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What to know ahead of Mizzou Football's 2023 season opener

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

COLUMBIA, Mo. - College football is back! The Missouri Tigers open a new season Thursday evening, a head start as most Power Five Football teams return to game action this weekend. The Tigers kick off the 2023 campaign with a home non-conference matchup against the South Dakota Coyotes. The game begins at 7 p.m. Fans can watch the first game on the SEC Network, ESPN+ or FuboTV. As the new Mizzou season begins, there's quite a bit to unpack with the team roster and expectations. Let's get started...Eli Drinkwitz and coaching castEntering his fourth year as the Missouri Tigers' head coach, Eli Drinkwitz is well revered by players and has developed a knack for big-time recruits, like Luther Burden III & Williams Nwaneri. That said, it hasn't translated to sustained success on the football field. Mizzou is 17-19 in three seasons under Drinkwitz and has lost many games within one possession. The Tigers have qualified for three lower-level bowl games under Drinkwitz, but remains witho...

Dierbergs customer wins $277,728 playing Illinois lotto

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

SHILOH, Ill. -- A customer of the Shiloh Dierbergs won $277,728 on August 29 after purchasing a $20 Fast Play game called Twenty 20s. The winning ticket was purchased at 4000 Green Mount Crossing Dr. In Shiloh.  “I was working when a regular customer who usually stops in a few times a week, bought a Fast Play lottery ticket and ended up winning over $270,000—how incredibly lucky,” said Tamara Krueger, Supervisor at Dierbergs Green Mount Crossing, in a press release. This isn’t the first time a winning ticket has been sold at this location. Police: DWI, hit-and-run suspect caught by his own Tesla cameras “In September 2016, a local Shiloh man stopped in to buy some chicken for dinner and walked out of the store winning $2 million on a scratch-off ticket - I’ll never forget that day, it was pretty exciting,” said Krueger. On August 29, almost 37,000 winning Fast Play tickets were sold, giving Illinois Lottery players wins worth more than $862,000. The jackpot begins ...

Events at the graffiti wall for the 26th 'Paint Louis' weekend

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- This is Paint Louis's 26th year, and they will have live art events from Friday through Sunday this year. Over 500 graffiti artists from all over the world will be creating art on the flood wall and the Souls of Mischief will be hosting a show over the weekend.Art from 2022 Paint LouisA Paint Littles event for kids will be held by the Missouri History Museum at the flood wall. Sk8 Liborious will set up a miniature skate park. Visitors can shop and eat from food trucks. The event is outside and open to the public. It is for people of all ages. The event starts at 10 a.m. at the Floodwall at 1000 S. Wharf St. and Chouteau.Thursday, August 31st: Thursday Night at The Missouri History Museum: STL Mural Happy Hour: 5:30–6:30 p.m.Program: 6:30-8pm Paint Louis Kick Off After Party at St. Louis Hop Shop, 8 p.m.Friday, September 1st: Live art at the wall begins 10 a.m.–8 p.m.Skate Park Oasis Sk8 Liborious 12-8pm Live musical performances from 2pm–8pm&nbs...

New Chesterfield 4 Hands Brewing tasting room opens

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- The new tasting room location for 4 Hands Brewery is opening today at The District in Chesterfield. The location will include 25 drafts that are available year-round. They will have seasonal beers, hard seltzers, canned cocktails, and the option to purchase Withered Oak blended whiskey. Circle K stations offering 30 cents off per gallon Thursday: Here’s where The brewery's new location has a free, family-friendly arcade area with TVs and projectors that will show local sports. They also have a private event space, an oversized patio, and food from their culinary partner, Hi Pointe Drive-In. The new tasting room is located at 17081 North Outer 40 Road in Chesterfield.

CY Fest Brings the Punks Out to Play

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

CY Fest Brings the Punks Out to Play: The CY Fest punk extravaganza  is back with a jam-packed day of scuzzy punk goodness. Slaughter & the Dogs headline, and the Brits are joined by the Varukers, the Skeptix, Special Duties, the Unseen, the Virus, Krum Bums, the Devotchkas, the Erections, Total Chaos, Acidez, the Riffs, Defiance, Hat Trickers, Tulsa Doom, Blacks 77, the Voids, Cinderblock, Lab Rats, Castillo, Knuckleheadz and more.CY Fest Brings the Punks Out to Play: The event takes place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 2 at the Belasco.                                                                          &nb...

Fortunately, Prince Harry’s dubious claims about therapy and war service don’t derail moving ‘Hearth of Invictus’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

Prince Harry’s anticipated new Netflix collaboration, “Heart of Invictus,” manages to tug heartstrings and deliver uplifting messages about human resilience — when it turns its focus away from him and instead spotlights a handful of injured military veterans who have faced extraordinary challenges to compete in the 2022 Invictus Games.Perhaps it’s to be expected but Harry, the show’s executive producer and the Invictus Games’ founding patron, can’t help but use some of the screen time to slip in some well-known grievances that deal with his professed history of therapy and his antipathy towards the royal family and the British media. These complaints prove momentarily distracting, because they’ve become repetitive and because they don’t add up upon close inspection.It’s probably necessary to give Harry so much screen time, given that he’s the name brand for the Invictus Games, which return Sept. to in Dusseldorf...

SUV slams into disabled Jeep in latest fatal crash on Highway 4

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

BAY POINT — A person died early Thursday after an SUV slammed into a Jeep on an East Bay highway, the California Highway Patrol said.The crash on eastbound state Highway 4 near the San Marco Boulevard exit killed the driver of the Jeep and sent the SUV driver to the hospital with what the CHP deemed minor injuries. Authorities did not identify the Jeep driver early Thursday, pending notification of relatives.The Jeep driver is the 12th person to die on Highway 4 in a crash this year, according to statistics kept by this news organization. There have been 10 fatal wrecks on the highway.CHP spokesperson Officer Adam Lane said the Jeep Cherokee was disabled and stopped within the center divide and fast lane in the eastbound direction about 1:55 a.m., because it had been involved in a previous crash.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Mercedes driver suspected of killing 3 women in California Uber crash was on probation tied to 2020 murder case Crime and Publ...

UC Berkeley scholar faces renewed calls to resign over false Native American identity claims

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

UC Berkeley students and Native American scholars have renewed calls for the resignation of anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover, who became the focus of concerns about the school’s academic integrity and respect for authentic Native American identity when she publicly admitted in May that she’s “a White person who incorrectly identified as Native my whole life.”The calls for Hoover to leave UC Berkeley, or for the campus to take action, began anew this month with the announced retirement of Andrea Smith, a controversial UC Riverside ethnic studies professor who faced accusations for at least 15 years that she helped build her career and scholarship around false claims of being Cherokee.REALTED: UC Riverside professor resigns over ‘pretendian’ claims, but will keep teaching for another yearA separation agreement between UC Riverside and Smith was revealed last week, and students and scholars say it constitutes progress in the thorny question of how universities respond to tenured f...

Tesla allowing no-hands Autopilot driving for longer periods. Regulators have questions

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

By Tom Krisher | The Associated PressTesla is allowing some drivers to use its Autopilot driver-assist system for extended periods without making them put their hands on the steering wheel, a development that has drawn concern from U.S. safety regulators.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered Tesla to tell the agency how many vehicles have received a software update making that possible and it’s seeking more information on what the electric vehicle maker’s plans are for wider distribution.“NHTSA is concerned that this feature was introduced to consumer vehicles, and now that the existence of this feature is known to the public, more drivers may attempt to activate it,” John Donaldson, the agency’s acting chief counsel, wrote in a July 26 letter to Tesla that was posted on the agency’s website. “The resulting relaxation of controls designed to ensure that the driver remain engaged in the dynamic driving task could lead to greater driver inattention and failure...

Baymax is one of the biggest characters you’ll ever meet at Disneyland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:56:12 GMT

The massive new Baymax character coming to San Fransokyo Square will put the “big” in Big Hero 6 when the inflatable healthcare robot joins his pal Hiro Hamada at the rethemed land at Disney California Adventure.Baymax will make meet-and-greet appearances in San Fransokyo Square on Thursday, Aug. 31 when the full transformation of the former Pacific Wharf food court is finally complete.Disneyland fans will be able to give the inflatable robot squishy hugs, trade fist bumps and pose for photos — but don’t expect him to sign autographs with his stubby fingers.Baymax talks and can carry on limited conversations with visitors. Expect most exchanges to include his trademark catchphrase: “Ba La La La La La La La La.”Baymax and Hiro Hamada, from the movie Big Hero 6, during a media preview for San Fransokyo Square in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, July 14, 2023. San Fransokyo Square is taking over the former Pacific Wharf area of Disney California Adventure. It’s slated to be complete in August 3...