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New Minnesota PWHL team adds three big-time free agents

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

Minnesota’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team doesn’t yet have a name, or even an official place to play. But general manager Natalie Darwitz does have her first three players — two of them with Minnesota ties.The team agreed to terms Wednesday on three-year deals with Team USA mainstays Lee Stecklein, Kelly Coyne Schofield and Kelly Pannek. Stecklein and Coyne Schofield each won national titles with the Gophers.Stecklein, 29, and Coyne Schofield, 29, were members of Minnesota’s former professional team, the Whitecaps, and helped it win the Isobel Cup in 2018-19 when the team played at TRIA Rink.Among them, Stecklein, Coyne Schofield and Pannek, 27, have six Olympic medals. Pannek, a Benilde-St. Margaret’s graduate, won national titles at Minnesota in 2015 and 2016, and Stecklein was part of the Gophers’ 2013 NCAA champions.Darwitz said Wednesday the team hasn’t nailed down its future home, or a team name but she is close to adding members to her operations staff, including a ...

St. Charles' Zumbehl Road reopens

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - One of the busiest streets in St. Charles was set to reopen later Wednesday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.Part of Zumbehl Road has been under construction for the past three months. The good news is that city leaders will take the barricades down Wednesday morning.The $5.6 million project is upgrading the bridge and storm drains that have been falling apart for nearly 40 years. Crews have installed larger concrete culverts to replace old metal pipes, and they're also replacing the Zumbehl Bridge and sidewalk.While Wednesday marks a significant milestone in the 'Zumbehl Road Culvert Replacement Project,' we should mention intermittent lane closures will occur for a couple of weeks for construction on sidewalks and the surrounding landscaping. Fatal and officer-involved crash shuts down two I-70 WB locations In March 2018, MoDOT gave the bridge a score of 49.6%.Dan Mann, the head engineer of the city of St. Charles, called the bridge "structurally ...

Fatal crash closes westbound I-70 early Wednesday morning

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Two different crashes shut down stretches of Interstate 70 westbound overnight in north St. Louis city and north county. The first crash was deadly. The second involved a St. Louis city police unit.The situation involving the police officer unfolded about 3:45 a.m. Police first told FOX 2 earlier Wednesday morning that a city officer was driving a marked police unit when the vehicle was rear-ended by another driver, causing the officer to lose control and hit the center median. Now St. Louis police officials say there was some initial miscommunication, and they have released new information.The police now tell us that the crash only involved a police unit and no other vehicle. Police now say that the officer lost control of his vehicle and hit the center median after striking some large debris on the highway. We’re told the officer’s injuries are minor but that he was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Bonne Terre mother nearly loses child to lead poisoning Several ...

Lake St. Louis woman dies in Lincoln County crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. -- A Lake St. Louis woman died early Wednesday morning in a Lincoln County crash. Saraya Sanders, 22, was pronounced dead at 2:13 a.m. by EMS personnel after her vehicle was found in a creek bed.The Missouri Highway Patrol says that Sanders was driving southbound on Route 47 north of Lindsay Road at around 11:40 p.m. She crossed the center of the road and overcorrected, hitting a guardrail, which sent her Nissan Altima airborne.The vehicle landed upside down in a creek. First responders were called to the scene and eventually pronounced Sanders deceased.

A pandemic-popular po’boy joint has closed in LoDo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

Kyle and Katy Foster are busy. Their cooking school, Stir, is popular and the space is almost fully booked for private cooking parties through the holidays. It’s a good problem to have, but it also means that the couple no longer has time for their passion project, Pirate Alley Boucherie.The sandwich joint, which served New Orleans-style po’boys, charcuterie boards and small plates in the Ice House building, 1801 Wynkoop St., is now closed, just a year after opening. (The Denver Post named it one of the 10 most notable Denver restaurant openings of 2022.)Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and Drink | Frasca parent company opening Italian restaurant in Englewood Restaurants, Food and Drink | Longtime Italian bistro closes in Denver. “It just was not fun anymore owning a restaurant,” owner said Restaurants, Food and Drink | CBD coffee shop in Platt Park targets fall opening Restaurants, Food and Drink | ...

Colorado voters sue to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 presidential ballot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

A group of Colorado voters filed suit Wednesday to keep former President Donald Trump off the state’s ballot in 2024.The ballot-qualification suit names the Republican front-runner and Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold as defendants. The lawsuit cites Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the Civil War-era federal constitutional amendment which bars people from holding office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country. It cites events on and around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.“(Trump) knowingly sought to subvert our Constitution and system of elections through a sustained campaign of lies,” the lawsuit states. “His efforts culminated on January 6, 2021, when he incited, exacerbated, and otherwise engaged in a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol by a mob who believed they were following his orders, and refused to protect the Capitol or call off the mob for nearly three hours as the attack unfolded.”The lawsuit was filed ...

California temporarily halts CVUSD 'forced outing policy' for trans, nonbinary students

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

Just nine days after California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced his intention to halt what he described as a "forced outing policy" approved by a Southern California school board, his office scored a legal victory in blocking the regulation.The state secured a temporary restraining order in San Bernardino Superior Court on Wednesday that nullifies the requirement that Chino Valley Unified School District staffers notify parents if a student is transgender or gender-nonconforming, according to the Los Angeles Times."We’ve secured a temporary restraining order against Chino Valley Unified School District’s illegal and dangerous forced outing policy," Bonta announced on X, formerly known as Twitter. Bonta later added in a statement that "a temporary restraining order rightfully upholds the state rights of our LGBTQ+ student community and protects kids from harm by immediately halting the board’s forced outing policy."“While this fight is far from over, today’s ruling takes a signi...

Eduardo Rojas, Bertha Rojas Killed in Fiery Crash on Randolph Place [Huntington Park, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

Suspected DUI Crash near Maywood Avenue Left 2 Dead, 3 InjuredHUNTINGTON PARK, CA (September 6, 2023) – Friday evening, a two-vehicle collision on Randolph Place claimed the lives of Eduardo Rojas and Bertha Rojas.Officers responded to the collision around 8:45 p.m. at the intersection of Randolph Place and Maywood Avenue.Upon arrival, they located at least five people involved in the wreckage, including a trapped person inside one of the vehicles.Tragically, 29-year-old Eduardo Rojas and his mother, 51-year-old Bertha Rojas, sustained fatal injuries and died at the scene.Eduardo, along with his brother Kevin and parents Bertha and Cuco, was heading home when their car crashed into a white SUV, their family members reported. News footage from the area revealed a downed light pole and a dark-colored vehicle lodged in a fence.Responding emergency personnel transported Kevin Rojas and Cuco Rojas to a local hospital where they remained in critical condition. The other driver was a...

Asia Allen-Bookman, One Other Killed in Racing Crash on Avalon Boulevard [Compton, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

Firetruck Collision on Compton Boulevard Left Four Firefighters InjuredCOMPTON, CA (September 6, 2023) – Early Tuesday morning, Asia Allen-Bookman and one other were killed in a racing crash on Avalon Boulevard.The deadly collision happened on September 5th, at around 12:30 a.m., at the intersection of South Avalon Boulevard and East Compton Boulevard.According to reports, a blue PT Cruiser racing westbound on Compton Boulevard collided with a northbound firetruck on Avalon Boulevard. Police spotted two other vehicles going at about 80 mph in the area prior to the crash.Unfortunately, the man and a woman inside the PT Cruiser sustained fatal injuries and died at the scene. Authorities identified the deceased woman as 26-year-old Asia Allen-Bookman. However, the identity of the deceased 28-year-old male remains undisclosed.Meanwhile, paramedics transported the four fighters inside the truck to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center for minor injuries.Police have not provided any details re...

East Bay rock act Skip the Needle celebrates new EP at Ivy Room in Albany

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:32:56 GMT

Skip the Needle rocks.And fans can hear the all-star East Bay outfit  — consisting of drummer-vocalist Kofy Brown, guitarist-vocalist Katie Cash, bassist-vocalist Vicki Randle and guitarist-vocalist Shelley Doty — in all of its glory on the new EP “Octavia of Earth, Volume Two.”The EP draws its title from the late Octavia Butler, a groundbreaking writer of science fiction who altered the genre by introducing her Black feminist self into the stories. The author, who won Hugo and Nebula awards, is known as the “Mother of Afro-Futurism.”The lyrics on the EP were co-written by Anand Kalra, who is the executive director of the Queer Cultural Center in San Francisco. (Kalra also collaborated with T. Carlis Roberts to create the songs on “Octavia of Earth, Vol. One.”)The group plays an EP release concert for “Octavia of Earth, Volume Two” on Sept. 16 at the Ivy Room in Albany. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. and tickets are $20, ivyroom.com.Relat...