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Area agencies prepare for severe weather

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Emergency response crews across the area are preparing for the potentially severe weather. As the potential for severe weather is possible into the lunchtime hours. It's important to have a plan in place.Crews with the American Red Cross have been getting emergency supplies ready. They suggest you do the same too. Prepare a basic emergency kit with supplies that can last you and each member of your family for up to three days. Think things like gallons of water, non-perishable foods, prescription medications, and first aid kids.If you're in a car, officials say if you can drive away from a tornado, do so. On average, tornadoes move from one location to another at 35 to 45 miles per hour - so driving away is safest. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Daily News SIGN UP NOW ...

Salvation Army Midland Division teams up with the Kaufman Fund Food today

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS - The Salvation Army Midland Division teams up with the Kaufman Fund Food for Vets Program.They'll hold a food drive at the Temple Corps, located at 2740 Arsenal Street, in St. Louis. It's from 10:00 a.m. until noon. Trending: What to know for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals home opener Participants are asked to register in advance at TheKaufmanFund.org.

Illinois State Fair Concert tickets on sale today

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Concert tickets go on sale Friday morning for the 2023 Illinois State Fair in Springfield.Four concerts have been announced so far. REO Speedwagon and Maren Morris will take the main stage this year. Trending: What to know for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals home opener The other acts are Old Dominion and Alter Bridge. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.The Illinois State Fair in Springfield runs from August 10 through August 20 this year.

Easter 'egg-citement' events taking place this weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Easter is nine days away, but Eckert's Farms is holding events this weekend.They'll have their flippity flop breakfast Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to noon. They'll fill you up before you go out on their Easter egg-citement hunt. Trending: What to know for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals home opener There will also be tractor rides, face painting, and photos with the Easter bunny until 3:00 p.m.

Severe weather expected near St. Louis Friday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Thursday was fun, but Friday, Mother Nature means business.  We’re already tracking rain and non-severe storms early Friday morning. A few showers or thundershowers linger until sunrise. Winds will become quite gusty from the south as temperatures climb towards 70. The main risk for storms is Friday afternoon and evening, from noon to 9:00 p.m.  Expect a couple of waves of thunderstorms. They will be scattered, meaning not everyone sees them. However, where they hit, they will be intense and fast moving. Severe weather threats include 60 to 70 miles per hour winds, some large hail, and even the chance of quick hitting tornadoes.    St. Louis radar: See a map of current weather here Much colder air moves in behind the storms overnight and into Saturday, and we’ll see some strong non-thunderstorm winds. Northwestern winds with gusts of 40 to 50 miles per hour are expected into Saturday morning. A Wind Advisory will be in effect from 1:00 p.m. Fr...

Donald Trump indicted; expected to surrender early next week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, a historic reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, political and business dealings and an abrupt jolt to his bid to retake the White House.The exact nature of the charges was unclear Friday because the indictment remained under seal, but they stem from payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. Prosecutors said they were working to coordinate Trump’s surrender, which could happen early next week. They did not say whether they intended to seek prison time in the event of a conviction, a development that wouldn’t prevent Trump from seeking and assuming the presidency.The indictment, the first against a former U.S. president, injects a local district attorney’s office into the heart of a national presidential race and ushers in criminal proc...

Letters: Readers respond to gun violence at East High and in Nashville

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

Violence against children and at school spark outpouring of concern, rageRe: “3 children, 3 adults dead,” March 28 news storyAlthough normally, I’d never watch a video of a shooting, I did just now of the Nashville, Tenn., school event. I do truly praise the officers who went in and did their job so effectively. But my heart aches for the children in that building who will have to endure reliving this trauma for who knows how long, not to mention the trauma of losing three schoolmates and three adults from the school. The Colorado legislature needs to act now on an assault-style weapons ban as well as other significant gun control (background and age limitations for purchase). I so fear for my three small grandchildren who may have to undergo “active shooter” drills in their classroom. This should not be a part of their education!Catherine Englekirk, Castle RockAnd once again we lower caskets into the waiting earth.The small ones are the most conspicuou...

Register now: Why we need more Europe, and experts, in tacking the implementation gap in cancer – Can.HEAL Stakeholder Event, 26-27 April, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

The upcoming Can.HEAL Stakeholder event on April 26th/27th argues for an optimistic view of change. It will be an informed reflection on issues of major importance to Europe in tackling cancer for all its citizens: health, healthcare, and the science and policies that govern tackling the implementation gap.  It is a stakeholder driven event, writes EAPM Executive Director Dr. Denis Horgan. The conference starts in the form of setting the scene, which demonstrates, effective policy-making – and effectively influencing policy – depends on a clear-headed recognition that change is continuous in 'access and diagnostics for all' as well as public health genomics. This means that adaptability and the capacity to see opportunities in a changing landscape is vital if successful decisions are to result.It requires the ability to discern how advances in human understanding of science and society can be mobilised to generate benefits for cancer patients as well as heal...

Opinion: Farmers are fighting for our rights to repair our iPhones

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

The average Tesla-driving, iPhone-using suburbanite isn’t spending a lot of time worrying about tractor software payloads. They should, though.Fixing a broken-down farm tractor used to take just a wrench set and some elbow grease. Now repairs might require a mobile-device interface, online diagnostic tools and secure software updates, too. And that stuff isn’t just sitting around in the barn. It’s mostly held at a shrinking number of manufacturer-authorized dealerships. As a result, simple breakdowns that in the past might have been repaired in hours can now take days or weeks. During busy times, such as spring planting, long delays can harm a farm’s crops and profitability.This spring, at least 11 states are trying to fix this problem. At least one — Colorado — will likely succeed. The solution, known as a right-to-repair law, guarantees that farmers and independent repair shops will have access to the same tools, software and manuals as “authorized” service centers.The impac...

Opinion: When past waves of American violence inspired action

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:25 GMT

The murders of three children and three staff members at a school in Nashville on Monday was at least the 129th mass shooting of 2023. That’s a rate of 1.5 mass shootings, involving four or more victims, each day of the year.The constant barrage can sow feelings of hopelessness in the majority of us who would rather not have a country where there are more guns than people and where gun violence is now the leading cause of death in children.Hopelessness is precisely what manufacturers of those weapons and lobbyists in the NRA want: that we give up and give in, quietly consenting to the vile dogma that periodic bloodbaths are just another “price of freedom.”The first step in avoiding such resignation is to realize that we are living through an unusual surge in interpersonal violence, not an unbroken “normal” that stretches back to 1776.To be sure, we’ve had other bloody peaks in our history. One began soon after the Revolution, when high-strung gentlemen aped European aristocrats by s...