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Many of you have noticed the new look in the blogs.

They have been modified to match some of the new looks for FOX web sites.  The changes have been pretty slight, mostly graphics.

There have been a few issues and we have notified the team working on the blogs and they are VERY aware of the issues!

We know the footer is showing up higher than it should be, and that some blogs are cutting off half way through when they are viewed in Internet Explorer.  Your blogs are not lost!  The content is still there!

Please note - many of the issues are NOT showing up when the pages are viewed with Firefox.

Stay tuned, keep blogging and hang in there!  More adjustments will be made and before long, you'll wonder what the old graphics looked like!

We should see some adjustments this week.


-- The Web Team --

What are your secrets for the best tailgating?  What do you bring?  How elaborate do you get?  How long have you been tailgating?

Let us know!

Are some foods better than others?

Do you have any pictures from your tailgating celebration?  Share them in your blog photo gallery!  We'd love to see how you show your support for your favorite team!

What is the best season for tailgating ... and what sports have the best tailgaters?  Are college sports better than the pros?

Tell us what you think!


-- The Web Team -

  It’s a sad day in Maplewood and across the St. Louis area.
  A suburban St. Louis firefighter was killed and two other emergency workers are wounded after a gunman opened fire during a standoff at his home in Maplewood. Maplewood city officials identified the slain firefighter as 22-year-old Ryan Hummert. Officials said he was shot to death as he got off the fire truck.
   Hummert was the son of former Maplewood Mayor Andy Hummert. He began his career in August 2007 after graduating from paramedic training. He graduated from the St. Louis County Fire Academy in March.
   The thoughts and prayers of those of us here at FOX 2 and with the community of Maplewood today. If you'd like to leave your thoughts, please do so in the comments section below.

Incase you missed the Fair St. Louis fireworks display Friday night July 4th, it's online for you to watch over and over again.


Happy Fourth of July everyone!

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO THE VIDEO

And thanks to the hundreds that watched the fireworks display Friday night online on our live feed #1 and #2 and chat rooms. It was a "blast" ha ha

Six Television Veterans to be Inducted into the Gold and Silver Circles at the 32nd Annual Emmy® Awards Presented by Lumière Place Casino & Hotels

Awards Gala set for October 4, 2008, in the Grand Ballroom at the Four Seasons St. Louis

St. Louis, Mo. June 30, 2008 – The Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced this year’s inductees into the NATAS Gold and Silver Circles. Every year NATAS inducts television professionals with 25 or more years of outstanding service in television into the prestigious Silver Circle. The exclusive Gold Circle recognizes television pioneers with 50 or more years of outstanding service.

Spencer Koch, KTVI St. Louis. Mr. Koch has made significant contributions to St. Louis television since assuming leadership of KTVI in April 1995. He turned KTVI into one of the most watched St. Louis stations for local news and the top rated Fox Station in the country. Under his leadership, the station sponsors charitable events that raise millions of dollars. Mr. Koch serves on many boards, including Heat Up St. Louis, which provides home heating and cooling assistance to low-income families.

Koch will be inducted along with Larry Conners from KMOV-TV, Michael Dorman from Charter Communications, and Mike Thompson from WDAF-TV Kansas City.

Inducteed for the Gold Circle include Dale Nicholson from KATV Little Rock and B.J. Sams from KTHV Little Rock.

About NATAS Mid-America Chapter:

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. It recognizes excellence in television with the coveted Emmy Award. For more information please visit www.emmymid-america.org .

We've had some e-mails recently about the live stream.  Some people new to the site have not been able to easily find the link.

The link is located on the bottom of the home page ... look in the bottom row, in the middle "Watch FOX 2 News Online & Chat."

Click on this link.

You can toggle back and forth between Live Stream #1 and Live Stream #2.

Newscasts and special reports are usually fed through #1.  Doppler Radar and SkyFOX are usually streamed through #2.




-- The Web Team --

 Everyone at FOX 2 has Back To The Future on their minds.  Our FOX 2 Assignment Desk Editor, Chris Pilcic, has a 1982 DeLorean. We took a grand tour of the car today...and folks couldn't get enough.

 

Chris is a weather officer in the Air Force Reserves, and he’s leaving FOX 2 for a while to serve our country. Beginning April 29, 2008, he’ll be going on active durty preparing for deployment to the Middle East.

Leave your comments and well wishes below!

An issue has occurred with the blog software that is preventing the extra pages of comments from showing up.  The software team is aware of the problem and is working to fox it.

For now ... you can still go to the extra comment pages and read the comments.

Here is what you do ... at the top of your screen where you see the address line (with the http:// ...) ... go to the end of the line in the blog you want to read extra pages on and type the following ...

?page_no=2

If you want to read page three ...

?page_no=3

... and so on.

It's a temporary fix, but it will get you to the extra pages until a permanent fix is made.

Thanks!


-- The Web Team --

Take me out to the ballgame!

... and show us your photos!

We want to see you at the stadium ... your kids, you, your friends!  Show us your Cardinals pride!

Inside the stadium, outside the stadium, at home getting ready for the game, tailgating!

Send those Cards fan photos in!


-- The Web Team --

FOX 2 was there at the Opening Day Pep Rally! We took a lot of pictures and posted them here so you could see them.

Click on the photo below, or the galleries to the right to see the whole gallery!

St. Patrick's Day parade goers will pass through security checkpoints before celebrating in the St. Louis neighborhood of Dogtown today.

Organizers with the Ancient Order of Hibernians say they're trying to keep people from bringing in their own alcohol to the parade route. Backpacks and coolers will be searched. The fraternal order is trying to reduce underage drinking and cut down on trash.

The parade starts at 12:30 Monday afternoon. Organizers say alcohol will be available for sale in the parade area. The public may bring food, water and soda. Glass containers are banned.

What do you think about the Hibernians new rule about not bringing your own beer to Dogtown on Monday?

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As our regular visitors to myFOXstl.com know, we had 2 different chat rooms on our site.

We installed a standalone chat room back in November that only allowed you to chat if you logged in, and then we added another chat room on our live streaming pages just after Super Tuesday.

Over the past few weeks, we let these two chat rooms "duke it out" and see which one would be the best for our site. It seems that the live feed chat room has far outweighed the first chat room. It allows viewers to chat about the news or breaking news events, it gives viewers a chance to add their own avatars, and the webteam has the ability to delete chats or ban bad chatters. And as far as popularity, the live feed chat room had 5x more page views than the standalone chat room.

So, we will be using the live feed chat room for news issues from now on. You can find a link at the bottom of the home page, or by clicking this link:

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LIVE FEED CHAT ROOM

Bookmark it! Thanks everyone! Patrick

The second wave of severe weather is moving over St. Louis right now.

FOX 2 Meteorologist Chris Higgins is chatting online and explaining the conditions on our live stream. 

You can chat with Chris, ask him questions, or hear him explain as the wave passes over.

A third batch of energy is in Texas and could be in St. Louis as early as Thursday night or Friday morning.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE CHAT ROOM AND LIVE RADAR FEED

We just added a NASCAR section to myFOXstl.com!

You can get there by clicking HERE

... or by visiting the Sports page and clicking on the link to the right.

This section will be updated with all the latest news, driver profiles, schedule information ... and there's even track information and a section for racing basics.

Enjoy!


-- The Web Team --