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\f0\fs24 \cf0 A celebrity Twitter fight has a St. Louis connection \'85 someone loves
our food trucks \'85 and you wanna to fix potholes? There\'92s an app for that \'85
those stories and more ... Today in the sift.\ Welcome to the sift \'85 I\'92m Victoria Babu
standing in today for Gabrielle Biondo with the best of what st. Louis is talking about.\
What do you get when you mix a cheeky St. Louis Rams defensive end with a bunch of animals?
It\'92s a Twitter fight!\ CBS Sports Radio 920 reports that\'92s what
happened when the Rams\'92 Chris Long poked the cage of Kesha fans, who call themselves
\'93animals.\'94 \ The recently rehabbed pop star calls herself
\'93a rainbow\'94 on her Twitter bio. But Long, who makes a habit of publicly \'93blocking\'94
Twitter accounts just for fun, said \'93nuh-uh\'94 to that claim and blocked Kesha\'92s account.\
Kesha fans sprang into action, pounding Long\'92s account with vulgarities and insults \'85
while Kesha kept quiet and let her animals do the dirty work.\
In other animal news, Stray Rescue of St. Louis is also springing into action to help
some abused dogs from out of state.\ KMOX reports nearly 50 dogs from Louisiana
were rescued in mid-February from dog-fighting rings. Now, animal rescuers are asking for
help nationwide to rehabilitate the pooches.\ Stray Rescue took 7 of the dogs. Its founder
said organizers wanted to get the abused dogs out of Louisiana so their owners can\'92t
try to break in and steal them back.\ Turning to St. Louis\'92 streets, MoDOT has
good news for drivers dodging the mammoth potholes pitting roads throughout the area.\
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the highway agency is launching a statewide program to
fill potholes ASAP once they\'92re reported. And MoDOT\'92s making it easy. Want to call?
There\'92s a number. Or how about an online form to fill out? Send an email, use social
media. There\'92s even an app for that.\ Just report the pits and wait for the fixes.
We\'92ll have info below for all the ways you can help plug the holes \'97 including
an 800 number for IDOT\'92s pothole hotline.\ Will repaired roads mean more food trucks?
Boston-based travel site \'93Hopper\'94 ranked its top 10 food truck cities and put us in
its top four.\ Only Portland, Los Angeles and Austin ranked
higher. Hopper praised St. Louis\'92 \'93burgeoning food truck scene\'94 and its vendors for their
\'93street meat.\'94\ Called out by name were Seoul Taco, Lulu\'92s
Local Eatery and Guerrilla Street Food.\ Oh, and where did Chicago rank? They snuck
in at number 10 \'85 and there was no sign of KC on the list.\
That\'92s it for today. Check below for more on all these stories. And don\'92t forget
to follow RealTimeSTL on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and YouTube.\
We leave you with our St. Louis meta moment\'85 check out this cool Google Earth time-lapse
of the area\'92s landscape ... Changing over 28 years, starting in 1984. It\'92s part of
a series of Google time-lapses from various parts of the world.}