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Planet Fitness offers free access to St. Louis-area gyms through weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Planet Fitness will offer free access to its St. Louis-area gyms through the weekend in response to air quality concerns around the region. Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires has led to unhealthy air quality indexes around Missouri and Illinois in recent days. St. Louis is under an "orange" air quality ranking Thursday from the National Weather Service. Health experts say, based on that ranking, sensitive groups should limit time outdoors, including exercise. Mix of heat, haze raise safety concerns for St. Louisans In response, Planet Fitness has opened 17 gyms in the St. Louis-area to anyone wanting to exercise, including non-members. “With seventeen Planet Fitness clubs in and around the St. Louis area, we want to make sure those who normally exercise outdoors have a safe option to avoid unhealthy air quality levels,” said Midwest Brands CEO Mike Hamilton who runs the Planet Fitness franchisee group. “As the leading fitness provider in the St. Louis area, we want t...

Passenger killed in single-vehicle crash in Denver on Interstate 25 ramp

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

A woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Thursday on a highway off-ramp in Denver near the intersection of Interstate 25 and Interstate 225.The woman who died was a passenger in the vehicle, police said in a posting on Twitter. The crash happened shortly before 3:26 a.m., police said.Around sunrise, police said that ramps from southbound and northbound I-25 to I-225 were closed as investigators look into what happened. The ramps were reopened at 8:00 a.m.#TRAFFIC: #DPD is investigating a single vehicle traffic crash at SB I-25 to I-225 off ramp, that resulted in the fatality of an adult female passenger. #Denver Office of the Medical Examiner will release victim, ID and cause of death. pic.twitter.com/QwkX5djUvj— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) June 29, 2023The woman was not identified. No other information was released.UPDATE: The ramps from northbound and southbound I-25 to I-225 have reopened following the crash investigation.— Denver Police Dept. (@Denv...

Supreme Court outlaws consideration of race as a factor in college admissions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court outlaws consideration of race as a factor in college admissions.

Sheriff’s deputy shoots man suspected of setting vehicle on fire in Grand Junction

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

Sheriff’s deputies shot a man suspected of setting a vehicle on fire at his property in Grand Junction in western Colorado, and on Thursday a team of investigators was preparing to look into what happened, according to Grand Junction police.Mesa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to calls that a man who lived in the 2900 block of Sandra Avenue started the fire around 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, the police said in a news release. Firefighters came to put out the fire. When deputies tried to contact the man, “an officer-involved shooting occurred,” the police said.Firefighters took the man to a hospital. No information on his condition was released.The deputy has been placed on paid leave, police said. A criminal investigation launched by a 21st Judicial District team will determine whether the use of force was legally justified, and police said a separate internal investigation also will begin.Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.

First look at 'Rogers: The Musical' coming to Disney California Adventure

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

We're getting a first look at "Rogers: The Musical" at Disney California Adventure Park. The production is based on the story of Steve Rogers, Captain America.(Sean Teegarden/Disneyland Resort)"Rogers: The Musical" is a one-act musical production at the park's Hyperion Theater. The 30-minute show includes dancers and singers as they take the audience through the origin story of the superhero. It'll feature other characters like, Peggy Carter, Nick Fury and select members of the Avengers.The last live production at the theater was “Frozen: Live at the Hyperion” before the resort shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, Inside the Magic reported.(Richard Harbaugh/Disneyland Resort)"The real-life production of 'Rogers: The Musical' draws inspiration from the fictional Broadwaymusical theater sequence featured in the first episode of the Disney+ series 'Hawkeye,'" according to a news release. The musical is a project between Disney Live Entertainment and book writer Hunter Bell, who star...

Los Angeles homeless count results to be released Thursday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

A clearer picture of the status of homelessness in Los Angeles County will come into focus Thursday with the release of the 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will unveil the newest numbers in a press conference at their downtown Los Angeles offices at 9:30 a.m.The annual report, also called the point-in-time count, in 2019 detected double-digit increases in the homeless populations of the city and county. The 2020 count continued that upward trajectory, though the 2022 count found that the increases had drastically slowed, nearly leveling off to about 69,000 people experiencing homelessness in the county and almost 42,000 in the city.

Suspect questions man, then shoots him as he walks home in East Oakland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

OAKLAND — A 30-year-old man was shot early Thursday by a man who confronted him as he was walking to his East Oakland home, authorities said.The man was reported to be in stable condition at a hospital, where he was being treated for a wound to his neck, authorities said.The shooting happened about 2:22 a.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of 65th Avenue.The man told police he was walking from work to his home in the area when a man confronted him on the sidewalk.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | California police watchdog will soon receive tidal wave of misconduct records Crime and Public Safety | Richmond police fatally shoot person while serving search warrant Crime and Public Safety | Trial and prelim dates still pending for East Bay man accused of 2 killings Crime and Public Safety | East Bay police chase ends in Marin County Crime and Public Safety | Woman sought in connection with two East Bay...

What does the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action mean for California?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

The Supreme Court has ruled against affirmative action, banning colleges and universities from considering race in student admissions.The decision comes after two elite universities — Harvard and the University of North Carolina — were challenged by Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action nonprofit that claimed the institutions discriminated against Asian American and White students in their admission decisions.Those ripple effects will extend across the country, requiring all colleges to disband use of race-conscious admission practices. In California, it’s a slightly different story: Affirmative action has been banned in the state’s public colleges for decades, since Proposition 209 struck down the practice for public employment, contracting and education in 1996.Despite that, the Supreme Court decision will still be felt across the Golden State. Private universities — which serve the same number of students as the University of California — will now need to follo...

Madonna’s family feared they would lose her, her managers prepared ‘for the worst’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

When Madonna was found unresponsive Saturday, rushed to the hospital and reportedly intubated in the intensive care unit, her family learned her condition was so “serious” that they feared they could lose her, a report said.Her oldest daughter, Lourdes, flew in from Paris to be by her bedside, and she and the pop icon’s other children and relatives spent several traumatic days not sure she was going to survive what her manager said was a “serious bacterial infection,” the Daily Mail reported. Madonna’s management team also held “crisis talks” via Zoom to make the difficult decision to postpone the start of her highly anticipated Celebration World Tour, another Daily Mail report said. “No one really knew which direction this was going to turn, and her family was preparing for the worst,” a relative told the Daily Mail. “Everyone believed that we may lose her and that has been the reality of the situation.”RELATED...

Man who appeared on ‘America’s Most Wanted’ several times arrested in California

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:50 GMT

By Jamiel Lynch | CNNA Florida man who has been on the run for almost four decades for a 1984 murder has been caught in California and extradited back to Florida, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.Donald Santini was wanted for the murder of Cynthia Wood. Santini was the last person seen with Wood before her body was discovered strangled and left in a canal. He was then identified as a suspect and fled the county immediately, the release said.Earlier this month, Santini was found in San Diego after evading capture for 39 years, it added.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Man gets 41 years to life in 2006 slaying of estranged wife whose body was found along a California freeway Crime and Public Safety | California police ID bones found in 2001 — answering Tennessee family’s 4 decades of questions Crime and Public Safety | San Jose man charged in 1996 child sexual abuse in Sunnyvale Crime and Public Sa...