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St. Paul City Council poised to approve two sizable parks projects — a playground and sculpture garden — by Allianz Field

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

Following a financial boost from Dr. Bill McGuire’s family foundation and other philanthropic partners, initial work could begin as early as next week on a sizable new playground bordering Allianz Field, as well as a 1-acre sculpture garden anchoring the intersection of Snelling and University avenues.The St. Paul City Council is poised to approve two agreements for some $10 million in privately-owned and privately-managed public parklands by the professional soccer stadium that hosts the Minnesota United soccer team in the city’s Midway neighborhood.Mike Hahm, a private consultant on the parks projects, said the development team was not yet ready to release renderings of the park sculpture or sculptures, but he said the garden would be constructed around “a very prominent piece of public art.”McGuire’s family foundation also established the 7.5-acre Gold Medal Park in Minneapolis, a celebrated urban parks oasis that is now funded and maintained by its ...

Wild let top line find its own mojo

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

When Wild coach Dean Evason and his staff discussed breaking up their top line, at least temporarily, it wasn’t because they didn’t believe Ryan Hartman, Mats Zuccarello and Kirill Kaprizov weren’t working hard.Or, really, not having any success.The chief complaint was an old one: Too much superfluous passing in the offensive zone, and not enough help in the defensive zone. But the line had a combined 15 points in the team’s first five games and was creating chances, just not capitalizing on them the way Evason and his coaches knew they could.In 2021-22, the line combined for 105 goals and 252 points. Last season, despite Kaprizov missing a month and Hartman limited to 59 games, they combined for 77 goals and 179 points. So, the Wild weren’t about to rush into anything.“There’s a process of speaking individually, then talking to them as a group,” Evason said on Monday. “It isn’t just their line.”The patience paid immediate dividends on Tuesday, when Ryan Hartman scored a hat trick a...

Suspect arrested for allegedly brandishing a shotgun at officers

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

STEPHENTOWN, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- On October 1, State Trooper Abbot and Environmental Conservation Officer Rutherford responded to a reported domestic dispute. The officers located the victim, who had fled to a neighbor's house after sustaining significant injuries. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! When the officers went to the residence where the altercation occurred, the suspect answered the door with one hand behind his back. Officers commanded the suspect to show both hands, but the suspect did not comply.The suspect then allegedly brandished a 12-gauge shotgun. The officers took cover and drew their weapons. They were able to take the suspect into custody at gunpoint. The suspect was charged with second-degree assault, menacing a police officer, and criminal mischief. The shotgun was seized as evidence.

NTSB releases report on deadly Teutopolis ammonia crash

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. (WTWO/WAWV) — A report from the National Transportation Safety Board is revealing more about what happened during a deadly anhydrous ammonia spill that killed five and injured eleven others in Teutopolis in September.According to the report, the crash was caused by a vehicle attempting to pass a tanker vehicle that was carrying 7,500 gallons of anhydrous ammonia. As the passenger vehicle attempted to pass in a no-passing zone, the driver of the truck spotted an oncoming vehicle as well. To avoid a collision, the driver of the truck steered to the right and the vehicle left the roadway.Aerial image of crash scene showing final rest positions of truck-tractor cargo tank semitrailer combination and utility trailer. [2] (Source: Illinois State Police; annotated by NTSB) Historical preservation; ‘Catching the Merom spirit’ The tanker truck then struck a 12-inch metal culver causing the vehicle to jackknife and roll onto its right side. Investigators said the tank cont...

Unexpected ski area claims a win in the race to be the first resort in North American to open for the season

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

Ski Ward in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first ski area in North America to open for the 2023-24 season, according to Unofficial Networks, a ski and snowboard blog, and POWDER Magazine.Related ArticlesOutdoors | The best and worst Colorado ski films of all time Outdoors | Colorado’s Keystone Resort cuts back on night skiing hours in 2023-24 Outdoors | Copper will keep free day parking at Alpine Lot for 2023-24 ski season, will charge for overnight Outdoors | Vail Resorts looking to expand presence in Europe, not commenting on possible Crans Montana deal Outdoors | South Broadway outdoor consignment shop gearing up for first ski season The ski area officially opened on Sunday, Oct. 22, thanks to its newly acquired all-weather snowmaking technology that is able to make snow when temperatures are as high as 76 degrees Fahrenheit.With Ski Ward opening, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area was officially beaten ...

Inside the joy and bewilderment of Denver Nuggets ring night: “It’s kind of like ‘National Treasure'”

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

The Nuggets locker room looked like a high school science class 30 minutes after their season opener. The lab assignment was a dissection, but nobody could could seem to figure out how to extract the innards. Everyone was looking to their left or right, asking a classmate for help.Except even the teacher didn’t know what he was doing.While players studied their experiments, Michael Malone approached DeAndre Jordan’s corner of the room. The 52-year-old coach needed Jordan to spend a couple of minutes showing him all the bells and whistles of the Nuggets’ new object of intrigue: a tricked-out 2023 NBA championship ring.The headlining feature is a ring within the ring — a smaller, “less flashy” (to quote Jordan) yet still diamond-encrusted accessory that slides in and out of the comically large hunk of jewelry. Turns out in the modern NBA, it’s two rings to rule them all. But Malone couldn’t figure out the dissection, so Jordan gave him the tut...

Man claims highest SuperLotto Plus jackpot in 15 years at San Bernardino County store 

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

A man is now a whole lot richer thanks to the biggest SuperLotto Plus jackpot in more than a decade. The sole winner, identified by California Lottery officials as M. Shadoian, bought the ticket from Spring Valley Market in Victorville on Aug. 5. The $82 million Shadoian won ended a jackpot roll that lasted nearly nine months. He declined to offer any public statements and wishes to remain private, the California Lottery said in a release.Spring Valley Market received a $410,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.  List of places not to take a woman on 1st date going viral SuperLotto Plus drawings happen twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Tickets cost $1 each and approximately 40 cents of each ticket sold goes towards public schools in California. According to lottery officials, the odds of winning the SuperLotto Plus jackpot are 1 in 41,416,353. For comparison, those odds are about seven times better than the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, ac...

Man dead after South L.A. house fire

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

Firefighters battling a South Los Angeles blaze Wednesday morning discovered a man's body.The fire in a home at 1210 E. 35th St. in the Central-Alameda neighborhood was reported at about 10:20 a.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a news release.About 25 minutes later, the firefight had extended to the home's attic, but the room believed to be the source of the flames contained a man, who was "beyond medical help and determined deceased on scene," the LAFD added in an update.The fire was ultimately knocked down in about 35 minutes by 30 firefighters.The man's identity has not been released, and the LAFD arson team is investigating.

Hurricane Otis batters Acapulco, rips across southern Pacific coast before becoming tropical storm

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Otis ripped across Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful Category 5 storm early Wednesday, tearing through buildings in the resort city of Acapulco, sending sheets of earth down steep mountainsides and leaving large swaths of the southwestern state of Guerrero without power or cellphone service.While little is known about possible deaths or the full extent of the damage — the main highway into Acapulco was impassable — experts are calling Otis the strongest storm in history to make landfall along the Eastern Pacific Coast.By midmorning, Otis had weakened to a tropical storm, yet many on the coast were left reeling.Flor Campos had been trudging through mud for more than an hour along a highway outside Acapulco before she peeled off her shoes, worried she'd lose them in the muck.The domestic worker from a small town in Guerrero was among dozens of families, women and children who clambered over tree trunks and other debris left by landslides i...

Interpol Still Arresting Live

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:37 GMT

Interpol’s dark, melodic sound has remained solid through line-up and label changes that led to tangent explorations over the years. Lyrically they remain one of the most expressive and poetic bands still making music. On last year’s The Other Side of Make-Believe, their seventh album, singer Paul Banks emotes and sounds as enigmatic as ever, making it a record both old and new fans can appreciate.The gloomier aspects of the music made the New York band sort of neo-goth faves when they started out, but they’ve always been more varied than they got credit for and the mature place they’re at now proves it. Live at the Greek, their lush atmospherics and urgent hooks are sure to be as arresting as ever on the new stuff, and hopefully the classics still in regular listening rotation for many of us from Antics and Turn On the Bright Lights.Interpol at the Greek: The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday-Monday, October 29-30. lagreektheatre.com/events/detail/interpol-1    &...