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Radio's 'King of the Oldies' Dick Biondi passes away

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

Dick Biondi, Chicago's AM radio "King of the Oldies" has passed away.Throughout the ‘60s, he helped introduce much of the U.S. and Canada to rock and roll with stints at Chicago’s two AM Top-40 stations, WLS and WCFL.RIP to one of my first radio idols, @DickBiondi. He died June 26th at age 90 after decades of entertaining Chicago. Robert Feder provides the best coverage of his life and impact. https://t.co/eNmeGbSXph@WGNTV @WGNMorningNews @WGNRadio— DeanRichards (@DeanRichards) July 2, 2023In 1984 his signature voice helped launch oldies station WJMK where he stayed until 2005.He finished his career spinning golden oldies and classic rock at WLSHe passed away Monday at the age of 90.

France has a 5th night of rioting over teen's killing by police amid signs of subsiding violence

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Young rioters clashed with police into early Sunday and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car, injuring members of his family, as France saw a fifth night of unrest after the police killing of a teenager. Overall violence, however, appeared to lessen from previous nights.Police made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday following a mass security deployment aimed at quelling France’s worst social upheaval in years. The crisis posed a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership and exposed deep-seated discontent in low-income neighborhoods over discrimination and lack of opportunity. The 17-year-old whose death Tuesday spawned the anger was laid to rest Saturday in a Muslim ceremony in Nanterre, a Paris suburb where emotions over his loss remain raw. He has been identified publicly only by his first name, Nahel.As night fell Saturday, a small crowd gathered on the Champs-Elysees to protest his death and police violence but met hundreds of officers with b...

Low rain chances during the week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Afternoon showers and thunderstorms Saturday deposited some moderate to heavy rain in parts of the Hill Country. Two reporting stations measured more than one inch of rain. A gauge 4 miles north of Doss recorded 2.56" of rain. A gauge 17 miles southeast of Mason measured 1.22". CENTRAL TEXAS RAINFALL TOTALS Rain moved into the southern Hill Country overnight. There were a few brief pockets of moderate to heavy rain over parts of Blanco, Burnet, and Lampasas Counties. Overall, there will be a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms today. Low rain chances will continue to be part of the forecast Monday and Tuesday. Low rain chances Wednesday become a little more numerous Thursday due to an increase in moisture from the sea breeze, moisture that moves in from the Gulf of Mexico.Highest rain chance comes ThursdayCamp Mabry's high Saturday was 102°, two degrees shy of the normal. It's the 16th day this season with that triple-digit high. Most highs today will reach th...

Man sentenced to 10 years for 2020 fatal San Marcos crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man pleaded guilty to three charges in connection with a 2020 crash in San Marcos that left one person dead. Kyle Nissen, 33, pleaded guilty in April to three charges: intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault with serious bodily injury. His plea bargain had a sentence of 10 years in prison, which began April 19. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Man turns himself in, charged with intoxication manslaughter after deadly San Marcos crash In 2020, Nissen was charged after he was involved in a multi-car crash in San Marcos where 61-year-old David Hollinbeck of San Antonio died, according to San Marcos police. According to police reports, before hitting the first car, Nissen was going about 40 miles per hour over the speed limit of 55, and his blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit.Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate records show Nissen is projected to be released in November 2027 with parole eligibility starting in June 2024.

Streaming is in the ascendance. But movie theaters are not going to go quietly

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

LOS ANGELES — Want proof of the old adage that timing is everything? Just ask film distributors.At a moment when streaming has elevated TV in the cultural conversation and brought countless entertainment options to consumers’ fingertips, movies have faced a much cloudier picture — and the timing of their move from theaters to home video platforms, known as “windowing,” has never been more in flux.Companies like Warner Bros. Discovery have changed their attitudes about the divide between the theatrical and streaming after a period of experimentation necessitated in part by the COVID-19 pandemic closing theaters. At CinemaCon in April, Chief Executive David Zaslav said, “We believe in full windowing of the motion pictures. We do not want to do direct-to-streaming movies.” This was a hearty reversal from the strategy when Warner Bros. was owned by AT&T and set out to put all of its movies on its streaming service at the same time as in theaters.The cha...

Major damage in Collinsville, Illinois after Saturday night storms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Crews are working to clean up Collinsville and many other St. Louis-area communities after Saturday night's severe storms. Storms packed lightning, heavy rain, hail and gusts as high as 70 mph Saturday in Missouri and Illinois. At least one tornado warning was issued in Washington County, Illinois. The severe storms and strong winds lifted the roof off the old 'Home Furniture' store in Collinsville. The top of the building was thrown across Main Street. A crane later came in to pick it up. The tin roof a gym connected to St. Peter and Paul Church was also ripped off by the storms. Woman inside car killed in St. Louis after tree falls during storms Tim Foshee sent FOX 2 a few images of storm damage in Collinsville, showing a large Route 66 sign that was also damaged and a nearby building that appears flattened. Tim Foshee sent FOX 2 a few images of storm damage in Collinsville from July 1, 2023.Tim Foshee sent FOX 2 a few images of storm damage in Collinsville ...

Police investigating 3 men killed in 6-hour span

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis City Police are investigating three shootings that happened in a 6-hour span.Officers shared that two men were shot and killed around 8:00 p.m. Saturday. It happened inside a home on Carr Street just off Lindenwood Avenue. Woman inside car killed in St. Louis after tree falls during storms Then around 4:00 a.m., a man was shot multiple times. EMS took that victim to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.Homicide detectives are handling both crime scenes. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

What to expect on I-70 in the mountains as five years of major construction begins

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

Colorado’s next major highway undertaking kicks off this week as crews begin work on the $700 million reconstruction of Interstate 70 in the mountains — a project aimed at eliminating the Floyd Hill bottleneck and improving safety through a notorious eight-mile stretch.Much of the most intensive work over the next five years or so will occur off the highway. But the Colorado Department of Transporation says drivers traveling I-70 between the top of Floyd Hill and Idaho Springs still can expect lower speed limits, narrowed lanes and traffic shifts, along with some daytime traffic holds and overnight closures.The project technically broke ground last fall with the start of several associated off-highway projects, including the first of two wildlife crossings outside the project zone and new roundabouts on a frontage road.But now comes the main event. Soon CDOT’s contractors will begin rock blasting to make more room, and in coming years they’ll construct a 7,00...

3 years after Colorado’s landmark police accountability bill, what’s changed? And has push for further reform slowed?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

Three years after the passage of Colorado’s landmark police accountability bill, officers have been convicted under new laws, a statewide database of officers’ misconduct is publicly available and body camera footage is more readily accessible.The bill’s final implementation deadline passed Saturday, and lawmakers, law enforcement and advocates are now grappling with a changed political ecosystem around police and criminal justice reform and deciding what’s next.“We know we haven’t solved all ills with one bill or two bills,” said Rep. Leslie Herod, a Denver Democrat who co-sponsored the bill in 2020. “And we never will, to be honest with you. But we have to keep moving forward on the progress.”Lawmakers who worked on the bill praised it as instrumental in reforming policing in Colorado while serving as a foundation for subsequent policy changes. Law enforcement leaders, meanwhile, contend the bill has made it more difficult to recruit and retain officers amid an increase in s...

Love jazz all over again with new boxed sets by Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:47:26 GMT

Just about everything in the music business comes back around at some point. Repackaging and reissues are profitable for the industry, particularly when record labels own the recordings from an artist’s catalog. It’s safe to assume landmark albums from the giants of jazz will reappear over and over, presenting sounds to new generations.Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums (Craft Recordings)And I’m thankful for that. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reacquainted with some of the recordings that led me down this endlessly joyous path of music appreciation.The 1957 Sonny Rollins release “Way Out West” was one of the first jazz albums I ever shelled out for from my hard-earned Burger King money as an teenager in the ’80s. The cover image of tenor saxophonist Rollins standing in the desert, wearing a ten-gallon cowboy hat, impressed me enough to take the leap. The music on the LP was exciting, inspired and seemingly limitless in its invention. I’ve gifted copies of the a...