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BJC Healthcare formalizes merger plans with KC-based St. Luke’s Health System

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare and Kansas City-based Saint Luke’s Health System will soon officially merge to form an integrated Missouri-based health system.The two healthcare entities announced a "definitive agreement" on Tuesday to formalize merger plans. A key transaction is expected to close at the start of the 2024 calendar year, and the integrated health system could become a reality soon after. U.S. Steel idles steelmaking at Granite City Works ‘indefinitely’ According to a news release, BJC and Saint Luke’s will form a patient-centric integrated healthcare system to offer advanced, emerging, and innovative models of care. The hope is to improve access, affordability, and the quality of care offered to patients.BJC and Saint Luke's share around $10 billion in revenue with 28 hospitals that serve hundreds of clients. “This is an exciting day for the future of health care in the Midwest,” said BJC President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Liekweg. ...

Pedestrian struck, killed in Jefferson County crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - A driver fatally struck a pedestrian Tuesday evening in Jefferson County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.MSHP has identified Christoper Kelch, 22, as the victim of the crash. Next of kin have been notified. The crash happened on U.S. Route 61 near Cedar Drive. U.S. Steel idles steelmaking at Granite City Works ‘indefinitely’ A MSHP crash report states that a driver was heading southbound on U.S. 61 when Kelch was in the roadway. The driver struck Kelch. Investigators have not disclosed any other details on what led up to the crash. MSHP Troop C, which covers most of the St. Louis region, is investigating the crash.

Broomfield man who fatally stabbed intruder will not be charged, DA says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

The man who in October fatally stabbed an intruder who tied him and his daughter to a bedpost will not face charges, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release.On Oct. 11, 2023, a homeowner in the 3900 block of Cambridge Avenue in Broomfield stabbed and killed Trenton Hansen, who had entered the home through an open garage door, according to the news release.“Based on the evidence and a thorough investigation, it is clear that the occupants of the home (in the 3900 block of Cambridge Avenue) are immune from criminal prosecution,” the news release states.After he entered the house, Hansen told the homeowner and his adult daughter he had a gun and had killed before, then he tied the man and woman to a bedpost using duct tape.Hansen found the homeowner’s 9mm handgun and fired a round at the wall “to show he was serious,” according to the news release, then he found a large butcher knife and stabbed the mattress.Hansen th...

Student dispute prompts teachers to call in sick at elementary school in Compton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

A dispute over a student apparently prompted teachers at Emerson Elementary School in Compton to call in sick in support of their principal Tuesday.Compton Unified School District officials confirmed the principal and teachers all called out sick but said they did not know why. A substitute teacher is seen at Emerson Elementary School in Compton on Nov. 28, 2023. (KTLA)Someone who thinks they know the answer told KTLA reporter Mary Beth McDade that a boy pointed a BB gun at her young cousin two months ago.She said one boy brought the BB gun to school and another pointed it at her cousin's head. "He was playing with a little girl or something and another boy walked up behind him and put it up to his head,” the woman said.She told KTLA that both middle school-aged boys were disciplined but one returned to campus Monday. “The teacher doesn’t want him here, the principal doesn’t want him here,” she said.  Parents said that when the boy returned with his mother on Monday, the mother bera...

Is NameDrop really a privacy threat? The truth revealed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

Over the weekend, law enforcement agencies around the country started posting security warnings about a new iPhone feature called NameDrop, and how it could potentially share your contact information just by bringing two iPhones close together.The posts encouraged users to turn the feature off to protect their privacy, insinuating that a stranger could collect your data just by getting near your phone.Turns out, it's just not true.In my extensive testing of the feature, I figured out exactly how it works. Read on to understand it and determine if you want to turn it off.Follow Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro on Instagram for more tech news, tips and reviews.I was there as Apple announced the feature to much fanfare at its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference in June 2023."This year we’re expanding how you can use AirDrop to share in all new ways starting with how you swap your number with someone new," started Apple executive and engineer Craig Federighi."With NameDrop, you can just br...

The keffiyeh explained: How this scarf became a Palestinian national symbol

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

By Zoe Sottile | CNNOver the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, two of them while wearing keffiyehs, in a crime their families have said was “fueled by hate.”Although keffiyehs are worn across the Middle East, in recent decades they have come to be identified in particular as a symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance. At pro-Palestinian protests across the world amid the Israel-Hamas war, demonstrators have sported the scarves around their necks or used them to cover their faces.Originally worn by shepherds and nomadic farmers, the keffiyeh “has become an iconic piece of clothing globally worn by anti-colonialist revolutionaries, activists, and the like, while still worn in the traditional headwear fashion by elders and farmers,” said Majeed Malhas, a Palestinian-Canadian journalist and PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Toronto.What is a keffiyeh?Palestinians seen at a polling station in the West Bank town of...

Bay Area News Group high school football predictions: Week 15, 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

Welcome back to our all-in-fun high school football picks competition.With two weeks to go, red-hot Mike Lefkow has made up some ground but is still going to need a miracle finish to catch me in the season standings.It’s not going to happen this week because he and I picked the same teams in seven of the eight games on our NorCal regional card. He trails by seven games.But Lefkow did prevail in our pick-the-section-champions sidebar.He had Serra, Los Gatos, De La Salle, Pittsburg, El Cerrito, Marin Catholic and Acalanes winning section titles, which they all did.I probably should have reviewed my notes. I picked Acalanes to win the North Coast Section Division IV championship, too, but three weeks later had San Marin beating Acalanes in the final.Oh well.Joseph Dycus and I, by the way, picked the correct section champions in six of 14 divisions.In this week’s video, we discuss what the fresh data says about the differences between the Central Coast Section and NCS playof...

UC Berkeley, law school sued over ‘unchecked’ antisemitism

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

By David Voreacos | BloombergTwo Jewish groups sued the University of California at Berkeley and its law school over the “longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism” they say has escalated since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.UC Berkeley and the law school have “failed to confront, much less combat, the antisemitic environment their inaction has fostered,” according to the complaint. It was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by the Louis D. Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, or JAFE.At the law school, at least 23 student organizations have enacted policies to “discriminate against and exclude Jewish students, faculty and scholars,” the groups said. They claim the university’s leaders have flouted UC rules and US law and “enabled the normalization of anti-Jewish hatred on campus.”Dan Mogulof, an assistant vice chancellor at Berkeley, said in a statement that the university “has long been committed to confronting antisemitism and to ...

SF Giants should be center of attention at next week’s MLB Winter Meetings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

About this time last year, Bob Melvin gussied himself up in a black blazer, took a seat at one of two tables set up in a nondescript hotel ballroom a stone’s throw from the San Diego waterfront and answered questions on the state of the Padres, fulfilling the manager’s media obligations at the annual gathering of the baseball world.Next week, Melvin will go through the same ritual, in another hotel ballroom, a couple thousand miles east, only now representing the San Francisco Giants.After missing the playoffs for the second consecutive season, the Giants’ biggest moves entering the Winter Meetings, which kick off Monday and run through Wednesday at the Nashville Opryland Resort, have been the new manager and his coaching staff. Farhan Zaidi is the only executive in the NL West yet to execute a move on his major-league roster (though he has more company league-wide, where about half the teams have stood still so far).But the Giants aren’t expected to remain q...

Signs of mysterious respiratory illness affecting dogs reported from California to New Hampshire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:17 GMT

By Chris Boyette | CNNAn infectious respiratory disease among dogs that continues to baffle veterinarians has now been reported in at least a dozen US states, from Washington, Oregon and California to New Hampshire, Florida and Pennsylvania.David B. Needle, a pathologist at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and clinical associate professor at the University of New Hampshire, and a team of researchers have been unable to identify it as any known canine respiratory disease.“This early metagenomic work did not reveal any RNA or DNA virus of concern, and no typical fungal or bacterial respiratory pathogens were identified,” the researchers wrote.Since the middle of August, the American Veterinary Medical Association said vets in Oregon have reported over 200 cases.The mysterious illness was described as an “atypical canine infectious respiratory disease,” by the Oregon Department of Agriculture and symptoms include coughing, sneezing, eye or nose discharge and lethargy....