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Dean's Home Video: Dan Levy stars in 'Good Grief' and much more in the first picks of 2024

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

WGN's Dean Richards has his first Home Video picks of 2024. Dean’s A-List Interview: Dan Levy These include Dan Levy starring in Netflix's "Good Grief," a true-crime docuseries about a cryptocurrency scam, the latest installment of the "Transformers" series, the harrowing tale of a rugby team trying to survive in the mountains after a plane crash and much more.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!

St. Paul fire: Woman, 6 children pulled from smoky home and taken to hospital, some in critical condition

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

Firefighters pulled six children and a woman from a St. Paul home Wednesday morning and they were taken to the hospital with some in critical condition.The fire department was called at 1:30 a.m. about a residential house fire in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood and found a single-family home with smoke showing, said Deputy Fire Chief Tony Farina.St. Paul firefighters put out a fire in the 1200 block of Arkwright Street and took seven people to the hospital on Jan. 3, 2024. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Fire Department)Firefighters discovered seven people inside the house on Arkwright Street near Maryland Avenue. “The condition of some of the occupants required immediate CPR and intervention by St. Paul Fire Paramedics,” the fire department said in a statement. They were taken by ambulances to Regions Hospital.The children are believed to be under the age of seven, Farina said.The fire is not suspicious and is under investigation, according to the fire department.The fire depar...

Making a cooking resolution? These 9 recipes will get you started.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

If abiding by resolutions were as easy as setting them, perfection would be attainable and the self-improvement section of the bookstore would be cobweb city. Still, self-reflection can be a rewarding exercise at the beginning of a new year. What better place to start than in the kitchen, where you have to spend at least a little bit of time each day?Consider a gentler approach to resolution-making: Try to become just a little bit better at something, rather than change your habits wholesale. Perhaps you’d like to incorporate Meatless Mondays into your weekly routine, or maybe you’re resolving to bake the birthday cakes for your loved ones this year. Maybe, just maybe, this is the year you finally learn how to cook.No matter what your goals, we have recipes to bring you closer to them. Give these a try in 2024, and, by this time next year, we’re certain you’ll be impressed by how far your cooking has come.FOR THE NEW VEGETARIANRecipe: Red Lentil SoupRed lentil soup. Few dishes embod...

NYS Craft Brewers Festival returning to Albany

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The ninth annual New York State Craft Brewers Festival is returning to Albany. The event is set for January 27 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Desmond Hotel. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! The festival features more than 50 breweries from across the state to showcase their craft beers of all styles. Attendees can sample the beers and local vendors will be selling food.Brewery lineupActive Ingredient Brewing CompanyAdirondack BreweryAllied Brewing CompanyAspire BrewingBarnshed BrewingBeer Tree Brew Co.Big Ditch Brewing CompanyBolton Landing Brewing CompanyApple Bombshell Hard CiderThe Brewery at the CIABrown's Brewing Co.Chatham BrewingDancing Grain Farm BreweryDruthers Brewing Co.Fidens BrewingFort Orange BrewingFrog Alley Brewing Co.Gentle Giant Brewing CompanyGreenport Harbor Brewing Co.Haberle Brewing CompanyHex & HopHidden Springs BrewhouseHigh Peaks DistillingIndian Ladder Farms Cidery and Brewe...

'DWTS' pro Val Chmerkovskiy chats with NEWS10 ahead of Proctors stop

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Calling all Latin ballroom fans! “Dancing with the Stars: Live!” will stop at Proctors in Schenectady later this month. Ahead of the live production, NEWS10's Cassie Hudson spoke with 3x Mirrorball Champion and Pro Dancer Val Chmerkovskiy about his recent victory, what this season meant to him and what fans can expect from the new live tour. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Val and his wife, Choreographer and Pro Dancer Jenna Johnson, will be performing with the touring cast for the 2024 "Dancing with the Stars: Live" production on Jan. 11 thru Feb. 4. Val's celeb partner and Marvel actress, Xochitl Gomez, will also be performing on tour from Jan. 11 thru Feb. 4.The tour is choreographed by Creative Director Mandy Moore, a longtime friend of the DWTS family. If you've been to the live tour before, Val says you can expect new routines, new choreography and incredible artistry. ‘Dancing with the Sta...

Woman charged with opening fire at U.S. Post Office on New Halls Ferry Rd.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A woman is charged with unlawful use of a weapon after prosecutors say she opened fire outside the Jennings branch of the post office. Scorched building in Pine Lawn has ties to high-profile federal suspect St. Louis County Police found a bullet hole in one of the windows at the building on Halls Ferry Road near Lucas and Hunt Road. 36-year-old Marlisha Gatewood was arrested outside the building.Police found a pistol nearby on the sidewalk.

Letters: The Russell Wilson saga — Can the Denver Broncos’ management get it together?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

Can Broncos management get it together?I have been an avid Denver Broncos fan ever since I came to the United States back in 1976 and began living in Trinidad. Since then, regardless of where I have resided, I have not stopped following the Broncos. But I am sick and tired of so many dramas in recent years.First, there was prolonged and protracted ownership, which was poorly handled by a custodian attorney who made god-awful decisions that reverberate even today. Then, a head coach who made a sacrificial lamb out of his players, and now headline-grabbing decisions. The general manager is playing with the team as if engaged in baseball card trading. A team either sails together or sinks together.Can the Denver Broncos run a clean ship? It is time for George Paton to get the boot-kicking. Because he never asked if the head coach and the quarterback that he was courting were a good match and a good fit for the organization. His house-burning decision to trade for Russell Wilson will ha...

Colorado should finally license funeral home workers, state regulators recommend

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

Colorado regulators recommended the state once again license funeral home workers in light of recent egregious abuses in the industry.In a 51-page report sent to the state legislature last week, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies said, “It is clear that the public is harmed by the general lack of regulation of funeral service professionals in Colorado.”Colorado has long boasted the laxest mortuary regulations in the nation. The state is the only one in the country to license funeral home businesses, not those running them.Under a recommendation proposed by the Colorado Funeral Directors Association, new funeral home and crematory workers would need to graduate from an accredited mortuary sciences school, pass a national exam, serve a one-year apprenticeship and pass a background check.The industry group requested current workers be grandfathered in, only mandating they submit an application and fee to the state and pass a background check.“People in oth...

Is there a future for this Jefferson County golf course that is overrun with weeds?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

Deer Creek Golf Course is dying.Where once lay verdant fairways, the 18-hole course near Jefferson County’s Ken Caryl Ranch community is now largely weeds, cattails and long grasses. Nature, inexorably, reclaims its own.No one has played a legitimate round of golf here in three years. The clubhouse sits empty and forlorn, with a four-tiered fountain at its entry now dry and defunct. And though Deer Creek Golf Course claims on its website that it is merely “closed for renovation” and looks forward “to serving you in the spring,” nobody believes it.“If you’re rational, you can tell it’s not going to be a golf course again,” said John Walker, president of the Meadow Ranch homeowner’s association, which oversees 333 homes that line portions of the course along a stretch of C-470 near Kipling Street.Deer Creek’s future is anyone’s guess. It’s a mystery the course’s owner hasn’t unraveled publicly, a...

“Harlem After Midnight,” “Fall” and more mystery books to kick off the year

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:32:16 GMT

“Harlem After Midnight,” by Louise Hare (Berkley)“Harlem After Midnight,” by Louise Hare (Berkley)In the first Canary Club mystery, English singer Lena Aldridge was lured to New York for a Broadway career. The job turned out to be a sham. Now Lena is booked for a return trip, but she’s intent on spending her few days in the big city hunting for information about her father. He was a black musician who suddenly left Harlem for England in the early 20th century. With the help of bandleader Will Goodman, the object of her shipboard romance that Lena believes might become a more permanent relationship, she is ensconced in Harlem with his friends. Lena spends days searching for signs of her father and her evenings swept up in prohibition-era Harlem nightlife. She begins to see a future in New York with Will until a murder makes her wonder if she really belongs back home in England.“The Beautiful and the Wild,” by Peggy Townsend (Berkley)“Robert B...