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Final Day of City Museum's 'Stuff the Bus' School Supply Drive

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

ST. LOUIS - It's the final day for the City Museum's 'Stuff the Bus School Supply Drive.'The supplies will be donated to KidSmart for distribution to students in need at 160 area schools.If you bring any of these five items - markers, glue bottles, spiral notebooks, and scissors - you can get $5 off a weekday ticket to the museum. Teachers and school staff can get free general admission if they bring their school ID. Cannabis recall in Missouri: Dispensaries pulling 60K products The City Museum is also hosting its 'Spaced Out' event on Friday. If you didn't know, the Dome on the museum's rooftop used to be the St. Louis Science Center's planetarium.On Friday night, it'll be used as the dance floor for a party under the stars. You're invited to dress in an out-of-this-world outfit, take space-themed selfies, and enjoy some galactic goodies and cocktails.It's for visitors 21 and older. The event runs from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Colorado Economic Development Commission shoots down incentive request

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

The Colorado Economic Development Commission approved $8.2 million in incentives for four companies looking at locating 735 jobs in the state on Thursday morning. But in a rare move, it rejected a request from another company, Lada Cube, on a split vote.The Grand Junction company, which designs and manufactures demountable wall panels, received $250,000 from the state in November 2018 under the Advanced Industries Early Stage Capital and Retention Grant.That grant requires the company to keep at least half of its employees in the state or maintain its headquarters here. But economic development officials learned after the fact that Lada Cube left Grand Junction in July 2019 without notifying the state, violating its agreement, said Michelle Hadwiger, deputy director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade.“I want everyone to know my intentions were not malicious,” the company’s repentant CEO John Fay told commissioners. “My hope...

Hilary grows into dangerous Category 4 hurricane off Mexico, could bring heavy rain to California

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

Hurricane Hilary grew rapidly to Category 4 strength off Mexico’s Pacific coast and could bring heavy rain to the southwestern U.S. by the weekend.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hilary had sustained winds near 140 mph (220 kph) at midnight and was expected to continue its rapid intensification through Friday morning. It should start to weaken Saturday.(NOAA)Tropical storm conditions could begin affecting the Baja California peninsula late Friday. Hilary's projected path threatened landfall in the middle of the peninsula by Sunday, or it may stay just offshore while heading for Southern California.Hilary was centered about 425 miles (685 kilometers) south of Los Cabos on the southern tip of the Baja peninsula. It was moving west-northwest at 14 mph (22 kph), but was expected to turn gradually north through Saturday.The hurricane center posted a hurricane watch and tropical storm warning for parts of Baja California Sur state, meaning tropical storm conditions were expected w...

Trump calls off planned news conference so he can compile claims of election fraud

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

(The Hill) - Former President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a planned news conference for next week in which he said he would share claims of election fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election, the same types of claims that led to his indictment in the state earlier this week.Trump wrote on Truth Social that his lawyers indicated they would rather he compile his claims about election fraud in the state into "formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment.""Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!" Trump wrote.The former president on Tuesday posted on Truth Social that he would hold an event at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club next Monday to present a report that he said would lay out claims of election fraud in Georgia.Some of Trump's legal advisers had reportedly raised concerns that the former president's planned news conference could further complicate his case, however. Trump has in recent weeks grown more vocal in claiming the 2020 election...

Rosalynn Carter marks 96th birthday at home with former president Jimmy Carter

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

Rosalynn Carter will celebrate her 96th birthday at home Friday with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, and other family members, while the surrounding community of Plains, Georgia, honors the former first lady's years of public health advocacy.The latest milestone comes as Rosalynn Carter navigates dementia and the former president, now 98, continues to receive hospice care. Yet they remain together in the same small town where they were born, married and that anchored Jimmy Carter's victorious 1976 presidential campaign.Rosalynn Carter, the second-oldest U.S. first lady ever, turns 95 on Aug. 18, 2022. This image was taken during a news conference in 2019. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)Rosalynn will have a quiet birthday celebration, according to The Carter Center, the human rights organization the pair opened in Atlanta after losing his 1980 reelection bid. She plans to eat cupcakes and peanut butter ice cream, nodding to the couple’s experience as Georg...

Opinion: To end Ukraine conflict, Western companies must exit Russia 

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

In February 2022, Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion onto the sovereign territory of democratic Ukraine. And for the past 18 months, everyday Ukrainians have heroically taken up arms to defend their land and way of life from imposing forces.Americans have traveled to Ukraine and surrounding nations to render humanitarian aid in various forms. The White House has provided significant materiel to the Ukrainian military. But excess American tanks and aid workers aren’t the only things that will affect the outcome of this bloody conflict: American and multinational corporations may yet determine how long this conflict endures.Corporations that operate in Russia provide tax revenue that fills President Putin’s war chest.  Operating in Russia means maintaining relations with a belligerent actor. Western companies that remain in Russia are financing the targeting of maternity wards, apartment complexes and key civilian evacuation routes in Ukraine.After the invasion, over 1,000 ...

Opinion: It’s time to rethink the value of presidential primary debates

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

Televised presidential debates during the general election are viewed as the ultimate candidate showcase. They give voters the opportunity to watch competing worldviews and policy positions clash on America’s most significant political stage. Viewers get to test their assumptions about the candidates in real time.Voters want to know how a potential commander in chief will perform in the face of adversity, and facing off against the other party’s nominee and hostile moderators is a great test.But do this cycle’s primary debates provide that same value? There is a fair argument to make that the answer is no.Because the candidates’ policy positions from either party are often similar, primary debates are much less about policy and overwhelmingly about character and personalities. In the modern era, the best debaters rarely go on to secure the nomination.Nobody will accuse George W. Bush or Mitt Romney of being debate-club presidents, and John McCain’s performances were often viewed as ...

Tomales Bay invaded by self-cloning sea anemones from Southern Hemisphere

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

Zoe Richardson, a doctoral student at the University of California at Davis, walks through mud flats along the shore of Tomales Bay in Marshall at low tide on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Richardson is studying an invasive sea anemone that is native to the Southern Hemisphere. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal)An invasive sea anemone sits in a cup of bay water along the shore of Tomales Bay in Marshall on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. This one was less than a half-inch in diameter. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal)Zoe Richardson, a doctoral student at the University of California at Davis, prepares to set out a small cup containing a non-native sea anemone along the shore of Tomales Bay in Marshall on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Richardson is collecting data as part of a study about the invasive species. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal)Non-native sea anemones, approximately a quarter-inch in diameter, burrow in holes in the mud along the shore of Tomales Bay in Marshall during low tide on Frida...

Marin County molestation suspect identified as dead jail inmate

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

A Marin County Jail inmate who died over the weekend was identified as a Novato man charged with child molestation, authorities said Thursday.A deputy found Carlos Alejandro Chi-Chi, 36, hanging in his cell at about noon Aug. 10. Paramedics took him to a hospital, and he died Sunday, said sheriff’s Sgt. Adam Schermerhorn.The Marin County Sheriff’s Office includes both the jail and the coroner’s division, so it asked the San Rafael Police Department for an independent investigation of the death. Chi-Chi shared the jail cell with another inmate.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Lawsuit filed by family of San Quentin guard who died during COVID outbreak to proceed Crime and Public Safety | Record numbers of people have died in California jails. Now lawmakers could crack down Crime and Public Safety | California prisons have a drug problem. A strip search policy takes aim at visitors Crime and Public Safety | ACLU, justi...

Review: ‘Blue Beetle’ is more than just a bug in space

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:53:30 GMT

By Jake Coyle | Associated PressFranz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise.Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in “The Metamorphosis,” we’ve had spider-men, wasps, ant-men, crime-fighting ticks and mighty mantises — such a super swarm of insectoids that you might be tempted to reach for a fly swatter.We’re now back to the beetle with the new DC Comics film “Blue Beetle,” which opens in theaters Thursday. But what distinguishes “Blue Beetle” isn’t its place in the bug brigade but the person doing the metamorphosizing.Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) is the first Latino superhero in a leading role in a DC film. It’s not just token casting, either. “Blue Beetle,” directed by Ángel Manuel Soto and written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, is firmly rooted in the experience of the Reyes clan, a close-knit Mexican-American family...