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Award Recognizes Exemplary Commitment to Transportation Safety
BRUSLY, La., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM), a national organization whose members include the most senior fire officials in the United States, is delighted to honor ExxonMobil with the esteemed Norman Y. Mineta Excellence in Transportation Safety Award.
The ExxonMobil organization is recognized for having one of the safest years in Exxon Mobil Pipeline Company's (EMPCo) history and their industry-leading safety preparations for the upcoming buildout of a network of CO2 and H2 pipelines. By empowering personnel to identify and strengthen critical safeguards to mitigate risk in potential consequence areas, ExxonMobil takes on the challenge of emerging fuels pipelines and storage facilities while maintaining exceptional safety standards.
The Norman Y. Mineta Excellence in Transportation Safety Award is an honor awarded to individuals or organizations who have shown a significant and lasting contribution to product, material and human safety. Named after its first recipient, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, the award recognizes achievements in transportation safety standards that exceed the minimum requirements.
"The way ExxonMobil engages with fire fighters is a great example of how companies and first responders should work together to yield the highest level of public safety and awareness," said Chief Butch Browning, NASFM Executive Director.
"It is an honor to receive this award on behalf of ExxonMobil. We are proud that our focus on safety and operational excellence is recognized by one of our most important stakeholders, first responders," said Steve Yatauro, ExxonMobil Pipeline Company President.
Since 2005, 11 organizations or individuals have received the Norman Y. Mineta Excellence in Transportation Safety Award. ExxonMobil's recognition marks the first award since Former NASFM Presidents and State Fire Marshal Bill Degnan in 2016.
The award was presented to EMPCo VP of Operations Saul Flota at the NASFM Annual Conference on July 31, 2023, in Wilmington, North Carolina.
For more information, visit the NASFM website at firemarshals.org.
About the National Association of State Fire Marshalls:
The principal membership of NASFM comprises the senior fire officials in the United States and their top deputies. The primary mission of NASFM is to protect human life, property and the environment from fire and related hazards. A secondary mission of NASFM is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of State Fire Marshals' operations.
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Paul Reubens, the actor who played Pee-wee Herman, died late Sunday at the age of 70, according to a post from his official Facebook page.
The post revealed that Reubens had been quietly battling cancer for the last six years. Reubens left a message for fans prior to his death.
"Please accept my apology for not going public with what I've been facing the last six years," he said. "I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you."
Although Reubens had a prolific acting career, he was best known for his portrayal of Herman. The character appealed to children and adults alike through shows like "The Pee-wee Herman Show" and "Pee-wee's Adventures."
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But his career took a hit in 1991 when he was reportedly arrested for exposing himself while attending a pornographic film.
"It was kind of like a mortifying kind of situation, where I felt like you know people are laughing at me," Reubens said in a 2004 interview with NBC News."I'm a professional comedian. I've never claimed to be able to take it as good as a dish it out, ever. I mean I'm just sensitive.”
Although he never regained his popularity before his arrest, Reubens continued acting in several comedic rules, including occasional portrayals of Herman.
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The Colts dropped a surprise on Monday when they announced Anthony Richardson had a nose surgery, but should return to practice in the next day or so.
After practice, head coach Shane Steichen reiterated that Richardson should be OK soon.
“Anthony had a little procedure done on his nose just so he can breathe better,” Steichen said, via Kevin Bowen of 107.5 The Fan. “We had to get it done. [Sunday] was the off day and we got it done. He should be back tomorrow, and if he’s not he will be back the next day [Thursday]. It’s nothing serious.”
As a rookie quarterback, all of Richardson’s reps are important. So it’s a good thing that he may be back after missing just one day.
Gardner Minshew and Sam Ehlinger got all the work at quarterback on Monday with Richardson out. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/shane-steichen-anthony-richardson-nasal-procedure-is-nothing-serious | 2023-07-31T18:00:46 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/shane-steichen-anthony-richardson-nasal-procedure-is-nothing-serious |
Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto is a true-story, Coen brothers-esque caper about a California desert town that tried to revive its economy by turning to legal cannabis sales.
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Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto is a true-story, Coen brothers-esque caper about a California desert town that tried to revive its economy by turning to legal cannabis sales.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died.
Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” Reubens said in a statement released with the announcement of his death. “I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
The character with his too-tight gray suit, white chunky loafers and red bow tie was best known for the film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and the TV series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.”
Herman created Pee-wee when he was part of the Los Angeles improv group The Groundlings in the late 1970s. The live “Pee-wee Herman Show” debuted at a Los Angeles theater in 1981 and was a success with both kids during matinees and adults at a midnight show. HBO would air the show as a special.
Reubens took Pee-wee to the big screen in 1985’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” The film, in which Pee-wee’s cherished bike is stolen, was said to be loosely based on Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neo-realist classic, “The Bicycle Thief.” The film, directed by Tim Burton and co-written by Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live,” sent Pee-wee on a nationwide escapade. The movie was a success, grossing $40 million, and continued to spawn a cult following for its oddball whimsy.
A sequel followed three years later in the less well-received “Big Top Pee-wee,” in which Pee-wee seeks to join a circus. Reubens’ character wouldn’t get another movie starring role until 2016’s Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” for Netflix. Judd Apatow produced Pee-wee’s big-screen revival.
His television series, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV.
Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl. The host, who is fond of secret words and loves fruit salad so much he once married it, is prone to lines like, “I know you are, but what am I?” and “Why don’t you take a picture; it’ll last longer?” The act was a hit because it worked on multiple levels, even though Reubens insists that wasn’t the plan.
“It’s for kids,” Reubens told The Associated Press in 2010. “People have tried to get me for years to go, ‘It wasn’t really for kids, right?’ Even the original show was for kids. I always censored myself to have it be kid-friendly.
“The whole thing has been just a gut feeling from the beginning,” Reubens told the AP. “That’s all it ever is and I think always ever be. Much as people want me to dissect it and explain it, I can’t. One, I don’t know, and two, I don’t want to know, and three, I feel like I’ll hex myself if I know.”
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Associated Press Writer Alicia Rancilio and Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this report. | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reubens-dies-from-cancer-at-70/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2023-07-31T18:00:47 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reubens-dies-from-cancer-at-70/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
Partnership Will Enable OneValley to Provide Up to 1.1M Entrepreneurial Users with Algorithmic-Driven Web Content Scored for Reliability and Personalized to Help Them Grow Their Business
VIENNA, Va., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Seekr, a revolutionary artificial intelligence company specializing in transparent content evaluation, announced today it has entered into a strategic partnership with OneValley, a Silicon Valley-based global entrepreneurship platform that powers many of the world's top innovation, entrepreneurial and non-profit ecosystems. The partnership integrates Seekr's groundbreaking search capabilities into OneValley's information-sharing platform, enabling 1.1 million entrepreneurial users supported by OneValley to access algorithmic-driven news that is personalized and scored for reliability.
"The OneValley platform is already a treasure trove of high-value information for entrepreneurs, providing guidance and insights on everything from ideation and launch to growth and scaling. Seekr's content evaluation capabilities amplify that value proposition, taking the platform to the next level," said Rob Clark, President and Chief Technology Officer at Seekr. "Our technology enables the OneValley platform to identify relevant information, regardless of whether it lives on the platform or on the broader internet, score it for reliability, curate it so that it's tailored to the unique needs and interests of each individual entrepreneur, and finally serve it up to the entrepreneur on-demand."
"As OneValley continues to expand worldwide, this unique partnership with Seekr will provide our customers with the knowledge they need to win in their markets," said Nikhil Sinha, CEO of OneValley. "We further expect that usage on the platform will continue to grow and enhance the life cycle growth from startup to big business."
Seekr's AI-powered search and evaluation technology will be fully integrated into OneValley's online consumer platform, Passport, and its enterprise platform, PassportOS. The technology will enable every OneValley user to generate a bespoke flow of news and other relevant content tailored to meet their unique individual interests and needs.
Under the terms of the agreement, the platform will also feature a stream of real-time news and relevant information powered by Seekr. Additionally, Seekr will provide OneValley with a dynamic competitive analysis tool that provides entrepreneurs and startups with insights into competitor movements and a fuller understanding of how market trends are moving over time.
For further information, visit www.seekr.com.
About Seekr Technologies Inc.
Seekr is a privately held artificial intelligence company that specializes in transparent content evaluation and objective ratings. Its AI technology is designed to rate all content, both authentic content created by humans, and synthetic, machine-generated content. Seekr empowers user choice and control by streamlining access to reliable information. The centerpiece of Seekr's technology is an independent search engine that is powered by proprietary AI and employs natural language processing (NLP) to generate a Seekr Score and Political Lean Indicator. Seekr is committed to building a web that people can trust by giving everyone access to technology that makes it easy to find reliable content in context.
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Two people were injured in a plane crash Monday morning at Renton Municipal Airport, according to the Renton Regional Fire Authority.
Responding crews found a plane carrying two people upside down on the runway, the department said online. The department first posted about the crash shortly after 9:30 a.m. on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Crews were taking one person to a hospital around 9:30 a.m. and said the other person was being treated and would then be released. The department did not say what condition the two people were in.
Crews are also treating a fuel leak, the department said.
Skyway Fire (King County Fire District 20), the Boeing Fire Department and King County Medic One are also responding.
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Partnership Will Enable OneValley to Provide Up to 1.1M Entrepreneurial Users with Algorithmic-Driven Web Content Scored for Reliability and Personalized to Help Them Grow Their Business
VIENNA, Va., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Seekr, a revolutionary artificial intelligence company specializing in transparent content evaluation, announced today it has entered into a strategic partnership with OneValley, a Silicon Valley-based global entrepreneurship platform that powers many of the world's top innovation, entrepreneurial and non-profit ecosystems. The partnership integrates Seekr's groundbreaking search capabilities into OneValley's information-sharing platform, enabling 1.1 million entrepreneurial users supported by OneValley to access algorithmic-driven news that is personalized and scored for reliability.
"The OneValley platform is already a treasure trove of high-value information for entrepreneurs, providing guidance and insights on everything from ideation and launch to growth and scaling. Seekr's content evaluation capabilities amplify that value proposition, taking the platform to the next level," said Rob Clark, President and Chief Technology Officer at Seekr. "Our technology enables the OneValley platform to identify relevant information, regardless of whether it lives on the platform or on the broader internet, score it for reliability, curate it so that it's tailored to the unique needs and interests of each individual entrepreneur, and finally serve it up to the entrepreneur on-demand."
"As OneValley continues to expand worldwide, this unique partnership with Seekr will provide our customers with the knowledge they need to win in their markets," said Nikhil Sinha, CEO of OneValley. "We further expect that usage on the platform will continue to grow and enhance the life cycle growth from startup to big business."
Seekr's AI-powered search and evaluation technology will be fully integrated into OneValley's online consumer platform, Passport, and its enterprise platform, PassportOS. The technology will enable every OneValley user to generate a bespoke flow of news and other relevant content tailored to meet their unique individual interests and needs.
Under the terms of the agreement, the platform will also feature a stream of real-time news and relevant information powered by Seekr. Additionally, Seekr will provide OneValley with a dynamic competitive analysis tool that provides entrepreneurs and startups with insights into competitor movements and a fuller understanding of how market trends are moving over time.
For further information, visit www.seekr.com.
About Seekr Technologies Inc.
Seekr is a privately held artificial intelligence company that specializes in transparent content evaluation and objective ratings. Its AI technology is designed to rate all content, both authentic content created by humans, and synthetic, machine-generated content. Seekr empowers user choice and control by streamlining access to reliable information. The centerpiece of Seekr's technology is an independent search engine that is powered by proprietary AI and employs natural language processing (NLP) to generate a Seekr Score and Political Lean Indicator. Seekr is committed to building a web that people can trust by giving everyone access to technology that makes it easy to find reliable content in context.
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A small but mighty prehistoric creature somehow emerged alive from a chunk of ancient permafrost extracted from Siberia.
This might sound like the start of a science fiction blockbuster movie, but a study recently released by scientists provides evidence that a nematode maintained a state of suspended animation since the days of the Neanderthals.
The July 27 study published by PLOS Genetics discussed how the worm-like creature surprised scientists by moving after the permafrost thawed.
“Nobody had thought that this process could be for millennia, for 40,000 years — or even longer,” Philip Schiffer, one of the study’s authors, told NPR. “It’s just amazing that life can start again after such a long time, in the stage between life and death.”
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Previously, the longest-known resuscitation for a frozen nematode was from an Antarctic species known as Plectus murryi.
Through genetic testing, the scientists labeled this new species Panagrolaimus kolymaensis.
The study team determined the nematode’s age by performing radiocarbon dating on the permafrost sample. The results showed the frozen soil was around 46,000 years old.
Scientists explained that the nematode was buried in the permafrost about 130 feet deep in an Arctic gopher burrow. Once there, it coped with the freezing temperatures by slowing its metabolism through a process known as cryptobiosis. This deep sleep allows an organism to stay alive in extreme conditions.
“We need to know how species adapted to the extreme through evolution to maybe help species alive today and humans as well,” Schiffer told The Washington Post.
Scientists learned soon after the nematode started moving that they had a female in the lab. She reproduced in the petri dish asexually, bringing this family’s first of many new generations into the world.
The original nematode to emerge from the permafrost died; however, with hundreds of generations still maintained by the scientific team, much more can be learned about this species and its impact on our modern world.
“You might learn a lot about how and what’s happening right now on Earth, and maybe even inform protection of endangered species,” Schiffer told NPR.
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NEW YORK, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognized for relentlessly pursuing innovative audience engagement solutions, Resulticks is now redefining the space with a laser focus on creating Connected Experiences for brands and their audiences through its flagship product RESUL.
Addressing this next leap in the product's evolution, Dakshen Ram, Co-Founder and Chief Product and Innovation Officer of Resulticks said, "RESUL began ten years ago as an omnichannel stack with the aim of moving clients steadily toward digital transformation. Now, recalibrating what audience engagement really means, we have created the definitive solution to deliver end-to-end Connected Experiences—real-time, contextual, everywhere, anytime, and across the phygital spectrum."
Connected Experiences reimagines how businesses can engage with their audiences. Brands will be able to leverage non-conventional channels for data consolidation and communications. The shift will also incorporate new channels of communication including IoT interfaces such as digital billboards, smart devices, and facial recognition devices, enabling organizations to facilitate customer engagement across the physical and digital landscape.
Operating at native latency, businesses will be able to deliver entirely hyper-personalized journeys at scale that are not only attributable but most importantly are limited only by end-point processing capabilities and speeds.
Ram also noted that there is a marked gap between what audiences expect in terms of real-time engagement and what is being served to them today. The interpretation of real-time often has been understandably subjective. "But from the audience's perspective," he said, "it's time to move the needle from real-time engagement to right-now engagement, which means effortlessly syncing with audiences traversing spaces, channels, devices, and IoT interfaces."
Commenting on edge computing and serverless infrastructure supported by the WebAssembly framework, Ram added, "Our next major release RESUL 5.5 slated for release in Q4 of 2023 as well as our work on a generative AI core will further equip brands to chart audience journeys leveraging the flexibility offered by technology rather than being bound by its limitations. This commitment to a connected experience framework is set to usher in, for brands, an era of audience engagement that is instant, creative, and attributable like never before."
About Resulticks
Resulticks is a global leader in real-time audience engagement solutions that deliver top-line growth for brands through connected experiences. Outcomes-focused and enabled by its proprietary cookie-independent identity resolution technology, Resulticks equips brands to make a transformational leap to true 360o customer engagement. With its AI-powered, audience-centric approach it is changing how brands worldwide reach, acquire, and retain satisfied customers. Resulticks Solution Inc. is headquartered in New York City.
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The Browns may be adding to their defensive front.
Cleveland is bringing in veteran lineman Shelby Harris for a visit, according to Jordan Schultz of TheScore.com.
Harris spent last season with the Seahawks, starting 15 games for the club. He recorded 44 total tackles with 2.0 sacks, five tackles for loss, and six QB hits. He also posted four passes defensed while playing 49 percent of the team’s defensive snaps.
A seventh-round pick in the 2014 draft, Harris began his career with the Raiders. He spent some time with the Jets and Cowboys in 2016 before finding a home with the Broncos in 2017 and becoming a key player on their defense. He ended up playing 75 games with 49 starts for the Broncos from 2017-2021.
He was traded to Seattle as part of the Russell Wilson deal. The Seahawks released him in March. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/shelby-harris-to-visit-with-browns | 2023-07-31T18:00:56 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/shelby-harris-to-visit-with-browns |
NEW YORK, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognized for relentlessly pursuing innovative audience engagement solutions, Resulticks is now redefining the space with a laser focus on creating Connected Experiences for brands and their audiences through its flagship product RESUL.
Addressing this next leap in the product's evolution, Dakshen Ram, Co-Founder and Chief Product and Innovation Officer of Resulticks said, "RESUL began ten years ago as an omnichannel stack with the aim of moving clients steadily toward digital transformation. Now, recalibrating what audience engagement really means, we have created the definitive solution to deliver end-to-end Connected Experiences—real-time, contextual, everywhere, anytime, and across the phygital spectrum."
Connected Experiences reimagines how businesses can engage with their audiences. Brands will be able to leverage non-conventional channels for data consolidation and communications. The shift will also incorporate new channels of communication including IoT interfaces such as digital billboards, smart devices, and facial recognition devices, enabling organizations to facilitate customer engagement across the physical and digital landscape.
Operating at native latency, businesses will be able to deliver entirely hyper-personalized journeys at scale that are not only attributable but most importantly are limited only by end-point processing capabilities and speeds.
Ram also noted that there is a marked gap between what audiences expect in terms of real-time engagement and what is being served to them today. The interpretation of real-time often has been understandably subjective. "But from the audience's perspective," he said, "it's time to move the needle from real-time engagement to right-now engagement, which means effortlessly syncing with audiences traversing spaces, channels, devices, and IoT interfaces."
Commenting on edge computing and serverless infrastructure supported by the WebAssembly framework, Ram added, "Our next major release RESUL 5.5 slated for release in Q4 of 2023 as well as our work on a generative AI core will further equip brands to chart audience journeys leveraging the flexibility offered by technology rather than being bound by its limitations. This commitment to a connected experience framework is set to usher in, for brands, an era of audience engagement that is instant, creative, and attributable like never before."
About Resulticks
Resulticks is a global leader in real-time audience engagement solutions that deliver top-line growth for brands through connected experiences. Outcomes-focused and enabled by its proprietary cookie-independent identity resolution technology, Resulticks equips brands to make a transformational leap to true 360o customer engagement. With its AI-powered, audience-centric approach it is changing how brands worldwide reach, acquire, and retain satisfied customers. Resulticks Solution Inc. is headquartered in New York City.
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8-year-old survives cougar attack in Washington state national park
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — National Park Service rangers say an 8-year-old child has survived a cougar attack with minor injuries. The attack happened Saturday during a camping trip in Olympic National Park in Washington state. Rangers are searching for the animal and have shut down the campsite. Park officials say the cougar casually abandoned its attack after being yelled at by the child’s mother. The child was taken to a hospital for further evaluation. Officials began looking for the animal on Sunday. If located, the cougar will be euthanized. Officials say cougars are rarely seen and attacks on humans are extremely rare. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/8-year-old-survives-cougar-attack-in-washington-state-national-park/ | 2023-07-31T18:00:58 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/8-year-old-survives-cougar-attack-in-washington-state-national-park/ |
New Contract Protecting Nearly 8,000 Workers Overwhelmingly Approved
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters have overwhelmingly ratified a new national contract at TForce Freight by 81 percent. The five-year master agreement provides members with significant improvements to wages and benefits, and safeguards against subcontracting and technology.
"Teamsters at TForce have set a powerful example for how to take on the employer and win a strong agreement. Over the next five years, TForce workers will continue to establish better standards for freight under this contract, including the most lucrative economic package in the industry and vital protections for technology, pension, health care, and safety," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters General President and Chair of the Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee (TNFINC).
The agreement will go into effect August 1, 2023, and expire July 31, 2028. Contract highlights include:
- Wage Increases: The highest wage increases in the history of the national contract. Full-time local cartage and clerks will receive increases of $4.50 per hour over the life of the agreement. Road drivers will receive industry-leading increases to their current mileage rate over the length of the deal, starting at $0.7557 in August 2023 and increasing to $0.8257 by January 2028. The agreement eliminates split wage increases and two-tier wages.
- Health, Welfare, and Pension Contributions: TForce is required to increase its contributions to health, welfare, and pension plans. These contributions will provide vital support for members' health care and retirement needs.
- Technology Safeguards: The agreement includes provisions to safeguard members' rights and well-being from invasive technology. It prevents discipline from cameras and prohibits the use of robots, driverless vehicles, drones, or other technology to move freight or replace drivers, clerks, or dockworkers.
- Additional Holiday: Martin Luther King Day has been added as a paid holiday.
- Safety: All newly purchased equipment and vehicles must have air conditioning.
- Discretionary Days and Vacation: Starting January 1, 2024, two additional discretionary days will be added to the contractual floor, increasing the minimum number of paid days from four to six. There will be no blackout dates.
- Work Rule Protections: Shuttle and drayage work will not count towards the guarantee covered under the agreement. Road drivers will only perform road work and cannot work the docks except for the current mini-hub operations. TForce must have approval from the Teamsters for any other expansion of mini-hub operations.
- Protections Against Subcontracting: Road drivers would be protected against subcontracting. Penalties have been put in place to ensure rail and subcontracting come back into the bargaining unit.
"Our members at TForce have spoken loud and clear, and they overwhelmingly agree this new contract will deliver massive economic gains and non-economic improvements," said John A. Murphy, Teamsters National Freight Director and TNFINC Co-Chair. "The entire union thanks our lead negotiators Kris Taylor and Ed Thompson and the full negotiating team for their efforts to bargain an industry-defining agreement. Most of all, we thank the tireless and dedicated rank-and-filers who served on the negotiating committee to improve the lives of their fellow Teamsters at TForce."
Teamsters voted in-person last week and ballots were counted on Sunday. The agreement covers approximately 7,800 Teamsters at 126 local unions throughout the U.S.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
Contact:
Daniel Moskowitz, (770) 262-4971
dmoskowitz@teamster.org
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Monday, July 31
Monday's MLB schedule features a slew of intriguing pitching matchups, and we've got all of the probable pitchers listed below. Top billing goes to the bout between the Orioles and the Blue Jays, who will be sending Kyle Gibson and Chris Bassitt to the mound, respectively.
Read on to find the probable pitcher matchups for every game on the schedule for July 31.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Phillies at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Taijuan Walker (11-4) to the bump as they face the Marlins, who will look to Edward Cabrera (5-6) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -110
- PHI Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Brewers at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Milwaukee Brewers will send Corbin Burnes (9-6) to the mound as they face the Nationals, who will counter with Jake Irvin (3-5) for the matchup between the clubs Monday.
Vegas Odds for Brewers at Nationals
- MIL Odds to Win: -210
- WSH Odds to Win: +170
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Rays at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Tyler Glasnow (4-3) to the hill as they face the Yankees, who will give the start to Domingo German (5-7) when the clubs face off Monday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Yankees
- TB Odds to Win: -145
- NYY Odds to Win: +120
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Orioles at Blue Jays Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Gibson (9-6) to the mound as they play the Blue Jays, who will counter with Bassitt (10-5) when the teams play Monday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Blue Jays
- TOR Odds to Win: -130
- BAL Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 9 runs
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- Game Time: 7:07 PM ET
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Angels at Braves Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Griffin Canning (6-4) to the bump as they face the Braves, who will look to Charlie Morton (10-8) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Braves
- ATL Odds to Win: -225
- LAA Odds to Win: +180
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Reds at Cubs Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Andrew Abbott (6-2) to the mound as they face the Cubs, who will counter with Marcus Stroman (10-7) when the clubs play Monday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Cubs
- CHC Odds to Win: -120
- CIN Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 8 runs
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Guardians at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Cleveland Guardians will send Noah Syndergaard (1-4) to the bump as they play the Astros, who will look to J.P. France (6-3) when the clubs face off Monday.
Vegas Odds for Guardians at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -175
- CLE Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 9 runs
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Padres at Rockies Probable Pitchers
The San Diego Padres will send Seth Lugo (4-5) to the mound as they play the Rockies, who will hand the ball to Austin Gomber (8-8) for the matchup between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Padres at Rockies
- SD Odds to Win: -200
- COL Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 11.5 runs
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Red Sox at Mariners Probable Pitchers
The Boston Red Sox will send Nick Pivetta (7-5) to the mound as they play the Mariners, who will give the start to George Kirby (9-8) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Red Sox at Mariners
- SEA Odds to Win: -135
- BOS Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Diamondbacks at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Arizona Diamondbacks will send Ryne Nelson (6-5) to the mound as they take on the Giants, who will look to Alex Cobb (6-3) when the clubs meet Monday.
Vegas Odds for Diamondbacks at Giants
- SF Odds to Win: -150
- ARI Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8 runs
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New Contract Protecting Nearly 8,000 Workers Overwhelmingly Approved
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters have overwhelmingly ratified a new national contract at TForce Freight by 81 percent. The five-year master agreement provides members with significant improvements to wages and benefits, and safeguards against subcontracting and technology.
"Teamsters at TForce have set a powerful example for how to take on the employer and win a strong agreement. Over the next five years, TForce workers will continue to establish better standards for freight under this contract, including the most lucrative economic package in the industry and vital protections for technology, pension, health care, and safety," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters General President and Chair of the Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee (TNFINC).
The agreement will go into effect August 1, 2023, and expire July 31, 2028. Contract highlights include:
- Wage Increases: The highest wage increases in the history of the national contract. Full-time local cartage and clerks will receive increases of $4.50 per hour over the life of the agreement. Road drivers will receive industry-leading increases to their current mileage rate over the length of the deal, starting at $0.7557 in August 2023 and increasing to $0.8257 by January 2028. The agreement eliminates split wage increases and two-tier wages.
- Health, Welfare, and Pension Contributions: TForce is required to increase its contributions to health, welfare, and pension plans. These contributions will provide vital support for members' health care and retirement needs.
- Technology Safeguards: The agreement includes provisions to safeguard members' rights and well-being from invasive technology. It prevents discipline from cameras and prohibits the use of robots, driverless vehicles, drones, or other technology to move freight or replace drivers, clerks, or dockworkers.
- Additional Holiday: Martin Luther King Day has been added as a paid holiday.
- Safety: All newly purchased equipment and vehicles must have air conditioning.
- Discretionary Days and Vacation: Starting January 1, 2024, two additional discretionary days will be added to the contractual floor, increasing the minimum number of paid days from four to six. There will be no blackout dates.
- Work Rule Protections: Shuttle and drayage work will not count towards the guarantee covered under the agreement. Road drivers will only perform road work and cannot work the docks except for the current mini-hub operations. TForce must have approval from the Teamsters for any other expansion of mini-hub operations.
- Protections Against Subcontracting: Road drivers would be protected against subcontracting. Penalties have been put in place to ensure rail and subcontracting come back into the bargaining unit.
"Our members at TForce have spoken loud and clear, and they overwhelmingly agree this new contract will deliver massive economic gains and non-economic improvements," said John A. Murphy, Teamsters National Freight Director and TNFINC Co-Chair. "The entire union thanks our lead negotiators Kris Taylor and Ed Thompson and the full negotiating team for their efforts to bargain an industry-defining agreement. Most of all, we thank the tireless and dedicated rank-and-filers who served on the negotiating committee to improve the lives of their fellow Teamsters at TForce."
Teamsters voted in-person last week and ballots were counted on Sunday. The agreement covers approximately 7,800 Teamsters at 126 local unions throughout the U.S.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
Contact:
Daniel Moskowitz, (770) 262-4971
dmoskowitz@teamster.org
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Alabama health care providers sue over threat of prosecution for abortion help
By KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Health care providers in Alabama have filed a lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall over threats to prosecute people who help women arrange abortions outside the state. The lawsuit seeks a court declaration and injunction clarifying that the state’s criminal statute can’t be used to prosecute people who help women leave the state to obtain abortions. Meagan Burrows, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union which is representing the providers in the lawsuit, said the threats are an attempt to “effectively extend Alabama’s abortion ban outside of its borders.” Marshall’s office did not have an immediate response. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/alabama-health-care-providers-sue-over-threat-of-prosecution-for-abortion-help/ | 2023-07-31T18:01:04 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/alabama-health-care-providers-sue-over-threat-of-prosecution-for-abortion-help/ |
Broncos wide receiver Tim Patrick missed last season after tearing his ACL in an August practice and he went down with another injury on Monday.
According to reports from Broncos camp, Patrick went down with a non-contact injury during 7-on-7 drills. Trainers looked at Patrick’s lower left leg before he was helped onto a cart to go inside for further evaluation. Patrick was spotted using crutches to go into the building after his cart ride.
Patrick was reported to be visibly upset and threw his helmet after the injury.
Patrick had 143 catches for 2,009 yards and 12 touchdowns over his first four seasons with the Broncos. He and the team will be hoping for news that allows him to add to those totals this season. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/tim-patrick-injured-carted-off-at-broncos-practice | 2023-07-31T18:01:06 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/tim-patrick-injured-carted-off-at-broncos-practice |
The Eagle Bluff fire has burned timber and brush across an estimated 10,000 acres in Okanogan County with no containment, according to the county’s emergency management department and the state Department of Natural Resources.
The wildfire, which started Saturday southwest of Oroville, prompted evacuations on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
The level 3 immediate evacuation notice has since been reduced to a level 2 “get ready” notice for people living on both sides of Highway 97, from Shirley Road to Oroville.
A Red Cross shelter that was set up at Oroville High School for displaced people has closed as there are no immediate evacuations in place.
In British Columbia, an evacuation order was issued for 732 properties in and around the town of Osoyoos, according the CBC.
The fire was zero percent contained as of Sunday evening, according to DNR, which said four structures had been destroyed. The cause of the fire is under investigation by DNR fire investigators and the Okanogan County Sheriff’s office.
There were 250 personnel fighting the wildfire and bulldozer lines have been established around “substantial sections” of the accessible portions of the fire perimeter, according a Sunday afternoon update from the Northeast Washington Interagency incident management team.
The Loomis-Oroville Road is closed due to guardrail damage, rocks rolling off the hillside and fire equipment and personnel on the roadway from Oroville to Nighthawk, according to the county.
Blue Lake Road is closed from Golden Road to Wannacut Lake, as well as Ellemeham Mountain Road at Golden Road.
High temperatures in the area were expected to be over 90 degrees, with overnight lows in the 50s and winds gusting up to 30 mph.
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How to Watch the Rays vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 31
Isaac Paredes and the Tampa Bay Rays take on Gleyber Torres and the New York Yankees on Monday at 7:05 PM ET, in the first of a three-game series at Yankee Stadium.
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Rays vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 7:05 PM ET
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Location: The Bronx, New York
- Venue: Yankee Stadium
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Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays are fourth in MLB play with 155 home runs. They average 1.4 per game.
- Tampa Bay is fifth in baseball with a .445 slugging percentage.
- The Rays' .255 batting average is 10th-best in the majors.
- Tampa Bay has the No. 4 offense in MLB action, scoring 5.2 runs per game (561 total runs).
- The Rays are 10th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .328.
- The Rays strike out 8.6 times per game to rank 17th in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Tampa Bay has a collective 9.1 K/9, the 10th-best in the majors.
- Tampa Bay has a 3.80 team ERA that ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Rays have the second-lowest WHIP in baseball (1.192).
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Glasnow gets the start for the Rays, his 12th of the season. He is 4-3 with a 3.36 ERA and 88 strikeouts through 61 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty's most recent appearance was on Tuesday against the Miami Marlins, when he went seven innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up two hits.
- Glasnow is looking to continue a third-game quality start streak in this game.
- Glasnow is seeking his seventh straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.6 innings per appearance on the mound.
- So far he has allowed one or more earned runs in all of his appearances.
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Alek Thomas Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:27 AM MST|Updated: 33 minutes ago
The Arizona Diamondbacks, including Alek Thomas and his .469 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starting pitcher Alex Cobb and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, Monday at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his last game (0-for-1) against the Mariners.
Alek Thomas Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
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- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1150)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +185)
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Alek Thomas At The Plate
- Thomas has 12 doubles, three triples, six home runs and 10 walks while batting .237.
- Thomas has picked up a hit in 33 of 65 games this year, with multiple hits 14 times.
- He has hit a home run in six games this season (9.2%), leaving the park in 2.6% of his trips to the plate.
- In 24.6% of his games this year, Thomas has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 4.6%.
- He has scored in 23 games this year (35.4%), including multiple runs in six games.
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Alek Thomas Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff is 16th in the league with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants' 3.97 team ERA ranks 10th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (111 total, one per game).
- Cobb (6-3) takes the mound for the Giants in his 20th start of the season. He's put together a 2.97 ERA in 106 2/3 innings pitched, with 100 strikeouts.
- The right-hander last appeared on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- The 35-year-old's 2.97 ERA ranks sixth, 1.349 WHIP ranks 49th, and 8.5 K/9 ranks 35th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms are the focus of new small treatment studies
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions.
Monday’s announcement from the NIH’s $1.15 billion RECOVER project comes amid frustration from patients who’ve struggled for months or even years with sometimes-disabling health problems — with no proven treatments and only a smattering of rigorous studies to test potential ones.
“This is a year or two late and smaller in scope than one would hope but nevertheless it’s a step in the right direction,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University in St. Louis, who isn’t involved with NIH’s project but whose own research highlighted long COVID’s toll. Getting answers is critical, he added, because “there’s a lot of people out there exploiting patients’ vulnerability” with unproven therapies.
Scientists don’t yet know what causes long COVID, the catchall term for about 200 widely varying symptoms. Between 10% and 30% of people are estimated to have experienced some form of long COVID after recovering from a coronavirus infection, a risk that has dropped somewhat since early in the pandemic.
“If I get 10 people, I get 10 answers of what long COVID really is,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said.
That’s why so far the RECOVER initiative has tracked 24,000 patients in observational studies to help define the most common and burdensome symptoms –- findings that now are shaping multipronged treatment trials. The first two will look at:
— Whether taking up to 25 days of Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid could ease long COVID, because of a theory that some live coronavirus, or its remnants, may hide in the body and trigger the disorder. Normally Paxlovid is used when people first get infected and for just five days.
— Treatments for “brain fog” and other cognitive problems. They include Posit Science Corp.’s BrainHQ cognitive training program, another called PASC-Cognitive Recovery by New York City’s Mount Sinai Health System, and a Soterix Medical device that electrically stimulates brain circuits.
Two additional studies will open in the coming months. One will test treatments for sleep problems. The other will target problems with the autonomic nervous system — which controls unconscious functions like breathing and heartbeat — including the disorder called POTS.
A more controversial study of exercise intolerance and fatigue also is planned, with NIH seeking input from some patient groups worried that exercise may do more harm than good for certain long COVID sufferers.
The trials are enrolling 300 to 900 adult participants for now but have the potential to grow. Unlike typical experiments that test one treatment at a time, these more flexible “platform studies” will let NIH add additional potential therapies on a rolling basis.
“We can rapidly pivot,” Dr. Amy Patterson with the NIH explained. A failing treatment can be dropped without ending the entire trial and “if something promising comes on the horizon, we can plug it in.”
The flexibility could be key, according to Dr. Anthony Komaroff, a Harvard researcher who isn’t involved with the NIH program but has long studied a similarly mysterious disorder known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS. For example, he said, the Paxlovid study “makes all sorts of sense,” but if a 25-day dose shows only hints of working, researchers could extend the test to a longer course instead of starting from scratch.
Komaroff also said that he understands people’s frustration over the wait for these treatment trials, but believes NIH appropriately waited “until some clues came in about the underlying biology,” adding: “You’ve got to have targets.”
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Health care providers in Alabama filed a lawsuit on Monday against the state’s attorney general that seeks to clarify whether they could be charged for helping women get abortions outside the state.
Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Alabama, the phone rings at least once a day at a former clinic in Tuscaloosa as women — sometimes crying and often desperate — try to find where they can go in other states to end an unwanted pregnancy, the clinic director said.
“We get a lot of the anger — and we know that it’s not us that they are angry at,” said Robin Marty, operations director for the West Alabama Women’s Center. “It’s the situation, but it is very, very hard for my staff. They want to be able to help them.”
Staff members who want to provide assistance are afraid to give much information beyond a website that lists abortion clinic locations, after the state’s Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall suggested people could face criminal charges for helping Alabama women obtain abortions elsewhere.
The three health care providers filed the lawsuit to get a court declaration and injunction clarifying that the state’s criminal statutes can’t be used to prosecute people who help women leave the state for an abortion. The suit was filed by the Women’s Center, the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, and Dr. Yashica Robinson, an obstetrician.
“What the attorney general has tried to do via these threats is to effectively extend Alabama’s abortion ban outside of its borders for Alabama residents,” Meagan Burrows, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the providers in the lawsuit.
Burrows said the threat of prosecution is harming both the health care providers and the women who want to obtain abortions.
In a statement Monday, the attorney general’s office said it “will continue to vigorously enforce Alabama laws protecting unborn life which include the Human Life Protection Act. That includes abortion providers conspiring to violate the Act.”
The lawsuit cites Marshall’s comments on a conservative radio talk show last year, in which he said that state law can’t be used to prosecute a woman for getting an abortion out of state.
However, Marshall said, “if an individual held themselves out as an entity or a group that is using funds that they are able to raise to be able to facilitate those visits, then that’s something that we’re going to look at closely.”
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states, the Deep South quickly became an area of limited abortion access.
Alabama bans abortion at any stage of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape and incest. The only exemption is if it’s needed because pregnancy threatens the health of the woman.
The landscape outside the state has also evolved rapidly and continues to change quickly as trigger laws and new bans are allowed to take effect. Clinics that remain open are extremely busy.
Marty, the clinic director, said most people who reach out to the clinic know “there is no abortion in Alabama. What they aren’t aware of is how far that extends.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/alabama-health-care-providers-sue-over-threat-of-prosecution-for-abortion-help/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2023-07-31T18:01:14 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/alabama-health-care-providers-sue-over-threat-of-prosecution-for-abortion-help/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
Carson Kelly Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:26 AM MST|Updated: 35 minutes ago
On Monday, Carson Kelly (coming off going 1-for-3 with an RBI) and the Arizona Diamondbacks face the San Francisco Giants, whose starting pitcher will be Alex Cobb. First pitch is at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his most recent game (1-for-3) against the Mariners.
Carson Kelly Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -154)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +950)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +195)
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Carson Kelly At The Plate
- Kelly is hitting .174 with a double, a home run and two walks.
- In 39.1% of his games this season (nine of 23), Kelly has picked up at least one hit, and in three of those games (13.0%) he recorded more than one.
- He has gone deep in just one game this season.
- In five games this year, Kelly has picked up an RBI, with more than one RBI once.
- He has scored a run in three of 23 games so far this season.
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Carson Kelly Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff is 16th in the league with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants' 3.97 team ERA ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to give up the third-fewest home runs in baseball (111 total, one per game).
- Cobb gets the start for the Giants, his 20th of the season. He is 6-3 with a 2.97 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance came on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when the righty went six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- The 35-year-old's 2.97 ERA ranks sixth, 1.349 WHIP ranks 49th, and 8.5 K/9 ranks 35th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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Will Harry Kane leave Tottenham Hotspur?
That’s been a question on the minds of Spurs fans — as well as fans of his suitors — for several years, and so far Kane has just continued to score goals for Tottenham and England at an exceptional rate.
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Kane celebrated his 30th birthday on July 28 and he’s 47 goals behind Alan Shearer for the most goals in Premier League history, having passed Wayne Rooney late last season.
He’s coming off his second 30-goal Premier League season and was arguably the reason Spurs remained anywhere near the European places before finishing eighth on the table.
That triggered yet another manager change in North London, and now new boss Ange Postecoglou is waiting to find out whether Kane will be part of the bid to return Tottenham to Europe.
Where will Harry Kane play the 2023-24 season?
Tottenham wants Kane to stay but the free-scoring English center forward has not shown signs of willingness to sign a new deal with Spurs.
His contract ends after this season, meaning he can begin negotiating a free transfer to new club in January.
Tottenham risks losing him for nothing if that happened, which would be a shot straight across the club’s bow after it refused Manchester City’s advances two seasons ago.
Several reports say Bayern Munich is in London this week in a bid to convince Daniel Levy to sell Kane to the Bundesliga champions.
Per our partners in the UK at Sky Sports, Bayern officials are ready to offer a ‘club record bid’ for Kane. That would mean a transfer fee of close to $100 million for Kane.
Sky in Germany say that Bayern chief executive Jan-Christian Dreesen and technical director Eric Neppe have flown to London for talks. Per the report, with Sadio Mane set to leave Bayern for Saudi Arabia the German giants now have even more funds to spend on Kane.
Paris Saint-Germain has also been linked with interest in England’s all-time leading scorer, but Bayern may be Spurs’ best chance to capitalize on Kane now that Man United is expected to sign Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta. | https://www.nbcsports.com/soccer/premier-league/news/harry-kane-latest-transfer-rumors-update-tottenham-bayern-munich | 2023-07-31T18:01:16 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/soccer/premier-league/news/harry-kane-latest-transfer-rumors-update-tottenham-bayern-munich |
Churchill Downs to improve track maintenance, veterinary resources for fall meet after horse deaths
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs will implement safety measures for its September meet including new track surface maintenance equipment and additional monitoring and equine care following 12 horse deaths before and after the Kentucky Derby that spurred suspension of its spring meet.
Racing is scheduled to resume Sept. 14 and run through Oct. 1 at the historic track, which paused racing operations on June 7 to conduct an internal safety review following the spate of horse deaths from racing or training injuries. Seven died in the days leading up to the 149th Derby on May 6, including two in races preceding the premier event.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority recommended suspending the remainder of the meet, which moved to Ellis Park in western Kentucky. Training continued at Churchill Downs during the investigation, and a release on Monday stated that while industry experts found no issues with the racing surfaces, the track invested in new maintenance equipment. It will also double the frequency of surface testing among infrastructure upgrades.
Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen said the track’s commitment to safety “remains paramount” in the release and added, “our participants, fans and the public can be assured that we will continue to investigate, evaluate and improve upon every policy and protocol.”
The announcement comes days after Carstanjen said racing would resume this fall with no changes and called the deaths “a series of unfortunate circumstances” in an earnings call with CDI investors.
Churchill Downs veterinarians will receive additional resources for specialized horse care and to assist in pre-race inspections and entry screening, the release added. The track will work with HISA and industry experts to predict at-risk horses through advanced analytic techniques.
A safety management committee including horsemen, track employees and veterinarians will also be created.
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Rays vs. Yankees: Odds, spread, over/under - July 31
When the Tampa Bay Rays (64-44) play the New York Yankees (55-50) at Yankee Stadium on Monday, July 31 at 7:05 PM ET, Wander Franco will be looking for his 30th steal of the season (he currently has 29).
Oddsmakers list the Rays as -145 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Yankees +120 moneyline odds to win. The game's over/under is listed at 8.5 runs.
Rays vs. Yankees Time and TV Channel
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 7:05 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: The Bronx, New York
- Venue: Yankee Stadium
- Probable Pitchers: Tyler Glasnow - TB (4-3, 3.36 ERA) vs Domingo German - NYY (5-7, 4.77 ERA)
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Rays vs. Yankees Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
Take a look at the odds, run line and over/under for this matchup posted at multiple sportsbooks.
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There are many other ways to bet, too. You can wager on player props (will Wander Franco hit a home run?), parlays (combining picks from different games to multiply your potential winnings), and more. For more details on the many different ways you can bet, check out the BetMGM app and website.
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Rays vs. Yankees Betting Trends and Insights
- The Rays have been favorites in 86 games this season and won 56 (65.1%) of those contests.
- When playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -145 or shorter, the Rays have a 43-17 record (winning 71.7% of their games).
- The sportsbooks' moneyline implies a 59.2% chance of a victory for Tampa Bay.
- The Rays were favored on the moneyline in six of their last 10 games, and they went 2-4 in those matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups (all 10 of them had set totals), Tampa Bay and its opponents combined to go over the run total four times.
- The Yankees have come away with 13 wins in the 32 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This season, the Yankees have come away with a win eight times in 14 chances when named as an underdog of at least +120 or longer on the moneyline.
- The Yankees have played as underdogs in three of their past 10 games and won one of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, New York and its opponents have failed to hit the over four times.
Rays vs. Yankees Player Props
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Christian Walker Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:26 AM MST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
Christian Walker -- batting .243 with four doubles, two home runs, four walks and five RBI in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Arizona Diamondbacks versus the San Francisco Giants, with Alex Cobb on the mound, on July 31 at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-3) against the Mariners.
Christian Walker Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +135)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Christian Walker At The Plate
- Walker has 32 doubles, 22 home runs and 43 walks while hitting .263.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB, his batting average ranks 56th, his on-base percentage ranks 55th, and he is ninth in the league in slugging.
- Walker has picked up a hit in 61.8% of his 102 games this year, with multiple hits in 28.4% of them.
- He has hit a long ball in 19.6% of his games in 2023, and 5% of his trips to the plate.
- In 40.2% of his games this year, Walker has notched at least one RBI. In 15 of those games (14.7%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in eight contests.
- In 48 of 102 games this year, he has scored, and six of those games included multiple runs.
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Christian Walker Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in the league with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants have a 3.97 team ERA that ranks 10th among all league pitching staffs.
- The Giants allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (111 total, one per game).
- Cobb makes the start for the Giants, his 20th of the season. He is 6-3 with a 2.97 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 35-year-old's 2.97 ERA ranks sixth, 1.349 WHIP ranks 49th, and 8.5 K/9 ranks 35th.
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Crews battle ‘fire whirls’ in California blaze in Mojave Desert
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Crews battled “fire whirls” in California’s Mojave National Preserve this weekend as a massive wildfire crossed into Nevada amid dangerously high temperatures and raging winds.
The York Fire was mapped at roughly 120 square miles (284 square kilometers) on Monday with no containment. The blaze erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve, crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley.
Wind-driven flames 20 feet (6 meters) high in some spots charred tens of thousands of acres of desert scrub, juniper and Joshua tree woodland, according to an incident update.
A fire whirl — sometimes called a fire tornado — is a “spinning column of fire” that forms when intense heat and turbulent winds combine, according to the National Park Service.
The vortexes — which can be anywhere from a few feet tall to several hundred feet high, with varying rotational speeds — were spotted Sunday on the north end of the York Fire.
“While these can be fascinating to observe they are a very dangerous natural phenomena that can occur during wildfires,” the park service wrote.
The blaze was about 20% contained on Monday. Crews expected to face limited visibility due to the fire’s thick smoke. The cause of the York Fire remains under investigation.
To the southwest, the Bonny Fire burned about 3.6 square miles (9.3 square kilometers) in the rugged hills of Riverside County.
More than 1,300 people were ordered to evacuate their homes Saturday near the community of Aguanga that is home to horse ranches and wineries.
One firefighter was injured in the blaze.
Gusty winds and the chance of thunderstorms into Tuesday will heighten the risk of renewed growth, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in a statement. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/crews-battle-fire-whirls-in-california-blaze-in-mojave-desert/ | 2023-07-31T18:01:22 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/crews-battle-fire-whirls-in-california-blaze-in-mojave-desert/ |
The Baltimore Sun did the city a disservice by publishing a front page article characterizing graffiti as “art” and “beautiful chaos” (”Baltimore resident documents city’s ‘beautiful chaos,’ creating archive of graffiti tags, signs and stickers,” July 24). Those of us who love Baltimore and wish that more people would be attracted to visit and invest in it are dismayed when the vandalism of homes and properties adds to the owner’s costs.
The “Graffiti Alley” mentioned in the article has had tragic consequences to the brave investors endeavoring to revitalize Howard Street, as vandals have spread out to spray paint newly-renovated properties up and down the avenue. Even preserving the Maryland Center for History and Culture from defacement is like a game of Whac-a-Mole.
The selfish “artists” add to the burdens of a city strapped for revenue, as its tax base declines from residential abandonment and assessment declines for vacant office buildings. A period of non-enforcement of laws, caused by inadequate funds to both address violent crime as well as misdemeanors, exacerbated the decay. The brief ego trips of the perpetrators create dystopian streetscapes, like the potentially beautiful Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Jones Falls Valley where a trip to the streetcar museum is like a visit to a war zone.
City homeowners are swimming against the tide, paying more than double the property tax rate of surrounding counties, but their costs to remedy the vandals’ damage adds insult to injury. It’s heartbreaking to read such casually thoughtless aggrandizement of criminal activity.
— Thomas Brandt, Millersville
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Topeka Police attempt to identify those involved in Slumberland vandalism
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Officials in the Capital City need the public’s help to identify those responsible for acts of vandalism at a local furniture store.
The Topeka Police Department says that on Thursday, July 27, officials were called to the Slumberland at 1800 SW Wanamaker Rd. with reports of vandalism.
When officials arrived, they found the suspect vehicle had already fled, however, it was caught on camera, along with the occupants.
Now, TPD said it needs the communities to help identify those in the photos.
If anyone knows who the occupants may be or if anyone has information about the incident, they should report it to TPD at telltpd@topeka.org or the Shawnee Co. Crime Stoppers at 785-234-0007.
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Nathalie Stutzmann become second woman to conduct at Bayreuth, 2 years after gender barrier broken
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Nathalie Stutzmann has become the second woman to lead a Richard Wagner opera at the Bayreuth Festival. The 58-year-old former contralto, fresh off her first season as Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director, drew a luminous performance of “Tannhäuser” at the Festpielhaus on Friday night in a revival of the Tobias Kratzer 2019 production. Launched by Richard Wagner in 1876 and currently run by great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner, the festival used only men as conductors until Oksana Lyniv led a new staging of “Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)” in 2021. The audience gave the production a boisterous 14-minute standing ovation, and Stutzmann has been invited back for the 2024 festival. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/nathalie-stutzmann-become-second-woman-to-conduct-at-bayreuth-2-years-after-gender-barrier-broken/ | 2023-07-31T18:01:28 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/nathalie-stutzmann-become-second-woman-to-conduct-at-bayreuth-2-years-after-gender-barrier-broken/ |
Corbin Carroll Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:26 AM MST|Updated: 34 minutes ago
On Monday, Corbin Carroll (.636 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including three home runs) and the Arizona Diamondbacks play the San Francisco Giants, whose starting pitcher will be Alex Cobb. First pitch is at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-4) against the Mariners.
Corbin Carroll Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +195)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Corbin Carroll At The Plate
- Carroll has 103 hits, which is tops among Arizona hitters this season, while batting .285 with 47 extra-base hits.
- He ranks 17th in batting average, 25th in on base percentage, and eighth in slugging among the qualified hitters in MLB.
- Carroll has reached base via a hit in 67 games this season (of 99 played), and had multiple hits in 28 of those games.
- In 20.2% of his games this year, he has hit a home run, and 5.1% of his trips to the plate.
- In 38.4% of his games this season, Carroll has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 15.2% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored at least once 52 times this year (52.5%), including 20 games with multiple runs (20.2%).
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Corbin Carroll Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants have the 10th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.97).
- The Giants give up the third-fewest home runs in baseball (111 total, one per game).
- Cobb (6-3) takes the mound for the Giants in his 20th start of the season. He has a 2.97 ERA in 106 2/3 innings pitched, with 100 strikeouts.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he went six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- The 35-year-old's 2.97 ERA ranks sixth, 1.349 WHIP ranks 49th, and 8.5 K/9 ranks 35th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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US needs a win or draw to avoid risk of elimination in group play for 1st time in Women’s World Cup
By JENNA FRYER
AP National Writer
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — The United States arrived at the Women’s World Cup as the favorites to win an unprecedented third consecutive title. But after an underwhelming draw against the Netherlands, there’s a real chance the Americans can be eliminated in group play for the first time in tournament history. The U.S. plays Portugal in the third and final match of Group E play, and if Portugal pulls off an upset Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland, the Americans could be in big trouble. The United States needs to either win or draw against Portugal, one of eight teams playing in its first World Cup, to ensure the Americans continue to play in this tournament. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/us-needs-a-win-or-draw-to-avoid-risk-of-elimination-in-group-play-for-1st-time-in-womens-world-cup/ | 2023-07-31T18:01:34 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/31/us-needs-a-win-or-draw-to-avoid-risk-of-elimination-in-group-play-for-1st-time-in-womens-world-cup/ |
Geraldo Perdomo Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:27 AM MST|Updated: 33 minutes ago
Geraldo Perdomo -- hitting .297 with two doubles, two triples, four walks and four RBI in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Arizona Diamondbacks versus the San Francisco Giants, with Alex Cobb on the hill, on July 31 at 9:45 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless showing (0-for-4) against the Mariners.
Geraldo Perdomo Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1300)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +275)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Geraldo Perdomo At The Plate
- Perdomo has 16 doubles, three triples, five home runs and 44 walks while batting .279.
- Perdomo has picked up a hit in 48 of 86 games this year, with multiple hits 24 times.
- In five games this year, he has hit a long ball (5.8%, and 1.5% of his trips to the dish).
- Perdomo has driven home a run in 25 games this season (29.1%), including more than one RBI in 9.3% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on three occasions..
- He has scored in 44.2% of his games this season (38 of 86), with two or more runs seven times (8.1%).
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Geraldo Perdomo Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Giants has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants have a 3.97 team ERA that ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to give up 111 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- Cobb (6-3) gets the starting nod for the Giants in his 20th start of the season. He's put together a 2.97 ERA in 106 2/3 innings pitched, with 100 strikeouts.
- The right-hander last pitched on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he threw six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 35-year-old's 2.97 ERA ranks sixth, 1.349 WHIP ranks 49th, and 8.5 K/9 ranks 35th.
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Adaptive cycling event brings biking to the physically disabled
By Robert Buan
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV) — REHAB Hospital of the Pacific collaborated with physical therapists, veterans groups and other organizations to bring cycling to people with physical disabilities at Kapiolani Regional Park on Sunday afternoon.
Groups involved in hosting the event understand how the importance of events like this for people who might not otherwise get to enjoy the exercise of feel part of that fun.
“So biking may seem simple to you and I because we’re able-bodied, but if you’ve had an accident or a disability and you need a lot of support to try it out,” said Stephanie Nadolny, CEO and President of REHAB Hospital of the Pacific.
“You need someone who knows how to transfer you safely, fit you to a bike, get you moving and hopefully make it successful so that you want to keep doing it and that you feel that experience of ‘Wow… Hey, I can do what my friends and family are doing. So I can be a part of it.’”
With the high levels of interest and involvement – from both participants as well as the partner groups involved – organizers feel confident about having the adaptive cycling events on a monthly basis.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Bethlehem police are asking for the public's help in identifying a theft suspect.
The woman pictured above is suspected in multiple thefts on the west side of the city, the most recent of which happened during the early morning hours of Sunday, police said.
Investigators did not elaborate on the thefts, but the surveillance photos appear to show her on residents' porches.
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- Donald Trump lost an effort to quash a Georgia grand jury report and disqualify the Atlanta district attorney who is considering whether to criminally charge him with interfering in the state's 2020 presidential election.
- The ruling came days after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said she is on track to meet a Sept. 1 deadline to announce charging decisions in the probe.
- Trump said he expects Willis to indict him.
Donald Trump on Monday lost his latest effort to quash a Georgia special grand jury report and disqualify the Atlanta district attorney who is considering whether to criminally charge him with interfering in the state's 2020 election.
The ruling by a Superior Court judge marked the second time this month that Trump has lost an effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified.
Willis said over the weekend that her investigation is proceeding as planned.
"I've made a commitment to the American people but most importantly, the citizens of Fulton County that we were going to be making some big decisions regarding the election investigation, and that I would do that before September the first of 2023 and I'm gonna hold true that commitment," she told an Atlanta CNN affiliate Saturday.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania that same day, Trump said he expected Willis to indict him.
Willis is investigating attempts by Trump and his allies to get Georgia officials to reverse his election loss to President Joe Biden in the state in 2020. Trump, who is white, has repeatedly lashed out at Willis, who is Black, by calling her a "racist."
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Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his ruling Monday that neither Trump nor Cathleen Latham, who was an "alternate" elector for Trump in 2020, had legal standing to challenge the grand jury report and the role of Willis.
McBurney said Trump's alleged "injuries" that he would suffer if his motion was not granted "are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized."
"They are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation," McBurney wrote.
"Trump knew this, and now Latham does too," wrote the judge.
Moreover, the lack of any indictment in the case so far means there is no "genuine controversy" yet "to confer standing" to either Trump or Latham.
That soon could change.
"The work is accomplished. We've been working for two-and-a-half years," Willis said at a charity event. "We're ready to go."
Her spokesman on Monday declined to comment on McBurney's ruling in her favor.
Two weeks ago, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected a similar motion by Trump to quash the report of the special grand jury and bar Willis from handling the case.
Trump appears to have one last chance at quashing the report and blocking Willis, albeit a long shot.
On Friday, a supervising judge in Fulton County Superior Court scheduled a hearing Aug. 10 on Trump's separate motion for the same actions.
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Jake McCarthy Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:27 AM MST|Updated: 34 minutes ago
Jake McCarthy -- hitting .286 with two doubles, two walks and an RBI in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the San Francisco Giants, with Alex Cobb on the mound, on July 31 at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his most recent game (0-for-4) against the Mariners.
Jake McCarthy Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1350)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +150)
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Jake McCarthy At The Plate
- McCarthy has six doubles, five triples, two home runs and 22 walks while hitting .256.
- McCarthy has picked up a hit in 40 of 71 games this season, with multiple hits 16 times.
- In 71 games played this season, he has homered in just two of them.
- In 12 games this year (16.9%), McCarthy has picked up an RBI, including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- He has scored in 39.4% of his games this season, with more than one run scored in 4.2%.
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Jake McCarthy Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants have a 3.97 team ERA that ranks 10th among all league pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to allow 111 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- Cobb (6-3) takes the mound for the Giants in his 20th start of the season. He's put together a 2.97 ERA in 106 2/3 innings pitched, with 100 strikeouts.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he threw six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- This season, the 35-year-old ranks sixth in ERA (2.97), 49th in WHIP (1.349), and 35th in K/9 (8.5) among pitchers who qualify.
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Foreign ticks hitchhiking their way on people into CT
By Rob Polansky
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CONNECTICUT (WFSB) — Exotic tick species are stowing away on humans coming to Connecticut, and local health officials fear they’ll become permanent residents in the state.
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station reported it received several exotic tick species from returning vacationers.
“The number of invasive ticks intercepted Connecticut has increased substantially in recent years, and just within the past few weeks, the CAES tick testing laboratory has received at least four exotic tick species from state residents returning to Connecticut from international destinations, including Europe, Africa, and South and Central America,” said said Dr. Goudarz Molaei, a chief medical entomologist who also directs the CAES Tick and Tick-bone Diseases Surveillance Program. “These new introductions are in addition to several invasive ticks that the CAES has reported in the past few years, some of which have already established populations in the state, including the lone star tick, Gulf Coast tick, and Asian longhorned tick, placing new communities at risk for tick and tick-borne disease exposure.”
The CAES said the invasive ticks are capable of establishing populations and rapid range expansion due to an increasingly hospitable environment and have the potential to introduce new tick-borne pathogens and alter the dynamics of a myriad of existing and emerging tick-borne diseases in the state and throughout the northeast.
Both human travel and the expansion of the legal and illegal plant and animal trades are important contributing factors for the potential importation, establishment, and expansion of exotic ticks and their associated pathogens into new regions, resulting in considerable public and veterinary health concerns.
State scientists said the introduction of exotic tick vectors of bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and filarial parasites into Connecticut has accelerated in recent years due to increased trade, international travel, and the movement of wildlife. Native tick species are also expanding their ranges, which has been linked to environmental changes, a warming climate, and increased human and animal host populations.
To prevent tick bites and reduce the risk of exposure to tick-borne diseases, the CAES recommended that people:
Avoid or limit activity in tick-infested areas including grassy, brushy, or wooded areas. Treat clothing and gear with approved acaricides (e.g., products containing 0.5% permethrin). Use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered repellents containing DEET and other products. Check your clothing for ticks Check your body and shower after outdoor activity Tumble dry clothes in a dryer on high heat for 10 minutes to kill ticks on clothing after outdoor activity.
It said it is also important for travelers and practitioners to develop a heightened awareness of the public health risks associated with the unintended importation of exotic ticks and the potential such parasites have for breaching United States biosecurity defenses.
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TATAMY, Pa. - A Lehigh Valley baker known for crafting artisanal breads such as jalapeno cheddar, parmesan basil and rosemary asiago is bidding farewell to the baking world.
Matthew Robles, owner of Matty’s Marvelous Makery at 13 Bushkill St. in Tatamy, Northampton County, is planning to end business operations later this summer.
Matty’s Marvelous Makery has been supplying foodies with freshly baked breads, scones and cookies for nearly seven years. Made-from-scratch spinach dip and balsamic bruschetta are also popular picks.
“All of you have supported me through good times and bad, and I am so grateful for your help in making my dream a reality,” Robles posted Friday on Matty’s Marvelous Makery’s Facebook page.
“That is why it is so bittersweet (no pun intended) to share this news with you. I have decided it is time to start a new chapter in my life, so I have accepted a job offer outside of the food industry. Because of this, August will be the last month I will be in business.”
Matty’s Marvelous Makery opened in Tatamy in late 2018, and before that, Robles was operating the business out of a shared commercial kitchen on Northampton Street in downtown Easton.
Offerings, including breads such as cherry walnut, sourdough rye and toasted sesame, have grown in popularity, with Robles also distributing them to Easton Public Market’s Highmark Farmstand along with regional cafes, markets and other businesses.
“Thank you again for being the best customers, clients, friends, and family a person could have, and for truly making this a dream come true,” the online post concluded.
As of Monday morning, the Facebook announcement had garnered more than 200 reactions and over 100 comments, primarily from customers extending warm wishes to Robles.
“Congratulations on your new chapter!” one person wrote. “But you and your breads will be missed very much. Unique products, and so delicious!”
“Best of luck on new venture!” another person commented. “The breads and dips will be missed by many. Will need to make a few trips in August that’s for sure!” | https://www.wfmz.com/features/eat-sip-shop/bittersweet-popular-lehigh-valley-baker-hanging-up-apron-after-nearly-7-years/article_9088b1d8-2fb5-11ee-bd8a-9f90430494be.html | 2023-07-31T18:01:46 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/features/eat-sip-shop/bittersweet-popular-lehigh-valley-baker-hanging-up-apron-after-nearly-7-years/article_9088b1d8-2fb5-11ee-bd8a-9f90430494be.html |
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Josh Rojas Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:25 AM MST|Updated: 36 minutes ago
On Monday, Josh Rojas (.200 batting average in his past 10 games, with a double, three walks and four RBI) and the Arizona Diamondbacks face the San Francisco Giants, whose starting pitcher will be Alex Cobb. First pitch is at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his most recent game (0-for-3) against the Mariners.
Josh Rojas Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1300)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +155)
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Josh Rojas At The Plate
- Rojas is batting .228 with 13 doubles and 18 walks.
- Rojas has gotten a hit in 28 of 57 games this season (49.1%), with multiple hits on 11 occasions (19.3%).
- In 57 games played this year, he has not homered.
- Rojas has driven in a run in 18 games this season (31.6%), including six games with more than one RBI (10.5%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 19 of 57 games this year, he has scored, and four of those games included multiple runs.
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Josh Rojas Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Giants has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants' 3.97 team ERA ranks 10th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Giants surrender the third-fewest home runs in baseball (111 total, one per game).
- The Giants will send Cobb (6-3) to the mound for his 20th start of the season. He is 6-3 with a 2.97 ERA and 100 strikeouts through 106 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, the right-hander went six scoreless innings while surrendering three hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 35-year-old ranks sixth in ERA (2.97), 49th in WHIP (1.349), and 35th in K/9 (8.5).
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Grandfather killed in hit-and-run crash in front of family members in Houston, PD says
By Courtney Carpenter
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A grandfather was killed in a hit-and-run crash while crossing an intersection on South Braeswood in southwest Houston with his family, according to police.
Now, investigators are looking for the driver responsible for the deadly crash.
Houston police said the crash happened just after 10 p.m. Sunday in the 8800 block of South Braeswood Boulevard at the intersection with Sapling Way.
Police said a young child, the child’s mother, and the grandfather were all trying to cross the street, walking in the crosswalk, when a white SUV drove through the intersection and hit the grandfather, who was pushing a stroller.
Investigators said the stroller was empty. The young child and the mother were reportedly walking right behind the grandfather.
The man was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.
The driver took off after hitting the man and the stroller.
“The toddler was not struck. The mother and the toddler are not injured. Of course, they did witness the crash, which is unfortunate,” Sgt. D. Rose said. “We don’t have very much information about the white SUV at this time, but we’re going to be canvassing the area and looking for video.”
If you have any information about the crash, you’re urged to contact HPD’s Vehicular Crimes Division at 713-247-4072 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS (8477).
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WILSON, Pa. - A Northampton County gas station employee was knocked unconscious while taking trash out Sunday night, police say.
The 42-year-old man told Wilson police he was throwing out garbage at Ary's Express Mart in the 1500 block of Northampton Street around 9:45 p.m. when three males came up to him, police said.
One of the men hit the employee several times in the face with a handgun until he went unconscious. The employee woke up to find money had been stolen from him, police say.
The employee was taken to the hospital with moderate injuries.
The robbers were described as Black males, all wearing hoodies.
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Sunnyvale Police have released a new video they hope will lead to the arrest of a man who opened fire on a family's vehicle last month, killing a woman, injuring her brother and critically wounding his three young children.
The video released Monday shows a black sedan pulling into the Riverstone Trail Townhomes on 201 Planters Road. The vehicle stops behind a parked pickup truck and a man hops out of the passenger side and runs toward the truck.
There is no audio in the video, but police said the man then fired several shots at the family before running back to the car and speeding away. As the gunman drove away, a man injured in the shooting can be seen running through the parking lot.
Tyesha Merritt, 27, of Mesquite, was killed in the shooting. Her brother and his three children were critically injured but police said they've all since recovered. Merritt's brother, police said, is the one seen running away from the pickup truck.
Police have described the gunman's vehicle as a late model black Toyota Camry with custom wheels. A second video clip showed the vehicle before the shooting near the intersection of U.S. Highway 80 and Belt Line Road in Mesquite.
Witnesses described the shooter as a Black man, more than six feet tall and weighing about 230 pounds. He was wearing a mask. No description of the driver was available.
Officials have not released a motive for the attack.
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Ketel Marte Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:25 AM MST|Updated: 34 minutes ago
Ketel Marte and his .511 on-base percentage over his past 10 games (136 points higher than his season-long percentage), will be in action for the Arizona Diamondbacks versus the San Francisco Giants and Alex Cobb on July 31 at 9:45 PM ET.
In his previous appearance, he went 1-for-4 against the Mariners.
Ketel Marte Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +165)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Ketel Marte At The Plate
- Marte leads Arizona in OBP (.375), slugging percentage (.513) and OPS (.888) this season.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB play, he ranks 12th in batting average, 15th in on-base percentage, and 11th in slugging.
- Marte has gotten at least one hit in 76.5% of his games this season (75 of 98), with multiple hits 29 times (29.6%).
- He has homered in 16.3% of his games in 2023 (16 of 98), and 3.9% of his trips to the plate.
- In 33.7% of his games this year, Marte has tallied at least one RBI. In 15 of those games (15.3%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in six contests.
- In 53.1% of his games this year (52 of 98), he has scored, and in 16 of those games (16.3%) he has scored more than once.
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Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants have a 3.97 team ERA that ranks 10th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to surrender 111 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- The Giants are sending Cobb (6-3) out for his 20th start of the season. He is 6-3 with a 2.97 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- The 35-year-old ranks sixth in ERA (2.97), 49th in WHIP (1.349), and 35th in K/9 (8.5) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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Heights Preschool will have Houston’s first ‘alcohol-free zone’ around property
By Jeff Ehling
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HOUSTON (KTRK) — A first-of-its-kind alcohol-free zone will be established around a Heights-area day care after Houston City Council voted on Wednesday to pass it.
Houston City Council voted on the proposal, which would set up a 300-foot zone around Heights Preschool where alcohol cannot be sold. The city has similar zones set up around public schools, churches, and hospitals, but this will be the first around a day care.
A decade ago, the city passed an ordinance allowing day cares to seek alcohol-free zones, but until now, no one had applied for one.
The owners of Heights Preschool, located on Oxford near 20th Street, say more than 100 kids are enrolled in the school, and parents say the ban on booze sales will help keep their kids safe.
“Houston has bars on nearly every other corner, but few safe places for children,” Chad Mason addressed council members on Tuesday prior to the vote. “I am asking you to vote for children’s safety and vote for allowing the 300-foot alcohol free zone. All schools currently have this simple ordinance. Why shouldn’t 100 vulnerable children of Heights Preschool have the same?”
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Man searches for beloved lost dog after fire erupts in Philadelphia rowhome
By Briana Smith
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Residents are reeling after a massive fire broke out at a rowhome in South Philadelphia on Saturday morning.
The first and second floors of the home on West Porter Street were burned to a crisp, and everything inside was destroyed by the flames.
Firefighters say everyone was able to get out, but they are still searching for one tenant’s beloved dog Mordecai.
While crews investigate what started the fire, tenant Edward Nicodemus and his roommate are searching for a new place to live.
Nicodemus says he struggled with homelessness before and doesn’t want to go through it again.
But equally important, Nicodemus is searching for his pet, who he calls Morty.
Morty saved Nicodemus’ life Saturday by waking him up when the fire began but then ran away.
The dog is a 12-year-old Akita German Shepard and weighs about 80 pounds.
Nicodemus is asking the community to be on the lookout for him.
“Somebody told me that they saw him at Muffling Square Park where I bring him every day. I walk him around without a leash because he was my service dog for many years. He was too old for that anymore. He’s really friendly,” he said.
Everyone who knows Morty says he’s an incredible companion.
“He’s just a really good dog. When he sits down, he crosses his paws and he’s just so loving and kind, and he’s been my dog’s best friend and adventure buddy for years. I know how much he means to Ed,” said Erin Cookman from South Philadelphia.
Nicodemus says that despite Morty running away and being unable to return home, the community is giving him hope.
People are collecting donations for Nicodemus and his roommate as well as searching for Morty.
There is also a cash reward for finding the beloved dog.
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TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who is currently serving as acting governor while Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is out of the state, has been taken to a hospital for an undisclosed medical issue.
Oliver, 71, was taken to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and is unable to carry out the duties of acting governor, Murphy’s spokesperson Mahen Gunaratna said in a statement Monday.
Under the state constitution, Democratic Senate President Nicholas Scutari will serve as acting governor.
Gunaratna said Oliver was receiving “medical care” but declined to elaborate.
Murphy’s office has said he’s out of the country on a family vacation in Italy, where he owns a home.
Oliver, a Democrat, has served as the state’s second lieutenant governor since 2018. She concurrently serves as the head of the Department of Community Affairs, which coordinates state aid to towns and cities and oversees code enforcement.
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As North Texas continues to endure unrelenting heat, a Dallas-based organization is stepping up to provide relief for workers required to work outdoors.
A ‘hydration station’ has opened at the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center in Dallas for essential workers. The center is located at 1800 Bonnie View Road.
The initiative through The Mark Cuban Foundation, The Dirk Nowitzki Foundation, and The Heroes Foundation includes free hydration kits complete with water, ice, towels, handheld fans, sweatbands, and more for USPS carriers, delivery drivers, lawn care service providers, construction workers, first responders, along with city, county, and state employees working outside daily.
They can be picked up between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Employees will be asked to present a work ID badge. Staff and volunteers with the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center are also delivering hydration kits to workers who are unable to make it to the center.
Trina Terrell-Andrews, CEO of the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center, said the initial plan was to offer the kits until Aug. 1, but there has been a large demand. Terrell-Andrews said they are prepared to make several kits and will extend the initiative for the time being.
“A lot of the folks that we work with that are our vendors, they’re out in these extreme conditions. That’s the first reason. They’re family, our neighbors, a lot of parents, a lot of guardians of these children work in these extreme conditions,” she said.
The public is invited to drop off bottled water and other hydration items at the center through Aug. 1 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Giants - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 10:26 AM MST|Updated: 35 minutes ago
On Monday, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (.111 slugging percentage in past 10 games, with no home runs) and the Arizona Diamondbacks face the San Francisco Giants, whose starting pitcher will be Alex Cobb. First pitch is at 9:45 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his last game (1-for-3) against the Mariners.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Alex Cobb
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +190)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +850)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +155)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Lourdes Gurriel Jr. At The Plate
- Gurriel is batting .246 with 22 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs and 21 walks.
- Gurriel has picked up a hit in 63.4% of his 93 games this year, with at least two hits in 22.6% of them.
- In 15.1% of his games this year, he has hit a home run, and 3.9% of his trips to the dish.
- Gurriel has driven in a run in 33 games this season (35.5%), including 14 games with more than one RBI (15.1%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in six contests.
- He has scored in 31 games this year (33.3%), including multiple runs in seven games.
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Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants have the 10th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.97).
- Giants pitchers combine to allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (111 total, one per game).
- Cobb (6-3 with a 2.97 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Giants, his 20th of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, when he threw six scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 35-year-old's 2.97 ERA ranks sixth, 1.349 WHIP ranks 49th, and 8.5 K/9 ranks 35th.
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North Louisiana motorcycle and social clubs put on their fifth annual school supply giveaway
By Madison Beam
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SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — With the new school year quickly approaching the stress of buying new uniforms, supplies and learning new bus schedules can be a big load.
North Louisiana motorcycle and social clubs handed out free school supplies Sunday at the Friendship House on 2320 Legardy Street.
This giveaway is helping many lighten their load for back-to-school preparations.
Each student received a bag of supplies fit for their grade level.
The clubs had a goal of handing out a thousand bags.
The organizations hope that this gives some families relief.
“We want to take a little relief off the parents. This is just one last thing that parents have to worry about. They don’t have to worry about going about school supplies this year. We’re going to help them out with that and that’s something they can focus on, spending money somewhere else to help their child out,” said Outcast Motorcycle Club member known by his biker name, Biznezz.
This is the Murray family’s first year attending and they are feeling grateful.
“I just want to thank all the young ladies and gentlemen over there for doing this. It really helps,” said Isaiah Murray, a student who attended the giveaway.
The giveaway is providing support during a busy time.
“It is a crazy time, but it’s helping me because at this point right now, we [are] homeless. So, I’m getting school supplies for my kids and I don’t have to buy them… I love the fact that it helps them because it helps them to go to school so they can be successful. That’s the main thing that we’re focusing on today,” said Ashley Murray, mother of Isaiah Murray.
A bonus to the giveaway, a free meal of hamburgers and hotdogs for everyone who came.
This is the North Louisiana motorcycle clubs and social club’s fifth year doing this giveaway and they see no sign of this stopping in the future.
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WEST MAHANOY TWP., Pa. - An 18-year-old was killed and three other teens were seriously injured in a rollover crash along Route 924 in West Mahanoy Township early Monday morning.
Pennsylvania State Police say the crash occurred just before 4:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes near the entrance to the North Schuylkill Transfer Center.
Authorities say the driver hit an embankment and the car rolled over several times, ejecting all four occupants before coming to a rest on the median.
Trooper David Beohm with PA State Police confirmed that 18-year-old Jenna Sallade of Mahanoy City was pronounced dead at the scene by the Schuylkill County Coroner's Office.
Police say two occupants were flown to Geisinger Medical Center, while the third teen was flown to LVHN Cedar Crest.
Trooper Beohm said that none of the car's occupants were wearing seatbelts.
State Police accident reconstruction teams from the Frackville Barracks are working to determine what caused the crash.
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Monday, July 31
Monday's MLB schedule features a slew of intriguing pitching matchups, and we've got all of the probable pitchers listed below. Top billing goes to the bout between the Orioles and the Blue Jays, who will be sending Kyle Gibson and Chris Bassitt to the mound, respectively.
Read on to find the probable pitcher matchups for every game on the schedule for July 31.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Phillies at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Taijuan Walker (11-4) to the bump as they face the Marlins, who will look to Edward Cabrera (5-6) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -110
- PHI Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Brewers at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Milwaukee Brewers will send Corbin Burnes (9-6) to the mound as they face the Nationals, who will counter with Jake Irvin (3-5) for the matchup between the clubs Monday.
Vegas Odds for Brewers at Nationals
- MIL Odds to Win: -210
- WSH Odds to Win: +170
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Rays at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Tyler Glasnow (4-3) to the hill as they face the Yankees, who will give the start to Domingo German (5-7) when the clubs face off Monday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Yankees
- TB Odds to Win: -145
- NYY Odds to Win: +120
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Orioles at Blue Jays Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Gibson (9-6) to the mound as they play the Blue Jays, who will counter with Bassitt (10-5) when the teams play Monday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Blue Jays
- TOR Odds to Win: -130
- BAL Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 9 runs
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Angels at Braves Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Griffin Canning (6-4) to the bump as they face the Braves, who will look to Charlie Morton (10-8) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Braves
- ATL Odds to Win: -225
- LAA Odds to Win: +180
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Reds at Cubs Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Andrew Abbott (6-2) to the mound as they face the Cubs, who will counter with Marcus Stroman (10-7) when the clubs play Monday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Cubs
- CHC Odds to Win: -120
- CIN Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 8 runs
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Guardians at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Cleveland Guardians will send Noah Syndergaard (1-4) to the bump as they play the Astros, who will look to J.P. France (6-3) when the clubs face off Monday.
Vegas Odds for Guardians at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -175
- CLE Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 9 runs
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Padres at Rockies Probable Pitchers
The San Diego Padres will send Seth Lugo (4-5) to the mound as they play the Rockies, who will hand the ball to Austin Gomber (8-8) for the matchup between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Padres at Rockies
- SD Odds to Win: -200
- COL Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 11.5 runs
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Red Sox at Mariners Probable Pitchers
The Boston Red Sox will send Nick Pivetta (7-5) to the mound as they play the Mariners, who will give the start to George Kirby (9-8) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Red Sox at Mariners
- SEA Odds to Win: -135
- BOS Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Diamondbacks at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Arizona Diamondbacks will send Ryne Nelson (6-5) to the mound as they take on the Giants, who will look to Alex Cobb (6-3) when the clubs meet Monday.
Vegas Odds for Diamondbacks at Giants
- SF Odds to Win: -150
- ARI Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8 runs
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Students get free school supplies, haircuts across the metro
By Asia Wilson
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ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — School is starting back for many districts across Metro Atlanta, and this weekend has been packed with several back-to-school events to help students get prepared.
Atlanta News First went on a back-to-school tour, with pit stops at many other places across the area.
There were a lot of clippers hard at work on Sunday.
Barclay Rucker styled roughly 40 heads of hair at Hibbett Sports in Lawrenceville, for the company’s Clips and Kicks, and Cuts 4 Kids Back to School Event.
“It feels good to be able to give back to the children because when you look good, you feel good and I want everybody to feel good as they go back to school,” Rucker said. “Everything that I do for my celebrity clients. I’m going do for the children today, and if you’re good to be able to give back to the children, you know, cool. When you look good, you feel good. And I want everybody to feel good as they go back to school,” he said.
Brittany Randell is a mom of four. She didn’t have to spend a dime on her sons’ hair.
“I usually spend about $150, and I only have three boys,” she said.
Randell said she also got to stock up on free school supplies for her kids and won a $50 dollar gift card. She said with inflation, every bit helps.
“It really does because like I said I have four kids and buying stuff for them is not easy,” Randell said.
“I like to keep the extra backpacks they go through backpacks. They go through like three in one year. You never have too many school supplies,” Randell said.
There was a similar setup on the city’s South End. Amerigroup Georgia teamed up with Radio One Atlanta, Level Up Barbershop, and ZAS Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. for a 2nd Annual Style Tour. They gave 100 girls and boys free hairstyles and free uniforms shirts, socks, face painting and more.
In Atlanta’s Westside, William Platt’s B.A.N.K Foundations hosted a huge Back-to-School Drive with NFL Star Julio Jones. The Back-to-School Bash included a giveaway with uniforms, backpacks, supplies, and haircuts.
“The acronym for B.A.N.K is blessing our neighborhood kids and I was once upon a time a neighborhood kid,” Platt said. “Like I always say God sent me through my grandma’s prayers,” Platt said. “This is how we got here. So, our goal at the bank, we want to make an impact on some kids that’s coming behind us,” he said.
Speaking of kids, 12-year-old Caden Harris hosted a school supply giveaway with Legacy Wealth EDU Corporation in Southwest Atlanta.
“It should be very common for people to do this. to be able to spread the message…help out in the community and I decided to have this back-to-school bash so that people can have less of a burden,” Harris said.
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Suspect arrested in murder of wife, sheriff says
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GEORGE COUNTY, Mississippi (WLOX) — A Lucedale man wanted for the murder of his wife has been arrested, Sheriff Keith Havard confirms.
Sheriff Havard says 32-year-old Jacob Kyle McIntosh was arrested in Mobile County, Alabama Monday morning.
Friday, law enforcement announced a warrant for McIntosh’s arrest after human remains, thought to belong to his wife, were found a week prior on July 21.
His wife, 31-year-old Kayla Brooke Crawford, had been missing since March.
Officials believe the remains found near the Movella community are Crawford’s, but they are waiting on official DNA confirmation.
Details are limited at this time, but Sheriff Havard says other information should be released soon.
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Summer of extreme heat rages on with more record-breaking temperatures possible
By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist
(CNN) — Record-long extreme heat streaks are finally coming to an end, but despite the signs of relief, the dangerous heat isn’t going away completely. The relentless heat dome driving the deadly heat wave will meander across the southern tier of the US this week, bringing more record-breaking temperatures.
The numbers so far this summer have been jaw-dropping: In El Paso, Texas, the high temperature topped 100 degrees for a record-breaking 44 straight days; in Miami, the heat index stayed above 100 degrees for 46 consecutive days; and in Phoenix, temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees for 31 consecutive days.
All of those streaks will have ended by Monday if Phoenix hits its closer-to-average forecast high of 108 degrees.
It’s been so hot for so long the average temperature for Phoenix for the month of July set a record at 103 degrees, shattering the previous one by 4 degrees. It goes to show this heat has been exceptional even for one of the nation’s hottest cities.
“It’s been a year of abnormalities and streaks, so it’s just a testament to just how strange this year has been,” said Ryan Worley, meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Phoenix.
Why temperatures have been so hot
Phoenix has yet to join other parts of the state with measurable monsoon rain, something that the city is desperately counting on to cool temperatures down. If Phoenix receives rainfall Monday, it would be the third latest monsoon rainfall on record.
The city will get a slight “break” from the heat Monday and Tuesday as the threat of monsoon rains rolls through, but highs will be back up above 110 degrees by midweek, possibly making it to 116 degrees by the weekend.
Meanwhile, with little rain for relief, more than 40 million people across the Deep South and Southern Plains are still under heat alerts. More than 140 potential high temperature records could fall again this week, as the oppressive heat shows no signs of backing down across the country’s midsection.
It is especially true in Dallas. The city could experience its hottest days of the year this week, with highs potentially topping 110 degrees on Tuesday.
High temperatures will stay in the triple digits all the way through the weekend, at times running as much as 10 degrees above normal.
Little Rock, Arkansas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Houston will feel as hot as 110 degrees or higher Monday and much of the week, with no relief in sight. Unfortunately, there is no real chance of cooler temperatures for some of the hottest locations for the foreseeable future, as this dome of high pressure responsible for the extreme heat won’t budge.
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MrBeast’s Kris Tyson says she’s ‘so much happier’ after six months of hormone replacement therapy
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
(CNN) — Kris Tyson, a co-host of the massively popular MrBeast YouTube channel, is beaming in a new selfie taken after six months of hormone replacement therapy.
Tyson came out as transgender earlier this month after sharing parts of her journey with hormone replacement therapy, or HRT. The treatment is prescribed to both trans and cisgender people, including menopausal women, who may undergo the therapy to reduce their symptoms.
“The physical changes aren’t the only things that have made me feel so much happier,” Tyson wrote in an Instagram caption, while sharing photos of her transformation. “The ability to get out of bed, ready to start the day, the desire to live my life to fullest again, and just being able to look in the mirror and see the woman I’ve always known was inside me finally starting to make her way in the world. Every day living your life your own way is the best day every day.”
In a July interview with Smosh’s Anthony Padilla, Tyson said that the treatment saved her life.
“I’ve really never felt connected to my body until I started taking HRT,” she told Padilla, adding that she’d been “fully confident” in her transition for over a year.
Tyson has appeared in MrBeast videos for over a decade, beginning when she was a teenager and befriended Jimmy Donaldson (the titular MrBeast, who has amassed 172 million subscribers on YouTube). Tyson assisted Donaldson with massive pranks and action-packed set pieces, but she said that her online fame held her back from coming out.
“It was really just the societal pressure (that kept her from coming out sooner),” she told Padilla. “‘You’re Chris from MrBeast; you’re the guy who starts the fires.’ I never really felt like ‘the guy.’”
Tyson said her friends were immediately supportive once she came out to them, and Donaldson has previously defended Tyson from transphobic comments online.
“Chris (sic) isn’t my ‘nightmare,’” Donaldson tweeted in April. “(Tyson is) my f**ken friend and things are fine. All this transphobia is starting to piss me off.”
Though Tyson has received support from her MrBeast compatriots, she and other online personalities like trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney have also been subjected to anti-trans comments. After Mulvaney shared a personalized can of Bud Light sent to her by Anheuser-Busch, notable conservatives, including Kid Rock, vowed to stop buying Bud Light and repeatedly misgendered Mulvaney. Tyson has reposted several tweets in support of Mulvaney.
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Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman star, dead at 70
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
(CNN) — Paul Reubens, who found fame as the quirky man-child character Pee-wee Herman, has died, his publicist announced in a statement.
He was 70.
“Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the importance of kindness,” a post on his verified social media reads. “Paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a treasured friend and man of remarkable character and generosity of spirit.”
Reubens left a statement with his team to share with the public after his death.
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” Reubens wrote. “I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
Born in Peekskill, New York, Reubens grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and developed an affinity for comedy early on in his life that he attributed in part to Sarasota being the winter home of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Circus.
In sixth grade, while attending Southside Elementary, Reubens stepped onto a stage for the first time as Nick Burns in “A Thousand Clown”s at The Players Theatre. While at Brookside Junior High, he appeared at The Players in “The Riot Act”, “Camelot” and “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.”
He led his high school drama club and appeared in starring roles in productions of “The Comedy of Errors,” “My Fair Lady” and “Guys and Dolls.” He was also voted “Most Talented” during his senior year.
After high school graduation, Reubens enrolled in Boston University’s theatre department before moving to Los Angeles to attend the acting program at California Institute of the Arts, the new school founded by Walt Disney.
It was after college that Reubens created the iconic character Pee-wee Herman while a member of the famed Los Angeles improv group, The Groundlings.
“The Pee-wee Herman Show” premiered at The Groundlings Theatre in 1981 before moving to The Roxy on Sunset Strip, where it ran for an unprecedented five months.
The HBO broadcast of the show introduced the Pee-wee Herman character to a national audience.
The character was later brought to the big screen in the 1985 comedy, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” which Reubens co-wrote.
Reubens went on to create, co-write and co-direct the series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” on CBS, where the series earned 22 Emmy Awards during its run from 1986 to 1991. Reubens was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards during his career, winning twice.
In 2010, he produced, co-wrote and starred in an updated revival of “The Pee-wee Herman Show” in Los Angeles. The production later traveled to Broadway, opening to rave reviews at The Stephen Sondheim Theater.
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America’s oldest craft brewer has shut down after 127 years. Here’s how it could be saved
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business
New York (CNN) — Anchor Brewing, which has been America’s oldest craft brewer with 127 years in business, closed its taprooms for good on Sunday. But there’s a chance the brand could live on.
Loyal fans seeking one last pint formed a line outside the San Francisco-based brewery on Sunday that stretched several city blocks, to the point that Anchor had to turn people away, according to CNN affiliate KPIX-TV. One fan told the station that “it’s a shame that something like this is going away,” expressing hopes that Anchor could be saved during the liquidation process that begins in August.
There’s hope that could happen: Roughly two dozen different investors as well as a group of Anchor’s employees have “expressed interest in buying all or parts of Anchor Brewing,” company spokesman Sam Singer told CNN.
A few weeks ago, Anchor’s parent company Sapporo USA shocked the industry and fans with the news that it was closing the brewery because of a “combination of challenging economic factors and declining sales since 2016.” The brewery’s assets, including its taprooms and recipes, are being turned over to liquidators this week for a possible auction.
Singer added that the company “remains hopeful that an investor/investor group will keep the company going for future generations. Anchor is deeply grateful to its employees and its fans for their outpouring of support and love during this difficult time.”
The brewery employee group, represented by Warehouse Union Local 6 ILWU, wants to buy Anchor and run it as a worker co-op. “We are not asking for a handout or charity,” the employees said in a letter to Sapporo that was obtained by CNN. “All we want is a fair shot at being able to continue to do our jobs, make the beer we love, and keep this historic institution open. We do not want the brewery and brand we love to be sold off before we even had a chance.”
An online petition the union started claims that Sapporo wasn’t giving them the “financial information that had been provided to other prospective buyers,” adding that they’ve hired two law firms to help them craft a bid to purchase Anchor.
However, Anchor said that it’s “being fair and equal in its treatment of all parties” that are interested in purchasing the brand, adding that all can join the bidding once it begins the liquidation process.
“Anchor remains hopeful that of the many bidders who have expressed interest in buying all or some of Anchor’s assets that one of them will keep the company going for future generations,” Singer said.
Anchor’s away
“This was an extremely difficult decision that Anchor reached only after many months of careful evaluation,” Singer said earlier this month after Sapporo’s announcement. He added that the “impacts of the pandemic, inflation, especially in San Francisco, and a highly competitive market left the company with no option but to make this sad decision to cease operations.”
Employees have alleged that Sapporo, which bought Anchor in 2017, mismanaged the brand and that the Japanese company lacked an understanding of craft beer in the United States. Some also blamed a 2021 revamp of Anchor’s packaging for pivoting too far away from the brand’s classic look.
In June Anchor cut national distribution, limiting its sales to just California, and announced it was ending production of its fan-favorite Christmas Ale after nearly 50 years.
Anchor got its start in 1896 in San Francisco, becoming the nation’s first-ever craft brewery. Fritz Maytag, a descendent of the founders of the Maytag Corporation, bought Anchor in 1965 when it was on the verge of bankruptcy and helped usher in the craft beer industry in the United States. Its most notable brew was Steam Beer, a pale ale.
Under Sapporo’s ownership, production of Anchor’s beer declined every year except in 2021, according to the Brewers Association. Brewbound, a beer industry website, previously reported that Sapporo’s recent purchase of craft brewer Stone Brewing sparked concerns among Anchor’s employees of how their brewery fit into plans.
Craft brewers, in particular, have been struggling for a variety of reasons including changing consumer habits, rising costs and lingering supply-chain challenges.
The state of craft breweries hasn’t improved this year. NIQ data given to Craft Business Daily showed the category’s sales are down nearly 4% year to date and volume is down more than 7%, showing that “craft has had a tough start to 2023,” the publication said.
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‘Barbenheimer’ box office success has reawakened America’s moviegoing muscle
By Eva Rothenberg, CNN
(CNN) — It’s a tale of two movies and a box office triumph: “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” maintained incredible momentum into their second weekends.
“Barbie” wore several hats this weekend, with domestic “Barbie” impressing with $93 million in gross revenue and international “Barbie” bringing in around $122 million, making it the No. 1 release worldwide.
It is the largest domestic second weekend performance ever for Warner Bros., which produced the movie. (CNN and Warner Bros. are both owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.)
“Oppenheimer” also had a blowout weekend, with a domestic total of $46 million, according to estimates from media analytics company Comscore, bringing its worldwide total to almost half a billion dollars. Universal, which distributed the movie, estimated Oppenheimer will be Nolan’s biggest non-superhero film of all-time in 40 regions, and his biggest film ever in 28.
Crucially, these numbers reflect that not only is there high energy and excitement for movies, but an appetite for the movie theater experience.
“Barbenheimer was never going to happen on your TV, it’s just not,” said Michael O’Leary, president and CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners in the United States. “You have to go into the theater to experience it.”
Repeat viewings are also fueling box office earnings. Midwest-based chain B&B Theaters estimated that across its 55 theaters, more than 2,100 people saw “Barbie” both opening weekend and this weekend, and almost 500 returned to see “Oppenheimer.”
“Hollywood” is often considered interchangeable with “the movie industry,” and O’Leary notes that there has always been a strong movie theater culture in the United States.
After the pandemic ravaged theaters and public screenings, people are now looking forward to “sitting in a theater with world-class projection and sound systems, having an immersive experience alongside other people,” he said.
“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” will trigger more and more people going to the movies by reminding them “the best of what the theatrical experience can be. It’s a reawakening,” he added.
O’Leary expects the movies to perform well for weeks to come, noting there’s been a rise over the past several years in very strong holdover weekends. That could be partly due to energetic word-of-mouth stoked by social media.
“At their core, consumers want to go see a compelling story, they want to be entertained,” he said. “If stories resonate with people… they tell other people.”
The overwhelming appreciation for these creative projects means that the ongoing Writers Guild of America and actors union SAG-AFTRA strikes could be a dark cloud over the these financial successes, according to some analysts.
“There’s pressure to resolve (these labor disputes) because the possibility of revenue is built on the foundation of having movies and actors to promote them,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. “For now we have high-profile films, but that pool will be drying out.”
The production limbo caused by a lack of negotiations on the part of studios are leading to a ripple effect where the release dates for those projects will also be postponed. According to Boxoffice Pro chief analyst Shawn Robbins, this means that in the second half of 2023 and throughout 2024, theater chains will need “to keep a weather eye on the horizon for problems beyond their control.”
“While it’s important to celebrate the good times right now and realize they can be a barometer for the future, it’s just as important to recognize the fight for equality by so many who play a part in creating the content we see on our screens, large and small,” he added.
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World Cup helped Qatar Airways score a $1.2 billion profit
By Eva Rothenberg, CNN
(CNN) — International airlines have reported significant profits this year, boosted by strong demand for leisure travel – and events, such as the World Cup, which gave Qatar Airways an enormous lift.
On Thursday, International Airlines Group, which includes Aer Lingus and British Airways, announced a record profit of about $1.4 billion for the first half of the year. IAG’s CEO Luis Gallego said in a statement that the group is setting its sights on returning to pre-pandemic capacity by the end of the year.
“Customer demand remains strong across the Group, particularly for leisure travel, with around 80% of passenger revenue for the third quarter already booked. And our airlines have put in place plans to support operations during the busy summer period,” he added.
Meanwhile, AirFrance-KLM Group reported revenue of over $8 billion for the second quarter, up almost a billion dollars from last year “in spite of the inflationary context.”
“I am very glad to see that the situation at airports is much better, including at KLM’s hub at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport,” CEO Benjamin Smith said in a statement. “This season notably serves as a test run for 2024, when France will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, of which Air France is an official partner.”
If Qatar Airways’ recent performance is any indication, the 2024 Games will benefit AirFrance-KLM.
Qatar Airways reported a $1.2 billion profit for the past fiscal year, ascribing its strong performance to December’s FIFA World Cup.
Ahead of the controversial competition, questions also swirled around whether the tiny country with a population of just three million had the infrastructure to host an international tournament. But after winning its bid, Qatar invested some $220 billion into developing new transit systems and housing developments to accommodate an international audience. The venture was a success, with first-round tournament ticket sales surpassing 3 million, according to FIFA.
In its report, Qatar Airways said that, throughout the 2022 World Cup, the company operated around 140,000 flights to bring more than 1.4 million people to Qatar.
“Profitability has been driven by a 100% increase in passenger revenues in the last year,” the Group’s chief executive Akbar Al Baker said in a statement. “We maintained our position as the airline of choice for millions of passengers worldwide and our team carried 31.7 million passengers, which is an increase of 71 percent over last year.”
But some travel industry leaders say this staggering growth may not last. Earlier this week Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, warned that steep inflation and climbing interest rates could put a damper on air travel this fall and winter.
Even as Ryanair reported a profit of $735 million for the second quarter, CEO Michael O’Leary said in a video posted on the company’s website that the company is “concerned about the impact of these macroeconomic trends.”
He added that the airline might need to reduce ticket prices to meet its ambitious passenger growth targets. But major airlines don’t seem to have a problem filling seats at the moment, with IAG reporting about 84% of its available seats were filled and AirFrance-KLM reporting 87%.
– CNN’s Mostafa Salem and Pierre Meilhan contributed to this report.
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Churchill Downs to improve track maintenance, veterinary resources for fall meet after horse deaths
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs will implement safety measures for its September meet including new track surface maintenance equipment and additional monitoring and equine care following 12 horse deaths before and after the Kentucky Derby that spurred suspension of its spring meet.
Racing is scheduled to resume Sept. 14 and run through Oct. 1 at the historic track, which paused racing operations on June 7 to conduct an internal safety review following the spate of horse deaths from racing or training injuries. Seven died in the days leading up to the 149th Derby on May 6, including two in races preceding the premier event.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority recommended suspending the remainder of the meet, which moved to Ellis Park in western Kentucky. Training continued at Churchill Downs during the investigation, and a release on Monday stated that while industry experts found no issues with the racing surfaces, the track invested in new maintenance equipment. It will also double the frequency of surface testing among infrastructure upgrades.
Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen said the track’s commitment to safety “remains paramount” in the release and added, “our participants, fans and the public can be assured that we will continue to investigate, evaluate and improve upon every policy and protocol.”
The announcement comes days after Carstanjen said racing would resume this fall with no changes and called the deaths “a series of unfortunate circumstances” in an earnings call with CDI investors.
Churchill Downs veterinarians will receive additional resources for specialized horse care and to assist in pre-race inspections and entry screening, the release added. The track will work with HISA and industry experts to predict at-risk horses through advanced analytic techniques.
A safety management committee including horsemen, track employees and veterinarians will also be created.
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Juul seeks authorization on a new vape it says can verify a user’s age. Here’s how it works
By Nadia Bidarian, CNN
(CNN) — E-cigarette company Juul Labs is seeking US authorization to sell a “next-generation” vape with age verification capabilities in the United States.
To verify a user’s age, the proposed vape pairs with a phone app, requiring a customer to either upload their government ID and a real-time selfie or input personal information and allow a third-party database to verify their identity, according to a Juul spokesperson.
A unique Pod ID chip within the Juul device can also detect counterfeit cartridges made by other companies, many of which have flooded the market with illegal fruity flavors that appeal to minors.
The mission of the new platform is twofold, according to the company: Encourage adult smokers to switch from combustible cigarettes to e-cigarettes while restricting underage access.
The legal age to purchase e-cigarettes in the United States is 21.
“We look forward to engaging with FDA throughout the review process while we pursue this important harm-reduction opportunity,” Juul’s Chief Regulatory Officer Joe Murillo said in a company news release.
If authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration, Juul Labs hasn’t yet decided on the name to market their new product in the US. In the UK and Canada, where it’s already for sale, it’s called the JUUL2.
A problematic past
Advertising itself as an alternative nicotine product, Juul publicly advises that adults vape only as a replacement for combustible cigarettes.
But Juul has a troubled history in US markets.
“They were the spark that ignited the flame,” said Robin Koval, CEO of the nonprofit Truth Initiative, organizers of the nation’s largest campaign for youth to quit vaping. “This is not a company known to tell the truth.”
Juul Labs has settled more than 5,000 cases brought by approximately 10,000 plaintiffs since its vaping devices initially skyrocketed in popularity in 2016, with some alleging the company deceived or failed to warn consumers about the risks of its products. The e-cigarette maker also agreed to pay $462 million to six US states and Washington, DC, in April after a lawsuit accused Juul Labs of directly promoting its products to high school students. In total, Juul Labs has agreed to pay more than $1 billion in its various legal settlements.
Juul dominated over 70% of the US e-cigarette market at its peak in late 2018. In the same year, 27% of high school students and 7.2% of middle school students said they used tobacco for one or more days in the month, according to the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey.
Juul is now a less favored brand among youth. When asked what e-cigarette brands they used in the past 30 days, youth e-cigarette users in the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey answered Puff Bar most frequently (29.7%), followed by Vuse (23.6%) and then Juul (22%), with the first two being disposable vaping products.
In 2019, Juul suspended all flavors other than tobacco and menthol and suspended broadcast, digital and print publication marketing.
Even with limited flavors, the FDA banned Juul products in the US last year after reviewing Juul’s applications seeking marketing authorization for their devices. The FDA determined that the applications lacked “sufficient evidence” within the toxicological profile of the vaporizers to prove that marketing the products would be in the interest of public health.
The FDA has placed the ban on hold while Juul Labs appeals.
What we know about Juul’s latest filing
Juul Labs submitted its most recent application to the FDA on July 19, as all e-cigarette manufacturers are required to do before their product can be marketed and sold legally in the United States. This first filing concerns just one flavor, Virginia Tobacco, with a nicotine concentration of 18 mg per mL.
Although Juul’s new platform has age verification capabilities, the company does not intend to lock all their new pods before use. For example, the Virginia Tobacco pods will not come automatically locked. The spokesperson for Juul said doing so could create “friction” for the adult smokers the tobacco flavor is most likely to target.
“If you’re an adult smoker and you go to buy a cigarette, it’s pretty easy to use the product,” a Juul spokesperson told CNN. “If you add in another barrier before product use, that creates some level of friction.”
Using the new Pod ID feature, Juul’s new vaping device could tell a Virginia Tobacco pod apart from a menthol-flavored pod. It could then require age verification to activate only the latter, according to the spokesperson.
Juul has researched other flavors that combine tobacco and menthol with fruity tones to potentially submit to the FDA following this filing. Juul currently sells the flavor Autumn Tobacco in the UK, which contains “tangy apple notes,” according to its website.
Regulating e-cigarettes is “Whac-a-Mole for the FDA,” says nonprofit CEO
Just because e-cigarette companies are required to comply with the FDA doesn’t mean all of them do. In fact, most don’t. To date, the FDA has authorized only 23 specific e-cigarette products, all of which are tobacco flavored.
Yet more than 2.5 million US middle and high school students said they use e-cigarettes as of last year, according to the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey. Almost 85% consume fruity, candy or other flavored products, despite them being illegal.
Koval of Truth Initiative said the tobacco industry “floods the market” with products such that the FDA can’t keep up.
“It is a little bit like Whac-a-Mole for the FDA and for those of us who are trying to promote healthier behaviors for young people,” Koval said. The total number of e-cigarette brands increased by 46.2% between January 2020 and December 2022, from 184 to 269, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To gain FDA authorization for its latest platform, Juul must prove to the FDA that in aiding the public health crisis of adult smoking, it is not further exacerbating the spread of youth vaping.
“This is only the beginning of new tech being developed and refined for the US market and abroad to eliminate combustible cigarettes and combat underage use,” Juul’s Chief Product Officer Kirk Phelps said.
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Lizzo’s ‘Pink (Bad Day)’ is the wake-up song everyone can relate to
By Marianne Garvey, CNN
(CNN) — Who among us hasn’t woken up with worries on our mind?
Lizzo’s “Barbie” movie song “Pink” now has an alternate version just for those kind of mornings.
The minute-long “Pink (Bad Day),” plays as Margot Robbie’s character in the movie is having an existential crisis.
“Hey, Barbie. Why so stressed?” Lizzo sings. “Could it be those irrepressible thoughts of death?”
“P, Panic. I, I’m scared. N, nauseous. K, death,” the tongue-in-cheek song continues.
Listen to the alternate version here.
Mark Ronson curated the movie’s soundtrack, which includes Lizzo’s original version of “Pink.” The happy song opens the “Barbie” movie, where in Barbie’s world, everything is perfect.
Lizzo sings, “Pink goes with everything. Beautiful from head to toe, I’m ready to go, you know, you know.”
The soundtrack also includes Nicki Minaj, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith, Ice Spice, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Haim, PinkPantheress, Karol G and FIFTY FIFTY.
“Barbie,” directed by Greta Gerwig, debuted in theaters on July 21. Along with Robbie, the movie stars Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Dua Lipa, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera and more.
The new music, which is now available on streaming platforms, comes because of “an overwhelming demand from fans,” according to Atlantic Records, which released the song over the weekend.
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Man in custody after shooting that left 1 dead and 2 injured outside Houston bar, PD says
By Rosie Nguyen
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HOUSTON (KTRK) — A man is now in custody following a deadly triple shooting outside a southwest Houston pub Sunday morning, according to HPD.
Houston Police Department Lt. Ignacio Izaguirre said the shooting happened at about 2 a.m. at Hunter’s Pub on South Post Oak Road near Willowbend Boulevard.
ABC13 obtained surveillance video where the shooter can be seen standing outside the front door, arguing with other patrons before pulling out a gun and shooting at multiple people.
According to police, the accused gunman, said to be in his early 20s, turned himself in at the Southwest Patrol station later Sunday afternoon.
Beverly Strain, the owner of Hunter’s Pub, said her employees acted quickly before calling 911.
“It saved a lot of other lives because he was shooting, and they locked that front door. I really think he would have went in there and started shooting other people. He already shot three, and the bar was full,” Strain said.
Izaguirre said the first victim, a 35-year-old man, was shot in the chest and died at the scene. Strain said he was a frequent customer, and she is devastated over his senseless murder. She told ABC13 they’ve never experienced a tragedy like this in their 30 years of business.
“(He was) such a great young man. He took care of his father. He always took care of the staff here and made sure everything was OK. He stayed with people and locked up. He was just a really good guy,” Strain said. “This is a neighborhood bar. Everybody basically knows everybody. It’s horrible. It’s a sad day for us.”
Employees said they’d never seen the suspect in their bar before.
Investigators said the gunman shot two other people, one in the hip and the other in the foot. Both were transported to the hospital and are expected to survive.
Thanks to the bar’s surveillance video and witness accounts, HPD said investigators had an idea of who the shooter was and the car he was driving.
Strain knows that nothing can bring her loyal customer back, but there is one thing that will bring her staff some closure.
“Catching the guy. That is what I want. Is to catch him and have him locked up forever,” she said.
HPD says the suspect is likely facing murder and aggravated assault charges.
If you know anything about this case, authorities urge you to contact the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division at (713) 308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-TIPS.
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Severe storm leaves damage behind in small town in New Jersey
By TaRhonda Thomas
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WOODSTOWN, New Jersey (WPVI) — A severe storm hit the small town of Woodstown, New Jersey on Saturday night, leaving damage in its wake.
Woodstown police say no one was hurt, but two homes are uninhabitable. The storm left many residents in the small town with a big cleanup ahead of them.
An uprooted tree caused concern in the cemetery of Spencer UAME Church, which is over 200 years old.
“I wanted to see if any of the trees fell on their gravestones,” said Lisa Braxton as she walked through the cemetery searching for family names.
Dozens of resting places were disturbed as winds uprooted trees in the cemetery.
Several of the graves underneath the branches were the graves of Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
“We’re just devastated at the moment. This is a historical site,” says Spencer UAME Pastor Andrew Fulton. “God had blessed us for over 205 years.”
Across the street from the church, Dan Jackson assessed the damage in his yard.
“It was really bad, really bad. All down the street – that guy just got a new roof put on his house, the tree came straight down on that,” said Jackson.
His house is along Bailey Street, where several homes had downed trees and limbs and toppled yard furniture.
Along South Main Street, ten power lines snapped in the storm.
“This is an extensive amount of damage,” said Amber Burruezo, spokesperson for Atlantic City Electric. “There are literally sections of the grid that we’ll be rebuilding.”
Crews worked through Saturday night and all day Sunday to remove the downed poles and replace them with new ones.
“Within the next 24 hours we’re going to ensure that this road is open,” said Burruezo.
About 4,000 people lost power in Woodstown Saturday night. As of Sunday morning, only about 60 were still without power. Atlantic City Electric credits its power grid with keeping the outages from being more widespread.
Neighbors also offered helping hands to one another.
“When you do need help, I think they’re all ready to jump in,” said John Fox of Elsinboro.
He was one of several people who helped Jackson clean up debris from his yard.
As powerful as the storm was, it left Spencer UAME Church unscathed, giving members gathered for Sunday service another reason to rejoice.
“It did spare the church so that’s a blessing,” said Braxton.
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Most Israelis oppose the court overhaul. But a minority is backing Netanyahu to the hilt
By Frederik Pleitgen and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN
(CNN) — When thousands of people hit Israel’s streets to protest against the passage of the first law in the government’s controversial judicial overhaul plan last week, a smaller group of Israelis was celebrating.
Right-leaning Israelis who mostly identify with the country’s more conservative, religious and Jewish nationalist bloc make up much of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support base, experts say, and they are glad to see him push forward with the overhaul despite the lack of a broader consensus.
Though polls show that most Israelis oppose the government’s plan to weaken the courts, this right-wing minority sees it as a step toward, and not away from, democracy.
Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor and scholar at the conservative Kohelet Policy Forum, is among those who see the overhaul as long overdue.
Kontorovich believes the current judicial system in Israel is flawed, defined by “all checks and no balances” – a phrase echoed by Netanyahu and his supporters when defending the overhaul.
While critics of the judicial plan say it is a threat to Israeli democracy that risks severely curtailing the powers of the only body that has a check on the executive and legislative branches – the Supreme Court – those in Kontorovich’s camp see this very power as problematic.
“There are many checks on the legislative and executive branches, but there are simply no checks on the Supreme Court,” Kontorovich said, without citing examples. He added that the Supreme Court in Israel “wields far more power than in any other democracy.”
The Kohelet Forum, a right-wing think tank which has advocated for what it calls judicial reform in Israel for over a decade, has been accused by protesters of laying the ideological foundations for the government’s far-reaching proposals. Activists have more than once protested outside their offices.
Unlike many democracies, Israel does not have a written constitution. Instead, it relies on 13 Basic Laws, along with court ruling precedents, which were meant to be turned into a constitution one day, though that has not yet happened.
Last week Israel’s parliament passed an amendment to one of those Basic Laws, stripping the Supreme Court of the ability to reject some government decisions on the basis of the “reasonableness” standard. Netanyahu’s far-right coalition pushed the bill through by a narrow margin despite months of mass protests, public criticism from the White House and the opposition boycotting the vote.
Other parts of the overhaul which are yet to be voted on by the Knesset would give the government more control over the appointment of judges and would remove independent legal advisers from government ministries.
“This measure by itself is the most minor, most reasonable, shall we say, measure,” Kontorovich said, asserting that the opposition “was very close to agreeing on this measure if they got certain other guarantees that were unrelated.”
The country is at an inflection point, with more than half of Israelis saying they fear a civil war, according to a survey held in the wake of last week’s vote.
Carried out by Israel’s Channel 13 news outlet, the poll said 54% of respondents thought the judicial overhaul was harming Israel’s security, and that 56% were worried about potential civil war.
In a CNN interview on Thursday, Netanyahu acknowledged the bill had sparked “a big debate” in Israel, and said he did not want to minimize either the divided opinions or the concerns of his citizens.
“Many of them have been caught in this spiral of fear,” he said.
The prime minster emphasized however that some Israelis do support his judicial plan, including 80,000 current or former military soldiers who oppose other reservists’ refusal to serve as a form of protest.
One resident at the Efrat settlement, in the occupied West Bank, Tommy Lamm said the court had long been “stacked with one direction” and needed to change to include all segments of Israeli society.
Another resident, Ronnie Lottner said “democracy is stronger now” in Israel, and that finally, “a decision has been made by the people and by the people voting in parliament.”
Who are the Israelis supporting the overhaul?
Experts say supporters of the overhaul lie mostly on the more conservative, religious end of the spectrum. While they are a minority in Israel, they have different reasons for backing the judicial plan.
These include unconditional loyalty to Netanyahu and a vehement desire to protect Israel’s Jewish, nationalist identity, along with years-long frustration on the right with Supreme Court decisions and disappointment with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s failed coalition, which analysts say contributed to the rise of today’s hardline government.
Support for the “overall blueprint” of the judicial plan reflects the political alignment with Netanyahu’s government, without necessarily or actively relating to the specific contents of the overhaul package, Tamar Hermann, a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, told CNN.
Those on the right also typically see the nation as “a family,” Hermann said, and so will typically support Netanyahu – the “father of the family” – despite mass protests against him and his government’s choices.
“You don’t turn your back on the father of the family even if they do things you don’t like,” Hermann said.
Others are driven by ethnic grievances, as well as discontent with what they perceive as the left’s grip on Supreme Court decisions, Gideon Rahat, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s department of political science, told CNN.
Supporters of Netanyahu’s plan also include, according to Rahat, many of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population, which has been significantly growing in recent years and playing a stronger role in Israeli public life.
“This time, after the election (2022), they got so much power because of this coalition’s very strange combination, that they started to make demands regarding the public sphere, not only in their neighborhoods,” Hermann said, adding that this marked “a point of departure in their relationship with the rest of the Israeli population.”
Rise of the right
Observers of Israeli politics have sounded alarms over the rise of the far-right.
When Netanyahu was re-elected last year, he formed the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history. His re-election also followed four snap elections in two years, the last of which produced a wide-ranging and ultimately fragile coalition led by Bennett and Yair Lapid.
When the Bennett-Lapid government collapsed, triggering a fifth round of elections, the gap between left and right only widened, Hermann said.
Israeli Jewish voters have also shifted rightward in recent years, according to data published by the Israel Democracy Institue in August, as both the center and the left shrank.
It is unclear whether Netanyahu will back down on the overhaul. The prime minister in his Thursday interview with CNN failed to confirm whether he’d accept a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the “reasonableness” law. The court is due to hear appeals against the law in September.
Following backlash from the opposition, however, Netanyahu in a statement attempted to reassure the public, saying that Israeli governments “always respect” court decisions. But it stopped short of saying it would obey them.
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Trump leadership PAC requests $60 million refund from super PAC as legal fees mount
By Kristen Holmes, CNN
(CNN) — As legal fees for Donald Trump and his associates mount, the former president’s leadership PAC that has been used to pay many of these bills requested a refund on a $60 million contribution it made to a super PAC supporting Trump, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. It was not immediately clear if any of the money had been refunded.
The leadership PAC, Save America, spent more than $40 million on legal fees for him and many of his associates since the start of 2023.
The refund request was first reported by The New York Times.
CNN previously reported that Trump’s team is creating a legal defense fund to help offset some of the enormous bills incurred amid a multitude of investigations into the former president.
Special counsel Jack Smith filed new charges on Thursday against the former president, his aide Walt Nauta and a third defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, in the case alleging Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving the White House. The new charges included allegations that Trump and his employees attempted to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage sought by the grand jury. Both Nauta and De Oliveira are being represented by attorneys paid for by Trump world.
Additionally, earlier this year, Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud. He also faces potential charges in the special counsel’s grand jury investigation into the leadup to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as well as an investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney’s office in Georgia relating to claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election.
The fund is expected to cover the bills of some of Trump’s current and former aides and employees who have been wrapped up in these investigations.
The new fund will be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., sources previously told CNN, and will be led by Trump associate and adviser Michael Glassner.
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Fisher-Price unveils first-ever sensory line of toys for preschoolers
EAST AURORA, NY - Fisher-Price has launched a line of its first-every sensory toys for children ages 3 and up.
The toy company said the idea is to cate to preschool children to create "a more inclusive play experience for neurodivergent and neurotypical kids, by allowing them to create their own unique play. "
The new list of toys include:
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ Light Station™
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ SpinnyScopes™
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ Squish Scape™
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ Squeeze ‘n Sniffs™
The toys will be exclusively at Target.
Squish Scape (Credit: Fisher-Price)
"Sensory play is an important tool for childhood development, and we know that every child can benefit from activities that stimulate the brain through things like light, touch, and sound," Dr. Krystal Starke, Childhood Development Expert, Fisher-Price Play Lab, said in a news release. "Toy play is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor, which is why we are so excited about the new Sensory Bright line that allows young children of varying abilities and sensibilities to customize their own sensory experience to their specific needs and wants every time they play."
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More details from Fisher Price:
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ Light Station™, ($49.99): Unleash your child’s creativity with this interactive sensory table, featuring lights, sounds, and music that kids can control to create their own personalized sensory play. Featuring six interactive play modes—Spark, DJ Dance Party, Tracking, Splash, Wipeout, and Snake, along with a variety of textured buttons, dials, and switches—children can press, twist, and turn to design colorful visual, auditory, and tactile experiences.
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ SpinnyScopes™, ($6.99): Preschool kids can embark on an exciting sensory journey with this set of three different spinning toys that reveal a unique pattern as kids twist and turn the top, plus have satisfying clicking or whirring sounds. These light-refracting spinners also work with the light station to unlock more visual play.
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ Squish Scape™, ($11.99): Set the scene for under-the-sea sensory discoveries with this mess-free, squish scape tablet. Children can embark on a squishy scavenger hunt as they press and smush the fish through the goo maze, revealing hidden images in the ocean along the way for a fun, tactile experience!
- Fisher-Price® Sensory Bright™ Squeeze ‘n Sniffs™, (Available Soon | $10.99/2 pk): Preschoolers can squish, smush, smell, and make all kinds of exciting sensory discoveries with these four, new squeeze ‘n sniff toys, available in-store only. Each pack contains two squishy animal pals, featuring scented goo and fun hidden surprises underneath for kids to explore.
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Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman star, dead at 70
CNN —Paul Reubens, who found fame as the quirky man-child character Pee-wee Herman, has died, according to an announcement on his verified social media.
He was 70.
“Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the importance of kindness,” the post reads. “Paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a treasured friend and man of remarkable character and generosity of spirit.”
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'Pee-wee Herman' star Paul Reubens loses battle to cancer at 70
LOS ANGELES - Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died.
Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.
"Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years," Reubens said in a statement released with the announcement of his death. "I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you."
The character with his too-tight gray suit, white chunky loafers and red bow tie was best known for the film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and the TV series "Pee-wee's Playhouse."
Herman created Pee-wee when he was part of the Los Angeles improv group The Groundlings in the late 1970s. The live "Pee-wee Herman Show" debuted at a Los Angeles theater in 1981 and was a success with both kids during matinees and adults at a midnight show. HBO would air the show as a special.
Actor Paul Rubens poses for a portrait in July 1995 in Los Angeles, California. (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)
Reubens took Pee-wee to the big screen in 1985’s "Pee-wee’s Big Adventure." The film, in which Pee-wee’s cherished bike is stolen, was said to be loosely based on Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neo-realist classic, "The Bicycle Thief." The film, directed by Tim Burton and co-written by Phil Hartman of "Saturday Night Live," sent Pee-wee on a nationwide escapade. The movie was a success, grossing $40 million, and continued to spawn a cult following for its oddball whimsy.
A sequel followed three years later in the less well-received "Big Top Pee-wee," in which Pee-wee seeks to join a circus. Reubens’ character wouldn’t get another movie starring role until 2016’s Pee-wee’s Big Holiday," for Netflix. Judd Apatow produced Pee-wee’s big-screen revival.
His television series, "Pee-wee’s Playhouse," ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV.
Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl. The host, who is fond of secret words and loves fruit salad so much he once married it, is prone to lines like, "I know you are, but what am I?" and "Why don’t you take a picture; it’ll last longer?" The act was a hit because it worked on multiple levels, even though Reubens insists that wasn’t the plan.
FILE - Paul Reubens attends the AOL Build Speaker Series to discuss "Pee-wee's Big Holiday" at AOL Studios In New York on March 25, 2016, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
"It’s for kids," Reubens told The Associated Press in 2010. "People have tried to get me for years to go, ‘It wasn’t really for kids, right?’ Even the original show was for kids. I always censored myself to have it be kid-friendly.
"The whole thing has been just a gut feeling from the beginning," Reubens told the AP. "That’s all it ever is and I think always ever be. Much as people want me to dissect it and explain it, I can’t. One, I don’t know, and two, I don’t want to know, and three, I feel like I’ll hex myself if I know."
However, off-camera Reubens had a bout with legal troubles.
In 2015, Reubens was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge involving photographs seized from his erotica collection. He agreed to register as a sex offender for the duration of his probation.
The charge resulted from a search of Reubens' home in November 2001. Police seized about 30,000 images from his photography collection and personal computers.
In 1991, Reubens pleaded no contest to an indecent exposure charge after his arrest in Sarasota, Fla., for allegedly exposing himself in a movie theater.
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Several House Republicans urge lawmakers to return to DC after DOJ requests Devon Archer's surrender
At least five House Republicans have called on lawmakers — who are currently enjoying a legislative recess — to return to Capitol Hill after the Department of Justice asked Hunter Biden's business partner Devon Archer to surrender to prison. The request came over the weekend before Archer was scheduled to testify to Congress Monday on the Biden family, Hunter's business dealings and the alleged role of his father, President Biden, in securing these deals.
Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.; Mike Johnson, R-La.; Chip Roy, R-Texas; Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo.; and Dan Bishop, R-N.C., each said on social media Sunday that lawmakers should return to Washington, D.C. for an emergency hearing to discuss potential DOJ interference in the congressional investigation into President Biden and Hunter Biden.
"The DOJ is now actively committing the crime of obstructing a congressional investigation," Gaetz wrote. "If Devon Archer isn't in the witness chair Monday, we better haul every SOB at the DOJ before congress EVERY DAY to make them pay for this."
Gaetz said that if Archer is not in the witness chair for his testimony on Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be called to testify.
In another post, Gaetz said the DOJ's request for Archer's surrender is "all because Hunter's problems and Joe’s problems merge with the testimony of Devon Archer."
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, arrives at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C., US, on Sunday, June 25, 2023. (Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York sent a letter to Archer on Saturday requesting he surrender to prison concerning his 2018 felony convictions for his role in a conspiracy to defraud a Native American tribe. He was sentenced in 2022 to one year behind bars, but the sentence has been repeatedly postponed over a series of appeals.
Johnson, Roy and the others swiftly expressed support for Gaetz.
"I will join you back on the Hill, Rep. Matt Gaetz," Johnson tweeted. Roy agreed.
"Make that four," Hageman added. "While I plan to be in Wyoming visiting constituents- this is imperative and warrants immediate action. I will also join."
Bishop added: "I think you need five. Count me in."
"Subpoenas should fly tomorrow," he also wrote.
The Republicans are each on the House Judiciary Committee.
The letter did not specifically demand Archer go to prison before he testified Monday, but to set a date to begin his jail sentence.
"In light of the foregoing, the Government respectfully requests that the defendant be ordered to surrender, at a date and time determined by the Court, to a facility designated by the Bureau of Prisons to commence his term of imprisonment," it reads.
The court is not expected to make a decision before Archer will meet behind closed doors with the House Oversight Committee. The U.S. Attorney’s Office acknowledged Archer is not expected to surrender before his meeting with congressional lawmakers in a follow-up letter.
"To be clear, the Government does not request (and has never requested) that the defendant surrender before his Congressional testimony," the letter sent on Sunday reads. "As the Court knows, to surrender and commence his sentence of imprisonment, the defendant first must be designated to a federal facility by the Bureau of Prisons—a process that can take several weeks or months after the Court sets a surrender date."
Archer's attorney also said that his client will move forward with his planned appearance Monday, and pushed back on the idea that the DOJ's request for Archer's surrender is an attempt to prevent him from meeting with House members.
"We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee," Archer's attorney Matthew Schwartz said in a statement to POLITICO. "To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation. In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators."
Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said during an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that the timing of Saturday's letter was "odd."
Archer's testimony before the House Oversight Committee is expected to begin at 9 a.m. Monday, July 31.
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Snoop Dogg launches new ice cream line at Walmart
Snoop Dogg is expanding his business portfolio and is stepping into the frozen dessert space.
The "Drop it like it’s Hot" rapper is releasing a new ice cream line called Dr. Bombay, named after his cryptocurrency non-fungible token name.
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Snoop’s new ice cream brand is available in seven flavors which are Sherbert Swizzle, Cocoa Cream Cookie Dream, Bonus Track Brownie, Syrupy Waffle Sundaze, S’more Vibes, Iced Out Orange Cream, and Rollin’ in the Dough.
Snoop Dogg launches his new Dr. Bombay Ice Cream. (Photo courtesy of Happi Co.)
Shoppers can get pints of these delicious flavors for $4.98 at 3,500 Walmart stores, according to a release.
"Ice cream is more than just a snack to me; it's a way to chill, relax, and get happy. That's exactly what I want Dr. Bombay Ice Cream to do—bring a smile to your face and ease your mind, Snoop said in a statement. "I've poured my heart and soul into perfecting these first seven flavors, and I can't wait for my fans and the world to experience what I've created.
The acclaimed rapper teamed up with Happi Co., a consumer packaged goods company, to launch Dr. Bombay.
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Here's how hot and extreme summer 2023 has been, and it's only halfway over
At about summer's halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say.
Killer heat. Deadly floods. Smoke from wildfires that chokes.
And there’s no relief in sight.
Expect a hotter than normal August and September, American and European forecast centers predict.
A pedestrian carries an umbrella to shade himself from the sun during a heat wave in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Heat advisories have been posted across the region from eastern Pennsylvania to Massachusetts as oppressive
"We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world," said NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. "The heat waves that we’re seeing in the U.S. and in Europe, in China are demolishing records left, right and center. This is not a surprise."
Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said examining what's causing heat waves is "boring" in a way since it keeps happening. Yet she added that it matters "because it shows again just how much climate change plays a role in what we are currently experiencing."
"This story, these impacts, are going to continue," Schmidt said. "We’re going to be seeing this pretty much this year and into next year" with a natural El Nino warming of the Pacific adding to the overwhelming influence of human-caused climate change largely from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
Here’s a rundown of the summer of Earth's discontent.
RECORD-SHATTERING HEAT
Globally, June this year was the hottest June on record — and scientists say July has been so hot that even before the month was over they could say it was the hottest month on record. But it’s individual places where people live that the heat has stuck around and killed.
Phoenix, where the last day of June and each day of July has been at least 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius), set records for the longest mega-heat streak and longest stretch when the temperatures didn’t go below 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) at night.
El Paso, Texas, had 44 days of 100 degree (37 degree) heat. Schools closed in Nuevo Leon state in northern Mexico a month earlier than usual as temperatures reached 113 degrees (45 Celsius).
Farther east, Miami added humidity to high heat for 46 straight days of feels-like temperatures of 100 or more.
Beijing had its own record streak with at least 27 days of 95 degrees (35 Celsius) in July, after a three-day streak of at least 104 (40 Celsius) in June. And the country set it’s all-time highest temperature on July 16 in remote Sanbao township with 126 degrees (52.2 Celsius).
Heat records fell all over southern Europe. Sardinia, Italy, hit 117 (47 Celsius). Palermo in Sicily broke a record that goes back to 1791 by a whopping 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius). Temperatures hit 115 (46 Celsius) in Gytheio, Greece.
Spain reported nearly 1,000 excess deaths from the heat, mostly among the elderly, by mid July.
In Argentina, where it's mid-winter, temperatures were above 89.6 (32 Celsius) four straight days in June in the northern part of the county. One July night in Buenos Aires didn’t get below the 70s (low 20s Celsius).
TOO MUCH RAIN
More than 10,000 people had to be evacuated in central Hunan province in China where heavy rainfall caused at least 70 houses to collapse. In Yichang, rain triggered a landslide that buried a construction site and killed at least one person.
Australia’s Queensland outback got 13 times its normal monthly July rain in just one day.
Thousands of people were evacuated from Delhi in India as rains caused flash floods and landslides. Elsewhere in the country at least 100 people were killed by the downpours.
In the United States, sudden heavy rain killed people in Vermont, Connecticut and Pennsylvania with tragic stories of children washed away in flooding.
WILDFIRES AND SMOKE
Too little rain in Greece and Spain fed wildfires that proved difficult to fight. In the Canary Islands, a fire caused 4,000 people to evacuate, others to wear face masks and had 400 firefighters battling it.
Hot and dry conditions caused about 160 wildfires to break out in Israel in early June.
But what really brought fires home happened in parts of Canada where few people live. Rare far northern Quebec wildfires triggered nasty smoke that inflicted the world’s dirtiest air on cities like New York and Washington, then switched to the Midwest.
As of late July more than 600 wildfires were out of control in Canada. A record 47,490 square miles (123,000 square kilometers) burned, and fire season isn’t near done. That’s an area larger than the state of Pennsylvania or North Korea.
WATER TEMPERATURES
Water temperatures in the Florida Keys and off the Everglades hit the high 90s (high 30s Celsius) with Manatee Bay breaking 100 degrees twice in what could be an unofficial world record for surface water temperature, although that’s in dispute.
The North Atlantic had hot spots that alarmed scientists. The world’s oceans as a whole were their hottest ever in June and got even hotter in July. In Antarctica, sea ice smashed record-low levels.
Ocean temperatures take a long time to warm up and cool down, said University of Northern Illinois meteorology professor Victor Gensini. So it doesn’t look good for the rest of the summer, he said.
A HOT FORECAST
"We are favoring above normal temperatures for the next three months," said NOAA Climate Prediction Center meteorologist Matt Rosencrans.
The only potential relief he sees, especially in the hot Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, is if a hurricane or tropical storm moves through.
The peak of hurricane season in September hasn’t even started.
RELATED: July on track to be Earth's hottest month on record
When going through the litany of this summer's weather extremes so far, University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann had one question: "How on God’s Earth are we still burning fossil fuels after witnessing all this?"
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Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report from New York. ___
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A Truck Fire Temporarily Shut Down the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge – What’s Happening to PA Roadways??
Here's a story that's become a little too familiar in the greater Philadelphia area this year...
A truck fire broke out underneath the Tacony-Palmyra bridge in Philadelphia just before 5 pm. on Sunday evening. According to officials, the fire broke out around 4:40, forcing the the bridge to close in both directions.
Alarming captured video shows the black, billowing smoke rising above the bridge, as you can see down below.
Fortunately, first responders were able to place the blaze under control, and the bridge was reopened for traffic right around 8pm. No injuries were reported, but as of Sunday evening, it's still unclear how the fire erupted.
So we can breathe a sigh of relief, especially given the crazier complications we've dealt with on Pennsylvania roads this year.
Are Pennsylvnia roadways cursed this year?
This incident begs the questions.... What is going on with Pennsylvania roadways??
We needn't bring up what happened to I-95 earlier this summer. Similarly, but not as severely as Tacony-Palmyra, a truck fire erupted under the I-95 overpass in June, collapsing the bridge. The truck driver tragically died, and the closure of the I-95 section had to close. Miraculously, it was reopened after only 12 days.
Then on July 10, a portion of Route 202 in King of Prussia was forced to closed after a sinkhole collapsed. After it was repaired and reopened, it was forced to close again on July 16, just days later, when the pavement began to sink.
Fingers crossed it's smooth sailing - or smooth driving, from this point on! At least for the rest of the year! | https://catcountry1073.com/tacony-palmyra-bridge-fire/ | 2023-07-31T18:04:29 | 0 | https://catcountry1073.com/tacony-palmyra-bridge-fire/ |
Colts RB Zack Moss will likely miss six weeks with broken arm
WESTFIELD — Zack Moss suffered a broken arm in practice Monday and will likely miss six weeks, a source with knowledge of the injury confirmed to IndyStar, leaving the Colts without their top two running backs at the start of training camp.
If Moss is able to return to the lineup in six weeks, the timetable puts him close to returning for the team’s Sept. 10 season opener, albeit after missing almost all of training camp and all three preseason games.
The veteran back turned in arguably the best stretch of his career after coming over to Indianapolis in the Nyheim Hines trade last season, rushing for 365 yards, 4.8 yards per carry and a touchdown in eight games with the Colts, including three consecutive starts to end the season in place of injured star Jonathan Taylor.
More:10 thoughts on Jonathan Taylor's contract standoff with the Colts, where it goes from here
Taylor, whose desire for a contract extension has been the central story of training camp so far, has not practiced yet in training camp. The former first team All-Pro has been on the active/physically unable to perform list. | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2023/07/31/colts-what-absence-of-zack-moss-arm-jonathan-taylor-ankle-means/70499765007/ | 2023-07-31T18:04:36 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2023/07/31/colts-what-absence-of-zack-moss-arm-jonathan-taylor-ankle-means/70499765007/ |
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The situation in Germany is not comparable to that in many hotter countries, but even here the search for clean water is becoming a growing challenge. Some regions have had an acutely dry last few years, and groundwater levels have plummeted. The causes are not just more drought periods but also soil sealing - and higher pollutant levels in the water have also become a problem. The search for solutions has many facets. Günther Westenhoff has spent years using his divining rod to track down water sources for drilling companies. Increasing aridity means they have to bore deeper and deeper. While he cannot explain how his divining rod works, he shows us that it produces results. Water rights - who is permitted to extract how much water - are becoming a source of growing contention. In the small southern German town of Bergtheim the mayor has been trying to mediate between consumers and farmers, who require more water for their crops. One solution would be a long-distance pipeline - but the costs would have to be passed on to those consuming the water. It’s been a wakeup call for customers, says civil engineer Andreas Baur, who is based nearby. He provides advice on finding water supplies - and has become a very busy man. Many local authorities are eager to prepare for further dry periods by drilling new wells. Bauer says water consumption has risen - in industry, farming and for private demand, such as for filling swimming pools. The first step in locating water is to compile hydrogeological maps and calculate the groundwater flow. Then the geologists recommend specific spots to conduct drilling. In northern Germany it’s not just climate change causing problems with water. In large parts of Lower Saxony and North Rhine Westphalia, upper groundwater areas have been rendered unusable by the farming sector’s sprays, nitrates from liquid manure and fermentation residues. Egon Harms from the OOWV water provider says they now need a 10-year head-start with drilling before the same things happens to deeper layers. Things are looking bleak, and although Germany is now finally complying with nitrate limits after years of EU pressure, Egon Harms insists that far too little action is being taken to protect drinking water. | https://www.dw.com/en/water-scarcity-the-quest-for-new-sources/video-66393705 | 2023-07-31T18:05:14 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/water-scarcity-the-quest-for-new-sources/video-66393705 |
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WILKES-BARRE — A man accused by Wilkes-Barre police detectives with fatally shooting his girlfriend inside their Darling Street residence earlier this year entered a plea of not guilty to an open count of criminal homicide Monday.
Natanihel Sanmartin, 41, was arrested after he allegedly shot and killed Carla Pina inside 42 Darling St. on Feb. 12.
Court records say Pina returned to the Darling Street residence from an evening out at a casino as Sanmartin drank a bottle of Hennessey that changed his demeanor.
Sanmartin went into a bedroom occuiped by a 3-year-old child and a gunshot was heard, resulting in Pina entering the bedroom and a second gunshot occurred, court records say.
Sanmartin broke down crying when he was interviewed by two city police detectives, according to testimony during a preliminary hearing on June 2.
When Sanmartin asked about the condition of Pina, he was told she was deceased. In response, Sanmartin claimed the shooting was a “misunderstanding,” according to preliminary hearing testimony.
The preliminary hearing was delayed for three weeks when Sanmartin privately retained Attorney Joseph F. Saporito III, which resulted in the county Public Defender’s Office being released.
Attorney Demetrius Fannick from the Public Defender’s Office said Monday he will be representing Sanmartin.
In addition to criminal homicide, Sanmartin pled not guilty to two counts of reckless endangerment and a single count of endangering the welfare of children at his formal arraignment before Judge David W. Lupas.
Lupas said he will schedule a date for trial at a later time.
Sanmartin remains jailed without bail at the county correctional facility.
Assistant district attorneys Carly Levandoski and Anthony Cardone are prosecuting.
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2 death investigations underway in Pike Co. after human remains found
PIKE COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) — Kentucky State Police are conducting two death investigations in Pike County after human remains were found Saturday and Sunday.
Human remains were first found in a stream by Cougar Drive around 4 p.m. Saturday in Elkhorn City, according to KSP.
The remains were taken by the Pike County Coroner’s Office and will be taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort for identification and to determine a cause of death.
The next day, a man was found dead in Jonancy, also in Pike County.
KSP said they were called around 6:30 p.m. for a report of a man who was dead in a stream near State Highway 610 West.
It’s believed those remains are that of Nathan Worrix, a 37-year-old from Robinson Creek.
Worrix’s body was sent to Frankfort as well to determine his cause of death.
It wasn’t made clear if the deaths were related.
If you have any information about either of these cases, you’re asked to call 606-433-7711. | https://www.wtvq.com/2-death-investigations-underway-in-pike-co-after-human-remains-found/ | 2023-07-31T18:08:38 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/2-death-investigations-underway-in-pike-co-after-human-remains-found/ |
Churchill Downs to resume racing in September following temporary suspension after horse deaths
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — Churchill Downs will resume racing for its regularly scheduled meet beginning on Sept. 14 following a temporary suspension after 12 horses died, the company announced Monday.
An internal safety review followed the dozen horse deaths and found no issues with the racing surfaces.
Churchill Downs in a press release said the following has been implemented to “ensure the safety and well-being of equine and human athletes”:
- Investments into additional, new surface maintenance equipment
- Additional resources to be added to Churchill Downs vet team, which will help with monitoring and specialized care for horses, and assist in pre-race inspections and entry screening
- Work to continue with Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority to predict at-risk horses
- A new safety committee to be established consisting of horsemen designees, racetrack employees and vets to discuss concerns and provide real-time feedback on areas of improvement
“We are excited to resume live racing again at Churchill Downs,” said Bill Carstanjen, CEO of Churchill Downs. “Our commitment to safety remains paramount as we enter this September meet and our participants, fans and the public can be assured that we will continue to investigate, evaluate and improve upon every policy and protocol.”
The September meet runs through Oct. 1 and will feature Twilight Thursdays, Road to the 150th Kentucky Derby, Family Adventure Day and more. | https://www.wtvq.com/churchill-downs-to-resume-racing-in-september-following-temporary-suspension-after-horse-deaths/ | 2023-07-31T18:08:44 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/churchill-downs-to-resume-racing-in-september-following-temporary-suspension-after-horse-deaths/ |
Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do, a new AP-NORC poll shows
Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.
Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies.
In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
“People are yearning for something greater than themselves — beyond their own understanding,” said Jack Grogger, a chaplain for the Los Angeles Angels and a longtime Southern California fire captain who has aided many people in their gravest moments.
That search for something bigger, he said, can take on many forms, from following a religion to crafting a self-driven purpose to believing in, of course, angels.
“For a lot of people, angels are a lot safer to worship,” said Grogger, who also pastors a nondenominational church in Orange, California, and is a chaplain for the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks.
People turn to angels for comfort, he said. They are familiar, regularly showing up in pop culture as well as in the Bible. Comparably, worshipping Jesus is far more involved; when Grogger preaches about angels it is with the context that they are part of God’s kingdom.
American’s belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%). Fewer U.S. adults believe in the devil or Satan (56%), astrology (34%), reincarnation (34%), and that physical things can have spiritual energies, such as plants, rivers or crystals (42%).
The widespread acceptance of angels shown in the AP-NORC poll makes sense to Susan Garrett, an angel expert and New Testament professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky. It tracks with historical surveys, she said, adding that the U.S. remains a faith-filled country even as more Americans reject organized religion.
But if the devil is in the details, so are people’s understandings of angels.
“They’re very malleable,” Garrett said of angels. “You can have any one of a number of quite different worldviews in terms of your understanding of how the cosmos is arranged, whether there’s spirit beings, whether there’s life after death, whether there’s a God … and still find a place for angels in that worldview.”
Talk of angels, Garrett said, is often also about something else, like the ways God interacts with the world and other hard-to-articulate ideas.
The large number of U.S. adults who say they believe in angels includes 84% of those with a religious affiliation — 94% of evangelical Protestants, 81% of mainline Protestants and 82% of Catholics — and 33% of those without one. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2% of atheists, 25% of agnostics and 50% of those identified as “nothing in particular.”
The broad acceptance is what fascinates San Francisco-based witch and author Devin Hunter: Angels show up independently in different religions and traditions, making them part of the fabric that unites humanity.
“We’re all getting to the same conclusion,” said Hunter, who spent 16 years as a professional medium, and started communicating as a child with what he believed were angels.
Hunter estimates that a belief in angels applies to about half of those practicing modern witchcraft today, and for some who don’t believe, their rejection is often rooted in the religious trauma they experienced growing up.
“Angels become a very big deal” for long-time practitioners who’ve made occultism their primary focus, said Hunter, an angel-loving occultist. “We cannot escape them in any way, shape or form.”
Jennifer Goodwin of Oviedo, Florida, also is among the roughly seven in 10 U.S. adults who say they believe in angels. She isn’t sure if God exists and rejects the afterlife dichotomy of heaven and hell, but the recent deaths of her parents solidified her views on these celestial beings.
Goodwin believes her parents are still keeping an eye on the family — not in any physical way or as a supernatural apparition, but that they manifest in those moments when she feels a general sense of comfort.
“I think that they are around us, but it’s in a way that we can’t understand,” Goodwin said. “I don’t know what else to call it except an angel.”
Angels mean different things to different people, and the idea of loved ones becoming heavenly angels after death is neither an unusual belief nor a universally held one.
In his reading of Scripture as an evangelical Protestant, Grogger said he believes angels are something else entirely — they have never been human and are on another level in heaven’s hierarchy. “We are higher than angels,” he said. “We do not become an angel.”
Angels do interact with humans though, said Grogger, but what “that looks like we’re not 100% sure.” They worship God who created this angelic legion of unknown numbers, he said, adding that evangelicals often attribute the demonic forces in the world to the angels who fell from heaven when the devil rebelled.
The Western ideas about angels can be traced through the Bible — and to the worldviews of its monotheistic authors, Garrett said. Those beliefs have changed and developed for millennia, influenced by cultures, theologians and even the ancient polytheistic beliefs that came before the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, she said.
“There are sort of lines of continuity from the Bible that you can trace all the way up to the New Age movement,” said Susan Garrett, who wrote “No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus.”
The angels in the Bible do God’s bidding, and angelic violence is one part of their job description, said Esther Hamori, author of the upcoming book, “God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible.”
“The angels of the Bible are just as likely to assassinate individuals and slaughter entire populations as they are to offer help and protect and deliver,” said Hamori. She doesn’t believe in these angels, but studies them as a Hebrew Bible professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches a popular “Monster Heaven” class.
“They’re just God’s obedient soldiers doing the task at hand, and sometimes that task is in human beings’ best interests, and sometimes it’s not,” she said.
The perception that angels act angelic and look like the idyllic, winged figurines atop Christmas trees could be attributed to an early centuries belief that people are assigned one good angel and one bad — or have a good and bad spirit to guide them, Garrett said.
This idea shows up on the shoulders of cartoon characters and is likely what Abraham Lincoln was alluding to in his famous appeal for unity when he referenced “the better angels of our nature” in his first inaugural address, she said.
“It’s also tied in with ideas about guardian angels, which again, very ancient views that got developed over the centuries,” Garrett said.
For Sheila Avery of Chicago, angels are protectors, capable of keeping someone from harm. Avery, who belongs to a nondenominational church, credits them with those moments like when a person’s plans fall through, but ultimately it saves them from being in the thick of an unexpected disaster.
“They turn on the news and a terrible tragedy happened at that particular place,” Avery said, suggesting it was an “angel that was probably watching over them.”
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The poll of 1,680 adults was conducted May 11-15 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. | https://www.wtvq.com/do-you-believe-in-angels-about-7-in-10-u-s-adults-do-a-new-ap-norc-poll-shows/ | 2023-07-31T18:08:50 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/do-you-believe-in-angels-about-7-in-10-u-s-adults-do-a-new-ap-norc-poll-shows/ |
NEW YORK (PIX11) – If you want utensils with your takeout in New York City, don’t forget to ask: the Skip the Stuff law went into effect on Monday.
Under the law, restaurants that offer takeout and delivery cannot provide utensils, condiments, napkins or extra containers unless a customer asks for them. Restaurants also must have a default setting in their apps for no extra items.
The purpose is to reduce the amount of single-use plastic that ends up in landfills.
Restaurants have a warning period through July 2024. After that, they could be fined $50 or more for every offense. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/no-more-utensils-for-takeout-skip-the-stuff-law-goes-into-effect-in-nyc/ | 2023-07-31T18:08:52 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/no-more-utensils-for-takeout-skip-the-stuff-law-goes-into-effect-in-nyc/ |
Denison woman killed in motorcycle crash
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 12:49 PM CDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
DENISON, Texas (KXII) - A Denison woman died in a motorcycle crash on Sunday evening.
According to Texas DPS, Kelly Jones, 39, was driving east on FM-120 when she failed to negotiate a curve and hit the guardrail.
Jones was taken to Texoma Medical Center and pronounced dead, DPS said.
Troopers said this is an ongoing investigation. No other information is available.
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8-year-old survives cougar attack in Washington state national park
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — An 8-year-old child survived a cougar attack with minor injuries while camping in Olympic National Park in Washington state over the weekend.
“The cougar casually abandoned its attack after being yelled and screamed at by the child’s mother,” the National Park Service said in a statement. After being assessed by park personnel, the child, who was not identified, went to a hospital for further evaluation.
Rangers shut down the campsite and surrounding areas following the Saturday attack. Park law enforcement and cougar specialists began looking for the animal on Sunday at Lake Angeles. If located, the cougar will be euthanized and officials hope a necropsy will provide clues as to why it attacked.
Cougars are rarely seen and attacks on humans are extremely rare, park officials said. The lethal removal of the cougar is in line with the park’s protocol for wildlife observations, interactions and attacks.
The entirety of the 1,562-square-mile park located about 60 miles east of Seattle is consider cougar territory.
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First-ever donor kidney flies unattended from Ky. to Miss. for lifesaving transplant
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — The first-ever donor kidney flew successfully unattended from Louisville, Kentucky to the University of Mississippi Medical Center earlier this month, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates announced Monday.
Normally, donated organs on a perfusion pump can only be flown with a medical team and on short-distance charter flights, according to KODA. But new technology funded this year by a grant from the Kidney Transplant Collaborate allows flights like this to be possible. The grant also included GPS technologies.
“It really, in my mind, worked seamlessly. It is better for the patient and better for the kidney. I’m really appreciative of Kentucky doing this. It’s a great example of an [Organ Procurement Organization] trying to resolve the problems we sometimes have in transplant,” said Dr. Christopher Anderson, a James D. Hardy professor, chair of the Department of Surgery and chief of the Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
“We can’t wait to witness the advancements that will follow this groundbreaking solution, as well as the impact this technology will have on other organ procurement agencies across the nation. The invaluable cooperation of our partners has made this innovation a reality,” said President and CEO of KODA Julie Bergin. “This has the potential to increase equity in organ transplantation, especially in areas like Hawaii or the coasts. By reducing or eliminating cold ischemic time during long flights, this technology will get an organ to the sickest patients. With this technology, a donor in California could save the life of someone in New York. We are optimistic that this will provide hope for those in need of the precious gift of life.”
KODA, an independent, non-profit organ and tissue procurement agency, was formed in 1987. The organization serves 114 counties in Kentucky, four counties in southern Indiana and two counties in western West Virginia.
To learn more about KODA, head here: www.donatelifeky.org. | https://www.wtvq.com/first-ever-donor-kidney-flies-unattended-from-ky-to-miss-for-lifesaving-transplant/ | 2023-07-31T18:08:56 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/first-ever-donor-kidney-flies-unattended-from-ky-to-miss-for-lifesaving-transplant/ |
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A New York City shelter announced Monday that it can no longer take in cats after reaching critical capacity.
Animal Care Centers of New York said it has had a massive influx of cats taken in this summer and it’s now racing to find homes for nearly 450 felines.
The ACC is offering $5 adoptions for all adult cats and dogs and vouchers for affordable vet visits to help mitigate costs.
ACC shelters in Manhattan, Staten Island and Brooklyn are open daily. | https://pix11.com/news/morning/nyc-shelter-no-longer-accepting-cats-after-reaching-capacity/ | 2023-07-31T18:08:57 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/morning/nyc-shelter-no-longer-accepting-cats-after-reaching-capacity/ |
Man drowns after being thrown from boat on lake during storm, officials say
ANDERSON, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A man in South Carolina died after he was thrown off a boat while on a lake during a storm Saturday night.
WHNS reports the man, later identified as 69-year-old Darrell Hewett, was on his boat on Lake Hartwell trying to return to the dock when he was caught in the storm. Rough waters were stirred up because of the storm, causing Hewett to be thrown from his boat as he stood up, according to authorities.
First responders were called to Providence Point at around 8 p.m. in response to the drowning.
Officials said they learned that bystanders were also trying to get to the dock because of the storm and pulled Hewett from the water.
According to authorities, Hewett was not wearing a life jacket. His death was ruled as an accidental drowning.
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Man drowns after being thrown from boat on lake during storm, officials say
ANDERSON, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A man in South Carolina died after he was thrown off a boat while on a lake during a storm Saturday night.
WHNS reports the man, later identified as 69-year-old Darrell Hewett, was on his boat on Lake Hartwell trying to return to the dock when he was caught in the storm. Rough waters were stirred up because of the storm, causing Hewett to be thrown from his boat as he stood up, according to authorities.
First responders were called to Providence Point at around 8 p.m. in response to the drowning.
Officials said they learned that bystanders were also trying to get to the dock because of the storm and pulled Hewett from the water.
According to authorities, Hewett was not wearing a life jacket. His death was ruled as an accidental drowning.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Cardi B drew attention on social media over the weekend after a video showed her throwing a microphone at a crowd during a Las Vegas performance after she was hit with liquid.
A TikTok user posted the video from a Cardi B appearance at Drai’s Beachclub on the Las Vegas Strip.
The clip shows the hip-hop performer on the stage when liquid comes from the rapper’s right side, splashing her. The rapper then appears to look down from the stage in the direction the liquid came from and seems to throw her microphone in that direction.
The event made waves on social media as many criticized the person who threw the liquid. They compared the situation to recent similar events when artists Bebe Rexha, Harry Styles, and Ava Max had been struck by items during performances.
Others noted that although Cardi B had thrown her microphone, her song “Bodak Yellow” continued uninterrupted.
“The song didn’t stop. Y’all listening to an iPad,” said one X (f.k.a. Twitter) user.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, a woman went into a police station on Sunday to report a “battery.” She told officers that she had been struck by an item thrown from the stage on Saturday. Police said the incident had been documented, but no arrest or citations had been issued. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/cardi-b-throws-mic-after-being-hit-with-liquid-during-las-vegas-performance-video-shows/ | 2023-07-31T18:09:01 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/cardi-b-throws-mic-after-being-hit-with-liquid-during-las-vegas-performance-video-shows/ |
Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died.
Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” Reubens said in a statement released with the announcement of his death. “I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
The character with his too-tight gray suit, white chunky loafers and red bow tie was best known for the film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and the TV series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.”
Herman created Pee-wee when he was part of the Los Angeles improv group The Groundlings in the late 1970s. The live “Pee-wee Herman Show” debuted at a Los Angeles theater in 1981 and was a success with both kids during matinees and adults at a midnight show. HBO would air the show as a special.
Reubens took Pee-wee to the big screen in 1985′s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” The film, in which Pee-wee’s cherished bike is stolen, was said to be loosely based on Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neo-realist classic, “The Bicycle Thief.” The film, directed by Tim Burton and co-written by Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live,” sent Pee-wee on a nationwide escapade. The movie was a success, grossing $40 million, and continued to spawn a cult following for its oddball whimsy.
A sequel followed three years later in the less well-received “Big Top Pee-wee,” in which Pee-wee seeks to join a circus. Reubens’ character wouldn’t get another movie starring role until 2016′s Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” for Netflix. Judd Apatow produced Pee-wee’s big-screen revival.
His television series, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV.
Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl. The host, who is fond of secret words and loves fruit salad so much he once married it, is prone to lines like, “I know you are, but what am I?” and “Why don’t you take a picture; it’ll last longer?” The act was a hit because it worked on multiple levels, even though Reubens insists that wasn’t the plan.
“It’s for kids,” Reubens told The Associated Press in 2010. “People have tried to get me for years to go, ‘It wasn’t really for kids, right?’ Even the original show was for kids. I always censored myself to have it be kid-friendly.
“The whole thing has been just a gut feeling from the beginning,” Reubens told the AP. “That’s all it ever is and I think always ever be. Much as people want me to dissect it and explain it, I can’t. One, I don’t know, and two, I don’t want to know, and three, I feel like I’ll hex myself if I know.”
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Associated Press Writer Alicia Rancilio and Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this report.
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Former Leitchfield police officer accused of having sexual relationship with 17-year-old
LEITCHFIELD, Ky. (WTVQ) — A former Leitchfield police officer was arrested Friday after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old.
Kentucky State Police began an investigation into Jeremy Wright, of Caneyville, while he was still an LPD officer after the accusation he was having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. LPD first began investigating internally then turned the investigation over to KSP.
Wright resigned once the relationship was discovered, KSP said.
He’s charged with rape and sexual abuse. More charges could result after further investigation. | https://www.wtvq.com/former-leitchfield-police-officer-accused-of-having-sexual-relationship-with-17-year-old/ | 2023-07-31T18:09:02 | 0 | https://www.wtvq.com/former-leitchfield-police-officer-accused-of-having-sexual-relationship-with-17-year-old/ |
Whitesboro man ejected, dies in crash, officials say
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 12:59 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas (KXII) - A Whitesboro man died after being ejected from his truck in a crash on Saturday.
According to Texas DPS, Claude Speaker, 20, was driving north on FM-901 when he veered off the road, hit a utility pole and flipped his truck.
Troopers said he was not wearing a seatbelt, so he was ejected.
Speaker was pronounced dead at the scene.
Troopers said this is an ongoing investigation. No other information is available.
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