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July 4th events and parades in St. Louis area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS -  St. Louis and the nation celebrate this Independence Day, and the big events leading up to Tuesday night's fireworks.Happy birthday, America! The country is 247 years old, and the St. Louis area is celebrating Tuesday. It's a full day of parties, parades, and fireworks.America's Birthday Parade rolls through downtown St. Louis starting at 10:00 a.m. It's the 140th year for the parade down Market Street.This year's theme is 'America the Beautiful.' It will feature two dozen floats, more than a dozen marching bands, and the ever-popular giant balloons.Webster Groves got things going Monday with their Children's Pet Parade. Pets of all kinds came out Monday night to parade around in costumes with their owners. Awards were given out in several categories, including 'Best Costume' and 'Best Trick'.Then, the Webster Groves Community Days Parade is at 10:00 a.m. More parades are also happening Tuesday in St. Charles, O'Fallon, Missouri, Ferguson, and Wentzville. 3 people sho...

Police: Ongoing search for juvenile detention center escapees

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Police are looking for two teenagers who escaped from a juvenile detention facility early Monday.The 16 and 17-year-old boys escaped from the facility on Hogan Street in old north St. Louis. The two broke a window and ran off. 3 people shot and killed, 2 injured in St. Ann shooting FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Krispy Kreme offering 4th of July deals today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS - If you show your love for America with patriotic flair wear at Krispy Kreme Tuesday, you get a free doughnut.The doughnut chain is giving customers who are wearing red, white, and blue a free glazed doughnut in celebration of Independence Day. The deal is good at participating locations. Krispy Kreme is also offering the 'Stars and Stripes' dozen, which includes its three new flavors: red velvet sparkler, freedom flag, and all-American apple pie.The doughnuts can be purchased individually or in a custom 4th of July box.

Driver injured in Tower Grove crash early Tuesday morning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS - One person was hurt overnight in a crash in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. 3 people shot and killed, 2 injured in St. Ann shooting Two cars crashed on the Gravois and Hydraulic Avenues. That was just before 12:30 a.m.

Mathews: The United States only advances through disunion

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

The further I drove into Oroville, the more disappointment I felt.I had my passport with me, but no one asked me to show it. American flags still hung from Montgomery Street storefronts. City Hall had not been replaced by a  national capitol. And I could find no new standing army or an Oroville Food and Drug Administration.It was as if the city council of Oroville (pop.20,000), 70 miles north of Sacramento, had never made national news in 2021 by declaring itself a “constitutional republic.”Too bad. Because there is no greater creative force than the commitment to declare independence and build something new.That’s the spirit we should celebrate on Independence Day. But it’s been a long time since Independence Day was about independence.Instead, we put on displays of national unity — even though unity has produced so many awful things in our country. We the people came together to adopt a constitution that enshrined slavery and shunned democracy. In the name of unity, we ended Recon...

Opinion: D.C. memorial to honor slain journalists, U.S. free press

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

In the 1980s, Ben Cardin and I went to Congress from very different places, both politically and geographically. I was a young Republican elected in 1980 from a suburban Los Angeles district as Ronald Reagan swept into the White House. Six years later, Ben was elected as a Baltimore Democrat who had served as speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. I would stay in the House for more than 30 years, while, in 2007, Ben moved to the Senate, where he still is today.There were plenty of times when we disagreed. But, in 2019, we came together on one topic where we share an identical viewpoint — the vital importance of the First Amendment and a vibrant free press.On June 28, 2018, in a targeted attack, a gunman killed five people in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md. I was a director on the board of Tribune Publishing, which owned the paper.During memorial services and quiet moments that followed the attack five years ago, I met with survivors and their family members...

Greek foreign minister says Athens is ready for talks with Turkey to resolve sea borders dispute

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Greece is ready to start talks with Turkey to resolve a long-standing dispute over maritime borders that has repeatedly brought the two neighbors to the brink of armed conflict, Greece’s newly appointed foreign minister said Tuesday.Giorgos Gerapetritis said the Greek government wants to “take advantage of the ongoing positive climate” in order to come to an agreement on delineating the areas in which each country has exclusive economic rights, including the right to search for offshore oil and gas.Turkey disputes areas which Greece says fall within its own economic zone and where it’s seeking to start a search for offshore oil and gas reserves. Turkey claims much of the economic zone of Cyprus where several sizeable offshore natural gas deposits have been discovered.The feud over exploratory drilling rights had culminated in a naval standoff three years ago.Another key issue at the heart of Greek-Turkish tensions that Gerapetritis wants resolved is the extent...

Tiroteo en Filadelfia deja al menos cinco muertos: el sospechoso bajo custodia llevaba un rifle AR-15, dijo la Policía

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

(CNN) — La policía de Filadelfia está investigando un tiroteo en expansión que cree que dejó cinco muertos y dos niños heridos este lunes por la noche, antes de que las autoridades arrestaran a un sospechoso que, según dicen, tenía un chaleco antibalas, un rifle estilo AR-15 y una pistola.Las autoridades inicialmente dijeron que cuatro personas murieron, pero este martes a primera hora anunciaron el descubrimiento de un quinto cuerpo en el mismo vecindario de Kingsessing en el suroeste de Filadelfia, y dijeron que preliminarmente creen que esa persona murió en la misma juerga.El tiroteo abarcó varias cuadras, dañó vehículos y llenó las calles de decenas de casquillos de bala, dijo la comisionada de policía de Filadelfia, Danielle M. Outlaw, en una conferencia de prensa este lunes por la noche.Las autoridades aún tienen que identidicar al sospechoso; Outlaw dijo que creía que tenía 40 años.Cuando los agentes arrestaron al sospechoso después de una persecución a pie, llevaba pue...

How will fireworks impact air quality? DC area’s Independence Day forecast

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

Listen to WTOP for weather updates on the 8s.Those celebrating the nation’s independence should look out for pop-up showers or storms later on Tuesday along with a drop in the air quality. Here’s what you need to know about the Fourth of July’s forecast.Air quality is expected to be unhealthy for sensitive groups such as those with heart and lung disease on Tuesday, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments rating system.A “Code Orange” air quality alert is forecast until Thursday — thanks to the fireworks Tuesday and a separate pollutant, ground-level ozone that’s expected to cause issue later on this week.Pollution from fireworks will cause a decline of the air quality from Tuesday evening through Wednesday, said 7news First Alert Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff.“Once the fireworks start to go off, they add these particle pollutants in the atmosphere,” van de Graaff said. “Oftentimes, we see some of our ...

Mark Zuckerberg lanzará la nueva red social “Threads”, la nueva competencia de Twitter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:05:00 GMT

NUEVA YORK – El gigante tecnológico Meta, propietario de Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp, se dispone a lanzar una nueva red social que se llamará Threads (hilos), con la que pretende hacer la competencia a Twitter, que ha impuesto nuevas restricciones a sus usuarios.Según informa la prensa estadounidense, se espera que Meta anuncie el próximo jueves el lanzamiento de Threads, que permitirá mantener conversaciones digitales en tiempo real, pero la aplicación ya está disponible en las tiendas de aplicaciones como Play Store, en la modalidad de acceso anticipado.Mark Zuckerberg, el presidente de Meta, llevaba mucho tiempo planeando el lanzamiento de una red social de conversaciones en línea en tiempo real que le hiciera la competencia a Twitter, una plataforma que, pese a los vaivenes y restricciones que ha sufrido desde su adquisición por parte del multimillonario sudafricano Elon Musk, sigue pareciendo irreemplazable. ¿El ring los espera? Mark Zuckerberg dice estar...