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Severe storms expected near St. Louis Friday and Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- A heat advisory for today continues as temps jump well into the 90s north of I-70 and low 100s south of I-70. Heat index will hit 105+.Storms will start to develop north of St. Louis by mid-afternoon, with scattered storms dropping southeast across the region this afternoon and into this evening. Some storms may produce damaging winds of 60-70 mph. Many spots will miss the storms, but where they hit, they will pack a punch. There is a level two out of five risk for much of the area today into this evening. St. Louis radar: See a map of current weather here Storms will continue in spots tonight, but severe weather concerns will ease overnight. Believe it or not, heavy rain may become a concern in areas that see repeated storms.Saturday will be hot and humid again, but with somewhat greater coverage of afternoon storms. The risk Saturday will increase to a three out of five, with damaging winds of 60-80 mph, hail and isolated tornadoes possible. The greatest risk will ...

Missouri officials take credit for overturned student loan forgiveness plan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan Friday to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans. Two Missouri officials, both Republicans, are taking credit for the latest developments. Former Attorney General turned U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt and current Attorney General Andrew Bailey say Missouri's action was pivotal to killing the plan. Schmitt served as Attorney General through early-January 2023, challenging Biden's student loan plan with a lawsuit months before he was elected as a U.S. senator. Schmitt claims he was the first in the country to file a lawsuit on the matter. Expired tag or derelict? Police called as city tows truck from private driveway "When I was Missouri’s Attorney General, I filed this critical lawsuit," said Schmitt in a statement to FOX 2. "I’m pleased to see the Supreme Court side with the plaintiff states and strike down Biden’s student loan debt bailout." Last year, a fede...

Spring Creek and 3 other fires grow, continue to burn across western Colorado Friday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

Hot, dry and windy conditions fanned the flames of the four fires burning across western Colorado on Friday morning.Spring Creek FireThe Spring Creek fire, located just south of Parachute, continued to burn overnight, officials said. Mapping of the fire Thursday showed it is burning on a nearly 3,000-acre area.Fire officials plan to hold a community meeting 6 p.m. Friday evening in Parachute to provide information and updates.Coalmine Fire Firefighters in southwestern Colorado Thursday faced the Coalmine fire in Archuleta County. The fire erupted Wednesday and spread quickly, reaching 190 acres by the end of the day.As of Thursday evening, the fire had burned across 267 acres, according to the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office.While aircraft continue to drop water and fire retardant, ground crews are working with county equipment on the fire line to solidify the fire’s perimeter and prevent further spreading, officials said.Chris Mountain Fire The Chris Mountain fire, lo...

Severe storm warning for Castle Rock, Franktown and Larkspur warns of nickel-sized hail

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

10:27 a.m.: Thunderstorms will move through Castle Rock, Franktown and Larkspur potentially bringing nickel-sized hail and 30 mph winds until 11:15 a.m., according to a severe weather warning from the National Weather Service.A special weather statement has been issued for Castle Rock CO, Franktown CO and Larkspur CO until 11:15 AM MDT #COwx pic.twitter.com/KuAR0GILsJ— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) June 30, 202310:11 a.m.: Thunderstorms will move through Denver around 10:45 a.m., according to the weather service. Small hail, brief rainfall and lightning possible.Thunderstorms will move moving across the Denver area through 10:45 AM MDT. Small hail, brief light to moderate rainfall and cloud to ground lightning will be possible with these storms. #COwx https://t.co/h9QLuCTEub— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) June 30, 202310:05 a.m.: The National Weather Service is warning of severe weather in Denver, Aurora and Lakewood this morning. Winds of up to 30 mph and half-inch-sized hai...

Disneyland pauses general ticket sales for Oogie Boogie Bash amid technical issues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

General ticket sales for Oogie Boogie Bash, a popular Halloween party at Disney California Adventure, were paused on Thursday after technical difficulties plagued the virtual queue.Disneyland Resort officials shared a message on the ticket website regarding the situation. Disneyland Resort sets opening date for ‘Rogers: The Musical’ “Guests can visit Disneyland.com/oogieboogiebash on Thursday, July 6 at 9 a.m. for an update, which may include the date and time when new sales will resume,” the ticket queue website said. “We commit to providing advance notice prior to activating new sales and strive to make the process as smooth as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.A screenshot from the Oogie Boogie Bash ticket queue. (Disney)Magic Key holders got early access to the ticket queue for Oogie Boogie Bash on June 27. The pre-sale tickets sold out that same day. Last year, all ticket sales sold out in less than a week.The event includes rare character sightings, themed...

Teen kills store clerk during armed robbery in Hesperia, sheriff's department says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

A 16-year-old from Victorville is facing robbery and murder charges after he fatally shot a store clerk in Hesperia Thursday evening, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.The unidentified teen robbed a Mobil gas station on Main Street at about 6:20 p.m., the Sheriff's Department said in a news release. After the robber fled the scene, deputies found the store clerk, 27-year-old Parveen Singh of Hesperia, unresponsive on the floor with a gunshot wound. He was declared dead at a local hospital.The teen, meanwhile, was arrested about a block away from the scene, police said. He was booked into the High Desert Juvenile Hall in Apple Valley. Anyone with information is asked to call 909-890-4904.  To remain anonymous, call the WeTip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463) or go to wetip.com.

Download these 4 apps before your next trip

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

Summer is synonymous with travel, and if you’re heading to a new destination, why not make it your wallpaper?Atlas, Free on iOSAtlas is an app that lets you create unique city street wallpapers based on a location. Search for a city, then choose a style.You can create wallpapers for your phone, watch or computer. Atlas is free for iing for an Android alternative, Cartogram does something similar for $2.Flush, Free on iOS and AndroidOn the go… and need to go?Check out Flush, a free app that helps you find public restrooms. They have a database of over 200,000 of them.You can see nearby results on a map and then filter by fee, key or disabled access.The results aren’t always perfect. I found out of date listings, but overall, Flush can be helpful. PeakFinder, iOS and Android, $5Curious what the name of that mountain is?Check out PeakFinder. It's an app that identifies over 1 million mountaintops around the world. It also works offline. Just open the app and aim at a mountain range to ...

Oakland man accused of murdering UC Berkeley employee gets 9 years in prison after plea deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

OAKLAND — A city resident has been sentenced to nine years in state prison in connection with a 2020 road rage shooting that paralyzed a UC Berkeley student who would die from his injuries months later, court records show.Jamon Hill, 27, pleaded no contest to a charge of shooting an inhabited vehicle. In exchange, prosecutors dropped murder charges related to the killing of 32-year-old Quoc Tran, a UC Berkeley staffer who used his cellphone to photograph Hill’s car moments before he was shot.The evidence linking Hill to Tran’s shooting had mostly to do with a gold Lexus ES 350 that was seen on both surveillance video and in a photo taken by Tran. The surveillance video showed Tran trying to get away from the car as it chased him.Hill was identified as the owner of the Lexus, and when police attempted to pull him over the day after Tran was shot, he sped away, then stopped, got out of the car, ran away, and got arrested by an Oakland officer. In a subsequent intervi...

Review: Tony winner confesses an undercover life onstage in Berkeley

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

Ari’el Stachel is an animated, charming guy and a compelling storyteller. You might never know how nervous he is if that weren’t exactly what his story is about.On the face of it, Stachel’s one-man show “Out of Character” at Berkeley Repertory Theatre is about how he hid his ethnicity from everyone at school from middle school all the way into college. Growing up in Berkeley with a Jewish Yemenite immigrant father and an Ashkenazi mother, he felt shunned by other kids after 9/11 for his Middle Eastern heritage and kept switching schools and reinventing himself, pretending to be of different ethnicities entirely.“Posing as someone else gave me so much freedom at school,” he says.At its core, however, “Out of Character” is about Stachel’s lifelong anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, personified as a character in itself. He calls it Meredith, after the mean-spirited would-be-stepmother in 1998 remake of “The Parent Trap,” and it’s represented by a monstrously distorted, female-s...

The top 10 US beaches for 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT

Half of the top 10 beaches in the United States for 2023 are in Florida and Hawaii.That’s according to the 2023 list of best US beaches released in May by “Dr. Beach,” aka coastal scientist Stephen Leatherman.Florida’s St. George Island State Park earns the top slot. The barrier island park offers nine miles of pristine beaches along the Gulf Coast. With nature trails for biking and hiking, plus birding, fishing, boating and camping, St. George offers more than just excellent swimming and sunbathing. It’s also a prime spot for stargazing with limited light pollution and an observation platform for night sky exploration.The beach has “some of the whitest, finest sand in the world,” said Leatherman, who is a professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Florida International University. “The water is crystal clear and clean, far from any sources of pollution on this offshore barrier island.”Leatherman has been ranking America’s best beaches since 1991.He uses 50 criteria t...