Day: January 4, 2025

Hundreds of people packed the first block of Bourbon Street off Canal as a light drizzle fell from a gun-metal grey sky. A brass band played, and a second line wound its way up Canal and onto Bourbon Street.

“She wouldn’t want us to be sad,” a relative of victim LaTasha Polk said. “But at the same time, we can’t help but be selfish and want her back.”

Nye got his “Science Guy” start in Seattle, where a 1989 video for the Washington Department of Ecology became the format for his landmark children’s TV show.

The consensus inside the home locker room at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday night, with everyone wearing hats and T-shirts repping an AFC North division title and the distinct smell of victory cigars filling the musty air, was confusion. Maybe even downright bewilderment. But joy, nonetheless. “I saw someone catch it, I was like, ‘Wait, that’s a big guy,’” offensive lineman Ronnie Stanley said, …

The crowds began returning to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and memorials grew as the city processed the deadly truck attack this week that killed 14 people. Omar Villafranca has more.

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The rating of the new system “is exponentially, far less than what they currently have,” an owner of a bollard manufacturing company said. Here’s more.

The rating of the new system “is exponentially, far less than what they currently have,” an owner of a bollard manufacturing company said. Here’s more.

The Vikings purchased roughly 1,900 tickets for Sunday’s winner-take-all NFC North matchup against the Lions, then offered them to team-based stakeholders.

President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.