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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — This weekend, Historic Crew Stadium will be packed with fans for a rock music festival that promises to deliver the best the genre has to offer.Attendees are excited to be part of Sonic Temple, with Jackson Cooper expressing, “I just feel at home here,” and Cam Smith adding, “I’m amazed at the lineup every year, and I’ll keep coming back.”Friendships are being forged over the shared love of music. Scott Hoyer, who attended the festival the previous night, said, “I came last night, it was great, and I just met Cam an hour ago.” Smith, who…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — This weekend, Historic Crew Stadium will be packed with fans for a rock music festival that promises to deliver the best the genre has to offer.Attendees are excited to be part of Sonic Temple, with Jackson Cooper expressing, “I just feel at home here,” and Cam Smith adding, “I’m amazed at the lineup every year, and I’ll keep coming back.”Friendships are being forged over the shared love of music. Scott Hoyer, who attended the festival the previous night, said, “I came last night, it was great, and I just met Cam an hour ago.” Smith, who…

SEATTLE — Advocates for the Jewish community are denouncing comments that praised Hamas and justified violence during a rally on the University of Washington campus on Thursday.The rally was hosted by SUPER UW, a suspended student group that organized a takeover demonstration of an engineering building earlier this week. The group is demanding that the University drop all charges and disciplinary actions against 21 students who were arrested during the takeover and later suspended.At Thursday’s rally, speakers read statements from participants who were arrested.“Hear me, trans people. Hear me queers. Hear me, all people facing oppression across our campus and…

Rain is expected to continue falling into Friday night and into the weekend, but it is likely to end sooner than forecasters previously expected. Between Friday and Saturday morning, a total of 1 to 2 inches of rain are likely to accumulate, according to the National Weather Service. Chances of rain increase between 6 p.m. Friday and 12 a.m. Saturday, weather service forecast maps show. Boston and Worcester have an 85% chance of rain at 6 p.m., while it is 70% for Springfield. These numbers drop by midnight: 75% for Boston, 55% for Springfield and 50% for Worcester.The remainder of…

A popular Australian artist died after giving birth this week, leaving an “an unimaginable void in the hearts of everyone who knew her.” Tattoo artist Stacey Nightingale, from Montville on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has been remembered as a “devoted mother … and a fiercely loving friend” after her shock death on Wednesday. In a post to her 13,000 Instagram followers on Thursday, Ms. Nightingale’s family announced her tragic death, sparking an outpouring of grief. “It is with heartbreaking sadness I announce Stacey passed away on Wednesday the 7th of May,” the post read. “Stacey was a unique beautiful beacon of…

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI – Pakistan said it launched a military operation against India early on Saturday, targeting multiple bases including a missile storage site in northern India as the neighbors extended their worst fighting in nearly three decades. Pakistan’s offensive came shortly after it said India had fired missiles at three air bases earlier on Saturday including one close to the capital, Islamabad, but Pakistani air defenses intercepted most of them. Locked in a longstanding dispute over Kashmir, the two countries have engaged in daily clashes since Wednesday when India launched strikes inside Pakistan on what it called militant bases. Pakistan…

A U.S. district judge on Friday temporarily halted the federal government’s plans to transfer land in eastern Arizona for a massive copper mining project amid protest by Native American groups that consider the area sacred.Apache Stronghold and its supporters have been fighting for years to stop the transfer of Tonto National Forest land known as Oak Flat to Resolution Copper. Meanwhile, the company has touted the economic benefits for the region and says it’s worked with Native American tribes and others to shape the project.U.S. District Judge Steven Logan said halting the land transfer would merely delay the production of…

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Thursday announced a slew of new items now banned from checked bags.Items such as portable chargers and power banks powered by lithium-ion batteries are now only allowed in carry-on bags, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.The carry-on bags must be kept in the aircraft cabin with the passenger.Lithium batteries are capable of overheating and posing a fire risk, the FAA says.Should a lithium battery item overheat, passengers are urged to immediately notify flight crews in cases of a lithium battery fire, as crews are trained to respond to them.Items that commonly use lithium batteries…

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year.The need for more controllers who direct planes across increasingly crowded skies, though, isn’t a new issue or one that will be resolved quickly.How big is the shortage of controllers? The Federal Aviation Administration has about 14,000 air traffic controllers. More than 1,800 were hired last year, the largest number in nearly a decade, and the government is on track to hire even more this year. Still, there’s a need for about 3,000 more…

SAN ANTONIO – Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of the Archdiocese of San Antonio spoke with reporters on Wednesday evening hours after Robert Prevost was confirmed as the Catholic Church’s newest pope.The briefing took place at 5 p.m. at the San Fernando Cathedral Center Hall Sala before evening Mass at 7 p.m. Trinity University political science professor John Francis Burke joined KSAT anchor Stephania Jimenez on Thursday outside San Fernando Cathedral for his thoughts on the newest pope of the Catholic Church. Watch Jimenez’s interview with Burke below. The new pope, Robert Prevost from Chicago, is the first one from the U.S.…