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QUIZ: How many of these native Texas flowers can you name?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Every spring, polychromatic flowers pop up along Texas roads making our commutes just a little more pleasant.While some Texas wildflower's peak has already passed, others are still thriving. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin said people can expect to see many well-known Texas wildflowers from March through May. QUIZ: Do you know Texas’ official state symbols? There are over 5,000 species of wildflowers growing throughout the Lone Star State. Take the quiz below to see if you can accurately name eight of them. Sorry, you are using an unsupported browser. This page will not display correctly. Please click here to upgrade to a newer browser. /**/If you aced this test, try out this Texas-centric quiz.

Inger Burnett-Zeigler: Stress is a silent killer for pregnant Black women

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

“We don’t take walk-ins,” the receptionist at my obstetrician-gynecologist’s office at a large academic medical center told me when I showed up without an appointment on a Friday afternoon and asked to be seen by a nurse.I was close to 28 weeks pregnant. I’d suffered severe headaches throughout my pregnancy. For the past several days, my feet and ankles had been so swollen that I could not lace up my sneakers. The night before, while receiving an award, I was so short of breath that I had trouble speaking.The prior weekend, I phoned the nurse on call and told her my blood pressure had been gradually increasing. She believed my symptoms to be a “normal” part of pregnancy and told me to call back if my blood pressure rose over 140/90. I’d just received a blood pressure reading of 142/94 at a medical appointment that wasn’t pregnancy-related.As a Black woman older than 40 and as a health disparities researcher, I knew that I met sev...

5 things to know this Friday, April 21

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Self-help writer Edmond Mbiaka believes, "Every single day is a good day no matter how bright or dark it is because it always brings an opportunity to start a positive beginning in your life." The weather this afternoon will certainly pave the way for that kind of progress—Meteorologist Jill Szwed went so far as to call it, "a fantastic Friday." Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Hundreds gathered in Fort Hardy Park on Thursday, for a candlelight vigil in memory of Kaylin Gillis. Also, in Colonie, the town board unanimously approved body cameras for the police department. All this and more, in today's five things to know. 1. Silent candlelight vigil for Kaylin GillisHundreds of people gathered in silence at Fort Hardy Park Thursday night to remember Kaylin Gillis, whose life was taken too soon. Silent candlelight vigil for Kaylin Gillis 2. Colonie police to don body cameras in new programThe Colonie ...

NYSP: Man arrested after high-speed chase in Malta

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

MALTA, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Stillwater man has been cited to court after Troopers say he led them on a high-speed chase down Route 9 in Malta. Around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, Alexander C. Morgan, 36, was allegedly caught speeding down the road. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Police claim when they tried to stop Morgan, he sped off. A high-speed chase ensued, but only until officers lost sight of the car. Soon after, the car was found unoccupied in a nearby parking lot. Police say Morgan did not own the car or have a valid driver's license at the time of the incident. Rhinebeck man accused of rape Morgan turned himself in on Friday, April 14. He was processed on charges of third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, second-degree reckless endangerment, and multiple vehicle and traffic law violations. He is due in Malta Town Court on May 11.

Open house in St. Louis commemorates child abuse prevention month

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- "Children's Advocacy Services" of Greater St. Louis hosts an open house today.It is to commemorate "Child Abuse Prevention Month." Visitors can plant a pinwheel garden outside their offices at U-M St. Louis. Each pinwheel represents one of the 77 thousand calls made to the Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline last year.

Broncos draft preview: Denver has top-end talent, needs quality depth in secondary

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

Editor’s note: This is the ninth and final in a series of NFL draft previews as it relates to the Broncos. Today: Defensive backs April 10: Quarterbacks | April 11: Running backs | April 12: Wide receivers | April 13: Tight ends | April 14: Offensive line | Tuesday: Defensive line | Wednesday: Edge rushers | Thursday: Inside linebackers Broncos’ in-house offseason moves: Signed cornerback Tremon Smith (two years, $5 million), re-signed cornerback Essang Bassey (one year, $1.01 million), re-signed safety P.J. Locke (one year, $1.01 million).Under contract: Cornerbacks Smith, Bassey, Pat Surtain II (two years plus 2025 fifth-year option), Damarri Mathis (three years), K’Waun Williams (one year), Ja’Quan McMillian (two years), Faion Hicks (one year), Delonte Hood (one year). Safeties: Locke, Justin Simmons (two years), Caden Sterns (two years), Delarrin Turner-Yell (three years), Devon Key (one year).Need scale (1-10): 7. Denver’s top-end talent in the secondary is elite with Surtain a...

Walters: Imperial Valley nears day of reckoning for use of distressed Colorado River.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

When white settlers forayed into what came to be known as the Imperial Valley at the dawn of the 20th century, they found a barren desert in California’s southeastern corner, unpopulated except for a few members of the Kamia clan of the Kumeyaay tribe.The harsh conditions, however, had a potential upside. With water, the desert could bloom with crops and the water was potentially available from the Colorado River, which flowed to the sea a few dozen miles to the east, on the other side of a massive stretch of Sahara-like sand dunes.The settlement of the valley was romantically portrayed in “The Winning of Barbara Worth,” a best-selling novel by Harold Bell Wright that later became a silent movie.A canal was dug, routed through Mexico to skirt the sand dunes, and the Imperial Valley, named for the Imperial Land Co., blossomed. It became a 500,000-acre provider of vegetables, alfalfa and other crops watered at very little cost from the Colorado and nurtured by year-round sunshine.By b...

Without Draymond Green, these key players stepped up to save Warriors’ season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green served his league suspension. Gary Payton II, a late scratch due to illness. The Warriors, down two games to none to the Sacramento Kings in the playoffs’ first round, were without their two best defenders understanding that one more loss would all but cut their end title defense.In the hours leading up to a pivotal Game 3, coach Steve Kerr and the veterans preached the need for the role players and, in some cases, guys who’ve completely fallen out of the rotation to step up. At practice, Green told them how to best take on his duties in his absence.It’s a tired call to action if it falls on def ears. But a sermon for the motivated.The Warriors’ 114-97 season-saving win on Thursday night at Chase Center doesn’t happen without a galvanized Moses Moody, Donte DiVincenzo, Jonathan Kuminga and JaMychal Green. For them, the next-man-up cliche turned into an inspired reality.“Humbly speaking, I’ve always been a...

Kowitt: Disney embraces its role as hero to DeSantis’s villain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war against Walt Disney Co. reached parody level on Monday when he floated his latest threat: building a prison next to its theme park complex in the state.While DeSantis is increasingly coming across as petty and vindictive in the debacle — and some might even say slightly unhinged — in a strange twist the conflict is giving Disney a chance to demonstrate its mettle and rewrite the narrative on its corporate values and ethics.For those who have not been following the drama worthy of its own full-length Disney treatment, here’s a recap: DeSantis and the media giant’s battle began last year when the company spoke out rather mildly against a Florida bill designed to ban elementary school classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics.DeSantis retaliated by disbanding Disney’s special districting, which allowed the company to self-govern Disney World. But before the new governing structure went in...

Former Santa Cruz County nurse pleads guilty in sex abuse case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:32 GMT

SANTA CRUZ — A former Watsonville nurse involved in a child sex case pleaded guilty Thursday to four out of 44 felonies and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, with the option for parole.As a part of a plea deal struck with the Santa Cruz District Attorney’s Office, Rashel Brandon, 48, will be required to testify at the trial of her former co-defendant and to register as a sex offender for life, upon release.“I would also like to apologize to the victims in this case; what was done to them by myself and others was heinous,” Brandon wrote, in part, in a statement she read aloud to the court Thursday. “It will affect them for the rest of their lives. For that, I wish I could turn back time and do what I should have done and contacted the authorities when I found out what my co-defendants had been doing for years.”Brandon also apologized to her family, friends, co-workers and the community, saying that “these crimes rocked every one of these people to the core.” Brandon said s...