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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Police in Hartford say they are investigating the fatal shooting of a young man in the city.
Police Lt. Brian Foley says on Twitter that the victim was shot early Saturday on Auburn Street.
Foley did not immediately identify the victim, except to say that he is in his 20s.
He did not immediately say whether investigators have identified suspects or arrested anyone over the shooting.
Foley did not immediately return calls and an email for additional information.
Juuse Saros was pulled after giving up five goals on 15 shots.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan O'Reilly, Brayden Schenn and Alex Pietrangelo finished with a goal and an assist, and the St. Louis Blues snapped a three-game losing streak with a 6-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Friday night.
The Blues scored the first two goals of the game and never trailed, splitting a home-and-home with the Predators after losing at Nashville on Wednesday. It was the most goals the Predators have allowed this season.
O'Reilly made it 2-0 Blues with 6:51 left in the first, marking St. Louis' first multi-goal game in their last five contests.
Bonino's power-play goal for the Predators cut the deficit to 2-1 with 5:48 left in the first. It was Nashville's first shot on goal.
Sanford gave the Blues a 4-1 lead 46 seconds into the second off a feed from O'Reilly. It was Sanford's first goal in 11 games, dating to Oct. 27.
Fabbri made it 5-1 Blues with 8:07 left in the second. Fabbri's first goal in eight games chased Saros.
The Predators scratched C Zac Rinaldo and D Matt Irwin. . The Blues scratched D Carl Gunnarsson, LW Alexander Steen and RW Nikita Soshkinov.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in the worst U.S. prison riot in a quarter-century, officials said Monday. An inmate who witnessed the violence told The Associated Press that bodies were "literally stacked on top of each other."
At least 17 prisoners were seriously injured at Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina prisons chief Bryan Stirling said. The first fight started in a dorm about 7:15 p.m. Sunday and appeared to be contained before suddenly starting in two other dorms. Cellphones helped stir up the trouble, and state officials urged the federal government to change a law and allow them to block the signals from prisoners' phones.
"These folks are fighting over real money and real territory while they're incarcerated," Stirling said at a news conference.
"The COs (corrections officers) never even attempted to render aid, nor quell the disturbance," he said. "They just sat in the control bubble, called the issue in, then sat on their collective asses."
The inmate told AP that he knew at least two of the slain men well. He said he saw an inmate trying to get up before he "started into that 'death rattle' people often hear about, but never experience firsthand."
The coroner said when he arrived it was a chaotic scene of fighting everywhere. Logan said the state-run Lee Correctional Institution, like most other South Carolina prisons, is struggling to find enough workers, but he doesn't believe anything could be done once things got that far out of control.
"It's an incredibly bad day in South Carolina," said Sen. Gerald Malloy, whose district includes Lee Correctional. "We failed. That's it."
Gov. Henry McMaster commended Stirling's response and said he was outraged the state can't jam cellphone signals in prisons.
Stirling said officials planned to meet next month with the cellphone industry to talk about solutions, but "until that's done, the folks that are incarcerated are going to continue their criminal ways from behind bars."
Associated Press writers Jeffrey Collins and Christina Myers in Columbia contributed to this report.
Another leak erupted yesterday from a storage tank at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant. While its operators have in the past been slow to acknowledge that it has a major problem, a spokesman for Tepco, the plant's operator, this time acknowledged that much of the 300 tons of contaminated water had leaked into the soil and could eventually reach the Pacific Ocean. For the first time since 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami damaged the plants, regulators have declared an official radiological release incident.
The latest leak comes from one of the site’s 1,000 tanks, about 500 yards inland, Tepco said. Workers discovered puddles of radioactive water near the tank on Monday. Further checks revealed that the 1,000-ton capacity vessel, thought to be nearly full, only contained 700 tons, with the remainder having almost certainly leaked out.
There had been concerns raised among some experts over the durability of the tanks. Mr. Ono said that Tepco had assumed the tanks would last at least five years, but the latest leak comes less than two years after the company started installing the storage vessels at the site to deal with the growing amounts of runoff.
Right now, the situation is only a Level 1 incident -- the lowest level assigned to radiological releases by the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The original disaster was a Level 7. Still, according to Tokyo Electric, the leaked water contains "levels of radioactive cesium and strontium many hundreds of times higher than legal safety limits." And there's still little confidence that Tepco, which has yet to discover the source of the leak, is up to the task of dealing with it.
Fisker Automotive Inc., a maker of plug-in-hybrid luxury cars, hired former General Motors Co. marketing chief Joel Ewanick as interim head of global sales. The 52-year-old Ewanick succeeds Richard Beattie, 58, who is retiring from the post.
Fisker said Ewanick has been working for the company as a consultant for some time and will continue in that capacity officially as he takes over for Beattie until the car maker finds a replacement. Fisker hired Beattie in December. A longtime industry executive, Beattie previously worked for Ford Motor Co., Mazda and Jaguar.
Motorola Inc., the Schaumburg-based electronics firm, reported sharply lower earnings for the second quarter.
Earnings were down 73 percent to $26 million, or 22 cents a share, from $98 million, or 83 cents a share, a year earlier. Sales eased 3 percent, to $1.37 billion from $1.42 billion.
The company blamed continued weak market conditions in the semiconductor and computer industries.
''Though the second-quarter figures are low, actually they are pretty much in line with what we`ve been expecting,'' said Wai Chiang, a security analyst with Salomon Brothers in New York.
Chiang added that he will soon revise his yearly earnings forecast for Motorola to reflect a second half that will be an extension of the first.
Earnings for the first half were $67 million, or 56 cents a share, down from $176 million, or $1.49 a share, a year earlier.
''We have intensified our cost-control programs and further curtailed expenses,'' said Robert W. Galvin, chairman and chief executive officer.
Only one group, the communications sector, which includes the cellular and paging groups, showed an increase in profits for the quarter. Sales for that group were up 12 percent.
Profits were lower in the semiconductor, automotive and electronics and government electronics groups.
The information systems group, which includes Four Phase Systems Inc., an office systems division, and Codex Corp., a modem manufacturer, showed an operating loss for the quarter, in contrast to a small operating profit a year earlier. The results reflected continuing weakness in the computer industry, according to company officials.
President Trump Donald John TrumpThorny part of obstruction of justice is proving intent, that's a job for Congress Obama condemns attacks in Sri Lanka as 'an attack on humanity' Schiff rips Conway's 'display of alternative facts' on Russian election interference MORE’s personal attorney Michael Cohen worked on a deal to try and build a Trump Tower in Moscow for months longer than he had told Congress, Yahoo News reported Wednesday.
However, Yahoo News reported that investigators have obtained messages from Russian associate Felix Sater, who worked on the deal, that show Cohen continued to discuss the project until at least May 2016.
Trump was close to securing the GOP presidential nomination at that time.
Cohen and his lawyer did not return Yahoo News’s requests for comment.
Sater told Yahoo News that he had turned over his text messages and emails with Cohen to special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE, as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
“I was trying to build the tallest tower in Europe. For me, it was a business transaction,” Sater told the site.
Yahoo reported that the messages show Cohen and Sater started to discuss a deal to build a Trump Tower in 2015.
The New York Times first reported on the emails sent by the Russian developer last year, including Sater’s claim that he would get Russian President Vladimir Putin involved in the project.
“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Sater wrote in one email.
The Washington Post also reported last year that the Trump Organization nearly reached a deal to open the development in Moscow, but had dropped the project in January 2016 after they failed to get the land and permits for the building.
Cohen is currently under criminal investigation. The FBI raided his office last month, partly on a referral from Mueller.
The 'Dead Accounts' Broadway star - who split from the 'Mission Impossible' actor in June after six years of marriage - is said to be eager for their six-year-old daughter Suri to enjoy the holiday with both of her parents and is preparing to fly to a luxury ski resort in Telluride, Colorado with her ex-husband later this month.
A source told OK! Magazine: "Tom and Katie are determined to show Suri that they're still friends and devoted parents.
"They know it will mean so much for her, and both are happy to swallow their pride to make sure she has a fun holiday. Thanksgiving has always been a really big deal for them."
Earlier this week a source close to the 33-year-old actress revealed she has never been happier.
The insider said: "Katie's happy, she's a totally new person."
The actress is currently starring on Broadway and makes sure to work her schedule around her daughter.
The insider added: "Most performances are in the evening so Katie can have an early dinner with Suri."
While Katie, who has full custody of Suri, is embarking on a new chapter in her life, she is not ready to start dating again and is also too busy to even consider it.
The source explained: "She's not dating anyone and she won't be anytime soon. It's not like she'd even have the time."
Meanwhile, Tom reportedly hasn't seen his daughter in approximately four months as he has been filming in London.
AMSTERDAM – Louis van Gaal is set to stay at Manchester United for another season, this is according to Dutch paper De Telegraaf.
The paper is reporting that Van Gaal had received assurance over his future at Old Trafford and will be handed “100 million euros” to spend in the summer transfer window, despite numerous speculations about Jose Mourinho being lined up to replace the Dutchman at the end of the season.
Manchester United have been very inconsistent this season under Van Gaal and are sitting outside of the top four places in the race for Champions League football.
Injuries have played its part in the stop-and-go campaign for the Red Devils, but the club’s fans have not been impressed with the style of play Van Gaal had been implementing even when the top players were around.
It was widely reported that the 64-year-old would step down at the end of the season, which had pleased several section at Old Trafford who wanted to see a change.
That’s not the Manchester United way of doing things, though.
Apparently there is a change in fortune and the United bosses are still banking on keeping the former Barcelona manager for another stint, which means he is set to complete his three-year contract.
Meanwhile, Gabriele Marcotti, an England-based Italian sports journalist, who contributes to media outlets such as The Times, ESPN, Corriere hello Sport and Sunday Herald, have reserved feelings about the story, especially since Van Gaal used to be a columnist for the paper.
No idea if that Telegraaf/LvG staying story is true. But pretty sure it was written with LvG’s blessing.
Since taking over from David Moyes, Van Gaal has already spent some £250m in the transfer market in less than two-years.
The newest entry in the Spider-Man gaming franchise has not just one friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, but four who are set through various times and dimensions and are all playable with varying abilities and styles.
The story in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions goes that the evil villain Mysterio has shattered the Tablet of Order and Chaos into fragments spread across multiple realities, and Madame Web has tasked the original Amazing Spider-Man to work with three other Spider-Men from the other realities: Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099 and Spider-Man Noir.
It's clear from the beginning that Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is a game targeting children. The story? Non-existent. Jump around, beat up the bad guys and claim a tablet piece. This wouldn't really be that much of a negative attribute — plenty of all-star games have terrible plots — but the developers have Spider-Man spouting corny one-liners like a machine gun. After about 10 minutes, I had more than enough of lines like, "There are four Spider-Men? But I'm the most charming, of course!"
The gameplay? Completely linear. Playing as the different characters is really fun, but the level design is ridiculously simple. Developer Beenox decided to depart from the normal swing-around-a-gigantic-city style of past Spider-Man games, and instead create a much more confined level design. In one way, it's nice to do something different with Spider-Man, but it creates a frustrating camera experience. Too many times, the camera will swing wildly out of control, zoom in way too close, or cause myriad other problems that create a complete lack of control of Spider-Man.
Melissa Wiggins discusses her advocacy in fight against pediatric cancer. Her son Cannon was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma when he was 1 1/2 years old.
Nemours and the Cannonball Kids’ cancer Foundation are partnering up to punch kids cancer in the face.
That’s how you fight an insidious beast In this case, the ‘umph’ comes from a $25,000 “seed grant” from CKc to Nemours. It becomes the first local research grant awarded by the nonprofit since its inception in June of 2014.
The impetus to fund more research for kids cancer comes from Winter Park dynamo Melissa Wiggins, whose world became completely discombobulated in 2013, when her then-18-month-old son Cannon was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma.
She now runs the foundation as executive director.
Kids cancer messed with the wrong person.
At 5-feet-2 and 110 pounds, Melissa Wiggins or Orlando is a human dynamo, a fiery passionate cancer warrior, complete with a lovely Scottish brogue.
The announcement this week comes on the heels of a Nemours initiative indicating that the Zika virus is showing promising potential to target and destroy deadly neuroblastoma cancer cells in children.
The grant will expand that research to other forms of childhood cancer that do not even have clinical trials to date. The grant will target a research study focused specifically on the virus’ impact on hepatoblastoma, the most common cancerous liver tumor in early childhood.
The grant is given in honor of Nolan King, of Maitland, who died on April 1, 2017, at age 3, from complications of the toxic treatments currently used to fight hepatoblastoma.
The level of frustration is high for Wiggins and other families dealing with pediatric cancer.
It’s been an afterthought in the medical community. There has been little to no improvements in 30 years. There weren’t any specific treatments for children. Doctors have just dialed down doses for adults. Only an estimated 3.8 percent of national funding went into children's cancer research.
“Cannonball” is in remission and recently celebrated his seventh birthday.
To read more on the mission, here’s a recent conversation I had with Melissa Wiggins.
Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson runs the ball in the third quarter.
Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry rushed for three touchdowns and became Alabama's all-time leading rusher in the Crimson Tide's 45-40 victory over Clemson in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Henry, a junior, rushed for 158 yards in 36 carries. He scored on runs of 50, one and one yard.
Henry finished the season with 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns.
He has rushed for 3,692 yards and 42 touchdowns, surpassing Shaun Alexander on the all-time list.
Henry became the 15th player to win the Heisman while playing for a national championship team. Former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was the most recent in 2013. Among the others were Auburn quarterback Cam Newton (2010), Alabama running back Mark Ingram (2009) and USC quarterback Matt Leinart (2004).
Photos from the College Football Playoff championship between Alabama and Clemson in Glendale, Ariz.
Henry is expected to make himself available for the NFL draft.
Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, who finished third in Heisman balloting behind Henry and Stanford's Christian McCaffrey, passed for 405 yards and four touchdowns, with an interception, and rushed for 73 yards.
Watson finished the season with 4,104 yards passing and 35 touchdowns.
He had 1,105 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns.
Alabama quarterback Jake Coker followed up his outstanding performance in the Cotton Bowl with another productive night in his final game for the Crimson Tide.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Police in Hartford say they are investigating the fatal shooting of a young man in the city.

Police Lt. Brian Foley says on Twitter that the victim was shot early Saturday on Auburn Street.

Foley did not immediately identify the victim, except to say that he is in his 20s.

He did not immediately say whether investigators have identified suspects or arrested anyone over the shooting.

Foley did not immediately return calls and an email for additional information.

Juuse Saros was pulled after giving up five goals on 15 shots.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan O'Reilly, Brayden Schenn and Alex Pietrangelo finished with a goal and an assist, and the St. Louis Blues snapped a three-game losing streak with a 6-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Friday night.

The Blues scored the first two goals of the game and never trailed, splitting a home-and-home with the Predators after losing at Nashville on Wednesday. It was the most goals the Predators have allowed this season.

O'Reilly made it 2-0 Blues with 6:51 left in the first, marking St. Louis' first multi-goal game in their last five contests.

Bonino's power-play goal for the Predators cut the deficit to 2-1 with 5:48 left in the first. It was Nashville's first shot on goal.

Sanford gave the Blues a 4-1 lead 46 seconds into the second off a feed from O'Reilly. It was Sanford's first goal in 11 games, dating to Oct. 27.

Fabbri made it 5-1 Blues with 8:07 left in the second. Fabbri's first goal in eight games chased Saros.

The Predators scratched C Zac Rinaldo and D Matt Irwin. . The Blues scratched D Carl Gunnarsson, LW Alexander Steen and RW Nikita Soshkinov.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in the worst U.S. prison riot in a quarter-century, officials said Monday. An inmate who witnessed the violence told The Associated Press that bodies were "literally stacked on top of each other."

At least 17 prisoners were seriously injured at Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina prisons chief Bryan Stirling said. The first fight started in a dorm about 7:15 p.m. Sunday and appeared to be contained before suddenly starting in two other dorms. Cellphones helped stir up the trouble, and state officials urged the federal government to change a law and allow them to block the signals from prisoners' phones.

"These folks are fighting over real money and real territory while they're incarcerated," Stirling said at a news conference.

"The COs (corrections officers) never even attempted to render aid, nor quell the disturbance," he said. "They just sat in the control bubble, called the issue in, then sat on their collective asses."

The inmate told AP that he knew at least two of the slain men well. He said he saw an inmate trying to get up before he "started into that 'death rattle' people often hear about, but never experience firsthand."

The coroner said when he arrived it was a chaotic scene of fighting everywhere. Logan said the state-run Lee Correctional Institution, like most other South Carolina prisons, is struggling to find enough workers, but he doesn't believe anything could be done once things got that far out of control.

"It's an incredibly bad day in South Carolina," said Sen. Gerald Malloy, whose district includes Lee Correctional. "We failed. That's it."

Gov. Henry McMaster commended Stirling's response and said he was outraged the state can't jam cellphone signals in prisons.

Stirling said officials planned to meet next month with the cellphone industry to talk about solutions, but "until that's done, the folks that are incarcerated are going to continue their criminal ways from behind bars."

Associated Press writers Jeffrey Collins and Christina Myers in Columbia contributed to this report.

Another leak erupted yesterday from a storage tank at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant. While its operators have in the past been slow to acknowledge that it has a major problem, a spokesman for Tepco, the plant's operator, this time acknowledged that much of the 300 tons of contaminated water had leaked into the soil and could eventually reach the Pacific Ocean. For the first time since 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami damaged the plants, regulators have declared an official radiological release incident.

The latest leak comes from one of the site’s 1,000 tanks, about 500 yards inland, Tepco said. Workers discovered puddles of radioactive water near the tank on Monday. Further checks revealed that the 1,000-ton capacity vessel, thought to be nearly full, only contained 700 tons, with the remainder having almost certainly leaked out.

There had been concerns raised among some experts over the durability of the tanks. Mr. Ono said that Tepco had assumed the tanks would last at least five years, but the latest leak comes less than two years after the company started installing the storage vessels at the site to deal with the growing amounts of runoff.

Right now, the situation is only a Level 1 incident -- the lowest level assigned to radiological releases by the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The original disaster was a Level 7. Still, according to Tokyo Electric, the leaked water contains "levels of radioactive cesium and strontium many hundreds of times higher than legal safety limits." And there's still little confidence that Tepco, which has yet to discover the source of the leak, is up to the task of dealing with it.

Fisker Automotive Inc., a maker of plug-in-hybrid luxury cars, hired former General Motors Co. marketing chief Joel Ewanick as interim head of global sales. The 52-year-old Ewanick succeeds Richard Beattie, 58, who is retiring from the post.

Fisker said Ewanick has been working for the company as a consultant for some time and will continue in that capacity officially as he takes over for Beattie until the car maker finds a replacement. Fisker hired Beattie in December. A longtime industry executive, Beattie previously worked for Ford Motor Co., Mazda and Jaguar.

Motorola Inc., the Schaumburg-based electronics firm, reported sharply lower earnings for the second quarter.

Earnings were down 73 percent to $26 million, or 22 cents a share, from $98 million, or 83 cents a share, a year earlier. Sales eased 3 percent, to $1.37 billion from $1.42 billion.

The company blamed continued weak market conditions in the semiconductor and computer industries.

''Though the second-quarter figures are low, actually they are pretty much in line with what we`ve been expecting,'' said Wai Chiang, a security analyst with Salomon Brothers in New York.

Chiang added that he will soon revise his yearly earnings forecast for Motorola to reflect a second half that will be an extension of the first.

Earnings for the first half were $67 million, or 56 cents a share, down from $176 million, or $1.49 a share, a year earlier.

''We have intensified our cost-control programs and further curtailed expenses,'' said Robert W. Galvin, chairman and chief executive officer.

Only one group, the communications sector, which includes the cellular and paging groups, showed an increase in profits for the quarter. Sales for that group were up 12 percent.

Profits were lower in the semiconductor, automotive and electronics and government electronics groups.

The information systems group, which includes Four Phase Systems Inc., an office systems division, and Codex Corp., a modem manufacturer, showed an operating loss for the quarter, in contrast to a small operating profit a year earlier. The results reflected continuing weakness in the computer industry, according to company officials.

President Trump Donald John TrumpThorny part of obstruction of justice is proving intent, that's a job for Congress Obama condemns attacks in Sri Lanka as 'an attack on humanity' Schiff rips Conway's 'display of alternative facts' on Russian election interference MORE’s personal attorney Michael Cohen worked on a deal to try and build a Trump Tower in Moscow for months longer than he had told Congress, Yahoo News reported Wednesday.

However, Yahoo News reported that investigators have obtained messages from Russian associate Felix Sater, who worked on the deal, that show Cohen continued to discuss the project until at least May 2016.

Trump was close to securing the GOP presidential nomination at that time.

Cohen and his lawyer did not return Yahoo News’s requests for comment.

Sater told Yahoo News that he had turned over his text messages and emails with Cohen to special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE, as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

“I was trying to build the tallest tower in Europe. For me, it was a business transaction,” Sater told the site.

Yahoo reported that the messages show Cohen and Sater started to discuss a deal to build a Trump Tower in 2015.

The New York Times first reported on the emails sent by the Russian developer last year, including Sater’s claim that he would get Russian President Vladimir Putin involved in the project.

“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Sater wrote in one email.

The Washington Post also reported last year that the Trump Organization nearly reached a deal to open the development in Moscow, but had dropped the project in January 2016 after they failed to get the land and permits for the building.

Cohen is currently under criminal investigation. The FBI raided his office last month, partly on a referral from Mueller.

The 'Dead Accounts' Broadway star - who split from the 'Mission Impossible' actor in June after six years of marriage - is said to be eager for their six-year-old daughter Suri to enjoy the holiday with both of her parents and is preparing to fly to a luxury ski resort in Telluride, Colorado with her ex-husband later this month.

A source told OK! Magazine: "Tom and Katie are determined to show Suri that they're still friends and devoted parents.

"They know it will mean so much for her, and both are happy to swallow their pride to make sure she has a fun holiday. Thanksgiving has always been a really big deal for them."

Earlier this week a source close to the 33-year-old actress revealed she has never been happier.

The insider said: "Katie's happy, she's a totally new person."

The actress is currently starring on Broadway and makes sure to work her schedule around her daughter.

The insider added: "Most performances are in the evening so Katie can have an early dinner with Suri."

While Katie, who has full custody of Suri, is embarking on a new chapter in her life, she is not ready to start dating again and is also too busy to even consider it.

The source explained: "She's not dating anyone and she won't be anytime soon. It's not like she'd even have the time."

Meanwhile, Tom reportedly hasn't seen his daughter in approximately four months as he has been filming in London.

AMSTERDAM – Louis van Gaal is set to stay at Manchester United for another season, this is according to Dutch paper De Telegraaf.

The paper is reporting that Van Gaal had received assurance over his future at Old Trafford and will be handed “100 million euros” to spend in the summer transfer window, despite numerous speculations about Jose Mourinho being lined up to replace the Dutchman at the end of the season.

Manchester United have been very inconsistent this season under Van Gaal and are sitting outside of the top four places in the race for Champions League football.

Injuries have played its part in the stop-and-go campaign for the Red Devils, but the club’s fans have not been impressed with the style of play Van Gaal had been implementing even when the top players were around.

It was widely reported that the 64-year-old would step down at the end of the season, which had pleased several section at Old Trafford who wanted to see a change.

That’s not the Manchester United way of doing things, though.

Apparently there is a change in fortune and the United bosses are still banking on keeping the former Barcelona manager for another stint, which means he is set to complete his three-year contract.

Meanwhile, Gabriele Marcotti, an England-based Italian sports journalist, who contributes to media outlets such as The Times, ESPN, Corriere hello Sport and Sunday Herald, have reserved feelings about the story, especially since Van Gaal used to be a columnist for the paper.

No idea if that Telegraaf/LvG staying story is true. But pretty sure it was written with LvG’s blessing.

Since taking over from David Moyes, Van Gaal has already spent some £250m in the transfer market in less than two-years.

The newest entry in the Spider-Man gaming franchise has not just one friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, but four who are set through various times and dimensions and are all playable with varying abilities and styles.

The story in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions goes that the evil villain Mysterio has shattered the Tablet of Order and Chaos into fragments spread across multiple realities, and Madame Web has tasked the original Amazing Spider-Man to work with three other Spider-Men from the other realities: Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099 and Spider-Man Noir.

It's clear from the beginning that Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is a game targeting children. The story? Non-existent. Jump around, beat up the bad guys and claim a tablet piece. This wouldn't really be that much of a negative attribute — plenty of all-star games have terrible plots — but the developers have Spider-Man spouting corny one-liners like a machine gun. After about 10 minutes, I had more than enough of lines like, "There are four Spider-Men? But I'm the most charming, of course!"

The gameplay? Completely linear. Playing as the different characters is really fun, but the level design is ridiculously simple. Developer Beenox decided to depart from the normal swing-around-a-gigantic-city style of past Spider-Man games, and instead create a much more confined level design. In one way, it's nice to do something different with Spider-Man, but it creates a frustrating camera experience. Too many times, the camera will swing wildly out of control, zoom in way too close, or cause myriad other problems that create a complete lack of control of Spider-Man.

Melissa Wiggins discusses her advocacy in fight against pediatric cancer. Her son Cannon was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma when he was 1 1/2 years old.

Nemours and the Cannonball Kids’ cancer Foundation are partnering up to punch kids cancer in the face.

That’s how you fight an insidious beast In this case, the ‘umph’ comes from a $25,000 “seed grant” from CKc to Nemours. It becomes the first local research grant awarded by the nonprofit since its inception in June of 2014.

The impetus to fund more research for kids cancer comes from Winter Park dynamo Melissa Wiggins, whose world became completely discombobulated in 2013, when her then-18-month-old son Cannon was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma.

She now runs the foundation as executive director.

Kids cancer messed with the wrong person.

At 5-feet-2 and 110 pounds, Melissa Wiggins or Orlando is a human dynamo, a fiery passionate cancer warrior, complete with a lovely Scottish brogue.

The announcement this week comes on the heels of a Nemours initiative indicating that the Zika virus is showing promising potential to target and destroy deadly neuroblastoma cancer cells in children.

The grant will expand that research to other forms of childhood cancer that do not even have clinical trials to date. The grant will target a research study focused specifically on the virus’ impact on hepatoblastoma, the most common cancerous liver tumor in early childhood.

The grant is given in honor of Nolan King, of Maitland, who died on April 1, 2017, at age 3, from complications of the toxic treatments currently used to fight hepatoblastoma.

The level of frustration is high for Wiggins and other families dealing with pediatric cancer.

It’s been an afterthought in the medical community. There has been little to no improvements in 30 years. There weren’t any specific treatments for children. Doctors have just dialed down doses for adults. Only an estimated 3.8 percent of national funding went into children's cancer research.

“Cannonball” is in remission and recently celebrated his seventh birthday.

To read more on the mission, here’s a recent conversation I had with Melissa Wiggins.

Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson runs the ball in the third quarter.

Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry rushed for three touchdowns and became Alabama's all-time leading rusher in the Crimson Tide's 45-40 victory over Clemson in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night at University of Phoenix Stadium.

Henry, a junior, rushed for 158 yards in 36 carries. He scored on runs of 50, one and one yard.

Henry finished the season with 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns.

He has rushed for 3,692 yards and 42 touchdowns, surpassing Shaun Alexander on the all-time list.

Henry became the 15th player to win the Heisman while playing for a national championship team. Former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was the most recent in 2013. Among the others were Auburn quarterback Cam Newton (2010), Alabama running back Mark Ingram (2009) and USC quarterback Matt Leinart (2004).

Photos from the College Football Playoff championship between Alabama and Clemson in Glendale, Ariz.

Henry is expected to make himself available for the NFL draft.

Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, who finished third in Heisman balloting behind Henry and Stanford's Christian McCaffrey, passed for 405 yards and four touchdowns, with an interception, and rushed for 73 yards.

Watson finished the season with 4,104 yards passing and 35 touchdowns.

He had 1,105 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns.

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker followed up his outstanding performance in the Cotton Bowl with another productive night in his final game for the Crimson Tide.