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5-year-old girl shot and killed in Belleville, Illinois

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Police are investigating two separate deadly shootings involving two children. In the latest incident in Belleville, a 5-year-old girl was shot and killed.The Belleville News-Democrat reported that the coroner has identified that little girl as Dariyah Lathan. The 5-year-old was pronounced dead just after 7:15 p.m. at Memorial Hospital.Officers said that the shooting happened at a home on South 88th Street. They were called out there just after 6:30 p.m. The 5-year-old girl was shot in the face.Police saw a car from the home speeding down West Main Street. They eventually determined the vehicle was from the home where the shooting happened, and they rushed the girl to the hospital, where she died from her injuries - despite what authorities are calling "extensive life-saving efforts." Child shot and killed while playing with a gun in north St. Louis County The Belleville Police Department is collaborating with the Child Death Investigation Task Fo...

Crews responding to house fire in Creve Coeur

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

CREVE COEUR, Mo. - Emergency crews are responding to a house fire in Creve Coeur Tuesday morning.Our Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX helicopter is flying over the area located on Barkman Drive, where flames can be seen shooting from the top of the home. So far, the cause of the fire has not been revealed, and no injuries have been reported. Don’t be mesmerized – you should kill this dazzling bug FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Crews respond to house fire in Wood River, Illinois

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

WOOD RIVER, Ill. - Fire crews were at the scene of a home that went ablaze early Tuesday morning. Our Nissan Rogue Runner reporter Nic Lopez was at the scene, located on the 300 block of 10th Street, where the occupants woke up to no power and smoke filling their home. Fire officials shared that an electrical line from the home fell onto a fence, which energized the fencing of that home and neighboring homes. Don’t be mesmerized – you should kill this dazzling bug So far, no further information has been reported. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Municipal election polls open today

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Voters go to the polls Tuesday in several municipal elections.In St. Louis City, voters in the new 'St. Louis Hills Special Business District' will be asked to approve a property tax to fund the district through 2029. There are also property tax proposals on the ballot for the Fox C-6 School District and the Meramec Valley R-3 District. Don’t be mesmerized – you should kill this dazzling bug In St. Louis County, voters will decide whether to merge the city of Normandy and the village of Glen Echo Park. The polls open at 6:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.

Battery component plant groundbreaking today

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Governor Mike Parson will be in south St. Louis for the groundbreaking of a plant to make components for batteries that power electric cars.Last year, the Biden administration awarded $197 million to "'Israel Chemical Holdings' to build the lithium-iron factory. At the site of a former Monsanto plant. Child shot and killed while playing with a gun in north St. Louis County It will be the first large-scale plant of its kind in the United States, creating about 150 jobs.

Police: Missing Florissant teen found

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

FLORISSANT, Mo. – The St. Louis County Police Department has cancelled an endangered person advisory from early Monday evening for a missing Florissant teenager.According to the advisory, the incident occurred just after 7 p.m. on the 3500 block of Sugar Crest Drive. Child shot and killed while playing with a gun in north St. Louis County The teen has since been located safely.

Broncos Mailbag: Who’s making noise early on in training camp?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the season. Click here to submit a question.Hey Parker! Tim Patrick getting hurt again is terrible, but the silver lining is that it opens up a potential opportunity for one of the other guys on the squad. How much do you think Marvin Mims will contribute for us this year?— Matthew K., DenverHey Matthew, thanks for writing in and getting this thing started this week. I appreciate your optimistic disposition, but if you’re the Broncos, there’s nothing good about Tim Patrick getting hurt. And it’s totally brutal if you’re Tim Patrick. I do see where you’re going with the question, though, and injury does lead to opportunity in the NFL.Mims is one of the guys who could be counted on more with Patrick out. One of the interesting things about Mims will be how quickly he finds a role and what coach Sean Payton, receivers coach Keary Colbert and company think it is. Particularly, where does he pla...

GREGORY WINGS ALSO KNOWN AS BLAMEITONG

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

How He Overcame Adversity and Built a Successful LifeIn a remarkable journey of redemption, Gregory Wings, also known as BlameitonG, has defied the odds by turning his life around after serving 8 years in federal prison.In 2007 at just 22 years old, Mr. Wings was sentenced to 122 months in prison and ordered to pay $8.5 million in restitution, a sentence that seemed insurmountable at the time. The federal government seized $19.5 million from Mr. Wings, an astonishing amount that had been accumulated through his successful real estate business. The young entrepreneur had just sold his Real Estate Brokerage franchises for $21 million in 2006, while co-owning two nightclubs in Atlanta GA, and co-owning a succesful underground documentary called Crack Heads Gone Wild, which had further established his reputation as a thriving young businessman.BlameitonG’s’ fortunes took a sharp turn when he found himself entangled in legal troubles. He was the youngest among his co-defendants, with all...

Opinion: American education and the great White lies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

Recent battles over how to teach history in American schools have focused on views of America’s domestic racism, but that’s only one piece of the problem of how we view history. Our pre-college curriculums and popular histories are filled with stories of great White men who single-handedly changed the world. This heroification, however, is often as much a made-up history as the stories of Marvel heroes in the movies. Many of these supposed ground-breakers were in fact preceded by generations of people including persons from other cultures and nations.We’re taught that one man, James Watt, an 18th-century Scot, is responsible for steam power — but steam power was being used 2,000 years earlier in Egypt. American Thomas Edison “invented” the light bulb a century after it was in development by inventors such as Alexander Lodygin from Tambov Governorate of the Russian Empire, Italian Alessandro Cruto and the African-American inventor Lewis Howard Latimer, whose filament patents al...

Walters: California bills would encourage government secrecy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:29 GMT

Bill McEwen, a columnist for San Joaquin Valley news site GV Wire, posed several of what he considered to be routine factual questions to the state Department of Public Health last week about a mysterious laboratory discovered in the small town of Reedley.The laboratory, in an abandoned warehouse, contained mice, biological fluids and samples of dreaded diseases including HIV, malaria and COVID-19. Federal and state investigators are delving into the situation, which surfaced when a city building code inspector noticed a hose snaking out of a wall in the warehouse.McEwen wanted to know how the department oversees laboratories, how often they are inspected and how illegal labs get discovered. But he got nowhere. Department officials refused to answer even the most basic operational questions and told McEwen to search their website to find answers.“Administration of @GavinNewsom has zero commitment to transparency,” McEwen tweeted in frustration.It was an example of what reporters and...