COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia city leaders heard from community members about how they want American Rescue Plan funding to be spent. Congress passed the $1.9 trillion plan last spring. To be eligible, expenses must fall into four categories – public health response or negative economic impacts Premium pay, investments in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure
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Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, has played in the NFL for five years and said he “agonized over the decision” to announce that he is gay.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is inviting residents and travelers to share their thoughts regarding the 2022 improvements along Highway 63 in Boone and Callaway Counties. The project will make several improvements along Highway 63 including resurfaced between Boone County Route B and Highway 54 in Callaway County, as well as
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A New York woman is giving back to the community after more than 150 Amazon boxes that did not belong to her showed up at her house. Jillian Cannan told CNN started receiving packages at her home on June 5 thinking they were related to her business. “I thought my
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors in a case against a Columbia man accused in a 2017 killing are now required to present GPS data by July 6th. The GPS data is crucial in the case against 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams. McWilliams is charged with second-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action in the death of Augustus Roberts.
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Some states are making great strides in vaccinating their residents against Covid-19, but the ones that are not may soon be contending with a more transmissible variant, experts say. About 45.2% of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed, and in 16 states and Washington, DC, that
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By Andy Rose, Hollie Silverman, Keith Allen and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Authorities say the incident in which two pedestrians were hit by a truck at a Pride parade near Miami Saturday — leaving one dead and the other injured — was a “tragic accident” and not an intentional act. The 77-year-old driver of the truck,
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Parson’s office said in an advisory sent Monday that the event will focus on the federal reimbursement allowance that helps fund Medicaid.
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin, CNN Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, became the first active NFL player in league history to announce that he is gay. “What’s up, people,” Nassib said Monday in a video on Instagram. “I’m Carl Nassib. I’m at my house here in Westchester, Pennsylvania. I just wanted to
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By Saskya Vandoorne, Xiaofei Xu and Lorraine Poupon, CNN The murder trial of a woman who killed her abusive husband got underway in the French city of Chalon-sur-Saône on Monday. In her bestselling book Tout Le Monde Savait (Everyone Knew) published in May, Valerie Bacot, 40, admitted to shooting Daniel Polette dead in self-defense in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is injured after a stabbing on the 4300 block of Bethany Drive at 1:30 p.m. According to Capt. Brian Leer, the victim was stabbed multiple times after a disturbance with the mother of the man’s unborn child. Capt. Leer says the wounds were not believed to be life threatening. The
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Amanda Jackson, CNN A man accused of killing three people in three separate incidents Friday in North Bend, Oregon, and then allegedly forcing a woman to drive him to Wisconsin, has turned himself in to authorities, officials said. The incidents began Friday morning, when Oen Evan Nicholson, 30, allegedly killed 83-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN A Southern California sheriff’s deputy is under criminal investigation after surveillance video showed him kicking a pursuit suspect in the head after the man surrendered, an incident that one official called “alarming” and “disturbing.” The incident occurred early Wednesday in Victorville, about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, after a motorcyclist
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As extreme drought plagues the Western US and more intense storms brew in the tropics, climate-minded people joined scientists and meteorologists on Monday in a campaign to turn the world’s attention toward the climate crisis. At its core, the #ShowYourStripes campaign is a visual one, designed to illustrate something inherently difficult to picture: how much
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez As extreme drought plagues the Western US and more intense storms brew in the tropics, climate-minded people joined scientists and meteorologists on Monday in a campaign to turn the world’s attention toward the climate crisis. At its core, the #ShowYourStripes campaign is a visual one, designed to illustrate something inherently difficult to
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Companies up and down Business Loop 70 saw damage to their property and land as last night’s line of storms moved through. Custom Complete Automotive was not left out by mother nature. “This is a customer’s car. You’ve got debris like that pushed in there and it’s all coming from over there at Boone Electric”
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While we didn’t experience any tornadoes in mid-Missouri from this system, we still saw plenty of wind damage from straight line winds as the storms rolled through. Last night’s round of storms tore through mid-Missouri hitting areas up north first and pushed toward areas along and just south of interstate 70. Almost the entire line
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MARKLEYSBURG, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — June 16, 1951 was a special day for Gurney and Lois – a day that would lead to 70 years of love and commitment. Gurney was home at the farm on leave after serving time in the Navy in the Korean War. After some
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A retired NYPD sergeant has received his Purple Heart. He finally got the award seven decades after being wounded on D-Day. The Army presented 99-year-old Ozzie Fletcher with the medal at Fort Hamilton on Friday. He was wounded in Normandy, but due to racism
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — A small single-family house stands in the middle of a huge construction project in Coral Gables. The $600 million commercial development is the largest in the city’s history. The homeowner says his home carries priceless sentimental value and he won’t sell it, mo matter the
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