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St. Louis City Reparations Commission meeting taking place tonight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis City Reparations Commission meets again Wednesday night.They are exploring ways to repair race-based harms like slavery and segregation. They've been meeting monthly since April, asking for your input. Rare bee found in Belleville, Illinois They'll report their findings to the mayor and board of aldermen next year. Wednesday' night's 's public meeting is at 6:00 p.m. at the New Northside Conference Center on Goodfellow Boulevard.

Crews investigating East St. Louis house fire early Wednesday morning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A house fire broke out in East St. Louis early Wednesday morning.This happened on North 69th Street around 4:030 a.m. Everyone inside the home was able to make it out.So far, the cause of the fire has not been released. No word on any injuries.FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Man fatally shot at Long Beach gas station; gunman sought

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

Police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a man at a Long Beach gas station Tuesday night.The shooting occurred shortly before 10 p.m. at the Valero station near the Intersection of Atlantic Avenue and North Atlantic Place.Police investigate a fatal shooting in Long Beach on July 25, 2023. (KeyNews.TV)Investigators told KTLA the victim was shot multiple times before being transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A man who heard the gunshots saw police arriving at the station and realized the victim was a store clerk. “I’ve just known him for probably a few months … just coming down here to buy stuff from the store … So I kind of know him you know but it’s just terrible,” Steven Luzero said. Family members busted in recycling fraud investigation Detectives have not confirmed the identity of the victim.A black Nissan sedan left in front of the store was investigated but its connection to the incident was unclear. A motive for the shooting is also un...

Police see hand sticking out of manhole cover, save woman from sewer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

(WXIN) — An Indianapolis Fire Department crew helped rescue a woman from a sewer Tuesday after police saw her hand sticking out from under a manhole cover.IFD posted that around 3 p.m., bike patrol police officers on the east side of Indianapolis spotted a hand sticking up through a manhole cover.Rescue photo via IFDRescue photo via IFDRescue photo via IFDIMPD contacted the fire department and crews were dispatched to go rescue the woman. Man bitten by bedbugs hundreds of times at L.A. rental Rescue photo via IFDIFD said crews found a woman described as being "50ish" years old stuck in the sewer."Unclear how she got in the sewer or why," IFD said.While it is unknown how the woman got stuck, IFD thankfully said that she was safely rescued from the sewer by firefighters. Officials said she was taken to a local hospital in "good" condition.

Brush fire breaks out in Newhall Pass

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

Fire crews battled a brush fire that broke out in Newhall Pass near Sylmar on Tuesday afternoon.The Victor Fire was burning near Sierra Highway and Needham Ranch Parkway surrounded by the 5 and 14 Freeways, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.The blaze ignited around 3:30 p.m. at around five acres and by 4 p.m., had grown to 10 acres. By 5 p.m., the flames expanded to around 50 acres. The fire is surrounded by "light, flashy fuels" and had the potential to grow to 100 acres, officials said. By 8 p.m., the fire's containment was around 20 percent.The flames were burning near a commercial building in a brush-filled area with heavy plumes of smoke seen covering the hills.The Victor Fire broke out in Sylmar near the Newhall Pass area on July 25, 2023. (KTLA)The Victor Fire broke out in Sylmar near the Newhall Pass area on July 25, 2023. (KTLA)The Victor Fire broke out in Sylmar near the Newhall Pass area on July 25, 2023. (KTLA)The Victor Fire broke out in Sylmar near th...

Attorney for ex-UC Davis student charged in stabbing deaths says he’s not mentally fit for trial

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

BY JANIE HAR | Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — The former college student charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of two people and attempted murder of a third in a Northern California university town has not showered in the nearly three months he’s been in jail, goes days without eating and believes he will return to classes, his attorney said Tuesday.The remarks by Dan Hutchinson, a Yolo County deputy public defender, came during a proceeding to determine whether Carlos Dominguez is mentally competent to participate in a criminal trial over the stabbings that rocked the University of California, Davis, campus and surrounding community.Hutchinson said he will present evidence showing that Dominguez started showing outward signs of schizophrenia toward the end of his freshman year. Prosecutors said Dominguez is “toying with the system” and should face a criminal trial.Jurors will ultimately decide whether he is fit for trial. To be found mentally unfit, the defense must show that...

Top priority for 49ers’ offense: Unleash the McCaffrey-Deebo tandem in all its glory

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

SANTA CLARA — When the 49ers hold their first practice of training camp Wednesday, all eyes will be on quarterbacks Trey Lance and Sam Darnold as Brock Purdy takes a regularly scheduled day off.But the two players who will determine whether the 49ers can put an offense on the field that matches what looks to be a Super Bowl-caliber defense have nothing to do with their quarterbacks.If coach Kyle Shanahan can get Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel to the starting blocks and off to a two-pronged explosive start, the 49ers will have something no opponent can match.A year ago when the 49ers began training camp, Deebo Samuel was a “hold-in,” a non-practicing player who was confused about his place with the team. McCaffrey was preparing for his sixth season with the goal of proving he could rebound from injuries that derailed 2020 and 2021 for the Carolina Panthers.The trade which brought McCaffrey aboard starting in Week 7 was huge in large part because Samuel wasn...

Home sales at fraud-tied San Jose project stall, Fremont site advances

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

SAN JOSE — Two Bay Area condo projects, one in San Jose and the other in Fremont, that were both tangled in a massive Bay Area real estate fraud case, are experiencing greatly differing levels of success — and obstacles.Both the projects were developed by Silicon Sage Builders and its principal executive Sanjeev Acharya, whose Bay Area real estate empire crumbled in 2020.The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Acharya and Silicon Sage of fraud, claiming he swindled hundreds of unwitting investors out of more than $100 million. Silicon Sage’s properties have been shoved into court-ordered receivership.Savant at Irvington, a 93-unit condominium complex in Fremont at 42111 Osgood Road. The project was originally developed by Silicon Sage. (George Avalos / Bay Area News Group)A court-appointed receiver hopes sales of the condos in San Jose and Fremont will help raise cash to help investors recoup at least a small portion of the massive losses they suffered du...

Goldberg: The hunger fed by the “Barbie” and Taylor Swift phenomena

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

This summer’s two biggest entertainment phenomena, the movie “Barbie” and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, have a lot in common. Both feature conventionally gorgeous blond women who alternately revel in mainstream femininity and chafe at its limitations, enacting an ambivalence shared by many of their fans. Both, beneath their slick, exuberant pop surfaces, tell female coming-of-age stories marked by existential crises and bitter confrontations with sexism. (The third song on Swift’s set list is “The Man,” whose refrain is, “I’m so sick of running as fast as I can/ wondering if I’d get there quicker/ if I was a man.”) And both have become juggernauts.“Barbie” has just had the biggest opening weekend of any movie this summer, surpassing already high expectations to earn $162 million. More than just a movie, it’s become a major cultural event, with fans showing up in carefully curated outfits and then making TikToks of themselves crying, emotionally overcome. The film’s blunt feminism — its ...

Savannah Bananas hit home run in front of sellout crowd in San Jose: ‘Chaotic, in a good way’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:21 GMT

SAN JOSE — It was about the third inning — or maybe the fourth, it really doesn’t matter — that a little girl standing near third base threw a pie at her dad’s face and revealed the point of the whole thing.The most riveting competition taking place at Excite Ballpark on Tuesday night, when the trailblazing Savannah Bananas baseball team brought their sold-out, Harlem Globetrotter-like show to the 81-year-old ballpark in San Jose, actually has nothing to do with baseball.It’s all about the three-letter word: fun.Not just enjoy-a-ballgame-on-a-Tuesday-night fun. This is silly, boundaryless, highly unusual and deeply intoxicating fun that is being had by everyone from the twerking umpires to the do-si-doing concession stand workers, from the youngest kid in the stands to the oldest player on the field.“It’s the P.T. Barnum & Bailey circus and it’s an authentic baseball game at the same time,” said 76-year-old Bill Lee, a former MLB All-Star who is now part ...