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Major damage in Collinsville, Illinois after Saturday night storms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Crews are working to clean up Collinsville and many other St. Louis-area communities after Saturday night's severe storms. Storms packed lightning, heavy rain, hail and gusts as high as 70 mph Saturday in Missouri and Illinois. At least one tornado warning was issued in Washington County, Illinois. The severe storms and strong winds lifted the roof off the old 'Home Furniture' store in Collinsville. The top of the building was thrown across Main Street. A crane later came in to pick it up. The tin roof a gym connected to St. Peter and Paul Church was also ripped off by the storms. Woman inside car killed in St. Louis after tree falls during storms Tim Foshee sent FOX 2 a few images of storm damage in Collinsville, showing a large Route 66 sign that was also damaged and a nearby building that appears flattened. Tim Foshee sent FOX 2 a few images of storm damage in Collinsville from July 1, 2023.Tim Foshee sent FOX 2 a few images of storm damage in Collinsville ...

Police investigating 3 men killed in 6-hour span

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis City Police are investigating three shootings that happened in a 6-hour span.Officers shared that two men were shot and killed around 8:00 p.m. Saturday. It happened inside a home on Carr Street just off Lindenwood Avenue. Woman inside car killed in St. Louis after tree falls during storms Then around 4:00 a.m., a man was shot multiple times. EMS took that victim to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.Homicide detectives are handling both crime scenes. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

What to expect on I-70 in the mountains as five years of major construction begins

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

Colorado’s next major highway undertaking kicks off this week as crews begin work on the $700 million reconstruction of Interstate 70 in the mountains — a project aimed at eliminating the Floyd Hill bottleneck and improving safety through a notorious eight-mile stretch.Much of the most intensive work over the next five years or so will occur off the highway. But the Colorado Department of Transporation says drivers traveling I-70 between the top of Floyd Hill and Idaho Springs still can expect lower speed limits, narrowed lanes and traffic shifts, along with some daytime traffic holds and overnight closures.The project technically broke ground last fall with the start of several associated off-highway projects, including the first of two wildlife crossings outside the project zone and new roundabouts on a frontage road.But now comes the main event. Soon CDOT’s contractors will begin rock blasting to make more room, and in coming years they’ll construct a 7,00...

3 years after Colorado’s landmark police accountability bill, what’s changed? And has push for further reform slowed?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

Three years after the passage of Colorado’s landmark police accountability bill, officers have been convicted under new laws, a statewide database of officers’ misconduct is publicly available and body camera footage is more readily accessible.The bill’s final implementation deadline passed Saturday, and lawmakers, law enforcement and advocates are now grappling with a changed political ecosystem around police and criminal justice reform and deciding what’s next.“We know we haven’t solved all ills with one bill or two bills,” said Rep. Leslie Herod, a Denver Democrat who co-sponsored the bill in 2020. “And we never will, to be honest with you. But we have to keep moving forward on the progress.”Lawmakers who worked on the bill praised it as instrumental in reforming policing in Colorado while serving as a foundation for subsequent policy changes. Law enforcement leaders, meanwhile, contend the bill has made it more difficult to recruit and retain officers amid an increase in s...

Love jazz all over again with new boxed sets by Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

Just about everything in the music business comes back around at some point. Repackaging and reissues are profitable for the industry, particularly when record labels own the recordings from an artist’s catalog. It’s safe to assume landmark albums from the giants of jazz will reappear over and over, presenting sounds to new generations.Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums (Craft Recordings)And I’m thankful for that. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reacquainted with some of the recordings that led me down this endlessly joyous path of music appreciation.The 1957 Sonny Rollins release “Way Out West” was one of the first jazz albums I ever shelled out for from my hard-earned Burger King money as an teenager in the ’80s. The cover image of tenor saxophonist Rollins standing in the desert, wearing a ten-gallon cowboy hat, impressed me enough to take the leap. The music on the LP was exciting, inspired and seemingly limitless in its invention. I’ve gifted copies of the a...

Finally, Highway 87 to get smoother pavement, other upgrades: Roadshow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

Q: When is Caltrans going to do something about Highway 87?Gene CogornoA: And…Q: Highway 87, especially from Interstate 280 to Highway 85, has to be the worst highway.We drive a KIA Soul, which has a short wheelbase and stiff suspension, and on 87, we rock and roll.Tom Dunbar, San JoseA: Caltrans is beginning a Highway 87 pavement improvement project this month. The work will require intermittent daytime and overnight lane closures and ramp closures along 87 between the Julian Street undercrossing and 85 in San Jose.Pavement will be replaced, 28 curb ramps at six intersections will be upgraded and 2.9 miles of bikeways that run parallel to the road will be resurfaced. Median concrete barriers and guardrails will be replaced and enhanced wet/night visibility stripping and shoulder rumble strips will be placed. The project is scheduled to be complete in the summer of 2025.Q: The absolute worst pothole near my house was filled in, but there seems to be no progress on the El Camin...

Tesla: The cars that racism built? Black workers claim lawsuits have not stopped discrimination

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

Complaint after complaint alleging anti-Black racism at Tesla’s factory in Fremont has not stopped such abuse and discrimination, with Black workers segregated into the hardest, most dangerous, lowest-paid jobs and subjected to a barrage of racist treatment, language and images, according to claims in recent court filings and employee interviews.Black workers at the plant — Tesla’s biggest California facility, which employs thousands to build its four electric car models — alleged such abuse often began soon after they started, excited at landing a job at the famed automotive pioneer. In declarations filed by more than 200 current and former workers at the factory in connection with an Alameda County lawsuit against Tesla that now seeks class-action status, workers said they quickly learned that working for Tesla meant facing rampant, extreme racism.The company’s billionaire CEO Elon Musk is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit against Tesla. In interviews, howe...

Draymond Green comes with controversy, but the Warriors would have been dumb to let him walk

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

One minute after NBA free agency kicked off on Thursday, Draymond Green and the Warriors agreed to terms on a contract. Yes, it was that urgent for Green to lock in at least three more years to keep alive the dynasty he helped create.Immediately, Green’s four-year, $100 million deal with a final year player option furrowed brows for some valid reasons. He’s 33 now and will be 37 when he reaches unrestricted free agency. It’s fair to wonder how an undersized player who has 12 years of wear and tear playing uniquely physical defense will stay healthy and competitive late into his 30s.And for the cynical, one has to wonder how Green could be rewarded after throwing a literal devastating blow last season. The team’s main guys linked their derailed title defense season to Green punching Jordan Poole in the face before the season even began. Now 24-year-old Poole has been shipped to Washington for 38-year-old Chris Paul as Green re-established his domain with a big...

July 4 plans? Thousands of skiers head to the slopes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

ALPINE MEADOWS — The Giants are playing ball. Lawnmowers are humming. We’re eating corn dogs at county fairs and drinking beer at Sousa concerts in the park. All signs say it is summer.But in the mountains, it’s still winter.“Best day ever,” said skier Patty Robbins of Truckee, under cobalt blue skies on Saturday, her 197th day of skiing during a record-breaking snow season. “But every day feels like the best day. This has been a fabulous year.”In tutus and bikinis, shorts and sunscreen, crowds trudged across gravel and grass to reach lifts that take them to the resort’s highest peaks, still graced by pockets of 12 feet of snow. This was one of the whitest winters on record, with statewide Sierra snowpack more than double, or 256%, of average.A skier heads down the Alpine Bowl run at Alpine Meadows ski area in Alpine Meadows, Calif., on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Part of Palisades Tahoe, the area held their Freedom Fest event this weekend with skiing and s...

U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach: The meteoric rise of Stanford prodigy Rose Zhang

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:19 GMT

It was at Pebble Beach, the storied golf course on the cliffs of the Pacific Ocean, that 20-year-old Rose Zhang set the women’s course record with a nine-under-par 63 last fall.She was a sophomore at Stanford and just beginning a historic year in which she became the first women’s golfer to win multiple NCAA titles.This week, she’s returning to the scene for the U.S. Women’s Open, her third tournament since turning pro in May. Four weeks ago, she became the first woman in 72 years to win her pro debut. Last weekend at the Women’s PGA Championship, one of the five major tournaments on the LPGA tour, she was one stroke off the lead with three holes to play.Even as former prodigy Michelle Wie West comes to Pebble to play her final tournament and the legendary Annika Sorenstam steps out of retirement at 52 to see if she’s still got it, all eyes should be on Zhang as she attempts to capture her first major in just her third tournament as a pro.“If she comes in and is a scene-steale...