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Task Force formed following deadly Amazon warehouse collapse meets for first time

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – The Illinois Warehouse Safety Standards Task Force was formed earlier this year. It was created in response to the deadly tornado that killed six people in December 2021 at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville.On Dec. 11, 2021, Carla Cope’s family was changed forever. Her son, Clayton, was one of six people killed when an EF-3 tornado struck the 650,000 square-foot building. On Tuesday, Carla addressed the Illinois Warehouse Safety Standards Task Force during its first meeting on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus.“I hope our participation is helpful to the task force. We’d like to stay involved as much as we can to help things move forward,” she said. “It’s very important for us after losing our son that no one else loses theirs.”The task force includes members from labor unions, organizations representing warehouse workers, manufacturers, retail merchants and local and state politicians. Among them, Illinois State Representative Katie Stuart.“...

Community Advisory Group discuss cleanup efforts and next step for Westlake landfill

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

BRIDGETON, Mo. - The Westlake Community Advisory Group held a meeting in Bridgeton to discuss the cleanup process and answer questions."There are documents that show that there were spills; there are documents that show that this waste wasn’t cleaned up properly," said Karen Nickel, chair of the Westlake Community Advisory Group. "There are ongoing documents; there are documents that go back to 1949."People expressed their anger at Tuesday's meeting with the group and asked questions of the elected officials attended. Neighbor recalls moment house exploded in St. Charles "We want guarantees that the Department of Energy will pay for all of this, and we want some kind of health monitoring screenings, treatment, compensation for all of those who were exposed and hurt," Nickel said.Officials with the group said there is one other piece of legislation that is similar to Westlake, which is in Fernald, Ohio, where residents who were living near a nuclear weapons site received compensati...

Rockies relievers humble Astros in 4-3 victory at Coors Field

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. You can ask the Rockies about that.With their starting rotation racked by injuries, the Rockies were forced to use a bullpen game Tuesday night at Coors Field. A sextet of relievers blanked the Astros for eight innings in Colorado’s 4-3 victory.The six: Tommy Doyle, lefty Fernando Abad, Gavin Hollowell, Pierce Johnson, Daniel Bard and closer Justin Lawrence. Lawrence set the Astros down in order in the ninth for his sixth save.Colorado snapped a four-game losing streak to the Astros, who had won eight of the last 10 games entering Tuesday night.Rookie shortstop Ezequiel Tovar, who’s proven worthy of all of the preseason hype, drove in the winning run with a two-out triple off the center-field wall. Tovar drove in C.J. Cron, who reached first when Houston starter Hunter Brown plunked him to open the inning.Colorado is on a nice roll. It has won three of four games since the All-Star breaking, having taken two...

City investigating after trees cut near Universal property on strike day

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

The Los Angeles City Controller's Office is investigating after several trees were cut near Universal Studios property on a day when writers, actors and other film industry union workers were set to picket during ongoing labor disputes.The trees were apparently cut some time over the weekend ahead of Monday's renewed picket lines near Universal property, igniting concerns and theories about whether or not the trees were cut intentionally in an attempt to discourage protests during 90-degree heat.The City of Los Angeles is investigating after trees were cut near Universal Studios property on the weekend of July 15, 2023. (Los Angeles City Controller's Office)On Tuesday, Kenneth Mejia, the Los Angeles City Controller, announced that his office would be investigating the cutting of the trees.The trees are managed by the city, Mejia said, and are "essential to providing Angelenos with significant environmental and public health benefits, especially during a heatwave."The city's public w...

Fourth bus carrying migrants from Texas arrives in Los Angeles 

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

A fourth bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Los Angeles Tuesday night.The bus left Brownsville, Texas on Monday at 4:25 p.m. local time and arrived at Union Station around 6:30 p.m.The 45 asylum seekers are from various countries including Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Venezuela, according to The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).The bus included 37 adults and 8 children with the largest group of migrants — 23 people — hailing from Venezuela. The arriving migrants will be connected with loved ones or sponsors across Southern California and beyond including Tustin, Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Bernardino, the Inland Empire, San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Washington. Those arriving were welcomed inside St. Anthony Croatian Catholic Church to rest while food, hygiene kits, clothing, consultations with legal immigration attorneys and guidance on legal resources were being offered by CHIRLA.A fourth bus ca...

MICHELIN 2023 RESULTS: Which restaurants won stars, which lost them?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

The Michelin Guide International on Tuesday night solidified California’s reputation as a dining mecca, reaffirming all six of the state’s three-star restaurants and all 12 two-star restaurants and praising hundreds of others for impressive cuisine, affordable meals or high sustainability standards.At the live star ceremony — held, appropriately, in the planetarium at Oakland’s Chabot Space & Science Center — six restaurants joined Michelin at the one-star level: Nari and Aphotic, both in San Francisco, Auro in Calistoga, Chez Noir in Carmel and Southern California’s Heritage and Valle.“These are truly world-class establishments serving outstanding cuisine,” Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guides, said about the six restaurants in a statement issued before the event. “In addition, our inspectors found four restaurant teams worthy of the Michelin Green Star. These establishments — and the Golde...

Tent fire causes loud explosions near Embarcadero

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A loud explosion could be heard in Downtown San Francisco just after 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening. The cause of the explosion appeared to be a tent fire at Front Street and Green Street. A tent set up right outside @kron4news station exploded in flames minutes ago. From our newsroom we heard half a dozen loud “pops” as more explosions ignited from the tent. It does not appear that anyone was inside the tent. @SFPD is at the scene pic.twitter.com/UzYEj54eO6— Amy Larson (@AmyLarson25) July 19, 2023Police responded to the fire swiftly, followed by fire units. After the first large explosion, several other pops could be heard. The tent was burned to the ground. Firefighters raked through the ashes.KRON4 is awaiting a response from officials regarding what caused the fire. This is a developing story. Stick with KRON4 for updates.

Women’s World Cup player payments will be distributed by federations

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

FIFA President Gianni Infantino could make no guarantee Wednesday that the member federations will distribute the $30,000 payments promised to every player at the Women’s World Cup. He said at a news conference ahead of the tournament opener that he’s engaging with member federations on the issue. The payments are made the individual federations, which are expected to pay the players. But there is no mechanism to directly pay the players the money, which could be life-changing for some. “We are moving of course in the right direction, we have been consulting with associations, with players, to try to go in the right path,” Infantino said. “We have issued these recommendations, but we have an association of associations. So whatever payments we do, we will through the associations and then the associations will, of course, make the relevant payments to their own players. We are in touch with all the associations.”FIFA had previously confirmed that the 732 players particip...

Ezequiel Tovar and the bullpen lead Rockies to 4-3 win over Astros

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Ezequiel Tovar lined a go-ahead triple in the fourth and the Rockies beat the Houston Astros 4-3 on Tuesday night in a bullpen game where Colorado used seven pitchers. This had all the hallmarks of a high-scoring Coors Field affair when it was 3-3 after the first inning. But the pitching took over and the only run allowed after the early fireworks was courtesy of Tovar, who lined a shot off the fence in right-center to score C.J. Cron.Reliever Jake Bird was roughed up for three runs as he opened the game on the mound for the Rockies. From there, the bullpen surrendered just five hits. Fernando Abad (1-0) earned the win by recording four outs. Justin Lawrence picked up save No. 6 with a perfect ninth. The Astros finished 2 for 11 with runners in scoring position and hit into two double plays.Kris Bryant and Ryan McMahon provided the offensive pop in the first with back-to-back homers off Hunter Brown (6-7). Brown settled down after a rocky start and lasted 5 1/3 solid i...

Juan Soto hits 2-run homer, Joe Musgrove wins 8th straight decision as Padres beat Blue Jays 9-1

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:07:36 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Juan Soto hit a two-run homer, Joe Musgrove pitched six sharp innings to win his eighth straight decision and the San Diego Padres beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-1 Tuesday night.Manny Machado, Gary Sánchez and Trent Grisham each hit solo homers for the Padres, who ended a three-game skid.“We’ve just got to be consistent,” Soto said. “It’s been like that the whole year. We have games like this and then we come back and we don’t do anything. We’ve just got to keep the same pace every day.”Musgrove (9-2) allowed one run and five hits. He walked one and struck out seven.Musgrove said he felt a slight strain in his left adductor early in the game but was able to continue.“We monitored it pretty good,” Musgrove said. “I don’t think it’s going to limit anything. I plan on doing everything normal tomorrow.”Musgrove is 8-0 with a 1.76 ERA in his past 10 starts. He’s struck out 61 batters over 61 1/3 innings in that stretch.“He’s just a tough guy and he knows he needs to be there...