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MSD Rate Commission making final recommendation on rate hike proposal today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

ST. LOUIS - MSD is getting closer to a decision on plans to raise sewer rates.The MSD Rate Commission has had 14 public hearings on the proposal. They'll make their final recommendation to the MSD Board of Trustees Thursday night. Father of teen killed in crash wants more transparency from police MSD wants to spend nearly $1.65 billion to improve the system. The rate hike could nearly double the average monthly bill.

Driver crashes into parked car in Hamilton Heights neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A driver crashed into a parked car early Thursday morning in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of north St. Louis.That crash happened around 2:00 a.m. on Wells and Hamilton Avenues. Cardinals announce Wainwright farewell plans, including concert and ceremony The car rolled over, but the driver was not hurt.

1 person dead after head-on crash in Cedar Hill

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - One person is dead in a two-car head-on crash in Cedar Hill.The crash happened along Highway B and Simpson Hill Drive at around 6:30 p.m. Two people in one of the cars ran away. Father of teen killed in crash wants more transparency from police Police put up a drone to try to find the suspects. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

What to do this week in Denver: Festival of Horror, Latin Fashion Week, Chuck D on stage

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

Colorado Festival of HorrorFriday-Sunday. The third Colorado Festival of Horror, themed Slasher Hotel, will stalk the Marriott Denver South at Park Meadows (10345 Park Meadows Drive, Lone Tree) Friday, Sept. 15-Sept. 17, with an array of terrifying guests from classics such as “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Final Destination,” as well as comics artists, writers, and related vendors.Yes, there’s lots to buy, but Colorado’s Hex Publishers is also giving away preview copies of its new “True Believers” comic, created and written by Stephen Graham Jones and Joshua Viola. If you just want to peruse the workshops, panels and interactive events, tattoo and cosplay contests, or horror trivia, admission is $20-$30 per day, or $60 for a 3-day pass. Autographs, etc. are extra. Kids 10 and under are free. cofestivalofhorror.comFamily fun, live music, and a Latin fashion showFriday-Sunday. Despite being half over, many of Hispanic Heritage MonthR...

Addressing the loneliness 'epidemic' to ease children’s back-to-school transition

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

As summer ends, children are returning to school, readjusting to the more structured environment of the classroom, and facing the challenges of learning, exams, and interpersonal relations on their own, writes Alysha Tagert, a mental health expert.As if that transition were not hard enough to navigate, doctors are additionally sounding the alarm on the state of kids’ mental health, leading to a dramatic increase in the number of pediatric patients, some as young as five, seeking emergency care.Making matters worse, the sense of isolation and anxiety across age groups is at all-time high.To succeed in school and beyond, children should not be or feel alone. They need the adults in their lives to help them become resilient and resourceful, able to focus on immediate tasks and more distant goals.On the policy level, the ‘Legislation to Establish National Strategy to Combat Loneliness” introduced in the US Senate during the summer is a recent attempt to address the escalating loneliness...

Sale closed in Fremont: $1.8 million for a three-bedroom home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

35821 Augustine Place – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 35800 block of Augustine Place in Fremont was sold on July 21, 2023. The $1,770,000 purchase price works out to $1,167 per square foot. The house, built in 1970, has an interior space of 1,517 square feet. The layout of this single-story home consists of three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The home’s exterior showcases roofing materials crafted from wood shake roofing / shingles. In addition, the house comes with a garage.These nearby houses have also recently been purchased:A 1,688-square-foot home on the 35700 block of Gissing Place in Fremont sold in February 2023, for $1,625,000, a price per square foot of $963. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Mackenzie Place, Fremont, in July 2022, a 1,830-square-foot home was sold for $1,734,000, a price per square foot of $948. The home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.In September 2022, a 1,579-square-foot home on Dee Place in Fremont sold for $1,450,000, a price pe...

Repairs continue at Paul’s Slide on Big Sur Coast with updated repair design

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

MONTEREY – Paul’s Slide, the area on Highway 1 closed to through traffic, continues to live up to its name as movement of the hillside is ongoing but repair work continues.Highway 1 remains closed to vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian traffic for two miles, between the town of Lucia to the north and Limekiln State Park to the south.In early August, repair efforts were suspended at the site on Highway 1, postmile marker 21.7, to give Geotech crews time to study measurements of recent slide activity and in coordination with Caltrans engineering teams, design repairs based on the assessment of the slide conditions.After a brief pause in repair work for the assessment and design, crews continue to work seven days a week during all daylight hours, but there have been two overriding safety priorities while working to fully reopen the highway, according to Caltrans.The first has been the safety of the crews who make these repairs while working at a site that is steep and where slide activity ...

4 years after approval for release, search to find Santa Cruz County housing for sexually violent predator continues

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

SANTA CRUZ — State contracted officials who have spent nearly four years unsuccessfully hunting for local housing opportunities for a convicted rapist most recently were limiting themselves to locations at least a mile from any school or beach, authorities revealed Tuesday.“That’s quite a set-off,” defense attorney Stephen Prekoski said of the geographically limiting factors.Prekoski’s client, 71-year-old Michael Cheek, was found eligible for monitored community release after serving more than four decades in prison and treatment. Cheek’s release falls under specific state mandates related to “sexually violent predators.”Unless the court makes a finding of extraordinary circumstances, a group of officials signed to Cheek’s personal housing committee are limited to home-hunting within Santa Cruz County, considered Cheek’s county of primary residence.Prekoski suggested that Cheek’s lengthy wait to be placed in housing since he was deemed eligible for release might be considered a suff...

Opinion: Writers deserve more for contribution to OpenAI’s success

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

Last month, it was reported that OpenAI — the company behind the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT — was on track to make $1 billion in revenue this year from user subscriptions and by licensing its technology to other companies. ChatGPT was introduced into the world only last November, and its explosive growth shows the demand for AI-powered chatbots and their potential to transform lives.But there are still pressing ethical issues that need to be addressed, such as, what do AI companies owe to the creators whose work informs their chatbots?Generative AI chatbots, which can conduct human-like conversations and generate unique written responses to prompts from users, are taught to communicate using writing samples from hundreds of thousands of writers whose work is available on the web. Even though the written work is publicly available, much of it is protected under copyright law.According to OpenAI, ChatGPT doesn’t produce plagiarized outputs — it only learns from the ideas of the boo...

Southern California school board OKs policy banning pride, other flags from schools

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:35:02 GMT

The Temecula school board approved a policy to limit which flags can be flown on school property, a rule that some called a way to ban pride flags, at its Tuesday night, Sept. 12, meeting.A similar policy was adopted by the Chino Valley Unified School District board in June.The Temecula Valley Unified School District board proposal passed 3-2, with the board’s conservative majority in favor and trustees Allison Barclay and Steven Schwartz voting no.The proposal, which was adopted before an overflow crowd with some small language changes, does not specify which flags are barred. It contains two alterations to the district’s flag protocols.RELATED: Fallout from Sunol school ban on Pride flag, as parents keep kids home and consider recallOne reads: “No flag other than the United States of America and State of California may be displayed on school grounds, including classrooms, unless it is a country, state, or United States military flag used solely for educational purposes within the ...