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Live In Your Neighborhood – St. Peters

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

ST. PETERS, Mo. – FOX 2 brings you a snapshot of St. Louis area neighborhoods on Fridays.This week we introduce you to the city of St. Peters. See more clips from Kokomo Joes, Hobos at the Legion, Mayor Len Pagano, and many more on our YouTube page.

Anheuser-Busch plans recovery after Bud Light boycott

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Anheuser-Busch's distributors from around the country met in St. Louis on Thursday. They heard firsthand about changes being made regarding the Bud Light transgender controversy.Anheuser-Busch invited the distributors to the downtown Hyatt hotel for a yearly meeting on summer marketing plans. It was the first such meeting since transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s viral social media posts with Bud Light in early April. She received a special edition can with her picture on it. Market analysts report Bud Light sales are still down more than 20% for the past month. Bud Light boycotts appear to be driving down sales of fellow Anheuser-Busch brands like Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, which are down but not as sharply.  Moving past controversy, Anheuser-Busch plans to recover losses “It can be risky for a brand to jump in and align itself with a certain cause, even with the best intentions,” said Dustin Smith, a business professor at Webster University. He ...

Give this Missouri brewery a name to win free beer for a year

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

EUREKA, Mo. -- Would you like to choose the name of a local brewery? Melvin Brewing in Eureka recently changed owners. They are asking people from the area to suggest a new name. The winner will get a year's worth of beer.You can submit a name for the brewery by entering here. To avoid duplication, Melvin Brewing Eureka is encouraging people to try to submit a unique name. Do your research and submit as many names as you like. Trending Story: Kirkwood High School’s yearbook raises concerns from others The new ownership group will make the final decision on a new name. It will be announced on June 30th.Entrants must be at least 21-years-old. The prize comes as a $600 gift card to the brewery. This is equivalent to one 4-pack per week for 52 weeks.

Crash closes 9-mile stretch of I-44 in Franklin County

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

SULLIVAN, Mo. -- A crash in Franklin County has closed a 9-mile stretch of westbound I-44 between St. Clair and Sullivan. If you are headed to Springfield or Oklahoma, this will slow you down. Missouri State Highway Patrol Troopers tell FOX 2 this is because of a tractor trailer fire at mile marker 233.6. The driver is out of the vehicle and all lanes are currently blocked. Fire is on scene and traffic is backed up approximately 3 miles.Lanes started to open around 8 a.m. and traffic is backed up in the area. Check our traffic map for live updates.

Strong storms possible Friday with hail and wind gusts

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- The on-and-off again rain chances continue now through the weekend. It won’t be raining or storming all the time, but outdoor plans could be impacted each day.Overnight scattered showers may give way to a little break in the rain this morning. We’ll watch for additional scattered showers by lunchtime and some thunderstorms by late afternoon Friday. There is a chance the storms could be strong to severe, with threats of hail and strong wind gusts. Highs today are in the low to mid 80s.A very warm day Saturday, with afternoon storms likely to develop. Highs in the mid- to upper 80s. Mother’s Day Sunday brings a cold front, some wind, and one more chance for storms. That front should be south of us by Monday, giving us a drier and cooler day.

Power outage forces RTD to divert R Line train passengers to shuttle buses

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

Regional Transportation District officials were routing commuters from R Line trains to shuttle buses Friday morning due to a power outage as rain continues to batter the Front Range.RTD officials reported the diversions at 6:11 a.m. in a Twitter post.An Xcel Energy power outage online site listed 24 outages around Colorado (17 in metro Denver) Friday morning, affecting 1,138 customers.Shuttle buses replacing R Line due to power outage. https://t.co/uADEUBjC37— RTD (@RideRTD) May 12, 2023 

Colorado weather: Constant rain causes flooding, road closures — with more moisture ahead

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

7:46 a.m. overall weather outlook: Colorado’s wet weather likely will continue through Friday, and flooding from the record-setting rainfall has forced road closures but is expected to dissipate late in the day.The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for metro Denver, the mountain foothills and high plains effective through noon. Water was pooling on walkways and roads. Some streams and rivers flowed over their banks.Parts of Colorado’s Front Range urban corridor and eastern Colorado plains will receive more rain Friday afternoon. By evening the rain — and snow in the high mountains of western Colorado — will end, weather service forecasters said.The high temperature in Denver will be 61 degrees Friday, decreasing to a low of 45 degrees at night, forecasters said. Partly sunny skies over metro Denver are expected Saturday with a high temperature of around 65 degrees, decreasing to a high of 57 degrees Sunday. Rain and thunderstorms are likely throug...

Los Angeles officials look to increase safety around schools

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

After a mother was killed and her daughter was seriously injured near an elementary school in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, city officials are moving forward with a plan to enact more safety measures around schools.Ghadah Abduljabbar, 33, and her 6-year-old daughter were hit last month near Hancock Park Elementary School in an incident Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho called "heartbreaking, it’s unacceptable and it’s preventable.”After that incident and another where a 14-year-old student was hit by a car near Berendo Middle School, the L.A. City Council on Wednesday voted 11-0 to study a plan to install speed humps at every public school in the city.The Los Angeles Department of Transportation will report back to the council on anticipated costs, staffing and a timeline, according to the L.A. Daily News.Speed humps, which are more forgiving than speed bumps, allow traffic to continue to move, but at a pace slow enough that the vehi...

CBD Celebrity Scams Strike Again — Reba McEntire Is Fighting Back Against Nature’s One CBD Gummies

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

Just because some celebrities openly promote CBD supplements doesn’t mean everyone in Hollywood is “hot for hemp.” Unfortunately, since CBD has so much “cachet” in the entertainment industry, scammers have taken advantage of this cannabinoid’s popularity. There have been dozens of fake celebrity endorsements for CBD brands and products.Recently, a company called Nature’s One CBD published dozens of ads claiming country star Reba McEntire endorsed their products. However, according to official reports, McEntire has never associated her name with CBD oils, capsules, or gummies. Until Reba McEntire says otherwise, customers should avoid any hemp products that seem to have her seal of approval.Reba McEntire Hits Back Against Hemp CBD ScammersIn a recent Twitter post, McEntire warned her fanbase to be cautious of any products that appeared to have her endorsement. The singer specifically called out “CBD gummies” as supplements to watch out for. McEntire says she will only announce partne...

Dalby on Jacob Banks

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:44:44 GMT

Dalby on Jacob Banks: Atlanta-based indie-pop artist Dalby told us about her Jacob Banks experience. Dalby: My favorite concert that I’ve ever been to has got to be Jacob Banks’s Lies About the War tour at the Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta. Jacob Banks is an artist that my dad and I have grown to love and listen to for the past six years or so. His voice is incredible and his songs are so full of hurt and love which really made my dad and I want to see him live. We bought tickets to his show before it was postponed to a much later date, which we were bummed about but we were excited to go when the time finally came.The show ended up being in October of 2022 and it was truly a surreal concert experience. Everybody was so kind and everybody was feeling the music on such a deep level. Jacob sounded even better than he does on recording, which is crazy to me, and his voice is so unique and soulful. The energy was immaculate and the band sounded great, and I think he is an artist that shou...