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MSD hosting hearing today about rate hike proposal in St. Louis metro area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

ST. LOUIS - MSD is hosting another public hearing Monday on plans to raise sewer rates across the St. Louis metro area.MSD wants to spend nearly $1.65 billion to improve the system. They want voters to approve a $750 million bond issue. Half-off meal deals at local restaurants They're also asking for a rate hike, which could nearly double the average monthly bill. Monday night's meeting is at 7:00 p.m. at Bridgeton City Hall.

Affton High School hosting active shooter training today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUTY, Mo. - More first responders are training Monday in case of another school shooting.This comes after the deadly shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis last October. The St. Louis County Police Affton - southwest precinct will have an intruder training exercise Monday at Affton High School. Half-off meal deals at local restaurants Last week, Chesterfield Police and The Monarch Fire Protection District held a drill at Parkway Central Middle School. Their training sessions will continue through the summer.

Aspen Skiing Company co-owner James Crown dies in vehicle crash at Woody Creek racetrack

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

A 70-year-old member of the Crown family that owns the Aspen Skiing Company died over the weekend in a vehicle crash on his birthday at the Aspen Motorsports Park.James Crown, of Chicago, a part-time resident of Pitkin County, was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Sunday at the racetrack in Woody Creek, a members-only facility where he was celebrating his birthday.The vehicle Crown was driving failed to navigate a turn and hit a barrier, according to the Pitkin County Coroner. Crown likely died from blunt force trauma, chief deputy coroner Audra Keith said in a news release Sunday night.The authorities were investigating. No other information was released.Crown served as the chief executive of Henry Crown and Company, a multi-billion dollar enterprise that owns the Aspen Skiing Company.

Denver weather: Warm, dry and breezy, sunny with clear blue skies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

The weather in metro Denver will be warm, dry, and breezy this week with the highest temperatures of the year starting Monday, and skies will remain relatively clear and blue, according to the National Weather Service.The high temperature in Denver will be 92 degrees, increasing to 93 degrees on Tuesday, weather service forecasters said. These could be the first 90-degree days of the year. At night, low temperatures Monday and Tuesday will hover around 58 degrees.Light breezes on Monday with the wind blowing at speeds around 10 miles per hour, with gusts up to 16 mph, are expected to increase later in the week with gusts up to 39 mph. The weather pattern settling in this week after a relatively wet June is favorable for fires, meteorologists said.Rivers and streams flowing down from Colorado’s mountains onto the high plains are running high and fast due to mountain snow melting and recent heavy rain.Warm and dry conditions are forecast Monday and Tuesday. Breezy conditions are...

Opinion: The notorious ’93 summer of violence could become the summer of ’23

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

On the night the Nuggets won the NBA Championship, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas was attending a community meeting with Mayor-elect Mike Johnston to brainstorm how to address youth violence at the New Hope Baptist Church, when Thomas issued an ominous warning, “we have an opportunity to have an even more violent summer than we did in ‘93”.Thomas added, “even the Summer of ’93, as violent as it was, we did not see the number of guns that we’re currently seeing.”Back in the infamous “Summer of Violence”,  I was a newly elected state representative from Southeast Denver. There were 74 homicides in the city and nearly half were of teenagers. In 2021, 96 people were killed in Denver, and that declined to 88 people in 2022 (17 of which were teens). While that is a lower homicide rate than ’93 because of Denver’s population growth, Thomas’ warning should not be taken lightly.Our city’s concerns that summer started when a 5-year-old boy was shot in the h...

5 dead in multi-vehicle crash on 710 Freeway in Long Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

Five people were killed in a multi-vehicle collision on the 710 Freeway in the Long Beach area Monday morning, authorities said.The pileup occurred around 4 a.m. when a single vehicle slammed into an attenuator and caught fire in the northbound lanes of the freeway near the 91 Freeway interchange, according to the California Highway Patrol.Additional vehicles then crashed into the dark-colored sedan and blocked the freeway's slow lane, the CHP stated. Authorities respond to a fatal crash on the 710 Freeway in Long Beach on June 26, 2023. (KTLA)A big rig on the right shoulder also caught fire after possibly being involved in the incident. The CHP confirmed that five people were killed in the crash. No information about the victims was immediately released. A Sig Alert was issued for the closure of all northbound lanes just before 4:30 a.m.As of 6 a.m., one lane had reopened on the 710 northbound but three other lanes would remain closed until further notice, according to the CHP.

2 pedestrians killed by speeding pickup in Riverside, police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

Two men are dead after they were hit by a speeding pickup truck in Riverside Sunday night, according to police.The crash was reported at 11:48 p.m., and when responders arrived at the scene of the crash near the intersection of Van Buren Boulevard and Challen Avenue, they found two unresponsive men, the Riverside Police Department said in a news release.The men were declared dead at the scene, while the driver of the 2011 GMC pickup, a 17-year-old boy from Perris, was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, police said.The truck was "traveling southbound Van Buren Boulevard at a high rate of speed" before the driver "lost control and struck the two pedestrians," the release said."At this time it is unknown if drugs and/or alcohol were contributing factors," officials added. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Ryan Mchugh at 951-826-8720 or email [email protected].

The Supreme Court's biggest decisions are coming. Here's what they could say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

The Supreme Court is getting ready to decide some of its biggest cases of the term. The high court has 10 opinions left to release over the next week before the justices begin their summer break. As is typical, the last opinions to be released cover some of the most contentious issues the court has wrestled with this term including affirmative action, student loans and gay rights. Here's a look at some of the cases the court has left to decide from the term that began back in October:AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONThe survival of affirmative action in higher education is the subject of two related cases, one involving Harvard and the other the University of North Carolina. The Supreme Court has previously approved of the use of affirmative action in higher education in decisions reaching back to 1978. But the justices' decision to take the cases suggested a willingness to revisit those rulings. And when the high court heard arguments in the cases in late October, all six conservative justices on...

Supreme Court lets lawsuits over team doctor's sexual abuse proceed against Ohio State

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.Two cases involving the abuse were on a list of many cases the court said it would not hear. And, as is typical, the court did not comment in saying it would not hear the cases.Ohio State University had urged the court to review a ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived lawsuits that had been dismissed. The men who sued are among hundreds of former student-athletes and other alumni who say they were abused by Strauss, who worked at the school from 1978 to 1998. They say university officials failed to stop him despite complaints raised as early as the late 1970s. Many of them allege Strauss abused them during required physicals and other medical exams at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home and an off-campus clinic.Strauss killed h...

Louise Post Crosses Abbey Road

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:49 GMT

The BeatlesAbbey Road (Apple Records)Louise Post Crosses Abbey Road: Louise Post, formerly of alt-rock trailblazers Veruca Salt, told us about her love for a Beatles classic.(Apple Records)Louise Post: Abbey Road is my favorite record of all time.  Ever since I heard the needle drop on “Come Together” at age seven, I have wanted to write songs and make music, to have my own band and strive to achieve that kind of magic. And since hearing that song, I have never heard anything cooler. It is heavy without having the heavy guitars and screams and production we came to know in the 90s. It is breezy, sexy, effortlessly cool without trying. It feels fresh and clean in production, but it is deceptively complicated. And that’s just the beginning.Boldly, the Beatles follow this mind-blowing album opener with the ultimate love song-ballad, “Something in the Way”. Just as its predecessor and everything that follows, this song is timeless, authentic, yearning, aching and heartbreaking. “Maxwell...