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Fire crews rescue at least three from SUV stranded in I-64 floods

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Fire crews rescued at least three people from an SUV stranded on Interstate 64 amid massive flooding from a water main break Friday afternoon. A busy stretch of Interstate 64 is flooded in St. Louis during rush hour Friday afternoon due to a water main break. The interstate is flooded in both directions near Tamm Avenue. Drivers are backed up for several miles and traffic has been shut down in both directions. Trending Story: Kirkwood High School’s yearbook raises concerns from others As the flooding first occurred around 4:15 p.m., a few cars attempted to cross through waters before law enforcement blocked the area of the flooding. Because of that, one SUV ended up stuck in high waters. SkyFOX, powered by Bommarito Automotive Group, spotted fire crews helping out at least three people out of an SUV, including one boy. Everyone inside the car was rescued safely and not hurt, according to the St. Louis Fire Department. It's unclear how soon the Interstate might be clea...

Mother delivers healthy baby boy thanks to Pike County 911 Dispatcher 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

PIKE COUNTY, Mo. - A mother safely delivered her baby boy in the car thanks to a Pike County 911 dispatcher.Christie Rosenstengle welcomed baby Reece Burton into the world on May 11 in her and her husband's car. It was about 1:30 a.m., and Rosenstengle's husband, Caleb, was driving them to the hospital when Rosenstengle said it was time."As soon as we were about to pull off in Eolia, I said my water's going to break," she said. "He said, 'She said her water's going to break.' I said my water broke! I said we're done. You have to stop. Stop the car, pull over." Trending Story: Kirkwood High School’s yearbook raises concerns from others On the other end of the phone was a Pike County 911 dispatcher."The operator, she was fantastic," Rosenstengle said. "She asked us 'How far apart are her contractions?' Like, trying to help us establish if we needed to pull over if we needed to keep going."Pike County 911 shared on their Facebook page that dispatcher Faith Cooper took that call, and ...

Robin Niceta made up medical records, aggressive brain cancer diagnosis, prosecutors claim in court documents

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — Prosecutors say that Robin Niceta appeared to have fabricated medical records that she claimed showed she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which she said prevented her from traveling to Colorado for a competency hearing, according to court documents.According to the documents obtained by Denver7 Investigates on Friday, the prosecutors in the case say she appeared to have made up an oncology clinic and doctor in New Mexico, and used Google images of glioblastoma to claim as her own MRI images.Related ArticlesColorado News | From Jamal Murray playing through illness to Michael Malone calling fiery timeout up 23, Nuggets have an essential championship quality Colorado News | Complaints about Colorado judges jump 25% amid effort to reform judicial discipline Colorado News | Mother of Club Q shooting suspect ejected from court over profane outbursts Colorado News | Nuggets guard Jamal Murray expect...

Two men stranded in snowy Pike National Forest rescued by Air National Guard

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

Two men in a snow-stranded vehicle in Pike National Forest for about 21 hours were rescued Friday by a Colorado Air National Guard helicopter crew.Multi-Agency Response Rescues Three Stranded Motorists in Pike National Forest. Three adult males were rescued from their stranded vehicle just short of 21 hours after they called for help. See full media release at https://t.co/gYi1osAy0G @DCSARColorado pic.twitter.com/GzHGewTF7c— DC Sheriff (@dcsheriff) May 12, 2023About 3 p.m. Thursday the Douglas Regional Dispatch Center received a call from a man who said he was with two others, and their vehicle, about five miles north of the South County Line on Rampart Range Road, where they were stuck in the snow, according to a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office news release.A deputy was dispatched and after about two hours, as snow fell in the recent storm that pounded northeastern Colorado, the trio was found at Rampart Range Road and Fern Creek Road, the release said.The deputy trie...

Death rate among L.A. County homeless population continues to increase, report shows

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

The mortality rate among homeless people in Los Angeles County has increased by 55% in recent years, according to the latest county public health report.In 2019, 1,289 people experiencing homelessness died. This number increased to 1,811 in 2020 and 2,201 in 2021, according to the report.The report also found that drug overdoses continue to be the leading cause of death among unhoused individuals in the county. Drug overdoses have been the leading cause of death among homeless people since 2019 and accounted for 37% of all deaths in 2020 and 2021 combined, officials said.Researchers found that overdose rates among unhoused Black and Latinx people in Los Angeles County are higher in comparison to their white counterparts. The report also said that fentanyl-related overdoses have nearly tripled since 2019 when the rate was just 20% and rose to 58% by 2021.Coronary heart disease and traffic injuries were the second and third leading causes of death among homeless individuals in the cou...

Create defensible space or face fines, Pasadena fire officials say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

Firefighters in Pasadena are going house-to-house to offer free safety inspections in an effort to save homes - and potentially lives.The fire department has sent letters to around 4,000 homeowners in high-risk zones, telling them to clear dry brush, create defensible space, or face fines.Bruce and Sue Porter, who live in the Eaton Canyon area, were among those who received a visit on Friday.“Every year we worry about it especially when the Santa Ana winds come… it’s terrifying,” said Bruce.See the current fire danger mapPeak fire season in California is typically in the late summer and fall, but experts say large wildfires are also possible earlier in the year, including in the month of May.Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustin believes the 2023 fire season will be challenging.“This has been a record year for rain. We see nice green hills,” Augustin told KTLA. “Those hills will be brown in a few months from now … We’re in store for a rough fire season.”Firefighters say homeowners can b...

Letters: Ready for RCV | Deserve to know | Suspensions useful | Positive results | Ease transition | Fox light

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Santa Clara Countyis ready for RCVRe: “New bill could allow ranked choice voting” (Page B1, May 11).As the person who brought the idea of using ranked choice voting (RCV) to the county’s Charter Review Commission in 1997, I’m pleased that we are finally making progress toward its implementation.Your article does mention the error the Alameda County Registrar of Voters made in tabulating a recent Oakland school board election last year. Thanks to a Public Records Act request and a lawsuit by Oaklandside.org, the Dominion RCV manual became publicly available, and at its May 8 meeting the Santa Clara County Citizens’ Advisory Commission on Elections (CACE) established a committee to review that manual, to make sure that no incorrect settings are made when RCV is eventually implemented by our registrar. (I am a member of CACE and of that committee, but I do not speak for CACE.)O...

People’s Park housing developer abandons UC Berkeley project, citing lost federal funding

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

The developer slated to build permanent supportive housing for UC Berkeley’s controversial project at People’s Park has backed out, after ongoing lawsuits jeopardized crucial federal funding late last year.Resources for Community Development, a Berkeley-based nonprofit, recanted its commitment to build 125 units on the site for extremely low-income, unhoused or formerly housed people, the organization confirmed in a statement Friday. In a separate building, UC Berkeley is also hoping to construct 1,100 beds for students.After a state appellate court ruled that UC’s housing plans violated CEQA, the ongoing delays and challenges of keeping the project alive proved too much for the nonprofit to continue moving forward with financing the construction, according to Lauren Lyon, RCD’s director of marketing and communications.In February, the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned approvals of the development, which were originally greenlit by the UC Regent...

Good golly, Miss Dolly: Why travelers are flocking to the music icon’s Dollywood theme park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

Linze Rice | Chicago TribuneGrowing up in DeKalb, Josie Shattuck was surrounded by the unending flatlands of corn country. The medium-sized city sat as an island amid a sea of stalks that changed from green to gold as the familiar frost began to set in.When Grandma Nadine returned from her senior group trips with handfuls of exotic brochures, Shattuck only needed to read a trifold pamphlet to transport around the world. When she saw one for Dollywood — an entire world dedicated to the glamorous country singer whose records her mother devotedly played at home — the destination became one of her most coveted travel dreams.“They wouldn’t really bring back paid souvenirs; I think this was just their way of sharing the experience,” said Shattuck, now a McHenry County resident. “I remember learning about Dollywood pretty early on. I had no personal experience with resort theme park areas like this — it just kind of seemed like this cloud-in-the-sky, magical place.”Now 33, Shattuck is head...

Critics throw barbs, fans toss tomatoes as Oakland A’s waterfront deal set to expire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:52 GMT

OAKLAND — This city’s ambitious dream of sandwiching a giant ballpark and thousands of new homes into its busy waterfront is now dead — possibly once and for all.The Oakland A’s are expected to let their exclusive negotiating contract for land at Howard Terminal expire Saturday morning, leaving them with no further ties to the 55-acre property in the middle of Oakland’s industrial seaport that had until recently been slated for a large-scale development guided by the team.With recent shake-ups in Las Vegas indicating a bumpier path to a new stadium there than the A’s had previously indicated, this might not be the final nail in the coffin for the franchise’s relationship with Oakland.But it does point to a different direction for the future of Howard Terminal, now used mostly to store shipping containers and parked trucks and which city leaders have indicated will be left on the market for possible new suitors.Mayor Sheng Thao said as much l...