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NASCAR driver Ryan Preece is ‘awake, alert and mobile’ following terrifying crash at Daytona

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR driver Ryan Preece is “awake, alert and mobile” after his car rolled about a dozen times during a terrifying crash at Daytona International Speedway.Stewart-Haas Racing said Sunday morning that Preece “has been communicating with family and friends.” He was hospitalized overnight.The 32-year-old Preece was able to climb out of his mangled No. 41 Ford on Saturday night with help before emergency workers put him on a gurney and into an ambulance. He initially went to the track’s infield care center before being transported to Halifax Health Medical Center for continued observation.He will be evaluated by medical personnel again Sunday, the team said, adding that another update is expected in the afternoon.Preece tweeted about two hours after the race, posting: “If you want to be a race car driver, you better be tough. … I’m coming back.”Preece and SHR teammate Chase Briscoe made contact coming out of Turn 4, and Preece’s car we...

Denver weather: Rain chances Monday ahead of a warmer, drier week

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Keep the umbrella handy through Monday before a warmer and drier week ahead. Sunday starts off with sunshine before the wind picks up and a few afternoon storms develop. No severe weather is expected, but there could be brief showers.Temperatures Sunday will be right about average in the mid-80s.Monday brings a better chance for rain and a cooldown.Showers are possible in the morning but the best chance will be off/on throughout Monday afternoon and into the evening. High temps will only reach into the mid to upper 70s.Tuesday brings a warm-up into the low 80s, then the 90s are back for the rest of the workweek. 

Fire sparks in Davie home, 2 transported to hospital

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

Fire rescue crews and police responded to a fire in a Davie apartment complex. The flames ignited in a house located on the 11000 block of Southwest 15th Manor, around midnight on Sunday.Davie Fire Department reported one adult and one child that sustained smoke inhalation, both were transported to Broward Health Medical Center in serious condition.American Red Cross is assisting approximately 10 adults and 10 children from other units who have been displaced at least for the night.The fire remains under investigation.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Source: Patriots trade RB Pierre Strong for Browns offensive lineman

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

The Patriots traded running back Pierre Strong to the Browns for backup offensive tackle Tyrone Wheatley Jr., a source confirmed to the Herald’s Doug Kyed.Strong, a 2022 fourth-round pick, fell behind fellow second-year running back Kevin Harris on the depth chart during training camp. He was a projected roster cut this summer, after failing to show much improvement or make an impact as a rookie. Last season, Strong ran just 10 times for 100 yards and a touchdown.The Patriots drafted Strong out of South Dakota State for his rare long speed (4.3 in the 40-yard dash), hoping he would develop, as so many mid-round picks have, into a viable back on passing downs. Instead, he became the last running back to see reps in practice recently after Rhamondre Stevenson, Ezekiel Elliott, Harris and J.J. TaylorRelated ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots-Titans film review: Marte Mapu’s main area for growth and 19 more takeaways New England Patriots | Pat...

Forecasters: Tropical Storm Idalia forms in Gulf of Mexico

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Idalia formed Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S., the National Hurricane Center said.At 11:15 a.m., the storm was located about 80 miles (129 kilometers) east-southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, moving east at 2 mph (3.2 kph) with highest sustained winds of 40 mph (64 kph), forecasters said. Hurricanes have winds of 74 mph (119 kph) and above.Forecasters said they expected Idalia to become a hurricane on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico and then curve northeast toward the west coast of Florida. Initial forecasts indicated that could happen on Wednesday. It was not expected to menace southwest Florida where deadly Hurricane Ian struck last year.Tropical storm conditions are expected Sunday over the Yucatan peninsula and western Cuba.Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday in a post on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, that he has directed state emergency officials begin preparations for a s...

US Congress members make a rare visit to opposition-held northwest Syria

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — Three U.S. Congress members made a brief visit to opposition-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the first known trip to the war-torn country by American lawmakers in six years.Reps. Ben Cline of Virginia, French Hill of Arkansas and Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin, all Republicans, entered Syria from Turkey via the Bab al-Salama crossing in northern Aleppo province, two people familiar with the trip said. They spoke on condition of anonymity after the U.S. delegation had left Syria, because they were not authorized to speak publicly.Near the crossing, they met with students from Wisdom House, a school for orphans in Idlib that is a project of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based Syrian opposition organization that facilitated the lawmakers’ trip. Hill has been one of the most vocal supporters in Congress of the Syrian opposition, and his Arkansas constituents have been major donors to the school.The Americans also met with Syrian opposition leaders, humanitarian wo...

NASCAR driver Ryan Preece gets medical clearance to return home after terrifying crash at Daytona

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR driver Ryan Preece, whose car rolled about a dozen times during a terrifying crash at Daytona International Speedway, was on his way home about 12 hours later after being discharged from a hospital Sunday.Stewart-Haas Racing said Preece was headed back to North Carolina after getting clearance from doctors at Halifax Health Medical Center. The team earlier said Preece was “awake, alert and mobile” and “had been communicating with family and friends.”The 32-year-old Preece was able to climb out of his mangled No. 41 Ford on Saturday night with help before emergency workers put him on a gurney and into an ambulance. He initially went to the track’s infield care center before being transported to Halifax Health for overnight observation.Preece tweeted about two hours after the race, posting: “If you want to be a race car driver, you better be tough. … I’m coming back.”Preece and SHR teammate Chase Briscoe made contact coming out of Tu...

Competitors get down and dirty at Britain’s bog snorkeling championships

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling Championships.The annual competition in the tiny town of Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, sees competitors race to complete two lengths of a 60-yard (55 meter) water-filled trench cut through a peat bog. They can use flippers on their feet, but conventional swimming strokes are banned.Some contestants accessorized their snorkels, masks and flippers with more flamboyant touches — one carried a giant plastic toad on their head, another had a bathing cap adorned with flowers. Spectators also got in on the fun, with two wearing pink cardboard boxes proclaiming them to be limited edition bog-snorkeling Barbie and Ken.Competitors at the 35th annual contest were hoping to beat the time of current world record-holder Neil Rutter, who won in 1 minute, 18 seconds in 2018.The Associated Press

Timeless Toys in Lincoln Square

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

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The most and least lucrative college majors in Illinois

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

(Stacker) -- Over a dozen medical schools and 40 law schools have elected to withdraw from the U.S. News & World Report annual college rankings as of February 2023. Critics argue that the well-known college ranking system is based on metrics that neglect to consider many qualities that influence student success, such as postgraduate placement rates and course credit transfer applicability.The ongoing exodus has left prospective graduate students with one less all-inclusive tool to navigate the application process. And while no undergraduate institutions have withdrawn yet, the trend has revealed the need for more reliable and independent bases of comparison among colleges and academic programs.One such measure, the median earnings of college graduates by field of study, can significantly impact career prospects. On a national level, those who study nuclear engineering technologies or become technicians in that field have the highest median earnings three years after graduation a...