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For sale: Eccentric Fenton home hidden behind quaint exterior

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

FENTON, Mo. - If you walked or drove past 801 Bowles Avenue in Fenton, Missouri, you might steal a quick glance at the picturesque exterior and go about your day. The large front yard, the white siding, the bull-nosed gable roof, and the charming porch with its bright-red front door. Like something out of a collection of Norman Rockwell artwork.But beyond the quaint facade lies an explosion of colors and shapes, as it plucked out of a fever dream from the mind of film director Tim Burton. The home was built in 1960 but has been tweaked, updated, and upgraded over the last 30 years. It has three bedrooms and two full bathrooms, one of which is a floor-to-ceiling mosaic.Courtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy: Vils PhotographyCourtesy...

Watch Missouri peregrine falcon chicks hatch and grow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- For the 11th year, Ameren Missouri's camera gives people a look at peregrine falcon chicks emerging from their eggs. This year the nesting box is in Franklin County.The live stream, a partnership with the World Bird Sanctuary and The Missouri Department of Conservation, Is intended to give viewers the chance to witness the development of peregrine chicks each year, while also promoting peregrine falcon conservation efforts.You can see the camera here.

FOX street team in St. Louis Wednesday for Gordon Ramsay cash game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars premieres Wednesday on FOX 2. A street team from the network will be in St. Louis to promote the new show and to hand out chances to win up to $2,500. They will be visiting the Delmar Loop, Ballpark Village, Lafayette Square, and more high traffic areas.The team from FOX will be handing out $250,000 in Gordon Ramsay "bills." The funny money is your pass to play a game for real cash. The back side of the bill has a QR code that takes you to a website to play an augmented reality game. Use your phone to stack virtual cash for a chance to win real money. St. Louis County man charged after crashing truck near the White House Ramsay steps into the world of business in this FOX show, putting food and drink industry entrepreneurs through a series of challenges. The contestants aim to impress Ramsay and secure a personal investment of $250,000.Ramsay, alongside guest judges and focus groups, evaluates the participants' progress as they tackle vario...

Here’s where to get your Denver Nuggets Western Conference Championship gear

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

Champions should look the part and Nuggets nation is gearing up.On Monday night, Nuggets splashed NBA Finals gear, shirts and hats on the home floor of the Los Angeles Lakers after clinching the Western Conference finals with a four-game sweep of the series. It’s the first Western Conference title in Nuggets’ history and the first time Denver advances to the league championship series.Related ArticlesSports | Roger Murray basks in Jamal Murray’s last-second stop on LeBron James: “This is part of his dream” Sports | Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic made NBA playoff history. And then he worked some more. Sports | PHOTOS: Denver Nuggets sweep Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Western Conference Finals Sports | LeBron James lauds Nikola Jokic’s basketball IQ after Nuggets sweep Lakers: “He sees plays before they happen” Sports | Keeler: “I haven’t had this good a day in...

Disneyland's ‘Fantasmic!’ show put on hiatus throughout summer after dragon prop catches on fire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

Performances for Disneyland’s popular nighttime show, “Fantasmic!,” will be paused through at least Labor Day, theme park officials announced.A similar announcement was also posted on the theme park website.Nightly show performances were abruptly halted after a fire destroyed the dragon prop during a performance on April 22.Before the most recent announcement, officials stated that the show would remain on a hiatus through at least May 14. All previously scheduled show performances have also been removed from the official Disneyland app. Walt Disney Co. expected to cut more than 2,500 jobs during third round of layoffs The fire, which caused the nighttime show to go on hiatus, broke out during the show’s finale on April 22, sparking first from the Maleficent dragon prop’s face before spreading to the rest of its body, photos from the scene showed.This photo courtesy of Shawna Bell shows a fire during the “Fantasmic!" show in the Tom Sawyer Island section of Disneyland resort in A...

An Essential Artist: Narsiso Martinez Layers Farmworkers Over Industry

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

I did not expect to hear John Steinbeck’s voice in my head on the one-and-half-hour drive from Los Angeles to Long Beach, California, but on it droned. Even if one concedes that Elon Musk’s supremely speedy 2022 Tesla Model X makes for an oddly fitting DeLorean time machine (0-to-60 in 2.5 seconds), it’s still an unlikely conveyance in which to receive unredeemed histories of human exploitation and ancient claims to California’s once storied land of plenty: John Sutter’s mill, where gold was actually discovered in 1848, and other family deeds, which, over the centuries, might have seen green fields and citrus orchards turned into miles of parking lots and strip malls.Yet the voice came, like mid-morning traffic streaming across U.S. 101, resembling the speech Steinbeck used to accept his 1962 Nobel Prize. Fuzzily remembered as a goateed, tuxedoed figure in a YouTube video, the legendary author’s disembodied croak channeled lines from The Grapes of Wrath (1939), his most famous novel...

Thinking of moving to Florida? Here are 5 ways hurricanes will increase your living expenses

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

By Leslie Kaufman and Tim Quinson | BloombergThe US hurricane season officially kicks off next week, and no other place in the country is more vulnerable to storm-related damage than Florida, the fastest-growing state in the nation. Last year, Hurricane Ian battered the state, killing almost 150 people and costing insurers roughly $63 billion.Florida has an outsize susceptibility to climate events, with damages equaling almost 4% of the state’s annual gross domestic product since 2017, said Andrew John Stevenson, senior ESG climate analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Last year, Hurricane Ian resulted in a more than 10% hit to the economy when totaling up all of the property destruction, infrastructure spending and power outages, he said.With the climate crisis resulting in increasingly more dangerous storms, the residents of the Sunshine State are left with higher costs in the form of indirect and direct insurance payments.Here are five ways that climate change is costing Floridians ...

Who’s behind the attacks in Russian region near Ukraine?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

By Dasha Litvinova, Yuras Karmanau and Hanna Arhirova | Associated PressTALLINN, Estonia — Russia alleges that dozens of Ukrainian militants crossed into one of its border towns in its Belgorod region, striking targets and forcing an evacuation, before over 70 of the attackers were killed or pushed back by what the authorities termed a counterterrorism operation.Ukraine denied any involvement in the skirmishes Monday and Tuesday, instead blaming two Russian groups that claim to be volunteers fighting alongside Kyiv’s forces in an uprising against the government of President Vladimir Putin.While neither version could be independently verified, whatever happened appears to have sent Moscow scrambling to respond to one of the most serious border incursions since Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said an elderly woman died in the chaotic evacuation, and 12 people were wounded in the attack and shelling. As fighting there appar...

Police: Man shoots roommate for eating last Hot Pocket

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

By Matthew Keck | WLKY via CNNLOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — A man was shot over the weekend in Louisville, and police say it was over a Hot Pocket.The Louisville Metro Police Department arrested 64-year-old Clifton Williams on Sunday after they said he shot his roommate following an argument in the Wyandotte neighborhood.Police said that Williams’ roommate had eaten the last Hot Pocket, so he started throwing tiles at him.Arrest slips say that the roommate tried to leave, but Williams went inside and got a gun. The man was then shot in the buttocks as he was trying to leave, according to police.The victim traveled a few blocks to get help and was taken to UofL Hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.Williams is being charged with assault, has been ordered not to have contact with the victim. His bond was set at $7,500.

SeaWorld San Diego says goodbye to Big Bird, Elmo and the Sesame Street gang

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:20 GMT

Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are saying farewell to SeaWorld San Diego as the children’s television characters make the move south to their new permanent home at Sesame Place San Diego.The Rescue Jr. kids play area will replace the former Sesame Street Bay of Play when the new themed land opens later this spring at SeaWorld San Diego.The new play area for young children will combine fun and education as kids learn about SeaWorld’s animal rescue and rehabilitation efforts while enjoying rescue-themed rides, climbing structures and splash pad play areas.The new Rescue Jr. kiddie land at SeaWorld San Diego will include:Rescue Bay Splash Zone – Splash pad water play area with the Rescue 1 boat docked in a shallow-water rescue training ground.Rescue Training Obstacle Course – Dry play area including the Nautical Net Climb with swaying net bridges and suspended tunnels, Breakwater Bounce with an inflated airbag floor and Tadpole Play soft play area.Rescue Jr. Play Y...