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After 47 years as Vikings’ equipment manager, St. Paul’s Dennis Ryan has seen it all

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Dennis Ryan was 16 years old, still a student at Highland Park High School, when he had his first memorable encounter with the late Bud Grant.Recruited while working for the City of St. Paul on the grounds crew for the old Midway Stadium on Snelling, Ryan helped move the Vikings to and from training camp in Mankato during the summer of 1975.“On the move down, we saw nobody. It was mid-July and they were setting up for camp,” Ryan recalled. “But when we went down to pick up, everybody was around.”Including Grant, the no-nonsense coach who led the Vikings to four Super Bowl appearances and already had become a Minnesota icon. Grant was waiting in his dorm room for someone to come pick up a boxful of playbooks to load up for the trip back to the Twin Cities.Enter Ryan, who picked up the box only to have the bottom fall out and dump playbooks all over the floor.“He stood over me, and I stared up at him,” Ryan said.And the look the coach gave him?“It was that look you saw on TV.”Minnesot...

Chef shares tips on how to feed a family of 5 for less in ‘Break Bread on a Budget’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Rekaya Gibson | The Virginian-PilotNORFOLK, Va. — Lexy Rogers hopes to teach people how to make easy, soulful meals with her debut cookbook, “Break Bread on a Budget: Ordinary Ingredients, Extraordinary Meals,” which was released April 4.She should know since she’s a private chef, Air Force wife and mother of three living in Hampton, Virginia.Rogers grew up in Illinois about an hour from Chicago. She fell in love with cooking at the age of 11 while watching her grandmother and aunt. She didn’t see them use recipes or measure anything. She noticed how happy family and friends were eating their food, though.Rogers enjoys the same creative freedom with her home cooking, which she says is influenced by the South.“One of the things my grandmother taught me was to cook with confidence,” said Rogers, who became a private chef in 2020.In 2021, she went on Fox’s “MasterChef” Season 11, a cooking show hosted by the legendary chef Gordon Ramsay. Rogers spoke about how she fed her family of fiv...

‘Clean up after your own kids!’ Anthony Bass and family shamed by internet after he complained about American Airlines

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Sydney Rae Bass, the influencer wife of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass and sister of country superstar Jessie James Decker, isn’t getting the outpouring of sympathy she thinks she deserves for a recent situation she says she endured while flying on United Airlines with her young children.In fact, the MLB star and and his equally famous sister-in-law sparked a fierce Twitter debate about parenting, personal accountability and celebrity entitlement when they took to social media to complain that Sydney Rae Bass, 22 weeks pregnant, was “humiliated” when a flight attendant asked her to clean up the popcorn that her daughters, 2 and 5, had spilled in the plane’s aisle.Sydney Bass and Jessie James Decker attend Jessie James Decker x JustFab Launch Event at Urban Cowboy Public House on October 03, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images for JustFab.com)In a since-expired Instagram story, Decker told a dramatic tale of her sister, dealing with a high-...

Bass anglers wanted to help gather fish data

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Anglers assemble, and fish fans come forth. The Department of Environmental Conservation is looking for interested parties to help keep track of striped bass. The DEC's Striped Bass Cooperative Anglers Program works to track and understand the bass population across New York. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Anglers who volunteer with the program will be issued logbooks and instructions on how to use them by the DEC. Volunteers will be asked to record information such as where their catches have been made, what gear was used, and how many fish they have caught. Anglers also have the option to use an online logbook and catalog their catches by computer or phone. Participation is welcome from both those who fish on land and those who do it by boat.Volunteers may also be asked to collect bass scales using tweezers. Although possibly intimidating, the process does not harm bass, and scales will regrow nat...

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo coming to St. Louis this summer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will play the Stifel Theatre this summer. The show is on Wednesday, August, 23, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets go on sale Friday, April 21, 2023 through Ticketmaster. They range in price from $26 to $126.Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are a legendary music duo. Together, they have created some of the most iconic rock hits of the 80s and continue to tour and perform to this day.Benatar is a four-time Grammy Award-winning singer known for rock anthems like "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield." Giraldo is known for his exceptional guitar skills. He has been a part of Benatar's sound since the early days of her career.

MLB uses Atlantic League to test more rule changes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

By DAVID BRANDT (AP Sports Writer)PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball isn’t done tinkering with potential rule changes for the sport.The league announced a series of experimental rules Tuesday that will be used in the Atlantic League this season, including a designated pinch runner, “double-hook” designated hitter rule and further limitations on a pitcher’s ability to make pickoff moves.The designated pinch runner rule allows a player who is not in the starting lineup to be used at any point of the game as a substitute baserunner. The player who was subbed out, as well as the pinch runner, would still be able to return to the game.The “double-hook” designated hitter rule allows teams to use the DH throughout the game as long as the starting pitcher throws at least five innings. If that doesn’t occur, the team loses its DH and the pitcher’s spot would bat for the remainder of the game. The rule was also used in the Atlantic Leagu...

Video released in Wilmington hit-and-run crash that left pedestrian severely injured

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Police on Tuesday released video of a Wilmington hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian severely injured last year.The crash occurred around 4 p.m. Oct. 9 near the intersection of L and Figueroa streets, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.The pedestrian was crossing on Figueroa when he was struck by a white four-door Chevrolet sedan — possibly a Malibu or Impala — making a left turn.The vehicle struck the pedestrian and “the force of the impact caused the pedestrian to go airborne and collide with the roadway,” police said in a news release.The driver continued north on Figueroa without stopping to help the injured man.The victim was taken to a hospital with severe injuries, police said.The short video clip released Tuesday shows the victim putting his arms out in front of him as if trying to stop the driver. The video stops right before impact.A taco truck can be seen heading in the opposite direction when the crash occurred. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered...

Man arrested after knife-wielding suspect forces lockdown at Riverside City College

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Students and faculty at Riverside City College were ordered to shelter in place for hours Tuesday due to a standoff with a man who was seen carrying a knife on campus, authorities said. He was taken into custody at around noon.The lockdown order was issued around 9:30 a.m., when the suspect was originally barricaded somewhere on campus, officials said. The man fled into a wash near the football field when law enforcement arrived, according to KTLA reporter Rich Prickett.Riverside police officers and county sheriff’s deputies contacted the suspect and sent a robot into the wash, aerial footage showed.Sky5 footage shows the suspect in custody near another entrance to the wash. April 18, 2023. (KTLA)According to Sky5 reporter Rich Prickett, the man who was seen with the knife was originally barricaded on campus but fled into a wash near the football field when law enforcement arrived. April 18, 2023. (KTLA)Students and faculty at Riverside City College were told to shelter-in-place due...

Senate GOP pops Feinstein Judiciary replacement balloon 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Republicans on Monday put up a blockade against the Democratic push to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying there is no chance they’ll take a step that will effectively allow President Joe Biden’s most partisan judicial nominations to advance.GOP senators of all stripes lined up in opposition Monday as they returned to the Capitol from a two-week recess partially headlined by questions about when Feinstein would be back. The six-term senator has been absent since late February due to a case of shingles, leaving the Judiciary panel deadlocked 10-10 and unable to pass partisan nominees along for floor votes.“I, for one, am not going to help President Biden’s most unqualified nominees to get confirmed. I don’t think you’ll see us help in that effort,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a senior member of the panel and a key ally of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).At least five Republicans on the Judiciary Committee ...

Kush Kriminals Makes Their Cannabis Invasion at Los Angeles Event

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:32:59 GMT

Do you like sci-fi? Do you like weed? Do you like to party? Then we have the can’t-miss event for you.The Kush Kriminals®, a brand-new entertainment brand backed by major Hollywood talent, is celebrating their cannabis premiere with a big bash this Saturday, April 22, at Cookies® Woodland Hills.Open and free to the public, the launch party will include DJs, food trucks, cannabis discounts, a live interactive storytelling experience, and surprise appearances from celebrities and influences. It’s another example of how Kush Kriminals is “dedicated to creating a community and rewarding our fans,” said Kush Kriminals founder, Nik Buitch.With custom strains such as Pluto Twilight (indica), Martian Sunrise (sativa), and Asteroid Dreams (hybrid), Kush Kriminals-branded flower will be available at the event, in addition to stores like Lemonade® Van Nuys, Cookies® Denver, and Cookies® Commerce City in Colorado. Prerolls and concentrates are also on the horizon.Described as “what if Blade Run...