Imagine getting through this pandemic without Zoom. Or not having any days off work, toiling seven days a week with no overtime pay. Asian Americans have improved the lives of fellow Americans in countless ways. But some of the biggest contributions don’t end up in history books. Here’s how five Asian Americans of different ethnicities
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people are recovering from moderate injuries after a crash on I-70 in Boonville. It happened around 10 a.m. Saturday morning near the West Ashley Road exit. Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports say 36-year-old Andrain Wiley of Kansas City was traveling at a high rate of speed in a Chevy Trailblazer
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is recovering from moderate injuries after a crash on Friday night in Audrain County. Clayton Nutt, 18 from Vandalia, Missouri traveled off the left side of Route K near Audrain Road 517, just after 8 p.m. on Friday. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, Nutt traveled off the road, he
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Police are trying to find whoever opened fire at a Bronx park on Saturday night, killing one person and leaving four others injured. Four males and a female were at Claremont Park when shots were fired around 9:07 p.m., a spokesperson for the New York City Police Department said. Three of the males and the
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In the past week, America took two big steps closer to a semblance of the normalcy we’ve longed for. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration expanded its emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to include people 12 to 15 years old. And on Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced fully
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Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians boiled over this week, escalating rapidly into one of the worst rounds of violence between the two sides in the last several years. An already tense situation prompted by moves to evict Palestinian families from their homes near the Old City in Jerusalem exploded at one of the holiest sites
Continue Reading Israel bombed the house of Hamas’ Gaza leader and obliterated a family’s home in Gaza as Hamas launched more than 100 missiles towards Israel on Sunday, marking one of the deadliest days of the week-long conflict so far. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had bombed the house of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader since
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Here’s some information about the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The coronavirus, called Covid-19 by WHO, originated in China and is the cousin of the SARS virus. Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common among animals. The viruses can make people sick, usually with
Continue Reading No more masks? As the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced fully vaccinated people can stop masking or physical distancing, except for certain extenuating circumstances, for many it felt like the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for. The CDC decision is an enormous step in the return to normalcy for our families. Some
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is moving forward with health leaders to return faculty to campus, host adolescent vaccination clinics, and put on a handful of graduation ceremonies. Final Day of May Graduation at Mizzou – Sunday, May 16 A university spokesperson says each graduation ceremony has around 300 graduates. Each graduate was
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Isaac Rothbart’s twins had always known their daddy doesn’t like fireworks. But he’d never told his kids why. Then, while celebrating their fifth birthday at Disney World, the family wound up close to an unexpected pyrotechnics show. Rothbart “didn’t react well.” His wife noticed him shutting down and ushered the whole family indoors. That’s when
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The nine-month old Bengal tiger that has been missing for days in Houston was found Saturday and was transferred to the appropriate authorities, officials said. “We are happy to report that the missing tiger seen in a Houston neighborhood last week has been found and appears to be unharmed,” Houston police tweeted. Houston Police Commander
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Jose Ramos looked up from his dinner and met a strange sight outside his Houston home last Sunday. A tiger. He grabbed his phone, snapped a few pictures of the animal sitting in his front yard and posted them in a neighborhood forum, where the shots quickly grabbed the attention of an off-duty deputy living
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Just before the CDC’s new mask guidance for vaccinated people became the country’s hot Covid-19 topic, a different feature of the pandemic was falling by the wayside: temperature checks at amusement parks. Several Florida theme parks — Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando Resort, Legoland Florida, SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — said recently
Continue Reading When a police officer leaves their department because of misconduct, there’s no easy public way for people to know if they’re rehired elsewhere in law enforcement. One of the most notable recent cases was Timothy Loehmann, the former Ohio officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice in 2014. Loehmann was fired from the Cleveland police
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The nine-month old Bengal tiger that has been missing for days in Houston was found Saturday and was transferred to the appropriate authorities, officials said. “We are happy to report that the missing tiger seen in a Houston neighborhood last week has been found and appears to be unharmed,” Houston police tweeted. Houston Police Commander
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Israel bombed a house in Gaza where a family had gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan and an office housing international media as a new flurry of Hamas missiles rained down on Tel Aviv Saturday, increasing fears that a de-escalation of the conflict could soon be out of reach. The Jala’a building, which was
Continue Reading The mother of two children who were found dead in a Tempe, Arizona, apartment has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in their deaths, police said Saturday. Police found a 9-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy dead in the apartment after the children’s mother flagged down an officer about 7 a.m. and told
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Eldon Police department say one man has been arrested and charged after a shooting Friday night. Travis Crown of Pineville was charged with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by the Miller County Prosecutor’s office and received a $100,000 bond in the case of the shooting last night. The department posted on
Continue Reading A Bengal tiger that has been missing in the Houston area has been located, officials said. The tiger is secure at BARC, the city’s animal shelter and adoption agency, said Mary Benton, communications director for the city. “We are happy to report that the missing tiger seen in a Houston neighborhood last week has been
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