Friday, May 17 2013 10:28 PM EDT2013-05-18 02:28:19 GMT
When someone is texting and driving, they can travel an entire football field in just about the time it takes to read a text. So, what can parents do to prevent their teen from getting in a deadly wreck
When someone is texting and driving, they can travel an entire football field in just about the time it takes to read a text. So, what can parents do to prevent their teen from getting in a deadly wreck
Sunday, May 19 2013 2:04 PM EDT2013-05-19 18:04:20 GMT
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -
Authorities in East St. Louis say a 1-year-old girl was killed when she was run over by a car after a boy inside listening to music started the vehicle and put it into gear.
Sunday, May 19 2013 1:59 PM EDT2013-05-19 17:59:44 GMT
Top Democratic leaders, including Gov. Pat Quinn, are urging lawmakers to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Top Democratic leaders, including Gov. Pat Quinn, are urging lawmakers to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Christy is a hometown girl from Advance, Mo. and grew up watching KFVS12.
Christy
was bit by the performance bug early in life after taking dance
lessons. She conducted her first interviews in seventh grade for a
History Day project on German-Lutherans immigrating to the southeast
Missouri towns of Altenburg and Frohna in the 1800s. After a couple of
years on the yearbook team in high school, she decided to try her hand
at journalism in college.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude from
Missouri State University in May 2007. While in college, she worked for
the NPR affiliate in Springfield, interned at KSPR and KY3, and won four
awards from the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association.
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Christy was a 2010-2011 recipient of the Midwest Health Journalism Fellowship.
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restaurants in the Heartland and spending time with her husband Josh,
her two cats, Lucy and Ethel, and beagle puppy, Cayanne.
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Thursday, May 16 2013 7:38 AM EDT2013-05-16 11:38:49 GMT
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - An Army wife who lost over 100 pounds while her husband was away in Afghanistan surprised the soldier Wednesday when he arrived at Wilmington International Airport. Misty Shaffer,
A soldier from Wilmington returns from Afghanistan to a big surprise: a new wife, a new house and a different child.
Sunday, May 19 2013 11:56 AM EDT2013-05-19 15:56:55 GMT
A Steele woman hit by a train Saturday night is listed in critical condition. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, it happened in Steele around 9 p.m. Troopers say 45-year-old Lisa Hemphill
A Steele woman hit by a train Saturday night is listed in critical condition.
Sunday, May 19 2013 11:35 AM EDT2013-05-19 15:35:02 GMT
Strawberry season is upon us, and this week's Heartland Cooks is somewhat of an expert on the fruit. Folks on Judy Flamm's family farm in Cobden, Illinois just started picking strawberries this past week.
Folks on Judy Flamm's family farm in Cobden, Illinois just started picking strawberries this past week and we share one of her family's favorite recipes: Easy Strawberry Pizza.
Sunday, May 19 2013 2:04 PM EDT2013-05-19 18:04:20 GMT
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -
Authorities in East St. Louis say a 1-year-old girl was killed when she was run over by a car after a boy inside listening to music started the vehicle and put it into gear.
It's been less than 10 months since the world record for a lottery prize. On Saturday night, it could conceivably fall once again.
It's all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday.
Sunday, May 19 2013 8:43 AM EDT2013-05-19 12:43:12 GMT
An inmate at the Scott County Jail is in even more trouble with law after deputies found drugs on him. According to Sheriff Rick Walter, 24-year-old Arron McCrary of Truman, Arkansas was transferred from
An inmate at the Scott County Jail is in even more trouble with law after deputies found drugs on him.
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