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'Smokin' on Main Festival' not affected by Saturday storms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - People over in Collinsville didn't let the weather ruin their night. They had some damage in town.The annual 'Smokin' on Main Festival' had to be put on hold. Interrupted for a bit, but not cancelled. Execution of Johnny Johnson will proceed on Aug. 1, stay lifted The barbecue competition benefits the U.S. Veterans Foundation and the city's food pantry. They got back at it once the rain moved out.The fun continues Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Changing workplaces in Colorado: Tattoos no longer taboo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

Carolann Mohrman, 75, perched behind an artist’s booth at the sixth-annual Denver Tattoo Arts Festival last week as the buzz of tattoo needles filled the air – slightly out of place because she doesn’t have any tattoos nor does she plan to get inked.“I don’t like having my skin punctured,” the Lakewood resident said. The first-time attendee instead walked through the doors of the Colorado Convention Center at 700 14th St. on Sunday, July 23, in a show of support for her niece, Eva Mohrman, a tattoo artist and co-owner of Constantly Custom Studio in East Brunswick, N.J.As a child in the 1950s, Mohrman was taught by society at large to view tattoos as “very demonic,” she said, adding that “only Navymen” boasted the body modifications.“Now, everybody has them except me,” she said with a laugh. When asked whether tattoos affect a person’s reputation in the workplace, she answered with a resounding “no” –...

Rockies’ Nolan Jones hits balls harder, farther than anyone in MLB. Now he’s just got to take the next step.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

June 7, Coors Field, 3-1 count. San Francisco Giants right-hander Logan Webb tried to fool Nolan Jones with a sinker.Webb missed his spot. Jones didn’t miss his chance.Pure power and poetry in motion, Jones launched the ball 483 feet into the second deck in right-center at Coors Field, the ball coming off his bat at 114.2 mph.“It’s almost like you don’t feel anything when you connect like that,” the Rockies’ rookie outfielder said. “You swing and watch it go.”Jones, 25, has been a bright light in Colorado’s dismal season, but he remains an unpolished gem.Raised as an infielder, he’s still learning how to patrol Coors’ wide-open outfield spaces. His 34.3% strikeout rate is too high. In his 15 games in July entering the weekend, Jones was hitting .167 (8 for 48) with 22 strikeouts and only four walks. But half of his eight hits went over the fence.“I want to be the best player in the game, like everybody else out ...

Keeler: CSU to the Pac-12? If Rams don’t get an invite, it’s not you, Cam. It’s them.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

My CSU buddy has this dream. In it, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff rings the Rams up and invites them to fill one of the slots abandoned by — irony of all ironies — the CU Buffs.Lordy, what a party. Cam and company happily accept, finally giving Power 5 status to a campus that’s poured dump trucks full of cash into Power 5 facilities. And the wacky part of this dream? There’s a twist ending, one co-written by M. Night Shyamalan and former CSU AD Jack Graham, in which the pages from the calendar on the wall fly away, as if in an old movie.It’s suddenly July 2029. Deion Sanders is coaching the Dallas Cowboys. The Big 12 implodes. CU’s still-chancellor, Phil DiStefano, swears he’s never, ever, ever, ever stopped loving the Pac-12. And the Rammies are swimming in dough above it all, a Little Brother immune from the chaos and strife.Reality, sadly, is a little more complicated.Buzz on the street (and whatever Elon Musk is calling Twitter these days) says the Pac-12 has CSU on stand...

Former Bronco DeMarcus Ware, ruiner of game days and master of first impressions, evokes laughs and memories as Hall of Fame enshrinement arrives

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

Only days earlier, DeMarcus Ware had been laying on the turf in Dallas, unclear on what was happening around him and unsure if he’d ever play football again.It was December 2009 and Ware, playing for the Cowboys, had been hit in the head rushing San Diego quarterback Phillip Rivers. Teammates gathered around him. He recalls Marcus Spears above him saying, “DeMarcus, will you please move?”Several hours later, he was released from the hospital with the best possible news news: A neck sprain, but no other damage.The problem: Dallas had a short week of preparation before playing Sean Payton’s 13-0 New Orleans Saints on Saturday night.Payton, now the Broncos coach, was sure Ware had no chance of returning so quickly.“The injury report didn’t look positive, especially when it was a neck and a back,” Payton told reporters in Denver this week. “And so our Wednesday third-down meeting, normally we’d spend a lot of time on how we were going to handle him, nudge him, chip him, but ...

Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania breaks world record in women’s 50-meter breaststroke

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Ruta Meilutye of Lithuania set the world record on Sunday in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke at the world championships in southwestern Japan. Meilutye equaled the world mark on Saturday in the semifinals and broke it on Sunday in the finals. Her time was 26.19 seconds, topping the old mark of 29.30.She held that jointly with Benedetta Pilato of Italy. Lilly King of the United States was second in 29.94 and Pilato was third in 30.04.—-AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Tormentas dejan a unas 200,000 personas sin electricidad 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

WASHINGTON, DC – Fuertes tormentas y vientos, que llegaron a soplar con una fuerza de hasta 140 kilómetros (86 millas) por hora, dejaron este sábado a unas 200,000 personas sin electricidad en la capital de Estados Unidos y su área metropolitana, según el portal especializado PowerOutage.US.Las fuertes ráfagas de viento derribaron árboles y postes de electricidad tanto en Washington, como en los dos estados colindantes: Virginia y Maryland.Según pudo comprobar EFE, en la localidad de Arlington, en el norte de Virginia, algunos árboles -arrancados de raíz- habían caído sobre vehículos y viviendas. Tras la tormenta, decenas de personas salieron a la calle a evaluar los daños y charlar con otros vecinos.Daños similares se registraron en otras zonas del estado de Maryland y en Washington.Tal fue el impacto del viento que el cementerio nacional de Arlington, donde EEUU entierra a sus veteranos de guerra, anunció en Twitter que retrasará su hora de apertura el domingo para poder lim...

Woman recovering after being found unconscious in West Park apartment fire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

An apartment fire in West Park left one person injured. The flames ignited in the kitchen of an apartment unit along the 4000 block of Southwest 23rd Street around 8 p.m. on Saturday.According to the Broward Sherriff’s Office, fire rescue crews found one woman unresponsive in a bedroom when they arrived at the scene. First responders resuscitated her and rushed the victim to a nearby hospital where she is said to be recovering. The fire was extinguished and no damage was extended to other units in the apartment complex. An investigation to find out what sparked the fire is underway. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

No cease-fire while Ukraine is on the offensive, Putin says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

Vladimir Putin said he does not reject the idea of peace talks over Ukraine, but the Russian president added that there could be no cease-fire while Ukrainian forces are “on the offensive.”Speaking after meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg, Putin told a press conference that African and Chinese peace initiatives could serve as a basis for ending the war in Ukraine, but are “impossible to implement” at the moment. “The Ukrainian army is on the offensive, they are attacking, they are implementing a large-scale strategic offensive operation,” Putin said, according to media reports. “We cannot cease fire when we are under attack,” he said. “We did not reject them,” Putin said, referring to the peace initiatives. “In order for this process to begin, there needs to be agreement on both sides,” the Russian leader said of the possibility of peace talks. African leaders meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg la...

Drones hit Moscow city center in latest attack blamed on Ukraine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:08 GMT

Several drones attacked the center of Moscow in the early hours of Sunday morning, in the latest assault on Russian territory that the city’s mayor blamed on Kyiv. The drones hit two high-rise buildings in an area called Moscow City, a posh business district in the center of the Russian capital, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a Telegram statement on Sunday.“Ukrainian drones attacked tonight. The facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged. There are no victims or injured,” Sobyanin said.Russian media reported that a 50-story building in Moscow City was evacuated. And Russian social media users posted videos of blasts.Russian media channel Astra reported that one of the drones damaged the 10th floor of an office building in Moscow City, where at least three Russian ministries have their offices — the Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Digital Development.Ukraine did not officially take responsibility for the attack. “We...