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Austin-based company wants to control the rain over Lake Travis

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

AUSTIN, TX (KXAN) - After one of the hottest years on record, Rainwater Tech, an Austin-based company, is hoping to bring weather controlling technology to the United States. The company has been using the tech in the Middle East and Australia for 10 years."We have a real imbalance of where the water is falling, it's falling in areas that already have enough water, we need it to redistribute to the areas that need water most," said Rainwater Tech CEO Mike Nefkins.The company produces rain by using large antenna or towers. "What we do is basically produce an ion plume that goes up into the atmosphere attaches to the cloud nuclei, and enhances rain."The theory is that by having the added ion, the rain drops in the cloud can grow larger, fall and survive the trip to the ground. According to Nefkins, the towers "turbocharge" the water cycle.According to Nefkins, their technology can enhance rain by 10% to 20%."I wish we had a technology that would generate rain from blue skies but that...

Hwy 29 reopens after cement truck rollover

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

LIBERTY HILL, Texas (KXAN) -- Traffic in Liberty Hill was affected Thursday morning after a cement truck rolled over on Highway 29. The road was shut down in the 17000 block of West Hwy. 29 -- west of Liberty Hill -- around 6:30 a.m., according to the Williamson County Sheriff's Office. The road has since reopened, WCSO said in an update. Real time traffic map Liberty Hill Independent School District also alerted parents, students and staff to expected delays on the way to school and work.

Jace Frederick: Karl-Anthony Towns needs to step up to give Timberwolves a chance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

DENVER — Karl-Anthony Towns was excellent during Minnesota’s third quarter surge in its Game 2 defeat in Denver. The all-star big man recorded eight points, five rebounds, two assists and a massive blocked shot in transition to help spark a 40-point frame that catapulted the Timberwolves from a 15-point halftime deficit to a two-point advantage heading into the final frame.Finally, it looked as if Towns had found his footing in the first-round series.Then came the final frame. Towns went 0 for 4 from the field, didn’t grab a single rebound nor tally an assist, turned the ball over and was beat for an alley-oop lob on the defensive end as Denver pulled away from Minnesota to go up 2-0 in the best-of-7 series.That fourth quarter was emblematic of Towns’ playoff performances. While Anthony Edwards was electric in numerous facets Wednesday in Denver, Towns was too easily relegated to irrelevance. He finished with 10 points on 3-for-12 shooting. As the series moves to M...

Suspect arrested in fatal shooting outside St. Paul Target store

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

Police have arrested a 25-year-old man in a fatal shooting outside a St. Paul Target store.Jadonn Taylor, 23, was shot in the parking lot of the Target on Suburban Avenue just south of Interstate 94 on April 6 about 9:50 a.m. Someone drove Taylor to the nearby fire station at Suburban and White Bear avenues, where firefighters gave him emergency medical aid in the station’s driveway, but he was pronounced dead.On Wednesday, officers took a suspect into custody in the 400 block of Brainerd Avenue about 3:45 p.m., according to police. He was booked into the jail on suspicion of murder.Police said the investigation is ongoing.Related ArticlesCrime & Public Safety | Authorities release more details about 9 migrants rescued from freezing bog near Warraod Crime & Public Safety | Murder charge: Man shot his wife in St. Paul while 3 kids were in residence; he later died by suicide Crime & Public Safety | Authorities detail events of Pop...

Ulster County names April 'Parkinson's Awareness Month'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

KINGSTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) - In Legislative Session on Tuesday, the Ulster County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution to declare April as Parkinson's Awareness Month. Parkinson's Disease is a progressive disorder that breaks down the nerve cells in the brain, leading to motor impairment and cognitive decline. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Over 90,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each year. It is the 14th-highest leading cause of death in the United States. "Parkinson's is a serious medical disorder, which does not have a known cure and whose pathology is under researched in the United States," said Deputy Minority Leader Craig Lopez, who sponsored the resolution. "By approving this Resolution, we are calling on our federal representatives to pass the National Plan to End Parkinson's Act, which will provide better care and treatment plans to patients and increase scholarship on this disease." Gun buy...

Pittsfield hydrant flushing returning next week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (NEWS10) - Pittsfield's annual hydrant flushing is set to return on Monday, April 24. Water mains throughout the city will be flushed over the course of four weeks, to prevent pipeline corrosion. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Hydrants will be flushed Monday through Friday each week, except holidays, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. The upcoming flushing for the week of April 24 will impact the following areas:Starting at the town line on Dalton Avenue working west through Coltsville including lower Crane Avenue, Meadowview neighborhood, following Cheshire Road north. Hubbard Avenue and Downing Parkway.Starting at the town line on East Street working west through the McIntosh and Parkside neighborhoods. Elm Street neighborhoods went to the intersection of East Street. Starting at the town line on Williams Street working west including Mountain Drive, Ann Drive, East New Lenox Road, and Homes Roa...

Fallen Marine's family gets $3,200 bill for I-70 memorial sign

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

WENTZVILLE, Mo. – FOX 2 has learned the state of Missouri honored Marine Corps hero, Jared Schmitz, with a new memorial sign on Interstate 70 in Wentzville, but then sent a bill for the sign to his family.Missouri lawmakers are now pushing to make this the last time it ever happens.Schmitz’s father is so grateful for the sign naming the overpass at I-70 and the David Hoekel Parkway after Jared.The Missouri Department of Transportation recently erected the signs on eastbound and westbound I-70, naming the overpass the Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz Memorial Bridge. Top Story: Former St. Louis prosecutor turned star witness says she won’t be silenced The honor means the world to his family, but getting a bill from MoDOT was unforeseen.“We were a little shocked to get a bill in the mail for $3,200 to pay for our own signs,” Mark Schmitz said.His state representative and state senator, who presented the family with an official state proclamation at the sign dedication a few weeks...

This St. Charles County suburb named Missouri's safest city

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - One suburb in St. Charles County takes the title of the "safest city in Missouri," according to a new annual report. Home security company Safewise recently released its annual "Safest Cities in Missouri" list for 2023. The list is created by examining crime rates calculated by the FBI. Safewise also evaluates results from a "state of safety" survey to determine how concerned residents in certain municipalities feel about crime. According to Safewise, the safest city in Missouri is Cottleville. Trending: Woman tracks stolen AirPods, but says St. Louis police can’t help The Top 10 safest cities all reported fewer than 2.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents. Cottleville had a violent crime rate of 0.3 per 1,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2.2 per 1,000 residents. Both of those were among the best rates in the state. The following St. Louis-area suburbs also ranked among the Top 20 safest cities in Missouri in Safewise's annual report...Ball...

Bill governing Colorado’s legal psychedelics industry clarifies what would remain unlawful, sets limits on personal cultivation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

Lawmakers are aiming to codify how Colorado’s newly legal psychedelics industry will take shape with a bill introduced in the state Senate on Tuesday that would shift rule-making power to a different agency, clarify penalties for unlawful activity and set limits on how much psilocybin an individual can cultivate for personal use.SB23-290, sponsored by Senate President Steve Fenberg, seeks to implement Proposition 122, the ballot measure approved by voters in November that legalized “magic mushrooms” compounds psilocybin and psilocin for medicinal use and cleared the way for healing centers to open and offer natural medical services.Fenberg has said he wants to enact the “spirit” of the ballot measure — which also decriminalized the personal use, sharing or growing of certain substances — by clarifying parts of the ballot measure and ensuring it makes sense in the state’s existing regulatory framework.“The bill basically is striving to implement Prop 122 in a way that mak...

Colorado assault weapons ban killed in late-night vote by House committee

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:27 GMT

Three Colorado House Democrats joined with Republican colleagues to block a bill early Thursday that would have banned the sale or purchase of assault weapons in the state, after hours of heated public testimony and a late attempt by the bill’s sponsor to dramatically scale the measure back and salvage its passage.The House Judiciary Committee’s vote came well past midnight, and its bipartisan nature comes after lingering internal disagreement among Democratic lawmakers and their leadership over the bill. Democratic Rep. Elisabeth Epps, HB23-1230’s primary sponsor, twice attempted to amend the measure before the vote and narrow it to a ban on specific equipment, a nod to the entrenched opposition even among her party colleagues on the committee, but the group narrowly rejected those amendments before nixing the bill in its entirety.Democratic Reps. Said Sharbini, Bob Marshall and Marc Snyder joined with the committee’s four Republican members to reject the fu...