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Chicago alderman, nonprofit host workshop to help migrants apply for Temporary Protected Status

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

CHICAGO — As Chicago faces the task of welcoming nearly 20,000 migrants into the city, a small number are being helped by a troop of volunteers who are trying to ease the burden of government paperwork.34th Ward Alderman Bill Conway and the Instituto del Progreso Latino hosted a workshop to help new arrivals from Venezuela apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which enables migrants from 16 countries designated unsafe by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to legally work and live in the United States for up to 18 months."Chicago is a welcoming city. You know, if you look back one, two, three generations, we all come from immigrants. People that came here that want to work. And when I've spoken to the folks who’ve come out here today, that’s all they are trying to do," Conway said. ‘A humanitarian disaster:’ Chicagoans voice concerns for loved ones trapped in Gaza The 13-page application for Temporary Protected Status must be completed in English, so volunteers at the ...

Gaza's desperate civilians flee or huddle in hopes of safety, as warnings of Israeli offensive mount

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent offensive by air, ground and sea following Hamas militants’ deadly rampage in Israel a week ago. While workers at an Israeli military base continued efforts through the Jewish Sabbath to identify the more than 1,300 people killed in the Oct. 7 assault, Israel dropped leaflets from the air and redoubled warnings on social media for more than 1 million Gaza residents to move south. The military says it is trying to clear away civilians ahead of a concentrated campaign against Hamas militants in the north, including in what it said were underground hideouts in Gaza City. Hamas urged people to stay in their homes.The U.N. and aid groups say such a rapid exodus along with Israel’s siege of the territory would cause untold human suffering. The World...

Theater review: Guthrie’s ‘For the People’ is an entertaining culture clash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

Larissa Fasthorse is concerned about a lack of laughter. The Lakota playwright from South Dakota has said that popular culture’s stories of Indigenous Americans are too often suffused with tragedy and drama, while Indigenous people often place a high value on humor.So she’s spending much of 2023 cutting into the comedy deficit around issues affecting Indigenous people. Her hit Broadway show, “The Thanksgiving Play,” satirizes a group of white people trying to create a more historically accurate account of the first Thanksgiving and tumbling headlong into multiple blind spots. And now she’s teamed with Ty Defoe to create another comedy, “For the People,” which premiered on the Guthrie Theater’s Proscenium Stage on Friday night.The Guthrie not only commissioned Fasthorse and Defoe to write the play, but asked them to develop it through conversations with Native elders in Minneapolis. The ensuing production employs almost exclusively Indigenous actors (and a couple of designers, too).T...

PHOTOS: The 2023 Broncos Girls High School Flag Football Tournament

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

The Denver Broncos hosted the Broncos Girls High School Flag Football tournament bringing together Denver Public Schools, Cherry Creek Schools and Jeffco Public Schools to compete for the championship title.

Arvada West wins girls flag football title as sport’s popularity explodes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

Quarterback Saylor Swanson dodged a pass rusher, glanced downfield and let loose a perfect throw. Sara Walker caught the ball in stride and danced in the end zone with her teammates.That was the spark to Arvada West’s 34-14 runaway victory over Cherry Creek in the title game of the Broncos Girls High School Flag Football championship tournament Saturday at the Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse.The Wildcats, runners-up to Chatfield last season, won four games Saturday at the Broncos complex to finish their season a perfect 22-0.Swanson’s 30-yard bomb was just one of a plethora of highlights in a day that showcased 16 teams from the Front Range and athletic girls who showed why high school flag football is spreading like wildfire.“Today was so much fun and just so crazy,” said Sawson, a junior who wears No. 18 in homage to former Broncos QB Peyton Manning. “I’ve been thinking about this game for a while now, so I was a little bit nervous coming into today.̶...

Avalanche Journal: Jonathan Drouin, Anthony Duclair are childhood friends at similar, but very different, career crossroads

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

SAN JOSE — Jonathan Drouin was about to play in the biggest tournament of his young life, so there was one number he definitely wanted to wear.Drouin called his coach ahead of the Brick Invitational, one of the marquee youth hockey tournaments in Canada, to request No. 99. Turns out that one was already spoken for.“The coach told me that ‘Dukes’ had already called him and asked for it,” Drouin said. “We both always wanted that number and we’d fight over it. I ended up wearing No. 87. It was such a super fun experience at that age.”“Dukes” is Anthony Duclair, who became one of Drouin’s best friends and a future teammate on multiple youth teams in the Montreal area. They’ve remained close, and skate together in the offseason.Drouin and Duclair, who was traded to the Sharks over the summer, faced each other Saturday night at SAP Center. They are both in a contract year and facing potentially profitable, but also very dif...

Thousands rally in West L.A. in support of Palestinians

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

The Israel-Hamas war has sent shockwaves throughout the world, and the reverberations are being felt across Los Angeles and the Southland. Thousands of demonstrators armed with Palestinian flags and signs denouncing “Israeli apartheid” were seen marching down Wilshire Boulevard on Saturday afternoon. The Los Angeles Police Department said on social media that traffic on Wilshire between Federal Avenue and Veteran Avenue will be impacted due to the rally."Intermittent closures on side streets [will occur] to allow pedestrians to cross the intersections," LAPD said.Thousands of demonstrators armed with Palestinian flags and signs denouncing “Israeli Apartheid” were seen marching down Wilshire Boulevard on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (KTLA) Thousands of demonstrators armed with Palestinian flags and signs denouncing “Israeli Apartheid” were seen marching down Wilshire Boulevard on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (KTLA) Thousands of demonstrators armed with Palestinian flags a...

Cal’s missed opportunities seal 34-14 loss to No. 16 Utah

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY — Star linebacker Jackson Sirmon is out for the season, rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza says he’s 100 percent after being knocked around and the Cal football season is limping along after a 34-14 loss to No. 16 Utah on Saturday afternoon.Coach Justin Wilcox announced after the game that Sirmon, the Bears’ sixth-year All-Pac-12 defensive standout, suffered a season-ending injury last week against Oregon State and won’t play again.Mendoza, who threw two touchdown passes for the second straight week in his second starting assignment, was treated roughly by the Utah defense, fumbling after a blindside shot by Pac-12 sacks leader Jonah Elliss and was subsequently helped off the field after being hit on a fourth-quarter play.Mendoza returned to the field minutes later for one more play, but when a comeback became unrealistic the Bears held him out of the final 7 minutes.The redshirt freshman from Miami, who has taken over the starting QB role, proclaimed himself fully h...

Piper Laurie, 3-time Oscar nominee with film credits such as 'The Hustler' and 'Carrie,' dies at 91

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

(AP) -- Piper Laurie, the strong-willed, Oscar-nominated actor who performed in acclaimed roles despite at one point abandoning acting altogether in search of a “more meaningful” life, died early Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91.Laurie died of old age, her manager, Marion Rosenberg, told The Associated Press via email, adding that she was “a superb talent and a wonderful human being.” Viral TikTok shows Vallejo police officer punching a woman Laurie arrived in Hollywood in 1949 as Rosetta Jacobs and was quickly given a contract with Universal-International, a new name that she hated and a string of starring roles with Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis, among others.She went on to receive Academy Award nominations for three distinct films: The 1961 poolroom drama “The Hustler”; the film version of Stephen King’s horror classic “Carrie,” in 1976; and the romantic drama “Children of a Lesser God,” in 1986. She also appeared in several acclaimed roles on televi...

Man hits person with hammer, charged with attempted murder: SFPD

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:08 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A man was arrested after allegedly hitting a person with a hammer Friday morning in the Tenderloin neighborhood, the San Francisco Police Department said. The hammer attack happened around 8:46 a.m. on the 700 block of Ellis Street. Viral TikTok shows Vallejo police officer punching a woman The suspect and victim were in a verbal dispute before the alleged attack happened. Police said the suspect, identified as 38-year-old Christopher Redinger, fled the scene after hitting the victim with the hammer. A few hours later around 12:17 p.m., officers spotted Redinger near Ellis and Hyde Street. SFPD developed probable cause and arrested the suspect, the department said.Paramedics were called to the scene of the assault. The condition of the victim is unknown at this time. Redinger was booked into San Francisco County Jail on charges of attempted murder and a probation violation, according to SFPD. He was arrested last December in connection to a fatal stabbing i...