When a delivery driver’s car began sliding down on an icy Texas driveway, the driver closed her eyes, praying she wouldn’t hit the client’s home. She didn’t hit the house but Chelsea Timmons’ car crushed a flower bed outside an Austin, Texas, home as a snowstorm paralyzed the state last Sunday. She didn’t know it
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A New Jersey plumber who wanted to help Texans dealing with burst pipes and other damage after last week’s winter storms drove to Houston with a truck full of tools and got to work. Andrew Mitchell and his wife, Kisha Pinnock, decided to make the 22-hour drive from Morristown with their 2-year-old son Blake after
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team opened up spring practice on Friday afternoon as head coach Eli Drinkwitz enters year two with program. https://youtu.be/ZXLV_6z13zI Drinkwitz gave a quick injury update at his news conference after Day 1 of spring practice WR Jalen Knox had surgery on a “lower extremity” and will be out for
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The health director in Tennessee’s largest county resigned Friday after the state health department found that 2,500 Covid-19 vaccine were either wasted or expired and two children were “inappropriately vaccinated” at a county vaccination site. A total of 2,500 doses were either expired or wasted in Shelby County over a 20-day period from February 3
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COOPER COUNTY MoDOT is reporting an inspection of the eastbound and westbound Interstate 70 bridges over the Lamine River in Cooper County will require the closure of one lane on each bridge next week. The westbound bridge will be inspected from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Tuesday while the eastbound bridge will be inspected
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Fire District firefighters responded to 7900 block of N. Benthall Rd to a house fire just after 1 p.m. Firefighters reported seeing smoke showing from the vents and eaves of the house on the back side. Firefighters report entering the house and finding high heat and heavy smoke conditions from
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COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services released information Friday of traces of the California and UK COVID-19 variant being found in wastewater samples across Missouri. The state has partnered with the University of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to monitor and trace signs of various COVID-19 variants
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Three people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a ravine shortly after takeoff in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna-182, crashed about two miles northeast of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville shortly after takeoff, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Emma Duncan in a statement to CNN. Hall County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A trial for the suspect accused of killing a teenager in 2019 will once again be moved back. Judge Kevin Crane allowed prosecutors two more weeks to get lab reports from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosions for Javion Lawhorn’s trial. Crane set the trial to start on March 15.
Continue Reading As the number of violent attacks against Asian Americans escalates, former NBA star Jeremy Lin said he has experienced racism while playing basketball. “Being a 9 year NBA veteran doesn’t protect me from being called ‘coronavirus’ on the court,” the former New York Knicks star wrote on Facebook. Lin, who currently plays for the Santa
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A 27-year-old Korean American man says he was physically assaulted in the heart of Los Angeles’ Koreatown this month in an incident that police say they’re investigating as a hate crime. The man, Denny Kim, told CNN he was waiting for a friend on February 16 when he was approached by two men who started
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On Friday, Columbia Utilities announced it will resume utility disconnections for customers with a past due balance on their account.
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Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend the agency grant emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously to recommend EUA of the vaccine in people 18 and older. Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock and
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FORT SMITH, AR (KFSM) — Fort Smith veteran Marvin Thomas received a Quilt of Valor Friday (Feb. 26) for his service in World War II. “I’m surprised, that’s for sure,” Thomas said. “I love it, and I’ll have many years, I hope to appreciate it.” The River Valley
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Nearly two million pets are stolen every year. The pandemic has pushed that number even higher as more people are interested in getting a pet while they work from home. The demand has led to a devastating trend called dog flipping– when pets are
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Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Ogemaw County, MI (WNEM) — A tragic chain of events played out at a home in Ogemaw County on Thursday. It’s something Ogemaw County Sheriff Brian Gilbert said he will always remember. “It’s a gut-wrenching feeling because you’re dealing with children,” Gilbert said. Gilbert was on the scene
Continue Reading Richard Carranza, chancellor of New York City’s public schools system, will step down in March, he announced at a news conference Friday. Carranza will be succeeded by Meisha Ross Porter, a former teacher and school principal in the Bronx. Porter will be the first African American woman to serve as education chancellor in the city’s history.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be doing more to guide and encourage improved air circulation in buildings — especially in schools — to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, ventilation experts say. They say the CDC has not paid anywhere near enough attention to the role ventilation can play in helping
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Canada expects to receive more than 6.5 million Covid-19 vaccines by the end of March, with tens of millions more vaccines arriving between April and June, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Canada has secured access to nearly 400 million doses of vaccines, but manufacturers have been slow to ship the authorized medicine. Just
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