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Suicide on the spectrum: The hidden danger of autism

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

WGN's Medical reporter Dina Bair has some surprising statistics on suicided and the grave risk in one community.They are neighbors, in our school classrooms and working in the community, one in 36 people are on the autism spectrum. And while we live alongside the population, we may not understand their deeper, at times life-threatening, struggles."I’m rather up front with my autism," Kyle Engbrecht said.Engbrecht didn’t feel comfortable showing his face on camera, but he did want us to hear his words."I know that I do things differently, and not everyone will understand that," Engbrecht said.An artist with a skilled hand, the 27-year-old detailed his personal experience living with autism."Sometimes I just have trouble looking people in the eye because, for some reason, it’s uncomfortable for me. I have to sit there and manually press those buttons to make sure my body is doing the right thing.""He works so hard to be aware of his autism and how it influences his behavior and how hi...

Jet company leaving AUS, will move operations to Austin Executive Airport

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Private jet company JSX is leaving Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and will move operations to Austin Executive Airport next month.A spokesperson for the public charter operator told KXAN the move will happen Dec. 14 but declined to comment further.The airline will serve one route — Taos, New Mexico — from the executive airport located off State Highway 130 between Pflugerville and Manor. Austin airport passenger totals still on track for record-breaking year… again The company significantly cut back on the number of flights from Austin at the start of October, citing "real estate complaints." Flights to Dallas Love Field, Las Vegas and Gunnison/Crested Butte, Colorado, were previously operated."JSX is not pulling out of the Austin market, which remains one of our more popular regional hubs," a spokesperson told KXAN at the time. "We are actively working to resolve real estate constraints that are inhibiting our ability to serve the market sustainably and en...

Strong wind gusts this afternoon

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Temperatures for the next seven days will be more in line with those we feel in late December and early January. We look to the next seven days being forecast with most highs in the mid/upper 50s to low/mid 60s.Wind gusts have exceeded 30 mph in some cities so far today. The gusty winds will continue through the middle of the afternoon at 20 to 30 mph before easing off once the sun goes down.Strong north winds continue through late this afternoonThis afternoon's forecast challenge is when the overcast will start to clear. Based on present trends it looks you have to wait until after 3 p.m. before some sun peers through the cloud deck.Central Texas will have a full day of sunshine Wednesday but with very little change in the afternoon highs. Like today, the highs will peek in the upper 50s to low 60s. Ahead of that lows will be in the mid/upper 30s to low 40s.Potential rainmaker for Thanksgiving DayThere continues to be a low rain chance on Thursday morning into the ...

Teen sentenced to 32 years in random shooting of businesswoman driving in St. Paul

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

A teenager who carried out a drive-by shooting in St. Paul, killing a bystander, received a 32-year prison term Tuesday.Yuliya (Julia) Li, a 34-year-old businesswoman driving home from shopping for a dinner party, died last year.Melvin Dump Williams (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)Melvin Dump Williams, who was 15 at the time and is now 17, pleaded guilty in June to second-degree murder while committing a drive-by shooting. As part of a plea deal, a charge of second-degree intentional murder, not premeditated, was dropped.Williams agreed to have his case certified to adult court, which is where he was sentenced Tuesday.According to the criminal complaint, Li was shot shortly before 7 p.m. Feb. 16, 2022, after leaving a supermarket where she bought food and other items for a dinner party she had planned for Feb. 20.She was behind the wheel of her 2017 Mercedes‐Benz on Payne Avenue. She was waiting for traffic to clear so she could make a left turn onto Cook Avenue when...

NYSP: Schenectady man arrested on felony drug charges

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A 32-year-old Schenectady man was taken into custody on Thursday night following a traffic stop on Erie Boulevard. State Police observed a Vehicle and Traffic Law violation and discovered the driver, Jeremiah Torres, did not possess a valid driver's license. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! According to police, officers discovered a controlled substance, illicit drug packaging materials, and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle. Torres was also found to have felony-weight narcotics on his person. Police charged Torres with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the third degree, Criminal Use of Drug Paraphernalia in the second degree, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the seventh degree, and other Vehicle and Traffic Law violations. He was processed at SP Princetown and transported to the Schenectady County Correctional Facility pending arraignment.

Humble New Hampshirite dies with big secret, leaves town millions

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

HINSDALE, N.H. (AP) — Geoffrey Holt was unassuming as the caretaker of a mobile home park in New England, where he lived a simple but curious life. Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes—riding his lawn mower, headed to the convenience store, parked along the main road, reading a newspaper, or watching cars pass. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! In this photo provided by Ed Smith, Geoffrey Holt rests his leg on top of his riding mower in Hinsdale, N.H., on April 4, 2020. Holt left the town of Hinsdale nearly $4 million when he died last June. (Ed Smith via AP)Town Hall catches the early morning sunlight, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in Hinsdale, N.H. The small town in southwestern New Hampshire received a gift of $3.8 million from the estate of Geoffrey Holt, a longtime trailer park resident. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)In this photo provided by Ed Smith, Geoffrey Holt smiles on Sept. 12, 2022. Holt left the town ...

Three Amur tiger cubs born at the Saint Louis Zoo

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS --Three Amur tiger cubs were born at the Saint Louis Zoo on November 13, marking the first successful tiger births in over a decade. This event is a significant contribution to the population of Amur tigers in North American zoos. They are among the most endangered big cat species globally.The cubs' parents are Reka, a 5-year-old mother, and Maxim, an 11-year-old father. The mother and cubs are healthy and live in a private den within Big Cat Country.The first months of a tiger's life are crucial, and the Animal Care team is closely monitoring the family. Reka is attending to the cubs by cleaning, feeding, and keeping them warm. In the upcoming weeks, the cubs will undergo their first checkup with the Zoo’s Veterinary Care team. This examination will also determine the sex of each cub, with the naming process to follow. FOX 2 reporter, photographer victims of pellet gun drive-by Reka is originally from Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. She arrived at the Saint Louis Zoo in 20...

Children’s Hospital Colorado needed 10 people to donate part of their livers to sick kids. More than 100 stepped forward.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

So many Coloradans responded to a call to donate pieces of their livers that Children’s Hospital Colorado expects every child in need of a transplant this year will get one.Hopefully, others will show the same generosity next year, since additional local children will get sick and kids in other parts of the country are still waiting for life-saving organs, said Dr. Amy Feldman, medical director of the liver transplant program at Children’s Hospital Colorado.In early September, the hospital asked healthy adults to consider donating a section of their livers.Ten children were waiting at the time, and the University of Colorado Hospital hadn’t recovered as many livers from deceased donors as in previous years. Some of the children were at risk of becoming too sick to undergo the surgery if organs didn’t become available soon, meaning they would have been out of medical options.“If we could have 10 people step forward and donate to these kids, that would be...

Ridley Scott gives us only a partial picture in “Napoleon” | Movie review

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

“Napoleon” offers so much.The latest effort from the endlessly prolific filmmaker Ridley Scott, the historic epic dramatizes the fascinating life of French figure Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his rise and eventual fall — only to be followed by a second rise and fall — and examining his love and, perhaps, downright obsession with his wife Josephine.Joaquin Phoenix appears in a scene from “Napoleon.” (Apple TV+)As it does so, “Napoleon” presents us with numerous battle sequences, the kind of spectacle-filled exercises at which Scott is so adept.And while it gets an uneven performance by Joaquin Phoenix — who certainly looks the part at roughly Napoleon’s height at 5-foot-8 and regularly wearing the bicorne hat, ends pointed to the shoulders, that is synonymous with him — it is lifted by the level of excellence from co-star Vanessa Kirby, as Josephine, that we’ve come to expect.It is fast-moving and generally entertaining.“Napoleon” offers so much. And yet it leaves us wanti...

CU Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders “day-to-day” to play in Utah game, Deion Sanders says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:00 GMT

Will Shedeur Sanders play in the Buffs’ regular-season finale at Utah on Saturday?Coach Prime’s got an answer to that one: Tune in and find out.“Sheduer’s not feeling well right now,” CU football coach Deion Sanders said of his son, the Buffs’ starting quarterback, who left last Friday’s 56-14 loss at Washington State in the first half with an undisclosed injury and didn’t return.“Right now, it’s a day-to-day situation with Shedeur. We’re praying he’s healthy and is able to play, because he is who he is. And when he’s on the field, we have a tremendous chance to win.”Sanders, a junior, completed 6 of 10 passes with a touchdown against the Cougars before leaving the game after his father said he couldn’t grip a football.The CU signal-caller was sacked four times in the first quarter. Sanders’ program leads FBS in sacks allowed per game (4.91) heading into the final weekend of regular seaso...