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Misleading clients on abortion could cost Illinois pregnancy centers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois crisis pregnancy centers, which often pop up near abortion facilities to offer information about alternatives, could face penalties if they disseminate misleading or untruthful information.The move is another Democratic effort to insulate the state’s virtually unfettered access to abortion, even as neighboring states restrict it. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzke signed legislation Thursday to immediately apply the state’s consumer protection statute to the pregnancy centers, non-medical facilities that offer some services to pregnant women and girls, such as ultrasound. They often discourage abortion by using counseling, material support and/or housing in an effort to persuade women to bring their pregnancies to term.The pregnancy centers wasted little time challenging the law’s constitutionality. The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a national network of pregnancy help centers; and several centers in Illinois filed a f...

A Tennessee city can drink its tap water again, a week after a fuel spill tainted its supply

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee city told its 40,000 residents Thursday that they can drink their tap water again, a week after they were ordered to stay away after diesel fuel spilled into a reservoir at a treatment plant and tainted the Memphis suburb’s supply.Officials in Germantown said those who live and work in the city must flush their plumbing systems before they can resume the normal use of the water that flows into their homes and businesses. The order to avoid using city water forced residents to drink bottled water and seek other places to shower and clean their dishes. The city said July 20 that the diesel fuel spill at a treatment plant contaminated the water supply system. The order came after residents reported a fuel smell in their water. A generator being used at the plant because the facility lost power during recent storms spilled the diesel fuel into a reservoir, officials said.As a result, people were told to stop using water for everything except flush...

Lainey Lui to leave CTV’s ‘The Social’ end of August, appear full-time on ‘eTalk’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

TORONTO — Lainey Lui is leaving CTV‘s “The Social.”The gossip maven says her last appearance on the daytime talk show will be at the end of August.She made the announcement flanked by co-hosts Melissa Grelo, Cynthia Loyst and Jess Allen.Lui says she’ll move full-time to CTV’s celebrity news magazine “eTalk,” where she is a senior correspondent.The announcement adds more daytime shakeup to the CTV schedule after longtime morning host Marilyn Denis signed off in June.Lui says she’s excited to be able to devote more time to “eTalk” and her website Lainey Gossip, as well as other pop culture projects she’s working on.She thanked fans of “The Social” for “listening to my rants, putting up with my vanity and disagreeing with me when you think I’m in the wrong — and telling me my outfits are weird.”“When I was growing up I couldn’t imagine a Chinese-Canadian woman on a national daily talk show…. being able to share her...

Victims of Nova Scotia flooding include 6-year-old girl and member of local rock band

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

HALIFAX — A musician in a local heavy metal band and a six-year-old girl who loved dressing up like a princess have been identified as two of the victims who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia.Nicholas Anthony Holland, 52, of Windsor, N.S., was the bassist in Hogtooth and father of two children.His former wife, Julie Giffin Holland, confirmed to The Canadian Press that Holland died trying to escape the floodwater. “He died a hero and should be remembered as that,” she said in a text message.Holland was one of four people, including two young children, who went missing early Saturday after the vehicles they were in were swept off a road and submerged as they fled their homes.A funeral home death notice identifies one of the children who died as six-year-old Natalie Hazel Harnish of Brooklyn, N.S. The notice directs people to a fundraising page that says her family “lost everything” during the July 22 flash floods.It describes ...

Rain allows ‘slight reset’ in B.C. wildfire fight but drought persists

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

VANCOUVER — Recent rainfall has allowed for a “slight reset” of the wildfire fight in northern British Columbia but “doesn’t erase all the challenges” of this year’s historic fire season, Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma said Thursday.“While the rain did give our hardworking firefighters a chance to take a deep breath, the wildfire and drought situation remains largely unchanged due to the drought conditions we have been seeing since last summer,” she told a news conference on Thursday.The wildfire danger rating has dropped to moderate or low in all but the southeastern corner of the province, however Ma warned that the recent rain and cooler weather don’t ease severe drought conditions across B.C.The BC Wildfire Service was reporting 395 active wildfires as of Thursday afternoon,  down by about 90 since Monday. Twenty-one highly visible or potentially threatening fires were listed on the service’s website, with just...

Casino mogul Steve Wynn fined $10M to end fight over claims of workplace sexual misconduct in Nevada

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino mogul Steve Wynn has ended a yearslong legal fight with Nevada gambling regulators that started with claims of workplace sexual misconduct, agreeing to pay a $10 million fine and cut ties to the industry he helped shape in Las Vegas.The Nevada Gaming Commission accepted a settlement Thursday to end the state’s look at allegations that led to Wynn’s resignation from his corporate empire in February 2018. Wynn admitted no wrongdoing. The decision was 4-0. Commission Chairwoman Jennifer Togliatti abstained from voting, citing a conflict arising from her previous work as a state court mediator.Wynn is now 81 and lives in Florida. He did not attend the hearing held in Carson City and livestreamed on the internet. His attorney, Colby Williams, called the case the final regulatory matter that Wynn faced stemming from the allegations five years ago.Wynn “looks forward to moving on to other phases of his life,” Williams told The Associated Press.The fine is the larges...

CPKC chief exec cites ‘challenging’ three months following railway merger

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. framed its first quarter following a major merger as a tough one, as demand for container shipments and some bulk goods fell across the rail sector.“No doubt it’s a challenging quarter as we dealt with a softer demand environment,” said CEO Keith Creel on a conference call with analysts Thursday.The company reported that revenues from container traffic, which moves everything from kitchenware to construction materials, fell 10 per cent in the quarter ended June 30 compared with the two railways’ combined results from a year earlier as consumers spent more cash on services rather than products.In better years, the corrugated steel containers have accounted for about a quarter of Canadian Pacific Railway’s total revenues, rather than one-fifth as they did in its second quarter this year. Grain volumes also fell five per cent year over year while potash shipments plummeted.“This is a long game, it’s not about the first quart...

TC Energy reports lower profit, higher revenues in Q2 as it announces split

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

CALGARY — TC Energy Corp. reported its second-quarter profit tumbled compared with a year ago as it announced it’s splitting the company into two. The pipeline operator says its net income attributable to common shares was $250 million in the second quarter, down from $889 million a year earlier. However, net income for the fiscal year so far was $1.6 billion, up from $1.2 billion for the same six-month period last year. Net income per common share was 24 cents, down from 90 cents last year, and comparable earnings were 96 cents per share, down from a dollar. Revenues for the quarter ended June 30 were $3.8 billion, up from $3.6 billion the same quarter last year. TC Energy announced Thursday it will split into two separate companies by spinning off its liquids pipelines business to focus on natural gas infrastructure as well as nuclear, pumped hydro energy storage and new energy opportunities.This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 27, 2023.Companies in thi...

2 injured after small plane crash near DeKalb Airport

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

CORTLAND, Ill. — A small plane with two people on board crashed near DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to WGN News. A single-engine Cessna 177 crashed in a field around 12:30 p.m. in the 200 block of W. Lincoln Highway in Cortland. The two occupants, which police said were adult males, were reportedly conscious and speaking while being pulled from the mangled aircraft. SEE ALSO: Video shows crop dusting plane nearly clipping semi-truck in Northwest IndianaBoth were transported to Northwestern Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb with unknown injuries. According to online records obtained by WGN News, the plane is registered to a flight club out of Evansville, Indiana. Assistant Chief of Cortland Fire Department Mark Hedrick said the plane was in pretty bad shape but it was not the first crash he's seen occur in the area. "Maybe about seven years ago, we had another plane go down, and then this spring, we had a plane crash, and t...

3 firefighters, intern injured in rollover crash in Hampshire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:15 GMT

HAMPSHIRE, Ill. — Three firefighters and an intern are expected to be OK after their fire truck rollover in far northwest suburban Hampshire Thursday morning. SEE ALSO: Small plane crash reported near DeKalb AirportAround 9:40 a.m., emergency personnel responded to French Road, one mile south of Rt. 72, for a crash involving a Hampshire Fire Engine returning from an incident.All four occupants suffered minor injuries and were taken to Sherman Hospital in Elgin.A hazardous material clean-up company was called to the scene after diesel fuel from the truck leaked into a nearby ditch.Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesThe Kane County Sheriff's Office is investigating. Hampshire is about 60 miles west of Chicago.