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Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders, is a futuristic-looking stadium that’s hosting the Super Bowl for the first time this year when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers. The field is as unique as the stadium’s exterior, with natural grass that is almost always exposed to the sun, but rolled up for the Game s. Last year, when the Chiefs beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, there was a bit of a problem when the players were slipping about on the field. This year, the NFL is taking extra measures to make sure that does not happen again. SUPER BOWL LVIII Super Bowl Halftime Show: how to watch SUPER BOWL LVIII Super Bowl LVIII: odds and predictions “This surface has been nurtured from the time the grass was planted to the Super Bowl,” said Jeff Miller, the NFL ’s vice president of communications. “It’s maintained with a number of tools and metrics... Our field management expert has been on this for weeks and has v...

The national average gas price has fallen 35 cents from a 2023 peak in September, AAA data shows. U.S. households are suffering the pinch of fast-rising prices for everything from biscuits to rent to men's underwear, government data shows. But one major expense has offered welcome relief in recent weeks: gasoline. The national average price has dropped about 35 cents a gallon from a 2023 peak in mid-September, sliding to a current level of $3.52, AAA data shows. That amounts to a more than 9% decline over the last month. In Georgia and Mississippi, the states with the lowest gas prices, the average price per gallon has dipped below $3, according to AAA. "More [ state s] will follow in the next few days," Andrew Gross, an AAA spokesperson, told ABC News, adding that he expects a continued decline in the national average. MORE: TEXT Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina are seeing average gas prices below $3.10 a gallon, AAA data shows. In California, the state with ...

Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco are searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping aid will come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco spent Thursday searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping that aid would come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis. The Pacific storm had strengthened with shocking swiftness before slamming into the coast early Wednesday, and the Mexican government deployed around 10,000 troops to deal with the aftermath. But equipment to move tons of mud and fallen trees from the streets was slow in arriving. Resentment grew Thursday in impoverished neighborhoods as residents worried that government attention would go to repairing infrastructure for the city's economic engine of tourism rather than helping the neediest. Flora Contr...

15 million Americans across six states are under heat alerts due to severe weather. This follows a week of extremely high temperatures across the world. Across six state s on Saturday, 15 million Americans will be under heat alert s from Miami to Phoenix to Washington State. In the Southeast, the heat index will be brutal this weekend with highs feeling like the 100s from Florida to Texas. Record-breaking highs are possible in parts of Florida over the weekend, including Miami. ABC News Starting Tuesday and continuing through at least next Sunday, Southern California will be under a heat alert as temperatures are expected to be record breaking and reach near 120 degrees each day. An Excessive Heat Watch is in effect in anticipation for the extreme heat wave which will significantly increase the chance for heat related illness. MORE: Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 4 days in a row  Saturday's severe weather threat is for 11 million Americans and stretches from Denver to Ok...

Further documenting the incident’s devastating and overwhelming impact, cooperating attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (“ACLU”) have filed an amended complaint in their pending class-action lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (“RIPTA”) and UnitedHealthcare New England (“UHC”) over an August 2021 data breach that compromised the Social Security numbers and other personal and health care information of more than 20,000 current and former state employees, including many with no connection to RIPTA.  The 68-page amended complaint adds eleven plaintiffs to the lawsuit as “class representatives” and describes the fraud, identity theft and hacking of bank and credit card accounts for thousands of dollars that some of them experienced after the breach, and for others the discovery that their personal information could be found on the “Dark Web,” a non-public area of the Internet that cannot be accessed ...

Connecticut state Rep. Quentin Williams was killed in a car crash, hours after he was sworn in for his third term on Wednesday, state officials said. Connecticut state Rep. Quentin Williams was killed in a car crash after he was struck by a wrong -way driver, hours after he was sworn in for his third term on Wednesday, officials said. Williams, known as "Q," was 39 years old. The Democrat had served the residents of his hometown of Middletown in the Connecticut State House since 2019. He was recently appointed to serve as co-chair of the legislature's labor committee. State Rep. Quentin Williams, D-Middletown, applauds during Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's state of the state address, Jan. 4, 2023, in Hartford, Conn. Brian O'connor/AP, FILE Williams was driving on Route 9 in Cromwell early Thursday when a driver Travel ing the wrong way in the lane struck him head-on shortly before 1 a.m., Connecticut State Police said. His car became fully engulfed in flames an...