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Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara, son involved in car crash in Jamaica Plain

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

A Boston city councilor was involved in a car crash Friday in Jamaica Plain that sent her son to the hospital.Councilor Kendra Lara, who represents Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, released a statement that said the crash took place “near the Monument” by South and Centre Streets.Her office also said her son was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital where he received several stitches.“It was a scary situation for everyone involved but thankfully Councilor Lara and Zaire are expected to make a full recovery, ” the statement said. “She asks for privacy at this time.”They are both expected to make a full recovery.

Bill Madden: I had my own perfect record when it came to the Yankees and baseball history

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

You’ll have to forgive me for not shouting for joy when Domingo German completed his perfect game Wednesday night in Oakland.Nothing against him. He had no way knowing, of course, that he had just destroyed a special little niche I had enjoyed for the last two decades as one of the few people who could claim to have been present at Yankee Stadium for all three Yankee perfect games — Don Larsen’s on Oct. 8, 1956, David Wells’ May 17, 1998 and David Cone’s July 18, 1999.It was after Cone hurled his perfecto, on Yogi Berra Day with a 33-minute rain delay interruption no less, that Joe Torre and Don Zimmer got to talking in the Yankee manager’s office about how both of them had been at all three Yankee perfect games. Torre explained that he had been to Larsen’s as a fan, sitting in the left field seats, while Zimmer was in the visiting Dodger dugout as an inactive player having suffered a severe beaning back in June that limited him to 17 games ...

Myanmar’s Supreme Court to hear appeals of ousted leader Suu Kyi in cases brought by the army

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Supreme Court scheduled hearings for this month to consider appeals from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her conviction in cases that saw her receive a total of 33 years in prison, legal officials said Saturday.The cases against her are mostly brought by the military that seized power from her elected government in February 2021.The 78-year-old Suu Kyi was arrested following the military takeover and tried on a variety of charges that supporters and rights groups say were concocted to legitimize the usurpation and discredit her so she could not resume an active role in politics.She has not been seen or allowed to speak in public since she was arrested and her lawyers have been barred from speaking to the press about her cases since late 2021.Two legal officials familiar with the cases filed against her said the Supreme Court planned to hear Suu Kyi’s appeals on July 5 in two cases in which she was convicted of election fraud and breaching the country’...

Self-serve lottery kiosks, women-only construction site bathrooms part of new Ontario regulations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

From self-serve lottery terminals verifying ticket buyers’ ages to allowing pharmacists to administer certain injections to requiring women-only bathrooms on construction sites, a wide range of new provincial rules and regulations comes into effect Saturday.The changes include a recently announced step aimed at cottage country, with a ban on floating accommodations, such as rafts and barges that have buildings or structures for people to stay in overnight, on provincial waterways.Ontario is rolling out self-serve lottery ticket terminals, and a regulation change will allow the machines to verify the customer is at least 18 years old, so staff don’t have to individually check IDs.A number of regulatory health changes include allowing registered practical nurses to perform more procedures, for example, those relating to wound care, and allowing pharmacists to administer certain medications and substances via injection or inhalation.Surgeons will no longer have to send tiss...

Hungry ticks can use this static trick to land on you and your pets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows.Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they go about their days. And those charges are enough to give ticks a boost to their next blood meal, according to a study published Friday in the journal Current Biology.While the distance is tiny, “it’s the equivalent of us jumping three or four flights of stairs in one go,” said study author Sam England, an ecologist now at Berlin’s Natural History Museum.Ticks are “ambush predators,” explained Stephen Rich, a public health entomologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.They can’t jump or fly onto their hosts, he said. Instead, they hang out on a branch or a blade of grass with their legs outstretched — a behavior known as “questing” — and wait for people or animals to pass by so they can grab on and bite. It seemed that ticks were limited ...

4 shot, 1 fatally after shooting in Chicago Lawn: CPD

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

CHICAGO -- Four men were injured, one fatally after a shooting in the city's Chicago Lawn neighborhood Friday evening. Police said a group of men were standing on a sidewalk near the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue around 8:15 p.m. when a black charger approached, and an unknown individual fired shots from inside the car.According to police, a 23-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was transported to the hospital in critical condition. He was later pronounced dead. Worker dies while setting up Chicago NASCAR race Another man, 24, sustained a gunshot wound to the left knee and was transported to Christ Hospital in good condition. Another 27-year-old man sustained three gunshot wounds to the inner thigh and was transported to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition. A fourth victim, 58, was shot in the hip and lower back and is in good condition at the hospital. There is currently no one in custody and police are investigating the incident.

California bacon law takes effect: What impact will it have on farmers, grocers?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California law approved by voters that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow cages that prevent them from standing or turning will finally take effect Saturday, after years of delays and warnings that the rules could lead to price spikes and pork shortages.But it will be six months before California grocery shoppers can be sure that pork chops they buy under the new law will be from a pig whose mother wasn’t confined in a so-called gestation crate.That’s because while the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law, the state recently agreed to allow pork slaughtered before July 1 to be sold in California markets and restaurants for the rest of the year. That decision gives farmers and grocery stores time to adjust. But it's exasperating to supporters of the new rules that the effective implementation of the law would again be delayed — four years after voters approved it.“This development compounds the instability and confusion in the marketplace, while punish...

Think being a NASCAR driver isn’t as physically demanding as other sports? Think again

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

(The Conversation) - Imagine an NBA game played outdoors. In August. In Phoenix. Tip-off is at noon. There are no timeouts. There is no halftime. There are no substitutions. And players must wear snowsuits, gloves, and ski masks.Sounds ridiculous, right?Yet race car drivers routinely compete under similar conditions.On July 1, 2023, for the first time in over 60 years, NASCAR, the nation’s premier stock car series, will hold a race on the streets of a U.S. city at the Grant Park 220 in Chicago.The fans who attend are sure to appreciate the sound, speed and spectacle. But how many truly grasp the physical and mental strain placed on the drivers?Our research team from the University of Florida and Michigan State University is collaborating with NASCAR to better understand the stressors drivers experience on the track.We’ve learned that professional drivers need extraordinary physical and mental stamina to compete in major racing series such as NASCAR, IndyCar and Formula One. Our data...

VOTE: Help us choose the best KXAN viewer photo of June 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Here at KXAN, we get hundreds of photos sent to us each month by viewers just like you.We want to showcase some of the best pictures we receive, so we narrowed them down to our 10 favorites for the month.Help us choose the best viewer photo of June 2023. Look through the 10 pictures below, then vote for your favorite. The winning photo will move on to represent June in the best viewer photos of the year competition once 2023 is said and done.If you’d like to submit a photo for July's competition, email it to [email protected]. Be on the lookout as KXAN may contact you to send a permission form so we can use your photo on air and online. All submissions must be taken in July 2023.Here are the options for June, in no particular order.Purple RainAustin, June 3.Lightning over downtown Austin on June 3, 2023. (KXAN Viewer Photo)Sunny SceneSnook, June 12. Courtesy Lori Rosenbaum Hardage.A field of sunflowers at Wilder Family Sunflowers in Snook on June 12, 2023. ...

Project adds local art to downtown Austin

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:38 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Downtown Austin Alliance is making an effort to beautify downtown.This is part of the organization's Writing on the Walls project, which launched in 2020. The project pays local artists to help create murals and art downtown."There are so many opportunities to enhance downtown through art." Vaness Olson, the communications director for the Downtown Austin Alliance. "One of those includes our box program—transforming utility boxes to be full pieces of art and for people to enjoy downtown."The group's main goal is to "uplift the local art community' through events and public projects." They also hold things like the Art & Parks Tour, a curated walk through downtown to look at some of the art created by participants.The next park for the organization's Community Activated Parks Project is a mural for Old Bakery Park.