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Buffalo Bills ask for help shoveling snow out of stadium ahead of delayed Steelers wild-card game
The Buffalo Bills asked for help clearing snow out of Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, ahead of the team’s postponed wild-card game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The game had been scheduled for Sunday afternoon, but it was delayed until Monday at 4:30 p.m. because of weather conditions. Video shared by the Bills on Saturday showed whiteout conditions inside the stadium.
Up to 19 inches of snow were possible for the area, according to the National Weather Service. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who announced the game’s postponement, also instated a full travel ban in Erie County.
Hochul shared a video of the area on Sunday afternoon to show what the area was like during what would have been kickoff. “No visibility and dangerously high winds,” Hochul wrote alongside the video.
“Looks like a pretty good day to not have a football game,” the governor captioned another post.
While the Buffalo Bills had asked shovelers to come to the stadium, the team on Sunday asked people to “abide by travel bans and not report to Highmark Stadium until further notice once the bans are lifted.”
Crews in New York were working Sunday to clear roads and restore power.
The Bills said the pay for shovelers will be $20 an hour. There will also be free food and breaks in a “comfortable warm area.” The team asked people to dress warmly and bring their own shovels if possible. Shovelers will also need to bring photo identification.
The Bills and Steelers were not the only teams impacted by frigid conditions this weekend. The Kansas City Chiefs played the Miami Dolphins in the fourth-coldest game in NFL history on Saturday night.
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At least 11 employees were taken to hospitals and residents were urged to shelter in place on Tuesday after an explosion at a Louisville, Kentucky, business.
The Louisville Metro Emergency Services reported on social media a “hazardous materials incident” at 1901 Payne St., in Louisville. The address belongs to a facility operated by Givaudan Sense Colour, a manufacturer of food colorings for soft drinks and other products, according to officials and online records.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said emergency teams responded to the blast around 3 p.m. News outlets reported that neighbors heard what sounded like an explosion coming from the business. Overhead news video footage showed an industrial building with a large hole in its roof.
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“The cause at this point of the explosion is unknown,” Greenberg said in a news conference. No one died in the explosion, he added.
Greenberg said officials spoke to employees inside the plant. “They have initially conveyed that everything was normal activity when the explosion occurred,” he said.
The Louisville Fire Department said in a post on the social platform X that multiple agencies were responding to a “large-scale incident.”
The Louisville Metro Emergency Services first urged people within a mile of the business to shelter in place, but that order was lifted in the afternoon. An evacuation order for the two surrounding blocks around the site of the explosion was still in place Tuesday afternoon.
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A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly $9 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive green stone.
Sold by Christie’s, the Cartier diamond and emerald brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, dethrones a piece of jewelry made by the fashion house Bulgari, which Richard Burton gave as a wedding gift to fellow actor Elizabeth Taylor, as the most precious emerald.
In 1960, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan commissioned Cartier to set the emerald in a brooch with 20 marquise-cut diamonds for British socialite Nina Dyer, to whom he was briefly married.
Dyer then auctioned off the emerald to raise money for animals in 1969.
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By chance that was Christie’s very first such sale in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the emerald finding its way back to the 110th edition this year.
It was bought by jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels before passing a few years later into the hands of Harry Winston, nicknamed the “King of Diamonds.”
“Emeralds are hot right now, and this one ticks all the boxes,” said Christie’s EMEA Head of Jewellery Max Fawcett. “…We might see an emerald of this quality come up for sale once every five or six years.”
Also set with diamonds, the previous record-holder fetched $6.5 million at an auction of part of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor’s renowned jewelry collection in New York.
