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A children's activity center sold at Walmart is being recalled

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

CHICAGO — An item that's sold at Walmart and intended for children is being recalled by the store this week. This involves the Dorel Juvenile Group's Cosco Jump, Spin, and Play Activity Center, which has had incidents of the straps detaching or breaking when a child is inside, creating a fall and injury hazard.It involves the activity centers with model numbers WA105FZW and WA105GML, coming in pink and blue colors. They were sold at Walmart stores and www.walmart.com from November 2020 through October 2023.This comes after there were 141 reports of the straps detaching or breaking, resulting in 38 minor injuries involving bumps, bruises, and scratches. Those who own one should stop using them immediately and contact Dorel for a replacement. In order to get that replacement, the company is asking consumers to cut through the straps of the activity center and then send a photo of that to them. You can find more information on the recall here.

Burn hazard forces recall of pressure cooker

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

CHICAGO — There is a pressure cooker that is being recalled by a major retailer due to a burn hazard.Best Buy is asking that people return Insignia Multi-Function Pressure Cookers after reports of incidents where people using it were burned. This includes units with the model numbers NS-MC60SS8, NS-MC60SS9, or NS-MC80SS9, and inner cooker pots with model numbers NS-MCRP6NS9 and NS-MCRP6SS9. These were sold at Best Buy stores or online at www.bestbuy.com or www.amazon.com between Oct. 2017 and June 2023. According to Best Buy, there have been 31 incidents where the contents of the pressure cookers were "expelled under pressure." There have been 17 reports of burns, including second-degree and severe burns.If you own one, you are asked to contact Best Buy for a replacement of the inner pot and floating locking valve for signaling pressure.More information on the recall can be found here.

Board could recommend lowering fees for midwife licenses in Texas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Those looking for a midwife license in Texas or renewing an existing one in Texas could soon pay less. The Midwives Advisory Board of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation will meet on video conference Monday afternoon at 1. Shortage of Black midwives causing concern According to the announcement of the meeting, board members will discuss and possibly recommend proposed amendments to existing program rules to lower the initial application fee for a midwife license from $275 to $195 and lower the license renewal fee from $550 to $390.Board members will also be trained on the Open Meetings Act, the Texas Public Information Act and the Texas Administrative Procedure Act, the announcement said.The meeting will stream live on the TDLR YouTube channel. In July 2020, KXAN investigator Arezow Doost reported on a shortage of Black midwives as advocacy organizations said more women were moving towards home births during the pandemic.

Day of the Dead: What to know about the holiday and how to celebrate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

MCALLEN, Texas (KSEE/KGPE) — If you've ever seen the movie Coco you may have an idea about the significance of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. While the movie does a good job of depicting the colors and sentiment behind the celebration, Día de los Muertos has a deeper cultural and spiritual tie to many Hispanic families. Día de los Muertos is a week-long celebration where families honor their ancestors and dead loved ones. It is a celebration of life and death. The significance of the week-long ritual is centered around prayer and remembering friends' and family members' lives before they died. Photo by: Diana Maldonado/ValleyCentralJoe Garza, marketing and special event supervisor for the McAllen Convention Center, said Día de los Muertos is a way for people to remember those who have passed over to the afterlife. During the holiday it is believed ancestors and loved ones who have crossed to the other side come to visit their families. It is tradition for families to leave...

Don't trash it, smash it, at the Amsterdam Pumpkin Smash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- "Don't trash it, smash it." Grow Amsterdam's fifth annual pumpkin smash will be held Saturday at Veteran's Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! The event has collected over 8,000 pounds of pumpkins, corn stalks, and straw bales in its four years of operation. The "smashing" event will have four stations with several tools, including wooden mauls and handheld dead blow hammers for younger participants. Residents with pumpkins they'd like to dispose of but not smash can drop them off at 9 a.m. in the parking lot at the upper end of Locust Avenue. Attendees will have the chance to not only smash pumpkins or impale them but also get their face painted, enjoy cider and donuts, try pumpkin bowling and other pumpkin games, and more.

3 people attacked in Central West End Sunday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A shocking attack occurred in the Central West End on Sunday morning. This happened just before 9:00 a.m. near Euclid and West Pine.Police said a man approached a family and hit one person over the head with a glass bottle. The attacker then tried to grab an infant, then choked an elderly woman and broke her arm. St. Louis County woman receives unpaid unemployment benefits after FOX 2 highlights case Police revealed that the man accused of the attack was arrested. All three victims needed medical treatment but are expected to be okay. It's unclear right now what led up to this attack.FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Colorado case seeking to disqualify Donald Trump from ballot goes to trial, putting insurrection arguments to test

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

Over the next five days, a Denver judge is set to hear arguments for why former President Trump should not be allowed on the state’s 2024 ballot — along with his lawyers’ case for why she should reject the unusual challenge.The ballot disqualification trial, set to begin Monday, will be the first time testimony and evidence are presented in a case that invokes the 14th Amendment to bar the Republican front-runner from a state’s ballot. It puts Colorado at the forefront of a novel legal fight that has united liberal critics and current and former Republicans who contend that Trump’s alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the nation’s Capitol disqualified him from being eligible to run for national office again.A provision in the Civil War-era federal constitutional amendment bars people who engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding office.But there are key unresolved questions: Which actions meet that threshold? Who can enforce it? And ...

Denver Film Festival 2023 preview: Films to watch in-person before the winter awards season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

The buzz, by now, has become deafening for certain titles that began their year on the festival circuit and have now wound their way to Denver theaters — think “Past Lives,” “Asteroid City,” and “The Barbie Movie” — in advance of expected Academy Award nominations.Related: A chilling Colorado tale of buffalo slaughter jumps from page to screen in Nicholas Cage’s latest movieBut while there’s been plenty to see, there’s nothing quite like the Denver Film Festival, arguably the largest and most audience-friendly film event in the region. There are competitive one-offs and world premieres at this year’s 46th installment, but cinephiles will also have the chance to check out features and documentaries they’ve been hearing about since debuting at Sundance and other industry-standard events in Telluride and Toronto earlier this year.Here’s what you need to know going into this year’s Denver Film Fest, prod...

“Weyward,” by Emilia Hart, and more short reviews from readers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

“Weyward,” by Emilia Hart (St. Martin’s Press, 2024)“Weyward,” by Emilia Hart (St. Martin’s Press, 2023)Three women of the Weyward family inhabit this novel, starting with Altha (“healer”) in 1619. She relays her story in first person, and that was the most compelling for me. Violet’s story (1942) effectively bridges that of her ancestor and her great-niece. Extraordinarily sheltered, virtually imprisoned, Violet has the most arduous journey to realize her true self. Kate, in 2019, was the character I initially found most unappealing, due to her apparent weaknesses. By the book’s denouement, though, I liked Kate much more.Their relationships with their mothers are varied. Altha was exceptionally close to hers, and their connection was loving and supportive. Violet hardly remembers her mother (and doesn’t recall her grandmother at all), but as the novel advances she learns more about her heritage. Kate’s relationship with her mother starts tenuously, then stre...

Colorado musician takes on one of the most difficult pieces ever written for the clarinet

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:20:56 GMT

Composer John Corigliano was composer-in-residence at last summer’s Colorado Music Festival in Boulder. He offered advice to Jason Shafer on how to play his challenging clarinet concerto. Photo provided by Colorado Music Festival.Composer John Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto is one of contemporary classical music’s most important — and notoriously difficult — pieces to play. Taking center stage to perform the work with a symphony orchestra is a major moment in any musician’s career.Jason Shafer, the Colorado Symphony’s principal clarinet, wanted to be sure he made the most of it. He spent a year preparing for this unique challenge, which he will take on this weekend at Denver’s Boettcher Concert Hall.He also took the highly unusual approach of reaching out to the composer himself for some guidance on how best to interpret the work, which was written in 1977, for a live audience in 2023.“I had this realization that this guy is a legend. He’s still alive, still teaching at ...