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Leander ISD to file exception for bill placing armed security officers at campuses

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN New Today's top headlines for Aug. 25, 2023.LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — In a meeting Thursday, the board for Leander ISD decided it would file an exception for House Bill 3, which was set to place armed security officers at every campus.The district said it shared plans to implement the HB3 requirement, but due to a lack of funding and staff, LISD decided it would file a good cause exception.LISD said there were plans under consideration, which included school marshals as well as its own police department.The next board meetings are scheduled for Sept. 7 and 21.

Crews responding to north St. Louis City house fire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Emergency crews are responding to a house fire in north St. Louis on Friday morning.Our Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX helicopter is flying over the area located on North Taylor Avenue in the Greater Ville neighborhood, where black smoke can be seen shooting from the home. Jennings City Council sends ‘no confidence’ letter to mayor At this time, it's unknown if the home was occupied. The cause of the fire has also yet to be reported.FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Suspect dead, Gladstone officer hurt in police shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

GLADSTONE, Mo. -- A suspect is dead and a Gladstone officer is hurt following a police shooting Friday morning that started after officers tried to stop suspects who were trying to break into vehicles according to investigators.Gladstone police say officers and Clay County sheriff's deputies responded to an apartment complex at N. Main and NW Englewood Road just before 3:30 a.m. Blue Valley middle school teacher remembered after deadly crash When officers attempted to arrest three suspects, one ran and got away, one was detained, and a third tried to drive away but got into a struggle with an officer in the vehicle.Gladstone police say the suspect dragged that officer toward an apartment gate and the officer shot them. The suspect was treated at the scene and then taken to a hospital where they died according to investigators who spoke with FOX4's Kathy Quinn. The dragged officer was treated for minor injuries.This is a developing story that FOX4 wil...

A statewide housing fight plays out in one growing Colorado city

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

FORT COLLINS — As far as Mellisa Rasor is concerned, Fort Collins is where she is meant to be. She’s just not sure if the city of nearly 170,000 people feels the same way about her.She moved to the city from Oklahoma 11 years ago, alienated by the politics of her small hometown. The schools and environment have been “fantastic” for her two children, and she’s felt at home here through a career change and a divorce. Even for a self-described punk transplant who doesn’t fit the city’s outdoor crunchiness, Rasor felt she’d finally found a place filled with “kind, caring, supportive” people.Except, she said, when it comes to “this housing issue.”Like most renters in Fort Collins, Rasor is cost-burdened, meaning she pays more than 30% of her income toward housing every year. To stay in an apartment that’s too small for her family, Rasor pays $1,650 each month, eating up a large slice of what she makes from work...

Filling dangerous gaps in the Continental Divide Trail may require congressional action

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

The Continental Divide Trail stretches more than 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico, but 44 years after Congress authorized its creation, it still has 160 miles of gaps. Rep. Joe Neguse has been trying to fill them through congressional action, and he visited one of them this week, a potentially dangerous stretch at Muddy Pass in northern Colorado near Rabbit Ears Pass.On that 15-mile section, CDT hikers must walk along U.S. 40 and Colorado Highway 14. Neguse went there Wednesday to dramatize the need for completing the trail.“To see that portion of the road — some of the busiest highways in northwest Colorado that 10, 20, 50, 70 hikers are traversing as they attempt to walk the full extent of the Continental Divide Trail — from a safety perspective this is really important,” Neguse said in an interview following his visit.The Muddy Pass gap is the only one on the CDT in Colorado. There are four in Montana, one in Wyoming and six in New Mexico.Teresa Martinez,...

SUV driver in critical condition after slamming into tree in Orange Circle

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

A driver had to be rescued from an SUV after he slammed into a tree in Orange early Friday.The crash occurred around 12:30 a.m. after the man apparently lost control of his vehicle and drove into the Orange Circle area near Glassell Street.Video showed smoke and fire coming from the crashed vehicle as police and bystanders tried to help the driver. Firefighters arrived and used the jaws of life to eventually free the injured driver. The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. The cause of the crash was unknown.

Harmless for Charles Bradley

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

Harmless for Charles Bradley: Harmless, aka L.A.-based, Mexico-born singer and songwriter Nacho Cano, told us about his Charles Bradley experience.Harmless: One of the best gigs I ever saw was Charles Bradley at FYF in 2016.It was a bad year. I was a full year out of college, working retail and kicking myself for not having ‘made it’ yet in music. I was in a rocky place with my then-girlfriend, with no signs of improvement.Like most couples in dire straits, despite seeing the warning signs, we made plans for the future and purchased tickets to an event we knew we wouldn’t attend together. We were just three weeks shy of actually making it to the event, but unfortunately, I took an edible that awoke me at 3 am in a panic that prompted me to break up with her on the spot. A series of embarrassing Instagram stories followed before the close friends’ time. The kind of stuff that makes your friends cringe.I swore off not going to FYF. We had a thing where we went every year, like a...

Opinion: John Fisher couldn’t hide how he failed Oakland A’s

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

John Fisher is a notorious media recluse.So reading Fisher’s words for the first time since he bought the Oakland A’s 18 years ago felt like a fever dream.His canned comments in a Q&A with the Las Vegas Journal Review and team-affiliated NBC Bay Area made clear why Fisher hid from the public eye. Even the friendliest media questioning reveals him to be the entitled and out-of-touch owner many drew him up to be.One answer to a question by NBC’s Raj Mathai — a TV interview that Fisher oddly mandated not air him actually speaking — was particularly illuminating in light of Fisher’s attempts to relocate the A’s to Las Vegas after decades of operating an unnecessarily low-budget operation.“Are you the right guy to be an owner of any franchise?” Mathai asked.“I don’t think being an owner of a franchise is like being a politician,” Fisher said.Fisher didn’t even have to say it on record. It’s always bee...

Breaking down the 49ers’ position groups entering preseason finale vs. Chargers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers play their final preseason game Friday night against the Los Angeles Chargers with only minor tinkering left on a roster they believe to be Super Bowl caliber.Having settled the quarterback pecking order, the only question is whether Trey Lance sticks around as a high-priced No. 3 or if he’s traded or granted a release to start anew someplace else. For what it’s worth, KNBR’s Greg Papa reported that Lance was at Thursday’s walkthrough, which is closed to media outside of the flagship station.Should Lance depart, Brandon Allen slides in as No. 3, whether it’s on the 53-man roster or the practice squad.Other than that, there’s at least one top-level player at every position group and sometimes two when you consider Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel at wide receiver, Nick Bosa (once he signs) and Javon Hargrave on the defensive line, Christian McCaffrey and Kyle Juszczyk in the backfield and Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw at ...

West Nile virus is leading cause of viral disease spread by insects in U.S,, CDC study says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:40:52 GMT

By Jacqueline Howard | CNNThis summer has brought a flurry of warnings about cases of mosquito-borne illnesses, including malaria, dengue and Eastern equine encephalitis.But West Nile virus, transmitted primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito, continues to be the leading cause of viral disease spread by insects, known as arboviral disease, in the continental United States, according to a report published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The report summarizes how many infections of West Nile virus and other arboviral diseases occurred across the United States in 2021.RELATED: Person tests positive for West Nile virus in Santa Clara CountyForty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported more than 3,000 cases of arboviral disease that occurred domestically – and 2,911 of those cases were West Nile virus. A total of 2,099 people with West Nile Virus were hospitalized, and 227 died.Nationally, the incidence rate of neuroinvasive West Nile vi...