COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The MoDOT travelers map shows a few counties in Missouri experiencing covered roads Wednesday morning. According to MoDOT, Sullivan county, and Putnam county are reporting covered roads over most of the area. Some counties are seeing partly covered roads, including Macon, Gentry, Buchanan, Knox, and Clark.Audrain, Randolph, Monroe, and Marion Counties are
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Health experts continue to tell the public to avoid travel and crowds with new coronavirus cases remaining high. However, restaurants and bars remain open and many people are suffering from coronavirus fatigue. Will you be going out on New Year’s Eve or staying in to celebrate or playing it safe?
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Operation Division Director for Jefferson City Public Works Britt Smith said about ten of their snowplows, which are used year-round for other projects, are past their life expectancy.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Commission passed five new CARES Act funding requests totaling $387,108.84. The commission approved: City of Centralia – $29,508.84The Children’s School at Stephens College – $5,300Islamic School of Columbia, Missouri- $3,200Windsor Street Montessori School – $3,700Mizzou Academy – $5,400 The commission also approved an amendment for CARES funding with the City
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Walgreens partnered with The Bluffs in Columbia to deliver some of the first long-term care facility coronavirus vaccinations in Central Missouri on Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local high school basketball scores from Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. GIRLS HOOPS Blair Oaks (24) Jefferson City (54) FINAL Hallsville (65) North Callaway (30) FINAL BOYS HOOPS Hallsville (82) North Callaway (71) FINAL Blair Oaks (68) Jefferson City (53)
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The Louisville Metro Police Department is seeking to fire two detectives connected to the Breonna Taylor case, attorneys for the men told CNN. Detective Joshua Jaynes received a pre-termination letter from the department earlier Tuesday, his attorney Thomas Clay said. The letter, sent from Interim Chief of Police Yvette Gentry, informed Jaynes of the “present
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics announced it has received a $10 million dollar donation from an anonymous donor to help build a new indoor football practice facility. “The magnitude, impact and timing of this gift is significant as we attempt to advance the indoor football practice facility project as quickly as possible,” athletic director Jim
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Since the Thanksgiving holiday, California has faced a surge of Covid-19 infections unparalleled across the United States, leading to continued daily record highs in hospitalizations and deaths. Bed capacity in intensive care units has plunged to nearly zero in vast portions of the state as patients rush into hospitals, which are struggling to manage strains
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EXCELLO, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting one person has died and another has serious injuries after a wreck on US 63 a mile north of Excello. According to the MSHP, Nicholas Evans was driving on US 63 when the box truck began to slide on the ice covered roadway. The trooper reports
Continue Reading Mike and Carol Bruno did everything right to avoid Covid-19. They refrained from hosting the big, traditional family gatherings they were used to. They stuck to phone calls and video conferences with family even though they didn’t live far away. But a simple family visit to get a haircut claimed both of their lives. The
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The Massachusetts nursing home for US military veterans where at least 76 people died of coronavirus this spring administered its first Covid-19 vaccines Tuesday. Health care workers at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home gave its first shot to Robert Aucoin, a 78-year-old Air Force veteran, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health
Continue Reading (CNN) — If you are looking to put the upheaval of 2020 behind you and kick off 2021 by having a positive impact, CNN Heroes is highlighting eight non-profits that are making the world a better place in their own unique ways. Go to CNNHeroes.com or use the links below to donate through their GoFundMe
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In the tense moments before an RV exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, it broadcast a warning on a loudspeaker that a bomb was about to blow up and urged people to evacuate. Confusingly, the parked vehicle also broadcast a song — Petula Clark’s 1964 cheerful hit “Downtown,” about how the bustle of a
Continue Reading The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal charges against two officers in relation to the fatal 2014 shooting of Tamir Rice in an Ohio park. Rice, 12, was shot and killed outside of a recreation center by then-Cleveland police Officer Timothy Loehmann, who authorities said mistook a black,
Continue Reading A probe into hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate left at Beirut’s port began just hours before a massive blast rocked the site, leaving more than 200 dead and devastating the Lebanese capital, caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab told CNN on Tuesday. Diab, who resigned as prime minister in the wake of the port explosion
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At least seven people were killed and dozens were injured after a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck central Croatia on Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey and Croatian officials. Emergency crews, assisted by the military, were still digging through the rubble in several towns as night fell and electricity remained out. The quake, which
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The United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services issued new dietary guidelines, which include recommendations for babies and toddlers for the first time. Used by health care professionals and policy makers, the guidelines dictate much of what Americans of all ages will eat over the next five years and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN COUNTY, Oregon ( KPTV) — Oregon State Police Detectives are asking for the public’s help identifying a young girl whose remains were found in a rural area of Lincoln County earlier this month. On Dec. 10, investigators responded to the H.B. Van Duzer Forest State Scenic Corridor
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