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Crews respond to house fire in Wood River, Illinois

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

WOOD RIVER, Ill. - Fire crews were at the scene of a home that went ablaze early Tuesday morning. Our Nissan Rogue Runner reporter Nic Lopez was at the scene, located on the 300 block of 10th Street, where the occupants woke up to no power and smoke filling their home. Fire officials shared that an electrical line from the home fell onto a fence, which energized the fencing of that home and neighboring homes. Don’t be mesmerized – you should kill this dazzling bug So far, no further information has been reported. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Municipal election polls open today

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Voters go to the polls Tuesday in several municipal elections.In St. Louis City, voters in the new 'St. Louis Hills Special Business District' will be asked to approve a property tax to fund the district through 2029. There are also property tax proposals on the ballot for the Fox C-6 School District and the Meramec Valley R-3 District. Don’t be mesmerized – you should kill this dazzling bug In St. Louis County, voters will decide whether to merge the city of Normandy and the village of Glen Echo Park. The polls open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.

Battery component plant groundbreaking today

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Governor Mike Parson will be in south St. Louis for the groundbreaking of a plant to make components for batteries that power electric cars.Last year, the Biden administration awarded $197 million to "'Israel Chemical Holdings' to build the lithium-iron factory. At the site of a former Monsanto plant. Child shot and killed while playing with a gun in north St. Louis County It will be the first large-scale plant of its kind in the United States, creating about 150 jobs.

Police: Missing Florissant teen found

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

FLORISSANT, Mo. – The St. Louis County Police Department has cancelled an endangered person advisory from early Monday evening for a missing Florissant teenager.According to the advisory, the incident occurred just after 7 p.m. on the 3500 block of Sugar Crest Drive. Child shot and killed while playing with a gun in north St. Louis County The teen has since been located safely.

Broncos Mailbag: Who’s making noise early on in training camp?

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the season. Click here to submit a question.Hey Parker! Tim Patrick getting hurt again is terrible, but the silver lining is that it opens up a potential opportunity for one of the other guys on the squad. How much do you think Marvin Mims will contribute for us this year?— Matthew K., DenverHey Matthew, thanks for writing in and getting this thing started this week. I appreciate your optimistic disposition, but if you’re the Broncos, there’s nothing good about Tim Patrick getting hurt. And it’s totally brutal if you’re Tim Patrick. I do see where you’re going with the question, though, and injury does lead to opportunity in the NFL.Mims is one of the guys who could be counted on more with Patrick out. One of the interesting things about Mims will be how quickly he finds a role and what coach Sean Payton, receivers coach Keary Colbert and company think it is. Particularly, where does he pla...

GREGORY WINGS ALSO KNOWN AS BLAMEITONG

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

How He Overcame Adversity and Built a Successful LifeIn a remarkable journey of redemption, Gregory Wings, also known as BlameitonG, has defied the odds by turning his life around after serving 8 years in federal prison.In 2007 at just 22 years old, Mr. Wings was sentenced to 122 months in prison and ordered to pay $8.5 million in restitution, a sentence that seemed insurmountable at the time. The federal government seized $19.5 million from Mr. Wings, an astonishing amount that had been accumulated through his successful real estate business. The young entrepreneur had just sold his Real Estate Brokerage franchises for $21 million in 2006, while co-owning two nightclubs in Atlanta GA, and co-owning a succesful underground documentary called Crack Heads Gone Wild, which had further established his reputation as a thriving young businessman.BlameitonG’s’ fortunes took a sharp turn when he found himself entangled in legal troubles. He was the youngest among his co-defendants, with all...

Opinion: American education and the great White lies

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

Recent battles over how to teach history in American schools have focused on views of America’s domestic racism, but that’s only one piece of the problem of how we view history. Our pre-college curriculums and popular histories are filled with stories of great White men who single-handedly changed the world. This heroification, however, is often as much a made-up history as the stories of Marvel heroes in the movies. Many of these supposed ground-breakers were in fact preceded by generations of people including persons from other cultures and nations.We’re taught that one man, James Watt, an 18th-century Scot, is responsible for steam power — but steam power was being used 2,000 years earlier in Egypt. American Thomas Edison “invented” the light bulb a century after it was in development by inventors such as Alexander Lodygin from Tambov Governorate of the Russian Empire, Italian Alessandro Cruto and the African-American inventor Lewis Howard Latimer, whose filament patents al...

Walters: California bills would encourage government secrecy

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

Bill McEwen, a columnist for San Joaquin Valley news site GV Wire, posed several of what he considered to be routine factual questions to the state Department of Public Health last week about a mysterious laboratory discovered in the small town of Reedley.The laboratory, in an abandoned warehouse, contained mice, biological fluids and samples of dreaded diseases including HIV, malaria and COVID-19. Federal and state investigators are delving into the situation, which surfaced when a city building code inspector noticed a hose snaking out of a wall in the warehouse.McEwen wanted to know how the department oversees laboratories, how often they are inspected and how illegal labs get discovered. But he got nowhere. Department officials refused to answer even the most basic operational questions and told McEwen to search their website to find answers.“Administration of @GavinNewsom has zero commitment to transparency,” McEwen tweeted in frustration.It was an example of what reporters and...

Man gets life in prison for killing friend during ocean trip off California coast

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

A Fountain Valley man who shot a friend over a drug debt during a late-night boat trip and left him to die in the ocean waters off of Dana Point was sentenced Monday, Aug. 7, to life in federal prison.Hoang “Wayne” Xuan Le and co-defendant Sheila Ritze conspired to lure Tri “James” Minh Dao — Le’s friend and drug-trafficking partner — to his death with promises of a lobster fishing trip on Oct. 14, 2019.A fisherman discovered Dao’s body two days later, floating in the ocean water off of Oceanside. It became the rare murder case to be tried in federal court under maritime law.Le was convicted in 2021 with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and use of a firearm during the killing, while Ritze was convicted in a separate trial of second-degree murder.Dao’s mother, in a written statement filed with the court, said Le showed no remorse for the killing.“You were my son’s friend,” the mother wrote to Le. “You often spent time together with my son’s two young daughters. They c...

After 275 days, Mammoth Mountain’s snowy slopes finally closed

Published Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:24:11 GMT

It was a snow season for the books – one that at times buried the mountain resort, but also created a rare “second season” that allowed slopes to stay open through the summer.Now, after 275 days of snow play, the lifts have finally come to a halt. Mammoth Mountain shut down snow operations on Sunday, Aug. 6, ending an extremely long season for the popular California mountain resort.The summer snow season wrapped up on Aug. 6, the second longest snow season in Mammoth Mountain’s history. Record snowfall make this year one for the books. (Photo by Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register/SCNG) Only three times have winter operations stayed open into August, including in 2017. This season marked the second longest in Mammoth’s history. The latest the resort has ever stayed open was nearly 30 years ago, in 1995, when it closed on Aug. 13.“I think the biggest thing was the sheer amount of snow that fell in Mammoth last year,” said resort spokesperson Tim LeRoy. “When you’re setting a...