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Mild temps headline the opening weekend of astronomical fall in Chicago

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BECOME TROPICAL STORM "OPHELIA" SHORTLYThe 2023 Atlantic hurricane season's 16th named stormThe system is clearly developing a circulation and doing so over the warm waters of the Gulf Stream which provide such system latent heat energy. It is expected to convert the currently "non-tropical storm" to a "tropical storm" as the system is infused with latent heat energy. Meteorologists call this a "warm-core" storm.Whether the system is "tropical" or "non-tropical" is a bit of an academic point in terms of sensible weather it's producing. A system like this one produces pounding, beach-eroding surf, a dangerous and submerging storm surge and drenching/flooding rains.READ THE LATEST ADVISORY FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HERE: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/221451.shtml?fbclid=IwAR2_CXlzJZEn3n4NDmZYwlxeMBZsHt4nJYN_Ajb3raCyZeEnGpKcqOCFtQUTHE TRUE COLOR GOES EAST WEATHER SATELLITE ANIMATION YOU SEE HERE is courtesy of College of DuPag...

Woman found shot to death in car in North Chicago

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. — An investigation is underway in North Chicago after a woman was found dead in a car on Friday morning, according to police.North Chicago police say officers were called to the scene in the 1000 block of Victoria Avenue after residents in the area reportedly heard several gunshots fired just before 6 a.m. Police: 2 teens killed in Palatine shooting were victims of targeted, gang-related incident After arriving on the scene, officers found the woman dead inside of a parked car in her driveway near 11th and Victoria Avenue. Officers say an unknown individual approached the woman on foot and opened fire before fleeing the scene.According to Lake County Sheriff spokesperson Chris Covelli, the woman had just left a nearby residence before reaching her car.Police say it is currently unclear what led to the shooting and officers have not yet made any arrests. Local Chicagoans on-hand to witness historic ‘Office of Gun Violence Prevention’ announcement The Lake Coun...

Court documents identify man found dead at east Austin park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Court documents obtained by KXAN on Friday provided more details, including the name of the man who's body was found at an east Austin park on Sept. 11.The man was identified as Salvador Sanchez, 30, according to an affidavit.Shortly after 9:30 p.m., Austin Police officers responded to a call from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office after a body was found with gunshot wounds at John Trevino Jr., Metro Park, located at 9501 FM 969, according to police.When police arrived on the scene, they found Sanchez, who's body was found in a thick brush of bamboo decomposing, according to the affidavit. Furthermore, the he had gunshot wounds to his body. Due to the decomposition of the body, police could not make a positive identification of him at the time, court records said. Homicide investigation underway after body found at east Austin park Police interviewed a witness near the area who said there was a recent disturbance between two neighbors. Those neighbors were identif...

No. 4 Westlake holds off No. 8 Lake Travis in Battle of the Lakes 20-14

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 2023 Battle of the Lakes lived up to the hype.No. 4 Westlake held Lake Travis to 87 yards rushing and held off the No. 8 Cavaliers 20-14 to win at Cavalier Stadium for the first time since 2006 on FridayREPORT YOUR SCORE: We'd love to post your team's score on our website, but we need your help to do it. Email the score of your game to [email protected] and we'll get it on our websiteJack Kayser provided the big play for the Chaps with a 40-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and Spencer Barnett hit his second field goal from over 50 yards to lift the Chaps to the win. The Cavaliers drew within a touchdown after quarterback Kadyn Leon hit tight end Josiah Thomas for an 11-yard touchdown with 10:35 left in the game, but the Chaps were able to run the clock out. Sophomore quarterback Rees Wise hit Brody Wilhelm with a pass over the middle to convert a 3rd-and-10 with 4:18 left in the game, and the Chaps were able to bleed the rest o...

High school football roundup: Stillwater scores in closing seconds to rally past Mounds View

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

Stillwater 21, Mounds View 17: Nick Kinsey’s third touchdown pass of the night came just in time for Stillwater (3-1) to escape with a road victory.With the Ponies trailing 17-14, Kinsey hit Tanner Schmidt for an eight-yard scoring strike with eight seconds to play to push Stillwater over the top.Stillwater appeared to have the game won roughly a minute prior with possession deep in Mounds View (2-2) territory and the clock bleeding away. But the Mustangs’ Peter Nguyen recovered a Stillwater fumble and returned it 95 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with 77 seconds to play.Central 43, Johnson 25: Johnson (2-2) built a 13-0 first-quarter lead on its intracity rival, only to have Central (3-1) storm back with 28 second-quarter points.Minutemen quarterback Allan Lankfard Jr. was responsible for all four of Central’s second-quarter scores, throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for two. For the game, Lankfard had three touchdown passes, all to senior receiver Kaiden T...

High school football: St. Agnes runs away with a win over Holy Family

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

The game plan Friday was simple — run the football and don’t let up.That made it a relatively basic night for St. Agnes senior quarterback Landen Mickelson. But he wasn’t complaining one bit.After all, the Aggies — ranked No. 7 in the state in the most recent Class 2A state poll — rushed for a season-best 376 yards as a team en route to improving to 4-0 with a 33-14 victory over Holy Family on the road in Victoria.“You can’t argue when your team is putting points on the board like we were,” said a smiling Mickelson, who rushed for two touchdowns himself. “My job is easy. Just hand the ball off and let them do the work.”The them to which Mickelson was referring were St. Agnes’ talented group of running backs. Senior Elijah Simmons led the way Friday, carrying the ball 19 times for 149 yards and two touchdowns.Sophomore Evonson Plamann was close behind, carrying the ball 17 times for 118 yards. Senior fullback Adam Hernandez rushed for 74 yards and a score as well.“W...

Twins clinch American League Central, punch ticket to playoffs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

Byron Buxton stood in front of his locker in a nearly empty clubhouse in Fort Myers, Fla., on a day in March, dreaming of new jewelry.“I want a ring,” Buxton, one of the longest-tenured members of the team, said that day. “I want something that got them diamonds (in) the end.”This, he said, was one of the best Twins teams he could recall. The talk in spring training was that as Buxton and Carlos Correa, the $200 million shortstop who re-signed with the Twins after a dramatic trip through free agency, went, so too would the Twins.But on that day in March, Buxton was instead touting that team’s depth, the depth that would eventually lead the Twins to their third American League Central title in the past five years. Buxton is still dreaming of that ring, but the Twins checked off one major milestone on their way, sealing a postseason berth on Friday with an 8-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels in front of a lively crowd at Target Field.In a season in which Correa and Buxton were hampere...

New regulations for high school sport spectators

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Football season is kicking off across the country and here in New York, spectators will be expected to follow a new set of rules. It’s three strikes and you're out. New management at the Parkview Apartments You’ve probably seen the violence unfold on television during NFL games on primetime, or you heard about high school games in New York being disrupted by bad spectator behavior. This year, things are changing, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) is taking action against bad sportsmanship on the local level. NEWS10 visited the Guilderland high school homecoming game seeking spectator reactions and more on the new rules that could see some booted from the stands.You may have seen someone blow their top and overreact to a student's play or an official’s call during a high school game and now there's a three-strike policy, no matter what the sport. It goes into effect this school year. It comes at the start of the bu...

Missouri's ambitious investment in I-70 poised to attract big business

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Missouri is making some large investments to improve railroads and interstates, and they're expected to help the state's business community grow. The largest item in this year's state budget is the $2.8 billion plan to improve Interstate 70 from St. Louis to Kansas City. Besides bring relief to drivers, it's estimated to attract new businesses to the state and grow existing companies.Lawmakers allocated a historic amount of money to MoDOT to update railroad crossings and to add extra lanes on I-70 in both directions. Officers no longer employed in aftermath of inmate escape from Mercy Hospital "You're going to see more businesses pop up along I-70, and then the good thing we can do, is we can now take the rest of that money that we had invested and switch that over to I-44," said Missouri Gov. Mike Parson. But the state’s transportation department is expecting to pay for the price of inflation. "We had on average, at the beginning of the inflationary period, we we...

Chatfield beats Dakota Ridge in cross-classification Jeffco rivalry so good it needs a name, and a trophy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:18 GMT

LAKEWOOD — Chatfield and Dakota Ridge’s cross-classification Jeffco rivalry lived up to the hype. Now, the game just needs a name — and a trophy.West Littleton Foothills Showdown? Charger-Eagle Bowl? The Coal Mine Clash, and the winner gets a golden pickaxe? Both programs put on a showing worth of such branding on Friday, when Jake Jones’ three TD passes to Drew Rohlman catalyzed Chatfield’s 45-21 victory at Jeffco Stadium.“There’s a lot of respect between us, but getting a win against these guys means everything,” Rohlman said. “Two years ago, we played Dakota Ridge twice, they beat us in the regular season and then we got them back in the playoffs on our way to the state title. There’s a lot of juice in his game. It’s fun.”The rivalry, which is already scheduled for the next two seasons, is an important community draw for the two schools that are about a mile apart as the crow flies. And on Friday, it was a dr...