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18-year-old captures northern lights over Illinois

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APPLE RIVER, Ill. — An 18-year-old storm chaser from the suburbs didn’t have to go to far to find majestic beauty in the sky Sunday night.

When Landon Moeller, of Schaumburg, heard he’d have the chance to see the northern lights in the area and not the Arctic Circle, he’d got in his car and headed west for about an hour and 45 minutes to Apple River, Illinois.

“I got to just outside Apple River at 9:30 p.m. I specifically chose this spot because I was actively trying to avoid extensive cloud cover and light pollution to the east towards Chicago and it paid off,” Moeller told WGN News.

The northern lights were viewable in Illinois due to a coronal mass ejection and a minor solar flare happened Friday night, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

Within about ten minutes, this sight greeted Moeller, who used a Nikon Z6 II to capture the images.

The sky at around 9:40 p.m., courtesy Landon Moeller

From there, the lights got more intense before a “substorm expansion” from around 11 to 11:30 p.m. — which brought the aurora hundreds of miles south with dancing pillars.

“When the aurora had its massive expansion just after 11 p.m., it moved so far south that we could actually see it while looking south,” Moeller said. “The feeling was of uncontainable excitement, seeing it get brighter and dance overhead in uncountable colors.”

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Moeller said he saw eight meteors and was able to capture one with a smoke trail against unbelievable purple and green lights.

Courtesy Landon Moeller

At around 11:30 p.m., the substorm began breaking up and the aurora pulsed overhead, Moeller said.

Before Moeller, who studies meteorology at Northern Illinois, left at around 2:45 a.m., he spotted another meteor.

Courtesy Landon Moeller

Viewing is expected to diminish Monday night, with only some states, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota, forecasted to have a low likelihood of seeing the aurora.

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Man attacks Jeff Co. deputy with screwdriver during attempted arrest

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.

Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.

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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.

According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.

Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.

Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.

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St. Louis Public Schools superintendent to be sworn in

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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.

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Gas tanker crashes into St. Louis Metro transit center

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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.

The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.

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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.

A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.

The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.

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