FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Dr. Jahnae H. Barnett announced today that she will step away as president of William Woods University on Dec. 31, 2021. “Being a university president brings with it many challenging decisions. Today, I announce the toughest decision I have ever made at this institution,” said President Barnett. “After 30 years as president
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Some Mid-Missouri health departments are hoping to be among one of those chosen to receive some of the 50,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine coming to Missouri this week.
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Click here for updates on this story HURST, Texas (KTVT) — It was a story of well-intentions that could have ended badly for a North Texas family donating to charity. In early February workers at the Goodwill store in Hurst were approached by a man in a panic, who explained that his wife had accidentally
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois (WBBM) — A quadriplegic in Highland Park has a request for his neighbors. He wants them to swap parking spots so that he has enough space for his wheelchair-accessible van in the garage. But the neighbors are not interested, and CBS 2’s Tim McNicholas learned
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A Sacramento surgeon under investigation for attending virtual traffic court while operating on a patient. The judge called it “inappropriate” and immediately stopped the hearing. Now the medical board is investigating it all. Video of the Zoom hearing shows Sacramento plastic surgeon, Dr. Scott
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Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — A mother accused of dumping her newborn baby in a Dorchester trash can appeared in court Monday afternoon. Marie Merisier is charged with attempted murder and the reckless endangerment of a child. Prosecutors said the 33-year-old was cooking or cleaning at a home in Dorchester
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Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini is playing baseball again after a yearlong battle with colon cancer, and his return has made national headlines. The standing ovation Mancini got in his first spring training at-bat brought him to the brink of tears, and those closest
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An SUV packed with people and a semitruck hauling trailers of gravel slammed into each other in a rural California county near the Mexican border early Tuesday morning, leaving at least a dozen dead and others hospitalized, officials said. Overhead video in Imperial County shows the brutal aftermath of the crash, with the jack-knifed semitruck
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When a dormant pecan farm in the neighborhoods of south Atlanta closed, the land was soon rezoned and earmarked to become townhouses. But when the townhouses never came to fruition and with the lot remaining in foreclosure, the Conservation Fund bought it in 2016 to develop an unexpected project: the nation’s largest free food forest.
Continue Reading The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc for families across the US, as school closures and social distancing have made it difficult to provide for kids. But in Louisiana, families are faring worse than in any other state, according to Save the Children. The global non-profit dedicated to protecting children examined three hardships affecting kids
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Locally owned and operated, Love’s Bakery, a fixture in Hawaii for over 169 years, will cease operations at the end of March due to losses attributable to Covid-19. Interim president Daryce Hamamoto submitted a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice (WARN) letter to the Department of
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Americans have received some good news lately about the coronavirus. But the country is not yet in the clear, experts warn. A third Covid-19 vaccine — Johnson & Johnson’s single shot — is now on its way to states across the country. And Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have generally been dropping for weeks. But case
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — The federal government has revamped Canada’s Divorce Act in hopes that the amended legislation will promote the best interests of children and make the family justice system more efficient. The new amendments, which now include a section on family violence, mark the first
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — There are indications that Liberty and Justice may have their first egg of the 2021 season. Liberty and Justice, a pair of bald eagles, have been at the Arconic nest for about 12 years. Arconic spokesman John Riches said it appeared the first
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — A small new study out of Italy found that children as young as four months old did not experience any respiratory change as a result of wearing a surgical mask, raising questions about mask advice for young children. The study, published Tuesday in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HEREFORD, Arizona (Arizona Daily Star) — In the weeks since President Biden paused border wall construction, a broad coalition of advocacy groups in Southern Arizona and across the nation wasted no time letting him know exactly where they want him to tear it down. A coalition of nearly
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — Fire has a voice. You’ll soon be able to hear it. Oklahoma hip-hop artists are uniting to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with a multimedia project titled Fire in Little Africa. Rappers, singers, producers, poets, musicians and visual artists
Continue Reading An SUV packed with people and a semitruck hauling trailers of gravel slammed into each other in Imperial County, California, on Tuesday morning, leaving 15 dead and others hospitalized, officials said. Overhead video of the scene shows the brutal aftermath of the crash, with the jack-knifed semitruck smashed into the left side of the SUV.
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French Catholic clergy could have abused at least 10,000 minors and other vulnerable people since 1950, according to an independent investigation set up by the Church in France. The Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) “estimates that the number of victims could reach ‘at least ten thousand,’” it said in a statement
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Hundreds of schoolgirls who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their boarding school in Nigeria have been released, authorities said. The girls were abducted on Friday by armed men who raided their state-run school in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara State, the police said. Yusuf Idris, a spokesman for the regional governor Bello Matawalle, said Tuesday that all
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