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The morning edition of The Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1978, reported slick roads due to rain and ice that morning, in part due to a recent snowstorm. The newspaper’s weather forecast reported that Thursday, Jan. 26, 1978, would be “Windy and cold with snow flurries” By 9 p.m. that night, however, updated weather reports were anticipating a major winter storm.In the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 26, 1978, temperatures in Columbus quickly dropped from 34 degrees to 13 degrees as a cold front moved over the state from the west. Unlike many of Ohio’s other memorable winter…

Rain has fallen in Southern California after weeks of windy and dry weather, which is expected to help firefighters responding to multiple wildfires, but potentially heavy rain on burned hillsides could cause toxic ash runoff.Los Angeles County crews spent the past week removing vegetation, shoring up slopes and reinforcing roads in areas devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month.Most of the region was forecast to receive around an inch of precipitation over several days, but the National Weather Service said “the threat is high enough to prepare for the worst-case scenario” of localized cloudbursts leading to mud…

Gadi Shamni, former commander of the IDF Central Command, criticized US President Donald Trump’s proposal for Jordan and Egypt to accept Gaza residents to enable the strip’s reconstruction, calling it “not practical,” in an interview with 103FM on Sunday.”Let’s say the Jordanians and Egyptians agree to take in hundreds of thousands. Who will leave Gaza? Those who leave will be people with more resources and greater economic stability. Those who stay will be the problematic ones, the poor, the ones who, for 50 shekels a month, will turn to terrorism. So this entire idea of ‘population migration’—I think it’s impractical,”…

MELBOURNE, Australia — Taylor Townsend of the United States returned to the court on which her career first took flight, teaming with Katerina Siniakova to beat Hsieh Su-Wei and Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3 in the women’s doubles final Sunday at the Australian Open.“This is super-special to me,” Townsend said. “The last time I played on this court I was 15 and in 2012 I won the juniors here and that was the kick-start.“Honestly, being here is so special to me because this tournament was the beginning of me being able to live out my dream.”Top-seeded Townsend and Siniakova…

75% of gym equipment are contaminated with staph bacteria, study revealedCleaning the gym equipment and yoga mats became a norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, but with every passing year, that norm has become less of a priority.According to CNN, experts have warned that this negligence can lead to a problem as gym equipment contains potentially harmful germs. As per the study published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health in 2018, 75% of gym equipment, such as dumbbells, treadmills, and exercise mats, tested positive for Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that causes infections.Besides other equipment, yoga mats are…

Despite stereotypes of reckless youth, most of those they interviewed were well-aware of the risks.“And some were critical about the way the industry has targeted young people with slick marketing,” said study author Dr Jude Ball, a senior research fellow with the university’s Aspire Aotearoa tobacco control research centre.Over half had never tried vaping, even though most had been offered a vape at least once or twice when the devices were being passed around friends.Many had also made a conscious decision to resist vaping because they thought it went against their values, identity or ambitions, Ball said.AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.“Within friend…

When American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian IT entrepreneur Pavel Durov in April, he had an additional unexpected audience: scammers. After the video was published, a phony Russian-language transcript of the interview tried to attract “investors” to a cryptocurrency scheme that promised monthly earnings of $13,000. That scheme came to VOA’s attention because its creators used a copy of a VOA Russian article page in their attempts to defraud internet users. It is one of many examples of legitimate media outlets being exploited for fraudulent purposes. These schemes buy advertising using Facebook accounts — often hacked without the user’s…

TOWAMENCIN TWP., Pa. (WPVI) — “The video is absolutely abhorrent,” said Katie Duffy from Towamencin Township. “I feel like there’s no place for that in this community.””What is the intent of the posting? What is the meaning behind the comments after the posting?” said Phillip Hartley from Towamencin Township.People have mixed emotions after watching a TikTok post by Towamencin Supervisor Laura Smith. Smith hits her chest before she puts her arm straight out in the air with her palm down.Many believe it resembles a Nazi salute. This comes days after Elon Musk faced backlash after making a similar motion during…

Photo: Big White UPDATE: 3:30 p.m. Big White Ski Resort says its team was forced to delete a post made Saturday morning on X due to inappropriate comments. “Today, we made a business decision regarding our continued use of the media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. We certainly didn’t expect this to make so much news, but given the unsavory nature of some comments on the post, we deemed it necessary to delete it entirely,” said Michael J. Ballingall, senior VP of the resort. “This reaction underscores the rationale behind our choice to step away from using the platform.…

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