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Missouri state representative calls for Francis Howell audit after large cost overruns

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - A Missouri state lawmaker asks for a state audit of the Francis Howell School District.Republican State Representative Phil Christofanelli of St. Peters shared that the cost to build a new Francis Howell North High School has nearly doubled since voters approved Proposition S in 2020. Suspected Schnucks shooter appeared to be targeting suburbs He said he understands costs can change, but doubling or quadrupling costs should have set off alarms; or require officials to re-submit them to voters.

East St. Louis man charged with murder after trooper finds body in the street

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A man is charged with murder after an Illinois state police trooper found a body in the street earlier this week.This was at the intersection of 9th Street and Winstanley in East St. Louis Monday. Officers said 27-year-old Dontez McCray hid in a nearby home. He was arrested after a four-hour police standoff. Suspected Schnucks shooter appeared to be targeting suburbs McCray is being held in the East St. Louis jail on a $1 million bond. Authorities have not released the name of the man who died.

Man accused of stealing $71K in merchandise facing charges

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A serial criminal accused of stealing more than $70,000 worth of merchandise from several Ulta Beauties and Dick's Sporting Goods stores is now facing charges.St. Louis County Police said 20-year-old Carlos Willis even used teenagers to help him steal. Authorities shared that Willis hit multiple stores from west county to south county, St. Charles County, and St. Clair County. Trending: Ladue estate with luxury auto house sold in record-setting 8-figure deal According to the probable cause statement, the sixteen separate thefts were committed over a six-month period. The stolen merchandise was also sold on Facebook less than 24 hours after the thefts.Willis remains at large. Anyone with information is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at or 911. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Trial today for man accused in 2019 shooting

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - Trial is underway in St. Charles for a man charged with a 2019 shooting at a target store in St. Charles.Larry Thomlison is charged with assault and armed criminal action. Prosecutors said he spotted an Amazon van parked in a handicapped spot, then confronted the driver, and shot him. Trending: Ladue estate with luxury auto house sold in record-setting 8-figure deal That driver, 21-year-old, Jaylen Walker, was paralyzed from the neck down.

Among Broncos’ free agency tasks: Stop the spinning wheel at right tackle

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

New Broncos offensive line coach Zach Strief knows how difficult it can be to create long-term stability for an NFL offensive line. He had a front-row seat in the not-too-distant past when he played more than a decade for New Orleans as a guard and then eventually as a tackle.Strief, now in charge of his own room for the first time after two seasons as the assistant offensive line coach in New Orleans, will essentially be looking for someone to provide Denver what he provided the Saints.Amazingly, the Broncos’ instability at right tackle dates back to the middle of Strief’s playing career. He started all 87 games he appeared in at right tackle for Sean Payton from 2011-17.Denver has had no such continuity.The right tackle job in 2022 was supposed to belong to free-agent addition Billy Turner, but offseason knee surgery kept him from appearing in a game until Week 6. Instead, Cam Fleming started the season opener after returning to the franchise as a free-agent signing just before ca...

The nine most expensive homes that reported sold in Oakland the week of Feb. 27

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

A house in Oakland that sold for $1.8 million tops the list of the most expensive real estate sales in Oakland in the last week.In total, 9 real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $691,283, $571 per square foot.The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of Feb. 27 even if the property may have been sold earlier.9. $347,870, single-family home in the 6900 block of Hamilton StreetThe property in the 6900 block of Hamilton Street in Oakland has new owners. The price was $347,870. The house was built in 1926 and has a living area of 658 square feet. The price per square foot is $529. The house features 2 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms.Hamilton Street8. $395,000, single-family residence in the 4500 block of Fleming AvenueThe 732 square-foot detached house in the 4500 block of Fleming Avenue, Oakland, has now been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in January and the total purcha...

81-year-old California man survives nearly a week stuck in snowbank on croissants and candy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

By Cheri Mossburg | CNNAn elderly man survived on croissants, candy and biscotti for nearly a week alone in his car, stuck in a snowbank on a desolate California highway.Jerry Jouret, 81, set out from his mountain house in Big Pine, California, on February 24 to return to his family home in Gardnerville, Nevada — just over three hours away in good driving conditions.According to his grandson Christian, Jouret thought he could beat the impending snow storm. He was wrong.During the drive, Jouret accidentally veered onto a smaller road and his SUV became stuck near Gilbert Pass, he told CNN.Temperatures in the area dropped from the mid 30s into the teens overnight.The mathematician and former NASA employee was ill-prepared for the weather, wearing only a light windbreaker, his grandson said. “He’s a pretty small,” Christian added. “He doesn’t have a whole lot of meat on his bones.”A light quilt and a hotel bath towel were the only things Jouret...

Barabak: In today’s politics it’s all about nastiness and party loyalty

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

Last weekend, the Texas Republican Party voted to punish one of its own.Tony Gonzales, a two-term congressman from San Antonio, was censured for, among other things, backing a modest gun safety law after 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered at an elementary school in Uvalde.The day after the party issued its condemnation, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson appeared on Fox News (motto: “Lying to viewers for fun and profit”) where he cracked wise about the removal of a cancerous growth from President Biden’s chest.“Biden is the cancer,” the Amarillo Republican said. “He’s what needs to be removed, not the lesion they found.”There has been no clamor among Texas Republicans to sanction Jackson for his callous and tasteless remark, and none is expected.Together, the events — though unrelated — say a good deal about the state of our politics and, especially, the nature of the Trumpified GOP.Forget basic human decency. What counts is pugnacity, acting out and blind, unswerving allegiance to...

Opinion: How has American health care gone so terribly wrong?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

We all have bad weeks. Mine recently made me marvel at the astonishing dysfunction of our health care system. In calling out the system I intend no disrespect to the talented and heroic overachievers in nursing, pharmacy, medicine and the other providers who fight the system every day on behalf of our patients.Despite such efforts, the sad but undeniable fact is that our health care system — the way the U.S. distributes and pays for health care — makes it the most expensive failed enterprise in the history of human civilization.Part of what set me off that week was a series of examples of my patients’ chronic struggles to access mental health services. After years of poor funding and a deluge of demand since the pandemic began, providers are in short supply. Scarcity is coupled with barriers imposed by insurance networks. Absent reasonable access to services, primary care doctors like me become the psychiatrists of first and last resort, pushing the bounds of our competence. But wha...

Pedro Gomez’s son, Rio, has homecoming to remember with Team Colombia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:09 GMT

MESA, Ariz. – Rio Gomez has pitched hundreds of innings since his father first introduced him to baseball.But Wednesday was different.Representing Colombia, his mother’s home country, the Arizona native pitched in his hometown for the first time since his father, longtime baseball reporter Pedro Gomez, died on Super Bowl Sunday two years ago. And Rio was facing the A’s, a team his dad covered for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee before becoming a star at ESPN.Rio’s mom, Sandi, was in the stands at Hohokam Stadium for the exhibition game and said the scenario couldn’t have been much better.“It just seemed like the perfect game,” Sandi said.Rio Gomez, and mom Sandi, spend some time together after the Oakland A’s spring training game against the Columbian National team at Hohokam Stadium on March 8, 2023 in Mesa, Arizona.Photo by John Medina Gomez, who was born and raised in Arizona, got to pitch in front of his mother, friends and a crowd of roughly 2,000 ...