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Weekend Gardening with Tim Joyce: Girdling roots

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

Check out Weekend Gardening with Tm Joyce where WGN's 'Plant Daddy' tackles plant tips like girdling roots and more.Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.

Off-duty Kyle police officer shot at a San Marcos apartment complex

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) – An off-duty Kyle Police Department officer was shot at a San Marcos apartment complex early Saturday morning, according to the San Marcos Police Department. Just after midnight Saturday morning, San Marcos police were dispatched to the Encino Pointe Apartments at 1800 Post Road in response to a shooting. 911 calls referenced multiple gunshots at a unit in the building, according to SMPD. Kyle police said the officer lives and serves as the resident courtesy officer at the apartment complex. The officer told police that he heard gunshots or fireworks and approached a male and a female outside of an apartment unit, while wearing his police badge, to investigate the noises. The male pulled out a gun, pointed it toward the officer and fired two shots with one striking the officer, per SMPD. The officer was transported to Ascension Seton Hays Hospital in Kyle and is expected to recover, according to police. The officer involved in the shooting returned fire dur...

Roads closed after fatal crash on 183A Toll frontage road in Leander

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — The Leander Police Department is responding to a fatal crash Saturday on 183A Toll Road at Hero Way. LPD said the eastbound and westbound lanes of Hero Way are closed as well as southbound 183A Toll frontage road lanes. Police said these roads are expected to be closed "for a significant amount of time."Drivers are asked to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.This is a developing story, and this article will be updated as information is received.

Popular game show host Bob Barker has died, publicist says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

A publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker, a household name for a half-century as host of “Truth or Consequences” and “The Price Is Right,” has died at his home in Los Angeles. Barker was 99.Barker — also a longtime animal rights activist — died Saturday morning, according to publicist Roger Neal.“I am so proud of the trailblazing work Barker and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry and including working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally,” said Nancy Burnet, his longtime friend and caretaker, in a statement.Barker retired in June 2007, telling his studio audience: “I thank you, thank you, thank you for inviting me into your home for more than 50 years.”Barker was working in radio in 1956 when producer Ralph Edwards invited him to audition as the new host of “Truth or Consequences,” a game show in which audience members had to do wacky stunts — the “consequence” — if they fa...

Celebrating Hispanic culture at the 26th Annual Albany Latin Fest

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — For 26 years, organizers at the Albany Latin Festival have been sharing Hispanic culture in Downtown Albany.“The culture, the atmosphere, the music, the food. The friendliness of the crowd,” Pete Vigo said.Vigo has been attending the festival from the beginning, and he says it’s hard to pick a favorite dish from the food selection.“Whatever I see on the menu looks great to me,” he said. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! For his daughter, Dawn Vigo, this is her third year attending, and she says she loves coming back to celebrate her family’s Latin American heritage.“I love the food. The food is great. The people are great. Everybody’s great,” she said.This year, Pedro Diaz co-founded Albany Latin Fest and said organizers also wanted to focus on Afro-Latino roots.“There’s a resurgence and appreciation for Afro-Latino roots,” Diaz said. “And we have a group of women who are excellent. And they will represent...

Crash in Barry County claims lives of infant and woman

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

BARRY COUNTY -- An infant and a woman were killed in a car and truck crash near Monett on Friday night.According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, a Subaru Legacy was heading southbound on Missouri Highway 97 at the U.S. Highway 60 intersection when the driver failed to stop at a stop sign and traveled into the path of a Chevrolet Silverado. Five new Missouri laws to know that become official Monday After the wreck, two passengers, an infant and Xiaxiao Zheng, were found dead at the scene. The driver of the Subaru and a three-year-old girl who was also in the car were taken to a hospital in Joplin. The driver of the truck was not injured

Rockies Journal: Would Colorado’s first 100-loss season matter?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

BALTIMORE — Will the Rockies lose 100 games for the first time in franchise history? Does it even matter?The math is simple but the issue is not.To avoid 100 losses, the Rockies, with a 48-80 record through Friday night, must win at least 15 of their final 34 games. That’s no easy task for a team that entered Saturday night’s game against the Orioles riding a five-game losing streak. Of the Rockies’ remaining eight opponents, only one, the Padres, has a losing record.Since 1961 when the American League adopted the expanded schedule, and 1962 when the National League followed suit, only six teams have never lost 100 games: the Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, Angels, Yankees and Rockies.OK, enough with the simple math. The trickier part of the equation is whether or not a 100-loss season is a big deal; something to be ashamed of, something to avoid like the plague.“It doesn’t matter,” said Orioles manager Brandon Hyde. “Whether we lost 98 ...

Publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker has died

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

A publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker, a household name for a half-century as host of “Truth or Consequences” and “The Price Is Right,” has died at his home in Los Angeles. Barker was 99.Barker — also a longtime animal rights activist — died Saturday morning, according to publicist Roger Neal.“I am so proud of the trailblazing work Barker and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry and including working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally,” said Nancy Burnet, his longtime friend and caretaker, in a statement.Barker retired in June 2007, telling his studio audience: “I thank you, thank you, thank you for inviting me into your home for more than 50 years.”Barker was working in radio in 1956 when producer Ralph Edwards invited him to audition as the new host of “Truth or Consequences,” a game show in which audience members had to do wacky stunts — the &#...

Review: Metallica’s James Hetfield says he ‘couldn’t have dreamt this’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

James Hetfield stood before 70,000-plus fans, who surrounded the Metallica vocalist-guitarist on all sides as he stood on the in-the-round stage in SoFi Stadium, and he seemed a bit in awe of the situation.“I couldn’t have dreamt this,” he remarked.Friday’s triumphant show was indeed the stuff of dreams, both for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act and the legions of fans who filled the mammoth Los Angeles to capacity for the first of two sold-out shows. The group returns to SoFi on Sunday to complete the SoCal stand of Metallica’s M72 World Tour, which supports the group’s 11th studio outing, this year’s “72 Seasons.”The concert was a homecoming show of sorts for the band, which formed back in 1981 in Los Angeles. Of course, Metallica is mostly — and correctly — thought of as being a Bay Area act, since it has spent most of its career living and working in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge.Unfortunately, Metallica ...

Santa Clara County: Spraying, bait planned after fruit fly, West Nile discoveries

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:52 GMT

SANTA CLARA COUNTY — Officials planned two new rounds of pest-control efforgts after finding more West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes in San Jose and the discovery of fruit flies that carry a dire threat to local agriculture in Santa Clara.The California Department of Food and Agriculture said it was taking “emergency action” to prevent the spread of the oriental fruit fly after two flies were found in the areas surrounding Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale within the past month.“It would be disastrous for the oriental fruit fly to get established in Santa Clara County and California,”  County of Santa Clara Agricultural Commissioner Joe Deviney said in a statement.The flies, which are native to Asia but have spread to multiple islands in the Pacific Ocean, burrow into fruits and vegetables, making them inedible. In total, the fly threatens more than 200 types of foods grown in California, almost $20 billion worth of crops, according to the state agency.Authorities als...