Click here for updates on this story SAN RAFAEL, California (KPIX) — A recent good deed by a homeless man in the North Bay set off a chain reaction of kindness that is now helping turn his life around. Sean Curry is a 57-year-old homeless man who stays in Marin County. Last month he came
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Rep. Andy Kim says he was devastated to see the smashed furniture, broken American flags, cigarette butts and other debris left behind by the pro-Trump mob that ran wild in the US Capitol. So he found a trash bag, got down on his knees and helped clean up. “It was really just kind of instinctual.
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will not host LSU on Saturday, due positive COVID-19 tests within MU’s program. The Southeastern Conference said that Mizzou conducted contact tracing, which resulted in mandatory quarantines. The program added that it will reevaluate whether or not it can meet Vanderbilt and Texas A&M at a later
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A US Capitol police officer is the latest to be confirmed dead after a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. Four other people died during the stunning attack at the heart of American democracy as mob members vandalized the building and assaulted police officers. One woman was fatally shot by
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A 22-year-old woman caught on video falsely accusing the teenage son of a Black jazz musician of taking her iPhone apologized and admitted in an interview that she could have handled the situation differently. But Miya Ponsetto, in a CBS “This Morning” interview taped before her arrest in California on Thursday, insisted race was not
Continue Reading Prominent Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been arrested by police in the country for the third time in six months, his lawyer told CNN on Friday. Mtisi Gift, from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said he is being charged with “peddling falsehoods,” adding they are awaiting the full list of charges. “He is still
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court has denied St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s appeal challenging the disqualification of her office from prosecuting Mark McCloskey who, along with his wife, drew guns on racial injustice protesters last summer. The decision Friday upholds Judge Thomas Clark II’s ruling last month that removed Gardner and
Continue ReadingPolice in north St. Louis say two people died in a crash early Friday. Officials say the crash happened around 2:30 a.m. Friday at 11th and St. Louis streets near Interstate 70. Television station KTVI reports that one person died at the scene of the crash, while the other person died later at a hospital.
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City say a woman has died after being hit by a car as she walked on a street near the south end of the city. Police say the crash happened late Wednesday night on Troost Avenue just south of 71st Terrace Street and Forest Hill Cemetery, killing
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge in Missouri and nationwide, public health officials are thankful that so far, the flu has remained largely in check. Health leaders worried about a possible “twindemic” as the severe flu season began in the late fall, something that would leave flu and COVID-19 patients competing for ventilators
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State Rep. Chuck Basye wants voters to have the power to recall school board members and parents the ability to transfer their children from schools teaching only online out of coronavirus fears.
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A long-awaited extension of the Kansas City streetcar officially has a green light. Kansas City and federal officials on Friday announced they had signed an agreement officially committing $174 million in federal funding to extend the streetcar. When the project is completed, the streetcar will be extended from Union Station
Continue ReadingBLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Police say court deputies shot a man in suburban Kansas City while they were serving an eviction notice. The shooting occurred Friday when Jackson County process servers went to Blue Springs home to evict a man. Jackson County Court spokeswoman Valerie Hartment said the court deputies shot the man after
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MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Officials say a riot carried out by offenders in a northwestern Missouri minimum-security prison on New Year’s Eve was so destructive that it left part of a house unit unlivable. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that the riot began the night of Dec. 31 in the Maryville Treatment Center. Officials say
Continue Reading Colorado Attorney General General Phil Weiser is opening a grand jury investigation into the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist who was confronted by police while walking home and died days later after being placed in a chokehold, said a statement from Weiser. “Under the Governor’s executive order, the Attorney General’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALMA, AR (KFSM) — Alma Police are hoping to identify a man believed to be involved with several vehicle break-ins that occurred overnight on Monday (Jan. 4). Alma Police Department (APD) shared photos of the man and the vehicle he was driving. APD believes he has ties in
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A new study provides early evidence that a Covid-19 vaccine might be effective against two new coronavirus strains first identified in South Africa and the UK, despite a concerning mutation. The two strains share a mutation known as N501Y that scientists worry could allow the virus to evade the immune protection generated by a vaccine. In research posted online
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On December 18, a San Diego emergency room nurse was given a shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. A week later, he tested positive for the virus, CNN affiliate KGTV reported. Stories like this will become more common as millions of Americans are administered the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines over the coming months. Over time, many
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV ) — Tennessee Titans fans are always coming up with unique ways to prove their loyalty to the Two Tone Blue. The latest show of support is a brand new mural from the “I Believe in Nashville” group. The new mural will proudly display an
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