additional 24 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in April, even after a quality problem at one of the company’s contract manufacturers. The plant that had the problem, run by Baltimore-based Emergent BioSolutions, has not yet been
Continue Reading Iran, China, Russia, and Europe will discuss possible US return to nuclear deal
A virtual meeting of Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will take place on Friday to discuss a possible US return to the Iran nuclear deal, said the EU in a statement released Thursday. “The Joint Commission will be chaired on behalf of EU High Representative Josep Borrell by the Deputy
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Derek Chauvin defended restraining George Floyd in phone call with supervisor
Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin spoke to his supervisor in a phone call shortly after kneeling on George Floyd for over 9 minutes last May to explain his version of what happened. “I was just going to call and have you come out to our scene here,” Chauvin told Sgt. David Pleoger in a
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Ontario shuts down for at least a month as ICU admissions jump
Ontario announced a province-wide “emergency brake” shutdown beginning this weekend as Canada’s most populous province struggles to cope with a surge in ICU admissions that provincial leaders said they feared was fueled by rapidly spreading coronavirus variants. “The new variants are far more dangerous than before. They spread faster and do more harm than the
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