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Padres break ground on $20 million Gallagher Square renovation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Construction officially began Monday on the multi-million dollar renovation to Gallagher Square at Petco Park.Crews put up gates, black tarps and signs Monday afternoon, alerting onlookers of the construction.Some features of the makeover include:Playground and play area expanded for wider range of ages and abilitiesFenced, off-leash dog parkImproved play ball fieldTony Gwynn terrace viewing deck and picnic spaceState of the art technology and sound mitigation"Padres CEO Erik Greupner said this will "improve the game day experience for fans." The 2024 season also marks the 20th anniversary of Petco Park. California campsite reservation bill signed by governor. Here’s what changes it makes Construction is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays - Saturdays. The project is scheduled to be completed by the 2024 baseball season. The first home opener is scheduled for March 28 against the San Francisco Giants.“I think it'll be great, it'll be a lot of different things for...

Car rams into Chinese consulate in San Francisco and police fatally shoot driver, officers say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A car rammed into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco on Monday, coming to a stop in the lobby and creating a chaotic scene that ended with police shooting the driver, who later died at the hospital, officials said.Police descended on the consulate building after 3 p.m. on a report of a vehicle crashing into the building and urged people to avoid the area. Officers entered the lobby of the consulate’s visa office, made contact with the suspect and an officer involved shooting occurred involving the driver, police Sgt. Kathryn Winters said during a short news conference. Despite “life-saving efforts” the suspect was pronounced deceased at the hospital, police said. Television cameras showed a Honda sedan crashed into the visa office and the doors in front of the building were cordoned off. Winters said they didn’t know why the vehicle crashed into the building or how many people were inside at the time but said they didn’t have reports of other inj...

Russia claims `neo-Nazis’ were at wake for Ukrainian soldier in village café where missile killed 52

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador alleged Monday that “neo-Nazis” and military-age men were at the wake for a Ukrainian soldier in a village café where a missile last week killed 52 people, even as Security Council members retorted that Russia was responsible for starting the war and committing crimes.Vassily Nebenzia told a U.N. Security Council meeting called by Ukraine that the soldier was “a high-ranking Ukrainian nationalist,” with “a lot of neo-Nazi accomplices attending.”In Thursday’s strike by a Russian Iskander ballistic missile, the village of Hroza in the northeastern Kharkiv region, lost over 15% of its 300 population. The café, which had reopened for the wake, was obliterated, and whole families perished.Albania’s U.N. Ambassador Ferit Hoxha, this month’s council president who presided at the meeting, said the missile strike and deaths in Hroza underscore again “the terrible price civilians are paying 20 months after the Russians invaded.”He said Russia may...

South Carolina nuclear plant gets warning over another cracked emergency fuel pipe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

JENKINSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials have issued a warning about a substantial safety violation at a South Carolina nuclear plant after cracks were discovered again in a backup emergency fuel line.Small cracks have been found a half-dozen times in the past 20 years in pipes that carry fuel to emergency generators that provide cooling water for a reactor if electricity fails at the V.C. Summer plant near Columbia, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.The agency issued what it calls a preliminary “yellow” warning to plant owner Dominion Energy last week. It is the second most serious category and only seven similar warnings have been issued across the country since 2009, nuclear power expert David Lochbaum told The State newspaper after reviewing records from federal regulators.A crack first appeared on a diesel fuel pipe in 2003, and similar pipes have had other cracks since then.During a 24-hour test of the system in November, a small diesel fuel leak gre...

Numbers drawn for $1.55 billion Powerball jackpot after a long stretch without a winner

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The numbers were drawn Monday night for an estimated $1.55 billion Powerball jackpot that ranks as the world’s fourth-largest lottery prize.The winning numbers announced were: 16, 34, 46, 55, 67 and the Powerball 14.The top prize has grown so large because it has rolled over for 34 consecutive drawings, since the last time someone won the top prize on July 19. That streak trails the Powerball record of 41 draws set in 2021 and 2022. The largest jackpot ever was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize hit by a player in California in November 2022.The scarcity of Powerball jackpot winners reflects the game’s long odds of 1 in 292.2 million, which are designed to make winning rare so that grand prizes can grow huge.The $1.55 billion prize is for a sole winner who is paid through an annuity, with annual checks over 30 years. Most jackpot winners opt for cash, which for Saturday night’s drawing would be an estimated $679.8 million.Federal taxes eat into the winnings, and...

10 buildings damaged, 11 displaced after home explosion in Woodstock

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

WOODSTOCK, Ill. — Emergency response teams were still on scene in Woodstock Monday night, hours after an explosion reduced a home to ruble and caught nearby structures on fire. Officials say it was around 2:40 p.m. when the two-story home exploded, damaging 10 buildings and displacing 11 people."The house is burned to the ground and there’s nothing left," said Becky Bosowski, the homeowner's sister.  2 dead after shooting inside convenience store in Englewood Bosowski said her bother shared the home with his wife, their roommate, two dogs and a cat. According to Bosowski nobody was home at the time of the explosion. "All three of them were at work," Bosowski said.Officials say the gas company was working in the area when a gas main was struck shortly before the explosion happened. Woodstock Fire and Rescue District Fire Chief Brendan Parker said crews were notified about the smell of natural gas in the area around 12:35 p.m. after the two-inch gas line was hit."The explosion ...

Cottony fair weather clouds Tuesday — but an autumn storm is to spin up over Colorado; its wet weather is Chicago bound in the days ahead

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

CHICAGO’S OFFICIAL COOLEST LOW TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASONChicago recorded its coolest official low temperature of the season at O'Hare Monday morning and the chilliest temp in more than 5 months with a 44-degree low there (43 at Midway). The last time the city was cooler was May 4th when the low dipped to 42 degrees.FROST LIKELY OCCURRED in some colder outlying areas. Remember, temperatures are taken by thermometers above the the ground, but when temps get down to the mid 30s at thermometer level, there can be freezing temps which encourage frost development below the thermometer.IT'S NOT SURPRISING WE WERE CHILLY when you look at the upper-air analyses which show a pool of chilly air locked in place by a blocking pattern and covering eastern Canada south into the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.WGN WEATHER HEADLINESMonday, October 9, 2023A SAFE PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE VIEWINGAt the Adler Planetarium, Saturday October 14OUR FRIENDS AT ADLER PLANETARIUM invite you to A SAFE PARTIAL...

Anoka grower wins world record (again) with a 2,749-pound pumpkin in California contest

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds.Travis Gienger, of Anoka, won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., with an enormous, lumpy, orange pumpkin that could produce at least 687 pies.“I was not expecting that. It was quite the feeling,” said Gienger, 43, who has been growing pumpkins for nearly 30 years and last year set a new U.S. record for growing a giant gourd.The previous world record for heaviest pumpkin was set by a grower in Italy who produced a 2,702-pound squash in 2021, according to Guinness World Records.Gienger grows his gourds in the pumpkin patch in his backyard. He said this year he decided to give his plants extra care, watering them up to 12 times a day and feeding and fertilizing them a bit more than usual.Gienger, a landscape and horticulture teacher at Anoka Technical Coll...

Dead tree is a big problem for elderly St. Louis homeowner

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

ST. LOUIS – An 83-year-old St. Louis woman reached out to FOX 2 to get something done about a city-owned tree.Margaret Kent and her son, Kelton, feared the tree could fall in a storm. They called our You Paid For It team for help. Branches have fallen from the tree and have just barely missed her.“Terrible. Because I don’t want no one to get damaged by this tree. I had a limb almost hit me in the head a couple of weeks ago,” she said.To make matters worse, the tree is breaking up the sidewalk, too.It’s also been a challenge for her son when he comes over.“Problem is this tree has been sitting in front of my mother’s house since 2019, and I’ve requested it to be removed because the fear is someone is either going to get killed or it’s going to fall and damage someone’s home,” Kelton said. “It actually has fallen on a car. I had a rental vehicle and it fell on the rental vehicle, and damaged it as well.”The family said they’ve contacted city hall time and again with no luck. They call...

Report: Israeli military preps for invasion of Gaza

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:49 GMT

A major update from Israel tonight. FOX News reports the Israeli military is preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza.FOX 2 is following reports of bombs going off in Gaza as we enter the fourth day of the conflict.Many Israeli citizens are forced to listen for airstrike warnings overnight as bombs continue to rain down along the Israeli-Gaza border. FOX News confirms at least 1,600 people are dead, including 900 Israelis and at least 11 Americans.Israel responded Monday with a series of strong counterattacks along the Gaza Strip. Drone video shows a mosque flattened by an Israeli air strike. Braham Shishbortish describes what live in Israel is like right now."People are crying, and we had to find shelter in less than twenty seconds. And this is the way we have to protect ourselves," he said.It's the third straight day of fighting between the two sides after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, firing more than 3,500 rockets at residential areas from the Gaza st...