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Report: Women in Central Texas paid 40% less than men, 1 in 3 women below poverty line

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A report released by the Women’s Fund at Austin Community Foundation (ACF) on Wednesday provides a snapshot of the status of women in Central Texas, and makes a startling claim: per dollar, women here make 40% less than men, nearly double the national pay gap of 20%.The report is titled "Women’s Issues are Community Issues" and was created with data from The University of Texas at Austin's RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service CONNECT Fellows program. The study also used publicly available datasets.Other key takeaways from the study include:Women's labor force participation has not returned to pre-COVID numbersIncreased barriers around reproductive health make it harder for women to decide their health and family sizeWomen outpace men in educational attainmentTravis County has the highest number of childcare deserts Can the U.S. close a gender pay gap widened by the pandemic? Meagan Anderson Longley, vice president of community impact at ACF, said that ...

St. Paul to move to one-sided parking ban as Twin Cities expected to see more snow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

St. Paul will move to a one-sided parking ban starting at 8 a.m. Friday.Mayor Melvin Carter and other city officials will announce the ban at 2 p.m. today. The announcement will be streamed on city’s Facebook page.The move comes six weeks after Minneapolis instituted a one-sided parking ban.The decision is in advance of another 3 to 5 inches of snow expected over the next couple days. With the coming snow, the Twin Cities could earn a spot among the 10 snowiest winters on record.Less than an inch of snow is expected Wednesday. More is expected overnight, with the heaviest snow falling in the afternoon and evening Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.The southern metro is expected to see the highest snow totals. The weather service said there is a 40 to 70 percent chance of southern Minnesota, including parts of the south metro, seeing 6 inches or more of snow.Another chance for snow comes Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures are expected to remain in the 30s a...

Amsterdam Police arrest alleged drug dealer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Police investigations into suspected drug dealing in the area of Sloane Avenue resulted in an arrest on Tuesday. According to the Amsterdam Police Department, Megan L. Basini, 35, sold a police source a controlled substance. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! An arrest warrant was issued and Basini was taken into custody for the charges of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance. She was processed at the Amsterdam Police Headquarters and arraigned at the Montgomery County Court. Basini was released on her own recognizance.

Heavy metal band Quiet Riot to perform in Cohoes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

COHOES, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Quiet Riot is making a stop at Cohoes Music Hall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their "Metal Health" album. The band will be performing on October 13 at 7:30 p.m. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Quiet Riot was the first heavy metal band to top the pop chart at Billboard magazine in 1983. The band is best known for the songs "Cum on Feel the Noize," "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)," and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now."Tickets are currently on sale. You can buy tickets on the Cohoes Music Hall website.

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back—if you want it. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work—only to find himself locked out, along with 200 others. He might have figured, as others before him have in the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the company, that he was out of a job.Instead, after nine days of no answer from Twitter as to whether or not he was still employed, Thorleifsson decided to tweet at Musk to see if he could catch the billionaire's attention and get an answer to his Schrödinger’s job situation. “Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” he wrote on Monday. Twitter’s pared-down staff struggles with misinformation Eventually, he got his answer af...

‘World War II hasn’t stopped’: St. Louis residents want relief for radiation sickness

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

Kim Visintine said her son had his first chemotherapy treatment at three weeks old. A year later, Visintine and her husband had $100,000 in medical debt. Six years later, their son died.But it wasn’t until she found hometown friends on Facebook that Visintine connected her son’s cancer – a rare form of brain tumor called a glioblastoma multiforme — to Coldwater Creek, which runs through north St. Louis County. Visintine and other current and former residents started to realize just how many of their loved ones were sick and how many cases of rare cancers could be connected back to the area.The likely culprit, they came to believe, was radioactive waste left over from the Manhattan Project. “We are the victims of friendly fire from World War II,” Visintine told a Missouri House committee Tuesday evening. Visitine and other current and former St. Louis area residents packed a Missouri Capitol committee room to implore lawmakers to pass legislation that would f...

Missouri House gives initial approval for stricter sex trafficking laws

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

Missouri’s laws surrounding the trafficking of minors might be changing after a bill received initial approval by legislators Tuesday.House members debated a bill proposed by Rep. Jeff Coleman, R-Grain Valley, that would modify the offense of “enticing a child.”The current statute defines a victim as a child less than 15 years old, but this legislation would increase that age to less than 17.Currently, penalty distinctions for patronizing prostitution are under the age of 14 and older than 14. This bill would increase the age to 15, and make the under the age of 15 distinction a Class B felony rather than a Class D felony.According to World Population Review, Missouri ranks 5th in human trafficking with 4.3 cases per 100,000 people.Rep. Barbara Phifer, D-St. Louis, questioned why 17-year-olds are not included in this legislation. According to Coleman, they cannot be included because of Missouri’s current age of consent.Under current Missouri law, the age of consent is 17 y...

St. Charles lotto player wins $480,000 jackpot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

ST. CHARLES -- A Missouri Lottery player hit the jackpot after buying a ticket at the St. Charles Moto Mart on South 5th Street for the February 24th drawing. The player regularly purchases a ticket after dropping his child off at school.The Show Me Cash ticket matched all the winning numbers drawn. Jackpots in this game start at $50,000 and grow until won. The player won $480,000 during this drawing. The chances of that happening are about one in 575,000.“At first, I didn’t believe it,” he tells the Missouri Lottery. “It was very exciting. The kids were going crazy!”The man plans to use some of the money to buy a motorcycle and to take a family vacation. He tells lotto work, "It just doesn’t seem real!."Tonight’s Show Me Cash jackpot is $211,000. The overall chances of winning a prize is around 1 in 4.21.

FBI offering reward for information on Kansas City teen missing for over a month

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $5,000 reward for anyone who can provide information on the whereabouts of a Kansas City teen who has been missing for over a month. The Kansas City division of the FBI is working with Kansas City police in the search for 13-year-old Jayden Robker. Robker was last seen in the area of Northwest Plaza Drive and Northwest Plaza Avenue around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2.  He was last seen wearing a green camouflage hoodie, grey sweatpants and black Puma tennis shoes while riding his black razor skateboard.Anyone with information on Robker’s whereabouts is asked to call the FBI's Kansas City Field Office at (816) 512-8200 or Kansas City Crime Stoppers at (816) 474-TIPS.

Lawmakers chip away at Parson’s plan for I-70 improvements

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:46 GMT

The biggest single building project in Gov. Mike Parson’s budget – $859 million to widen three sections of Interstate 70 – will have to be pared back if lawmakers divert funds to other highways, Department of Transportation Director Patrick McKenna said Tuesday.McKenna spent part of the day answering questions about MoDOT appropriations as the House Budget Committee works through Parson’s $51.6 billion spending plan for all of state government. The goal, Chairman Cody Smith said, is to be ready to amend the budget when lawmakers return after their upcoming mid-session break.The funding for the I-70 project would be almost 20% of the proposed $4.8 billion MoDOT budget for the coming fiscal year. In subcommittee work, amendments to take $48 million from the I-70 plan passed, with the money being redirected to a five-mile project on Interstate 44 in Springfield and an environmental impact study for improvements to the entire I-44 corridor.Widening I-70 to three lanes in each direc...