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City aldermen addressing short-term rental regulations today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis aldermen are set to advance several important issues at their meeting Friday.Two bills would impose new rules for short-term rentals, including requiring owners to have a permit and requiring a minimum two-night stay. Aldermen will also advance a bill to put up steel barriers outside the railway express building downtown and charge the property owners. St. Louis youth football coach recovering after shooting, suspect charged That work is already underway. A new resolution being offered Friday would allow the city to hire retired police officers for part-time traffic duty.

Duck Donuts Friday the 13th & Halloween specials

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Friday the 13th only happens every 11 years in October. So to celebrate the rare spooky occasion, 'Duck Donuts' is offering a special one-day deal.If you buy a dozen donuts in-shop or online, you can get the 13th one free, as long as it doesn't have any premium toppings. Just use the code 'Friday-13' when ordering. St. Louis youth football coach recovering after shooting, suspect charged October at Duck Donuts also means the return of the 'Spooky Box.' It's filled with frightening donut combinations, such as maple bacon with raspberry or a chocolate donut with Oreos and gummy worms.Those are available until the end of the month.

Watch pasta being made in Denver restaurant’s cozy new room

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

In the first week of May this year, Restaurant Olivia had 10,000 people on its waitlist.“We have more people who want to dine with us than we have chairs to put them in,” said co-owner Austin Carson.Restaurant Olivia’s latest addition includes a private dining room with a 14-seat table. (Provided by Restaurant Olivia)To keep up with demand, the Michelin-recommended Italian restaurant, 290 S. Downing St., is doubling its dining capacity this month with the opening of a 1,200-square-foot addition next door.The addition will be the new main entrance for the restaurant. It will have a wine and amaro bar – reserved for walk-ins – six additional tables and a private dining room with an expansive table fit for 14 guests. Both will have a view into the restaurant’s open-concept pasta station, where chefs are making homemade pasta throughout the day before dinner service.Not only will Restaurant Olivia host private events, but Carson said they also plan to host wine education and pasta...

Denver area residents continue to pay a premium when it comes to inflation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

Inflation in metro Denver continues to run much hotter than the rest of the country, with energy prices a significant contributor to a stubborn gap that is denying area consumers the reprieve seen in other parts of the country.The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers in Denver-Aurora-Lakewood rose at a 5.4% annual pace, ahead of the U.S. city average rate of 3.7%, according to September CPI numbers the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Thursday.As was the case this summer, metro Denver continues to report some of the highest price increases in the country outside of Florida, where annual inflation is running at 7.8% in Miami and 6.7% in Tampa, according to the most recent CPI reports for those metro areas. Detroit is also higher at 5.9% and Seattle is tied with Denver at 5.4%.Energy is one area where metro Denver prices are diverging the most for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. Energy services, which include home electricity and natural gas costs, are up ...

Denver judge rules 14th Amendment lawsuit seeking to bar Trump from ballot can proceed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

Determining whether a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from Colorado’s ballot holds enough public benefit that a lawsuit seeking to bar him as a candidate can continue, a Denver judge ruled this week.A group of Colorado voters, backed by a liberal watchdog group, is arguing the 14th Amendment bars Trump from Colorado’s ballot. The amendment prohibits people from holding office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country. The lawsuit, filed by Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, cites Trump’s alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the nation’s Capitol, as meeting that bar.Trump’s lawyers argued in September that the lawsuit was an attempt to infringe on his First Amendment right to freedom of speech. They sought to dismiss the claim under a Colorado law aimed at protecting people from frivolous lawsuits for exercising that right.Without ruling on the merits of the case, ...

Colorado student suspensions increase to highest level in a decade

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

Colorado schools issued almost 97,000 suspensions to students during the last academic year, the most recorded in a decade, according to new state data.  Overall, suspensions and expulsions have rebounded statewide since children returned to their classrooms following the height of the pandemic, the Colorado Department of Education’s data shows. “It’s always alarming when we see an uptick in suspensions and/or expulsions because that means that we are not doing the most restorative approaches that we could be doing to keep kids in our classrooms,” said Auon’tai Anderson, vice president of Denver Public School’s Board of Education. Statewide, schools issued 96,948 in- and out-of-school suspensions during the 2022-23 academic year, a 16% increase from 2021-22, when the state reported 83,414 suspensions, according to the state data. Suspensions for alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, disobedience and detrimental behavior all rose last year, according to the data. The statewide suspensio...

Book reviews: A new Hercule Poirot novel and other mysteries

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

“After That Night,” by Karen Slaughter (William Morrow)“After That Night,” by Karen Slaughter (William Morrow)When a young woman dies in the ER after being raped, Dr. Sara Linton promises the victim she’ll find a way to bring the attacker to justice. The attack dredges up memories of Sara’s own rape 15 years earlier, and there are uncanny similarities.Three years later, at the trial of the woman’s accused rapist, his befuddled mother, Britt McAllister, confronts Sara, saying, “I can’t save the rest of them, but I can save my boy.” Britt is Sara’s medical school nemesis, part of a gang of interns whose leader is her husband. With the help of her fiancé, Will Trent, Sara investigates the members of the old gang in an attempt to uncover their horrifying secret. It’s a brutal story filled with arrogant, sexist physicians who are only too happy to make Sara relive her past terror.“Salt House Place,” by Jamie Lee Sogn (Lake Union)Delia is haunted by wha...

Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative deal with health care workers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

A tentative deal has been reached Friday morning between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions representing thousands of health care workers. More than 75,000 Kaiser workers took part in a 3-day strike last week to bring attention to what they called unfair labor practices and unfair working conditions that were affecting the quality of patient care.“We just can’t go on with this staffing crisis,” one worker preparing to picket outside the Kaiser hospital in North Hollywood last week.Part of the tentative deal included raises and renewed outsourcing and subcontracting protections, according to an email announcing the agreement. "We won this agreement by standing together and taking action," a portion of the email read. The agreement still needs to be ratified by a vote.

Large crowd, cars burning rubber takeover Rosemead shopping center

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

More than 100 people and several cars took over a Rosemead shopping center Thursday night.Sky5 was over the scene around 10:30 p.m. at the Rosemead Place Shopping Center just north of the 10 Freeway. A crowd gathers outside the Rosemead Place Shopping Center on Oct. 12, 2023. (KTLA)At one point, a crowd of people were standing around vehicles blocking the walkway and parking lot area outside an Ulta Beauty store. The vehicles were revving their engines, causing fire to come out of the exhausts. Teen arrested in fatal shooting of West Covina liquor store clerk Another vehicle was burning rubber in the parking lot, leaving skid marks on the roadway. There was no word on whether any arrests were made or citations given.

Danny O’Keefe Digs Little Richard

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:51:04 GMT

Danny O’Keefe Digs Little Richard: Songwriter extraordinaire Danny O’Keefe told us about his Little Richard experience.Danny O’Keefe: I was spending the summer of my thirteenth year in a small town on the Mississippi River called Lake City. It was where my aunt and uncle and my cousins lived. It was a magical place for me.I lived in a little town in Washington State situated on the Columbia River. I’d been listening to Bill Haley and the Comets; Fats Domino; Gene Vincent; Buddy Holly; and, of course Elvis. But it was Little Richard that got to me in the biggest way. The first time I heard “Long Tall Sally” he tore my head off. You couldn’t help but move when you heard it. I wasn’t even sure if I understood the lyrics: “Gonna tell Aunt Mary ‘bout Uncle John. Claims to have the misery but he has a lotta fun. Oh, baby!” And, yet, I did. Didn’t we all? Adolescent white kids yearning for something that would move us a sufficient distance off the square.We were walking d...