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Flood report: Mississippi River to crest on Thursday, St. Croix has crested

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

Good news on the flood front.The St. Croix River at Stillwater has crested, and is on its way down. The river reached 689.26 feet above sea level on Monday – its highest level this year – and is now steadily dropping. On Wednesday, it fell below major flood stage (689 feet above sea level) for the first time since Friday. According to the National Weather Service, it should drop almost a foot by May 3.“I’m hoping for a dryer forecast and keeping my fingers crossed,” Stillwater Mayor Ted Kozlowski said Wednesday. “At this rate, we could be back to around normal by Memorial Day.”This year’s flood was the seventh-highest crest on record at Stillwater since the National Weather Service started officially keeping track of river levels in the 1930s. In 2019, the river reached 688.48 feet above sea level; in 2001, it reached 691.10 feet above sea level.The Mississippi River is expected to crest at 18.3 feet on Thursday. On Wednesday, the river was at 18.07 feet; the...

Earth Night Out event happening in Troy

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Downtown Troy NY is putting together a community fundraiser event for April's Troy Night Out. The outing will feature a performance by Eli Soul Clap, and will take place on Friday April 28 from 8p.m. - 12a.m. at the Whiskey Pickle, located at 409 Fulton St, Troy, NY. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The conservation event is hosted by the Downtown Troy Business Improvement District alongside DJs for Climate Action, a non-profit organization and global community of musicians committed to climate justice. Ticket sales for the outing will go toward Downtown Troy B.I.D.'s beautification efforts for the area. “We believe in community and supporting our businesses by making Downtown Troy a clean, healthy, and beautiful place to live work and visit,” said Olivia Clemente, Executive Director of Downtown Troy B.I.D. "We will use the funds raised to form more cleanups, planting new life, and improving the ar...

Outdoor tennis back at SPORTIME after fire

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Tennis is back at SPORTIME Schenectady, after a fire damaged the facility earlier this month. It took a village to get members, like Steve Bomeisl, back on the court. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! "We're glad that they've taken it upon themselves to get to work right away and fix it up," said Bomeisl. "And get us all out here playing again." General Manager Sarah Sharpe told NEWS10 she's proud of that progress. "We're happy to kind of, officially, reopen as of today for outdoor play," she said. "The progress has been amazing." Simone’s Kitchen reopening Coxsackie location While the outside courts are open for business, inside is a different story. Workers from Quick Response are limited to what they can do. "Where the fire happened is still under investigation, so we can't actually work in that section of the building," explained Quick Response CEO Vincent Laurenzo, Jr. "So that's going to ca...

Push for min wage increase continues, amid budget deals

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) -- Some lawmakers have been pushing for a minimum wage increase to be included in the budget. One measure would raise it to $21.25 an hour by 2026.  The Governor's budget proposal did include indexing the minimum wage with inflation, but on Tuesday, she gestured support for a minimum wage increase to $17 an hour. Our Capitol Correspondent, Amal Tlaige spoke with lawmakers and has reaction from them. Hochul: Minimum wage should reflect inflation "I think that it’s outrageous, that she would think that we would be okay with a minimum wage that would essentially not cover the basic necessities for New Yorkers over the next few years," said Senator Jessica Ramos who is sponsoring the wage increase bill. She said $17 an hour still won’t cut it – some of her own constituents making $19 an hour are struggling to support their family. "It should well cover housing, groceries, and other basic necessities that every single New York State family has," she said. Ramos has...

Delivery driver dismembered in 'demonic' Florida murder

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

HOLIDAY, Fla. (WFLA) — A man affiliated with the MS-13 gang is accused of murdering an Uber Eats driver who was delivering to his house in Holiday, Florida. The driver "was a guy like everybody else, just trying to make a living for his family," said Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Oscar Adrian Solis, 30 (Pasco County Sheriff's Office)During a news conference on April 25, Nocco said the driver was reported missing on April 19 after he abruptly stopped answering his wife's texts. The driver, who has not been identified, was last heard from at around 6:30 p.m., according to the sheriff's office. He told his wife he had one last delivery to make before heading home, but he vanished.Uber Eats provided detectives with the driver's last known location, a house in the 3400 block of Moog Road. The sheriff's office said one of the occupants of the home was Oscar Adrian Solis, 30, a convicted fe...

Rangers hike to retrieve tagged moose corpse

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

ADIRONDACK PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Some animals in the Adirondacks are fitted with GPS collars, for conservation and tracking purposes. When a tagged animal dies, its body is extracted so that Department of Environmental Conservation officials can understand what happened to it - for the better protection of the moose population at large. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Earlier this month, one such extraction took place. On April 6, a collar placed on a moose in 2022 gave off a signal indicating that the animal had died. DEC wildlife employees and state forest rangers embarked into a deeply-forested part of the Adirondacks to find the moose.The expedition to find the moose took place while there was still a large amount of snow on the mountains in the Adirondacks. The teams were able to get within 500 yards of the signal by snowmobile and UTV travel. From there, it was a trek through as much as three feet of snow. The decease...

Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops' meeting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops. The historic reform reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Francis approved changes to the norms governing the Synod of Bishops, a Vatican body that gathers the world’s bishops together for periodic meetings, following years of demands by women to have the right to vote. The Vatican on Wednesday published the modifications he approved, which emphasize his vision for the lay faithful taking on a greater role in church affairs that have long been left to clerics, bishops and cardinals.Catholic women’s groups that have long criticized the Vatican for treating women as second-class citizens immediately praised the move as historic in the 2,000-year life of the church. “This is a significant crack i...

Infant dies from head injuries in Belleville; mother charged with murder

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A woman is behind bars after her child died from apparent head injuries earlier this month in Belleville. Prosecutors have charged the infant's mother, 25-year-old Peanina Porter, with first-degree murder, child endangerment and obstructing justice in the case. Top Story: Mushroom hunter describes discovering body in the woods According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Porter's seven-month-old son died around April 21 due to "craniocerebral injuries." It's unclear what exactly led up to the child's death, but court documents state that Porter acted "without lawful justification" and "Created a strong probability of death or great bodily harm" to her son. Authorities arrested Porter without incident on April 24. She is jailed in St. Clair County on a $1 million bond. The case will also be prosecuted in St. Clair County.

'A hot mess': Mayor slams proposals for state control of St. Louis police

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Mayor Tishaura Jones hasn't changed her stance against state control of St. Louis police, and she made that clear during Tuesday's State of the City address. "We have been vocal about what we need to improve public safety, and a state takeover of [the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department] isn’t it," said Jones during Tuesday's address. "We have 99 problems, and the state stepping in and taking over our criminal justice system ain’t one." The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has operated under the control of the mayor’s office for nearly a decade after approval from voters in 2012. For more than 150 years before that, the agency operated under a police board rather than local control. Top Story: Mushroom hunter describes discovering body in the woods With the end of Missouri's legislative session is drawing closer, it seems some lawmakers are still pressing hard for St. Louis City to return to its previous system. One bill from St. Louis County-based lawmake...

Ski area food truck to operate next to shuttered Echo Lake Lodge this summer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:32:40 GMT

The dining scene at Echo Lake Park will look a little different this summer.For decades, the Denver-owned park in Clear Creek County has been home to Echo Lake Lodge, a restaurant and gift shop operating in the summer, when tourists flock to the area to drive to the summit of Mount Evans.That restaurant will not be open this summer, however, because Denver last year opted not to renew the concessionaire contract with the family that had operated the business for 57 years.There will, however, be a food truck.On Monday, the Denver City Council without discussion approved a contract with nearby ski area Echo Mountain to operate the truck on the northwest side of the lodge.Echo Mountain will pay the city $125 a week, plus 11 percent of revenue, according to the contract. The truck is expected to operate at least 14 weeks. The city considers food and beverage service “important given the remote location of the Park and the absence of services in the area,” according to a document prepare...