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Ride Metra to and from Ravinia this summer for free

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

CHICAGO — Need a ride to Ravinia this summer? Metra has you covered.For the third year in a row, a concert ticket for the music venue will cover your travel costs on the Metra Union Pacific North Line.According to Metra, all concertgoers need to do is show the conductor their ticket or e-ticket and their rides to and from Ravinia Music Festival are free.“This partnership is just one more way we can serve our customers,” said Metra CEO/Executive Director Jim Derwinski. Ravinia Festival tickets for 2023 concerts on sale Monday Metra said it will increase the number of trains stopping at the Ravinia gates for weekend shows starting June 17.The Ravinia 2023 concert lineup includes over 50 artists and over 100 concerts including the annual summer residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Chief Conductor Marin Alsop.Charlie Puth, Ne-Yo, Natalia Lafourcade, Boyz II Men, Maria Schneider Orchestra are among the many artists making their debut at this year’s festival.The festival's ...

First non-binary actors win Tony Awards 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

(The Hill) -- Broadway performs Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first openly nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards on Sunday evening.  “Thank you for seeing me, Broadway. I should not be up here as a queer, nonbinary, fat, Black little baby from Massachusetts,” Newell said in their acceptance speech for best featured actor in a musical. “And to anyone that thinks that they can’t do it, I’m going to look you dead in your face that you can do anything you put your mind to.” Newell won for their performance as Lulu in the musical “Shucked,” a comedy that hit the stage in March. Ghee later won the award for best leading actor in “Some Like it Hot,” a musical that is based on the famous 1959 film.   Tonys presenter mocks DeSantis: ‘The current grand wizard’ of Florida Composer Toby Marlow of “Six” became the first nonbinary person to receive a Tony Award last year.  Like other award shows, the Tonys uses gendered categories for best actor and best actress awa...

Fox News's Turley: Trump could face 'terminal sentence' if DOJ proves even one count

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

(The Hill) – Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley says former President Trump could die in prison if convicted on just one count after being indicted by the Justice Department last week on dozens of charges related to his handling of classified documents. “The problem is, he's got to run the table — he's 76 years old,” Turley, a former opinion contributor for The Hill, said of Trump during an appearance on Fox News. “All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and he could have a terminal sentence. You're talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period as a maximum.”Turley said the evidence laid out against Trump in the indictment revealed last week is "quite strong." Trump tops DeSantis by 38 points in new poll after news of indictment "Now, we have not heard their other side. Generally, the indictments are a lot stronger on the day they are issued than on the next day, so they may be able to knock down some of these issues,” Turley said. “But some ...

Acid poured on slides at Massachusetts park, children report injuries

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) - A hazardous material found on the playground at a park in Massachusetts Sunday has been identified as muriatic acid. After two children reported having burn-like injuries, crews were called to the park in Longmeadow. They found a "suspicious substance" on three slides at the playground, the fire department said. During the investigation, it was discovered that the pump room in the basement of the pool building had been broken into. Two of the fences were climbed over and a ventilation shaft was torn off. The suspects had gotten into the pool room through the ventilation shaft, investigators said. The pool room contained the acidic chemicals that were poured onto the slides. USPS investigating after $28 check altered to $4,200, cashed Muriatic acid is a diluted solution of hydrochloric acid. New England Disposal Technologies, a hazardous product collection center, describes muriatic acid as a "powerful and dangerous cleaner.""Extremely corrosive, this cl...

No more paper license plates: new law tears up old system

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

Rep. Craig Goldman holds a metal license plate honoring his bill, HB 718. (KXAN Photo/Matt Grant)Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN News Today’s top headlines for June 12, 2023. Watch Matt Grant's story on KXAN at 6 p.m.AUSTIN (KXAN) — Say goodbye to paper license plates — just not yet.Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that puts the brakes on Texas' paper license plate problem by tearing up the current system. The new law replaces all paper tags with metal ones. It goes into effect July 1, 2025."Feel relieved and, no, didn't feel this day would come," said Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Fort Worth, who introduced HB 718, which will eliminate all paper license plates in the state. "Bills this big, that make fundamental change in this state, don’t normally pass the very first session that you file them. So, huge relief."The move caps more than six years of KXAN's "Risky Rides" investigations, and an equally-long fight spearheaded by law enforcement in Central Texas to stop ...

Man who went missing in Lake Travis located

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN News Today’s top headlines for June 12, 2023AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The body of a man who went missing in Lake Travis over the weekend was located Monday morning. The Wake: Secrets of Lake Travis The Travis County Sheriff's Office said it responded to a call around 7:28 p.m. Sunday to help EMS find a man who was last seen near Mansfield Dam Park. Authorities searched the area where he was last seen on Sunday night, and paused searching overnight. Search efforts continued Monday morning. The man's body was located around 8:30 a.m. A dive team was still working to recover the body as of 12:30 p.m. The man has not been identified, but TCSO said he was in his 20s. It's unclear how he ended up in the water. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. The Wake: Secrets of Lake TravisFor the past four months, KXAN has been examining the number of deaths on Lake Travis, Central Texas’ most popular lake. We discovered a multitude of factors are co...

An early start to triple-digit heat

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- This will be a week where some of you will want to limit your time outdoors because of the heat the humidity. During the noon hour today heat index values exceeded 103° at Flatonia and La Grange.Afternoon highs will climb towards the century mark this afternoon, and with the addition of humidity, will bring 'feels like' temperatures up to 105° in some areas.Dangerous heat index values Monday afternoonThese numbers will get higher during the week. "Feels Like" readings from Wednesday to Saturday are forecast to exceed 105° with some numbers reaching between 108° and 110°.The increase in the heat means a decrease in precipitation. The afternoon forecast stays dry. The evening outlook does get wet and stormy for parts of Burnet, Lampasas, and San Saba Counties.Evening storms could go severe in parts of Burnet, Lampasas, and San Saba CountiesThe Storm Prediction Center has its eyes out for, especially northern Lampasas County with an Enhanced risk (category 3 of 5) for ...

Olympic gymnastics trials coming to Twin Cities

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

The 2024 U.S. Gymnastics Olympic Trials will be held at Target Center, a source said. An official announcement is expected from Minnesota Sports and Events at 11 a.m. Tuesday.The news has been hinted at for weeks, starting with an Instagram post from Gov. Tim Walz featuring local gold medalist Suni Lee on May 3. The last gymnastics trials, put off a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, was held June 24-27, 2021, in St. Louis.The event will be of particular interest to Minnesotans if Lee, a St. Paul native who won the all-around gold medal at the Tokyo Games in July 2021, can compete. That, however, is in question since Lee announced in April that a kidney issue had ended her college career at Auburn.Former University of Minnesota gymnast Shane Whiskus also competed at the Tokyo Games and is a member of the five-man U.S. team competing this month at the Pan American Games from Oct. 20-Nov. 5 in Santiago, Chile, and is expected to be a contender for 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris....

How AI is beginning to play a part in personalized nutrition

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

Have you ever done an internet search for health or nutrition advice? You probably received one-size-fits-all recommendations. The fact is that everybody is different and there’s no one best diet for everyone. Now science is one step closer to helping us better understand how to personalize nutrition recommendations based on individual factors.The field of personalized nutrition, sometimes referred to as precision nutrition, is making important advancements thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).AI uses computers to perform human-like decision-making and problem-solving. The NIH Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) study will use AI to create and validate algorithms to predict individual responses to foods and eating patterns. This study is part of a larger All of Us research initiative to better understand how individual human biology influences the effects of diet and environmental, behavioral and social factors on hea...

School shootings are a real threat — so these California students invented a technology to fight back

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:54 GMT

Rebecca Wang was just 7 years old the first time it happened.She remembers vividly her teacher’s panicked face, and her urgent voice telling Rebecca and her classmates to keep quiet, hide behind their desks and stay calm.They were barricaded in a Northern California classroom for four hours until police found the man who’d run across their campus with a gun. Wang didn’t understand what was going on, but when they finally walked outside, her entire family was waiting — and they looked terrified.“It was pure chaos,” said Wang, now 17. “We didn’t really know what was going on, but we knew the teachers were scared out of their minds.”After 10 years of waiting for things to change, Wang — a rising senior at San Jose’s Gunderson High — decided to take things into her own hands. This summer, she and three friends will be refining SIREN, an artificial intelligence device they’ve trained to detect gunshots and instantly communicate with all students, staff members and teachers at an affected...