Today marks the winter solstice, the official start of the season and the shortest day of the year. This year, it also coincides with a special event in the night sky. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
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With two Covid-19 vaccines given the greenlight from health agencies, officials are accelerating the distribution of doses to patients over the coming holiday week. Moderna’s candidate is the most recent vaccine to receive an emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. The first doses are expected to be administered to patients Monday
Continue Reading The Hawaii county Civil Defense Agency (COH) has asked residents to stay indoors after the Kilauea volcano erupted following a series of earthquakes. The eruption on the Big Island took place late Sunday night local time at the Halemaumau Crater, COH said. The Kilauea Volcano observatory raised the alert level to warning, an advisory said.
Continue Reading The next time you get your blood pressure taken at the doctor, you might consider asking the nurse to take it in both arms. A significant difference in the systolic, or top blood pressure reading between the two arms could be a warning sign of a future heart attack or stroke, according to a new
Continue Reading With two Covid-19 vaccines given the greenlight from health agencies, officials are accelerating the distribution of doses to patients over the coming holiday week. Moderna’s candidate is the most recent vaccine to receive an emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. The first doses are expected to be administered to patients Monday
Continue Reading A rocket attack on Baghdad’s diplomatic Green Zone Sunday night was “a terrorist act” that undermines Iraq’s international reputation, the country’s president says. Eight rockets were fired at the heavily fortified area, with at least one Iraqi soldier injured when a rocket landed near an Iraqi security checkpoint, according to a statement from the Iraqi
Continue Reading In the dark small hours, two recurring nightmares terrorize the sleep of Eddie Chu. In the first, he is lost overseas and cannot get home to Hong Kong. In the second, the former lawmaker is day tripping with his nine-year-old daughter. The latter scenario might not sound nightmarish, but democracy activist Chu, 43, knows what
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on KTGR’s Matt Michaels in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full conversation in the video player above.
Continue Reading It’s another day of self-isolating, which means it’s potentially another day of sitting indoors restlessly taking yet another Zoom meeting. Prolonged sitting is an unavoidable reality for many. And with lots of us spending more time inside, as the pandemic continues, it’s inevitable that we’re spending even more time being sedentary. The irony is that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE (9:50 p.m.): Both lanes of Rock Quarry are back open. ORGINAL: Emergency crews blocked of Rock Quarry Road after a car crashed shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday. The crash happened on Rock Quarry near Stags Way. An ABC17 crew on the scene saw one care crashed in the trees on the
Continue Reading Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to know in the next few days if there’s a concern that the coronavirus vaccines might not work against a mutated variant of the virus that’s rapidly spreading in parts of England, according to the institute’s top vaccine researcher. While there’s always a worry that
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BENTON COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A toddler is dead and her mother and another child are recovering in a Sedalia hospital after all three were severely beaten Sunday morning. In a Facebook post, the Benton County Sheriff said an investigation led Benton County deputies to arrest 35 year old Ethan J. Mast and 21 year old
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Randall Williams, director of the Department of Health and Senior Services signs a standing order for the Moderna vaccine Sunday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will play in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30. PowerMizzou.com reported the news first. Black and gold all over. See you in 10 days @HawkeyeFootball and @MizzouFootball. 🎟️: https://t.co/aG2b4XIbIY pic.twitter.com/l3NgKzV2NT— Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl (@MusicCityBowl) December 20, 2020 The Tigers will play Iowa at Nissan Stadium
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Owosso, MI (WNEM ) — Living in a pandemic can be tough, taxing and at times burdensome. Ovid resident Jennifer Cruce can relate, as she’s balancing the demands of life as best she can. “I am a mother of two, I’m a [Certified Nurses Aid],” Cruce said. “I
Continue Reading Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that both older adults, ages 75 and older, and “frontline essential workers” including first responders be next in line to receive Covid-19 vaccines. That would put those people in “Phase 1b” of allocating the vaccine nationwide. That committee
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR (KPTV ) — A driver was rescued after he drove off the Oregon City Marina dock and into the river on Sunday, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said. Clackamas County Water Rescue Consortium responded to a report of a submerged pickup in the Willamette River
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHAWNEE, KS (KCTV/KSMO ) — If you pass by 75th Street and Quivira Road on a school day, you just might catch a glimpse of a very cheerful crossing guard. Mark Redmond is a retired railway worker who’s fighting pandemic fatigue and the winter blues by brightening peoples’
Continue Reading Ariana Grande is now off the market, according to her Instagram account. The singer posted several pictures to her account featuring herself and her boyfriend Dalton Gomez, followed by a large ring. The captions reads: “forever n then some.” The alleged engagement ring is a large diamond solitaire with a pearl to one side of
Continue Reading A soldier missing from Fort Drum in New York has been found dead, and foul play is suspected, the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Command said Sunday. An investigation into the death of Cpl. Hayden Allen Harris is ongoing, the Criminal Investigation Command said in a news release. Harris, 20, was last heard from between Thursday
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