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Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

Big week, folks! Lotta travel to be had and for much of the week, we good! the only issue will be a sizable storm plowing the Northeast Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, rain will be in play from Chicago to Detroit, Pittsburgh and Atlanta with some thunderstorms likely in Atlanta. Quiet weather dominates west of the Mississippi. Here in New England, dry road conditions expected from sun up to sun down.The issue will be mid evening Tuesday until Noon Wednesday. That is when the storm has its greatest influence on travel here in the Northeast. Plan on rain for much of southern New England but I do think for a few hours, interior southern New England will have some snow before changing over to rain by midnight Tuesday night. Here is the snow potential map for late Tuesday evening (our first snow map of the season—try to contain your excitement)…By Wednesday morning, even the higher elevations will be too warm for snow so travel conditions should just offer wet roads (not w...

Ravens TE Mark Andrews has an ‘outside chance’ to return this season from ankle injury

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

Ravens tight end Mark Andrews has an “outside chance” to play again this season after tests showed his ankle injury was not as severe as initially feared, coach John Harbaugh said.Andrews was injured by a hip-drop tackle from Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson on the Ravens’ first drive last Thursday. Harbaugh said after the game the injury was serious and likely season-ending.“Nothing’s completely definitive yet,” he said Monday. “My understanding is, in talking with our trainer and doctors, that it wasn’t as bad as initially feared right after the game. … It’s a little cleaner than we thought based on the MRI. He’s going to be involved with Dr. [Robert] Anderson down there in Charlotte over the next few days, and we’ll know more.”Harbaugh declined to say when Andrews might have a chance to return under the most optimistic scenario. “I don’t want to say that it’s definitive by any stretch, ...

No more waiting list — for now — as Chicago Cubs make season tickets available for immediate purchase

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

Chicago Cubs fans wanting season tickets no longer need to hold off until their name comes up on the waiting list.The Cubs released season tickets to the public Monday, including a new 20-game plan with seats available in the field box outfield, upper box infield, upper box midfield and upper box outfield sections. Fans also can purchase a 40-game plan or full season tickets.The Cubs created a waiting list for season tickets around 2003, and during the team’s peak seasons it could take a few years for fans to reach the top. The Cubs anticipate they will need the list again in the near future.For now, though, anyone can buy season tickets while there is inventory this offseason.“We do have a limited amount of season tickets still remaining,” Cale Vennum, senior vice president of Marquee 360, which oversees Cubs ticketing, told the Tribune. ”We’ve seen that growing back since COVID, as you’ve seen attendance increase each year since we returned to f...

Judge bans media cameras in Bryan Kohberger case, will broadcast trial on his own YouTube channel instead

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

Sally Krutzig | (TNS) Idaho StatesmanBOISE, Idaho — A court order from the judge overseeing the case against Bryan Kohberger, who is suspected of murdering four University of Idaho students, publicly released Monday outlines his news rules regarding cameras in the courtroom during Kohberger’s trial.Judge John Judge of Idaho’s 2nd Judicial District in Latah County previously said he’d permit cameras but wanted to have more “control over them.” In the court order, Judge said he will grant Kohberger’s motion to “remove cameras” operated by the media, including both video and still photography. Instead, a court-operated camera will livestream the trial, which the public will be able to watch online on Judge’s YouTube channel.The judge said in his order that this route “will ensure the public still has access to see the proceedings for themselves if they cannot attend hearings in person.” The ruling was filed at 5 p.m. Friday and made public through the Idaho judicial branch’s website Mo...

Meeting demand: Shippers prepared for holiday rush

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

Carriers like the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and United Parcel Service have capacity to meet projected demand this holiday season, which is cheery news for shippers and shoppers alike.Like last year, there’s expected to be little drama compared to struggles during the pandemic when people hunkered down at home and turned to online shopping while major carriers including the Postal Service simultaneously struggled with absences and a flood of parcel shipments.Louis DeJoy, postmaster general, said the Postal Service goal is to make peak holiday season delivery “superior and routine.”All told, the parcel industry has a capacity of delivering more than 120 million parcels compared to a projected holiday peak of 82 million per day, slightly less than last year, said Satish Jindel, from ShipMatrix.But shoppers shouldn’t wait to the last minute. “It’s not a ticket to procrastination,” he said.This is the all-important season for shoppers, and it ac...

Circle K offering discount on gas ahead of Thanksgiving in these states

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Circle K is celebrating the holiday season by offering a discount on gas in West Coast states ahead of Thanksgiving Day. Those in California, Oregon and Washington can enjoy savings of up to 40 cents off per gallon on Tuesday, Nov. 21 between 4 and 7 p.m. at participating Circle K locations part of the Circle K "Fuel Day Pop-up." The deal also gives customers 50% off car wash services all day at locations in those states. $1.99 gas: Sheetz drops prices for Thanksgiving week The move follows Sheetz, a convenience store chain in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, which is lowering its gas prices for Unleaded 88 gasoline to $1.99 per gallon through Monday, Nov. 27. Spend ‘Christmas on the Sand’ at La Jolla Christmas Parade & Holiday Festival There are several Circle K locations throughout San Diego County. Find the nearest Circle K near you on their online store locator. “Just in time for Thanksgiving get-togethers and road trips,...

Deep sea explorer Don Walsh, part of 2-man crew to first reach deepest point of ocean, dies at 92

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the Pacific’s Mariana Trench — has died. He was 92.Walsh died Nov. 12 at his home in Myrtle Point, Oregon, his daughter, Elizabeth Walsh, said Monday.In January 1960, Walsh, then a U.S. Navy lieutenant, and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard were sealed inside a 150-ton, steel-hulled bathyscaphe named the Trieste to attempt to dive nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) below the surface. A bathyscaphe is a self-propelled submersible used in deep-sea dives.The two men descended to 35,800 feet (11,000 meters) in the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Earth’s oceans, part of the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Guam in the Pacific. After a descent of about five hours, the steel-hulled submersible touched down on what the log described as the “snuff-colored ooze” of silt ste...

Arizona county again rejects a bid to hand-count all 2024 ballots

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — For the second time in nearly four months, officials in a northwestern Arizona county narrowly rejected a proposal to hand count all ballots in the 2024 election cycle rather than using electronic tabulating equipment.The 3-2 vote on Monday by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors against the proposal came a day after Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes told officials that approving the proposal would mean directing election workers to violate the law. She warned that her office would file a lawsuit if the measure was approved.A hand count was also rejected in early August after Board Chairman Travis Lingenfelter said he couldn’t justify the cost given that Mohave County’s budget deficit already stands at about $16 million. County election officials had said it would take 245 new workers and $1.1 million to count all ballots by hand.Lingenfelter, who voted against the measure both times, said he put the proposal on Monday’s agenda because he told state Sen....

Search underway after man robs bank in Norridge

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

NORRIDGE, Ill. — A search is underway after a bank in the northwest suburbs was robbed on Monday afternoon.According to police, the robbery happened around 1:30 p.m. at a Wintrust Bank in the 4300 block of North Harlem Avenue in Norridge.Norridge police say the man allegedly entered the bank and demanded cash from the teller before he fled the scene heading eastbound. Police say the man was last seen headed northbound in the 4300 block of North Sayre Avenue, about a mile away from the bank. Car crashes into business in Oak Lawn Officers say the man did not display a weapon or imply that he had one during the robbery and no injuries were reported.In surveillance images shared by Norridge police, the man can be seen with money in his hands as he flees the scene.Authorities did not provide details on how much money was stolen. 2 Illinois Lottery players split $325k prize after hitting jackpot over the weekend According to officers, the man involved is believed to be between 45 and ...

2 Illinois Lottery players split $325k prize after hitting jackpot over the weekend

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:00 GMT

CHICAGO — Stopping for gas proved to be a highly lucrative decision for two Illinois Lottery payers who picked up Lucky Day Lotto tickets over the weekend.Two lucky players will be splitting a $325,000 jackpot after they matched all five numbers during Saturday's midday drawing.According to the Illinois Lottery, the winning numbers from Saturday's drawing were 7, 8, 9, 16 and 37. $2M winning scratch-off ticket sold at Chicago gas station Both of the winning tickets were sold at gas stations in Goreville and Lansing while the players were stopping for gas.One ticket was sold at an H&H Fuel in the 200 block of South Broadway Street in Goreville and the other ticket was sold at a BP gas station located in the 17000 block of Torrence Avenue.The lotto players are not the only ones taking home some extra cash after the big win. As a reward for selling the ticket, both stores will be receiving a bonus equal to one percent of the prize amount.According to the Illinois lottery, over 19...