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St. Louis Cardinals hosting 12th annual toy drive today

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Cardinals host their 12th annual holiday gift drive Wednesday.They are collecting toys for kids in military families. They are also collecting for kids served by several local charities. You can drop off a brand-new, unwrapped toy. From 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Gate 4 of Busch Stadium. How time-of-use pricing plan is impacting electric bills The team is ready with a thank-you gift of hot chocolate. Some of the gifts will be given to children of military families at an upcoming breakfast with Santa at Scott Air Force Base.

Pedestrian struck and killed on Highway 61 SB

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - A driver struck and killed a man walking on Highway 61 in Jefferson County.The crash happened a little before 11:00 p.m. near Cedar Drive in Imperial. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said that a 24-year-old woman was driving southbound on 61 when she struck and killed 22-year-old Christopher Kelch, who was in the roadway. How time-of-use pricing plan is impacting electric bills FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Florida owners of railway exchange building owe $4.4M to contractors

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

ST. LOUIS - The owners of the old Famous-Barr building in downtown St. Louis lose an appeal in state court.According to FOX 2's partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 'Hudson Holdings' of Florida owes five contractors more than $4 million. U.S. Steel idles steelmaking at Granite City Works ‘indefinitely’ The ongoing legal dispute over the railway exchange building is interfering with efforts to buy and renovate the historic property.

Cherry Creek goes for five-peat, Columbine believes it can play spoiler: Previewing Class 5A title bout between two storied Colorado coaches

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

FORT COLLINS — Saturday’s Class 5A championship at Canvas Stadium is the next chapter in a friendly but fierce rivalry between two Colorado football icons that goes back three decades.Dave Logan’s Cherry Creek Bruins take on Andy Lowry’s Columbine Rebels in the third title bout between the two head coaches with more than six decades of combined experience, and 16 combined championships.It’s a rivalry rooted in mutual respect for the men who got their starts at humble Jeffco programs in the early 1990s, Logan at Arvada West and Lowry at Lakewood. And it’s a rivalry that’s given both men perspective — to the football-obsessed Logan that there’s more to life than the game, and to the Columbine mainstay Lowry a blueprint to emulate as he’s built the Rebels into a perennial contender.“We’ve had some great battles over the years,” Logan noted. “When Columbine beat us in the 2006 state championship game (wh...

Broncos roundtable: Can Vance Joseph’s crew really keep this turnover bonanza up for six more games?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

Parker Gabriel, Broncos beat reporter: Welcome back to the roundtable, dudes. Denver knocked off Cleveland, is now 6-5 and heads to Houston to face the Texans in a game that will substantially swing the playoff picture for both outfits. But the fun doesn’t end there for Sean Payton’s team regardless of the outcome. They’re on the road three straight weekends, with the Los Angeles Chargers and Detroit to follow the Texans. That’s a lot of opposing logo stenciling on the Centura Health Training Facility fields for Denver’s paint guys. The question this week: Can the Broncos really keep this takeaway bonanza they’ve been on rolling? They have 15 in their past four games and at least three in each of those. Before that, they didn’t log more than two in a game and had seven in their first seven games.Nobody’s expecting 15 more over the next four games, but let’s do it this way: Over the past 10 seasons in the NFL, the average league l...

The enormous potential of advanced bio-fuels

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

The starting pistol has sounded in the race to meet EU and global energy-saving targets – and biofuels does not want to be left behind.Biofuels offer three big advantages - scalability, sustainability and cost - and EU and national legislators should seriously consider advanced biofuels as a peer, not as a poor cousin of wind and solar.First, biofuels are sustainable.Replacing fossil fuels with biofuels has the potential to generate a number of benefits. In contrast to fossil fuels, which are exhaustible resources, biofuels are produced from renewable feedstocks. Thus, their production and use could, in theory, be sustained indefinitely.Biofuels offer a sustainable solution that can be used as a direct replacement to fossil fuels and will help significantly cut emissions with the urgency that is required. Long term, biofuels are also better for the environment than wind and solar.European renewable ethanol and biodiesel are proven to significantly reduce greenhou...

Man fatally shot in San Dimas neighborhood; gunman sought

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

The search is on for a gunman Wednesday after a man was fatally shot in a San Dimas neighborhood.Deputies were called to the 1800 block of Hawbrook Drive regarding a medical rescue call at 6:48 p.m. Tuesday.A man was found at the scene suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to his upper body, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department stated in a news release.Deputies investigate a fatal shooting in San Dimas on Nov. 28, 2023. (Inlandnews)Personnel from the Los Angeles County Fire Department also responded and pronounced the unidentified victim dead at the scene.“I know him because we are the same church … I feel loss … I can not believe that,” neighbor Arka Sujna said following the shooting. No suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made, the sheriff's department stated.The motive for the shooting remains under investigation but authorities do not believe it was part of a home invasion robbery. Southern California woman speaks after being dragged by Costco pur...

Walters: California consumer price regulation often protects companies

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

In the 19th century, California began experimenting with regulating the prices of vital services and commodities. Nearly 150 years later, Californians still don’t know if it’s working as we debate whether to expand the practice.Years of bitter conflict between Central Valley farmers and the monopolistic Southern Pacific Railroad over freight rates led to creation of a railroad commissioner’s office in 1878. It later became a commission and in 1945 morphed into the California Public Utilities Commission with broad authority to set rates for transportation services, electric power, natural gas and water supplied by privately owned utilities.The CPUC, whose members are appointed by the governor, has become a vast bureaucracy that oversees tens of billions of dollars in service charges affecting the budgets of virtually every California household and businesses large and small.The immensely complicated applications that utilities file for rate changes involve not only what customers mus...

Disney has ‘enough room to build another Disneyland’ in Anaheim, theme park chairman D’Amaro says

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

Disney touted plans to expand its theme park business to the tune of $60 billion over the next decade and boasted of plenty of space to play with in Anaheim where there is “enough room to build another Disneyland.”Disney CEO Bob Iger was joined by Disney theme park chairman Josh D’Amaro on Tuesday, Nov. 28 during an employee town hall in New York City at the Amsterdam Theater, the Broadway home to “The Lion King.”Related ArticlesBusiness | Who really makes the decisions at Disneyland? Business | Disneyland files construction permits for $8 million food hall Business | Naked man arrested at Disneyland wandering around It’s a Small World Business | Disneyland lamppost falls and injures visitors during high winds Business | Man jumps to his death at Disneyland parking garage; Third incident in less than a year “We’ve got so much space to play with,” D’Amaro said at the town hall, according to the Hollywood ...

Study: Salton Sea has enough lithium to make more than 375 million EV batteries

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:15:32 GMT

The mineral-rich stew bubbling thousands of feet beneath the shores of Southern California’s Salton Sea contains one of the largest lithium deposits in the world, with enough of the valuable metal to make batteries for more than 375 million electric vehicles, according to a long-awaited analysis published Tuesday.“It’s pretty exciting how much is there,” said Michael McKibben, a geology research professor from UC Riverside who worked on the 371-page report commissioned by the Department of Energy.Since there are fewer than 300 million vehicles on the road in the United States today, the study suggests there’s ample lithium in this remote desert outpost to help replace every gas-guzzler in the country with an emission-free EV. That should allow us to eventually halt problematic lithium imports from South America and China, which McKibben said would boost U.S. energy security as we push toward President Biden’s goal of making 50% of vehicles electric by 2030.That could also leave enou...