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Chicago award-winning restaurant one of the 10 best in the US, according to new report

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

CHICAGO — A renowned restaurant in Chicago has made a list for the Top Ten of its kind in the country. Trips to Discover compiled a list of the best award-winning restaurants in the United States, ranking those recognized by the Michelin Guide, Forbes Travel Guide and AAA Diamond Awards and factoring in ratings from Google and TripAdvisor.Of the 64 restaurants that were evaluated, Chicago's Alinea was ranked ninth among the group and was the city's lone representative on the list. It's another honor for the restaurant located at 1723 North Halsted St. in Lincoln Park.According to Trips to Discover, two types of analysis were used to compile the rankings, starting with a statistical review looking at customer reviews and ratings from Google and Trip Advisor. A qualitative review looked more at the written reviews of each restaurant. Alinea boasted accreditation from Michelin, Forbes, and AAA with a customer review score of 4.72/5, a TripAdvisor food score of 4.45/5, and TripAdvi...

Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he's quitting Fox News' political combat show 'The Five'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News' popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him.The last scheduled appearance on “The Five” for the television veteran, whose 80th birthday is on July 4, is next week.“It has been a rocky ride but it has also been an exhilarating adventure that spanned quite a few years,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I hope it's not my last adventure.”Rivera said that it was his choice to leave “The Five,” but that Fox management “didn’t race after me to say, ‘Geraldo, please come back.’” There was no immediate comment from Fox.Despite airing in the late afternoon instead of prime time, “The Five” has become Fox's most-watched program, with an average of more than 3 million viewers last year. Its conceit is simple — five people, four of them conservative and one liberal...

Missing Forest Lake girl believed to be traveling with cat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

Desiray Kappes, left, 14, of Forest Lake, has been missing since May 19, 2023, when she was seen leaving her residence on a bike. She is believed to be traveling with her cat, center. She may utilize a backpack pet carrier while on foot. If you have seen Desiray with her cat or bike and trailer pictured, please call the Forest Lake Police Department at 651-439-9381 or 911. (Courtesy of the Forest Lake Police Department)A 14-year-old girl who left her Forest Lake house on her bicycle May 19 and still has not been found is believed to be traveling with her cat.Desiray Kappes, a homeschooled student who left her house in the 900 block of Eleventh Avenue Southwest around 9:30 a.m. May 19, may have a backpack pet carrier while on foot, police said Wednesday. It is unknown what her destination was at the time, police said.The Forest Lake Police Department released photos of Desiray’s cat and asked for the public’s help in the search.Desiray is 5 feet 6 inches tall, has brown hair an...

Southbound I-35W closure this weekend from Bloomington to Burnsville

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

MnDOT has announced that a portion of southbound Interstate 35W will be closed starting Friday.Southbound I-35W between I-494 in Bloomington and I-35E in Burnsville will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday.RELATED: I-94 closures to begin overnight Thursday in Washington CountySouthbound ramps between 82nd Street and I-35E as well as the northbound I-35W E-ZPass Lane between 106th Street and 82nd Street will also be closed.The ramps from 98th Street to southbound I-35W will remain closed through late August.The closures are part of a resurfacing project.Related ArticlesLocal News | Body found in Afton State Park believed to be missing Inver Grove Heights man Local News | 40 years later, Burnsville-based Northern Tool brings its first product into the battery-powered age Local News | LEGOs, playdough and more for local students thanks to grant initiative Local News | East Metro boys lacrosse player of the year:...

Crandall Library folklife center celebrates 30 years this summer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) - This year, Crandall Public Library's resident hub of history hits a big milestone. The library Folklife Center turns 30 years old this summer, and is ready to celebrate. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! A free festival will take over Glens Falls City Park outside the library on Tuesday, July 25, running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Folklife Center was founded in 1993 as a place to research and catalog the culture, traditions and history of the southern Adirondacks and upper Hudson Valley. To that end, cultural demonstrations will dot City Park, including:Afghanistan kitesBlack ash and birch bark basketryBarn quiltsBlacksmithingChainsaw carvingChair caningDrummingFiber artsFly fishing flies and cashingHammer dulcimerHenna artIconography paintingIrish stick fightingNature garden sculpturePainted floor clothsPaper artPhotographic portraitsPlasma cut metalworkPrimitive weaving on peg loomsRough edge bo...

Lansing Pool in Cohoes opens on Monday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

COHOES, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Lansing Pool in the City of Cohoes is opening for the 2023 season! The pool will be open seven days a week, weather permitting, beginning Monday, June 26. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Access to the pool is free to all Cohoes residents. Residents must present a valid driver's license or photo identification in addition to one of the following items: current utility bill, current City of Cohoes tax bill, current Cohoes City School ID, or a report card.Non-residents may use the pool after paying a fee of $7. There is a limit of 70 non-residents allowed per day. Swimmers under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Children dropped off at the pool alone will not be permitted to swim. The pool will be open from noon to 7 p.m. daily. There will be an adult swim time on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m.

CEO of company that owns missing Titanic tour sub faces fraud lawsuit by Florida couple

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

The CEO of the company that owns the submersible that went missing in the Atlantic Ocean recently on an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic, prompting a major search effort that has attracted worldwide attention, was sued by a Florida couple for fraud in February, according to court records.Richard Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the company behind the highly expensive manned submersible expeditions to the Titanic, as well as one of the five people aboard the missing sub, is the sole named defendant in the suit filed in Orange County circuit court by Marc and Sharon Hagle.According to the lawsuit, the couple paid OceanGate a total of $210,258 to be a part of the company’s first manned expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic, which was initially supposed to take place in June 2018 aboard the Cyclops 2 submersible, later renamed Titan.The Hagles each signed initial contracts and paid a total deposit of $20,000 in November 2016, with the remaining m...

Titanic Tour Leader Loved Risk and Called Safety a ‘Pure Waste’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

Laura Nahmias and Guillermo Molero(Bloomberg) — Stockton Rush, founder of the company that owns the missing submersible craft that was on its way to view the Titanic wreckage, has said safety is “pure waste.”“I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything,” Rush said in a 2022 podcast with CBS reporter David Pogue. “At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.”That mindset is now coming into focus as rescuers race to find the Titan, which has Rush and four other passengers on board and is likely running out of oxygen, with estimates of about 16 hours left. Ocean scientists and at least one former employee of Rush’s company, OceanGate Inc., have been sounding alarms about its safety procedures for at least five years.Founded in 2009, Everett, Washington-based OceanGate has been leading chartered expeditions on the Titan...

Rockies lose eighth straight to sizzling Reds, who win 11th game in a row

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

CINCINNATI — Rockies reliever Daniel Bard stood with his hands on his hips as Jake Fraley rounded the bases. There’s no telling what Bard was thinking at that moment or what he might have been saying to himself.We can only imagine, but it surely wasn’t good. Not when he gave up the winning runs in Colorado’s eighth consecutive loss.What we do know is that Bard served up a two-run, screaming, line-drive homer to Fraley in the eighth inning, sparking the Reds to a 5-3 win and their 11th victory in a row. The Reds’ rally began with a bloop double by Elly De La Cruz into no-man’s land in left field.Rubbing salt into the Rockies’ road rash of losses was the fact that they struck out 15 times Wednesday at Great American Ballpark.After getting swept in a four-game series at Atlanta, Colorado got swept in a three-game series in Cincy.Colorado, its rotation decimated by injuries, used right-hander reliever Jake Bird as its opener. Bird supplanted Con...

'We cannot put into words the pain': family mourns California couple killed at EDM festival

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:00 GMT

Family members have identified the young couple killed in a shooting at an EDM festival in Washington state as Josilyn Ruiz, 26, and Brandy Escamilla, 29, both of whom were from the Los Angeles area.Ruiz and Escamilla were attending Beyond Wonderland near the city of George on Saturday night when a gunman opened fire on a crowd in an area where people were camping, authorities said.Josilyn Ruiz (left) and Brandy Escamilla were killed when a gunman opened fire at an EDM festival in Washington state on June 17, 2023. (GoFundMe)Escamilla died of a gunshot wound to the head, and Ruiz died from a gunshot wound to her torso, the Grant County Coroner said. Two other people were wounded.The alleged gunman, identified as James M. Kelly, 26, was shot by law enforcement officers and survived. Officials said Kelly was a joint fire support specialist stationed at a U.S. Army base in Western Washington.Ruiz and Escamilla were living in Seattle as traveling nurses and were engaged to be married, f...