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Heat related deaths and injuries on the rise across the U.S.
Heat continues to remain a problem following much of the Midwest into the end of August. This has resulted in a multi-day stretch of triple digit heat indices across mid-Missouri that looks to last through Thursday. Heat remains the deadliest weather related causation over the past ten years with flooding...
Planned Parenthood challenges new Missouri law blocking Medicaid payments to its clinics
Missouri’s Planned Parenthood affiliates are asking the state administrative hearing commission to block a new law that prohibits the organization from being reimbursed for serving Medicaid patients. The law goes into effect on Wednesday. Nearly one in five Planned Parenthood patients in Missouri is insured through MO HealthNet, the state’s Medicaid program that serves low-income […]
'Be the one to make a difference.' Dolly Parton celebrates Imagination Library in Missouri
Dolly Parton strolled to the center of the stage at the Folly Theater in Kansas City singing "Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come." She exited 40 minutes later — with the crowd on its feet — after singing her song "Try," which she dubbed the theme for Imagination Library. Part of...
Watch a Missouri Teenager Save 2 Toddlers & Their Dog from a Fire
A 15-year-old Missouri girl showed unbelievable bravery as a security camera showed her saving 2 toddlers she was babysitting from a sudden raging housefire and their dog, too. I saw this crazy video shared by WPLG Local 10 which tells the video short story of Savannah Strother who is a...
Authorities issue power warning for Kansas, Missouri, and 10 other states amid heatwave
As temperatures soar to some of the highest levels this summer in Kansas City, a power usage monitoring group has issued a warning. The Southwest Power Pool has issued a Level 1 Emergency Alert on Monday at around 12:30 p.m. This alert is expected to remain in effect until 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening.
Dueling groups file lawsuits to toss Missouri abortion amendment off the ballot
Both supporters and opponents of abortion rights have filed lawsuits against a ballot amendment that is set to appear on the Missouri ballot this election. In last-minute filings, two lawsuits aim to kick the initiative off the ballot in a race against the clock as the courts have until Sept. 10 to make any changes. […]
Voters will decide minimum wage ballot measures in several states
Grace McGovern, a 24-year-old bartender and server at a downtown Boston brewery, recalls one recent customer vividly. He was very rude. It was a slow night, and she only had one table, a large group led by a man who “kept touching my lower back and my leg and making jokes,” she told Stateline. It […]
Tuesday, August 27 forecast: Summer swelter’s days are numbered
Summer’s swagger is back. We’ve had 3 days in a row now with highs in the mid-90s. The stretch isn’t over, but this late burst of summer heat won’t last into September. A bigger dip in the jet stream is already moving into the Pacific Northwest. And, with a bigger dip in the jet we’ll […]
Swine specialist says biosecurity biggest protection from H5N1 in pigs
Earlier this year, highly pathogenic avian influenza infected dairy cattle in some states, though not in Missouri. Could the disease affect pigs?. Cory Bromfield, University of Missouri Extension swine veterinarian, said that it could happen, but to date only one natural case of H5N1 has been reported in the U.S., and that was in a feral hog. Low-pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in circulating swine strains five times from 1999 to 2015. Bromfield spoke about influenza in pigs at the recent Missouri Swine Health Symposium in Columbia.
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