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MedWatch Digest: One factor in cardiac deaths has tripled over 20 years — and more

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

For Monday, Sept. 18, WGN’s Dina Bair has new medical information, including: More Coverage: WGN's Medical Watch Obesity as a factor in cardiac deaths triples The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, tracked deaths from 1999 to 2022. Black Americans were impacted more than any other group with Black women having a slightly higher mortality rate than Black men. Researchers also found that Ischemic heart disease, where the arteries narrow and high blood pressure were the most common causes of obesity-related deaths. Researchers found that the increase in obesity related deaths contrasted with a steady decline in heart disease deaths overall. Forever chemicals linked to cancer in women A new study reveals a link between women with cancer and exposure to endocrine-disrupting substances like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and bisphenol A (BPA), which are also known as forever chemicals. They are used in thousands of hou...

Attorneys for Delphi murder suspect want client moved, lay out alternative theory of 'ritualistic' murder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

DELPHI, Ind. – A ritualistic killing involving cultists. A conspiracy among prison guards.Investigators fixated on a single suspect.Those are among the stunning allegations made in court documents filed by defense attorneys on behalf of Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen. Attorneys for Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen want search warrant evidence thrown out Allen is charged with two counts of murder in the February 2017 killings of Abby Williams and Libby German in Delphi. Investigators announced his arrest in October 2022, more than five years after the killings.Attorneys Bradley Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin filed a 130-page motion that lays out, in their opinion, the reasons the October 2022 search warrant for Allen’s property should be thrown out.The attorneys filed an amended motion to suppress the search warrant last week. They’ve now requested a Franks hearing, alleging that investigators withheld information from a judge in order to get the warrant approved. Richard Allen...

'It was fun': Connor Bedard puts on a show in first Blackhawks exhibition game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

ST. PAUL, MN — It was only an exhibition featuring prospects, yet the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft did what he could to live up to the incredible hype surrounding himself.Leave it to Connor Bedard to steal the show the first time he stepped onto the ice for a competition of any kind as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks. On Saturday, the center took the ice for the first time at the Tom Kurvers Prospect Showcase in St. Paul, Minnesota, and made an immediate impact. Bedard registered a hat trick while also dishing out an assist in a 5-0 victory over a group of prospects from the St. Louis Blues.In the second period, Bedard got the puck on the right side of the net and fired a wrist shot into the goal from the circle to put the Blackhawks up 1-0. Later in the second period, the center got the puck in the mid-slot, then moved his way around defenders to the left before putting another shot into the goal from a difficult angle.In the third period, Bedard once again took the ...

Waffle House to open its first Round Rock location soon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

Editor's Note: The video above shows KXAN Live's top headlines for Sept. 18, 2023ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — Waffle House enthusiasts, rejoice: The first restaurant location in Round Rock is poised to open in late October, company officials confirmed in a post released by the city Friday.The upcoming restaurant is located at 2651 S. A.W. Grimes Boulevard in Round Rock, just south of State Highway 45. Waffle House currently operates three locations in Austin along with more than 2,000 restaurants nationwide.Additionally, Waffle House is planning for a new location in Kyle. The restaurant has more than 100 locations throughout Texas. Its menu centers around full-day breakfast offerings, including waffles, bacon, eggs and hash browns.

Lady Bird Lake cleanup held Monday morning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Volunteers joined Keep Austin Beautiful and the Austin Rowing Club Monday morning for cleanup efforts at Lady Bird Lake.The event ran from 9-11 a.m. Monday. Volunteers assisted in waterway cleanups as well as collecting litter along the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail. Volunteers joined Keep Austin Beautiful and the Austin Rowing Club Monday morning for cleanup efforts at Lady Bird Lake. (KXAN Photo/Todd Bynum)Volunteers joined Keep Austin Beautiful and the Austin Rowing Club Monday morning for cleanup efforts at Lady Bird Lake. (KXAN Photo/Todd Bynum)Volunteers joined Keep Austin Beautiful and the Austin Rowing Club Monday morning for cleanup efforts at Lady Bird Lake. (KXAN Photo/Todd Bynum)Volunteers joined Keep Austin Beautiful and the Austin Rowing Club Monday morning for cleanup efforts at Lady Bird Lake. (KXAN Photo/Todd Bynum)Volunteers joined Keep Austin Beautiful and the Austin Rowing Club Monday morning for cleanup efforts at Lady Bird Lake. (KXAN P...

Austin schools could earn money for green projects

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The City of Austin's Bright Green Futures grant program aims to benefit green ideas for local schools and students.The grant, in its 12th year, is not just exclusively for the Austin Independent School District but for any school that utilizes Austin city services including Austin Water, Austin Resource Recovery, and Austin Energy. The grant cannot fund home schools.Mary K. Priddy spoke with Rich Segal about the program.Eligible chools interested in the grant are required to submit an application. Submitters don't have to be grant writers when filling out the application. The six questions that are required to be answered include the name of the school, what the school will do and who will help in the green effort, and and when it will be completed.The six-question application will be reviewed and a numerical grade given. The higher the score, the greater the chance of a school getting one of the grants.Over the previous 11 years, over 500 projects were funded. Anot...

Taylor Heise is Minnesota’s first pick in PWHL draft

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

With the first overall pick in the inaugural PWHL draft, Minnesota’s team selected former Gophers center Taylor Heise on Monday in Toronto.Heise, 23, was the 2022 Patty Kazmaier Award winner and led the NCAA scoring in each of her last two seasons with the Gophers.The pick was not unexpected. A native of Lake City, Minn., Heise was a no-brainer for Minnesota general manager Natalie Darwitz, who spent the last two years as Heise’s position coach at her alma mater.Currently training in Blaine with Team USA, Heise made her international debut last fall in the IIHF world championships and scored seven goals and 18 points as the U.S. won the silver medal. She was named the tournament’s top forward and most valuable player.“It’s my home. Everyone I love is there. And it’s the State of Hockey,” Heise said on the CBC’s livestream. “I’m just honored that I’m going to be able to play and to show little girls that anything is possible if you keep working hard.”With the ...

T.J. Maxx location calls it quits after a decade in St. Paul’s Midway

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

T.J. Maxx, a discount retailer and one of the last remaining department stores in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood, will close its location at 1410 University Ave. W. permanently on Oct. 8, capping 10 years at the site, according to an announcement posted at the shop entrance.The clothing and home goods retailer — located in the Midway Marketplace strip mall anchored by a Cub Foods grocery — opened in October 2013. Decades ago, the area was a prime destination for shopping, car sales, hotels and even dancing and proms. The last decade has been a difficult one for retail in general, given the advent of online shopping in the “Amazon era,” a pandemic that led to widespread lockdowns for restaurants and retailers, and the May 2020 riots and property damage that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.Courtney Igbo of St. Paul sweeps up debris at the T.J. Maxx store on University Avenue in St. Paul Friday, May 29, 2020. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)...

Deion Sanders’ sunglasses notch $1.2 million in sales in first day

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

The Prime Effect has lured A-list celebrities to Boulder and sold out season tickets for a college football team that won just a single game in the 2022-23 season. It’s also catapulted sunglasses sales literally overnight.Within one day of announcing its collaboration design with CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders, Blenders eyewear company received $1.2 million in pre-orders, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday.Blenders eyewear company revealed a new line of sunglasses inspired by Deion Sanders. (Image provided by CU Athletics)Since pre-orders went live last Friday, the San Diego-based outfitter has sold more than 72,000 units. At $67 each, that’s more than $4.8 million in sales by our math – and the pre-order period isn’t even up until Oct. 12.News about the sunglasses dropped prior to the Rocky Mountain Showdown matchup between the Buffs and the Colorado State University Rams. The game aired during the primetime slot on Saturday night, but was already national news by that time after CSU...

Opinion: Perfection cannot be the standard for (re)naming efforts in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:20 GMT

Toward the end of the movie Oppenheimer, President Harry S. Truman accuses the title character of being a “cry baby scientist.” The comment, true to history though it was said privately to staff, so completely diminishes the brilliant physicist’s anguish over the detonation of the first atomic bombs that he helped create.If that’s all the viewer knows of that president, one would think Truman a small man who lacked empathy for Oppenheimer and the more than 214,000 people who died from the blasts by 1945. Yet Truman was anything but; he oversaw the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. When viewed in the context of their life and times, it is clear that both men’s contributions to history were far greater than their failings. A single moment does not a person define.The Denver Agency for Human Rights and Community Partnerships and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which just renamed Mt. Evans to Mt. Blue Sky, must keep this principle in ...