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PHOTOS: Thick clouds amid tornado-warned storms around St. Louis region

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Under a tornado watch for several hours Friday, the St. Louis region indeed see some tornado-warned systems through the early evening hours. Mother Nature brought many forms of severe weather to the area, including tornado and thunderstorm threats, heavy winds, hail and some rain. Top Stories: Severe weather expected near St. Louis Friday As of 6 p.m. Friday, it seems as if many of the large threats have cleared. However, the St. Louis area does remain under a tornado watch through 8 p.m. FOX 2's weather team is learning more about impacts, spotting some photos of thick clouds around St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County along the way. Check out those photos in the gallery above. And just moments ago, FOX 2 photographer John Gerding captured this snapshot of a rainbow from St. Charles County.

What Missourians need to know about the Medicaid renewal process

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- For the first time in three years, the state's social services department will be renewing Missourians on Medicaid to continue coverage. There are currently around 1.6 million people on Medicaid in Missouri. Since March 2020, states have been prohibited from reverifying if participants are still eligible. With many renewing for the first time, the Department of Social Services (DSS) hopes to make it as easy as possible. "I don't want people to worry that we're just going to open the system and thousands of people are going to lose their coverage day one, that is not going to happen," Director of the Family Support Services under DSS Kim Evans said. Before the public health emergency, there were around 900,000 Missourians on Medicaid. Since then, the number has nearly doubled. Evans said for three years, her staff has not been allowed to remove anyone from the program except when for a participant died, moved out of state or was asked to be taken off....

Hogback fire forces postponement of Red Rocks concert

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

Red Rocks Parks and Amphitheatre on Friday announced the postponement of that night’s show due to pre-evacuation areas in Morrison.Dabin, an electronic music producer, had been set to perform Red Rocks’ first concert of the spring season, but the Hogback fire that had burned 10 acres outside Morrison and that had prompted pre-evacuation orders forced the venue to postpone the concert.ATTN Due to wildfires around Red Rocks, accompanied by very high winds, Morrison, CO is under a pre-evacuation fire warning. As safety is of the utmost concern, we sadly must postpone tonight’s Dabin concert. Refunds will be available at point of purchase.— Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre (@RedRocksCO) March 31, 2023The venue tweeted fans should stay tuned for an update on the new date. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase, the tweet stated.Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.

Football: DL Shane Cokes embracing challenge at Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

In making the decision to transfer to Colorado and play for head coach Deion Sanders, defensive lineman Shane Cokes knew he would have to work hard.That wasn’t a big deal to Cokes, however. After four years in the Ivy League, he was ready for it.“I came in here expecting that and putting the work for it,” Cokes said after a CU spring practice last week. “It’s been harder, but I’ve lived up to it, so I’m just excited to keep going.”Related Articles Prime dime: CU Buffs’ 2023 spring football game sold out Football: Darian Hagan an asset to new CU Buffs RB coach Gary Harrell CU Buffs, Deion Sanders plan to stay active in transfer portal CU offensive coordinator Sean Lewis is in hurry to make Buffs football nasty again. “You guys got a really good one.” Football recruiting: 3-star QB commits to CU Buffs Cokes, listed by CU at 6-foot-3, 275 pounds, spent the past four years at Dartmouth. The ...

Letters: Oakland cops | Bad proposal | Climate change | Liberal parents | Careful compromise

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Oakland cops behaviora disaster for the forceRe: “Murder conviction charges overturned” (Page B1, March 29).It’s amazing (and disgusting) that the horror stories about the Oakland Police Department just keep coming. The latest is a Detective Tran paid thousands of dollars to a supposed witness before and after a trial where an apparently innocent person was convicted of murder. The witness now admits she was blocks away when the crime happened.Worse yet — the same detective is still at work. It won’t be much longer that juries — or the public — believe anything the police say when the bad apples continue to be paid and accepted in their departments.Fred GeigetSanta CruzRichmond developmentis a bad proposalThe Richmond Planning Comission approved the proposed development of the PG&E site on Brickyard Cove Road even though there is no project-specific EIR, it will require 130,000 cubi...

Court voids Marine’s adoption of Afghan war orphan

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

By Claire Galofaro, Juliet Lindeman and Martha Mendoza | Associated PressCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain.For now, the child will stay with Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, under a temporary custody order they obtained before the adoption. The Masts will have to re-prove to the court that they should be granted a permanent adoption.Despite the uncertainty, the ruling was a welcome move for the Afghan couple, who had been identified by the Afghan government as the child’s relatives in February 2020 and raised her for 18 months. They dropped to their knees in prayer outside the courthouse. As they held each other, the young man wiped the tears from both their eyes with his wife’s headscarf.The Masts quickly left the courthouse ...

49ers’ Brock Purdy: ‘It looks like I have a robotic arm’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

Brock Purdy’s recovery from elbow surgery is “going as planned,” even if that means his support brace “looks like I have a robotic arm.”Purdy spoke Friday on Fox Sports 910-AM in Phoenix, where he’s three weeks into his rehabilitation from surgery repairing the ulnar collateral ligament he tore in the 49ers’ NFC Championship Game loss Jan. 29.“The protocol is you start throwing at three months, but it all depends on how your therapy and your range of motion and everything goes up until that point,” Purdy said on the Roc and Manuch with Jimmy B show. “There are definitely some boxes I have to check off first before I get to that point, but that’s the plan as of now.”Purdy commended the 49ers’ medical and training staff for their constant monitoring of his progress, from daily calls to also visiting him in Arizona, which Purdy said head trainer Dustin Little did “the minute I went out and had surgery” ...

After controversy, Alameda County supervisors choose Elisa Márquez for District 2 seat

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors have selected their newest supervisor – and avoided stoking controversy in the process.After hearing hours of public comments in support of the four candidates on Thursday, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors chose to appoint Hayward City Councilmember Elisa Márquez to the board.The selection process began on Tuesday, when interviews of each candidate were conducted publicly. Early on, it was clear that Márquez and Teresa Keng, the vice mayor of Fremont and local business owner, had hearty support from the community.“It’s surreal,” Márquez said in an interview. “The biggest takeaway is that District 2 showed up in full force.”Related ArticlesPolitics | Editorial: Alameda County supervisors should not appoint another carpet-bagger Politics | Valle replacement sparks another controversy over residence for Alameda County supervisors Márquez, a lifelong resident of the district, will replace popular supervisor R...

Even after lawsuit victory, clock is ticking for Oakland A’s on Howard Terminal stadium

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

OAKLAND — Another baseball season is just getting underway, but it appears that the Oakland A’s are already running out of time.The clock is ticking for the team to find another home before its lease at the Coliseum expires next December, and there’s little word from the city about a deal being struck over a new, billion-dollar 35,000-seat waterfront ballpark in West Oakland.That stadium development — plus 3,000 new homes, massive retail and other commercial space, hotel units and more — cleared a hurdle Thursday when an appeal by shipping companies challenging the proposal’s environmental details was defeated in court.“Oakland will continue upgrading our infrastructure so we can support sustainable and resilient communities and promote economic development,” Mayor Sheng Thao said Thursday in a statement. “And we are now one step closer to reaching our goals.”The shipping companies operate at the city’s busy port, and...

Letters: Light pollution | Making an effort | Intolerant call | Bad government | Common sense

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:50:24 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Cities should guardagainst light pollutionRe: “Council votes down digital billboard plan” (Page B4, March 22).Good news. Gilroy City Council rejected an electronic billboard along Highway 101 that the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, Sierra Club Loma Prieta and Green Foothills also opposed. Nighttime light harms wildlife and has been shown to harm human health too. The structure would have been 75 feet tall with a 672-square-foot display area, adversely affecting our environment, safety, energy consumption and health, and impairing our view of the universe too.Gilroy, along with San Jose and other cities, should develop a dark sky ordinance to guide light pollution decisions. Approving an electronic billboard project without a dark sky ordinance fails to consider its overall impact and the proper management of light pollution. The city of Cupertino has such an ordinance, and residents of o...