KFVS12 announces major school closings today. KFVS12’s school closing today span Missouri to Kentucky. Weather conditions across 3/4 of the U.S. are causing widespread school closures. Some cities are reporting their worse weather conditions in 10 to 15 years. Schools are closed as far south as in...

Chicago School closings return today. Chicago School closings come as weather conditions cause a Lake Effect in some regions. A Flood Advisory is in effect for La Salle, Will, Kankakee, and Grundy. La Porte and Starke have Lake Effect Snow watch warnings. Schools in the Chicago region closed today ...

In the heart of New York City, if you listen closely, you’ll hear a severe sucking sound, as if some magical and invisible vortex is pulling in all that surrounds it. Amazingly, it doesn’t swallow up your scarf, your briefcase, or muss you hair. It does, however, pluck every last dolla...

Make a New Year’s resolution to move your money out of big banks? To that I say: Right on! Without question, financial consumers are angry at — and have lost their loyalty to — big banks. Late-night comics routinely make fun of the banks; there’s even a new iPhone app in ...

Following the Christmas Day near-disaster on an international flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, President Obama referred to a “systemic failure” of our nation’s intelligence sharing. He is right in referring to a systemic failure, but it is not just in intelligence sharing. Fro...

Thanks to donations from my readers, seven Guatemalan students will go to high school, three villages have school supplies, one has a new refrigeration system for soy milk, 60 villagers ate meat, and 140 kids got ice cream. I also think I have lice, but I couldn’t be happier! Newly returne...

Arianna and Rob Johnson, director of the Economic Policy Initiative at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, urged Americans to move their money to community banks during an appearance on the Ed Show with Ed Schultz on Wednesday. Just last week, Arianna and Rob unveiled Move Your Money, a ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off a new touch-screen, tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard Co., the first of several such devices expected to be unveiled this month. The tablet – also known as a slate, a one-piece portable computer without a physical keyboard – was one of seve...

DES MOINES — Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn’t see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as residents braced Thursday for heavy snow and wind chills as low as 50 below zero. Frigid weather also was gripping the Sou...

Researchers at the University of South Florida exposed 96 mice, most of whom had been genetically altered to develop the Alzheimer’s disease as they aged, to electromagnetic waves generated by mobile phones. The mice were zapped with 918-megaherz of frequency twice a day for an hour each time ...