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Butterball makes donation on behalf of dad's basketball team started after Highland Park shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — In the year since the shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade, a group of neighborhood das got together to talk about the tragedy and bond over basketball.In the morning after the worst day in Highland Park history, David Potocek, a 41-year-old father of five-year-old twins, was standing in his driveway. Chicago Bears gifts boy shot in Highland Park parade shooting special wheelchair "I think a lot of people in the neighborhood couldn't go back to work," Potocek said. "We just kind of took the day off and everybody was just kind of standing out in their yards and people were kind of congregating in my driveway."As the neighbors talked about what they had witnessed at the parade, they were searching for a way to move forward."Then as we were in my driveway, I think I had just gotten a basketball hoop in my driveway, I was like, 'We should start playing basketball," Potocek said.A driveway is both an end and a beginning. The last bit of road that ta...

Canadian fires at the very early stage of the fire season. Chicago dew points to surge; heat in the 90s ahead. "Ring of Fire" pattern to bring storm clusters

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

Insight into the meteorology behind Canada's record fire season—a huge and persistent WARM AIR DOME ALOFT over recent months has boosted temps and limited precip across much of CanadaTHE 30-DAY NORTH AMERICA UPPER AIR ANALYSIS shows the vast pool of abnormally warm air aloft which has lingered so persistently above Canada over the past month. That this is so certainly helps in understanding the meteorological environment which has contributed to Canada's record 2023 wildfire season.Warmer than normal temps aloft over the past 30 days are noted in the regions shaded yellow and red on the NOAA 500 mb. height departure analysis.The first analysis of this UPPER AIR WARMTH over Canada covers the most recent 30-day period. A Twitter post by University of Oklahoma PhD candidate Tomer Burg (https://twitter.com/burgwx) extends our view of warmth aloft over an even longer period of time—all the way from May 1 through June 25th. (It's the second analysis which appears below.)University of Okla...

As sporting director rumors swirl, Austin FC hopes to get better in upcoming transfer window

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With the summer transfer window opening July 5 in Major League Soccer, rumors are swirling about a potential permanent hire for Austin FC's sporting director. On Wednesday, head coach Josh Wolff downplayed them while also acknowledging that the club needs to get someone in there on a permanent basis. After Claudio Reyna stepped down from the role amid controversy over his son Gio's playing time in the 2022 World Cup with United States Men's National Team coach Gregg Berhalter, Sean Rubio was named the interim sporting director. Other duties have also been split up around the front office and coaching staff, including Wolff's interim chief soccer officer title.VERDE LIGHTS: Miss the latest show? Watch the replay on Austin FC's website, but remember to tune in for the next show at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays on The CW AustinItalian soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano reported Wednesday that Rodolfo Borrell, the current assistant manager for European treble winner Man...

Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August meet with Suni Lee

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

Related ArticlesSports | Buck Showalter gets ejected, Mets drop to 8 games under .500 after another loss to Brewers Sports | Future Gophers forward Oliver Moore picked 19th overall by Chicago Blackhawks  Sports | NBA, NBAPA complete and sign new CBA that will run through 2029-30 season Sports | Wild take Rosemount native Charlie Stramel in first round of 2023 NHL Draft Sports | Chicago White Sox’s Liam Hendriks to be honored at ESPYs with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event set for Aug. 5 at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates.Biles has taken most of the last two years off following her eventful stay in Japan in the summer of 2021, where her decision to remove herself from multiple events to focus on her mental health shifted the focus from the ga...

FBI joins manhunt for man accused of killing cousin in northwestern Minnesota

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

PINE POINT, Minn. — The FBI has joined the search for a Becker County murder suspect. Forty-year-old Michael Croud, of Ogema, has been charged with second-degree murder.According to the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, he shot and killed his first cousin, 35-year-old David Hanks, on Sunday night while Hanks sat in the back seat of a car parked outside a Pine Point home.Hanks is survived by a 12-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter.According to a woman who was sitting in the back seat with Hanks, he told her, “It’s Mike, get out of here,” as he saw Croud approaching the car.She said Croud opened the passenger door, reached into the back and shot Hanks several times.“That is something we are still trying to determine. Why this happened and what would be that bad that you would have to do that to someone else,” said Becker County Sheriff Todd Glander.A law enforcement source confirmed with WDAY-TV that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension deploye...

Mounds View native Oliver Moore selected by Blackhawks in 2023 NHL Draft

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

Before he headed to Nashville for the NHL Draft, future Minnesota Gophers forward Oliver Moore admitted it would be a dream to bump into his favorite country musicians like Morgan Wallen or Luke Combs while visiting Music City.Instead, Moore got to meet his pro hockey future on Wednesday evening, when he was picked 19th overall in round one by the Chicago Blackhawks.Moore, 18, was projected as one of the top 20 picks by NHL Central Scouting in the run-up to the draft, where seeing Gophers selected in round one is happening more often lately.Some had him going in the top 10, but the Moore family heard 18 other names called before he headed to the stage at Bridgestone Arena.“Honestly, I was holding back tears, sharing that moment with my family,” Moore said. “My mom and dad were so excited and I think they were pretty anxious to hear my name called just like I was.”When school starts and he moves on campus later in the summer, Moore will be rooming with Gophers...

Driver flees into North Adams flood control system during traffic stop

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (NEWS10) -- An extensive search was conducted of the flood control system in North Adams after a man fled into a pipe Wednesday afternoon.Shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, police conducted a traffic stop on Holden Street near the Corner Market. The driver of the stopped vehicle fled the scene on foot and jumped over the fence into the concrete flood control system, about 15 ft. to 18 ft. below. He was also seen entering a large pipe of the system. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Police, fire crews, the department of public works, and the city mayor all arrived on scene to devise a plan to get him out of the flood control system. An extensive search lasted several hours due to the water level and current.The driver, who police said has three active warrants for his arrest, was not located, but officials said he was spotted leaving the flood control system and was safe. The search was ended.

Children injured and forgotten; here’s how you can find St. Louis daycare violations

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS – Dozens of daycares have recently been cited for everything from losing children, to threatening them with violence. FOX 2 has compiled the childcare violation reports and plotted them on a searchable map.The Missouri Office of Childhood, under the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, generates detailed violation reports if an inspector substantiates a complaint. This report, along with our searchable database, is based on those substantiated ‘Complaint Investigation’ reports. We requested all such reports completed in 2023.One report notes a February complaint at the Clayton Early Childhood Center – in which a “citizen found a 5-year-old unattended…outside at the (next door park) for 30 minutes.”State inspectors “substantiated” the complaint, which was noted to be corrected in March, with meetings and training. 2nd Missouri man sentenced in death of woman who was caged, dismembered At a Lake St. Louis church operated Bridge Kidz Academy in January, state i...

Complaints over problematic home in Fenton neighborhood

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

FENTON, Mo. - Fenton residents want something done about a house that has become a source of foul odor, rats, and insects, in a well-kept neighborhood.FOX 2 confirmed the homeowner died years ago and squatters apparently moved in and stayed until earlier this month.Rodents and bugs appear to be the only things now living in the 26-year-old house on Winter Park Drive. Residents captured video of what appeared to be a rat clamoring for attention just inside a window on the side of the house.“This morning, I was sitting on my back stoop and a rat ran by on my back porch, which I’ve never seen,” said Eric Patterson, who lives next door. 2nd Missouri man sentenced in death of woman who was caged, dismembered The homes in the neighborhood boast tidy lawns, landscaping, backyard decks, and an occasional swimming pool.The one house started to decline quickly around the time the pandemic hit three years ago, according to neighbors.In January 2022, MidFirst Bank initiated foreclosure procee...

Cure Violence contract with St. Louis coming to an end 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A three-year contract between the City of St. Louis and Cure Violence, a program aimed at reducing violence, ends in July. The program trained individuals familiar with certain neighborhoods to intervene and meditate to prevent violence before it’s too late.City leaders said the end of the contract is not the end of the work that’s been done to keep neighborhoods safer.“We’ve worked with partners to make sure that there are still trusted messengers, credible messengers that will be working in the communities that had Cure Violence sites,” said Wilford Pinkney, Office of Violence Prevention director for the City of St. Louis.He said the city is also looking to enhance future collaborations. St. Louis man drowns at Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park “All the work we do around our re-entry work, around our youth diversion work is about bringing partners together," Pinkney said. "Because we want to meet people where they are, but then we want to connect to them to the services ...