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Baffert, who wins a lot of very important horse races, also is incredibly unlucky, it appears. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, 31 of Baffert’s horses — including a whopping five in the 12-month period that ended on Derby Day last weekend — have been flagged for medical violations. Gamine, which finished third in last year’s Kentucky Oaks race, was disqualified after testing for betamethasone and its owners had to hand back their winnings.
Shaneera Bell, 27, of Waukegan, died from blunt force trauma after she was partially ejected from her vehicle, police said Monday. A passenger in her car, a Waukegan man in his 20s, was taken to a hospital with what police said were non-life-threatening injuries.
Stacker ranked each state first by the percentage of residents who identify as liberals and then by the percentage of the state’s voters who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, using data from Gallup, 270toWin, and the Cook Political Report’s 2020 National Popular Vote Tracker. For more galleries visit Stacker .
“I truly, truly … believe that maybe 10 of my fellow colleagues in the House believe that the election was stolen, maybe 10,” Kinzinger said. “And I say that because I, I’m putting room in there for there are probably just some people that are not really all that, you know, high IQ-ish on some things I guess.”
As sports TV rights costs have gone up (and ratings have gone down), ESPN has been relentlessly cost-cutting everywhere else. The company cut 500 jobs in one round of layoffs just last year, the latest of several rounds the last few years as the network concentrates its spending on a few big-ticket names and items.
“We’re incredibly concerned about the immediate health and safety risk this is posing,” Tinley Park Mayor Michael Glotz said in a news release. “There’s currently no means of fire suppression in the area of the main break should any disaster occur, and we’re concerned about the potential contamination this may cause to the nearby households that utilize well water.”
Before his death, architect Helmut Jahn in recent years proposed several designs to save his James R. Thompson Center, including a version in which lower floors would be permanently opened to create an open-air public space with uses such as apartments and hotel rooms above them. (Visualized Concepts)
The couple’s new three-story town home was built in 2004 and has three bathrooms and an open-concept kitchen with new custom white cabinetry, a large island with quartz countertops, Thermador appliances and a Kohler farm sink. A west-facing living room has a gas fireplace and a new custom granite mantel. The town home also has a built-out rooftop deck with Trex decking, a ground-floor patio, a two-car attached garage and a primary bathroom with a double vanity, marble floors and a Kohler rain shower.
“Quite simply, Chris Berman has personified ESPN’s success for more than four decades,” Norby Williamson, ESPN’s executive vice president and executive editor, said in a statement. “Fans respond to his authentic love of sports, his ability to savor and capture the big moments, and his on-air style that reminds us how live games can truly be equal parts essential and fun. We are delighted Boomer’s magical ride at ESPN will continue for years to come.”
Depicted here in a rendering, Abt Electronics is doubling the size of its Glenview warehouse, adding 407,294 square feet of warehouse space and 22,230 square feet of office space. The expansion is expected to be completed in October and create about 100 jobs. (McShane Construction Company / HANDOUT)