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Mike Parson and MoDOT announcing $50M 'Missouri Railroad Safety Crossing Plan' today

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Missouri Governor Mike Parson and MoDOT are announcing a new 'Missouri Railroad Safety Crossing Plan' Thursday.In June of last year, an Amtrak train hit a dump truck at a crossing in Mendon, Missouri. Four people died. 150 others were hurt. Cardinals superfan charged with joining Capitol riot in red face paint, Trump hat The governor is expected to sign a bill Thursday providing $50 million to improve 47 railroad crossings used by Amtrak. Missouri has more than 3,300 public rail crossings.Only half of them have lights or gates.

Police: 19-year-old missing since Wednesday afternoon

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - St. Louis County Police issue an endangered person advisory for 19-year-old john Michael Leb.He is 5'5, 127 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. He was last seen wearing a green hospital gown. ‘Life Goes On, Man’ : Cardinals look ahead to future after deadline deals Leb walked away from Mercy South Hospital Wednesday afternoon where he was undergoing a court-ordered psychological evaluation. Police say he has a violent past with suicidal tendencies.If you have any information about Michael Leb's whereabouts, please call St. Louis County Police at 636-529-8210 or 911.

Broncos center Lloyd Cushenberry’s mindset in last year of rookie contract? It’s taken from his own experience at LSU: “If the winning comes, individual stuff will come”

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

Super Bowl week was an excuse for sixth-grade Lloyd Cushenberry to wear his own jersey during his offseason. It wasn’t a coincidence that his little league football team in Carville, Louisiana, wore black and gold.Cushenberry had relatives in New Orleans. Others in Baton Rouge. The Saints were beloved in every town between them along Interstate 10, including Cushenberry’s. He celebrated in Carville after the Saints won it all in 2010. Sean Payton’s Saints.“Mardi Gras was a pretty fun time after that,” Cushenberry said, laughing.Thirteen years later, the coach who brought a championship to Louisiana while Cushenberry was learning to love football is now Cushenberry’s coach in the NFL. On a hot (but not Louisiana-humid) Monday halfway across the country from Carville, Payton approached Cushenberry during Broncos training camp and asked what part of Louisiana the offensive lineman is from. Payton was familiar with the area.“I have so many memor...

Broncos kickers Brett Maher, Elliott Fry traveled different paths to arrive in Denver. Now, they are pinned in back-and-forth competition.

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

As the Broncos wrapped up practice Tuesday, one of the most up-for-grabs position battles of training camp was on display.Kickers Brett Maher and Elliott Fry were trading field goals, moving back at least five yards after each kick. When both players reached the 40-yard after converting four straight, Fry’s attempt sailed right, while Maher sent the ball straight down the middle.Maher won the day, but there are still many more to follow.“It’s a long competition,” said Fry, who signed with the team in May. “We’re only in Week 1, so I think we’re both just putting our heads down and trying to make kicks.”In the spring, Denver made a surprising-yet-understandable move when it released longtime kicker Brandon McManus to clear cap space. Denver’s search for his replacement, however, has been a bit of a gamble as Fry, who has six career field goal attempts to his name, and Maher, a solid veteran tainted by a nightmarish postseason, go head to head.Both players have...

Opinion: Colorado’s leaders need to get behind clean car rules

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

By now, everyone in Colorado knows that breathing smoke from wildfires is bad news for our lungs, especially after smoke from Canadian wildfires in mid-May obscured the Rockies, forced us inside. When the wildfires were extinguished, the skies cleared.But how many know that we are exposed every day to an even more pernicious air pollution problem? It’s from tailpipe exhaust from the hundreds of thousands of cars, trucks, and buses plying Colorado’s roads. The primary pollutants released from vehicle tailpipes are carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbon, particulate matter, and other kinds of toxic substances.These chemicals, combined with heat, can form ground-level ozone, which is a health risk. This is why we are more likely to get an air quality alert on hot days. These tailpipe pollutants are literally driving a growing threat to our health and our climate. Air pollution from transportation, like smoke, is poisonous to breathe.This toxic transportation poll...

Peak home selling season wraps up in metro Denver

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

Metro Denver’s housing market ran cool in July, with closings off 16.3% from June and price gains showing signs of flatlining, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.The number of homes and condos sold fell from 4,395 in June to 3,677 in July. Over the year, sales are down 18.5% as higher mortgage rates reduce affordability for would-be buyers.New listings also remain off substantially, down 15.3% month-over-month and nearly 25% over the past year. Sellers holding low mortgage rates, many below 3.5% on a 30-year loan, are hesitant to list their properties and borrow at rates of around 7%, a phenomenon known as the “golden handcuffs.”More sellers who do list are having to provide buyers with concessions to get deals done. About three in 10 sales involved a concession in June of last year and this June, the figure was closer to one in two, with the average amount of assistance at $7,295, according to Libby Levinson-Katz, chairwoma...

Trump due to face judge over charges he tried to overturn 2020 election

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is due in federal court Thursday to answer to charges that he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, facing a judge near the U.S. Capitol building that his supporters stormed to try to block the peaceful transfer of power.In what's become a familiar but nonetheless stunning ritual, Trump is expected to be processed by law enforcement, be taken into custody and enter a not guilty plea in front of a judge before being released, so he can rejoin the campaign trail as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024.Workers put up barricades outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)An indictment Tuesday from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith charges Trump with four felony counts related to his efforts to undo his presidential election loss in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. governmen...

Walters: California ballot measures revive familiar ideological battle

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

As it stands, the 2024 California ballot would be, as the old saying goes, “déjà vu all over again.”Nine measures have qualified for the ballot: two constitutional amendments for the March primary election, and five initiatives and two referenda for the November general election. All are replays of polarizing ideological issues.The two March measures, both placed on the ballot by the Democrat-dominated state Legislature, typify the trend of refighting old battles. One would repeal a 2008 ballot measure, passed by a 52% vote, that prohibited same-sex marriages but was later voided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The other would repeal a constitutional mandate known as Article 34, passed by voters in 1950, that requires voter approval for low-income housing projects.The two referenda are by their nature replays of previous clashes, both backed by business interests seeking to overturn recent legislative efforts to impose more state regulation on their operations, and both are likely to spa...

Gov. DeSantis will join former President Trump at GOP event in Southern Californa

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be a keynote speaker at the California Republican Party’s fall convention in Anaheim in late September.The announcement of DeSantis’ visit comes just one day after the state party said former President Donald Trump would speak at a lunch on Friday, Sept. 29, during the fall gathering. The Flordia governor’s keynote speech is slated for a dinner that same day, the party said.Related: Former President Trump will head to Orange County in September“As Californians struggle under the weight of Democrats’ failed one-party rule, Gov. DeSantis has shown how a state can thrive under responsible, commonsense, conservative leadership,” said CAGOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson.The fall convention is slated to take place at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1.DeSantis, like other GOP presidential hopefuls, has already visited Orange County. He headlined a Republican Party of Orange County event in March after visiting the Reagan Library in...

2 men killed in fiery plane crash at California Airport

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:08:56 GMT

A single-engine airplane crashed at Van Nuys Airport on Wednesday morning, Aug. 2, killing both men aboard, after the pilot had told the airfield’s control tower the aircraft had suffered a loss of power, according to authorities and a recording of the conversation.The pilot declared the plane was “having some power loss” but declined the assistance of firefighters meeting the plane on the tarmac, because “we are landing right now,” according to archived air-traffic-control communications.The tower informed the pilot he was clear to land on either runway.Moments later, the pilot made a brief yell, then later an air-traffic controller acknowledged the collision: “We’re on the phone with the crash people right now.”The tower recommended that other pilots land at nearby Burbank or Whiteman airports.At 10:37 a.m., firefighters were dispatched to the airport after the Cessna’s nose pounded into the tarmac’s ground.“The firefighters jumped into action very quickly,” said Capt. Erik Scott ...