In a career filled with remarkable comebacks golfer Tiger Woods faces his toughest recovery of all.
Woods was driving through a downhill stretch of road in a Los Angeles suburb Tuesday when his SUV struck a sign and toppled down an embankment coming to a halt on its side.
A sheriff’s deputy poked his head through a hole in the windshield to see woods, still wearing his seatbelt, sitting in the driver’s seat with the airbags deployed. First responders used the “jaws of life” to pull Woods from the vehicle.
The crash shattered his tibia and fibula bones throughout his right leg. They were stabilized by rods, pins and screws during what was described as a “long surgical procedure” at Harbor UCLA Medical Center.
A statement on Woods’ Twitter account said he was awake, responsive and recovering.
The single-car crash was the latest setback for Woods, who hasn’t won a tournament since fall 2019, and due to other recent injuries has had minimal playing time.
Minnesota’s largest gas utilities are warning customers about sky high heating bills because of the historic cold wave in the south and the state’s recent stretch of subzero weather.
At a special meeting by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Tuesday, members were told February heating bills could be $400 higher.
“This could be a very harmful pricing event for many people,” Ian Dobson, a representative for the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, told the PUC. It’s never a good time for a big price hike, he said, but during a pandemic “is one of the worst times it could happen.”
The additional charge isn’t expected to show up on customers’ bills until September.
The warning comes as past due bills continue to mount for Centerpoint Energy and Xcel Energy the two largest gas providers in the state because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile on the St. Thomas campus demolition of Loras Hall has begun to make way for a new STEAM building after St. Paul City Council voted to allow the university to tear down the building.
Plans to demolish the building were proposed in August of 2020. The state-of-the-art STEAM complex is expected to begin construction in spring 2022 and finish up in January 2024.
Casey Eakins can be reached at casey.eakins@stthomas.edu.