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Cascade Mountain High: Exploring Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

There’s a mysterious, otherworldly feel to Southern Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park. This gem-like lake, nestled high in the Cascade Range, is the deepest lake in North America — 1,943 feet — and is famous for its intensely blue waters.It formed 7,700 years ago when Mount Mazama, a 12,000-foot-tall volcano, experienced the largest eruption in North America in the past 640,000 years and subsequently collapsed, forming a volcanic caldera, which then began to fill with rainfall and snowmelt.There’s no natural outlet for Crater Lake’s water, yet it never completely fills up. The lake loses water, as it seeps out of the old volcano’s outer slopes at a slow but steady rate, like a porous paper coffee filter. It’s considered the cleanest large body of water in the world and holds a whopping 4.9 trillion gallons of water.Sunrise illuminates the top of Wizard Island at Oregon’s Crater Lake. (Travel Southern Oregon) The park may be open year round for intrepid back c...

Maryland sports betting sets records, but it may slow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

March Madness was good for Maryland’s coffers.Revenue and state taxes from sports betting in Maryland were both up nearly 90% in March compared to February, breaking records for both.March sports betting revenue, or the taxable win, was $35.4 million, up 89.9% from February, according to BetMaryland. March state tax from sports betting was $5.3 million, also up 89.9%.The total sports handle at Maryland’s 10 retail and eight state-approved mobile sportsbooks was $386 million, the vast majority of it from mobile sports betting apps.The total included $11.4 million in promotional wagers, or free bets that apps are still aggressively offering to attract gamblers.“As anticipated, March was a strong month for sports betting. After a sharp drop in February following the close of the NFL season, March Madness betting has brought a sense of recovery to the books,” said BetMaryland Analyst Dru James.“Given that spring and summer are the off-season of many professional and college sports, Marc...

Immigrant success story: District Taco aims for 80 locations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

 District Taco founders Osiris Hoil (left) and Marc Wallace. (Courtesy District Taco)District Taco, one of the D.C. region’s most notable success stories, is on an ambitious franchise path, planning to open 10 to 15 franchise locations a year — and aiming for 80 locations by 2027.District Taco, founded by a Mexican immigrant, began with one taco truck in Rosslyn in 2009. It now has 14 locations throughout D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania.Osiris Hoil, who moved to the U.S. from Mexico in 2002 at age 18, lost his job in the construction business in 2008, and started the District Taco cart in Rosslyn with Arlington neighbor Marc Wallace, initially selling breakfast tacos.Hoil became a U.S. citizen in 2012.His family recipes used today are from his native Yucatan region in Mexico. All ingredients are made from scratch, roasted, grilled and prepared on-site at each restaurant, including the tortillas.Within the last six months, the company has signed multi-unit development ...

Phillies-White Sox postponed, rescheduled for Tuesday DH

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The series opener between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox scheduled for Monday night was postponed because of high winds and cold temperatures.The game was rescheduled for Tuesday as part of a straight doubleheader, with the first game starting at 3:10 p.m. The second game will start approximately 30 to 45 minutes after the conclusion of the first game but not before 6:10 p.m.Both teams entered Monday at 6-10 on the season.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Did your flight arrive early? Airlines plan it that way

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

Air travelers are often pleasantly surprised if their flight arrives at its destination early, but airlines are padding their schedules to improve their on-time arrival stats.Personal finance site Finance Buzz analyzed the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics data going back years, covering 35 million domestic flights. Since 2012, the frequency of flight duration padding has increased by 27%, Finance Buzz reported. It is an average of just over 10%.In 2022, 20% of domestic flights arrived at their destinations late, but without that padding, it would have been 30%, its research found.At Reagan National Airport, the average domestic flight duration schedule was padded by 10 minutes, but given the relatively short duration of a DCA departure — of just over 90 minutes — it is an average padding of 10.8%. Reagan National ranked No. 13 for average padding by airlines in 2022. At BWI Marshall, the average padding was 11% last year.Finance Buzz did not in...

Affidavit: Air National Guardsman applied to RentAHitman.com

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Air National Guardsman was arrested last week after federal agents said he responded to a parody website promoting jobs for hitmen. Josiah Garcia told an undercover FBI agent that he needed money and thought he would be good at killing people because of his military experience and because he was an excellent marksman, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Thursday. Messages left with the office of the federal public defender in Nashville, which was appointed to represent Garcia, and with Garcia’s phone were not immediately returned Monday morning. Garcia said he came across the website RentAHitman.com while searching the internet for contract mercenary jobs at the suggestion of a guard coworker. The site was originally created in 2005 to advertise a cybersecurity company that never took off. However, it received many inquiries over the years about murder-for-hire services, according to the affidavit. Eventually, the site administr...

AP source: Hurts, Eagles agree to $255 million extension

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts is set to sign one of the richest deals in NFL history, agreeing to a five-year, $255 million extension with the Philadelphia Eagles, including $179.3 million guaranteed, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.The Eagles announced on Monday “ QB1 is here to stay, ” but terms were not yet announced, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal was not yet final. Hurts was rewarded for his breakout season when he was named an AP NFL MVP finalist and led the Eagles to the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs.“Keeping the main thing in Philly,” the Eagles tweeted. “We’ve agreed to terms with Jalen Hurts on a 5-year extension through the 2028 season.”The 24-year-old Hurts was expected to receive $51 million per season, and only only Deshaun Watson ($230M) and Kyler Murray ($189.5M) received more in a single contract.Hurts delivered a record performance in the Super Bowl,...

Sports on TV for Tuesday, April 18

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, April 18BOWLING7 p.m.FS1 — PBA: The WSOB Scorpion Championship, Wauwatosa, Wis.COLLEGE BASEBALL6 p.m.ESPNU — Louisville at Alabama7 p.m.SECN — Samford at Auburn8 p.m.ACCN — Georgia St. at Georgia TechCOLLEGE SOFTBALL6 p.m.ACCN — James Madison at VirginiaBTN — Michigan St. at MichiganPAC-12N — Portland St. at Oregon8:30 p.m.PAC-12N — Portland St. at OregonMLB BASEBALL7 p.m.MLBN — Regional Coverage: LA Angels at NY Yankees OR Minnesota at Boston10 p.m.TBS — NY Mets at LA DodgersNBA BASKETBALL7 p.m.NBATV — Eastern Conference First Round: Atlanta at Boston, Game 27:30 p.m.TNT — Eastern Conference First Round: New York at Cleveland, Game 210 p.m.TNT — Western Conference First Round: LA Clippers at Phoenix, Game 2NHL HOCKEY7 p.m.TBS — Eastern Conference First Round: NY Rangers at New Jersey, Game 17:30 p.m.ESPN — Eastern Conference First Round: Tampa Bay at Toronto, Game 19:30 p.m.ESPN2 — Western Conference First Round...

CU Boulder season tickets sell out for 1st time in 27 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — Can you call it the Coach Prime effect? For the first time in 27 years, the University of Colorado Boulder has officially sold out of season tickets for the 2023 football season.The Buffs are already making history this year as this is the first time the program has sold out of season tickets since 1996 and only the ninth time in school history, according to CU. This is also the first time tickets have sold out before August of the upcoming season.After a 1-11 2022 season, the university made some changes to its football program and hired Deion Sanders as the head coach in December 2022. Star NFL Quarterback Flips Golf Cart in Near-Disastrous Incident "Selling out of season tickets for the first time in almost 30 years shows how strong our fan base is," CU Athletic Director Rick George said. "Selling out at the earliest point before a season in our history is a testament to our fans' thirst to see a championship-caliber product on the field. The 100th seaso...

Green Valley Ranch violence spiked 50% in 2022

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:47 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Green Valley Ranch has been dealing with much of the same uptick in violence that has characterized other Denver metro areas in the last three years. Denver police are investigating what led up to a shooting on a street in Green Valley Ranch that left one juvenile male in critical but stable condition and an adult man with non-life-threatening injuries. Exclusive video shows what neighbors describe as a ‘war zone’ shooting in Green Valley Ranch As with Denver as a whole, Green Valley Ranch's violent crime rose in the first years of the 2020s, following a general upward trend through the 2010s as the area's population grew. Aggravated assaults and murders spiked most pronouncedly in 2022. There were 114 aggravated assaults and murders in 2021 and 171 in 2022 - a 50% jump. On a month-to-month basis, Green Valley Ranch's aggravated assaults and murders have been trending downward from their 2022 height, though they still remain at higher levels than in pre-pandemic ye...