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J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell make history as first openly nonbinary winners of Tonys for acting

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Awards history was made Sunday when Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first nonbinary people to win Tonys for acting as the Broadway community seized the moment amid a Hollywood writers’ strike that left theater’s biggest night without a script.“Thank you for the humanity. Thank you for my incredible company who raised me up every single day,” said leading actor in a musical winner Ghee, who stars in “Some Like It Hot,” the adaptation of the classic cross-dressing comedy film.The soulful Ghee stunned audiences with their voice and dance skills, playing a Chicago musician, on the run from gangsters, who tries on a dress and is transformed.Newell, who plays Lulu — an independent, don’t-need-no-man whiskey distiller in “Shucked” — has been blowing audiences away with their signature number, “Independently Owned.”“Thank you for seeing me, Broadway. I should not be up here as a queer, nonbinary, fat, Black little baby from Massachusetts. And to anyone...

German shepherd wounded in Ukraine gets new start as Hungarian police dog

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — After a rocket attack in eastern Ukraine, half of Rambo’s face was mangled and bloody. Shrapnel had ravaged the right side of his head, and it was uncertain if he would survive. The 3-year-old German shepherd, who had accompanied Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war, underwent emergency surgery that saved his life. Now, Rambo is training with the Budapest police department in neighboring Hungary and serving as a reminder that dogs — and people — with disabilities can do great things.Recovered from his brush with death in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv province, Rambo is learning how to interact with children, older adults and disabled people at police demonstrations and rehabilitation institutions, according to Lt. Col. Maria Stein with the Budapest Metropolitan Police.Demonstrating the tasks performed by canine units is part of the department’s crime prevention program, with a goal of teaching young people to be more tolerant a...

Police: 1 dead, several wounded in shooting at Maryland home

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police chief said that at least one person was killed and several others wounded in a shooting Sunday night at a house in the state’s capital city. Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson told The Baltimore Sun that several people were shot and at least one of the victims had died. Numerous police cars were seen in the residential area where the shooting happened south of the city center and near the waterfront. The police department issued a news release confirming multiple people were hurt and that one was flown to a trauma center. The release did not elaborate further on the victims. The police statement said that a suspect was in custody and that there was no further threat to the public. Brian Witte, The Associated Press

China struggles with weak post-COVID economic recovery

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

SHIYAN, China (AP) — Sales of Yizhuan Automobile Co.’s trash trucks picked up after China ended anti-virus controls in December, but their growth is in low gear as managers struggle to rebuild business lost during the pandemic.China’s economy rebounded at the start of 2023, but after a good first quarter, factory output and consumer spending are weakening. An official survey in April found a record 1 in 5 young workers in cities were unemployed.Yizhuan’s sales are up only by single-digit percentages from last year’s depressed level, according to its deputy general manager, Yu Xiongli. The 300-employee company is in Hubei province, where the first coronavirus cases were detected in late 2019.″It is still in the process of recovering,” Yu said. “Growth is quite slow.”China’s economic growth accelerated to 4.5% over a year earlier in the three months ending in March from the previous quarter’s 2.9%, but forecasters say the peak of that recovery might already be past.Growth would...

Sunday Night Forecast: Clearing skies & not as breezy, low of 52

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

Sunday Night: Clearing skies & not as breezy. NNW 5-15 mph. Low: 52Monday: Sunny start, with increasing PM clouds & chance of showers. NW 10-15 mphHigh 72, upper 60s by the lakeExtended outlook calls for more sunshine on Tuesday and Wednesday and temps getting closer to seasonal norms by 80 . Slight chance of isolated afternoon showers/t'storms both days. Sunny on Thursday with highs near 80. A sunny start on Friday with a chance of iso. showers/t'storms in the afternoon. Dad's day weekend at this point looking partly cloudy and pleasant with temps in the mid 70s. 

CPD: Male stealing cell phones from women talking on the phone in Hyde Park

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department sent out a community alert Sunday evening about a male they said — on several occasions — stole a cell phone from a woman in the middle of the day.According to police, three times over a little more than the past week, a male offender approached a female victim that was walking around the Hyde Park neighborhood and talking on her cell phone. In each instance, the offender then grabbed the cell phone from the victim's hand and fled the scene in a waiting vehicle.Times and Locations· 1700 block of East 56th Street on June 3, 2023 at 8:40 p.m.· 1700 block of East 56th Street on June 8, 2023 at 2:30 p.m.· 1400 block of East 53rd Street on June 8, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.Police describe the offender as a Black male around 18 years old, who is 5-foot-5-inches to 5-foot-8-inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds. “I’m not Superman, I can’t stop bullets:” 3 teens, woman in hospital after shooting near CTA Red Line Station If you or someone you know has inf...

Theater review: Theater Latte Da stages a compassionately crafted ‘Next to Normal’ as Rothstein’s farewell

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

Among the epiphanies visited upon humanity during the pandemic has been the recognition that mental health is an issue for all of us. With lives universally turned upside down, the collective conclusion has been that psyches will need help getting back to “normal.”Which makes the 2008 musical, “Next to Normal,” a timely choice to close the 25th season of Minneapolis musical theater purveyors Theater Latte Da. The story of a family struggling with a matriarch’s bipolar disorder is not only a groundbreaking rock-driven dive into how mental illness is treated in America, but also an ideal showcase for the artistry of the company’s founding artistic director, Peter Rothstein.He’s off to become head of Asolo Repertory Theatre — kind of like the Guthrie of Florida — and it’s hard to imagine a farewell that showcases his directing skills better. Not only is every detail attentively shaped and imaginatively presented, but each character is created with compassion as the key sculpting tool. ...

‘Everything we hoped for and then some’: Lynx retire Sylvia Fowles’ No. 34 jersey

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

Awards do not do justice in describing perhaps the best center in WNBA history.Nonetheless, the latest and most-deserved honor for Sylvia Fowles came Sunday night when her No. 34 became the fourth jersey to be retired by the Minnesota Lynx.What occurred in the minutes preceding the postgame ceremony had the crowd fired up: a late 17-0 run by the home team and a 91-86 win over Los Angeles.Bridget Carleton scored from outside the arc in front of the Sparks bench with 1:10 left and from a similar spot across the court with 32.1 seconds left and the Target Center was as loud as it’s been all season.Napheesa Collier finished with 24 points and nine rebounds for Minnesota (2-7). Tiffany Mitchell added 17 points, Kayla McBride 13, and Jessica Shepard grabbed 13 rebounds.A 4-point play by former Lynx guard Lexie Brown gave the Sparks (4-4) a 78-72 lead midway through the final frame. The lead was 11 after another Brown 3-pointer with 3:38 left.But the game was only an opening act on a night...

You Paid For It: Mother of 4 says apartment complaints haven't been addressed

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis mother of four is facing a setback with the conditions at her at a rent-subsidized apartment in north St. Louis, more than a month after our You Paid For It team put a spotlight on the matter.FOX 2’s investigation revealed so many problems in Torreese Valentine’s apartment that the St. Louis Building Commission condemned it.Valentine temporarily moved out of the apartment. She and her children are now back in the unit, and facing some of the same issues. But this time, the St. Louis Health Department has told her it has no plans to act at the moment.Valentine said the main problem is an insect infestation. She’s asked the health department come and take another look.FOX 2 also notified the city health department about the new troubles.The health department responded to FOX 2 in an email, saying they found no trace of a bug problem.“Inspections performed by the City of St. Louis Department of Health at Thomas Street have failed to show evidence of a live infes...

Residents in Lindenwood Park want to know how long water main repairs will take

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:20:16 GMT

ST. LOUIS – Waterline breaks in St. Louis kept the city's Water Division busy all weekend. Arsenal was shut down Sunday at Jamieson for a break to a 20-inch waterline. People living in the Lindenwood Park area said they noticed breaks popping up all weekend."This was a lake. You could put a raft in the water and it would make it all the way down the street. It was an alarming amount of water," Scott Schumaier said.Less than 48 hours after Schumaier’s street was flooded from a break, the water was shut off to homes on his street and he noticed more breaks in the area. Janae Edmondson set to have another surgery Monday "I noticed one this morning on the way to get some lunch. Right on Chippewa by the Lansdowne Medical Center," Schumaier said.The breaks in the Lindenwood Park area are just one month after a break to a 60-inch waterline in Dogtown that sent water flowing in the streets and shut down Interstate 64. Schumaier said he and his neighbors have kept a close water on the brea...