CHICAGO, Ill. (KY3) – Pop superstar and Willard, Mo., native Chappell Roan took the first day of Lollapalooza in Chicago by storm.

The four-day music festival kicked off Thursday, and according to the schedule, Roan started her set at 5 p.m. on the T-Mobile stage, one of the two main stages that bookend the festival grounds.

Rolling Stone magazine says the performance was more like a headline set without actually headlining. The magazine also states festival organizers switched Roan’s original performance time on a smaller stage across the field with another pop star, Kesha.

The festival took to social media showing the expansive crowd showing their support for Roan.

Roan has had quite the summer with two songs, “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Hot To Go.”

Her latest single, “Good Luck Babe,” reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) — Hundreds of thousands of people use Missouri’s highways every day, which leads to traffic congestion and frustration for many drivers.

The Missouri Department of Transportation is working to expand two of the state’s most-used driving corridors. Construction started this summer on an extra lane for I-70, and now MoDOT is working on improving I-44.

Tom Crawford grew up in the trucking industry — his father and grandfather had a trucking company in southwest Missouri. When he was old enough, he too got his trucking license. Now, Crawford is president of the Missouri Trucking Association.

“Being able to get across this country efficiently is very critical for the economy,” Crawford said. “We saw that during the pandemic, when everything was shut down, trucks were still moving.”

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Crawford said he’s glad to see Missouri making improvements to the state’s highway systems.

Construction started three weeks ago on the first part of the I-70 expansion between Columbia and Kingdom City. The next part will be from Warrenton to Wentzville; a contractor and design team should be awarded by the end of the year, according to MoDOT. The third part of the I-70 expansion will be from Blue Springs to Odessa; you can expect to see more on that in about one year.

“Our interstates kind of are that life bloodline that runs through the state,” said MoDOT Asst. Chief Engineer Eric Schroeter.

MoDOT is looking at I-44 next. The state allocated a total of nearly $1 billion for environmental studies, bridge repairs and pavement repairs. But this is still in the early stages.

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“We just received this money, but some of these projects will take years to complete,” Schroeder said.

Right now, MoDOT wants your input. You can go to modot.org/forward44 to find out when public meetings will be held and how to give feedback on potential projects online.

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ARNOLD, Mo. — A Missouri police dog died when the air conditioner failed in the patrol vehicle he had been left in, police said.

Vader, a 4-year-old K-9 for the Arnold Police Department in suburban St. Louis, died Wednesday. Temperatures this week have been in the 90s, with high humidity.

A Facebook posting from Arnold police said Vader’s handler left the dog in the running, air-conditioned vehicle while the officer tended to other duties, a practice that police said “is necessary and common practice when the K-9 partner is not actively engaged in police work.”

But when the handler returned to the vehicle, it was discovered that the air conditioning system malfunctioned, police said. The dog was taken to a veterinarian clinic and initially showed signs of improvement but later died.

Police said the department’s vehicles for use with police dogs include a system that notifies the handler by phone, activates a cooling fan, even rolls down the windows if the temperature reaches a certain level. “In this instance, the heat alarm system failed to activate,” police said.

It was the second hot-car death involving a Missouri police dog this year. In June, a dog named Horus died in a hot car in Savannah, Missouri.