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3+ min ago (245+ words) La serie se anticip" cuando se anunci" el calendario de la temporada regular en agosto, pero no se confirm" hasta el mi'rcoles. Arizona ser" el equipo local para ambos juegos. "Estamos muy ilusionados de mostrar nuestra marca internacionalmente una vez m"s y agradecer a MLB por seleccionarnos, dijo Derrick Hall, presidente, CEO y socio general de los Diamondbacks. Esta ser" la tercera serie de juegos de temporada regular en la Ciudad de M'xico despu's de que los Padres barrieron a San Francisco en 2023 y Houston hizo lo mismo con Colorado en 2024, ambas en series de dos juegos. Los juegos programados en San Juan, Puerto Rico, y la Ciudad de M'xico en 2020 fueron cancelados debido a la pandemia de coronavirus y los juegos contemplados para 2025 fueron descartados por razones financieras. Se escenificaron partidos de temporada regular en Monterrey, M'xico, en…...

9+ min ago (925+ words) Oak Lawn village trustees thanked village administrators Tuesday for their work on a balanced budget to take effect Jan. 1, approved 6-0, that projects a total of $277 million in expenses and $256 million in revenues, which includes a 4.7% village property tax levy increase. "We do it year after year, and I think it gets taken for granted because we do such a good job. You look on the news at what's going on in the city of Chicago, and you look at the village of Oak Lawn: Where would you rather live?" Trustee Ralph Soch asked, referencing the conflict between Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and aldermen. "It was a difficult budget," Village Manager Thomas Phelan. "We started six, eight weeks ago with an $8 million projected deficit, and through a coordinated effort with all our department heads and chiefs worked very hard to focus…...

27+ min ago (338+ words) Coca-Cola anunci" el mi'rcoles que su actual director de operaciones, Henrique Braun, se convertir" en el pr"ximo CEO de la compa'a durante el primer trimestre de 2026. La compa'a con sede en Atlanta inform" que su junta directiva eligi" a Braun para que asuma el cargo de director general a partir del 31 de marzo. James Quincey, actual presidente y CEO de Coca-Cola, se convertir" en presidente ejecutivo. Braun, de 57 aos, ha trabajado en Coca-Cola durante tres d'cadas. Antes de asumir el cargo de director de operaciones a principios de este ao, estuvo al frente de operaciones en Brasil, Am'rica Latina, China y Corea del Sur. Ha ocupado cargos supervisando la cadena de suministro de Coca-Cola, el desarrollo de nuevos negocios, marketing, innovaci"n, gesti"n general y operaciones de embotellado. Braun naci" en California y se cri" en Brasil. Tiene…...

42+ min ago (254+ words) An Aurora man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his mother, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said on Wednesday. According to information presented in court by Kane County First Assistant State's Attorney Christine Bayer, Abel Quinones-Herstad, 23, stabbed his mother, Edith Gonzalez-Alarcon, 55, multiple times with a knife on July 14, 2022, causing her death, a news release from the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said. Quinones-Herstand then traveled to his brother's home in Wisconsin, stating that he had done something bad to their mother and couldn't go back, according to the release. The Aurora Police Department was contacted for a welfare check at Gonzalez-Alarcon's home on the first block of Jackson Place in Aurora, the news release said, and officers responding to the location on July 15 found her body in a closet. A knife was recovered…...

42+ min ago (99+ words) Updated on: December 10, 2025 / 8:07 PM CST / CBS Chicago An investigation is underway after a man was found shot on Wednesday evening on the city's South Side Chicago police said around 5:49 p.m., officers responded to the 1500 block of East 74th Street, where they found the 25-year-old man near the street with a gunshot wound to his head and chest. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in grave condition. As of Wednesday evening, no arrests were made. Investigation into the shooting remains ongoing by Area 1 detectives....

42+ min ago (349+ words) A Gary police officer with a 17-year tenure has been placed on unpaid leave after his domestic battery arrest in Portage, the department announced Wednesday. Sgt. Jamaal Joseph, 40, was arrested by the Portage Police Department, according to documents from the agency. He was charged with a felony count of domestic battery in the presence of a child younger than 1 years old and two misdemeanors for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, one while endangering a person, according to online court records. Joseph was ordered to have no contact order with the victim on Tuesday, and multiple hearings have been scheduled. A jury trial is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Oct 15, 2026, according to online court records. Joseph was placed on unpaid leave once the Gary Police Department verified the charges, according to a Wednesday social media post. He will remain on leave "pending…...

48+ min ago (885+ words) For 33 years, in her career as a nurse, Michigan City resident Donnita Scully has worked with children who have asthma so bad that they can't catch their breath to walk. Now, Scully is worried that an incoming data center development will exacerbate respiratory problems, including asthma, for Michigan City residents. "In our region, we already have greater than the state average level and also respiratory illnesses, and then now you're going to bring these diesel pollutants into our community," Scully said. "When you make decisions, you should make decisions based on the region and the county. " This is really going to affect us in a negative way." The Indiana Department of Environmental Management hosted a public meeting Tuesday night for an air permit that, if approved, would allow 70 diesel generators at a Michigan City data center site. More than 30 speakers…...

54+ min ago (620+ words) CBS News appointed Tony Dokoupil as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday, charging him with taking on ABC's dominant David Muir on one of the flagship shows for broadcast television. Dokoupil, who has been part of the "CBS Mornings" team since 2019, will start his new job on Jan. 5. He replaces the anchor team of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, who both announced they were leaving the network in recent months. Dokoupil is the first major hire for Bari Weiss, the Free Press founder who was appointed CBS News editor-in-chief this fall after the network's corporate takeover by Paramount. "We live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media," Weiss said. "Tony Dokoupil is the person to win it back. That's because he believes in old school journalistic values " asking the hard questions, following…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (230+ words) Tras un debate que se extendi" por un par de horas, el Senado aval" la tarde del mi'rcoles, con 76 votos a favor, 5 en contra y 35 abstenciones, una reforma que contempla incrementos arancelarios de hasta 50% a partir de enero a miles de productos importados para atender los desequilibrios comerciales. El problema, agreg" Ocampo, es que M'xico puede "estar cediendo" ante las presiones de un imprevisible Donald Trump antes de tiempo y este proteccionismo supone un viraje en la pol'tica comercial de M'xico que va "en la direcci"n incorrecta". En su opini"n, "est'n metiendo en un problema a un n'mero muy grande de sectores", desde las autopartes, los pl'sticos, hasta ciertos productos qu'micos o textiles porque los aranceles generar'n disrupciones en las cadenas productivas, elevan costos y pueden "generar presiones inflacionarias en un contexto donde la econom'a mexicana est' en…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago (342+ words) Marli Salmon se convirti" en el sexto jugador m's joven en participar en la Liga de Campeones al ingresar como suplente en las postrimer'as del partido del mi'rcoles, que el Arsenal gan" en la cancha de Brujas por una goleada de 3-0. Salmon tiene 16 a'os y 103 d'as y entr" por Ben White en el Jan Breydelstadion. "Sab'amos que en alg'n momento ten'amos que usarlo, dijo el entrenador espa'ol de los Gunners, Mikel Arteta. "Es muy joven, todav'a tiene 16 a'os, y est' jugando en la Liga de Campeones. Sin embargo, Salmon ni siquiera es el jugador m's joven que Arsenal ha alineado esta temporada. Esa distinci"n pertenece a Max Dowman, quien ten'a 15 a'os y 308 d'as el mes pasado, cuando ingres" como suplente en la segunda mitad contra Slavia Praga. Seg'n la UEFA, Salmon es el tercer jugador de 16 a'os o menos…...