Law enforcement starts seatbelt mobilization for 100 deadliest days

KIFI on June 10, 2025

Maggie Moore

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – With the start of the 100 deadliest days, Idaho’s Office of Highway Safety is encouraging drivers to buckle up this summer with a seatbelt mobilization.

During certain times of the year, the Office of Highway Safety gives out grants to law enforcement agencies to put extra officers on the road.

Right now, those grants are helping law enforcement keep an extra eye out for seatbelt violations for the 100 deadliest days.

There’s a good reason to push seatbelts. SHIFT Idaho says a person is 50% more likely to avoid serious injury or death in a car crash when wearing a seatbelt.

Sgt. Bryan Lovell with the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said that using those extra resources to educate people is much better than having to respond to a fatal crash for something preventable.

“Some of the biggest factors in the crashes that we’re going to are speed, inattention, distracted driving, those kinds of things,” Lovell said. “Putting that seatbelt on is, a small decision you can make right from the get go, as soon as you get in the car. That just eliminates that part of that risk from other people that may not be paying attention or driving aggressively.”

Lovell also says driving defensively and being patient with other drivers is a great way to stay safe this summer.

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Desert Care Network participating in Healthy Over Hungry® summer cereal drive

KESQ on June 10, 2025

Allie Anthony

INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – All three Desert Care Network hospitals are taking part in the annual Healthy Over Hungry® Cereal Drive. From now until June 13th, you can donate.

With school out and access to free or reduced-price meals limited, the cereal drive will benefit FIND Food Bank and The Way Station in Joshua Tree. Donations of healthy cereal can be made at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio, and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree.

Monetary donations will also support FIND’s Kids Summer Feeding Program and The Way Station’s local meal efforts in the Hi-Desert area.

For more information or to donate, visit FIND Food Bank’s website.

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Colorado Springs joins CDOT in repaving south end of South Nevada Avenue

KRDO on June 10, 2025

Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — While the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is responsible for repaving the six-mile stretch of South Nevada Avenue between Brookside Street and Fort Carson’s main gate, the city is responsible for the block north of Nevada to Motor Way.

The city will repave that block to coincide with CDOT’s project; the city’s work began overnight on Monday and will continue overnight on Tuesday.

It appears that the first night’s work milled, or scraped off, several inches of old pavement with actual repaving to occur Tuesday night.

Crews also temporarily restriped lane markings on the milled pavement to guide drivers in the narrow, six-lane corridor.

Several blocks north of the Motor Way, to Interstate 25, is concrete pavement with several potholes and cracks; KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior is checking on who has responsibility for patching there.

The city is also finishing up a yearlong corridor safety project on Nevada and Tejon streets between I-25 and Brookside.

As CDOT’s paving continues, it is also performing concrete work to repair or rebuild ramps, sidewalks, curbs, medians, and guardrails; a particularly large sidewalk project is at the northbound Nevada off-ramp to Southgate Road.

Some of the agency’s paving will continue inside Fort Carson’s main gate.

“We are doing the intersection at Gate One,” said Patti Henschen, a CDOT engineer. “We’re going about 300 feet into the intersection. We’re not going onto Fort Carson. Fort Carson has their own paving operation going on. We are doing the off- and on-ramps of Nelson Boulevard. That’s Gate One.”

CDOT plans to finish the $10.4 million project this fall.

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Pick your seat around the fire at first-ever free Woodland Park Outdoor Fest

KRDO on June 10, 2025

Bradley Davis

WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) – Outdoor Adventures and 30 vendors will host the first free public Woodland Park Outdoor Fest this Friday, starting at 4 p.m.

There will be live music, country line dancing, interactive exhibits with Polaris and Jeeps, campfire cooking and more.

Tune in to Good Morning Colorado to see KRDO13’s Bradley Davis cook some tasty camping fixings with some of the participants around the campfire.

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Safety concerns close local shooting range to public use

News-Press NOW on June 10, 2025

News-Press NOW

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Missouri Department of Conservation announces the indefinite closure of shooting ranges at Pigeon Hill Conservation Area to the public.

The rest of Pigeon Hill will remain open to the public, according to a press release on the MDC website.

A MDC investigation found ‘evidence of range misuse at Pigeon Hill CA that put public safety at risk.’

“Unfortunately, the actions of unsafe, irresponsible shooting range users created a situation that we could not allow to persist,†said Justin McGuire, MDC’s Hunter Education and Shooting Range Coordinator, in the press release.

The shooting ranges located in St. Joseph are some of the unstaffed ones across Missouri.

Conservation area goers are encouraged to report unsafe or unlawful activity to the Operation Game Thief at (800) 392-1111 or contact a local agent. To find agents by county, visit https://mdc.mo.gov/contact-engage/local-mdc-contacts.

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House of Representatives to debate over Senate passed bills Tuesday

KMIZ on June 10, 2025

Jazsmin Halliburton

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Missouri House of Representatives will meet on Tuesday to go over and debate some of the bills that were passed during the Senate’s special session.

Committees within the House will begin debating these bills throughout the week. At 11 a.m., the committee for Economic Development will have a public hearing and executive session of Senate Bill 3, which is to incentivize Kansas City sports teams to stay in the state. The bill would also allow for a property tax freeze program for 97 counties in Missouri. Voters in those counties will decide in April 2026 whether or not to institute property tax rate freezes similar to what seniors receive in the state.

SB 3 also offers a $5,000 tax credit in 2025 to people whose homes were damaged in storms.

A budget hearing will begin at 2 p.m. to discuss Senate Bill 1, which the Senate approved for $50 million in funding to the University of Missouri’s Research Reactor. That bill also allows $125 million in storm relief to be allocated towards the St. Louis area and affordable housing relief throughout the state.

On Wednesday, there will be a fiscal review of SB 3 and Senate Bill 4. SB 4 would speed up the process of dispersing funds for emergency aid in the state.

If the House of Representatives approves these bills, the special session will reconvene on June 16.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you think Marines should be deployed in the US?

KMIZ on June 10, 2025

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

About 700 Marines were mobilized in Los Angeles in response to the ongoing protests over ICE detainments within the city.

President Donald Trump over the weekend became the first president in about 60 years to call in the National Guard without a request from a governor. It was announced on Monday that Marines would also be deployed.

Do you think Marines should be deployed? Let us know in the poll and in the comments.

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SB Athletic Round Table names Zuffelato and Evans as Coach of the Year

KEYT on June 10, 2025

Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table handed out it’s yearly awards for the top student-athlete in each sport.

The coaches of the year were also announced and Greg Zuffelato wins for high school and Jo Evans claims the honor for college.

Zuffelato led the Santa Barbara High School boys basketball team to two high profile wins over SoCal giants Sierra Canyon and Mater Dei.

The Dons also advanced all the way to the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 semifinals and won a CIF-State SoCal Regional Division 1 game as well.

Evans guided the UCSB softball team to a thrilling postseason run.

(Jo Evans was proud of her resilient Gauchos).

The Gauchos claimed the first-ever Big West Tournament softball title by winning six consecutive elimination games.

UCSB also won two more elimination games at the NCAA Regionals.

The ‘Evening with the Athletes’ was held at the Marjorie Luke Theater in Santa Barbara and the event honored over 50 student-athletes in high school and college.

(Santa Barbara High School senior Carter Battle receives the Phil Womble Scholarship award).

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Orcutt Academy celebrates CIF-State SoCal Regional Championship

KEYT on June 10, 2025

Mike Klan

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Another trophy and more history for Orcutt Academy High School in girls softball.

The Spartans defeated #1 seed Rancho Mirage 6-1 to win the CIF-State SoCal Regional Division V title.

Junior Lylah Garcia threw four scoreless innings for Orcutt Academy and struck out 8 batters.

Senior Valarie Gonzales closed out the next three innings allowing just an unearned run.

It was only the second time in seven playoff games that an opponent scored on the Spartans.

On May 29th Orcutt Academy won their first ever CIF-Central Section Division 5 championship, a 3-0 shutout over Dos Palos.

Now they add a second CIF plaque to the school’s trophy case.

They outscored their three CIF-State SoCal Regional opponents 33-1.

The Spartans start six freshman and they produced in Saturday’s title game

Freshman Lily Gonzales had two hits and drove in 2 runs while fellow classmate Marissa Martinez also had 2 hits with an RBI.

Orcutt Academy is led by head coach Chris Duncan and the Spartans finish up their historic season 18-11-1.

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Military convoy seen headed south on Highway 62

KESQ on June 10, 2025

Cynthia White

UPDATE 06/09/2025: SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif. – At least 14 more buses with a police escort left the main gate at Twentynine Palms Marine base just before 10:00 p.m. on Monday.

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials say that deputies were requested to escort the earlier Marine convoy to the Riverside County line as a precaution in case any issues arose.

They also report one person was arrested during that escort after the driver stopped his pickup truck in the roadway, blocking the convoy and other traffic from traveling on the road.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KESQ) – After reports on Monday that Marines would be deployed to Los Angeles from Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, witnesses report a convoy seen heading in that direction.

The movement heading south on Highway 62 was caught on video around 8:00 p.m.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office confirms they escorted the Marine Corps convoy while traveling through the county.

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