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Weekend Break: Expo Chicago

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

CHICAGO — Check out Marcella with Weekend Break where she visits Expo Chicago, an international contemporary and modern art exhibition held each year in the city.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.

The U.S. housing market explained in 5 charts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

(Stacker) - The once white-hot housing market may finally be starting to cool, but it's not a buyers' market just yet.As mortgage rates and home prices remain high, potential homebuyers are deciding not to take the plunge, mostly due to a lack of affordability. But with the U.S. short about 6.5 million homes, according to one analysis, economists project that lack of supply will keep things mostly in sellers' favor until next year at least."Homebuyers should prepare for a buying environment that is more relaxed than years past but with different complications," said Nikolas Scoolis, manager of housing economics at Zonda, a real estate data firm. "Highly desirable properties, like those in good school districts or offering good value propositions, will still face stiff competition."Stacker cited data from Redfin and the U.S. Census Bureau to visualize and explain the shortage of U.S. homes for sale and what that means ahead of peak homebuying season.See ...

How much does a wedding cost in your state?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — Getting hitched this year? Wedding site The Knot recently released its 2022 Real Weddings Study to determine the average cost of a wedding in each U.S. state. The results show wedding expenses are adjusting back to pre-pandemic prices, as the average wedding now costs around $30,000. That's a $2,000 year-over-year increase, likely attributable to overall inflation, the Knot says. Outdoor weddings: The best, worst cities to have them, rankings show The most expensive wedding state for yet another year? New Jersey, where a wedding will cost an average of $51,000. The least expensive weddings, on average, can be thrown in Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah — average wedding costs in these states are well below the national average at $16,000.Take a look at this interactive map to see the average wedding cost in your state.Curious how wedding costs break down?The Knot also breaks down the average wedding budget — not including honeymoons. The five biggest expenses are ven...

Timberwolves take on Nuggets in first round of NBA playoffs: Keys to the series, and a prediction

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

Less than 46 hours after clinching their hard-earned playoff berth, the Timberwolves will take the floor in Denver for Game 1 of their NBA Western Conference first-round series against the top-seeded Nuggets.Game 1 of the best-of-seven-games series is Sunday night in Denver.That doesn’t leave much time for preparation and scouting. The good news, Timberwolves coach Chris Finch noted, is Minnesota’s staff started working on a Denver scout prior to beating the Thunder, just in case. The plan was to start imparting some of that knowledge to the team Saturday, hitting players with the highlights.But there will be no deep dives prior to the start of the series.“I don’t think we can overcomplicate things right now. We just have to be ready to go, get back physically,” Finch said. “One advantage of playing in these games, I think, is that you’re pretty battle-ready. So I think our competitive edge will be there, for sure.”Wolves guard Mike Conley noted h...

Esperance man arrested following domestic incident

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

CHARLESTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- According to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, an Esperance man was arrested on Tuesday following a domestic incident. Richard Knaupp, 63, faces a slew of charges. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! On Tuesday, deputies from the Montgomery COPunty Sheriff's Office responded to a home in Charleston for a reported physical domestic incident. Deputies say they found Knaupp violated a stay-away order of protection and had taken a cell phone away from a victim, preventing her from calling 911. Knaupp also allegedly damaged property during the incident that he didn't own.Charges:Second-degree burglaryFirst-degree criminal contemptThird-degree criminal mischiefSecond-degree aggravated harassmentThird-degree coercionFourth-degree criminal mischiefCriminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation Gloversville duo arrested after drug sale investigation Knaupp was processed and arraigned in Pala...

Nuggets Journal: Michael Malone’s message to Michael Porter Jr. this postseason? “Let it fly”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

Michael Porter Jr. generally doesn’t need goading.The 6-foot-10 sniper has shot well over 40% from 3-point range every season he’s been healthy. This season, he set a career-high with 7.3 looks from outside per game. With 188 3-pointers made, Porter finished five shy of the franchise record.All of which made Wednesday’s scene, as the No. 1 seed Nuggets prepared for their first-round opponent, so odd.The Nuggets were finishing up practice, concluding with 3-point shooting contests, free-throw challenges and the like. Nuggets coach Michael Malone pulled Porter aside on the near side of the gym closest to reporters and rehashed a scene from practice.The team had designed a play for Porter, but when he came off a screen and had a window to shoot, Denver’s most reliable and dangerous deep threat hesitated.“Let it fly,” Malone told Porter multiple times, emphasizing the need to seize the looks generated out of Denver’s offense. The 293 passes the Nuggets make per game (the sixth-most in t...

Off-duty LAPD officer killed in crash on 210 Freeway in Glendora

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

An off-duty LAPD officer died early Saturday morning after appearing to have crashed into the back of a semi-truck on the 210 Freeway in Glendora. The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. in the eastbound span of the 210 Freeway near Grand Avenue. Preliminary reports suggest that the semi-truck had broken down in the middle of the freeway and the off-duty officer’s car crashed into it."Upon arriving on scene, CHP personnel determined that it was a major injury collision," said CHP Sergeant Joel Holly. "At this point, the initial cause for the collision is still under investigation, however it appears that a rear end was involved." An off-duty LAPD officer died early Saturday morning after appearing to have crashed into the back of a semi-truck on the 210 Freeway in Glendora. (KeyNews TV)"With great sadness, I share that earlier this morning, a police officer on his way home from work was involved in a traffic collision on the 210 Freeway," LAPD Police Chief Michel Moore said i...

Sheriff’s K9, wanted felon killed in shooting near Perris 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

A police dog and a wanted felon were both killed during an deputy-involved shooting near Perris on Friday afternoon. According to a release from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were in the unincorporated area of Perris known as Mead Valley searching for a wanted felon when they received a call from a resident about an unknown male and female on their property in the 22200 block of River Road around 4:47 p.m. Upon arriving, deputies confirmed that the male was the wanted felon. A Sheriff’s K9 handler and his K9 partner Rudy were called in to assist with the search. During the search, Rudy alerted to where the suspect was hiding, and upon being found, the suspect fired at deputies, striking K9 Rudy. The suspects refused to surrender and fled, and the Sheriff’s Aviation Unit observed them running towards an occupied residence. ‘We lost one of our partners today’: LASD K9 killed during shootout that left suspect dead in Gardena The male suspect was still armed wit...

Blink and Blondie Punk Up Coachella

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

Blink and Blondie Punk Up Coachella: When the set times for Coachella were made public on Wednesday night, the big surprise was the inclusion of ’90s pop-punkers Blink 182 on the bill. There had been a few rumors during the week but still, their name on the schedule early on Friday evening offered quite the buzz.Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering if anyone would care. In no way, shape or form is Coachella 2023 a rock festival. Pop, hip-hop and electronic music of many shades, sure. But the previously announced bill — all three days — features very little in the way of hard rock and/or punk, and the crowd is a young one.But the thing with the modern Coachella crowd is that genres mean very little. Or at least, that’s what it feels like. To their immense credit, these attendees just want to have a great time and they’re not interested in “Breakfast Club-ing” themselves into a pigeon-hole.Blink performed on the Sahara stage, which...

Kurtenbach: Here’s the Warriors’ path to another title — or a potential breakup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:23 GMT

The Golden State Warriors might have been the last team to qualify for the playoffs, but they also could be the last team standing come June.Yes, again.The Warriors will begin their quest for a fifth title in eight years Saturday night in Sacramento (5:30 p.m., KGO-TV). And while the team’s 44-38 record in the regular season left plenty to be desired, the Dubs are confident and eager for the “real” season.The path to the title will not be easy — the Warriors’ regular-season struggles cannot be discounted. At the same time, the Western Conference could easily be turned upside-down and still make sense.After so many seasons in which the Warriors were an obvious choice to win the title, these playoffs have a chance to be chaotic.But if we’ve learned one thing about the Warriors, it’s that they thrive in chaos.They live for it.“You feel it more than you see it,” Warriors guard Jordan Poole said of the intensity of the playoffs. “How ...