COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri Health Care officials said they are experiencing a higher number of patients in its emergency rooms at its urgent care clinics. MU Health Care said the spike is due in part to a large increase in viral infection in Columbia. MU Health Care Emergency Physician Dr. Christopher Sampson said
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COLUMBIA, Mo, (KMIZ) The City of Columbia Public Works evacuated Downtown Columbia’s Guitar Building on Thursday after bricks fell from it Wednesday. An ABC 17 News records request from the City of Columbia revealed the building failed a Wednesday inspection. There were seven inspection points on its checklist that the building owned by Kimberly Hughes
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL BLAIR OAKS (61) SOUTH CALLAWAY (45) FINAL FULTON (35) PARK HILLS CENTRAL (50) FINAL BATTLE (58) HELIAS (76) FINAL MOBERLY (41) BOONVILLE (46) FINAL MEXICO (58) HANNIBAL (36) FINAL
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Gov. Mike Parson signed an executive order Thursday that will help customers of a Boonville-based propane company that has stopped making deliveries and responding to communication.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge in Texas has put on hold for now the Biden administration’s most recent attempt to end the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is pausing the termination of the program that was outlined in an October 2021 policy memo while litigation around that memo
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving Democratic leadership after Republicans won the majority. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is remaining at the helm of a chamber Democrats still control. But both said President Joe Biden should run for a second term in 2024 after what they described as an “excellent” first
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Twitter on Thursday evening banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists from top news organizations without explanation, apparently marking a significant attempt by new owner Elon Musk to wield his unilateral authority over the platform. The accounts belonging to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, The Washington Post’s
Continue ReadingBy Faye Chiu, CNN At the end of 2020 and 2021, many people greeted the start of the coming year hunkered down due to the risk of Covid-19. But now, New Year’s Eve events and celebrations are back in a big way. A lot of people have plans to attend social functions, whether they are
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN A new study finds that nearly 6% of the estimated 130 million people who go to US emergency rooms every year are misdiagnosed, which translates to about 1 in 18 patients getting the wrong diagnosis. The report, published Thursday by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare
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Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the mid to lower 20s Thursday night as winds remain breezy out of the west at 10-15 mph. Skies remain mostly cloudy with a few light flurries possible. Tomorrow: Friday afternoon only sees highs climb to the lower 30s as winds remain strong with gust out of the west up
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Flower, CNN The mother of one of the four college students killed near the University of Idaho last month expressed frustration over police communications on the status of the investigation into the murders. “It’s sleepless nights. It’s feeling sick to your stomach. It’s just being left in the dark,” Kristi Goncalves, the mother
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) will offer free COVID-19 and flu vaccinations on Thursday. Staff plan to host the clinic from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Friends Room at Daniel Boone Regional Library at 100 W. Broadway in Columbia. Anyone can get vaccinated against COVID-19 or the flu
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A Kansas City-based charity is helping the family that lost two children in an apartment fire early Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Two technology industry groups asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to review a hotly debated Texas law restricting social media platforms’ ability to moderate content, potentially opening the door to a sweeping reinterpretation of First Amendment precedent. The challenged state law, known as HB 20, would allow for lawsuits against tech
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Clary, CNN Donald Trump has weighed in on the contentious battle confronting GOP leader Kevin McCarthy in his bid to be the chamber’s next speaker, with the former president calling on his supporters in Congress to halt their opposition tactics against McCarthy and stop “playing a very dangerous game.” “Look, I think this:
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Last year, bonuses were bountiful. This year, economic uncertainty is bringing a chill to the holiday-season perk, according to survey data released Thursday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. More than 81% of the 252 employers surveyed by the outplacement firm said they planned to freeze the value of holiday bonuses at
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Bell, Saskya Vandoorne and Christina Maxouris, CNN The woman who hosted an American college student studying in France before he went missing told CNN she thinks he may have left voluntarily — a claim echoed by a French prosecutor. But the young man’s parents don’t believe that’s the case and on Wednesday, the
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official. The Pentagon’s plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN Russian space agency Roscosmos will launch an uncrewed spacecraft, Soyuz MS-23, to the International Space Station to serve as a return vehicle for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio after the vehicle in which they launched in September sustained damage in space. The
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan. That’s according to conversations I had on Wednesday with nearly a dozen employees at The Post who expressed fury at the way Ryan announced in a town hall that the company would undergo layoffs in early 2023. Ryan said
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