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A flash flood on a Pennsylvania road claims 3 lives; 4 others, including a baby, are missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — A sudden flash flood swamped a southeastern Pennsylvania road, sweeping several cars away and claiming at least three lives. Four other people, including a 9-month-old baby, remained missing, authorities said.Officials in Bucks County’s Makefield Township said torrential rains occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the Washington Crossing area. Other parts of the East Coast were experiencing heavy rain, including Vermont. Authorities there said landslides could become a problem on Sunday as the state copes with more rain following days of flooding.“My team and I continue to monitor the situation as more rain falls in Vermont. There are flash flood warnings throughout the state today. Remain vigilant and be prepared,” Gov. Phil Scott said. Sunday’s strong storms led to hundreds of flight cancellations at airports in the New York City area, according to the tracking service FlightAware. More than 300 flights were canceled at Newark Liberty Intern...

Police search for suspect in Regent Park stabbing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

The search is on for a suspect following a stabbing in Regent Park Sunday morning.Police say they were called to the area of River Street and Dundas Street East just after 10:30 a.m. following reports someone had been stabbed in the leg. Paramedics transported a man in his 30s to a nearby hospital in serious but non-life threatening condition. The suspect fled the scene before police arrived. He was last seen wearing a white hat and a plaid red shirt.

Brittney Griner makes an emotional and dominant return to record-setting WNBA All-Star Game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brittney Griner made an emphatic and emotional return to the WNBA’s midseason showcase event.She scored 18 points, including her team’s first six, and put down two dunks in the league’s All-Star Game on Saturday night.The sellout crowd roared when Griner was introduced and, clearly moved by the ovation, she tapped her chest over her heart with her right hand. There was no doubt that a year after being forced to miss this event while detained in Russia, Griner was the star of the show.“To have that ovation and all those little memories that I can cherish now, it means the world,” Griner said. “So it was no question I was going to come and play. They have never wavered in their support.”Griner led Team Stewart, captained by the New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart, to a 143-127 victory over Team Wilson, led by the Las Vegas Aces’ A’ja Wilson. The 143 points and 270 combined points are All-Star Game records.Team Stewart’s Jewell ...

With another Toronto shelter hotel to close, residents call for action from new mayor

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

Michael Smith wants to settle down. At 71 years old, he imagines what it would be like to have his own home. Somewhere he can call up his friends, fire up the BBQ and share a meal over the sounds of his favourite music: Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and The Doors. Smith has been homeless for about 25 years. In that time, he says the closest he’s come to a place of his own is in a downtown Toronto hotel, one of several sites the city converted to temporary homeless shelters at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith – who has schizophrenia, a heart condition, walks with a cane and has survived multiple strokes – was connected with a nearby family doctor shortly after he moved to the hotel in 2020, he says. Almost everyone coming and going from the hotel says hello. A cashier at the Tim Hortons next door knows him by name and comes by his table later to warn about a storm brewing. But Smith is set to be displaced when the Strathcona Hotel owner reclaims the site at the end of Au...

Tokito Oda wins wheelchair final to become youngest male Wimbledon champion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Tokito Oda became the youngest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in any discipline after defeating Alfie Hewett in the men’s wheelchair final on Sunday.The 17-year-old Japanese player won 6-4, 6-2 on No. 1 Court to earn his second straight Grand Slam title after also winning the French Open in June.“I’m still 17. So, I want to open a champagne, but I couldn’t,” Oda said. “So I have to drink sparkling water.”His French Open victory, where he also beat Hewett in the final, made Oda the youngest man to win a Grand Slam singles title in any discipline — excluding juniors — at 17 years, 33 days.He was 17 years, 69 days when he won the Wimbledon title. Boris Becker was the youngest men’s singles champion at the All England Club at 17 years, 228 days in 1985.In the women’s wheelchair doubles final, Diede De Groot followed up her singles victory by adding another title alongside Jiske Griffioen. The Dutch pair beat Yui Kamiji of Japan and Kgoth...

N.W.T. researchers studying permafrost, ‘the foundation on which everything is built’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

INUVIK, N.W.T. — Off the side of the road not far from the airport in Inuvik, N.W.T., among the shrubs and spruce trees, a series of rusted metal bars are buried deep in the ground. Installed in 2004, they are helping researchers measure how the ground is changing over time.Jennifer Humphries, permafrost specialist at the Aurora Research Institute, says it’s the only site in the world south of the treeline looking at the long-term thermal expansion and contraction of the ground connected to annual changes in air temperature. She says the ground there has been expanding two centimetres every year. “It is a very neat site,” she says.Past clouds of buzzing insects, several trees nearby sport metal platforms attached to their slim trunks, measuring changes in tilt. As the permafrost degrades unevenly below, Humphries says it can cause what’s known as “drunken forests” where off-kilter trees lean in different directions.This is one of several places in...

Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

It knows when you’ve been online shopping, the last time you worked out and whether you’ve been lurking on your ex’s profile.Meta’s new social media platform Threads is gobbling up massive amounts of sensitive data on its 100 million users and counting.The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.“The more data you have sitting in a certain position (or) spot is going to get people really, really excited about getting access to it and being very creative about it.”Threads falls under Meta’s wider privacy policy that covers its other social media platforms, Facebook and Instagra...

Sunday Brunch: Khmai Fine Dining

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

Join Sunday Brunch this morning with Khmai Fine Dining to showcase authentic Cambodian food.Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.

California woman kidnapped in Mexico released by captors, FBI says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

SAN MATEO, Calif. (KRON) — A San Mateo, California woman who was kidnapped in Mexico last year has been found and will soon be reunited with her Bay Area family, the FBI has confirmed.Monica De Leon Barba was walking her dog in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico on Nov. 29, 2022, when she was kidnapped, the FBI previously shared.Authorities said De Leon Barba, a U.S. citizen living in Mexico at the time, was held in captivity until Friday, when she was released by her captors. No arrests have been made in connection to her kidnapping and an investigation remains underway. The FBI shared video of her suspected kidnapping to the public in April to help find her. In the video, De Leon Barba can be seen walking along the road with her dog before apparently being forced into a vehicle by several suspects. Alabama woman who disappeared after reporting child along interstate found In a second clip, three cars used in the kidnapping were highlighted, the FBI said. The descriptions of five suspe...

Weekend Break: Voyage en France

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:45 GMT

Check out today's segment of Weekend Break with Erik Runge where he takes a trip to Voyage en France in Wheaton.Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.