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Missouri man wanted for killing his mother in a fire found dead

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

MEXICO, Mo. -- An Audrain County man's body was found in a shed Sunday. Police identified him as Brandon Spears, 43 of Mexico, Missouri. He was wanted in connection with his mother's death and setting fires.Officers were called to the 1700 block of Fairground Road Sunday afternoon to investigate a body found. They found Spears's body in an unlocked shed in the back of some private property. He was identified through tattoos and clothing. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Daily News SIGN UP NOW A fire at an apartment building in the 1200 block of West Breckenridge on December 23 killed 60-year-old Ruth Ann Stuart. The victim in the fire was also the suspect's mother. He also appears to be a suspect in a second fire that evening at the Spartan Light Metals building.T...

'Free Cone Day' happening at Dairy Queen

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

ST. LOUIS - With spring officially kicking off later in the afternoon, Dairy Queen is giving locals free ice cream to treat themselves this season. Trending: Remains in Crawford County possibly of woman missing since 2014 Celebrate 'Free Cone Day' at any DQ location, and grab a small cone for free.

Is Nuggets forward Zeke Nnaji, back from shoulder injury, the answer to Denver’s bench unit?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

NEW YORK – Nuggets coach Michael Malone waffled and hedged before settling on a satisfying response.Asked on Sunday afternoon whether he was still in “search mode” when it came to Denver’s bench unit, Malone was as honest as he could be with 10 games left in the regular season.“I guess if I don’t know that means yes, right?” he said.But the veteran coach knows far more than he initially conceded. On Sunday, Denver’s bench included Bruce Brown, Jeff Green and Christian Braun, and featured the return of Zeke Nnaji, who hadn’t played in six weeks due to a shoulder injury. It also, briefly, included Reggie Jackson, who was called upon once Braun got in quick foul trouble.“That second unit (was) defensively, more athletic and versatile,” Malone said of Nnaji’s availability.Despite Denver’s 108-102 win, its second unit got outscored 36-15.The trade deadline additions of Thomas Bryant (DNP – coach’s decision) and Jackson have been largely ineffective, but Malone said he was compelled...

Editorial: Fund Denver Health like your life depends on it

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

Denver Health cannot fail.The safety-net hospital and regional Level 1 Trauma Center is in a dire financial position with the cost of providing care – especially for those with no means to pay — outstripping the revenue coming in.The state stepped up and has allocated $5 million in the 2023 budget to shore up Denver Health’s budget, but it is not enough.Providing life-saving care for those who cannot pay is a moral imperative. Denver Health not only saves lives with expert trauma care for car crash and gun violence victims, but the hospital is a last resort for uninsured individuals with chronic, treatable illnesses like homeless individuals or undocumented Coloradans with diabetes, renal failure or cancer.The City of Denver has long recognized the civic good of having a public hospital and has propped up the hospital’s operations with additional funding. Taxpayers may not realize the good of a publicly funded hospital until their moment of most dire need when their insurance ...

Colorado avalanche deaths rise to 9 after deadly weekend on the slopes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

Heavy wet snow in Colorado’s high mountain backcountry led to snow slides that caught six skiers since Friday, burying two, leading to two deaths – raising total avalanche fatalities in the state this past winter to nine.The latest fatality happened Sunday afternoon when a skier died in an avalanche near the Aspen Highlands Ski Resort – an avalanche about 200 feet wide that exploded from the upper face of a loaded slope downward 2,000 feet, according to a Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office statement.Two other skiers caught up in that avalanche managed to escape and were rescued, one by helicopter.On Friday in Gunnison County, Joel Shute, 36, a Glenwood Springs resident, was killed – buried in four feet of snow – after an avalanche in the Rapid Creek area near Marble, Gunnison County authorities said. Two others caught in that avalanche escaped, and one was able to hike out and get help, leading to a helicopter rescue.Avalanches this past winter have swept up a total of 18 people i...

LAUSD preparing for school closures amid imminent strike, but remain open to negotiations

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

Los Angeles Unified School District officials said they are preparing for the “unfortunate reality” of school closures amid an imminent workers strike, but indicated they remain open to a resolution.In a statement Sunday, the district said the outstanding issues posed from workers “could be resolved if both sides entered into good faith discussions between now and Tuesday,” when workers plan to begin a three-day strike.Service Employees International Union, Local 99, which represents about 30,000 teachers’ aides, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers and other support staff will be participating in the strike. United Teachers of Los Angeles, the union representing 34,000 LAUSD educators, plan to honor the picket lines.The potential strike would impact hundreds of thousands students at the nation’s second-largest school district and their families.Schools would be closed with limited student meals and academic plans.District officials said they are waiting on a state labor board...

2 arrested after Bell Gardens High School threat turns up weapons, ammunition

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

Two adults have been arrested after a social media threat against Bell Gardens High School led to the discovery of weapons and ammunition, according to police.Authorities were made aware of the social media post on Sunday and “were able to identify the suspect that had made the threat,” the Bell Gardens Police Department said in a news release.During their investigation and surveillance of the suspect, detectives saw two adults get into a vehicle.They conducted a traffic stop and searched the vehicle, locating two stolen firearms, body armor, high-capacity magazines and ammunition, police said. Both suspects, whose names were not released, were taken into custody without incident. It was unclear if they have any direct connection to the school.Bell Gardens High School is part of the Montebello Unified School District.“We continue to encourage our community to immediately report any information that poses a threat to the safety of others,” police said in a statement. “The Bell Garden...

Machete Madness with Brujeria

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

Machete Madness with Brujeria: Formed in Los Angeles in 1989, it wasn’t until ’97 that Brujeria played live — a one-off gig at the Whisky.  And then it was the fall of 2003 that they embarked on their first ever tour. They really did keep everyone waiting.Not that you’d know it, based on the live beast that is Brujeria 2023. The lineup has shifted over the years — extreme metal “names” from bands including Napalm Death, Carcass and Cradle of Filth have come and gone — but the brutality remains intact.The legend of Brujeria has been told plenty of times, but the basics are that the band was formed by musicians including Dino Cazares of Fear Factory, Bill Gould of Faith No More and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, with the aim of increasing Latino representation in metal. Not all of the band members were or are Latino, but their hearts were in the right place. The myth behind the facts was that Brujeria were drug dealing satanists, arm...

Meet Wishful, Wicked Painter Francesca Bifulco

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

Francesca Bifulco is a painter, mixed media, and multimedia artist from Pæstum, an ancient city in Southern Italy, where she was raised on a rather magical campground her family owned and operated — which explains a lot, actually. In her interdisciplinary work merging painting with sound, sculpture, video, and narrative histories — and now in a new exhibition of mixed media, sculptural paintings and installation called Candles Burning in the Wind — Bifulco is drawn to a fiery, visceral palette and an expressive, gestural manner of image-making. Capable of holding wit and curiosity alongside loss and trauma, Bifulco’s works process memories both personal and societal through the extrapolation of striking images and theatrical motifs. In this case, she considers the windswept, sharp-edged beauty of the palm tree, a non-native species that has come to all but define the city she now calls home. Inspired further by L.A. as a perennial muse to iconic rock ‘n rollers, the works are their ...

Sonoma winegarten: Kivelstadt Cellars and its al fresco restaurant reboot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:49 GMT

It is totally fitting that I learned about Kivelstadt Cellars from a chef.We were in the middle of a recipe testing party for her forthcoming plant-centric cookbook, and I was one of a dozen female food-industry professionals gathered in a cozy San Francisco kitchen to make Micah’s scrumptious dishes. She’d arranged a private tasting of Kivelstadt wines to wash everything down.A nibble of such-and-such hummus, a sip of zippy rosé and so forth. The wines went so well with the food that by the time we made it to the pinot noir, a restrained and elegant wine from Kivelstadt’s estate vineyard in Santa Rosa, I knew where I would be stopping on my next wine country weekend.A month later, my best friends and I pull into the gravel-covered parking lot of Kivelstadt Cellars & Winegarten off Highway 12 in Sonoma. Open since 2020, it’s a casual, completely outdoor tasting and restaurant venue with an approachable yet creative, California-centric seasonal menu and an...