Several polls show Bernie Sanders as the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Supporter Maren Bell Jones with Our Revolution Mid-Missouri joined Wake Up Columbia to explain why some people “Feel the Bern”: Th...
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Financial pain deepens as nearly 60 countries report virus
(AP) — A deepening health crisis became an economic one too Friday, with the virus outbreak sapping financial markets, emptying shops and businesses, and putting major sites and events off limits. As the list of countries hit by the illness edged towar...
Read More »Democrats eye Super Tuesday even as South Carolina looms
(AP) — Bernie Sanders will swing through North Carolina, Virginia and Massachusetts in the coming days. Elizabeth Warren will make stops in Texas and Arkansas. Amy Klobuchar will be in Tennessee and Virginia. The South Carolina primary is just two days...
Read More »Kansas man charged in Sedalia man’s death
(AP) — A Kansas man is charged with second-degree murder in a shooting death during the weekend in Sedalia. Daniel Fernandez, of Kansas City, Kansas, is accused of killing Robert Fox Jr. on Saturday. Sedalia police say detectives established Fox owed m...
Read More »New virus has infected 83,000 globally, caused 2,800 deaths
(AP) A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 83,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it. The latest figures reporte...
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