President Joe Biden is pushing for Congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. Supporters of the plan say the new spending power in the hands of low-paid workers would boost the economy. But opponents say raising the minimum wage would result in lost jobs and higher prices for consumers. What do
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Adella Bond fired her revolver outside her window into the South Philadelphia air, hoping to attract police as a mob of Irish American people gathered around her home to tell her she wasn’t welcome. Bond, a Black woman who was a municipal court probation officer, knew that racial conflicts unfolded in neighborhoods that had once
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The Perseverance rover is the fifth robotic explorer sent by NASA to journey across the Martian surface, but it’s going to land in a spot that has never been attempted by the agency: Jezero Crater. The crater is incredibly intriguing to scientists because it’s possible that life may have existed in an ancient lake that
Continue Reading An elementary school principal was killed by an avalanche while splitboarding in Montana on Valentine’s Day. Craig Kitto, 45, of Bozeman died Sunday evening after being injured in an avalanche earlier that day, according to the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office. Kitto was with another splitboarder when the avalanche was triggered in Beehive Basin, according to
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Vaccine distribution in states and cities across the US are slowing down because of winter storms that have left more than a third of the continental US with below-zero temperatures Monday. The severe winter weather sparked emergency declarations in at least seven states, including Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. Here are the
Continue Reading Search and rescue teams are heading Brunswick County, North Carolina to help find missing people after a tornado ripped through the area, leaving a trail of damage early Tuesday morning. “As of about 1 am, our Regional Response Team (RRT-2) was requested by state EM to respond to Brunswick County to assist with locating missing
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Kudos to everyone who has been doubling down on mask wearing and social distancing. Health experts say your efforts are paying off. But with only 4% of the US population fully vaccinated, experts say Americans must continue safety precautions at full force to prevent highly contagious variants from undoing all the progress. Researchers reported Sunday
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The bitter Cardiff cold, the dawn half-light, and the radio-static pulse of callouts are the same as every shift over the past year, but as paramedic Angie Dymott and her colleague Lynda Stephens climb into their ambulance one recent morning, something small, but vital has changed. There have been very few Covid-19 emergency calls in
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A decade ago, the Dalai Lama set himself a significant deadline. The best-known living Buddhist figure in the world said that when he turned 90 years old, he would decide whether he should be reincarnated — potentially ending a role that has been key to Tibetan Buddhism for more than 600 years, but in recent
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police report a 33-year-old woman was sent to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being assaulted on the 200 block of Orchard Court at 7:15 a.m. Monday. Columbia police arrested Lucas Gordon Harper, 34, and Elizabeth Emily Dye, 25, both of Columbia, for 1st Degree Assault, Armed Criminal Action and 1st
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Two people died in separate avalanches in Colorado on Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly avalanches that have already claimed the lives of 17 others across seven states this year. The fatalities mark the fifth and sixth avalanche deaths in the state in 2021, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) A
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Vaccine distribution in states and cities across the US are slowing down because of winter storms that have left more than a third of the continental US with below-zero temperatures Monday. The severe winter weather sparked emergency declarations in at least seven states, including Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. Here are the
Continue Reading Is it possible to make bars safe in a pandemic? One experiment in Scotland last summer went flat, according to new research published Monday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Despite guidance from the government and efforts on the part of bar owners to implement safety measures, customers and staff alike failed
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At least one person is dead after a crash involving a snowplow near Sturgeon.
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Multiple Boone County Sheriff’s department vehicles are on scene of a shooting on the 4700 block of W. Millbrook Drive.
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ABC17 News previously reported that about 10 out of the Jefferson City Public Works Department’s 24 snowplows were past their life expectancy.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team will open up its 2021 season this weekend in Phoenix, Arizona. The Tigers will face Grand Canyon University for a three game series starting Friday at 4 p.m. We spoke with head coach Steve Bieser to preview the season on Monday. You can watch the full interview in
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Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at the center of an escalating controversy over deaths in nursing homes, how they were counted and how they handled requests for that data. Cuomo was lauded early in the outbreak for his forthright news conferences and passionate pleas for more medical equipment from the federal government. He
Continue Reading The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether employees were involved in sharing or creating an offensive Valentine’s Day-themed image making light of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year. The post in question was described to CNN by an LAPD official as using an image of Floyd with the
Continue ReadingSome of the warmest places in Texas, where rolling power outages are occurring across the chilly state, are inside cars and trucks parked in the driveway of a home without electricity. Chey Louis of Irving told CNN his family in Grand Prairie had planned a small socially distanced gathering to celebrate his younger brother’s birthday.
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