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Adam Wainwright's bizarre story around the 9/11 attacks

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

NEW YORK - Adam Wainwright is weeks away from calling it a career. Years before he debuted with the St. Louis Cardinals, he had a bizarre experience and perhaps a life-saving twist of fate around the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The story was first told by Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold in a September 2011 report for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. By early September 2001, Wainwright had finished his first full season as a prospect in the Atlanta Braves organization. He planned a guys' trip to New York City with his brother, Trey, from Sept. 10-11. The two initially planned to see Roger Clemens pitch at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 10. That game was postponed due to rain. 25 years later: Remembering Mark McGwire’s record-setting 62nd home run Instead, the brothers decided to visit the Empire State Building on Sept. 10. Somewhere in Adam's personal collection, according to the Post-Dispatch report, he has a photo dated Sept. 10, 2001, on top of the Empire State Building with the W...

Troy, Missouri announces boil order after Sunday evening water main break

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

TROY, Mo. - Troy, Missouri, is now under a boil order as of Monday morning. This was announced after crews restored water services to locals after a water main break Sunday evening. The boil order will last 48 hours and is set to expire Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Once a St. Louis County subdivision, now a disc golf course FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

8-year-old gets surprise during bake sale to raise money for surgery

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

ST. LOUIS - 8-year-old Brier Whitley has a rare bone disease called 'XLH' that will require major surgery. He joined FOX 2 at 9 a.m. last week to help promote his bake sale to raise money. FOX 2's Ty Hawkins shared more about the incredible turnout and his story.Brier shared that he's had a lot of people come up to him and ask, 'Why are you so short?' He tells them, 'I have this bone disease called XLH. My legs are bent and yours are straight.'Brier's family is doing everything they can to cover his medical expenses, but with the cost of traveling for this big surgery coming up, they needed a little help. So this past weekend, they held a bake sale. Tri My Best adaptive triathlon: empowering kids and raising funds for a cause Brier came on the 9 a.m. show last Thursday to tell us all about it. His wit and personality were a hit. On Saturday afternoon, FOX 2 staff stopped by the sale. So did Lamborghini's from 'Holman Motor Cars St. Louis' and the 'Lamborghini Owner's Club.'"L...

Pedestrian killed in crash with motorist in Aurora late Sunday night

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

Police are investigating a Sunday night crash involving a motorist and a pedestrian in Aurora that left one person dead.The crash occurred on Peoria Street at about 10:20 p.m., closing the roadway from 19th Avenue to Montview Boulevard, the Aurora Police Department said on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.#APDTrafficAlert: APD’s Traffic Unit is investigating a fatal crash on Peoria Street involving a motorist and a pedestrian that happened about 10:20p. Driver/vehicle remained on scene. Peoria is closed between 19th and Montview. pic.twitter.com/92HI06p3UA— Aurora Police Dept (@AuroraPD) September 11, 2023The driver and vehicle remained on scene after the crash, police said.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | After Maui fire, Denver to start using emergency sirens for more than just tornadoes Crashes and Disasters | Colorado trucking company in I-25 crash that killed 5 family members tried to buy insurance hours after wrec...

Stolen big rig driver on the run after ramming police vehicles, authorities say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

The driver of a stolen big rig remains on the loose after leading officers on a pursuit that ended in Riverside Monday morning. The incident began when Ontario police tried to stop a big rig just after midnight in the area of South Archibald Avenue and Mission Boulevard for missing license plates, Ontario Police Department spokesperson Maqueira confirmed. The driver of the big rig, which was reported stolen out of San Bernardino, failed to yield and a pursuit ensued, Maqueira said. The chase continued on the eastbound 60 Freeway until the driver exited on Market Street in Riverside. Smash-and-grab thieves hit Macy’s in Northridge Mall The driver allegedly rammed police officers after taking them down a dirt pathway, Maqueira said. That's when an officer-involved shooting occurred. No one was injured in the shooting. An active search was underway for the suspect who ran from the big rig and into a riverbed. Riverside police are assisting with the search.

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Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

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Residents say cockroaches, mold and maintenance problems remain at East Bay complex

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

OAKLEY — One family at The Oaks sleeps with the lights on. Not because they are afraid of the dark, but because they fear the cockroaches that come out of their hiding places at night to forage for food – on the counters, table, chairs, cupboards and showers. Everywhere.Even after an exterminator sprayed their apartment this summer, the family, who asked that their names not be used for fear of retribution, was horrified when one daughter found an army of the nocturnal insects invading the kitchen when she got up for some juice one night.“When you spray, you agitate them and it brings them out more,” the mom said. “So it’s kind of a Catch 22. You don’t want more to come out. So what do you do?”The family has had to throw out many of their kitchen items and the bunk beds where roaches had nested. The couch also will be tossed as live roaches were seen walking across it, the mom said.“I have to get rid of the rest of the couch now because my daughter had one crawling...

49ers report card: ‘It was the way it was drawn up, which was sweet’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

PITTSBURGH — Here is how the 49ers graded in Sunday’s 30-7 season-opening win over the host Steelers:PASS OFFENSE: ATwo plays on the opening drive explained a lot about how this became a rout. First, rather than run on fourth-and-1, George Kittle caught Brock Purdy’s pass in the flat and charged 11 yards to the Steelers’ 34-yard line, which Purdy said went “exactly how we drew it up.” The other play: Purdy’s 8-yard touchdown strike to a wide-open Brandon Aiyuk dead center of the end zone, after Deebo Samuel distracted the defense, which center Jake Brendel described as “the way it was drawn up, which was sweet.” To summarize, the 49ers had months to prepare and practice for this opening drive, and they executed it into a 7-0 lead to neuter a hostile environment. Purdy (19-of-29, 220 yards, two touchdowns; 20 rushing yards) showed last season was no fluke and his elbow is no problem. Aiyuk had eight receptions on eight targets for...

Bay Area native and international master hopes to inspire next generation of chess lovers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

Growing up in Tiburon, Ladia Jirasek felt like an outsider who didn’t quite fit in with other kids his age who were more interested in playing sports than chess, which he began learning when he was 9 years old.That is, until he began participating in the after-school programs and tournaments offered by Marin Scholastic Chess. He began to feel part the fabric of Marin’s chess world.Now 23, Jirasek is an international master, the second-highest title in chess awarded by the International Chess Federation, and is on a mission to pay it forward and inspire the next generation of chess players in Marin and beyond.Courtesy of Ladia JirasekLadia Jirasek is an international master in chess. A longtime chess coach, he wrote 2021’s “How to Chess,” a guide for beginners. When he’s not mentoring or playing chess, the UC Berkeley graduate works as junior quantitative trader.Q What got you into this?A The first time I saw it the wizard chess scene in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” ...

Elon Musk’s X sues California over content moderation law

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:05 GMT

By JOEL ROSENBLATT | BloombergElon Musk’s X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.The company that operates the social network that used to be known as Twitter argues the measure, AB 587, interferes with its editorial judgments protected as free speech under the Constitution.When California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill last year, he said it was designed to protect the public by requiring social media companies to reveal their policies on hate speech, disinformation, harassment and extremism on their platforms, and report data on their enforcement of the policies.But the law’s true intent is “to pressure social media platforms to ‘eliminate’ certain constitutionally protected content viewed by the state as problematic,” according to the complaint.Advertisers have fled the platform since Musk bought it for $44 billion last year and started making changes, including reinstating formerly banned users and firi...