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School bus crashes into home in Western Springs

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. — A school bus crashed into a home to avoid hitting animal in Western Springs Thursday morning. According to a Western Springs spokesperson, the incident took place around 6:30 a.m. when the bus drove into a house near the 3800 block of Hampton Avenue in an attempt to avoid hitting an animal. Chicago hires consulting firm to help with search for next top cop Th spokesperson said the driver was the only one on the bus and that the damage to the home was not structural in nature. The driver was transported to a local hospital for evaluation as a precaution.

Logan Square liquor store robbed at gunpoint by 2 masked men: police

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

CHICAGO — Chicago police are searching for two men who robbed a liquor store in the city's Logan Square neighborhood.The incident happened just after 10 p.m. Wednesday in the 3500 block of West Fullerton Avenue. Police said two men wearing ski masks entered the liquor store with handguns and announced a robbery.The men took an unknown amount of money from the clerk and also robbed a customer of his belongings before fleeing in a white Volkswagen sedan.No one is in custody. Area Five detectives are investigating.

Car plows into backyard pool during hit-and-run crash in Las Vegas

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The owner of a home in Las Vegas had unwelcome visitors Tuesday afternoon after a car crashed into the backyard swimming pool.The car was removed from the empty pool hours after the crash on Tuesday, April 25. 2023. (Credit: Bradley Thacker)Residents who spoke to Nexstar's KLAS said two suspects fled the scene after plowing a Kia Optima through a backyard wall in the 3200 block of Robin Circle, near Harmon Avenue and Pecos Road. Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to the scene of the accident after getting a call around 1:32 p.m. Tuesday. As of Wednesday afternoon, no arrests had been made.An investigation is ongoing, police said.The crashed car was removed from the empty pool hours after the crash on Tuesday. (Credit: Bradley Thacker)Danielle Biller, who lives two doors down, said she saw two boys who appeared to be teenagers running away after the crash.“I was sitting in the backyard. I heard a big screech and then a big boo...

Dean's Reviews: 'School Of Rock'

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

Dean reviews the play 'School Of Rock' coming to the Chicagoland area this weekend.Get Dean's reviews and A-List interviews delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for Dean's Downloads weekly newsletter. You'll also get his Dean Cooks recipes too!

Melatonin levels in some gummies don't match label, study finds

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

(The Hill) -- A new study has revealed that melatonin gummies advertised to help with sleep may have potentially harmful levels of the hormone, as well as cannabidiol (CBD) that was not labeled on the packaging. A study published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA investigated 25 different gummy brands that were labeled with "melatonin" and were also listed in the National Institutes of Health’s Dietary Supplement Label Database. The study found that 88 percent of the gummies investigated were inaccurately labeled, with only 12 percent containing within 10 percent of the quantity that was labeled.One of the products that was labeled as including melatonin was actually found to have no traces of the hormone but contained 31.3 milligrams of CBD. The amount of CBD found across all the products ranged from 10.6 to 31.3 milligrams, but only five products included CBD in the label. The study found that the "actual quantity" of  CBD in the gummies ranged from 104 to 118 percent of ...

Actor Glen Powell to return to Austin to speak at UT commencement

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former UT longhorn and Austin actor will be back on the 40 acres to deliver the 2023 commencement speech at University of Texas at Austin.UT says Glen Powell will return to campus to deliver the keynote address at the commencement ceremony on May 5 at the Moody Center. Powell studied radio, television and film at UT and is an alumnus of the UTLA program, where he spent a semester in Los Angeles. At 19 he headed to Hollywood to pursue acting.He's best known for his roles in “Devotion,” “Hidden Figures,” and most recently in the blockbuster hit along Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick.” Austin actor soars alongside Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick Before landing big roles, Powell went to Westwood High School and took acting classes at Austin Musical Theatre. As a kid, he attended football and basketball games at UT and learned to play the violin in the UT String Project.The Moody College graduation ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. on May 5 at Moody Center. 

Fulton County Sheriff's Office partners with schools for Operation Safe Stop

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

MAYFIELD, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Police and schools across the state participated in Operation Safe Stop, a yearly effort to curb traffic violations around school buses that put children at risk.“We’re hoping to make it more about awareness than ticketing people," Richard Giardino, Fulton County Sheriff, said. "It’s a very dangerous situation, when you see a school bus, slow down.” Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! News10 tagged along with Deputy Ron Lennon in Fulton County to see what they look out for when on patrol. “Watching for proper bus operation," Lennon said. "Most of the complaints we’ve had are when people are running by in a hurry and ignore the red lights when the kids are getting on and off the bus.”Mayfield Central School District Superintendent Chris Harper said the district consistently sees cars pass stopped buses, posing a risk to students, especially in a rural area.  School lockdown drills may see changes “Wi...

Second week of Pittsfield hydrant flushing begins May 1

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (NEWS10) -- The second week of hydrant flushing in Pittsfield will begin Monday, May 1. Water mains throughout the city will be flushed through hydrants to remove pipeline corrosion products. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The flushing commencing on May 1 is expected to affect the following areas:Unkamet Park Drive heading west up to North Street, working north to the Broadway and Lake Streets neighborhood.Avenue moving west on Dalton Avenue, including the Allendale and Allengate neighborhoods. Moving west onto Tyler Street into the Morningside neighborhood, including Springside Avenue, pushing west to North Street.Lincoln and Fenn streets, Silver Lake, Wendell Avenue, and the surrounding vicinity, pushing west to North Street.South Mountain and Tamarack roads, Dan Fox Drive, and south to the Pittsfield-Lenox line. Juvenile arrested in Malta stabbing The City of Pittsfield wants that although flushing m...

ECOs hike to retrieve tagged moose corpse

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

ADIRONDACK PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Some animals in the Adirondacks are fitted with GPS collars, for conservation and tracking purposes. When a tagged animal dies, its body is extracted so that Department of Environmental Conservation officials can understand what happened to it - for the better protection of the moose population at large. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Earlier this month, one such extraction took place. On April 6, a collar placed on a moose in 2022 gave off a signal indicating that the animal had died. DEC wildlife employees and ECOs embarked into a deeply-forested part of the Adirondacks to find the moose.The expedition to find the moose took place while there was still a large amount of snow on the mountains in the Adirondacks. The teams were able to get within 500 yards of the signal by snowmobile and UTV travel. From there, it was a trek through as much as three feet of snow. The deceased moose was even...

New Metro Transit cameras catches suspect in rape attempts

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:58:45 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The new security technology from Metro Transit played a major role in catching a suspect who is charged with attempting to rape and sexually assault two of their riders.The Metro Transit security team is scrolling, watching, and analyzing 900 camera feeds in front of them.In the last three months, Metro's “Real Time Camera System” has bolstered safety and security for riders on MetroLink, MetroBus, and Call-A-Ride. Top story: Kim Gardner faces second contempt of court hearing "These are basically the eyes on the system,” said Kevin Scott, general manager of security for Bi-State Development. “By taking it and building it out in its own component in a real-life center, we're using that closed-circuit television in a proactive instead of a reactive format.”The new technology is already showing results. Last week, the cameras were used to identify a Cahokia Heights, Illinois, man who attempted to rape two women at MetroLink stations in downtown St. Louis.After...