SYDNEY Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation. The shooters were father and son, authorities said.The massacre at one of Australias most ...

Man, it was cold Sunday at Soldier Field.How cold?So cold, surrounding trees chopped themselves into firewood. Fans in the stands chipped their teeth on Italian sausages. Punts froze in midair.Way too cold for the Bears to be playing a football game unless it was against a dead-on-arrival opponent with a below-zero chance to beat them.The Cleveland Browns, ...

Lights, camera, fashion! Chicago may not come to mind when it comes to fashion capitals, but the inaugural Chicago Fashion Awards Saturday honored scores of emerging and established "creatives pushing the city's culture forward," showing that creators and artists don't need to leave the city to be a force in the industry.Held at the Museum of Contemporary ...

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot while walking in the Roseland neighborhood early Sunday, Chicago police said.The teen was in the 100 block of West 95th Street when he felt "numbness in his foot" around 3:50 a.m., police said. He was taken to Little Company of Mary Medical Center in good condition.No arrests have been made, police said.

About two hours before Sunday's kickoff, Patrick Vanier grilled chicken wings and Polish sausage with his family at the Waldron Deck lot outside Soldier Field. The temperature was 5 degrees.Vanier, who lives in Hammond, Indiana, took the train up to Chicago to bring his son, Elio, to his first Bears game.Its a must-win game today, said Vanier, 44 a Beverly ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Los Angeles Chargers eliminated the Kansas City Chiefs from playoff contention when Derwin James picked off a pass by Gardner Minshew who had just taken over for the injured Patrick Mahomes in the closing seconds to preserve a 16-13 victory over the reigning AFC champions Sunday.Justin Herbert, playing through a broken left hand, ...

Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett had 1 sacks against the Bears on Sunday, moving him within one sack of tying the NFLs single-season record.The Giants Michael Strahan and the Steelers T.J. Watt share the record, with 22 . Strahan set the mark in 2001 and Watt tied him 20 years later.Garrett sacked Caleb Williams in the second quarter and got credit for ...

A 14-year-old girl from Chicago was killed Saturday morning in a car crash on a Springfield highway.The girl, whose name has not been released, was the passenger in a car involved in a multi-vehicle crash on I-55, according to the Sangamon County coroner's office.The crash happened around 10:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes at milepost 98 near the I-72 ...

With Rome Odunze a late scratch before kickoff Sunday, the Bears needed another receiver to step up. Rookie Luther Burden did until he left the game in the third quarter after hurting his ankle on a screen pass.By that point, Burden had tied a career high with six catches against the Browns. His 84 receiving yards were the second most of his career. The ...

The Bears are cruising against the Browns, who are doing plenty to help them, and lead 14-0 at halftime in a game that began with the temperature at 8 degrees. Quarterback Caleb Williams, though, appeared to hurt his left leg on the final play of the half.With three seconds left and the Bears at the Browns' 42-yard line, Williams threw a 12-yard pass to ...

Blackhawks prospect Vaclav Nestrasil is surprising himself with how well he's playing during his first stretch of college hockey.The Czechia native and 25th overall pick from the 2025 NHL Draft, now a freshman at UMass, leads his new team with 10 goals and ranks second with 20 points in 18 games."To be honest, I was going into the season hoping for 15 ...

"A people still, whose common ties are gone; Who, mix'd with every race, are lost in none." George CrabbeYou can shave your beard, move to Australia or your grandparents could, permitting you to party on a New South Wales beach in cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt.Even with an Australian accent, putting shrimp on the barbie by the Tasman Sea, you're still ...

Sunday's Bears game was one of the five coldest ever at Soldier Field.Temperature was 8 degrees when the Browns kicked off, which is tied for the fourth-coldest ever and the second-coldest since 1989.The coldest remains the Dec. 22, 2008 game against the Packers, which was 2 degrees. Sunday's game tied the Bears' Dec. 9, 2013, game against the Cowboys in ...

Please send scores and corrections to preps@suntimes.com. Schedule provided by Jack Gleason. Send schedule updates to hsbballjg@gmail.com.Sunday, December 14, 2025NON CONFERENCEFasman Yeshiva at Ellison, 4:00MCC Academy at Lycee Francis, 11:30MOUNT CARMELBrother Rice vs. Lincoln-Way East, 12:00Mount Carmel vs. Glenbard East, 1:30Loyola vs. Kenwood, ...

Solorio students have sold hoodies that say I support undocumented students for over a decade, but the fundraising took on new meaning this year.Sarah Karp/WBEZ As a few hundred people gathered in a Chicago park last month for a rally against aggressive and ...

The Bears could be thin at quarterback Sunday against the Browns after adding backup Tyson Bagent to the injury report with an illness the morning of the game. The team listed him as questionable.That's not a significant concern as long as starter Caleb Williams gets through the game healthy, and he has played every snap other than Bagent taking over at the ...

A Humboldt Park apartment caught on fire overnight and injured two people, according to the Chicago Fire Department.The fire, in the 1100 block of North Lawndale Avenue, was distinguished before 2 a.m., according to the fire department.A Chicago firefighter was injured by debris and taken in stable condition to Mount Sinai Hospital. A person was also taken ...

DEAR ABBY: Ten years ago, I connected with "Christi," a daughter I fathered with a woman I was in a relationship with for a short time decades ago. We split before Christi was born. My ex-girlfriend didn't tell me about her until after she was born. By that time, she was married to a man Christi knew as her dad. However, she no longer acknowledges him as ...

In 2023, the Rev. Vicki Garlock read a news story about an Indian man who received a Guinness World Record for visiting 76 places of worship in one month.Not knowing at all what I was doing, I very cavalierly said to my husband, Oh, I could beat that,' Garlock said.Two years later, Garlock is now the current holder of that Guinness record after a monthlong ...

Moon Alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) or important decisions from 9:20 p.m. to 10 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Libra into Scorpio.Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: ...

Red Wings forward Patrick Kane skated into the United Center on Saturday after the Blackhawks latest centennial ceremony with the attitude that it was his house and his party.The Hawks, without their leader in Connor Bedard and their official captain in Nick Foligno, proved powerless to stop him in a 4-0 shutout loss.Kane pushed the visiting Wings out to ...

Warren at Waukegan is one of the special treats for Chicago-area high school basketball fans. Its a rivalry game between neighboring towns in one of the classic old gyms in the state.Blue Devils junior Jaxson Davis is the top attraction in Illinois, and the kids from Gurnee will be favored in just about every game they play this season. But the Bulldogs ...

In a sea of Santas, stockings and Christmas trees, one Wrigleyville establishment brings a unique holiday experience to the Chicago bar scene.Advertised as the citys first and only Hanukkah pop-up bar, 8 Crazy Nights is hard to miss at West Newport and North Sheffield avenues. Hosted at Graystone Tavern, the destination turns heads with its massive sign and ...

NEW YORK Fernando Mendoza, the mercurial quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first Hoosier to win college footballs most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.Mendoza claimed 2,362 first place votes. He beat Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia (1,435 votes), Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love (719 ...

For workers with the Night Ministry street medicine team and many of the homeless Chicagoans they serve, the warmth of their human connection made it worth braving the bitter subzero temperatures to provide material and emotional support Saturday. "Honestly, they're like family right now," said Dominic Elizondo, a 49-year-old man living in an encampment at ...