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Thursday Forecast: Temps in mid 70s with mainly cloudy conditions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

CHICAGO — Mainly cloudy Thursday with rain showers and cooler lakeside. Winds: E 5-10 G150. High: 76/73. Interactive Radar: Track showers and storm here Mainly cloudy tonight with a chance for showers. Winds: E 5-10. Low: 63.Friday Forecast: Partly cloudy, 20 percent chance of rain, cooler lakeside. Winds: SE 5-10 G15. High: 80/74.Full forecast details and more at the WGN Weather Center blog

Bastrop high school students get to try Japanese cuisine prepared by guest chef

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) -- Bastrop students got the chance to have something a little more than traditional school lunch Wednesday in the cafeteria.Cedar Creek High School students sampled Japanese cuisine as part of a partnership between the district's child nutrition department and Taher, a food service company.Cedar Creek High School students in Bastrop got to try Japanese cuisine prepared by guest chef John Sugimura | Todd Bynum/KXAN NewsCedar Creek High School students in Bastrop got to try Japanese cuisine prepared by guest chef John Sugimura | Todd Bynum/KXAN NewsCedar Creek High School students in Bastrop got to try Japanese cuisine prepared by guest chef John Sugimura | Todd Bynum/KXAN NewsThe high school brought in guest executive chef John Sugimura, who took the opportunity to spread his love of Japanese food as a way to help kids explore foods they might not ordinarily try. The meal he prepared for students Wednesday was a spicy beef bowl."Let's get good food in them. Let'...

NYSPHSAA releases new policy on ejections

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA)/Section 2 has released a new policy regarding ejections and rules that follow for those ejected from high school games. The policy coincides with the beginning of the 2023 high school athletic year. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! The policy states, "Any spectator removed by an official, law enforcement, school administration, chaperone, or coach, is ineligible to attend any interschool competition for that school until after the next previously scheduled contest at the same level has been completed." To simplify, any parent or spectator removed from a game must sit out the next scheduled game in that sport.That person is ineligible to attend any other sporting event until the next scheduled game is over. According to Cohoes Tigers Sports, this rule has been in place for athletes and coaches for a while who are ejected from a game as...

National Voter Registration Week underway

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) - To celebrate National Voter Registration Week, the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County have been at locations throughout Saratoga and Washington counties on a mission to register people to vote. The main goal for this year's celebration is to focus on registering the next generation of young voters. State efforts to register voters ahead of election day Here is where members from the group will be located throughout the week:September 21: YMCA, West Ave Branch at 290 West Ave, Saratoga Springs: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.SUNY Adirondack Saratoga Campus at 696 Route 9 in Wilton: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. September 22: SUNY Adirondack Saratoga Campus at 696 Route 9 in Wilton: 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.YMCA, West Ave Branch at 290 West Ave, Saratoga Springs: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.September 23: Saratoga Springs Housing Authority at the corner of Vanderbilt Ave & Worth St, Saratoga Springs: 9 a.m. to 1 p...

St. Louis County Police exchange gunfire with man after responding to domestic disturbance call

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A man is in the hospital Thursday morning after authorities say he got into a gunfight with St. Louis County police, who were responding to a domestic disturbance call involving the man.The entire incident unfolded just off Gravois, right by Rambler Drive. According to the most recent information from the county police, the suspect's condition is critical but stable.This all started just before 7:15 p.m. St. Louis County Police Sgt. Tracy Panus told FOX 2 that two county police officers responded to a domestic disturbance call on Rambler.Panus explained that the officers were told before they arrived that an adult male suspect was intoxicated and was refusing to allow the person who called police to leave the home. Officers were also told that the man threatened to harm police if they responded. Federal agents head operation on I-270 in St. Louis County Panus shared that when the two officers got there, they saw the suspect sitting on the front porch of the...

Prisoner escapes Mercy South Hospital, police investigating

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - St. Louis County Police Department Affton Southwest Precinct officers are investigating an escape from custody incident.Officers from the Affton Southwest Precinct responded to a call from Mercy Hospital South on the 10000 block of Kennerly Road around 4:30 a.m. for a report of an escape from custody. 45-year-old Tommy Wayne Boyd was taken to Mercy Hospital South from the Potosi Correctional Facility on Wednesday for treatment.   Hospital staff last saw him at 3:54 a.m. on Thursday. Surveillance video showed Boyd leaving the hospital on foot, traveling in an unknown direction.  Federal agents head operation on I-270 in St. Louis County Boyd is described as a white male,  5'7", 154 pounds, with balding hair and a beard. He was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, a black jacket, and orange slippers. He should be considered dangerous, as it is unknown if he is armed. Boyd is...

Volunteers needed in Belleville to plant flags along Marine's funeral procession

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has ordered the U.S. and Illinois flags to be half-staff Thursday in honor of a fallen metro east marine. Captain Eleanor 'Ellie' Leabau Cooke returns to her home in Belleville.The marine died in a military aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia last month. The cause is still under investigation. The flagman's mission needs volunteers to help set up a thousand flags along the funeral procession route Thursday afternoon. Federal agents head operation on I-270 in St. Louis County They'll meet at 4:00 p.m. at 200 West Harrison Street in Belleville. Visitation is Friday and the funeral is Saturday. On Sunday, they need volunteers again to pick up the flags.

Flooring company moving California operation to Georgia, eliminating 291 jobs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

Shaw Industries Group is shifting its residential carpet manufacturing operations in Santa Fe Springs to northwest Georgia in a move that will eliminate 291 local jobs.The company also is closing a plant in Yuma, Arizona, affecting 249 jobs there, the company said.Shaw said it already is scaling back work at the two facilities and will cease operations in the first quarter of 2024.Scott Sandlin, executive vice president of the Dalton, Ga.-based company’s residential division, said the adjustments will help ensure the company is poised for the long term.Shaw, which has at least 50 distribution centers throughout the U.S., didn’t cite wages as a factor in the move. Data from Indeed.com shows pay levels are considerably lower in Georgia.A forklift operator at the company’s Santa Fe Springs facility averages $20.20 hourly, for example, while a worker doing the same job in Dalton earns an average hourly wage of $15.62. And Georgia’s minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is less than half the Gol...

Opinion: California can lead nation with a public option for health insurance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

California’s workers are facing a mounting health care affordability crisis. The cost of insurance for families has grown more than two and half times faster than wages have, putting health care out of reach for more and more people. This gap is even larger for the state’s Black and Latino populations.Part of the solution is within reach: The state should introduce a public option to compete with private insurance plans and drive down premiums. California is uniquely suited to pioneer this approach and has hard evidence that it will work.We propose a public-option for California that we call Golden Choice. It is based on the ability of the state’s integrated medical groups to provide high-quality care at a lower cost by receiving monthly revenue per enrollee, a payment system known as capitation. The figure would be adjusted for each patient’s age, gender, health status and related characteristics likely to influence need for care. This model provides incentives to the health care s...

‘King of Diamonds’ explores the dramatic life of jeweler Harry Winston

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:24 GMT

The world associates the name Harry Winston with glamour and jewels – it’s synonymous with Hollywood stars, royal families and captains of industry. Marilyn Monroe ushered the name into legend when she breathlessly sang, “Talk to me, Harry Winston; tell me all about it!” in 1953’s classic movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”But for his eldest and only living son, Ronald Winston, the man behind the brand seems to have been a complicated person, as well as a hard-to-live-up-to icon.The opening pages of “King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, The Definitive Biography of An American Icon,” by Ronald Winston and William Stadiem, contain a telling episode from the author’s childhood: His famous jeweler father was “bouncing me around, having a wonderful time” in the family’s plush New York apartment.Then suddenly, Winston dropped his son “hard and fast” onto the rug, shocking the child.As young Ronald begins to cry, the famed jeweler tells him, “Never trust anyone in life. Not even your own father....