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Longhorns' series with Spartans to start with Friday twinbill due to stormy forecast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With heavy rain and storms expected in the Austin area over the weekend, Texas and San Jose State are going to frontload its 3-game series with a Friday doubleheader.The first game is scheduled for 2 p.m. with the nightcap at 6:30 p.m., leaving Saturday open as that is when the forecast calls for the heaviest rain and potential flash flooding around the area. The weather Sunday is forecast to be a little better, and the teams will figure out when or if they'll play a third game on Sunday.MORE THAN THE SCORE: Stay up to date on sports stories like these, and sign up for our More than the Score sports newsletter at kxan.com/newslettersSevere weather season in Central Texas can get erratic and unpredictable, and Longhorns head coach David Pierce knows that."You gotta be a weatherman right now," Pierce said. "A lot of people are dependent on the schedule."Weather caused Texas and Oklahoma to play a doubleheader to end their Big 12 Conference series April 22, and that led...

Wilton home left uninhabitable after fire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

WILTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Fire crews are investigating a house fire Wilton that took place on Gordon Lane Thursday afternoon. Crews said no one was injured but some animals may have died. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The house was declared unfit to live in. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Siena student, bus driver who helped during medical episode reunite

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Earlier this week, NEWS10 told a story about a Siena College student who helped save the life of a Yankee Trails bus driver having a medical episode behind the wheel. On Thursday, the student reunited with another bus driver on board who helped during the emergency.This past Saturday, on the way from the Siena campus to the College Suites in Troy, a woman who was training suffered a cardiac episode near the intersection of Routes 9 and 378 and stopped breathing. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! That's when Yankee Trails bus driver Mike Koch and Siena student Prince Asante sprang into action. Koch called 911 and brought the bus to a stop and once it was stopped, Asante performed CPR until she was taken to the hospital."He was fantastic. He knew right what to do. Pre-med student, so obviously God put him in the right place at the right time," Koch said."When everything settled down, I was like, 'O...

Route 85 reopens after two-vehicle crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Route 85 at the town line between Bethlehem and the city of Albany reopened Thursday after a crash took place on the westbound side around 2:08 p.m. Thursday.Police said two vehicles were involved in the crash. Both drivers were taken to the hospital for unknown injuries. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Route 85 between Maher Road and Krumkill Road was closed for several hours while crews investigated the crash.

Woman shot 5 times while pregnant shares her story 4 years later

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A young woman who was nearly shot to death while she was pregnant shared her story. Four years after the shooting, she's learning to heal and spreading three very important words.“My momma always told me if you smile, people won’t know what you’re going through,” said 19-year-old Daisha George, a shooting victim.On May 15, 2019, on Lucille near Riverview in north St. Louis, when George was a high school freshman, age 15, and 9 months pregnant, she was shot five times by the father of her child.Her life has not been magically transformed since then. She credits something called UnGUN. “I got shot on a Wednesday. I lost my mom on a Friday,” George said. Her mother had ALS and lost hope after hearing about the shooting. Her condition worsened quickly, and she died. “It was a lot: depression, postpartum, a lot of everything,” George said. “Anger built up because I couldn’t talk to her anymore. I didn’t have nothing. I didn’t have nobody and it kind of hurt. It hurt...

Kansas City Council approves ordinance protecting transgender community

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The city goes against Missouri state lawmakers to approve a resolution and become a sanctuary city for the transgender community.The Kansas City Council voted 11-to-1 to approve the ordinance. It says the city will not prosecute or fine any person or organization that provides, seeks, or receives gender-affirming care. That includes puberty blockers, hormones, surgery, and other care.Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joined other supporters from the Kansas City Council to sign the resolution Thursday afternoon.Councilperson Heather Hall was the lone vote against the ordinance. Hall said she does not believe the council should be involved in medical decisions for other people. Man convicted of killing St. Louis County police officer challenges guilty verdict "None of us are doctors in the room, and we are trying to create or discuss and tell people what they should or shouldn't be doing with their families. This is not our purview as city government," Hall said.Th...

Denver sets record for daily rainfall on May 11 with more than 1.93 inches

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

Denver easily broke a record for daily rainfall Thursday. The city had 1.93 inches of rain, measured at Denver International Airport as of 5 p.m., eclipsing the previous daily mark for May 11 of 1.55 inches, set in 2011.Since the start of the stormy weather Wednesday, Denver has received has received 2.65 inches of rain, as of 6 p.m. Thursday, measured at Denver International Airport. That’s 18.3% of Denver’s annual total of 14.48 inches, according to the National Weather Service.“We’ve been getting a lot of rain,” said Bob Kleyla, a meteorologist with the weather service in Boulder. “And those numbers will only go up. We’re getting more rain” to end the day Thursday.The continuing, steady rain, sometimes heavy, in the metro area caused road damage in Cherry Creek State Park, and the banks of Cherry Creek flooded at Sixth Avenue and Speer Boulevard and along other additional spots. In a repeat of Wednesday’s stormy weather, a tor...

Southern California shelters expecting surge of migrants as Title 42 ends

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

Southern California shelters are bracing for a surge in migrants following the end of Title 42 on Thursday night.Title 42 is the pandemic-era public health order that was put in place in March 2020 that restricted migrants from claiming asylum at the border in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus between countries. The order will expire at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.Local officials are concerned that resources for helping migrants will be stressed to their limits. The Galilee Center in Riverside County is preparing to help the influx of migrants with food, shelter and other basic needs.Many migrants traveling through the eastern Riverside County area hail from a variety of locations including Somalia, Ecuador, Peru and more.When they arrive at The Galilee Center in Mecca or Coachella, they can access shower and laundry facilities, a bed to sleep in, and health necessities such as toiletries, diapers and more.With a long, uncertain journey, Diana Yadira, a migrant staying at The Ga...

Andrew Wiggins reportedly questionable for Game 6 with rib injury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

(KRON) -- Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins is questionable for Friday's critical Game 6 against the Los Angeles Lakers with a rib injury, according to reports from ESPN and The Athletic. Wiggins' diagnosis is reportedly a left costal cartilage fracture, which is located along the ribcage. The Warriors trail the Lakers 3-2 in the Western Conference Semifinal series. Golden State needs a win in Game 6 in Los Angeles to avoid elimination. SF 49ers’ 2023 schedule released: Here are the highlights In Game 5 of the series, Wiggins stepped up with 25 points and seven rebounds. For the series, he has averaged 16.8 points per game and scored double figures in every game.The Warriors have gotten accustomed to playing without Wiggins as he did not play in 45 regular-season games, many of which he missed due to personal reasons. Wiggins was a key cog in the Warriors' 2022 title run.Golden State's opponent got some good injury news on Thursday. Lakers star Anthony Davis is listed a...

Reportan los primeros casos de tiña resistentes a tratamientos en pacientes de Nueva York

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

(CNN) — Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) reportaron los primeros casos conocidos de tiña resistente a los antifúngicos en Estados Unidos. En ese sentido, han instado a los profesionales sanitarios a estar atentos a este tipo de infecciones.Los detalles de los casos se comunicaron a los CDC en febrero y se compartieron en un informe publicado este jueves. Las pacientes, dos mujeres sin parentesco en la ciudad de Nueva York, presentaron síntomas por primera vez en 2021 y 2022. Una de las pacientes no tenía antecedentes de viajes internacionales, lo que sugiere que hay cierta propagación comunitaria dentro de EE.UU.A pesar de su nombre en inglés, “ringworm”, la tiña no la causa un gusano, sino una de 40 especies de hongos. En este caso, las infecciones fueron causadas por Trichophyton indotineae, un hongo descubierto recientemente.Los CDC emiten advertencia sobre un aumento de bacterias resistentes a...