COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of the MKT Trail will be closed Thursday, for maintenance. The affected trail is west of the trailhead at Scott Boulevard, near the 3.5-mile marker. MKT Temporary ClosureDownload Crews will be working to repair an unstable slope. The trail will be closed to ensure safety for bicyclists and pedestrians. The
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Coronavirus cases in the US are dipping and the number of daily vaccinations is rising. But public health experts are pressing two key concepts they say show that Americans still need to mask and distance for a while longer: First, case levels are still as bad as they were during a difficult summer. Second, clues
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Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario A new study has found that summers in the Northern Hemisphere may last nearly six months by 2100, if efforts to combat climate change are not taken. Researchers behind the study out of China warn that a longer summer season will likely have “far-reaching impacts” on
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PEGRAM, Tennessee (WSMV) — Music from our history is now part of our future for some people in the Midstate. On a weekday morning in Cheatham County, the Fiddle and Pick is full throttle. Here are the strings of the instrument that takes the spotlight. Gretchen Priest opened
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Henderson County COVID-19 Call Center announced it has changed the way it will contact individuals on the COVID-19 Vaccine Waitlist. On Monday, the Henderson County Department of Public Health announced the Call Center has been made aware that the number used
Continue ReadingA Michigan high school student accidentally detonated a homemade explosive device he brought to school Monday morning, injuring himself and four of his classmates, police said. Officers from the Newaygo Police Department responded to Newaygo High School in west-central Michigan at 8:52 a.m. after a report of an explosion inside a classroom, state police said
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As a university student years ago, Kyaw Moe Tun sat out Myanmar’s watershed 1988 pro-democracy protests. “I always listened to my parents, and they wanted me to stay home,” he says. Now, as Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations, he tells Meanwhile that his duty is to protest — on behalf of the people of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — The NYPD released new video of the gunman who opened fire and wounded two officers in Brooklyn. The incident happened Sunday night in a stairwell of an apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens where a gunman first opened fired on his roommate and then
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Alua Arthur wasn’t looking for death. At 34, she was trying hard to stay alive. Clinical depression had forced a leave of absence from her job as a lawyer, and she was traveling on a bus in Cuba when it met her: A woman, only two years older than her, dying of uterine cancer. The
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Three professors at the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after photos surfaced of them wearing and holding racist symbols at a campus event in 2014, according to a statement from the school. In two photos verified by university spokesperson Lance Crawford, one professor is pictured wearing a Confederate soldier’s uniform, while
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An early Tuesday morning fire in Sedalia destroyed a body shop and damaged neighboring businesses.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Midstate company created a way where you can shop ’til you drop, while also helping the community. The (code)word company gives 30% off its net profit from the sale of all of its apparel to state food banks through the Feeding America Network.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (KFSM) — Governor Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday (March 9) that he would sign Senate Bill (SB) 6, a piece of legislation that prohibits abortion in all cases except to save the mother’s life in a medical emergency, into law in Arkansas. SB6 does not include
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story O’FALLON, Missouri (KMOV) — A man was taken into custody after an hourlong standoff in O’Fallon, Mo. that began Monday night. Police surrounded a home in the 600 block of Hawk Run Drive, just off of Winghaven Blvd, around 8:30 p.m. after a man started making homicidal threats
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FLOYD COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — The Floyd County Police Department is commending one of its officers for risking his life to rescue an unconscious teenager from a burning pickup truck. On social media, the community is calling Patrolman First Class Blake Puckett a hero. “I don’t see it
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (KITV) — Police on the Big Island are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating a missing 26-year-old man. Joshua Toney was reported missing on February 12, 2021. He was last seen on February 1, 2021, at 10 a.m. leaving his parents’ Kailua-Kona home
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LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — A man has been charged more than two months after police say he fired several shots with an assault-style rifle at a suburban Kansas City office for the Missouri State Highway Patrol before being shot by troopers. Court records show 28-year-old Tayland Rahim, of Kansas City, was charged Monday with
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I’m tired, you’re tired, we’re all tired — I know. I feel it in my bones. I have been in 8 states caring for thousands of patients with Covid-19. I have worked in coast to coast, north to south, in New York, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, California, and my home state of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (WFSB) — Connecticut has plans to bring free wifi to certain areas of Middletown. It’s part of the Lamont Administration’s “Everybody Learns” initiative. Lamont joined others for a news conference on Tuesday morning to outline the initiative. He said the goal of the initiative is to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A teenager was shot in the back of head in St. Louis’ West End neighborhood Monday afternoon. Officers responded to the 6100 block of Etzel just before 5:30 p.m. Monday. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said the victim is a
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