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Paul Sullivan: Tiger Woods became an unlikely underdog who’s easy to root for. Can he make another comeback after his car crash?
The first TV report Tuesday afternoon showing Tiger Woods’ SUV on its side after his rollover accident caused instant flashbacks to Kobe Bryant’s tragic death 13 months ago in a helicopter crash. You feared the worst after hearing that Woods had to be extricated from the wreckage. Fortunately, Woods was conscious after the accident, and his injuries weren’t deemed life-threatening, according to reports. He was hospitalized with serious leg injuries, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman, though details of his condition were unavailable as of early Tuesday evening. “H...
Chicago Tribune
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Biden to visit storm-ravaged Texas on Friday
President Joe Biden will travel to Houston on Friday to see firsthand the devastation wreaked by the winter storm and arctic cold wave. Biden and first lady Jill Biden will fly to the battered city as millions struggle to return to normal life after the storm knocked out water and power across Texas. The first family will meet with local leaders to discuss the ongoing recovery and will visit a COVID-19 health center where vaccines are being distributed. Biden last week vowed to visit Texas, but wanted to wait until his trip wouldn’t be a disruption to local authorities. “I don’t want to be a b...
New York Daily News
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Steve Hummer: Car crash is the latest test of Tiger Woods resilience
Now the only thing to do is stand by. All the sports world is a waiting room, filled with those nervously pacing and hoping for any good word on the status of Tiger Woods after his Tuesday morning single-car accident. As Jack Nicklaus, the only player who outranks Woods in golf, tweeted in part Tuesday, “Please join us in wishing Tiger a successful surgery and all the best for a full recovery.” Just a day ago we were concerned only about whether the 45-year-old Woods would be sound enough after another spinal surgery to play in April’s Masters. That’s so back page now. Put such relative trivia...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Tiger Woods injured in car accident that required ‘jaws of life’ to remove him from vehicle, officials say
Tiger Woods was injured in a car accident in Southern California on Tuesday that required officials to use a “jaws of life” tool to remove him from the vehicle, according to authorities. The golf superstar was the lone occupant in the single vehicle roll-over collision in the Rolling Hills Estates and Ranchos Palos Verdes area, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Officials say Woods was hospitalized with undisclosed injuries. ———
New York Daily News
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Biden to visit storm-ravaged Texas on Friday
President Joe Biden will travel to Houston Friday to see firsthand the devastation wreaked by the winter storm and Arctic cold wave. Biden and first lady Jill Biden will fly to the battered city as millions struggle to return to normal life after the storm knocked out water and power across Texas. They will meet with local leaders to discuss the ongoing recovery and will visit a COVID-19 health center where vaccines are being distributed. Biden last week vowed to visit Texas, but wanted to wait until his trip wouldn’t be a disruption to local authorities. “I don’t want to be a burden,” Biden s...
New York Daily News
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Texas AG Ken Paxton, wife traveled to Utah during last week's winter storm crisis
FORT WORTH, Texas — Sen. Ted Cruz wasn't the only Texas elected leader leaving the state during a historic weather disaster. Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife Angela Paxton, a state senator, traveled to Utah last week while much of Texas was struggling with power outages and water issues brought on by extended subfreezing temperatures. Paxton campaign spokesman Ian Prior told The Dallas Morning News that the trip had been planned before the weather event to meet with Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes about the multistate lawsuit Texas is leading against Google regarding "anti-competitive...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Boeing 747 engine catches fire, drops parts over the Netherlands, injuring 2
SEATTLE — A Boeing 747 jet engine exploded in midair Saturday over the Netherlands, dropping metal debris that injured two people, according to Dutch authorities. The plane, a cargo jet operated by charter company Longtail Aviation, began experiencing engine problems shortly after it took off from the town of Maastricht in the Netherlands, bound for New York City, CNN reported. Witnesses heard explosions, and air traffic control informed the pilot that one of the plane’s engines was on fire, according to Reuters. The plane scattered parts over the Dutch town of Meerssen, injuring two people an...
The Seattle Times
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Ocasio-Cortez jets down to Texas to help recovery effort after catastrophic winter storm
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is lending her star power to the Lone Star State. The lawmaker helped raise a whopping $4 million in donations to help Texas recover from the disastrous winter storm that slammed the state. Ocasio-Cortez volunteered Saturday at a Houston food bank with Texas Reps. Sheila Jackson-Lee and Sylvia Garcia. “The bank REALLY needs helping hands,” she tweeted. “Can you join a shift?” Texas was slowly getting back to some semblance of normalcy after the fierce snow storm and historic Arctic blast all but brought the nation’s second most-populous state to its knees...
New York Daily News
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Winter storm damage may rival Hurricane Harvey's price tag, experts say
As thawing temperatures begin to release Texas from the record-breaking deep freeze that has gripped the state over the past week, the devastating financial toll from broken water pipes, downed trees, wrecked automobiles and related weather-induced destruction is becoming clear. Insurance industry executives say they anticipate the price tag for recovery could approach that of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 — which resulted in $19 billion in insured losses in Texas, primarily along the Gulf Coast, and is considered the costliest storm in the state's history. One big difference between then and now i...
Austin American-Statesman
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Ariel Young, 5-year-old girl injured in Britt Reid collision, ‘unresponsive’ but breathing on her own
Car-crash victim Ariel Young is awake but has a long recovery road ahead. The family of the 5-year-old girl who was struck by Britt Reid — the Kansas City Chiefs’ former linebackers coach and son of head coach Andy Reid — three days before the Super Bowl, revealed that she’s still not well. “She is not the same happy, free-spirited, little girl she was before this horrible crash,” read a statement on her GoFundMe homepage. After 11 days in a coma, Ariel is reportedly awake. On Wednesday morning, a Kansas City Police spokesman told People on Wednesday that the little girl is breathing on her ow...
New York Daily News
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