A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday suggests that Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351. For the study, researchers at Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical Branch genetically engineered versions of the virus to
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MONTGOMERY COUTNY, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is seriously injured after a wreck on Route F in Montgomery County Tuesday afternoon. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, Alex Clark was driving a 2015 GMC 3500 southbound on Route F, one and a half miles north of High Hill, when the vehicle crossed over the center line
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Click here for updates on this story Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB) — Drivers were warned to brace for higher gas prices in the coming days and months. GasBuddy blamed the effects that a stretch of extremely cold weather has had on refineries across the country. GasBuddy said millions of barrels of refining capacity went offline because
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The heads of Missouri’s health and education departments will be part of a panel of experts taking part in a question-and-answer session Thursday on ABC 17 News at 6:30 p.m.
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People who survive a bout of Covid-19 with mild symptoms or even no symptoms may be able to thank their Neanderthal ancestors, a new study suggests. Researchers found a genetic mutation that reduces the risk of severe Covid-19 infection by about 22%. It was found in all the samples they took of Neanderthal DNA, and
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Fire District responded to three fires Tuesday across the county. According to a release, the first fire happened just after 5:30 p.m. on W. Route K. Firefighters arrived to find a two-story house with smoke and flames coming from the second floor. Firefighters took control the fire and entered
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John Henderson says his wife is complaining that her throat hurts and is having a little trouble using portable oxygen tanks. Henderson’s power first went out Tuesday morning and stayed off for 2 hours, and then came back on around 7 p.m., then was back off again around midnight and hasn’t been on since, he
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LITTLETON, CO (KCNC) — Two homeowners are still waiting to learn the fate of their Black Lives Matter flag. In December, Kara and Ben Willkoff received a letter from the HOA saying their flag was not approved. “I looked in the bylaws to figure out if we were
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Los Angeles (KCAL/KCBS) — The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Tuesday voted to cut 133 positions from the L.A. School Police Department, ban the use of pepper spray on students and divert $25 million in funding cut from the department to better support Black students.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — Police officers are not among the groups who are next in line for vaccines. But calls are growing louder from South Florida to change that. “A report came out, Florida’s ground zero for this new strain, this B117,” said El Portal Police Chief David
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Dallas (KTVT) — Now that we are past the preparedness phase of the winter blast we are experiencing in North Texas, hundreds of our neighbors are reporting being stranded in their homes without power, gas, or running water. For many of them, survival mode has kicked in. Retired
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHERRY HILL, NJ (KYW) — A South Jersey man made it his mission to collect books for classrooms. He gave away a quarter-million of them before the pandemic. But he hasn’t stopped! We met Larry Abrams in February 2020, hard at work in Cherry Hill. Piling up tens
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Rural Missouri counties are both the most and least successful at getting COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of residents. That’s according to data from the state’s coronavirus dashboard on Wednesday. Shelby County, with just 6,400 residents in a remote area of northeast Missouri, has provided at least one dose of the
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A longtime St. Louis broadcaster has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges, and still faces other charges in state court. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 79-year-old Harry Hamm entered the guilty plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. Still pending are state charges of second-degree statutory sodomy,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Manchester, New Hampshire (WBZ) — New Hampshire police issued a warrant for a 24-year-old who is accused of leaving severed rabbit heads on a woman’s car. Manchester Police said Tuesday the warrant stems from a December incident involving 24-year-old Estevan Hincapie. On December 29, a woman told police
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President Joe Biden took questions from Wisconsin residents and from Anderson Cooper at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. We’re still looking into some of the claims Biden made, so this article is not comprehensive. But we can tell you now that he made at least four false claims — all
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Baltimore (WJZ) — We’re all trying to take steps to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially wearing a mask when traveling. But one man said he was recently taken off a flight because of the mask he was wearing. Rob Joseph said he was taken off his
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — A Sacramento woman was excited to receive her new Real ID until she opened it up and saw the driver’s license photo shows her wearing her face mask. Lesley Pilgrim received the ID in the mail with a greeting reading, “Congratulations, enclosed is your
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MORAGA, CA (KPIX) — A coyote that attacked and bit a child walking with a parent in a Moraga neighborhood Tuesday morning may be responsible for other recent attacks in the area. Moraga police said the attack happened at about 8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Calle la
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALAMEDA, CA (KPIX) — Crews aboard two Alameda-based Coast Guard cutters boarded three suspected drug smuggling vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, seizing more than 9,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $156 million. Coast Guard officials said the Coast Guard Cutters Munro and Bertholf were involved in
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