Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — An international study led by researchers at McGill University has found that those with poor dental hygiene tend to experience more severe COVID-19 symptoms. Using the digital medical and dental records from 568 Qatari patients with COVID-19, the researchers found that those with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Despite a widespread belief that humans owe their evolution to the dietary flexibility in eating both meat and vegetables, researchers in Israel suggest that early humans were actually apex predators who hunted large animals for two million years before they sought vegetables to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A court hearing is scheduled later this year for a man accused in a deadly Jefferson City shooting. JaHuan Whirley could appear at the hearing in Cole County at 1 p.m. on June first. Whirley is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the shooting death of 33-year-old Justin Kammerich
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The nation’s school districts are making strides in their efforts to reopen, but new data shows that many more students are still learning fully remotely than fully in-person. Just 39% of fourth-graders are attending full-time in-person school and just 29% of eighth-graders, according to data released on Wednesday from the Department of Education’s National Assessment
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the threat of severe storms later today. Showers and thunderstorms are rolling through this morning but will reignite again this afternoon. Watch live coverage when warnings are issued at this link. LATE AFTERNOON UPDATE: Central Boone and parts of northern Cole and
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The special agent who led the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigation into George Floyd’s death struggled to make sense of a short phrase Floyd said last May as Derek Chauvin kneeled on him. Senior Special Agent James Reyerson was shown a clip from Minneapolis Police body-camera footage of Floyd saying something while handcuffed and
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Two New York doormen who closed the doors to their building’s apartment lobby while a 65-year-old Asian woman was punched and kicked outside have been fired, according to the building’s owner. The Brodsky Organization, which owns the building at 360 W. 43rd St. in Manhattan, said in a statement Tuesday that it had completed an
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MODESTO, California (KOVR) — A Modesto veterinarian is helping out a Vietnam War vet with a sick dog. The kind gesture came after an x-ray showed the pet had more than a hundred bladder stones. Loyal pet owner Richard Lyons and his corgi mix, Courtney, have a bond
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Parents today may be a bit worried their kids are spending too much time on the social media app TikTok. However, for one young man in West Virginia, scrolling through TikTok turned out to be a life-saver. 12-year-old Trent Jerrett was live streaming while
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A man has been arrested after police say he assaulted an elderly Asian man in what appears to be a racially motivated attack. The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. on the 300 block of North 10th Street in Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood. According to police, officers
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Click here for updates on this story MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (WCBS) — A New Jersey server got “zero” written in for tip after patrons were upset about limited seating times. But as CBS2’s Meg Baker reported Tuesday, the community rallied to make things right. A woman named Beth was working Friday night at the recently
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The parents of 445 migrant children separated from their families due to Trump administration policies at the US-Mexico border between 2017 and 2018 have still not been located, down from 506, according to a Wednesday court filing. The filing from the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union is part of an ongoing effort
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — A racist confrontation, which started over a customer refusing to wear a mask, was caught on camera at a Jamba Juice location at the Beverly Connection. “We are sitting at the tables next to the store and he came in went inside the
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President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he expected all states to open Covid-19 vaccine eligibility to all adults by April 19, and at the current pace of vaccination — about 3 million doses administered each day — every adult in the United States could be vaccinated by mid-summer. But not every American plans to be
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — Two children riding in the front bucket of a backhoe were killed on April 3 after the bucket dumped them onto the ground and they were run over. The kids, an 11-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl, died at the scene outside their home
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Jack Hanna, an animal and wildlife expert who became famous after his many TV appearances, is retiring from public life due to dementia, his family announced Wednesday. “Doctors have diagnosed our dad, Jack Hanna, with dementia, now believed to be Alzheimer’s disease,” Hanna’s family wrote in a statement posted to his verified Twitter account. “His
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Protecting precious birds and protecting our powerlines. Some biologists took flight in a helicopter on Tuesday to do just that. CBS 2’s Jim Williams explained Tuesday. Eagles and osprey are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and they’re under the watchful eye of scientists
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Framingham dog was reunited with her owner after being missing for five years. Bay, a basenji, went missing while staying with a dog sitter because her owner was away, the non-profit Missing Dogs Massachusetts wrote on Facebook. Bay was reported missing to
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There are more than 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children in US custody, according to the latest government data, marking a new high as the Biden administration announces a string of sites to accommodate kids. As of Tuesday, there were 4,228 unaccompanied children in the custody of Customs and Border Protection, an agency not generally prepared to
Continue Reading Just days after NASA’s Perseverance rover gently dropped the Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars, the robot companions took a selfie together on Tuesday and beamed it back to Earth. The rover used its robotic arm, which has a camera mounted on the end, to capture the image. The helicopter can be seen 13
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