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By Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story LEE’S SUMMIT, Missouri (KCTV) — A person who was standing by a hotel in Lee’s Summit was hit by a vehicle and pinned against the building Wednesday night, which ultimately killed her. According to the Lee’s Summit Police Department, officers went to the Fairfield Inn
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The Republican nominee to be the top elections official in Minnesota said changing the rules around voting following the 2020 “big rig” was “our 9/11,” invoking the terrorist attacks when discussing proposed changes to election laws in the aftermath of former President Donald Trump’s loss. Kim Crockett is
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Hecker Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — For the first time, the U.S. will send a team of 30 athletes to compete at the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championship, including two swimmers from the St. Louis area. Jon Rawlings and Maggie Scherder are two of 19 swimmers nationwide
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Johnson Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A mother is fighting for justice as no one has been held responsible for her 8-month-old child’s death. “He was just his own little character already at 8 months and all of that just got stripped away,” says the boy’s mother,
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year. For months, Colleen Hoover’s millions of fans on TikTok, Instagram and elsewhere have been talking up and posting early excerpts from her novel “It Starts With Us.” By summer, the author’s sequel
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate from April through June, the government said in an upgrade from its initial estimate. It marked a second straight quarter of economic contraction, which meets one informal sign of a recession. Most economists, though, have said they
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to stand out as one of the strongest segments of the U.S. economy. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Aug. 20 fell by 2,000 to 243,000, the Labor Department reported
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When David Robinson’s 24-year-old son went missing in June of 2021, he uprooted his life in South Carolina and moved to Buckeye, Arizona, to lead the search. Robinson said he knew that the only way he would get answers and potentially find Daniel Robinson would be if he was on
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When consumers were stuck inside during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, there weren’t many places to spend money. So they turned their attention to technology, scooping up new gaming consoles, monitors and PCs that made living and working from home a bit easier. Now, as people return to
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank at a slightly slower rate than estimated during the second quarter, according to updated data released Thursday by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. The nation’s gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic activity — shrank 0.6% at an annualized rate from April through
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Mark Zuckerberg has bet his company’s future on an ambitious long-term vision of people carrying out greater portions of their lives in virtual spaces through digital alter egos. But an image Zuckerberg recently posted to his Facebook page served as a reality check of sorts for virtual reality, at least
Continue ReadingBy Michael Lee Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The theft of an iconic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier hotel was likely an “inside job,” a former art crime investigator with the FBI says. Robert Wittman, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who helped
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — As Canada’s population is set to become larger and older in the decades to come amid high immigration and low fertility, experts say these trends have huge implications for our housing and health care needs. A report from Statistics Canada released
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia (DOJ, por sus siglas en inglés) deberá publicar una versión editada de la declaración jurada de la orden de allanamiento de Mar-a-Lago antes del mediodía del viernes, dictaminó un juez federal. La declaración jurada establece por qué los investigadores creen que hubo una causa probable de
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BERLIN (AP) — Cases of people hoarding cats, dogs and other living creatures in Germany reached a ten-year high in 2021, the country’s Animal Protection Association said Thursday The association said it counted 68 cases of hoarding involving 4,218 animals in Germany last year, the highest since it began systematically collecting data a decade ago.
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde school district has fired police chief Pete Arredondo under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers for hesitating for over an hour to storm a classroom and take down the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers In a unanimous
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse and Matt Foster, CNN A Ukrainian Premier League (UPL) football match in Lviv was halted four times on Wednesday as a result of multiple air raid sirens at Skif Stadium in Lviv, according to the UPL. Air raid sirens are one of the many safety measures implemented by the league in an
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A group that represents cultural organizations in Germany has criticized climate activists for gluing themselves to the frames of famous paintings in museums. The German Cultural Council, an umbrella group of cultural organizations, accused the activists of endangering important works with their protest of what they see
Continue Reading By INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a Russian rocket attack as Ukraine observed its Independence Day has risen to 25, including an 11-year-old boy found under the rubble of a house and a 6-year-old killed in a car fire near a train station that was the target, a
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By THALIA BEATY Associated Press LANCASTER, Ca. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $44 million to the Oregon-based mentoring organization, Friends of the Children, which supports children at risk of entering the welfare system by pairing them with a longtime mentor. The unrestricted gift, announced Thursday, provides $15 million to the organization’s national headquarters
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