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A 59-year-old Manchester man had gotten out of his vehicle to help at the scene of a crash in the median on the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack when he was struck by another vehicle.
State police have made an arrest in the case of a driver who struck a Good Samaritan who had stopped to help at a crash scene early Friday morning on the F.E. Everett Turnpike in Merrimack, leaving the Good Samaritan with life-threatening injuries.
The victim, a 59-year-old man from Manchester, had pulled over on the right side of the southbound turnpike and gotten out of his vehicle to help at the scene of a motor vehicle crash in the center median that was blocking the left lane, according to a news release.
As the man was walking toward the crash scene, he was struck by a vehicle that entered the grass shoulder off the right side of the highway, state police said.
The victim was transported first to Elliot Hospital and then to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with life-threatening injuries.
Police said the vehicle, which left the roadway and struck the pedestrian in the grass median, left the scene without stopping.
Late Friday, state police announced that Jose Enrique Cruz Vasquez, 30, of Manchester, was arrested. Police believe he is the driver of the car that struck the man.
State police said in a press release that Vasquez "was taken into custody at the New Hampshire State Police Troop B Barracks without incident." He is charged with reckless conduct with a deadly weapon and conduct after an accident. He will be arraigned at Hillsborough County Superior Court on Monday.
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TULSA, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation Film Office (CNFO) has partnered with the Native American Media Alliance (NAMA) in efforts to help grow Native representation in film and television.
NAMA is a community-based organization that advocates for Native American representation in the entertainment industry and works as a resource for industry personnel to work with Native Americans who have an authentic voice for film, television and new media.
CNFO says the collaboration includes support from major industry allies and the Motion Picture Association. Their goal is to expand diversity and inclusion throughout the entertainment industry in front and behind cameras.
“With Natives currently comprising less than 1% of these professions, the significant need for diversity, inclusion, and accurate representation of Native identity within film and television has remained prevalent since the industries’ earliest years,” said Jennifer Loren, director of the Cherokee Nation Film Office and Original Content. “We are honored to continue working alongside the Barcid Foundation and so many other great supporters in engaging, promoting, and increasing Native talent throughout these industries.”
CNFO along with Netflix, Amazon Studios, WarnerMedia, Snowpants Productions, and Kung Fu Monkey Productions have all partnered in support of NAMA and its TV and feature film labs, workshops, and seminars.
This initiative helps Native Americans launch into entertainment and new media professions and protect Natives who are already employed within these industries.
NAMA and its partnering agencies ensure fair and accurate portrayals of Native America.
“We are honored to join each of our partners in our endeavor to continually develop and offer new ways to support our artists,” said Ian Skorodin, director of strategy for the Native American Media Alliance. “We have a talented community in need of exposure, access, and opportunity. Our programming is helping get more Native American voices in front of the right people who can develop their content and build their careers.”
Throughout the year, NAMA presents programming geared specifically toward creating and expanding access for Natives interested in film and television.
NAMA says it recently chose 12 partners for the 7th Annual Native American TV Writers Lab. The lab consists of daily workshops, seminars, and one-on-one mentoring to help screenwriters develop a pilot and hone staff writing skills. Applications are now available for this summer's 2nd Annual Native American Writers Seminar.
The seminar lasts one month and includes writing workshops, as well as individual mentoring and group sessions that focus on the development of existing scripts and submission preparation for writing fellowships.
To learn more or to submit an application for upcoming programs, click here.
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SALTILLO • A Verona police officer is facing serious charges after he caused an accident Friday night in Saltillo while in uniform and under the influence.
Jonathan David Boyd, 32, was arrested by the Mississippi Highway Patrol and charged with driving under the influence-second offense, leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a suspended license, expired driver’s license and no proof of insurance.
Saltillo Police Chief Daniel McKinney said one car sideswiped another inside the city limits around 7 p.m. on April 7. After stopping briefly, the drivers agreed to continue on to a convenience store near the intersection of highways 45 and 145. When the driver who instigated the wreck did not stop, the other driver called 911.
“He (Boyd) was in his personal vehicle but was wearing a full Verona PD uniform,” McKinney said.
The information was relayed to authorities who contacted Boyd via his 911 radio. Boyd then returned to the scene.
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“Once we realized it was an officer, we called in the Highway Patrol to let them take over,” McKinney said.
Boyd was booked into the Lee County Jail Friday night. He was released on bond Saturday morning around 8:30.
This is not the first time Boyd has been arrested for drunk driving. Since he is charged with DUI-second offense, he must have a DUI conviction within the last five years. And that case might have been while he was a Saltillo police officer.
“He was charged with DUI back when he worked for Saltillo. That’s the reason he left,” McKinney said. “I’m not sure exactly when it was. That was before I became chief.”
Verona Police Chief Marsenio Nunn did not respond to calls to check on Boyd’s status with the department.
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James Roy Eaton (63) passed away Friday, April 8, 2022 at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. His greatest blessing in life was his family, especially his grandchildren. He was the co-owner of The Pit Stop in Jumpertown for 31 years, cooking steaks was his specialty. He enjoyed spending time with his family, going on family vacations, cooking for others, collecting antiques and always looking for a bargain. Services are 3 pm Monday, April 11, 2022 at Antioch Baptist Church #2 with Bro. Jerry Trimble and Bro. David George officiating. Burial will follow in the Antioch Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 3 pm Sunday, April 10, 2022 at Antioch Baptist Church and will go until service time on Monday. James Roy is survived by his wife of 38 years, Trina Davis Eaton of Jumpertown; his daughter, Carley Woodruff (Brad) of Blackland; his brother, John Wayne Eaton (Gail) of Jumpertown; his sisters, Kathy Reed (Joe) of Jumpertown and Dorothy Dunahoo (Buddy) of Booneville; his father-in-law, Garvin Davis of Jumpertown and his beloved grandchildren, Ivy-Kate, Jack Riley and Sean Ellis Woodruff. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Janell Eaton; his mother-in-law, Bettie Sue Davis and his brother-in-law, Scotty Davis. Pallbearers are; Eddy Davis, Brad Davis, Shane Reed, Buzz Michael, John Berryhill and Terry Yates, Jr. Condolences to the family may be made online at www.keslerfuneralhome.com
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Nettleton- Bobby G. "Trailblazer" Tucker Sr. ,72, gained his wings on April 8, 2022 after fighting a two year battle with cancer . He will be reunited with his parents and brother. Bobby was born at home in Nettleton , MS on September 8, 1949 to parents Jay L. Tucker and Lorene Riley Tucker. Bobby played football for Nettleton High School and he graduated in 1970. He worked at Eljer for 35 years , the City of Nettleton , and he retired from Cason Water Department. Bobby never met a stranger and could strike up a conversation with just about anybody, He was know as "Trailblazer" to his hunting buddies. His hunting buddies were Jerry "Polebean" Farris, Don "Silverstreak" Jones, Steven Bishop, son Lane and grandson Levi Garrett. He was an amazing gardener that could turn the worst soil into a beautiful and productive garden. He loved showing and breeding Walker hounds and he loved to listen to them run. Funeral services will be at Tisdale-Memorial Funeral Home Chapel of Nettleton, MS on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. with Bro. Danny Burks officiating. Burial will be in Jones Chapel Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Ruth Wildman Tucker of Plantersville; children, Bobby G. Tucker Jr. (Krystal) of Nettleton; Misty Nicole Daniels (Michael) of Becker; stepchildren, Amy Seymore Mobley (Brian) of Becker, Michael G. Seymore of Nettleton; grandchildren, Montana, Erika, Olivia Tucker and Levi Garrett, bonus grandchildren, Jacob and Drew Mobley, Alex, Nathan, Jonathan , Sarah Daniels, five great grandchildren, sisters, Virginia Tucker Edge (Bud) of Baldwyn; Ann Skelton Tucker (the late Jess) of Nettleton; brothers-in -law Joe Shuffield (Vickie) of Fayette, Al; sister-in laws Cheryl Morris of Greenville, Jeanne L. Miller (Glenn) of Hernando, MS; many nieces , nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, first wife Carolyn Harris Tucker, and one brother John Tucker. Pallbearers will be Darus Bynum, Don Jones, Jerry Farris, Steven Bishop, Benny Neal, Robert Gilmore, and Honorary pallbearers will be Levi Garrett and Jacob Mobley. Visitation will be on Monday, April 11, 2022 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the funeral home and on Tuesday one hour before service time .
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My wife of 45 years died six months ago this week. I have been processing her loss ever since. But the American Psychiatric Association now says that I have only six more months to heal myself, and that if I blow the deadline, I should be clinically defined as mentally diseased.
It’s not in my nature to use this column for personal business. But the APA’s decision to add “prolonged grief” (defined as one year or more) to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders strikes me as a ludicrous attempt to reboot natural bereavement as a disease. And once you’re diagnosed with this newly created disorder, I bet there will be meds to make it all better.
I can’t speak for other grieving souls, and, granted, I’m still a newbie. But I’ll hazard a guess that most people in similar straits fail to reorient their emotional framework within one year’s time. Heck, some people conclude their time on earth without ever finding a modicum of peace. We, the walking wounded, are grappling with life’s worst disorders, navigating at our disparate speeds. That doesn’t mean we’re “sick.”
Six months after my own heart was gutted, I seem to be an everyday functioning person. But there’s no way that I can clear the APA’s one-year hurdle. When Oct. 3, 2022, comes and goes, I’m quite sure I will meet the association’s new definition of diseased. I’ll still feel pained when I hear a song that my wife and I loved. I’ll still feel pained when I try to watch new seasons of a show that she never got to finish. I’ll still sit with a book and zone out about some shared moment 30 years past. I’ll still keep the “peasant dress” that she wore on our first New Year’s Eve. I’ll still hear echoes of her doctors talking in code (“it’s a tricky case” and “it’s a complicated case,” which meant she was doomed). At odd moments I’ll still hear her voice (“Oh, Rick?”) summoning me to her sickbed. At odd moments I’ll still feel lost in time and space.
But I won’t see any of that as illness.
I’m sure there are extreme cases of grief that do require medical treatment, but, as NYU psychiatry professor Benjamin Sadock points out, “In rare instances, prolonged grief progresses to depression, a well-recognized disorder that encompasses all of the symptoms of the ‘new’ diagnosis of prolonged grief, a disorder that is unnecessary, unwarranted, and one that may stigmatize those so diagnosed.”
Devyn Greenberg, a grad student who lost her dad to COVID writes: “It’s not just personal indignation that stirs me about the (APA’s) decision. I worry for others who have loved and lost – at some point, all of us. I worry that this framing will render us even lonelier in our pain, even more convinced that our nonlinear, unpredictable paths through loss are ‘wrong’…Many of the symptoms the psychiatric association uses to define ‘prolonged grief’ are shockingly common. ‘Intense emotional pain (e.g., anger, bitterness, sorrow)’? Let’s call that a Tuesday. ‘Identity disruption’? When you’ve walked through a portal through which you cannot return, of course your sense of self changes dramatically.”
And Martha Weinman Lear, who authored a book about loss, writes that the beneficiaries of the APA’s new diagnosis will be “pill makers.” She says: “What strikes me as abnormal is not grief beyond the APA’s one-year prescription, but the degree of chutzpah required, professional training notwithstanding, to presume to set timelines for the normal grief of others, which in fact is as various as the grievers themselves.”
The APA’s one-year deadline smacks of classic American impatience: “Get over it” and “Move on with your life.” Like the cowboy in Lonesome Dove who said, “Best thing to do with death is to ride off from it.” Um, it’s not that simple. At my six-month mark, I do feel myself “getting over it” — the worst of it anyway, but with many caveats. I do feel myself “moving on” — as best I can, but with many caveats: Is it possible to feel happy again? Is it wrong?
Bottom line: I like the Bob Dylan line, “he not busy being born is busy dying.” What you do is, you learn to live with the emotional pain. Then you cushion it with all the joy you can muster for the good things in your life — be they family, friends (old and new), work, travel, biking, hiking, whatever — because you realize that gratitude can be a powerful palliative. You accept melancholia and whenever possible you lighten it with mirth. You honor your loss and accept the fact that your old life, and all the ways your loved one enhanced it, is irrevocably over — and that it’s now incumbent to craft a new one.
Sorry, headshrinkers. I won’t need meds for that.
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Since it seems to have become something of a thing of late, here’s what the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says about the right to an attorney and the right to a fair and speedy trial:
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
You will note that the nation’s foundational document does not say you get to “have the assistance of counsel” for your defense unless you’re an accused terrorist, or a Nazi, or, even if you’re Attila the Hun and you’re fresh off sacking some far-flung province of the Roman Empire.
Nope. You have the right to an attorney. Period. And, as further case law dictates, if you “cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.” It’s legal chapter and verse that every American, raised on a steady diet of Law & Order reruns, knows by heart.
Unless, of course, you’re Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a 2002 graduate of Harvard Law School, who took Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to task on the Senate floor for her previous work as a federal public defender.
As a refresher, the Biden's newly-confirmed Supreme Court pick represented Guantánamo detainees — which, as a federal public defender, is something her job required her to do under the U.S. Constitution.
Then, Cotton, a “no” vote on Jackson’s nomination, who almost certainly knows better, went one better, and brought up the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who served on the court from 1941 until his death in 1954.
“You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg to prosecute the case against the Nazis,” Cotton appallingly said. “This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them.”
Cotton was half right. The late Justice Jackson did step away from the high court to prosecute Nazis for war crimes at the Nuremberg tribunals. But he not only also supported the defendants’ right to counsel, he also played a key role in helping to enshrine the right to a defense lawyer into international law, the newspaper reported.
But let’s assume for a moment that Cotton was in earnest and wasn’t simply a wingman in the GOP hit squad that worked hard (but failed) to tank the nomination of the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Embedded in his comments were the assumption that there is something wrong with an attorney carrying out their constitutionally charged duty to provide an effective defense of someone accused of heinous crimes. It’s the same hope we all harbor if, God forbid, we ever find ourselves in the dock: That our attorney will work as hard, and impartially, as humanly possible, to secure a favorable verdict on our behalf.
If Cotton’s statements were merely a cynical aberration, that would be one thing.
ButRepublicans, who have tried to claim the mantle of defenders of the Constitution, and whose members have often bragged about keeping a miniature copy with them at all times, have, in the words of the Post’s Aaron Blake, “an increasingly novel relationship” with the document that James Madison and the Founders pulled together in Philadelphia in 1787.
Over my years as a journalist, I’ve come to know many public defenders. To a person, they have been deeply committed and intelligent, often very funny, and utterly dedicated to the law. Their backgrounds have encompassed every part of the American experience. And, to my knowledge, not one has ever said, “Hooray, I get to represent terrorists and murderers today.”
Instead, they’ve taken on their usually hopeless assignment, often for very low pay compared to their colleagues across the legal trade, and they’ve done the best they can with it.Sometimes they win. More often, they lose. But they keep showing up for work.
Because that’s what the Constitution demands of them. And that’s how we hope our best public servants will act.
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Greetings from Sunshine Healthcare:
We are excited to start a new week. We are also excited to welcome a new season and month. Time is swiftly passing by. We are also excited to be able to add more of our spring activities back to the calendar. Let us tell you a little about our week.
Monday, we began our morning with devotion and prayer. The topic was, “Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.” Monday afternoon, the competition was stiff as we played a game of quarter tic tac toe. Residents won a quarter for each win and then it went up to fifty cents. The game became intense.
Tuesday, we began the morning with music and exercise. We worked up a sweat in a matter of minutes. This helps keep our bodies loose and ready to conquer the day. Tuesday afternoon, we gathered for our monthly resident council meeting. This allows residents to express any concerns/issues they may have and gives them a chance to address any changes, news/or updates within the facility. We also discuss residents’ rights and quality of life.
Wednesday, we began the day with a fun game of guess the song. This was such a fun activity and allowed residents to reminisce also. Much laughter and dancing were going on in the room. Wednesday afternoon, while awaiting the arrival of the storms, residents gathered in the hallways to listen to music and socialize while staying safe.
Thursday, we began our day with brother Fudd from Homecare Hospice and Brother Michael Baker. The devotion and songs of praise set the mood for the rest of the day. We enjoyed them and look forward to their visit next month. Later that day, we played a game of snack bingo. This gives everyone a chance to win a sweet treat.
Friday morning, we spent some much-needed time with the male residents. We gathered and chatted over coffee and coffee cake. This was a hit and we look forward to it again next week. Later that morning, we spent most of the day getting pampered as everyone waited their turn for a manicure. We enjoy spending our Fridays catching up on the latest news with one another while waiting. It's always a pleasure to see a smile on everyone’s face.
Saturday morning, we spent the morning over coffee and donuts with Kayla, while listening to some of our favorite artists. This was a great way to kick off our weekend.
Sunday morning, we enjoyed Sunday school with Mr. Westmoreland. We really enjoy having him each week.
We here at Sunshine really enjoy being able to share all of our exciting news with you. To learn more about what we do from day to day here at Sunshine Healthcare, you can also like our Sunshine Healthcare Page on Facebook. Visitations are taking place. Also, Sunshine welcomes any volunteer groups that would like to come and entertain our residents. Your presence would be greatly appreciated. Please give us a call at (662) 489-1189 ext 247 to be added to our calendar. We hope that you all continue to have a blessed week. Kayla Williams signing out until next week!!!
Today’s Quotes of the Day
“What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows.”
-Ralph Marston
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Outside the Michigan courthouse where a jury did not convict any of the four men charged with planning to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a defense lawyer said jurors saw the alleged plot as what it was: Dirty FBI tactics and "rough talk."
The men — who were heard on audio during the trial talking about killing Whitmer, blowing up a bridge and other violence — didn't say anything shocking, attorney Michael Hills said.
"If I don't like the governor and it's rough talk, I can do that in our country. That's what's beautiful about this country. That's what's great about it," Hills said.
But to others, Friday's outcome following a weekslong trial was a chilling reminder that the political violence that is raging across the U.S. too often goes unpunished. From attacks on social media and elsewhere that disproportionately affect women lawmakers, to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the plan to abduct Whitmer, people are increasingly angry and feeling emboldened to act on it, they say.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed former President Donald Trump for stoking anger over COVID-19 restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists. On Friday, her office said people across the country are experiencing "a normalization" of violence. A Democratic state lawmaker said the threats posed won't be taken seriously "until someone dies."
"The plot to kidnap and kill a governor may seem like an anomaly. But we must be honest about what it really is: the result of violent, divisive rhetoric that is all too common across our country," Whitmer's chief of staff, JoAnne Huls, said in a statement.
Four men — Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris — were arrested in October 2020. Federal prosecutors said they wanted to kidnap Whitmer because they were angry over pandemic restrictions she imposed, and saw her as a "tyrant" who needed to be removed.
Prosecutors presented evidence at the federal trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from undercover agents, an FBI informant and two men who pleaded guilty to the plot. Jurors also read and heard secretly recorded conversations, violent social media posts and chat messages.
Defense attorneys argued that the men were entrapped by the FBI — pulled into an alleged plot they would never have participated in if not for the government and its informants luring them. They painted the men as wannabes who were frequently high and easily influenced, or in one case, a former member of the military who wanted to brush up on firearms training.
Before returning their verdicts, the jury said that after nearly five days of deliberations they could not agree unanimously on all 10 of the charges against the men.
Harris, 24, and Caserta, 33, were found not guilty of conspiracy. Harris also was acquitted of charges related to explosives and a gun.
The jury could not reach verdicts for Fox, 38, and Croft, 46, which means the government can put them on trial again.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge said after the verdicts that "We have two defendants that are awaiting trial and we'll get back to work on that."
Hills, who defended Caserta, said the outcome was a message to the government that the FBI's actions were "unconscionable." He said the federal government should "let it go" rather than take Croft and Fox to trial a second time.
Others were stunned by the jury's decision, and said it set a dangerous example.
Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist called on elected officials, parents, teachers and others to stand up to "these hateful actions and teach our kids that there is a better way."
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COLUMBUS • The first book in a four-part series written by a lifelong educator has been published.
"Pearlie … I Dream: Peace in the Home" is the first in a nonfiction series written by Starkville native Yvonne Bardwell Cox, current member of the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees.
The book's main character, Pearlie, is named after Cox's grandmother, Pearl, but the character's personality and experiences are based on Cox's life. The author said the books are meant to be creative teaching and learning tools demonstrating family values and love.
"My books are written for children ages 3 and up, children with disabilities, at-risk children, parents, teachers, childcare professionals, etc. to recognize teachable moments and enhance hands-on reading experiences," Cox said. "Each book in the series will share the thoughts that have stayed with me, and the many childhood memories embedded deep in my heart and mind."
Cox said she always wanted to write a children's book, but didn't find the time until 2020, when the pandemic started.
"It was a time for me to do some spiritual and physical healing. So, I wrote all the thoughts I had about the book," she said. "'Pearlie … I Dream' content is what the Lord has given me. As I was writing, I could really just see what I was writing.
"Once I started putting it together, it became a book about a special love and support given to me at a very young age."
During Cox's childhood, she lived with her grandmother, mom, aunt, her three brothers and two cousins.
"We thought we had everything we needed," she said. "(Our upbringing) taught us to believe in ourselves and who we wanted to be in life."
The other books in the series have been written, Cox said, but are in various stages of the publication process.
Cox said she hopes to get her books into every public library in the Golden Triangle and hopefully into schools.
The book is currently available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online bookstores. It includes illustrations for children to help them study facial expressions and learn about the story through the art. There also worksheets that feature activities related to the book. The book also contains a few pages of comprehensive questions for children to answer.
"When I wrote the book, I thought about how children learn to read. Some kids need to be read to, some need adults to read with them, and others can read independently," she said. "After they read, we ask them to apply what they read. 'How do you feel?' 'How do you think Pearlie feels?'
"We look at keywords. We'll bring up the word 'love' and look at what it actually means," she continued. "How you teach children from the beginning will determine how they develop a lifetime love of learning."
The book series is a family affair. Cox's daughter-in-law, Stacie Johnson, is the illustrator, while her son, Michael Johnson, is the business manager. They put together the website and help Cox with other aspects of the book's publication.
"She drew the pictures according to what I was saying," Cox said of Stacie Johnson. "I told her what was going on and she drew it. (Children) will be able to look at the illustrations and listen to what's being read to them and know what's happening in the book."
Cox is currently doing book-signings and other activities to promote her book. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority will host an online literary cafe April 23 in which Cox will discuss her book. Details can be found on the "Pearlie … I Dream" website, pearlieidream.com .
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STARKVILLE — No. 19 LSU hasn't lost a series at Dudy Noble Field since 2003, and the trend won't stop in 2022. The Tigers took the second game of the series Saturday with a final score of 4-3 — clinching a series win after a dramatic Game 1 win Friday.
The Bulldogs left 12 runners on base in Saturday's loss, making that 20 left on base in the series.
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The teams return to the field at 1 p.m. Sunday for the finale. MSU will look to salvage the series with Cade Smith taking the mound.
Below are our live updates from the afternoon.
First inning
Lack of control already hurting Stinnett. Three runners up and three runs for LSU after a Jacob Berry three-run blast. Stinnett retired the next two before allowing another two hits. Chris Lemonis pulls him after 2/3 innings pitched. Brandon Smith is in for State.
A leadoff bomb from RJ Yeager has brought life back to Dudy Noble Field. State adds another on an error. It's 3-2 LSU after one.
Second inning
Scoreless frame.
Third inning
Smith continues to impress. He tosses another scoreless frame.
State can't get anything going offensively.
Fourth inning
Another scoreless frame fro Smith.
Fifth inning
Lax play from Lane Forsythe allows a liner to drop with one out in the frame. LSU has a runner on with Smith still on the mound. Smith works around it for another scoreless frame.
Kamren James sends one down the line in left, and it's all knotted up at three.
State is looking to break the tie with the bases loaded and two outs. Matt Corder is pinch hitting for Brayland Skinner. Corder goes down in three pitches. Tied at three going to the sixth.
Sixth inning
Jordan Thompson leads off the inning with a home run. Smith maintains the damage from there. LSU leads 4-3.
State leaves another runner stranded at third. That's nine left on base for MSU.
Seventh inning
Smith is done with two out and two on in the seventh. He receives a standing ovation on his way back to the dugout. Pico Kohn in looking to salvage the inning without a run allowed.
Another scoreless frame for MSU with a runner left on base.
Eighth inning
Kohn works a clean eighth capped off by a 1-4-3 double play.
Two more left on base for MSU as Luke Hancock goes down swinging to end the threat.
Ninth inning
Kohn strikes out the side and lets out a scream toward his dugout. He's pumped, and surely he wouldn't mind if his offense got something going in the bottom half.
MSU goes down in order to end the game.
STEFAN KRAJISNIK is the Mississippi State athletics reporter for the Daily Journal. Contact him at stefan.krajisnik@djournal.com.
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STARKVILLE • Mississippi State had its return to life inside Davis Wade Stadium on Saturdays this weekend with an open scrimmage as an appetizer to next week’s spring game — though the spring game won’t look much different.
The Bulldogs experimented with a variety of players in various roles, including four quarterbacks lining up in Mike Leach’s Air Raid offense.
Here are three takeaways from the exhibition:
Kicker saga continues
Leach and special teams coach Eric Mele utilized the transfer portal after an ugly season at kicker. Massimo Biscardi and Ben Raybon came in and were spotless in the scrimmage — though the majority of kicks were from about 30 yards out.
However, the standard they have to meet is low.
“It’s a lot better than last year,” Leach said. “If I had any eligibility, I’d have kicked last year.”
Brandon Ruiz declared for the NFL Draft after missing four of nine kicks last season and battling injuries. Nolan McCord transferred to Western Kentucky after missing seven of 16 attempts.
When McCord saw Leach’s comments following the scrimmage on Twitter, his response was simple.
“Lol,” he wrote.
This is Rogers’ team
It wasn’t the cleanest of performances for Will Rogers, which Leach says is as expected to some extent. With quarterbacks taking turns each drive, Rogers never found a groove — though he had a nice 22-yard touchdown pass to Rufus Harvey.
But there’s little doubt Rogers is going to be State’s quarterback entering next season.
Sawyer Robertson’s potential is evident, and his time is likely coming, but not yet. Leach’s track record shows he works with experienced quarterbacks, and Robertson’s growing pains were on display in the scrimmage.
He closed out by finding his rhythm but not after a couple ugly moments. Robertson was intercepted by Corey Ellington on his opening drive. Ellington returned it for a touchdown.
Soon after, Robertson threw an interception to newcomer Jackie Matthews. But once Robertson got going, he completed a pair of touchdowns.
Leach credited State’s defensive front with some of the issues created for Rogers and Robertson.
Life without Polk
Mississippi State’s outside receivers coach Steve Spurrier Jr. has a tough task ahead by trying to replace Makai Polk and his 105 receptions.
Antonio Harmon has come up as a potential guy with a consistent and flashy spring. He continued his successful play with a 23-yard touchdown.
“He’s naturally physical,” Leach said. “I think that’s a lesson all those receivers can take because right now I think we’re kinda soft at receiver. We gotta be tougher.”
Practices and scrimmages aren’t always indicative of who will succeed in the regular season, but it was for Polk throughout fall camp last season.
Leach is hoping that’s the case for Harmon as well as Harvey.
Harvey had a pair of touchdowns in the scrimmage, with the aforementioned 22-yard catch and a 15-yard catch later from Robertson.
“Rufus has been kinda uncanny good for a while,” Leach said. “If Rufus gets enough reps, he’s always gonna find his way into the end zone.”
Caleb Ducking is another candidate to help fill Polk’s shoes, but his inconsistency leaves him as a question mark. He fumbled a catch in the scrimmage which was returned 65 yards for a touchdown.
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Enjoy golfing and other activities in Plantation Bay
This former model home sits on a corner lot in the desirable Ormond Beach community of Plantation Bay. A beautiful paver driveway leads to this gorgeous residence with more than 1,900 square feet of living space. The interior features a living and dining room combination, an open kitchen with breakfast bar, sliders to a screened lanai, high ceilings and beautiful new flooring. Other upgrades include a paver walkway, an inside laundry room and a beautiful primary-suite bath. Close to shopping, beaches and the airport, it is directly across from Prestwick Lake and a park. Plantation Bay offers its residents an array of activities and amenities, including swimming, tennis, fitness, two clubhouses as well as two 18-hole and one 9-hole golf courses.
ADDRESS: 529 Aldenham Lane, Ormond Beach
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 1,921
LOT SIZE: 98 feet by 120 feet
BEDROOMS: 2
BATHROOMS: 2
STORIES: 1
YEAR BUILT: 2003
PRICE: $439,000
CONTACT: Carly and Neal Krajewski, Realty Pros Assured, 386-872-0878
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This beautifully furnished vacation paradise won't disappoint
Just bring your toothbrush because this beautifully furnished Oceanwalk condominium has everything you need to enjoy the Florida lifestyle. Just steps away from the pristine beach, this lovely unit has nearly 1,700 square feet of living space that holds three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The bedrooms have balconies for relaxing, and a screened-in balcony off the kitchen is the ideal spot for family meals. Family getaways will be everything you hoped for in this condominium community, which features an exercise room, sauna, pool with spa and decks, a lighted tennis courts, two shuffleboard courts, a lighted basketball court, a barbecue area and much more.
ADDRESS: 5300 S. Atlantic Ave., Unit 7207, New Smyrna Beach
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 1,695
BEDROOMS: 3
BATHROOMS: 2
STORIES: 1
YEAR BUILT: 2016
PRICE: $479,900
CONTACT: Donna Kearfott, Adams, Cameron & Co Realtors, 407-399-9048
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Gracious estate in The Trails has it all
In addition to its fabulous location in the Trails, this gracious estate has it all, including space for everyone and a beautiful, tree-shaded lot on a cul-de-sac. The inviting front porch leads into the two-story foyer with a beautiful, curved staircase. Off the entry, the light-filled living-dining room provides great entertaining space. Solid-wood flooring continues into the kitchen, filled with gorgeous wood cabinets, newer appliances, an eat-in area with tons of natural light and an adjacent laundry room with a refrigerator and a half bath. Step down into the family room, with a fireplace, wood flooring and doors leading to a screened porch, with roof and skylights. Also downstairs is the comfortable owner's suite with a large walk-in closet, a spacious bath and an adjoining office/den or fifth bedroom. Take the gorgeous staircase to three more bedrooms with lots of closet space, plus two 13-foot-by-6-foot storage closets.
ADDRESS: 7 Whispering Pines Trail, Ormond Beach
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 4,114
LOT SIZE: 137 feet by 130 feet
BEDROOMS: 5
BATHROOMS: 3 full and 2 half baths
STORIES: 2
YEAR BUILT: 1986
PRICE: $729,000
CONTACT: Janet Dannehower, Adams Cameron & Co Realtors, 386-451-7070
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Turnkey home in DeBary Woods has lots of upgrades
This move-in-ready home has an extensive list of upgrades, including a 2016 roof, 2018 AC and water heater, a 2019 whole-house solar-energy system and a generator with a 2022 battery. The kitchen, which looks out on the family room, was completely remodeled with 42-inch upper cabinets, quartz countertops, stainless-steel appliances and a gas stove. There’s crown molding in the spacious living room and beautiful dining room, a breakfast nook and a family room with a gas fireplace and French doors leading to the patio. The split-floor-plan interior offers generous-sized bedrooms and a bath with a new vanity and quartz countertop. The spacious owner’s suite has dual walk-in closets, two new vanities, quartz countertops and a separate tub and shower. The covered screened patio leads to the private backyard with vinyl fence and a small concrete pad. DeBary Woods is an ideal small community that is located close to restaurants, shopping and major roadways.
ADDRESS: 59 Hollow Pine Drive, DeBary
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 1,867
LOT SIZE: 8,881 square feet
BEDROOMS: 3
BATHROOMS: 2
STORIES: 1
YEAR BUILT: 1997
PRICE: $410,000
CONTACT: Robin Massa, Adams, Cameron & Co Realtors, 352-423-3821
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Spacious and inviting family home is in Tomoka Oaks
This five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home in the sought-after Ormond Beach community of Tomoka Oaks has room for lots of family and friends. It features golf-course views, tile throughout the main-living area for easy maintenance and tons of living space, including a spacious living room and an updated kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, lots of cabinets and counter space and a large center island. The second floor holds three guest bedrooms and a full bathroom, plus the large primary suite with a private bath. The lower level includes an extra living area with a wood-burning fireplace, an additional bedroom, a full bath and a laundry room. Outside, a screened-in patio overlooks the golf course and the above-ground pool.
ADDRESS: 53 S. St. Andrews Drive, Ormond Beach
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 2,876
LOT SIZE: 103 feet by 129 feet
BEDROOMS: 5
BATHROOMS: 4 full, 1 half
STORIES: 3
YEAR BUILT: 1966
PRICE: $459,900
CONTACT: Heather Leek, Realty Pros Assured, 386-562-7371
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Halifax Plantation pool home backs up to a preserve
This well-maintained Halifax Plantation pool home sits on a private lot on a cul-de-sac. With a preserve as its backdrop, this four-bedroom, three-bath residence stands out with its great curb appeal and professional landscaping. In addition to a three-car garage, it features an open floor plan with 11-foot ceilings, a large living room, dining room, an office/bonus room and a kitchen with granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances and a breakfast nook. The private owner’s suite, which offers access to the lanai, has his-and-hers closets and a bathroom with a garden tub, shower and double sinks. The other side of the home holds the remaining three bedrooms including one with a full bath. Outside, the screened-in lanai overlooks the inground pool and the preserve area for complete privacy.
ADDRESS: 3333 Westmeath Drive, Ormond Beach
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 2,250
LOT SIZE: 98 feet by 130 feet
BEDROOMS: 4
BATHROOMS: 3
STORIES: 1
YEAR BUILT: 2006
PRICE: $500,000
CONTACT: Carly and Neal Krajewski, Realty Pros Assured, 386-872-0878
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KEN WILLIS: The Masters as a "civilian" is quite fulfilling ... even without egg salad
AUGUSTA, GA. — Always said I’d do it someday. Only took me 36 years to get around to it.
If you’re going to turn around your media credential at Augusta National and spend a day at the Masters as a fan, it’s best to do it on Thursday or Friday, when all the golfers are still here before the 36-hole cut.
Oops, patron. Fans are for other venues. The general routine is to spend much of the day on the course before returning to the press building (yes, they still call us "press") to start typing. Finally, it was time to postpone the typing and spend all day out there.
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After being away the past couple of years due to those worldwide unforeseen circumstances, there were a couple of small culture shocks and, yes, they happened at the concession stands.
Stands? More like concession arenas.
Augusta National and the Masters now offer their own craft brew — "Crow’s Nest," taking its name from the amateur living quarters atop the old clubhouse. It tastes quite Blue Moony, a tad more stout than my regular peasant beer, and since it’s gonna be a long day, it was best to stick with the favored domestic light — horror of horrors, the price has jumped to $5!
What’s the world coming to when Augusta can’t beat the price of a beachside bar in Volusia County?
Hold the phone … the two sandwich faves, pimento cheese and egg salad, remain a buck-50. And that beer is still roughly $10 cheaper than what you'd get at a big-league ballgame.
The high-end sandwich offerings still include fried chicken breast, ham-and-cheese, club, and the one hot offering, barbecue.
And whaddaya know, they’ve also tinkered with tradition on the food front, dipping into the free-agent market and bringing in another southern must — chicken salad, yet this is on brioche, which apparently is French for fluffy burger bun.
Before leaving the food lane, here’s one more pitch for the best thing you’ll ever eat if given the opportunity to do so: Go ahead, spend the three bucks, get the pimento and egg salad sandwiches. Toss away a piece of bread from each, slam it together, and I swear, at first bite you’ll hear harps playing.
The clumsy oafs who managed to mix their peanut butter and chocolate way back when have nothing on this combo.
OK, one last minor culture shock from the concessions. Over the years, you get accustomed to hitting the ATM before the Masters in order to have cash at the ready for the above-mentioned delicacies. You pull out a 20, walk to the smiling cashier, and learn you’re at the credit-only counter. Then you look around and realize they’re all credit-only counters.
Those two years of touchless transactions apparently stuck. Nearby, there’s a kiosk with a sign offering “Cash to Card” ATM services. Imagine someone, these days, with a wad of cash but no credit card. If they’re hungry, they’ll need to have a card slid out at them.
Talk about confusing the modern psyche.
Speaking of which, outside of perhaps the inner chambers of the Vatican, Augusta National remains the one place free of cell phones. And though you get used to that over the years, it hits home again when a partnering patron suggests how nice it is to visit Amen Corner without seeing hundreds of folks taking selfies with Rae’s Creek in the background.
Yep, quite pleasant. Watch a regular PGA Tour tournament and count the cell phones in the background. Just kidding … there are too many to count.
It’s quite a dichotomy, really. This tournament has always been on the leading edge of technology, offering homebound fans so many viewing options and informational links on its Masters.com website. Yet the most ubiquitous component of our generation — the cell phone, the biggest must-have since the wheel, or maybe even fire — can’t be found anywhere on the 365 acres of rolling North Georgia hills.
That lack of instantly available info comes into play when you start experiencing one of those Augusta traditions you couldn’t escape if you chose to: The Masters roars, coming from the distance but bouncing from pine to pine and eventually sending a signal to all corners that something happened down yonder way.
A few are like gunshots (a holed pitch shot, maybe even a hole-in-one), but most are for birdie putts and usually birdie putts from a fan favorite or, on Sunday, anyone in contention.
For Tiger, a par-save will suffice. Sometimes it's a building rumble ending in a thundering roar — "somebody's approach shot or chip just caught a slope and slowly tracked into the hole."
Without that instant info at your fingertips, you’re left to your years of experience to determine which hole it’s coming from and for what reason. Pay attention over the years, and you can make that correct call and impress your friends. Check the pairing sheet, and you might even be able to tell who did it.
Another culture shock: You don’t worry about your stuff. Any of it. An example …
Set up your chairs along the ropes under the thick magnolias on the north side, close to the first green, eighth green and ninth tee. Decide on a walk down No. 2 to watch a couple groups hit second shots toward the par-5 green.
You not only leave your backpack on a chair, but also your clear bag full of items you bought at the merchandise building because, you know, you can’t live without that 12th Masters souvenir cap.
You do this year after year after year, yet knowing what we know about the perceptions of a backsliding society, you always spend two seconds reminding yourself that you’ll return to find everything right where you left it — unless a gust of wind knocks over your chairs, in which case a rope-line neighbor will have righted your gear.
If you do it right, by day’s end you’re nearing 20,000 steps, both uphill and down, even with some four hours spent in the chairs and bleachers. You feel all those steps by bedtime, and it gives you more respect for all of the older returning champs (Sandy Lyle and Larry Mize among the modern guys) as well as the compromised (Tiger Woods this year) who spend much or most of a week hoofing across this ground.
But then again, let’s see ’em try it after four sandwiches and, ahem, a couple beers.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
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It's a new chapter in manned space flight, the first time an all-private crew goes into space on a private non-government spacecraft.
The commander, a former NASA astronaut, spoke before the flight.
"It's been a real privilege to work and train alongside these three remarkable gentlemen," said Axiom Mission 1 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria. "And I can say with zero hesitation that we are ready to fly."
The group is composed of an American, a Canadian and an Israeli, all with deep pockets. The ride isn't cheap.
They're reportedly paying close to $55 million dollars per ticket for more than a week in space, and a trip to the international Space Station.
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"The company Axiom is a space tourist company, and they basically got some private citizens together who paid their way to go up," said Benjamin Dickow, executive director of the Columbia Space Center in Downey.
Each visitor will have a set of experiments to run while they're up there -- one reason they prefer to not be called "tourists."
As a gift for their hosts on the space station, they'll be bringing up some food prepared by celebrity chef Jose Andres.
Dickow says just the interest in a trip like this gets people talking about science.
"And that I think is the big takeaway from this," he explained. "There's something about space that really gets people involved in science, and that's good for all of us."
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Justice Dept.: 4 men indicted for fentanyl conspiracy, overdose death
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Gray News) - Four Missouri men have been indicted for their role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, which resulted in an overdose death, according to the Justice Department.
Dmitry Cattell, 22, Joseph Burgess, 21, Jordon Simmer, 20, and Kelton Hill, 22, were charged in a nine-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury on Tuesday.
The Justice Department reports the indictment was unsealed and made public following the arrests of all four defendants on Thursday. They remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing on April 12.
The federal indictment alleges that all four defendants have participated in a conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl since Sept. 12, 2019.
In addition to the drug-trafficking conspiracy, the indictment charges Cattell and Simmer with aiding and abetting each other to distribute fentanyl. The use of which caused the death of another person on May 18, 2020. The victim of the fatal overdose was not identified in court documents.
The Justice Department reports Cattell was also charged with two counts of distributing fentanyl, one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and one count of being an unlawful drug user in possession of a gun. Cattell allegedly was in possession of a Taurus handgun on Nov. 10, 2020.
Simmer, Burgess, and Hill each were also charged with one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute.
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Baby formula shortage worsens, may take weeks to improve
(CNN) - A baby formula shortage in many parts of the United States is forcing retailers to ration their supplies.
Walgreens is limiting shoppers to three infant and toddler formula products per transaction.
A recent review of supplies at 11,000 stores indicates that nearly 30% of popular baby formula brands may be sold out.
Cities like San Antonio and Minneapolis are reporting out-of-stock rates for certain formulas even higher than that, well above 50%.
Part of the problem stems from an Abbott Nutrition recall in mid-February for select lots of Similac and other formulas made in Sturgis, Michigan.
Manufacturers are ramping up production to make up the difference, but they admit it may take weeks for them to catch up.
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Father of 4 young kids shot, killed in argument at gas station; gunman remains on loose
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK/Gray News) - A family in Arizona is trying to put the pieces of their life back together after losing a loved one in a deadly shooting at a gas station.
Rene Sanchez lost his life last weekend after getting into an argument with another man while at a QuickTrip convenience store in Phoenix. Rene Sanchez was shot while he was walking away, his bother told Arizona’s Family.
Eddie Sanchez, Rene Sanchez’s brother, said the shooting took place in the afternoon, and the family remains heartbroken and wants justice. Rene Sanchez was also a father of four young children.
“We are missing that piece of the puzzle, and that is Rene,” Eddie Sanchez said. “It makes me sad that people like that don’t care about human life and people’s family it affects.”
The Phoenix Police Department released a picture and video from that afternoon’s shooting that showed an unidentified man leaving the scene on a bicycle. However, no arrests were immediately reported.
“To tell them [Rene’s kids] their dad won’t come home. To tell them he was murdered at a gas station. It’s just frustrating not to see him and know we won’t see him again,” Eddie Sanchez said.
Rene Sanchez was an electrician with the goal of starting his own business, according to his brother. But currently, the family is just waiting on updates on the case and wanting answers.
“It’ll be a big load off of our shoulders to find this person,” Eddie Sanchez said. “He will get caught eventually and pay for what he did.”
Eddie Sanchez said people will remember his brother, and the family has created a GoFundMe to help raise money for funeral expenses and the four kids and wife Rene Sanchez leaves behind.
Phoenix police urged those with any further information to contact authorities. There is a $2,000 reward.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Within a day of its release, a special golf shoe that was part of a collaboration between Adidas and Waffle House have already sold out.
On Thursday, Adidas released the TOUR360 22 x Waffle House, a limited edition shoe that carrying the logo of the popular Southern restaurant chain. By Friday, the shoe had sold out with the men’s shoe selling for $210 and the women’s shoe priced at $200.
The shoe came out on the first day of the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Waffle House started in Avondale Estates, Georgia in 1955 and now has franchises in 25 states.
“We love this time of year because more than anything else it’s an unofficial start to the golf season for everyone,” said Masun Denison, global footwear director, adidas Golf, in a statement announcing the shoe. “Waffle House is such a well-known restaurant in Georgia and throughout the U.S., we knew it would be fun to partner with their team on a design that brings a piece of the famous restaurant to everyone, all in our flagship silhouette.”
The shoe came in an off-white “batter-like” color with waffle-themed stripes. The Waffle House logo was located on the ankle.
“We couldn’t have asked for a better marriage between our signature waffles, the adidas TOUR360 22 golf shoe and our signature restaurants,” said Walt Ehmer, Waffle House president and CEO. “Who knew our famous, sweet cream waffles could also be so much fun to wear?”
It is not clear whether or not Adidas will continue the shoe due to high demand.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — For the first time, over 800 coastal scientists, managers and professionals will come together at the Gulf of Mexico Conference in Baton Rouge.
Attendees will network, collaborate and discuss coastal research and management, according to event organizers. The conference is scheduled to take place April 25-28 at the Raising Cane’s River Center. The event will feature keynote and panel discussions, a visit from Governor John Bel Edwards, and hundreds of presentations about the challenges the Gulf of Mexico faces.
“GOMCON will be the premier event for Gulf-focused ecosystem science, coastal management, and collaboration,” said Laura Bowie, executive director for the Gulf of Mexico Alliance. “We are excited to welcome participants from across the region who will join the conversation and help shape the future of Gulf research and management.”
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — This week, dozens of top government officials and others tested positive for COVID-19 after a high-profile Washington dinner last weekend.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., are the latest victims.
Possibly the highest profile positive case — Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She abruptly canceled her weekly press conference after testing positive on Thursday.
Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged President Biden could be vulnerable.
“Like anyone, the President may also test positive for COVID-19,” said Psaki.
Shortly before testing positive, Speaker Pelosi was spotted hugging and even kissing the president on the cheek.
Thursday, the Vice President’s communications director also tested positive.
The Vice President and the President have since tested negative.
“The Vice President wore a mask inside today, when she was both with the President and with her staff,” Psaki said.
She said what’s most important is the President is prepared.
“He has taken a range of precautions, as we all have, but he’s also taken steps like getting his second booster, as he did last week.” Psaki said.
Earlier this week, Chief Medical Advisor to the President Doctor Anthony Fauci said the fourth shot is proven to prevent serious illness or death.
According to the Speaker’s office, Pelosi is fully vaccinated, boosted and only experiencing mild symptoms, as are most others who reported positive cases.
The White House says the President will continue his public schedule.
“His doctors are comfortable that he can carry out his duties,” said Psaki.
That continued Friday when the President held a rather large gathering on the south lawn of the White House to celebrate the confirmation of justice-to-be, judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. There was some concern that the event could end up being another super-spreader event, as was there not many masks outdoors.
There are no public events for the President today. He is back home in Delaware for the weekend.
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Though millionaire banker Keith Owen died in 2007, his legacy lives on in a beautiful and tangible way.
Every year, 153,000 daffodils, snowdrops and crocus bulbs bloom across 50 sites in the coastal town of Sidmouth in Devon, England, all thanks to a generous donation from Owen himself. Now, in 2022, the yellow flowers are brightening the English countryside with “beautiful golden light” after what Sidmouth resident Julie Hudson called a dark, long winter in an interview with the BBC.
Born in the nearby town of Totnes, English native and Canadian resident Owen planned to retire to Sidmouth. When Owen, 69 at the time of his death, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and learned he had weeks to live, decided to leave his life savings of 2.3 million pounds (approximately $3 million) to a Sidmouth-based voluntary countryside conservation society, the Sid Vale Association (SVA).
Owen told the SVA he wished for his money to be used for big, imaginative ideas and to “support local projects, which made use of voluntary labor, and in particular to sustain the ambience and way of life, recognized in Sidmouth and its surroundings,” according to Good News Network.
The beautiful blooms were planted during a community effort over two or three years. They come back every year, making for a memorial that lives on in perpetuity.
Twitter user @nidpor snapped a sweet photo of the daffodils back in 2015:
Beautiful #Daffodils in #Sidmouth #Devon today #flowers http://t.co/M980KfgfkD pic.twitter.com/28cpmzLLNR
— nidpor (@nidpor) March 14, 2015
Just a year later, Laura Tobin (@lauratobin1) posted this peaceful picture:
Daffodils in Sidmouth part of 1000's planted as a dying wish of Keith Owen who left his fortune to plant a million. pic.twitter.com/SD9fpSnBBr
— Laura Tobin (@Lauratobin1) March 15, 2016
And in 2017, Julia Bramble, Ph.D., (@juliabramble) treated the timeline to these stunning photos of the blooms beside the sea:
Sidmouth was looking amazing today – sea and daffodils are a wonderful combination! #devon #eastdevon pic.twitter.com/ocgD3jm89e
— Julia Bramble Ph.D. (@JuliaBramble) March 13, 2017
The town of Sidmouth has of course embraced the generous gift, even highlighting it on their tourism website, Visit Sidmouth. Dubbed “The Valley of a Million Bulbs,” Visit Sidmouth refers to the big bloom as an annual event.
“This annual event sees the whole community come together to honor the legacy of one of the town’s most loved visitors and helps create a beautiful sight that visitors and residents alike can enjoy every spring and summer,” reads the site.
SVA chairman Ed Harrison echoed the sentiment in his interview with the BBC, saying, “Every year it brings back happy memories of this man who did this amazing thing for the town.”
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Did you miss out on spending a semester abroad when you were back in school? What if it’s not too late to do so now? And what if you were studying wine in the rolling countryside of Tuscany?
For the Love of Travel (FTLO), a group travel agency for working professionals, launched Sojrn in 2020. Sojrn calls itself “a study abroad experience for working professionals.” The company helps adults who can work remotely to have a month-long immersive experience in an exciting location.
The fee to join a “chapter,” or destination with a theme, starts at about $2,800, depending on which program you enroll in. The fee covers all arrangements, from accommodations and a Wi-fi-connected co-working space to a local host and a “curriculum” of curated activities to fill your free time. In addition, each “chapter” has up to 20 people, so travelers have a built-in group of new friends to study their surroundings with.
Travelers have private accommodations, which can vary between studios, a room in a shared apartment or a hotel room. However, flights and meals are not covered by the fee.
The theme of the activities is closely connected to the location.
“In Tuscany we have a winery visit where you go experience the vineyard and meet the winemakers or a wine pairing workshop with a local sommelier,” Tara Cappel, founder of FTLO, told Full-Time Travel. “In Stockholm, we have a ‘design and drinks’ night where you do a bar hop through these carefully selected bars that are very design-forward. For philosophy in Athens, we have a workshop that takes place in the space which was once Plato’s Academy.”
Chapters scheduled for 2022 and 2023 include History in Rome, Art and Architecture in Barcelona, Cuisine in Mexico City, Fashion in Paris, and Biodiversity in Cape Town, among others.
The Wine Varietals in Tuscany program is available five times in the next two years: May 1-28, May 29-June 25, Oct. 16-Nov. 12 of 2022, and April 16-May 13 or Oct. 8-Nov. 4 or 2023. Participants have access to the Sojrn Club House for work and three tiers of accommodation that range from $4,099-$5,499 (book with a partner or roommate and that person gets 50% off). The curriculum is separated into four-week portions: how wine is made, tasting wine, pairing wine and ordering wine.
To join Sojrn, you will need to answer some questions about yourself and what you are looking for on this page. Then, a community manager will verify your profile and connect with you about suggestions of chapters they think you’ll like, along with more details about the program.
Bon voyage!
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CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Triangle families enjoyed Saturday's weather egg hunting.
The Town of Cary held its annual Easter Egg hunt at Middle Creek High School. The hunt was big sucess with kids with dozens turning out to the event.
The United Methodist Church in Holly springs also hosted children and their families Saturday for an egg hunt. More than 200 kids showed up to grab their share of 2,000 eggs.
The event also including meeting the Easter bunny and a bounce house for the kids to enjoy and have fun.
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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A violent shooting overnight in Durham left three people injured and one dead.
The attack happened around 1:30 a.m. on Auto Drive near Luna night club in South Durham. Neighbors say it's not the first time.
"As business owners, people in the community something has to be done," said Shea Ramirez who owns a Sh'Bella Dreamz Recreation Center.
"I'm trying to do my part by having a private rec center for people to come have a nice place to gather without having violence or criminal activity going on," said Ramirez.
She is concerned by the latest rash of shootings in Durham since Thursday.
On Friday, police arrested and charged a woman for shooting and injuring another woman outside Sheetz on North Duke Street.
The day before, investigators arrested a man they say shot two people, killing one of them, just before a police standoff at an apartment complex off Avon Lake Drive. Neither of the shootings were random.
"If we think the government is going to do this on its own. Then we are mistaken. It's going to take a community effort," Durham City Councilman Leonardo Williams said.
Williams believes affordable housing, access to jobs, and lacking engagement with the community's youth are factors in why these shootings keep happening.
He says the city is preparing a budget that would include thousands of dollars toward community safety next fiscal year.
Among the items included if approved, will be the controversial gunfire detecting technology ShotSpotter. Some neighbors and groups say the device will discriminate, while others believe it will save lives.
"I hear people politicizing this and I know who you are and the more that we try to fight ideas and not support outcomes the more we are going to have these issues," said Williams. "But I hear also the folks that are dealing with this issue on a night basis. They are running from gun shots."
Saturday, Sheriff Birkhead and Chief District Court Judge Pat Evans hosted a gun buy back at Mount Vernon Baptist Church and Durham County Stadium.
People dropped off unloaded guns for cash. Any illegal guns will be returned to the owner, others will be destroyed in an effort to remove guns off the street.
'Something has to be done': Neighbors react to latest rash of gun violence in Durham in 3 days
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Justice Dept.: 4 men indicted for fentanyl conspiracy, overdose death
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Gray News) - Four Missouri men have been indicted for their role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, which resulted in an overdose death, according to the Justice Department.
Dmitry Cattell, 22, Joseph Burgess, 21, Jordon Simmer, 20, and Kelton Hill, 22, were charged in a nine-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury on Tuesday.
The Justice Department reports the indictment was unsealed and made public following the arrests of all four defendants on Thursday. They remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing on April 12.
The federal indictment alleges that all four defendants have participated in a conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl since Sept. 12, 2019.
In addition to the drug-trafficking conspiracy, the indictment charges Cattell and Simmer with aiding and abetting each other to distribute fentanyl. The use of which caused the death of another person on May 18, 2020. The victim of the fatal overdose was not identified in court documents.
The Justice Department reports Cattell was also charged with two counts of distributing fentanyl, one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and one count of being an unlawful drug user in possession of a gun. Cattell allegedly was in possession of a Taurus handgun on Nov. 10, 2020.
Simmer, Burgess, and Hill each were also charged with one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute.
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Father of 4 young kids shot, killed in argument at gas station; gunman remains on loose
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK/Gray News) - A family in Arizona is trying to put the pieces of their life back together after losing a loved one in a deadly shooting at a gas station.
Rene Sanchez lost his life last weekend after getting into an argument with another man while at a QuickTrip convenience store in Phoenix. Rene Sanchez was shot while he was walking away, his bother told Arizona’s Family.
Eddie Sanchez, Rene Sanchez’s brother, said the shooting took place in the afternoon, and the family remains heartbroken and wants justice. Rene Sanchez was also a father of four young children.
“We are missing that piece of the puzzle, and that is Rene,” Eddie Sanchez said. “It makes me sad that people like that don’t care about human life and people’s family it affects.”
The Phoenix Police Department released a picture and video from that afternoon’s shooting that showed an unidentified man leaving the scene on a bicycle. However, no arrests were immediately reported.
“To tell them [Rene’s kids] their dad won’t come home. To tell them he was murdered at a gas station. It’s just frustrating not to see him and know we won’t see him again,” Eddie Sanchez said.
Rene Sanchez was an electrician with the goal of starting his own business, according to his brother. But currently, the family is just waiting on updates on the case and wanting answers.
“It’ll be a big load off of our shoulders to find this person,” Eddie Sanchez said. “He will get caught eventually and pay for what he did.”
Eddie Sanchez said people will remember his brother, and the family has created a GoFundMe to help raise money for funeral expenses and the four kids and wife Rene Sanchez leaves behind.
Phoenix police urged those with any further information to contact authorities. There is a $2,000 reward.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A paid family leave program was passed Saturday despite Governor Hogan's veto a day prior. The bill was passed with overriding votes of 30-16 in the Senate and 94-44 in the House.
Friday, Hogan vetoed the bill in a letter to the General Assembly, stating that despite his incline to support the bill, "this legislation is backed by no actuarial analysis, no viable plan for implementation, and leaves the smallest of small businesses vulnerable to insurmountable regulatory burdens."
Maryland joins nine other states, the District of Columbia, and a number of other countries in offering paid leave to employees.
The Time to Care Act will create an insurance program that will allow employees to take up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave to deal with family matters such as the birth of a child, caring for an unwell loved one, or dealing with a military deployment.
Most Maryland workers are covered by the bill, which also includes comprehensive workplace protections that shield employees from retribution or termination if they take advantage of the leave.
"Paid leave will help millions of Marylanders who must take time off from their job to help a loved one or welcome a new child," said Del. Kris Valderrama, the lead House sponsor.
SB 275 establishes an insurance pool, with workers and employers each contributing a small amount with each payment. The program will include:
- Almost all Maryland employees, regardless of business size, are covered, including full-time and part-time employees, as well as private and public sector employees.
- Provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave (or up to 24 weeks in some cases) when employees or their loved ones are seriously ill, when welcoming a new child (for parents of either gender, including foster and adoptive parents), or when dealing with the effects of military deployment.
- Ensure that employees have the right to return to work after a leave of absence and to keep their health insurance while on leave.
- Provide benefits through an insurance system that both employers and employees contribute to, ensuring the program is stable, solvent, and affordable for both workers and businesses.
- Pay workers on a sliding scale of up to 90% of their income, with lower-income workers receiving the highest portion of their income.
The bill also establishes a process for the state Department of Labor to set contribution rates to fund the program. Employers with fewer than 15 employees will not be required to contribute to the program, but their employees will do so and be eligible for paid time off.
"I have learned firsthand how important it is to have paid leave, first to help care for my grandmother and this year to have time with our first baby," said Sen. Antonio Hayes, the lead Senate sponsor. "Over the last couple weeks, I have sacrificed time away from my month-old son Antonio to urge my colleagues to advance The Time to Care Act because I know thousands of Maryland families would benefit from this legislation. Maryland workers sometimes may have to take time away from work to deal with these kinds of family issues. Our legislation will ensure they can do that without having to lose their paychecks or their jobs."
The bill will take effect on June 1, with the FAMLI Program, among other measures, going into effect on January 1, 2023.
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SHORELINE, Wash. — Jan Myers, the 72-year-old Shoreline woman charged with a hate crime for harassing her Vietnamese neighbor, has agreed to sell her home and move as part of a civil settlement with the victim and her family.
In August 2021, attorneys for Thi Pham and her husband Bill Healy filed a lawsuit against Myers after they said she had been harassing and threatening them continuously, some instances were caught on camera.
In April 2021, Pham said she was working in her garden when Myers started harassing her. Pham grabbed her cellphone and began recording, catching Myers say, “You’re not going to live very long.”
Healy said Myers even exposed herself to Pham and their 2-year-old son.
Pham told KING 5 when the lawsuit was filed that she didn’t feel safe in her home. Healy called the harassment “devastating.”
Pham and Healy’s attorneys announced the civil settlement on Thursday during a press conference, saying it was more than a victory for Pham but a victory for every victim of racial harassment who now know that they have a way to seek civil action against their harassers.
“We need to make the people who are harassing people because of their race pay and make them pay the victim,” attorney Jeffery Campiche said
The settlement Myers and Pham agreed to states that Myers must try her best to sell her home in the next six months and pay Pham $45,000 from the sale of the home.
If Myers fails to sell the home and move, the lawsuit will move forward and potentially be decided by a jury, Campiche said.
“I am happy that I can safely live in my home without racial harassment,” Pham said. “We hope Jan Myers follow through the agreement and move quickly.”
Meanwhile, Myers also faces criminal charges for which there is a case scheduling hearing set for April 25. Barring any delays or changes, the trial is tentatively set to begin on June 8.
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Editor's note: The above video originally aired March 11, 2022.
Several deaths now attributed to COVID-19 occurred days before Feb. 28, 2020, the day health officials originally reported the first death took place in Washington state and the U.S., according to the Washington State Department of Health.
The first death attributed to COVID-19 in the state actually happened on Feb. 24, 2020, according to the department, four days before the originally reported date of Feb. 28.
The death first reported on Feb. 29 was a King County man in his 50s who had an underlying health condition. The death was also the first reported death in the U.S., weeks before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. But now it's reported the death wasn't the first in the state or the country.
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In a statement Wednesday, the state Department of Health reported five people, all tested post mortem, died from COVID-19 by Feb. 28, 2020. The department said there was one death on Feb. 24, two deaths on Feb. 26, two on Feb. 28 and one death on Feb. 29, 2020.
Due to testing capabilities early on in the pandemic, the deaths weren't reported until March and May 2020, according to the department.
The department clarified that the man, originally reported as the first death in the state, had tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 28, which is why it was reported first.
"COVID-19 testing was extremely limited across the United States during the early months of the pandemic. It is likely that health departments nationwide undercounted deaths from COVID-19 infection during this time," said COVID-19 Public Information Officer Jess Nelson with the Washington State Department of Health.
The first recorded death in the U.S. has now been attributed to a 78-year-old Kansas woman, Lovell "Cookie" Brown, who died on Jan. 9, 2020, The Mercury News reported in 2021.
As of April 8, 2022, 6,172,307 people worldwide have died from COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
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NEWPORT, Ore — A woman in the midst of a severe manic episode led deputies on a chase down Highway 101 from Depoe Bay to Newport on Friday, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.
Shortly after 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, a sergeant with the sheriff's office was patrolling Depoe Bay when he spotted what looked to be a disabled vehicle stopped in one of the southbound lanes of Highway 101 on Depoe Bay bridge. The vehicle, a green Subaru Outback, had its hazard lights on.
When the sergeant stopped to see if the driver needed help, the driver instead sped away, according to the sheriff's office.
Even when the sergeant pursued with his lights and siren on, the driver continued on — initially driving within the speed limit and staying within the correct lane. The sheriff's office said that there was little traffic to contend with at the time.
The Lincoln County sergeant requested assistance from Oregon State Police and Newport police as the pursuit dragged on.
The driver, later identified as a 66-year-old woman, allegedly started to drive more erratically around Cape Foulweather — speeding up to between 70 and 80 miles per hour and passing traffic in no-passing zones.
OSP set up spike strips ahead of the driver's route, disabling one of her tires. Though the sheriff's office said that this slowed her down, she continued into Newport city limits.
In Newport, the driver reportedly slowed down to a crawl. The same pursuing sergeant was able to get a look at her, judging that she was an "older female whose body language, demeanor, and driving habits led him to believe that she was experiencing an active mental health crisis."
A second set of spike strips disabled another one of the driver's tires, and officers finally boxed her vehicle in, bringing the pursuit to a halt in the 6200 block of North Coast Highway in Newport. The entire pursuit covered about 9.3 miles, the sheriff's office said.
When officers approached the woman's car to take her into custody, her doors were locked and her windows rolled up. Officers proceeded to begin breaking her windows.
"While doing so, [the driver] procured a sheetrock saw and appeared to be actively cutting herself with it," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
The officers fired a Taser through one of the woman's broken windows, unlocked the driver's side door, and took her into custody.
The woman was reportedly evaluated at the scene by paramedics, who determined that she was uninjured but showed signs of "being in an active manic mental health crisis."
Deputies took the woman to Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport for evaluation, but she was cleared for booking into jail. She was lodged on charges for fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, reckless driving, and two warrants out of Marion County.
The sheriff's office said that the Lincoln County Mental Health Department was briefed on Casterline's condition.
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MOUNT HOOD, Ore. — The search for a snowboarder who disappeared on Mount Hood early this week is over, with the Hood River County Sheriff's Office (HRCSO) confirming that his body was found late Friday afternoon in a creek under an apparent avalanche.
30-year-old Ryan Mather of Aloha was first reported missing Tuesday night after he didn't return from a snowboarding trip to Mt. Hood Meadows.
Search efforts started almost immediately, ramping up on Wednesday. However, the search mission headed by HRCSO was suspended Thursday evening after they found no sign of Mather.
Late Friday afternoon, members of the Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Patrol found evidence that someone had been buried under avalanche debris in Clark Creek, in the Heather Canyon area.
With the sun going down and the recovery requiring more resources, the attempt to find Mather's body was pushed to Saturday morning. The Ski Patrol and HRCSO staff pulled his body from the creek around 10:30 a.m. after about two hours of work with a rope team.
HRCSO noted that the area is mostly rated black or double black diamond, meaning it is recommended only for advanced or expert skiers and snowboarders.
The body was quickly confirmed to be Mather's. The sheriff's office said that his family was notified by late morning on Saturday.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ryan’s family,” said Hood River County Sheriff Matt English. “This has been an incredibly difficult and heart-wrenching five days for them.”
The five-day active search operation happened through a range of weather and snow conditions, the sheriff's office underlined, with much of the area under active avalanche warnings that endangered search teams.
“We are extremely thankful to all of the agencies and organizations that helped search for Ryan and ultimately recover him for his family,” English said.
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TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma man pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to a hate crime and making false statements in connection with a December 2018 racially-motivated assault.
Jason DeSimas, 45, was one of four men from across the Pacific Northwest who punched and kicked a Black man and made derogatory comments about his race at a Lynnwood bar, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Nick Brown.
In 2018, DeSimas was a prospective member of a white supremacist group traveling through Seattle at the time. DeSimas talked about using "mutual combat" against members of groups he opposed, according to Brown's office.
"Mutual combat" involved going into bars and initiating fights so other members of his group could join in. In the early morning hours of Dec. 18, 2018, DeSimas and other group members went into a bar in Lynnwood and assaulted a Black man that was working as a DJ there. The group also assaulted two other men who came to the victim's aid, according to Brown's office.
The attackers shouted racial slurs and made Nazi salutes before and during the assault.
In addition to the assault, DeSimas admitted to making false statements to the FBI during the investigation into the case. He claimed that neither he nor anyone else he was with used racial slurs during the assault. DeSimas later admitted he used a racial slur before, during and after the assault.
Under the plea agreement, both the prosecution and defense will recommend a 37-month prison sentence. The judge presiding over DeSimas's case is not bound by the plea agreement, however.
Daniel Delbert, 24, of Corvallis, Ore., also pleaded guilty to the assault. Jason Stanley, 44, of Boise, Ida., and Randy Smith, 39, of Eugene, Ore., are also charged in the case and awaiting trial.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington’s wolf population grew in 2021 for the 13th consecutive year, showing a 16% increase from the previous year, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Saturday.
As of Dec. 31, 2021, the department said there were 206 wolves in 33 packs in Washington. Nineteen of these were successful breeding pairs. This is up from 178 wolves in 29 packs and 16 breeding pairs in the 2020 count.
“Washington’s wolves continue to progress toward recovery, with four new packs documented in four different counties of the state in 2021,” Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind said in a news release.
This is a minimum count, so the actual number of wolves in Washington is higher, the agency said. Since the department's first wolf survey in 2008, the state’s wolf population has grown by an average of 25% per year.
Four new packs formed in 2021, including the Columbia Pack in Columbia County, the Keller Ridge Pack in Ferry County, the Dominion Pack in Stevens County, and the Shady Pass Pack in Chelan County. The Naneum Pack was not located during the survey and was removed from the tally, the agency said.
Wolves were wiped out in Washington in the early decades of the last century. But the animals began to move back into the state earlier this century from Canada and Idaho. The return of the animals has sparked numerous conflicts with ranchers, especially in northeastern Washington state where most of the wolves live.
Eight of the wolf packs were involved in known livestock depredations last year, the agency said. Six of the eight were involved in two or fewer events each.
As a result of depredations, two wolves from the Columbia Pack were killed in 2021, one by the department and one by a landowner with a permit to lethally remove a wolf, the agency said.
“Although wolf-livestock interactions have remained consistent, we recorded the lowest number of livestock depredation incidents in the state since 2017 and removed the fewest wolves in response to conflict since 2015,” said the department's wolf policy lead, Julia Smith.
“We’re committed to promoting the proactive use of non-lethal deterrents to minimize wolf-livestock conflict," Smith said.
Since 1980, gray wolves have been listed under state law as endangered throughout Washington.
In January 2021, wolves were delisted from federal Endangered Species Act protection and the department resumed statewide management of the species. But this February, wolves were federally relisted in the western two-thirds of the state and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service once again took the lead role in their recovery in those areas.
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SEATTLE — AAA Washington announced findings from new research this week as Distracted Driving Awareness Month kicks off.
It's been three years since AAA launched a campaign to raise awareness around the dangers of distracted driving.
The data revealed more and more Washingtonians are choosing to put down their phones while driving and that children and passengers are the primary motivators for driving distraction-free.
GMA Research conducted the statewide survey in November of 2021, gathering data from 1,000 Washington residents, ages 16 and older. Participants were screened to be residents, age 16 and older, have a valid driver's license and drive at least 10 miles per week on average.
According to AAA, about half of all drivers surveyed said they would be most influenced against using a phone or device while behind the wheel if a child or passenger spoke up and asked them to stop, 51% and 49% respectively. The survey also showed that the mere presence of a passenger under age 18 prevents distracted driving behaviors, including legal interactions.
Distracted drivers are involved in at least a quarter of fatal crashes in Washington State, according to AAA.
The latest data from the Washington State Department of Transportation, there were 18,529 car crashes related to distracted driving and 92 of them were fatal.
To keep raising awareness of the issue, AAA launched a new video message, encouraging people to “Speak Up” during Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
“Three years ago, AAA launched a campaign bringing attention to distracted driving, showing how the consequences of texting and driving are similar to drinking and driving, deaths and serious injuries,” said Kelly Just, AAA Washington’s traffic safety program manager. “In this new research, we see our public awareness campaign is working. More and more of us are choosing to put down our phones while driving, currently 82% of Washington drivers. That’s up from 69% in AAA’s 2018 distracted driving survey.”
To view the full results of the AAA Washington distracted driving study, click here.
Washington’s Distracted Driving Law:
Enacted in the summer of 2017, the law bans drivers from holding a phone or other device in their hands. It also prohibits texting; the opening, reading, viewing, typing, saving or sending of emails, photos and other data; browsing the web; watching a video; transmitting videos or live feeds. Contacting emergency services is the one exception. While the law does allow hands-free use of cell phones, electronic devices and built-in infotainment systems, previous AAA research found these interactions just as distracting as hand-held ones.
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RICHMOND, Va. — A shopping spree in Beverly Hills, a luxury vacation in Mexico, a bank account that jumped from $299.77 to $1.4 million overnight.
From the outside, it looked like Moe and Kateryna Abourched had won the lottery.
But this big payday didn't come from lucky numbers. Rather, a public school district in Michigan was tricked into wiring its monthly health insurance payment to the bank account of a California nail salon the Abourcheds owned, according to a search warrant application filed by a Secret Service agent in federal court.
The district — and taxpayers — fell victim to an online scam called Business Email Compromise, or BEC for short, police say. The couple deny any wrongdoing and have not been charged with any crimes.
BEC scams are a type of crime where criminals hack into email accounts, pretend to be someone they’re not and fool victims into sending money where it doesn't belong. These crimes get far less attention than the massive ransomware attacks that have triggered a powerful government response, but BEC scams have been by far the costliest type of cybercrime in the U.S. for years, according to the FBI — siphoning untold billions from the economy as authorities struggle to keep up.
The huge payoffs and low risks associated with BEC scams have attracted criminals worldwide. Some flaunt their ill-gotten riches on social media, posing in pictures next to Ferraris, Bentleys and stacks of cash.
“The scammers are extremely well organized and law enforcement is not,” said Sherry Williams, a director of a San Francisco nonprofit recently hit by a BEC scam.
Losses in the U.S. to BEC scams in 2021 were nearly $2.4 billion, according to a new report by the FBI. That’s a 33% increase from 2020 and more than a tenfold increase from just seven years ago.
And experts say many victims never come forward and the FBI’s numbers only show a small fraction of how much money is stolen.
“It’s one of the most lucrative things out there,” said Shalabh Mohan, chief product officer at Area 1 Security.
In the nail salon case involving Grand Rapids, police say $2.8 million was stolen. Banks were able to recall about half that amount once the scam was discovered, court records show.
A Secret Service agent said in an affidavit as part of a search warrant application that someone hacked into the email account of one of the school district’s human resource employees and sent emails that persuaded a colleague in the finance department to change the bank account where the health insurance payments were sent.
The emails were brief and unfailingly polite. “Please kindly update” the records, one of them said — words the real HR employee would later tell police she never uses, according to the affidavit.
Police tracked the money to the salon’s bank account owned by the Abourcheds, the affidavit says. After the theft was detected, Moe Abourched contacted a Grand Rapids police detective and said he’d been fooled by a European woman named “Dora” into accepting the funds and forwarding them to other accounts, according to the affidavit.
The Secret Service agent said Abourched’s claims were false and he’d used a similar ruse with police after he received money from a BEC scam targeting a Florida storage company.
Police put the couple under surveillance and in October searched their apartment, offices and BMW, court records show. Police said earlier this year they needed more time to examine the data in the couple's phones and computers.
The Abourcheds’ lawyer, Kevin Gres, said his clients have done nothing wrong and no charges should be filed.
“My clients were unwitting victims in this scheme,” he said.
BEC scammers use a variety of techniques to hack into legitimate business email accounts and trick employees to send wire payments or make purchases they shouldn’t. Targeted phishing emails are a common type of attack, but experts say the scammers have been quick to adopt new technologies, like “deep fake” audio generated by artificial intelligence to pretend to be executives at a company and fool subordinates into sending money.
In the case of Williams, the San Francisco nonprofit director, thieves hacked the email account of the organization's bookkeeper, then inserted themselves into a long email thread, sent messages asking to change the wire payment instructions for a grant recipient, and made off with $650,000.
After she discovered what happened, Williams said, her calls to law enforcement went nowhere.
The FBI told her the local U.S. attorney’s office won’t take her case. She flew to Odessa, Texas, where the bank that initially received the stolen money was located. The money by then was long gone and the local detective was powerless to help. Williams asked her U.S. senators for help and later learned the Secret Service was investigating, but said it hasn't given her any updates.
Crane Hassold, an expert on BEC scams and former cyber analyst with the FBI, has heard of federal prosecutors declining to take BEC cases unless several million dollars were stolen, a minimum threshold that speaks to how out of control the problem is.
“There’s so many of them they can’t possibly work them all,” said Hassold, now director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security.
Almost every enterprise is vulnerable to BEC scams, from Fortune 500 companies to small towns. Even the State Department got duped into sending BEC scammers more than $200,000 in grant money meant to help Tunisian farmers, court records show.
The Justice Department has launched months-long operations in recent years that have netted hundreds of arrests worldwide.
“Our message to criminals involved in these types of BEC schemes will remain clear: The FBI’s memory and reach is long and wide-ranging, we will relentlessly pursue you no matter where you may be located,” said Brian Turner, executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.
But security experts say the wave of arrests has had little impact, and the FBI’s own numbers show that BEC scams continue to grow at a rapid clip.
“You can arrest 100 of the guys and there’s no ripple effect,” said Hassold.
Many of those arrested by U.S. authorities are lower-level “money mules,” who move stolen money around the banking system until it’s out of reach to authorities.
“Mules” don’t need hacking skills and come from a variety of backgrounds. A South Florida man, Alfredo Veloso, pleaded guilty in 2019 after prosecutors say he recruited women he met through his business making “kink pornography” videos to be money mules for BEC and other cyber scams.
Sophisticated BEC scams targeting businesses and other organizations started taking off in the mid-2010s. It was also around that time when ransomware attacks — in which hackers break into networks and encrypt data — started to grow in frequency and severity.
For years both BEC scams and ransomware attacks were treated largely as a law enforcement problem. That’s still true for BEC attacks, but ransomware is now a key national security concern after a series of disruptive attacks on critical infrastructure like the one last year against the biggest fuels pipeline in the U.S. that led to gas shortages along the East Coast.
The National Security Agency’s hackers have taken action to disrupt ransomware operators’ networks. The Justice Department set up a ransomware task force to better organize the law enforcement response. And U.S. President Joe Biden has pressed the issue directly with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, where many ransomware operators are located.
Nothing close to those efforts has been deployed against BEC fraud despite the huge financial losses.
“It’s a bunch of tiny little silos, and they still haven’t figured out a way to have just a single source that goes after these things,” said John Wilson, a threat researcher at the cybersecurity firm Agari.
If the U.S. were to launch a whole-of-government response to BEC fraud, it almost certainly would focus heavily on Nigeria.
Nowhere are BEC fraudsters more active than in Africa’s most populous nation, where scammers have able to operate almost unchecked for decades. The well-worn Nigerian Prince scam may now be a global punchline, but a new generation is making fortunes through sophisticated BEC fraud.
BEC scammers from Nigeria are glorified in pop songs and show off their wealth on Instagram and Facebook, posing with expensive cars or piles of money.
Ramon Abbas, a well-known social Nigerian media influencer who went by Ray Hushpuppi, had more than 2 million followers on Instagram before he was arrested in Dubai. Abbas’ social media posts showed him living a life of total luxury, complete with private jets, ultra-expensive cars and high-end clothes and watches.
“I hope someday I will be inspiring more young people to join me on this path,” read one Instagram post by Abbas, who pleaded guilty in the U.S. to international money laundering related to BEC and other cybercrimes last year. His sentencing is currently set for July.
Pete Renals, a threat researcher at Palo Alto’s Unit 42, said tech-savvy Nigerian criminals started learning how to use available malware to steal victims’ credentials around 2014. As the software changed, the scammers changed too. In 2018, he said, researchers started seeing Nigerian malware being developed in-country by the BEC scammers themselves.
“It does not seem like there’s a whole lot slowing them down," he said. They see “no reason to stop.”
Obinwanne Okeke was one of Nigeria’s best known young entrepreneurs when he was a featured panelist at an event hosted by the prestigious London School of Economics.
“If it’s not born in you to take up challenges, you cannot do it,” Okeke said at the 2018 event when discussing his entrepreneurial drive.
But just days before he made those comments, Okeke had been busy sending fake invoices and defrauding the British sales office of the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar out of $11 million through a BEC scam, according to the FBI. He was arrested at Dulles Airport outside Washington in 2019, pleaded guilty to wire fraud a year later and is now serving a 10-year prison sentence.
BEC scammers arrested by police in Nigeria often have better luck and win back their freedom by paying fines or bribes, experts say. Adedeji Oyenuga, a sociology professor at Lagos State University who has studied cybercrime culture, said there’s little fear by BEC scammers of being punished if caught.
“The person will walk around the streets freely knowing nobody is going to say anything about what he or she is doing,” Oyenuga said.
In the Hushpuppi case, U.S. prosecutors have also charged Abba Kyari, a top Nigerian law enforcement official who prosecutors say falsely imprisoned one of Abbas’ criminal rivals. Kyari remains in Nigeria, where media reports say he’s been arrested on a separate charges related to alleged drug smuggling.
Doug Witschi, an assistant director at the global police organization Interpol, said tech companies that help facilitate BEC crimes need to be more active in stopping such behavior.
“We can’t arrest our way out of this challenge,” he said.
Unlike ransomware operators who try to keep their communications private, BEC scammers often openly exchange services, share tips or show off their wealth on social media platforms like Facebook and Telegram.
A Facebook group called Wire Wire.com, which was until recently available to anyone with a Facebook account, acted as a message board for people to offer BEC-related services and other cybercrimes.
The page, which had a profile picture of a duffle bag filled with cash, was created in 2015 and had more than 1,400 members. It was taken down shortly after The Associated Press asked Facebook about it last month. The company declined comment.
In the case of the stolen Grand Rapids money, it was social media that helped law enforcement when seeking a federal judge’s approval for a search warrant.
Included in the application was a vacation Instagram post by Kateryna Abourched, which linked the timing of her trip with a $3,503 payment to a luxury resort in Mexico made from the bank account that had received the stolen Grand Rapids money.
“Vacation is always inspiring,” she wrote in her Instagram post.
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DETROIT — Fans at Jack White's Detroit homecoming show Friday had high expectations for the sold-out show. They probably didn't expect to see a proposal -- and then become surprise wedding guests.
White, a Detroit-born singer, songwriter and producer, surprised fans by inviting fellow musician Olivia Jean onstage to join his performance and introduced her as his girlfriend.
The 'encore' was even more unexpected. White asked Jean to marry him during a rendition of song ‘Hotel Yorba' and right before the lyric “let's get married." According to The Detroit News, he rolled it perfectly into the song -- and from Jean's reaction, the proposal wasn't rehearsed.
Jean, a fellow Detroit native, teared up and said yes, the Detroit Free Press reported. White then carried her offstage. According to the Press, the musicians' bass players were the best man and maid of honor. White's mother and other family members stood by.
White and Jean later re-emerged for an encore and married in an onstage ceremony officiated by Ben Swank, a co-founder of White's record label.
Jean is part of the label's garage goth rock band Black Belles, which is on hiatus, and is also signed by his label as a solo artist.
White, who founded the White Stripes, was previously married twice. The Press reports that he also dedicated a Friday performance of “Ball and Biscuit” to Meg White, his former White Stripes bandmate and his first wife.
White's Friday show was his first hometown solo show since 2018, and kicked off his Supply Chain Issues Tour and release of his new album “Fear of the Dawn.”
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LOS ANGELES — A gunman accused of shooting and seriously wounding Lady Gaga's dog walker and stealing her two French bulldogs was mistakenly released from jail and is being sought, authorities said Friday.
James Howard Jackson, 19, was facing an attempted murder charge when he was released from Los Angeles County's jail on Wednesday “due to a clerical error," the county Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
The sheriff's Major Crimes Bureau is Major Crimes Bureau is working on finding him, the statement said.
Jackson is one of five people arrested in connection with the Feb. 24, 2021, attack in Hollywood. Prosecutors said Jackson and two other alleged gang members had driven around looking for expensive French bulldogs to steal, then spotted, tailed and robbed Ryan Fischer as he walked Lady Gaga's dogs near Sunset Boulevard.
During a violent struggle, Fischer was hit, choked and then shot in an attack captured by the doorbell camera of a nearby home.
The camera recorded the dog walker screaming “Oh, my God! I’ve been shot!” and “Help me!” and “I’m bleeding out from my chest!”
Fischer lost part of a lung.
“While I’m deeply concerned at the events that led to his release, I’m confident law enforcement will rectify the error,” Fischer said on Instagram. “I ask for Mr. Jackson to turn himself over to the authorities, so resolution to the crime committed against me runs its course, whatever the courts determine that outcome to be.”
The pop star's dogs were returned two days later by a woman who claimed she had found them tied to a pole and asked about Lady Gaga’s offer of a $500,000 reward if the dogs were returned “no questions asked.” The singer was in Rome at the time filming a movie.
She's charged with receiving stolen property and the father of another suspect is charged with helping him avoid arrest.
Jackson already had been charged in the attack and had pleaded not guilty when the county district attorney's office filed a superceding indictment Tuesday charging him with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
The move was done “to speed up the legal process" and Jackson was arraigned Wednesday under a new case number, the DA's office said in a statement.
“Mr. Jackson was subsequently released from custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. We are unsure as to why they did so," the statement said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Saturday joined the stream of European leaders showing their support for Ukraine by traveling to the nation’s capital for face-to-face meetings with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Johnson’s surprise visit included a pledge of new military assistance, including 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems. This came a day after he promised to send an additional 100 million pounds ($130 million) of high-grade military equipment to Ukraine, saying Britain wanted to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.
Johnson also confirmed further economic support, guaranteeing an additional $500 million in World Bank lending to Ukraine, taking Britain's total loan guarantee to up to $1 billion.
“Today I met my friend President @ZelenskyyUa in Kyiv as a show of our unwavering support for the people of Ukraine,'' Johnson said on Twitter. “We’re setting out a new package of financial & military aid which is a testament of our commitment to his country’s struggle against Russia’s barbaric campaign.''
The head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andriy Yermak, said “the conversation was rich and constructive,” but offered no details.
An image of the two leaders meeting was posted online by the Ukrainian Embassy in London with the headline: “Surprise,” and a winking smiley face.
The package of military aid Britain announced Friday includes more Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles, another 800 anti-tank missiles and precision munitions capable of lingering in the sky until directed to their target.
“Ukraine has defied the odds and pushed back Russian forces from the gates of Kyiv, achieving the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century,″ Johnson said in a statement. “It is because of President Zelenskyy’s resolute leadership and the invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people that Putin’s monstrous aims are being thwarted.''
As Zelenskyy makes a continuous round of virtual appearances to drum up support from lawmakers around the world, an increasing number of European leaders have decided the time is right to travel to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, for in-person talks. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was in Kyiv on Friday, following earlier visits from the Czech, Polish and Slovenian prime ministers.
Nehammer met with Zelenskyy earlier Saturday and pledged that the EU would continue to ratchet up sanctions against Russia “until the war stops.”
“As long as people are dying, every sanction is still insufficient,” he said, adding that Austrian embassy staff will return to Kyiv from western Ukraine.
Von der Leyen, who heads the European Union’s executive branch, travelled to Warsaw on Saturday to lead a fundraising event for Ukraine. She was joined by Polish President Andrzej Duda, with Zelenskyy and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appearing by video link.
At the end of the 90-minute meeting, von der Leyen said 10.1 billion euros ($11 billion) had been raised for Ukrainian refugees.
The event was held in Warsaw because more than 2.5 million of the 4.4 million people who have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began Feb. 24 have entered Poland. Many have stayed, though some have moved on to other countries.
Convened jointly by von der Leyen and Trudeau, the event sought to attract pledges from governments, global celebrities and average citizens.
It ended with Julian Lennon singing his father John Lennon’s peace song “Imagine," which he said is the first time he did so publicly.
Julian Lennon posted on social media that he always said he would only sing the song if it was the “end of the world.” He says it’s the right song to sing now because “the war on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy,” and he felt compelled to respond in the most significant way that he could.
Associated Press Writers Colleen Barry in Milan, Geir Moulson in Berlin and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw contributed.
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The rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers has been heated over the last seven years, thanks to the proximity of the cities, the fact both teams were usually contenders for the National League Central title and the presence of Willson Contreras.
But the Brewers are heavily favored to win the division this season while the Cubs have transitioned since last summer’s sell-off.
There were thousands of empty seats at Wrigley Field on Thursday for opening day and even more on a frigid Saturday afternoon that saw the Cubs cruise to a 9-0 win in a chippy game that included a benches-clearing incident in the eighth after Keegan Thompson hit Brewers outfielder Andrew McCutchen.
Despite an announced crowd of 30,369, only the bleachers were mostly filled on a 44-degree afternoon with a stiff wind blowing in from right field.
Is it just an early-season blip caused by the cold spring weather? The aftereffects of the lockout?
Or has the vibe changed at Wrigley since the Cubs unloaded their biggest stars and went into semi-rebuild mode?
“I didn’t sense any difference on opening day at all, really,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said before Saturday’s game. “I think it’s the same vibe. At the beginning of the season every team should be hopeful.”
The Cubs once again gave hope to the notion they’re not content to be wannabes in 2022, starting off the season 2-0 for the first time since 2016.
Justin Steele threw five shutout innings, rookie Seiya Suzuki drove in three runs and the Cubs took advantage of the wildness of Brewers pitchers, who combined to walk seven, hit three batters and a allow a run on a wild pitch.
Naturally, one of the Cubs plunked was Contreras, who has been hit in both of the first two games of the series and 15 times by Brewers pitchers in his career. Contreras took a few deep breaths after being hit in the back and walked calmly to first but clearly was annoyed at the frequency of the wayward pitches.
Ian Happ was hit in the left knee by a Trevor Gott slider in the seventh, forcing him to leave the game. Thompson threw inside to McCutchen the next inning, backing him off, then plunked him, prompting McCutchen to bark at the pitcher down the baseline as Contreras trailed behind and yakked at him.
There was nothing but tough talk between the teams as they met on the infield. Thompson was ejected for throwing at McCutchen.
The Cubs went 4-15 against the Brewers last season but on Sunday will attempt to pull off a three-game sweep. Marcus Stroman, their first big free-agent signing of the offseason, is scheduled to make his Cubs debut.
Woodruff, who finished fifth in National League Cy Young voting last season, put the Brewers in a quick hole only six batters into the bottom of the first without allowing a hit. He started off with a walk, a hit batter and two more walks, forcing home a run on a free pass to Happ.
Frank Schwindel’s RBI groundout and Suzuki’s sacrifice fly — his first major-league run batted in — handed the Cubs a 3-0 lead. They batted around in the fifth off Woodruff and reliever José Ureña, scoring two of their three runs on Ureña’s bases-loaded walk to Suzuki and a wild pitch, turning the game into a laugher.
The Cubs aren’t anyone’s pick to win the division, but none of the players are looking at this as a rebuilding season.
“I don’t think the guys feel that way at all,” Schwindel said. “Everybody is hungry. Everybody has had a good spring. We’ve got a couple big additions with Suzuki, Stroman, some of the relievers.
“I don’t know. I think everybody is feeling pretty good and excited about this season, especially with a couple more playoff spots thrown in there. That’s the goal.”
And while Cubs-Brewers might not have the history of the Cubs-St. Louis Cardinals rivalry, the Cardinals never went to any great lengths to keep Cubs fans out of their ballpark. The Brewers famously did that in 2018 with a presale of tickets to games at Miller Park that was limited to Wisconsin residents.
It’s too soon to say the rivalry has been muted or if Saturday’s brouhaha will ignite a spark to last the rest of the season. We might know better by the end of the month, when the Cubs travel to Milwaukee for their first three-game series at the stadium formerly known as Miller Park.
Counsell said he didn’t know what to expect.
“It’s always surprising how many (Cubs fans) are there,” he said. “But this is a big city, a far bigger city than Milwaukee. And I understand it’s more convenient for a lot of fans. It’s the same travel time (as going to Wrigley Field from the north suburbs) and it’s easier in and out.
“I get it. I think we have a good venue, and the ease of access is one of the great parts about Milwaukee to begin with, so I understand why Chicago people access it.”
And Cubs fans still love Milwaukee’s ballpark, which features a retractable dome and plenty of great food options.
“Yeah,” Counsell said. “And the game is certainly a big deal.”
The more Cubs players get hit by pitches, the bigger a deal it could be.
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WASHINGTON — The Mets will be without their hard-throwing closer for a few games.
Edwin Diaz was placed on the bereavement list Saturday after his grandfather died during Friday night’s game. He traveled to Puerto Rico on Saturday to be with his family.
“It’s sad,” manager Buck Showalter said. “He was close to his grandfather and it happened very quickly. He was pretty emotional.”
Left-hander David Peterson was called up from Triple-A Syracuse.
Showalter expects Diaz to rejoin the team on Monday in Philly, but he can’t return from the bereavement list until Tuesday. GM Billy Eppler and the skipper told Diaz to take as much time as he needs.
Diaz was warming up in the ninth inning Friday against the Nationals while the Mets were ahead, 6-3. Jeff McNeil’s RBI single in the top of the ninth made it a four-run game, and a non-save situation. So Showalter called the bullpen and made sure Diaz sat back down.
“I talked to Edwin during (Friday’s) rain delay,” Showalter said. “I thought the seventh run last night was big. I really didn’t want to use him last night if I could help it.”
Ahead of Saturday night’s game in Washington, Showalter remained tight-lipped about who would fill in for Diaz at closer. Speculatively, some options include Trevor May, Seth Lugo, and Adam Ottavino.
“We’ve got one we’d like to end up with, but that requires the other team to cooperate,” Showalter said. “We’ve got some people who can do it, who’ve done it in the past. Tonight, we’ve got options that I’m comfortable with.”
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Committing to play football for the Florida Gators might seem like a no-brainer for life-long Gators fan Tyree Patterson. The Eustis receiver, who was offered a scholarship by UF on Friday, indicated that it’s not that simple.
“I’m not really used to this process,” Patterson said. “I’m still trying to take the process slow and see how it goes.”
Patterson is the nephew of former Eustis and UCF standout Joe Burnett, who played in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Patterson has yet to receive a UCF offer.
The recruiting process for the 6-foot-2, 182-pound Patterson has started slowly for a couple of reasons. He didn’t even play football after deciding to concentrate on basketball after his seventh-grade year. He’s also stuck in tiny Eustis, a Lake County school that does not receive much recruiting traffic.
“Me and my dad sat down after my 10th-grade year’s basketball season and he said he thought I should focus more on what I want to do in college, what I love the most,” Patterson said. “I chose football over basketball.”
It’s no surprise Patterson is opening the eyes of recruiters. He’s had two big seasons of football since returning to the game. In 18 games he has had 85 catches for 1,692 yards and 20 touchdowns and averages five catches for nearly 100 yards and a touchdown per game.
“I had a pretty good year my first year playing football,” Patterson said. “Then my junior year, that was like by breakout year, showing people I’m that person.”
The Gators’ offer is Patterson’s fourth Football Bowl Subdivision scholarship offer — with North Texas, UMass and Liberty — but by far the biggest.
His main recruiter at UF has been receivers coach Keary “KC” Colbert and he also received a call from first-year head coach Billy Napier on Friday night.
Colbert informed Patterson of the offer.
“It was on FaceTime when he told me and I was just smilin’ the whole time,” Patterson said. “It was kinda shocking because that’s my first big, big offer … so yeah, I was a little shocked and happy at the same time.”
He was happy to get a call from Napier as well.
“It was pretty good. He was just saying how they all love my game and they got a lot of things coming for me,” Patterson said. “He was saying I remind him of one of the players [Calvin Ridley] he coached when he as at Alabama. He said I was just bigger than him and he can’t wait to have me down there [in Gainesville].
“He said of all the receivers he coached, he had 16 go to the NFL. That’s what I’m trying to do.”
Eustis coach Frank Scott said Patterson has all the tools necessary,
“He’s only really played football for two years and it’s crazy how much he’s developed during that time,” Scott said. “He’s got a lot of upside and he’s going to do big things.”
This article originally appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Chris Hays covers high school football and college recruiting for the Orlando Sentinel. He can be reached at CHays@orlandosentinel.com.
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Former Dallas Cowboys executive Gil Brandt has sparked a massive social media backlash over comments he made about the tragic death of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins.
Haskins, 24, was killed after he was hit by a dump truck Saturday morning on Interstate 595 near Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
News of his death quickly spread on social media, as fans, coaches and fellow players mourned “the loss of a great player” and “a truly great friend,” while also honoring the life and career of a “phenomenal teammate, person and friend.”
But after Brandt was asked about Haskins on NFL Radio on Saturday, several people took to social media to express outrage at the 90-year-old Hall-of-Famer’s “completely inappropriate” comments, which quickly went viral after they were shared on Twitter by NBC Sports’ Pete Damilatis.
“I hate anytime anybody is killed or anybody dies. But he was a guy who was living to be dead,” he told Vic Carucci and Dan Leberfeld of Sirius XM NFL Radio.
“They told him don’t, under any circumstances, leave school early. You just don’t have the work habits. You don’t have this, you don’t have that. What did he do? He left school early,” he said.
“Maybe if he stayed in school a year he wouldn’t do silly things [like] jogging on a highway,” he added.
Reactions came in swiftly and fiercely.
On Saturday afternoon, hours after the initial backlash, Brandt apologized for his “poor choice of words.”
“This morning while learning of Dwayne Haskins’ passing, I reacted carelessly and insensitively on a radio interview,” he tweeted.
“I want to apologize to Mr. Haskins’ family and anyone who heard my poor choice of words. I truly apologize. My heart goes out to his family at this difficult time,” he added.
The apology hasn’t been universally accepted.
While some agreed that “people make mistakes,” several some social media users were left wondering if Brandt was the person who actually wrote the tweet, while others said that it simply wasn’t enough.
“Sorry, I do not forgive you,” wrote Twitter user L. Sue Szabo. “You said what you said.”
“No way a 90-year-old tweeted this,” wrote Twitter user Daniel Moore. “But a 90-year-old definitely said what he said on the radio.”
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The confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday was as noteworthy for what it didn’t change as for what it did.
Upon taking office, she will become the first Black woman to join the court in its 233-year history. At the same time, her arrival will not tip the ideological balance of the court or move it off its current trajectory as a vehicle for the conservative movement.
The soon-to-be Justice Jackson may be able to persuade her new colleagues not to move too aggressively, but there’s nothing that she or the other liberals on the court (or Chief Justice John Roberts, for that matter) can do to restrain a hard-right conservative majority that seeks to unravel what’s left of postwar jurisprudence.
On this point, we got another glimpse of what this world will look like when, on Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 “shadow docket” order reviving a Trump administration regulation that limited the ability of states and sovereign tribes to restrict projects that might damage waterways or reduce water quality. The conservative majority (minus Roberts) did not write an opinion or otherwise explain its decision. Nonetheless, it undermined the Clean Water Act and upended decades of settled law, without so much as a note, to say nothing of hearings and arguments. In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that by “granting relief” to the plaintiffs in the case without a demonstration of “irreparable harm,” the court went “astray.” We should expect to see it continue on that mistaken path.
Here, it is worth thinking about the doctrine that actually gives the court its power to make these decisions — judicial review.
The traditional view is that the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review grew out of Chief Justice John Marshall’s decision in 1803’s Marbury v. Madison, an ostensibly minor dispute that provided Marshall — as skilled a politician as he was a jurist — an opportunity to both assert the authority of the Constitution over ordinary legislation (in this case the Judiciary Act of 1789) and establish the court’s authority to decide the meaning of the Constitution. As Marshall wrote when he struck down the relevant section of the Judiciary Act as unconstitutional, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
But that traditional view has its problems. To begin with, judicial review (or something like it) had been part of the Anglo-American legal tradition for decades before Marbury. In Virginia, Massachusetts and other colonies, juries and judges held considerable power to say what the law was and even overturn laws handed down from legislatures and other authorities. When judges and juries “exercised power to determine the law, they sometimes used their power to nullify legislation, even acts of Parliament, and to refuse obedience to other commands of crown authorities,” legal historian William E. Nelson explains in “Marbury v. Madison: The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review.”
For example, in a 1761 case concerning the issuance of a writ of assistance — a kind of generalized and practically unlimited search order — in Massachusetts, lawyer James Otis Jr. urged the state superior court to nullify the act of Parliament that authorized the writ in question. His argument, and the claim that would presage the practice of judicial review as we came to understand it, was that the act itself violated the “fundamental principles of law.”
“As to acts of Parliament,” Otis said, according to notes kept by a young John Adams, who was present for the trial, “An act against the Constitution is void: an act against natural equity is void: and if an act of Parliament should be made, in the very words of this petition, it would be void. The executive courts must pass such acts into disuse.”
Otis published his views in a pamphlet, “The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved,” which became influential throughout the colonies during the Stamp Act crisis several years later, as judges and juries used his arguments to declare the act void, if not a violation of those “fundamental principles” of British law.
“Lawyers up and down the Atlantic coast advanced this argument during the fall, winter, and spring of 1765-1766,” Nelson writes. “And every court that accepted the argument made the argument less marginal and brought it increasingly into the mainstream of American constitutional thinking.”
Judicial review continued to take shape in the years after independence. A number of cases — in Virginia, New Jersey and North Carolina — dealt with the question of what to do when the act of a legislature appeared to violate the state constitution. In one case involving the pardoning of three Loyalists who had been convicted of treason, George Wythe of the Virginia Court of Appeals stated his view that he had a “duty to protect a solitary individual against the rapacity of the sovereign” as well as to “protect one branch of the legislature, and consequently, the whole community, against the usurpations of the other.” If the time came to overturn a law, he said, “I shall feel the duty; and, fearlessly, perform it.”
By the time of the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, judicial review was an established part of American jurisprudence. It was also controversial, opposed on democratic grounds. One delegate, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, thought “no power ought such exist.” John Mercer of Maryland, likewise, said that he “disapproved of the doctrine that the judges as expositors of the Constitution should have the authority to declare a law void.” And James Madison, the most influential figure at the convention, thought the practice would make “the judiciary department paramount in fact to the legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.”
Madison’s push for a federal “negative” on state legislation — a congressional veto on any state law that contravened “in the opinion of the national legislature the articles of union” — was in essence an attempt to put the power of judicial review into the hands of an elected and representative body, rather than an unelected tribunal. This was also true of his plan for a “council of revision” that would have the authority to examine and possibly veto every act of the national legislature. (Both plans, for what it’s worth, are testaments to the deep hostility Madison felt for state governments at this point in his life.)
The convention rejected both proposals in favor of what would become the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which elevated federal law over state law and gave the federal judiciary the power to enforce compliance. And although the delegates did not discuss judicial review at length during the convention, it was this decision that essentially guaranteed the Supreme Court would develop something like judicial review.
“Once the framers decided to turn to the courts to ensure the supremacy of federal law over state law,” Nelson writes, “they inevitably delegate to those courts jurisdiction to determine the meaning of federal law. And in determining the meaning of federal law in the event of a conflict between an act of Congress and the Constitution, courts had to have the power to give effect to the Constitution and to invalidate the congressional act.”
Marbury v. Madison may have been the first time that the Supreme Court struck down a federal law as unconstitutional, but John Marshall did not, as we have seen, invent the practice. Instead, it emerged organically out of the legal culture of the American colonies, and was written, implicitly, into the federal Constitution. What Marshall did was to give shape to the practice of judicial review, as well as navigate the court through its first major conflict with the executive branch, leaving its power and authority intact, if not enhanced.
Of course, the evolution of judicial review did not end with Marbury. Following Marshall’s precedents, the court of the first half of the 19th century understood itself as enforcing the line between politics and law, between what the state can touch and what belongs to the fixed structure of society. In practice, this meant the strict defense of private property (including the enslaved) from the actions of elected legislatures.
This made sense in a largely agrarian country where most citizens — or at least most adult white men — owned land or expected to own it at some point in their lives. But with the growth of industrial capitalism in the second half of the 19th century and the transformation of American economic life that this brought about, the court’s role changed, or rather, was forced to change.
“As vast accumulations of commercial wealth, which conferred monopoly power on its holders and enabled them to dominate others’ lives, grew in the late 19th century,” Nelson writes, “demands for redistributive regulation grew, and those who demanded the new regulation came to see the judiciary’s constitutional protection of established rights as controversial and political rather than as legal and immutable.” Marshall’s distinction between law and politics collapsed under the weight of material change, and judicial review took a new form in its wake.
This brings us back toward the present, where judicial review is used to resolve social and political disputes as well as more narrowly legal ones. The liberal mythology around the Supreme Court — the idea that it stands in defense of marginalized groups and underrepresented minorities — took shape when the court changed to meet the demands of the New Deal and the postwar welfare state.
What is interesting to consider is that in the hands of the current conservative majority, the court will most likely remain a defender of minority rights that adjudicates social and political conflict. But rather than marginal and oppressed minorities, this court will turn its attention to the interests and prerogatives of powerful political minorities — you might call them factions — that seek to dominate others free of federal interference.
Americans fighting to defend their voting rights or reproductive rights or the right to live free of discrimination will not find many friends on this Supreme Court. Large corporations, right-wing activists and conservative religious groups, on the other hand, will approach the court knowing the majority of justices are almost certainly on their side.
Much as it may frustrate the many Americans who think the court is too influential, judicial review is not going away. It may not be in the Constitution, but it is an emergent property of our constitutional order with deep roots in our colonial history.
The best we may be able to do, then, is to restrain judicial review — to place it under greater democratic control and remind our power-hungry Supreme Court that it exists within the constitutional system, not above it.
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Luis Severino isn’t the same person who last made a start here at Yankee Stadium. Since September 2019, Severino has been through major surgery, a bunch of nagging injuries and a journey to become a better, more sustainable pitcher.
“And I have two more kids now too,” Severino said with a laugh Friday morning.
After pitching just 27.2 innings over the last three seasons, Severino made his first start at the Stadium — since Sept. 22, 2019 — Saturday afternoon. It was a big moment for him personally, being back on the big stage after a long journey through injuries. It was also a big moment for the Yankees, who did not spend on free agent pitching this winter, and need Severino to be the same caliber pitcher he was before the injuries began.
In some ways, though, Severino feels like he’s a better pitcher.
“My last start here, when I was healthy I used to get here and spend five minutes in the gym and go out after. Right now I have to spend an hour getting ready,” Severino said. “But since my last start here I have got a lot of different pitches. I throw a little cutter now… I got two different breaking balls, like a short one and then a big one. And my changeup has been moving different than before. I got a little sink movement on it.
“So I’m thinking if I can bring all those pieces together in one day, I think I can be successful.”
Severino’s return involved him having to battle, but showing that he can handle the role.
He allowed a two-run home run to Alex Verdugo in the second inning. The Red Sox got five hits off him in his three-inning outing, but he did not walk a batter and struck out five. Anthony Rizzo’s fourth-inning two-run shot, his second home run in as many games this season, took Severino off the hook. Giancarlo Stanton’s sixth-inning homer, his second in as many games and his sixth straight against the Red Sox, gave the Yankees the 4-2 win over Boston at Yankee Stadium.
But for a first step back, after a lockout-shortened spring training, and for his first big league start in over 900 days, it was a positive one. His velocity was solid all day and he threw 58 pitches, both indicators of a healthy arm. He got five swings and misses, showing his stuff is playing.
Severino was a very successful pitcher before the injuries hit him. In 2018, he finished in the top-10 in Cy Young voting. In his first 18 starts, the righty pitched to a 1.98 ERA over 118.1 innings. He had a .195 batting average against, allowed just six home runs and averaged almost 10 strikeouts a game.
In an 11-start stretch at the end of that season, Severino pitched just 55.1 innings, going 4-5 with a 6.83 ERA and a surprising .323 batting average against. He allowed 13 homers in that span. The next spring, he signed a four-year, $40 million extension — which runs through 2022, with a club option for $15 million and a $2.75 million buyout after this season.
Considering the brilliance he flashed in the first part of the 2018 season, that was a very team-friendly deal.
But just weeks after he signed it, Severino was shut down with a shoulder issue which turned out to be a lat tear that kept him out of the big leagues for five months. He pitched in the postseason of 2019, felt tightness in his forearm and needed Tommy John surgery in March 2020. He missed the entire COVID-abbreviated 2020 season and his return in 2021 was delayed by a groin injury and then shoulder tightness.
Severino pitched 7.1 innings last year out of the bullpen, which led to the Yankees’ confidence he could get back to an elite level.
“I think it mattered,” manager Aaron Boone said. “First and foremost, it helped us that he pitched really well and pitched in a meaningful role for us when we had to win. So I think that was good. And probably gave him a little more confidence, peace of mind going into the winter.
“Now it’s just about working and taking care of himself and getting himself prepared to start again, but I think I think there was a lot of value in it.”
And now the Yankees have to see how much they can get from Severino. Having pitched just 27.2 innings over the last three years, they have to be careful building up his workload. Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake said they will be flexible with his workload this season.
“Hopefully, it’s not too dissimilar from what we saw with (Corey) Kluber and (Jameson Taillon) last year,” Blake said, “in terms of just kind of trying to manage just general workload across outings and days off and things like that. So I don’t know if we have an expectation for him. … It’s hard to even put out a number of where we get to on the back end.
“I just think we just kind of continue to monitor the situation and if we have to, we’ll be realistic about giving him a breather when we need to do things along those lines.”
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WASHINGTON — In years past, the Mets would require perfection from their pitchers to have a shot at beating their opponent. This season’s lineup, however, offers minimal breathing room for opposing starters. In that way, Mets pitchers can afford to allow a couple of mistakes and know that their offense will still keep the team in the game.
That was what Max Scherzer experienced on Friday night, as he pushed himself to make his Mets debut despite being in pain with hamstring tightness. Scherzer, in his 15th season as a big-league starter and virtual lock for the Hall of Fame, knew how to pitch around his injury and still put up results. The results weren’t perfect — he gave up three earned runs on three hits over six innings — but that was OK. The Mets offense picked him up.
“The rest of the team had big two-out hits,” Scherzer said on Friday. “When you get a little breathing room, you get some run support like that, it allows you to be aggressive and attack the hitters.”
The Mets’ new-look offense is exactly what the doctor ordered. The lineup is deep. The hitters are gritty. Smart hitting and aggressive baserunning have been on display in the first two games of the year, featuring bunt singles against the shift (looking at you, Robinson Cano) and two-out, two-run singles (that’s Starling Marte’s immediate impact) with third-base coach Joey Cora boldly waving runners home.
Yes, it’s still early in the season. But last year, the Mets fired hitting coach Chili Davis as early as May 6, so it’s not as if these initial games don’t matter. The Mets’ hot start should not be ignored, even if just for the simple fact we didn’t see this type of offensive production last year. The 2022 Mets are refreshing to watch.
The Amazin’s entered Saturday leading the majors in hits (25) and on-base percentage (.453). In their third game of the season, the Mets have the opportunity to do something they did only twice last season: record 10 or more hits in three straight games. In last year’s hugely disappointing season, the Mets hit .204 with two outs and runners in scoring position, good for 28th in the league. In these first couple of games, we’ve already seen hitters take unselfish at-bats and capitalize with runners on base.
“We don’t really have anybody that’s going out there trying to hit the ball 500 feet,” J.D. Davis. said. “Like Pete (Alonso), he’ll let loose here and there. But we do a pretty good job of trying to get base hits and work at-bats. We’ve just been getting guys on base. Continuously putting pressure on the pitcher, making him throw more pitches. Seems like we almost have a guy on base every single inning. Just kind of making them bend until they break is kind of a goal that we have.”
New Mets hitting coach Eric Chavez has emphasized a blend of both traditional, situational hitting and analytical approaches at the plate. He doesn’t want hitters to be bogged down by statistics and information by the time they dig into the box. At least initially, it has led to a terrific offensive display because Mets hitters are buying into the approach.
Last year, a combination of events negatively impacted the Mets at the plate. They went through a hitting coach transition in May, from Davis to Hugh Quattlebaum. Then an onslaught of injuries to starting players caused the remaining healthy hitters to put too much pressure on themselves.
“We were in such a funk last year where we weren’t satisfied or we weren’t settling for the sac fly,” Davis said. “We didn’t want just one run. We wanted a couple of runs. There’s a runner on third, with one out or no outs, we’re trying to hit a double or hit a home run.
“A lot of people were so hurt that we were just trying to put the team on our shoulders. We had two to three guys (injured), so people were trying to carry the load or be that guy that has the big hit. But now, with everybody healthy and collectively together, it’s kind of easier to lean on each other instead of depending on one, two, or three guys in the lineup to come through.”
That grinding of at-bats is contagious. The team-first approach that manager Buck Showalter has implemented is leading to successful results. The key for these Mets will be maintaining it, even when injuries inevitably arise. For now, Mets hitters are just enjoying playing baseball, keeping their heads down, and controlling what they can control, instead of solely focusing on beating the other team. If they do everything right, when they look up, the score will reflect their grind.
“It’s what everybody’s trying to do in baseball,” Showalter said of his lineup. “You’re trying to pass the baton. You’re trying to make them grind every at-bat. Sometimes you don’t score a run, but you can win the inning. It sets up the rest of the game.”
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JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State is making moves in athletics, and in the coming years, the infrequent visitor may not recognize much from the school's Ohio Valley Conference days.
The Gamecocks are moving to the Football Subdivision, the football stadium is undergoing renovations, and by 2023, JSU will play in Conference USA.
They've got a new football coach in Rich Rodriguez, and don't be surprised when he brings a higher grade of talent to the program.
After Saturday afternoon's spring game, it's clear that shift for more talent will be a bigger priority on offense, rather than defense.
Make no mistake — the Gamecocks are pretty good on defense, even though two of the most productive players on last season's roster (Nicario Harper and D.J. Coleman) have left the program for greener pastures in the transfer portal.
But the offense is struggling. It's struggling with the quicker pace of Rodriguez's offense, and it's struggling to produce at the level Rodriguez wants.
The offense has made progress this spring, but after Saturday's game, Rodriguez lamented that "we're back at square one." He called it "gross" and said he wasn't happy with the offense's effort.
He was so bothered by how the offense looked Saturday that he even forgot to hand out the traditional PayDay candy bars. That's a little thing he does afterward, where he'll call out a guy's name, the team claps for the player, and an assistant coach tosses a PayDay to the honored player. Rodriguez's joke is that he's obviously not allowed to give a financial payday, but he can make everyone smile by tossing out a few candy bars.
He mentioned afterward that he was more interested in sprints than candy bars, and it was easy to see why.
JSU didn't divide into traditional teams Saturday, as it was simply the offensive players in white jerseys and the defense in red. Although the Gamecocks didn't keep score on the scoreboard, it took the offense most of the 100-play day to catch up to the number of points the defense put up.
On the second play, defensive back George Steele returned an interception for a touchdown. Later, a fumble resulted in a safety. A snap over the punter's head and out of the end zone gave the defense another safety.
Brenton King kicked a 36-yard field goal, and quarterback Zion Webb found Ahmad Edwards for a 35-yard touchdown pass, cutting the defense's unofficial lead to 10-9.
When the offense was allowed to start 25 yards from the end zone, JSU managed five field goals: two by King from 39 and 50 yards, and three from Alen Karajic from 34, 39 and 34 yards. Matt LaRoche rushed 2 yards for another touchdown.
At the end, JSU ran three 2-point plays but couldn't score on any of them.
That isn't to say nobody from the offense looked good. Wide receivers P.J. Wells and Perry Carter did some good things. So did Webb. Running back Ron Wiggins caught a screen pass and broke a handful of tackles on his way to about a 30-yard gain.
On defense, Malik Feaster, Derrick Carter and Luke Jackson did good things in the secondary. Jaylen Swain had a sack. Steele, of course, was solid. Safety Jeremiah Harris gave JSU the kind of leadership and performance it needs.
Both kickers did well. Karajic held the job the past two years. King was Georgia Tech's kicker from 2017-19 and was inconsistent. He transferred to JSU last year and is getting a shot at the job this year.
Running back might be the most hotly contested job, as it has been in the past. A half-dozen guys got action Saturday, including Uriah West, Pat Jackson, Josh Samuel, junior college transfer Anwar Lewis, Wiggins and LaRoche. West and Wiggins looked the strongest, but keep in mind that this was a basic scrimmage of a little more than an hour.
At quarterback, Webb probably has an edge over Matt Caldwell, but N.C. State transfer Aaron McLaughlin is a four-star prospect, and we're hearing a lot of good things about incoming freshman Te'Sean Smoot from Ohio.
No matter what, guys who play this fall on offense are going to have to catch on. For those that don't, there's the transfer portal — coming and going.
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JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State didn’t keep score during Saturday’s spring game, but it still marked a milestone of sorts for redshirt senior Jeremiah Harris, who got to play a game in front of fans for the first time since he suffered a season-ending elbow injury during the fall season-opener against UAB.
Of course, all fans aren’t created equal. Harris’ aunt, Felecia Mills, and his father, Melvin Harris, were in attendance for his return to the field.
“They've been waiting on me to come out and play ball. … So it was a great feeling to be able to play in front of them,” Jeremiah Harris said.
Ever since the Gamecocks hired Rich Rodriguez, the attention has been on the offense, but during Saturday’s open scrimmage, the Gamecock offense might have been the last thing anybody in attendance wanted to watch.
“It was hard to evaluate if our defense was good or if our offense was just that bad,” Rodriguez said.
Offensive players described Saturday’s performance as disappointing. Besides a brief scoring stint in the middle, their frustration was well earned and started early as cornerback George Steele was the first player to find the end zone Saturday after he intercepted the ball at midifled and ran it back for a score.
“You see the second play of the scrimmage, he had a pick-six,” sophomore defensive end Jaylen Swain said. “He's just a dog. No matter where you put him at, you can put him at running back, and I feel like he’d be the best player on the field.”
Rodriguez said that was just the latest highlight play from Steele this spring.
“He read the play, he jumped it, and kind of set the tone right there,” Rodriguez said.
Safety Deco Wilson all but assured that the Gamecocks’ offense would end the day on a similarly sour note when he recorded an interception of his own during the final four plays of the scrimmage.
“Always for offense, it is going to be harder for them to communicate, especially with a new staff coming in, because we're going to be moving fast,” Swain said. “Because from a defensive standpoint, everything that you’re doing is regular. It is what we've been doing with the old defense. It is just new calls, and now you need to do it faster.”
That speed was on full display Saturday afternoon when Swain sacked quarterback Zion Webb, who was later also sacked by defensive end Kyle Holt. Rodriguez praised both of those players, along with Steele, after the scrimmage for their performances this spring.
Jacksonville State’s head coach also commended the entire secondary as quick learners that performed well in recent weeks.
“All our DBs they're fast, the might not be the biggest, but they fast they going to break to the ball,” Swain said. “They're going to run to the ball, and when they get there, they going to hit you. They all know how to make plays on the football.”
One of those backs, Steele, said Harris’ return to the safety position has helped him gain confidence when he slides into the nickel spot.
“When I look back there and know Jeremiah Harris is back there, I know my job is going to be a little easier,” Steele said. “Because he’s going to make sure I’m in the right spot.”
He wasn’t the only defender praising the redshirt senior on Saturday.
“When you got J. Ro (Harris) back like back behind you, everything is moving faster because he can get the calls in,” Swain said. “He knows how to be a leader no matter what. So when the ball is snapped or when the ball is not even snapped, in pre-snap, he can tell you what is coming. He just helps the defense fly around and moves faster.”
As the oldest safety on the team, and one of the oldest defenders overall, Harris said he does feel obligated to provide leadership on that side of the ball, and he’s proud of the growth he’s seen out of his fellow defensive players this spring.
“The defense we improved a lot,” Harris said. “We finally settled in with the playbook. Everybody finally got an understanding. Everybody is just flying around and having fun.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A small archipelago off Mexico’s Pacific coast that had been home to an island prison colony is finalizing preparations to receive tourists.
Getting to Islas Marias, however, is currently a challenge for even the sturdiest tourist: a 4-hour boat ride in often choppy waters. But Mexico’s government plans to make things easier, putting the country’s navy in charge of tours in the latest new function assigned to Mexico’s armed forces under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Some people, like Beatriz Maldonado, are already imagining the voyage. When Maldonado was imprisoned between those “walls of water” — as a Mexican writer also confined there described it — she thought she would never see her mother again.
Maldonado only spent one year of her six-year sentence there for drug and weapons possession, but it was the most painful. “I lost my smile, my happiness,” she said. Now at age 55, a laundry worker and an activist advocating for other imprisoned women, she wants to return to close wounds.
The Islas Marias prison colony was founded in 1905 on Mother María Island, the largest of the four islands and the only inhabited one more than 60 miles off the coast of Nayarit state. Frequently buffeted by hurricanes scraping along Mexico’s coast, the government closed the prison in 2019.
López Obrador had it converted into an environmental education center, though which some 150 youths have passed. Now the government wants to make it an ecotourism destination where visitors can watch sea birds and enjoy the beaches and local history.
On Saturday, Mexico’s president announced that the navy will be in charge managing tours, the island’s airport will expanded and two ferries will be added that can make the trip in 2.5 hours.
Visitors will stay in the old houses – of prisoners or workers – that are being rebuilt to avoid having to construct new buildings that could damage the archipelago’s nature reserve.
Everything could be ready in three months, López Obrador said. But it is unclear when tours will start because hurricane season begins in June. Many wonder whether Islas Marías will become a tourist draw like Alcatraz, the infamous prison accessed from San Francisco, or a place like the Panamanian island prison colony Coiba, closed in 2004, which became a natural paradise that is being reclaimed by the jungle.
Although the government has been criticized for giving many functions to the military, from construction works or plant nurseries to controlling Mexico City’s new airport, Maldonado sees nothing wrong with the navy taking charge of tourism.
“I hope there is no nepotism and we all have the opportunity to visit it,” she said in a message after the announcement.
The island now is nothing like the dirt-floored warehouse-like prison dorms with five bathrooms for 500 women that Maldonado remembers. “We lived in a chicken coop,” she said.
Now a colorful mural of former South African leader Nelson Mandela, himself held for years on an island prison, welcomes visitors to remodeled buildings, a whitewashed church and a museum with the Mexican writer José Revueltas, imprisoned there during the 1930s for his work in the Communist Party, as main character.
“What was a hell is becoming a paradise,” López Obrador said.
There was a time when it was considered the “tomb of the Pacific.” Revueltas said the prison was much more terrible than he could describe in his book “Walls of Water.” The worst couldn’t be described, he said, because of modesty or because you don’t know how to show that it’s really true.
Island prison colonies were common around the world to make escapes nearly impossible or to rehabilitate through forced labor. Most tried to be self-sufficient.
Prisoners on Mother María Island harvested salt and farmed shrimp. They tried to make a little money brewing their own alcohol from fermented fruits, illegally trading exotic birds or killing boa constrictors to make belts.
In later years, it was known as a “prison without walls” where some prisoners lived with their families in semi-freedom and relatively good conditions.
That changed when President Felipe Calderon launched the war against the drug cartels in 2006 and hundreds of new prisoners were sent there. In 2013, the inmate population reached 8,000.
Maldonado served her time during that era. She said the women, who were the minority, were the worst treated. Unlike the men, they weren’t allowed outside the fences even though they had skills and barely received enough food. Maldonado’s weight dropped to about 45 pounds. “They didn’t pay attention to us when someone got sick,” she said. “My friend’s gallbladder ruptured.”
The extreme isolation was the most punishing part, broken only on the 15th of every month when they were allowed a 10-minute phone call with a relative. Some who tried to escape drowned. Occasionally the Navy rescued others who set out on improvised crafts.
“The boats came on Thursdays to bring us supplies and letters, and I saw the tears of my mother on the stained pages,” Maldonado said. “The worst was thinking that I would never see her again.”
Infrequently some relatives made visits that then involved 12 hours at sea.
Maldonado’s one colorful memory was of a tube of red lipstick, the only personal item she took. When it ran out she solemnly buried it because she felt like it gave her life.
A year after Maldonado was transferred to a prison in Mexico City, six people died on the island in a riot sparked by a lack of food.
It was closed in 2019 because of the high operating costs, some $150 a day per prisoner, which was much higher than on the mainland. Prison reform had also significantly reduced its inmate population.
Devil’s Island in French Guiana, immortalized in the film “Papillon,” closed in 1946. Alcatraz closed in 1963. Later, others in Chile, Costa Rica and Brazil were shuttered. The most abrupt was Peru’s El Fronton in 1986 when the government used gun boats to put down a riot, killing more than 100 inmates.
Maldonado applauded the Islas Marias closure and supports the idea of inviting visitors. She said the proceeds should go to re-insertion programs for inmates.
She has already written to former cellmates to see if they’d like to go with her to the place she thought she’d never see again.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s political opposition ousted the country’s embattled prime minister in a no-confidence vote early Sunday, which they won after several of Imran Khan’s allies and a key coalition party deserted him.
The combined opposition that spans the political spectrum from the left to the radically religious will form the new government, with the head of one of the largest parties, the Pakistani Muslim League, taking over as prime minister.
Anticipating his loss, Khan, who charged the opposition colluded with the United States to unseat him, has called on his supporters to stage rallies nationwide on Sunday. Khan’s options are limited and should he see a big turnout in his support, he may try to keep the momentum of street protests as a way to pressure Parliament to hold early elections.
Khan earlier had tried to sidestep the vote by dissolving Parliament and calling early elections but a Supreme Court ruling ordered the vote to go ahead.
The vote comes amid cooling relations between Khan and a powerful military who many of his political opponents allege helped him come to power in general elections in 2018. The military has directly ruled Pakistan for more than half of its 75 years and wields considerable power over civilian governments, who worry a disgruntled army could unseat them.
The opposition called for Khan’s ouster charging economic mismanagement as inflation soars and the Pakistani rupee plummets in value. The vote caps months of political turmoil and a constitutional crisis that required the Supreme Court to sort out.
In an impassioned speech Friday, Khan doubled down on his accusations that his opponents colluded with the United States to unseat him over his foreign policy choices, which often seemed to favor China and Russia and defied the U.S.
Khan said Washington opposed his Feb. 24 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin hours after tanks rolled into Ukraine, launching a devastating war in the heart of Europe.
Ahead of the vote, his lawmakers addressed Parliament to express outrage about a letter Khan said told of a senior U.S. official, who was not named, who informed top Pakistani diplomats that Washington’s relations with Pakistan would improve if Khan was ousted. Human rights minister Shireen Mazari said the memo named Khan and said that if he was out of power “all would be forgiven.”
She went on to ask: “Forgiven for what? What is our sin?”
The U.S. State Department has denied any involvement in Pakistan’s internal politics. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter told reporters on Friday there was “absolutely no truth to these allegations.”
Still, Khan urged his supporters to take to the streets, particularly the youth who have been the backbone of his support since the former cricket star turned conservative Islamist politician came to power in 2018. He said they needed to protect Pakistan’s sovereignty and oppose U.S. dictations.
“You have to come out to protect your own future. It is you who have to protect your democracy, your sovereignty and your independence. … This is your duty,” he said. “I will not accept an imposed government.”
Khan’s allegations of U.S. involvement are likely to resonate with many in Pakistan, says Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Washington -based Wilson Center.
“Khan’s conspiracy allegations will resonate in a country where there’s a tendency to ascribe the worst possible motives to U.S. policy, especially because there is a past history of U.S. meddling in Pakistani politics,” said Kugelman.
Khan’s insistence there is U.S. involvement in attempts to oust him also exploits a deep-seated mistrust among many in Pakistan of U.S. intentions, particularly following 9/11.
Washington has often berated Pakistan for doing too little to fight Islamic militants, even as thousands of Pakistanis have died at their hands and the army has lost more than 5,000 soldiers. Pakistan has been attacked for aiding Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents while also being asked to bring them to the peace table.
The no-confidence vote loss for Khan brings to power some unlikely partners.
Among them is a radically religious party that runs scores of religious schools. The Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam, or Assembly of Clerics, teaches a deeply conservative brand of Islam in its schools. Many of Afghanistan’s Taliban and Pakistan’s own homegrown violent Taliban graduated from JUI schools.
The largest among the opposition parties — the Pakistan People’s Party, led by the son of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the Pakistan Muslim League — have been tainted by allegations of widespread corruption.
Pakistan Muslim League leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was convicted of corruption after being named in the so-called Panama Papers. That’s a collection of leaked secret financial documents showing how some of the world’s richest hide their money and involving a global law firm based in Panama. Sharif was disqualified by Pakistan’s Supreme Court from holding office. The new prime minister is expected to be Sharif’s brother Shahbaz Sharif after a vote for the new prime minister is held in Parliament on Monday.
“This would be the first time in Pakistan’s history that a no-confidence vote succeeds in ousting a Prime Minister — the fulfilment of a constitutional process that was far from guaranteed after Khan’s attempts to derail the vote,” said Elizabeth Threlkeld, Pakistan expert at the U.S.-based The Stimson Center. “That, in itself, is significant, and could give Pakistan something to build on going forward.”
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(AP) Seven months after Peyton and Eli Manning provided a template on how alternate broadcasts could succeed, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Kay think they can improve on it.
The “KayRod Cast” with Rodriguez and Kay debuts Sunday night on ESPN2 when the Boston Red Sox take on the New York Yankees. It will be the first of eight this season that will take place while “Sunday Night Baseball” airs on ESPN.
“Well, we’re presently in the legal maneuverings to get adopted by a pair of people so we can actually be brothers, so that will give us more of a ‘Manningcast’ feel,” Kay said jokingly during a conference call earlier this week. “I thought the ‘Manningcast’ was great. I think we’re going to pay a little bit more attention to the game.”
Alternate broadcasts can go off the rails because the game becomes secondary to the interviews and personalities, but baseball might be the one sport that can blend both due to the pace of play.
While Rodriguez and Kay aren’t related like the Mannings, they are longtime friends. Kay has broadcast Yankees games since 1992 while Rodriguez spent 12 of his 22 major league seasons in pinstripes.
Rodriguez has managed to transition into broadcasting despite some controversies on and off the field. While he has been engaging while doing studio work for Fox, he struggled as an analyst during his four seasons as an analyst in the “Sunday Night Baseball” booth.
But Rodriguez thinks he did some of his best analyst work during a short stay in the “YES Network” booth with Kay and David Cone during a 2019 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I think it was the best four innings I’ve ever done on TV because I was in the middle of two very close friends, and it was going back and forth,” Rodriguez said. “Michael knows exactly how to set me up because he knows me so well, so I think this format will do well for me.”
Rodriguez also thinks his suspension for taking performance-enhancing drugs — and the criticism he got from many, including Kay — helped prepare him for his new opportunity.
“That’s what’s going to make this show really, I think, good, is because you’re going to get forthrightness from both him and I,” he said. “Honestly, pre-suspension, I think the show wouldn’t have been as good because I wasn’t as comfortable. I think I’m just more comfortable in my skin today, and we’re going to let it rip.”
Mark Gross, ESPN’s senior vice president for production and remote events, said guests during the broadcast are likely to lean more toward players who played well on Sunday afternoon or during the past week. It also will include batting and fielding demos by Rodriguez.
Sunday’s show will have Kay and Rodriguez together at ESPN’s Seaport District Studios in New York. Some subsequent broadcasts could take place remotely, depending on their schedules. Rodriguez is spending most of his time in Minnesota as part of the ownership group of the NBA’s Timberwolves.
When it comes to ratings, comparing “KayRod Cast” to “Manningcast” would be unfair. The “Manningcast” averaged 1.58 million viewers per game last season. By comparison, “Sunday Night Baseball” was up 18% in 2021 according to Nielsen, and averaged 1.46 million.
A better gauge might be audience percentage. Last season, 12% of the total “Monday Night Football” audience watched the Mannings compared to the main broadcast.
Ratings aside, Kay said his main goal is to get Rodriguez to project his natural personality.
“I want to get Alex Rodriguez to be the Alex Rodriguez that I used to speak to in front of a locker where there wasn’t the confinement of this has to be done for television, you have to look here, you have to break here, because I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who knows more baseball than Alex,” he said.
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(WFLA) — Video showed the moment two baby alligators hatched and took their first swim at a reptile park in New South Wales, Australia.
The Australian Reptile Park said the pair, named Thor and Loki, emerged from their eggs after their incubation, “looking like something from Jurassic Park.”
The park said keepers “raided” the alligator nests to incubate the eggs, and prevented them from “being eaten by cannibalistic alligators and to protect them from the harsh Australian summer.”
This video, shared by Australian Reptile Park via storyful, showed the hatchlings taking their first dip in the water.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When Ted Budd won a surprise endorsement from former President Donald Trump last year, he was a little-known congressman running for a Senate seat in North Carolina against some of the state’s most recognizable Republicans, including a former governor.
As he enters the final stretch before the state’s May 17 primary, Budd is again hoping for a boost, banking on the power of Trump’s endorsement to put him on top of a field that includes a dozen other Republicans.
“We feel we’ve got strong momentum,” Budd told The Associated Press. “Whether it’s grassroots, trend lines in polling or fundraising, we think we’re in a very good place.”
Budd’s candidacy will serve as an early test of whether Trump’s backing is powerful enough to lift someone from relative obscurity to the GOP nomination for a critical Senate seat. A strong showing by Budd could provide clues about how Trump-backed candidates in other states, including Georgia, that vote in quick succession after North Carolina, will fare.
The race “will be a test of the Trump effect on North Carolina among North Carolina Republicans, I think not just for North Carolina but nationally,” said Mike Rusher, a political consultant who previously worked for the state GOP.
Democrats have made inroads across the South in recent years, winning a presidential election in Georgia in 2020 for the first time in 28 years and picking up two Senate seats.
North Carolina has experienced similar demographic changes, driven by an influx of new residents to the Raleigh and Charlotte areas. But for now, Democrats have struggled to make the same progress in the state’s presidential and Senate races. Barack Obama was the last Democratic presidential contender to carry North Carolina in 2008, and a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate seat since Kay Hagan the same year.
Trump will return to the state on Saturday for a rally in rural Johnston County, just southeast of Raleigh. He was a boon to North Carolina Republicans in the 2020 campaign, boosting turnout so that GOP candidates — with few exceptions — won races up and down the ballot even as Trump himself only narrowly eked out a win.
Budd is running for retiring Republican Sen. Richard Burr’s seat against former Gov. Pat McCrory, who is viewed as a moderate and has kept some distance from Trump while backing his economic policies. A dozen other Republicans are also seeking the nomination, including former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker, who has resisted Trump’s entreaties to drop out.
The winner is expected to take on presumptive Democratic nominee Cheri Beasley, a former state Supreme Court chief justice, in November’s general election. Like nearly all statewide races, the general election should be close, and a Democratic victory could thwart GOP hopes of retaking the Senate majority.
While McCrory entered the race as its best-known candidate, Budd and his advisers are increasingly optimistic that his position is strengthening in the race’s final weeks.
Budd credited Trump’s endorsement as “the single biggest factor to help advance and get attention on this campaign.” He has also benefited from millions of dollars in super PAC spending on his behalf, including from the Club for Growth’s political wing. The group’s ads heavily feature Trump’s endorsement, casting Budd as a reliable conservative while highlighting McCrory’s past criticism of the former president and slamming him as a “disloyal, liberal loser.”
McCrory became governor in 2013 but lost reelection after he signed a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people that cost the state billions.
Saturday’s rally comes amid questions over whether Trump’s influence is fading amid stumbles in other states. Last month, he withdrew his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks, who was struggling to gain traction in Alabama’s Senate primary. Last year, his endorsed candidate in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Sean Parnell, dropped out amid allegations of abuse by his ex-wife.
As aides have warned that he is setting himself up for failure by offering too many endorsements, Trump has held off picking sides in several competitive Senate contests, including in Missouri and Ohio, where early voting is underway.
Seeing Walker as a potential spoiler, Trump has tried to no avail to pressure him to leave the race — a tactic he has used successfully in other contests to bolster his favored candidates’ chances.
The top vote-getter must garner more than 30% of the vote to avoid a runoff. Otherwise, the top two finishers advance to a runoff in late July.
“Look, we appreciate President Trump and the work that he did for our country, but it doesn’t mean that he makes the right decisions and sometimes he gets bad counsel,” Walker said in an interview. “And in this particular incident, he has hitched his wagon to the wrong horse.”
McCrory, meanwhile, dismissed polling out this week suggesting he had lost his early edge, saying there’s time for a counterattack.
“This race is going to be a dead heat. It’s neck and neck right now, and it’s amazing that we’re even in that position, considering $7 to $8 million have been spent against us from a special interest group in D.C.,” McCrory said in an unnamed reference to Club for Growth Action.
Many voters have yet to make up their minds, with early in-person voting beginning April 28.
John Dismukes, 48, of Carolina Beach describes himself as “100% undecided.” “I’m looking at all three of them,” he said.
Billy Shomaker, a retired commercial pilot from Beech Mountain, said he supports Budd regardless of Trump’s endorsement. “I like President Trump. I don’t like everything he does,” said Shomaker, 68.
Trump’s preferred candidates in North Carolina haven’t always been successful. In 2020, political newcomer Madison Cawthorn comfortably won a GOP congressional primary runoff over Trump’s pick.
But Trump soon embraced Cawthorn, who won the general election at age 25 and became one of the ex-president’s strongest supporters. Now, Trump is returning the favor, featuring him as a rally speaker and endorsing him for reelection even as Cawthorn has faced backlash over recent incendiary comments.
McCrory said he’s got his own political events Saturday and wouldn’t share the stage with Budd, Cawthorn or Trump even if offered.
Trump “says I don’t represent his values,” McCrory said, referencing the former president’s words when he endorsed Budd 10 months ago. “I agree with the policies of Trump. But yeah, we maybe have different opinion on values.”
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — This week, dozens of top government officials and others tested positive for COVID-19 after a high-profile Washington dinner last weekend.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., are the latest victims.
Possibly the highest profile positive case — Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She abruptly canceled her weekly press conference after testing positive on Thursday.
Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged President Biden could be vulnerable.
“Like anyone, the President may also test positive for COVID-19,” said Psaki.
Shortly before testing positive, Speaker Pelosi was spotted hugging and even kissing the president on the cheek.
Thursday, the Vice President’s communications director also tested positive.
The Vice President and the President have since tested negative.
“The Vice President wore a mask inside today, when she was both with the President and with her staff,” Psaki said.
She said what’s most important is the President is prepared.
“He has taken a range of precautions, as we all have, but he’s also taken steps like getting his second booster, as he did last week.” Psaki said.
Earlier this week, Chief Medical Advisor to the President Doctor Anthony Fauci said the fourth shot is proven to prevent serious illness or death.
According to the Speaker’s office, Pelosi is fully vaccinated, boosted and only experiencing mild symptoms, as are most others who reported positive cases.
The White House says the President will continue his public schedule.
“His doctors are comfortable that he can carry out his duties,” said Psaki.
That continued Friday when the President held a rather large gathering on the south lawn of the White House to celebrate the confirmation of justice-to-be, judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. There was some concern that the event could end up being another super-spreader event, as was there not many masks outdoors.
There are no public events for the President today. He is back home in Delaware for the weekend.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Temperatures on Saturday remained in the 40s once again with snowfall even occurring through parts of the morning. It was our third consecutive day with at least some frozen precip and highs more than 10 degrees below average. Lucky for us however, it is April, a month of transition and quick changes in our weather.
The return of sunny weather
Sunday morning we will wake up to… wait for it… a completely sunny sky! It will be a gorgeous start to the day despite the gray several days leading up. You will need to be prepared for a chill in the air though. Lows will be in the 30-32 range through much of Central Indiana. The sun will stay out for most of the day with thin clouds making any appearance by the mid afternoon. It will be breezy through the afternoon as well with warmer air coming out of the south. Highs will climb quickly into the mid 60s by the peak of the day.
Storm chances on the rise
Clouds will continue to build after dark and a warm front will move through overnight. This will keep things mild with lows in the 50s. Showers and even a few storms will develop, so don’t let thunder catch you off guard. A low pressure system will continue to swing showers and storms through the region during the day. As a result, sun will be in and out with highs kept in the upper 60s. The best chance for some dry time will be mid morning through mid afternoon. By the late afternoon and evening, another round of storms is expected to move through. This will eventually clear ahead of Tuesday.
Midweek warmth & severe threat
Tuesday and Wednesday will be the warmest days this week with highs in the low and mid 70s. The chance for us to be even warmer is certainly there, but will depend on the level of cloud cover we see. Similar to Sunday and Monday, it will be breezy. Mild air will continue to flow out of the south and this will bring energy for more storms. Tuesday the threat is isolated; they’ll be out there, but most will stay dry. A partly to mostly cloudy sky is expected otherwise. On Wednesday the storm threat increases. A strong cold front will press across the state late in the day and this may produce severe weather. We are a few days out, but be prepared for an isolated damaging wind threat at the least. Cooler and sunnier weather will return after the front exits prior to Thursday.
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A Long Island man has been arrested on murder charges, accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend nine times in a parking garage near where she worked as a health care worker.
Quay-Sean Renard Hines' arrest comes a week after he allegedly approached Amelia Laguerre from behind and discharged his firearm 10 times, Nassau County officials detailed Saturday. Officers arrested the 30-year-old in Merrick on his way to work the night before.
"According to the preliminary investigation, less than one hour after Hines allegedly shot Ms. Laguerre, he went to the gym," said District Attorney Anne Donnelly, who called her murder "a selfish act, a calculated act and a cowardly act."
Hines, of Bay Shore, is being held without bail after pleading not guilty at his arraignment in First District Court in Hempstead. Contact information for his attorney was not immediately known.
Donnelly and Nassau County Detective Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick detailed a grim case of domestic violence that resulted in the 33-year-old's death.
Hines and Laguerre were dating for nearly two years before the pair broke up in late 2021, police said. Relatives and friends told investigators that Hines became increasingly violent and emotionally abusive. They accused him of burning clothes, damaging property, and breaking into her apartment last year.
"Our investigation also determined that Quay-Sean began to stalk Amelia, and he would show up unannounced at [her work] seeking to rekindle their relationship," Fitzpatrick said.
Hines is accused of ambushing Laguerre on March 31 in an underground parking structure in New Hyde Park around 6 p.m. The publicly accessible garage is adjacent to physician offices and specialty care practices, said a spokesperson for Northwell Health, where the woman was a staff member.
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Other Northwell employees provided medical attention immediately after at the scene in an effort to save her life.
According to police records, Hines does not have a history of prior arrests or domestic incidents, Fitzpatrick said. He's scheduled back in court on Tuesday.
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Funeral services held for Tyre Sampson, teen killed on free-fall ride in Orlando
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Funeral services were held Saturday in St. Louis for a 14-year-old teenager who died last month at an Orlando theme park.
Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a free-fall ride at Icon Park.
The investigation into his cause of death continues, and on Saturday, it was time for his friends and family to lay him to rest as hundreds attended the services for Tyre.
“There’s a lot of love here. There’s a lot of support. It’s terrible; it’s a tragedy. It’s something no mother should ever have to go through,” said family friend Kelly Southhall.
According to his family, Tyre was 6-foot-4 and 325 pounds and on the path to greatness on the football field.
Reggie Rice, Tyre’s cousin, says he will always carry his younger cousin in his heart.
“He asked me every time we played football, ‘what do you want to do when I get older or who did I want to be like when I get old.’ I was like, I don’t know, ‘who do you want to be like?’ And he told me, ‘nobody, I’m going to be myself,’” Rice said.
Tyre’s friends and family said bigger than his physique was his larger-than-life personality.
“I would always tease him about the size of his shoes, and he would joke it off and laugh it off. I was like, ‘what size is your shoe?’ He would say 17 with a lot of pride,” Tyre’s former teacher Vida Weekly said.
Weekly also said Tyre was growing into a great young man and leader as he helped younger students at City Garden Montessori School.
She hopes his loss helps others heal and grow.
“I pray that somebody in this situation learns from this,” Weekly said.
Family lawyer and prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called Tyre’s death “completely preventable.”
The teen’s death was captured on video, which Crump called the worst he has ever seen, except for the torture death of George Floyd.
The Orlando ride was billed as the tallest free-standing drop tower on earth, and it remains closed as investigators continue to figure out what exactly happened.
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'Save the Chimps’ reopens to members amidst dropping COVID-19 cases
Save the Chimps Chimpanzee Sanctuary reopened to its members and donors for the first time in three years - a sign the sanctuary is slowly moving past its strict COVID-19 precautions.
Save the Chimps CEO Ana Paula Tavares says chimpanzees were also at risk to catch the virus, keeping only essential staff in close contact, while all staff wore masks and protective gear to protect the chimps.
Saturday, they allowed people inside, thanks to dropping COVID-19 case rates, hoping to show all of the work they continue to do to better the lives of chimpanzees.
Save the Chimps is a 150-acre sanctuary with 12 islands where chimpanzees live in family groups.
“They have bonds and friendships that are just inspiring,” Tavares said. “Chimpanzees are intelligent, curious, very strong, truly magnificent beings.”
221 chimpanzees currently call the sanctuary home, but over the years, more than 330 chimpanzees have lived on the sanctuary for their “retirement.”
“This is really a place for them to have a dignified retirement… They endured a lot,” Tavares said.
The majority of the chimps were rescued from biomedical research.
“They go through 100 plus surgeries in their lifetime and being poked,” Tavares said. “It’s tremendous suffering.”
Others were saved from the pet trade, entertainment industry, and U.S Space Program.
“These are social beings like us, so most of them lived in small cages, enslaved really, because they were serving. They were working but that was not voluntary,” Tavares said.
They would never survive in the wild given their past of captivity, so the sanctuary is the next best thing.
They are under the care of 50 behavior professionals and a 8-person veterinary team that gives the chimps individualized care.
Best of all, they’ll never again be caged. They can live out their days basking in the sun, or stay inside covered structures.
“It’s that freedom of choice,” Tavares said.
Recently, Tavares said an orthopedic team was on site to perform arthritis surgery for an aging chimp. It was a first of its kind procedure in the world.
They’ve also helped some of the most traumatized and isolated chimps learn how to blend into a chimpanzee family.
“So this is the place for them to just be, to just learn how to be chimps and enjoy life. Learn the behavior. Learn the language that will allow them to thrive in a place like this among other chimpanzees,” Tavares said.
Tavares says there are still 700 more chimpanzees in captivity that need to be rescued or relocated to sanctuaries.
“There’s still chimpanzees in biomedical labs that are not being used on research but not moved yet to sanctuaries.”
She would love to welcome more of those chimps to Fort Pierce, as Save the Chimps continues to try to make right so many of the wrongs chimpanzees endured.
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Which low-rise jeans are best?
Low-rise jeans are back despite many protests from those who already lived through the trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s as well as people who find the style unflattering. However, the resurgence of these low-slung jeans also means there are more flattering cuts and styles to choose from than there used to be.
Low-rise jeans are less constricting to wear than higher-rise jeans. And you no longer have to wear them with a crop top and belly button piercing, unless you’re going for a Y2K look. For classic low-rise skinny jeans, the True Religion Stella Low-Rise Skinny Fit Jean is the top choice.
What to know before you buy low-rise jeans
Rise
The rise of the pants determines where the jeans sit on your waist. Low-rise jeans sit either at or below the sit bone. This can have an elongating effect on shorter torsos. Some plunge lower than others, so consider how much of your midriff you want to show. Of course, you can always pair low-rise jeans with a flannel shirt that covers your stomach for a ’90s grunge look.
Length
Low-rise jeans come in a variety of lengths.
- Cropped jeans hit between the ankle and mid-calf, and they are the perfect length for summer.
- Ankle jeans hit just at or slightly above the ankle.
- Regular-length jeans hit just below the ankle.
- Full-length jeans cover part of your shoe and ankle.
If you’re tall, look for jeans in tall lengths so you don’t end up with cropped jeans when you’re going for ankle jeans. If you’re short, look for jeans in petite lengths.
Size
Low-rise jeans are typically sized by waist and length measurements in inches. For example, a 30/32 jean would be a waist measurement of 30 inches and an inseam length of 32 inches. Depending on the brand, you can find waist sizes from 23 to 42 inches.
Other brands offer low-rise jeans in women’s sizes 0-16. It’s best to consult a sizing chart for accurate measurements. Select brands offer extended sizing up to women’s size 26.
What to look for in quality low-rise jeans
Cut
Low-rise jeans come in several cuts.
- Skinny jeans fit snugly throughout the leg and are narrow at the ankles. They usually have stretch to them.
- Bootcut jeans are fitted at the thighs and flare out somewhat below the knee.
- Flare jeans have a more pronounced flare and can fit quite snuggly at the thighs.
- Straight-leg jeans have a straight silhouette down to the ankles and don’t taper like skinny jeans.
- Boyfriend jeans are loose and baggy for a relaxed, on-trend style.
Wash
Low-rise jeans come in different washes, which give them their denim shade. The lighter the wash, the longer the jeans have undergone washing.
- The deepest blue denim is raw, meaning it is unwashed. The material can be quite stiff.
- Dark-wash denim is also a dark blue and can be worn during the day or dressed up at night.
- Medium-wash denim is the most popular wash. It is more casual and lighter than a dark wash.
- Light-wash denim is two shades lighter than medium-wash denim. This option is perfect for a summery look.
Color
Besides denim shades of blue, low-rise jeans also come in white, black and gray. You can also find them in every color of the rainbow, such as pink, red or royal blue. If you’re going for colored jeans, pair them with a neutral-colored top and shoes.
How much you can expect to spend on low-rise jeans
Low-rise jeans start at as little as $15 and can cost upward of $195 for designer brands.
Low-rise jeans FAQ
Can only a certain body type wear low-rise jeans?
A. No. With the rise of body inclusivity, the idea that some body types can’t wear certain styles of clothing has gone out of fashion. You don’t need a flat and toned navel to wear low-rise jeans. Some consumers don’t like the muffin top effect they can give, but you can always wear a hip-bone-length shirt or tucked-in shirt with midriff-baring jeans.
What are distressed low-rise jeans?
A. Distressed jeans feature fraying and a vintage look. Even though they are new, they are meant to look old and worn-in. The denim can also appear faded or threadbare in some areas. You can also find ripped low-rise jeans, which have holes or rips generally at the knee.
What are the best low-rise jeans to buy?
Top low-rise jeans
True Religion Stella Low-Rise Skinny Fit Jean
What you need to know: With an authentic low rise, these skinny jeans offer the perfect fit.
What you’ll love: The material is stretchy but won’t sag after wear. The back pocket is both attractive and flattering. They hold up well after multiple washes. Both tall and short women have luck with the fit.
What you should consider: Buyer beware of knock-offs with this popular brand.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top low-rise jeans for the money
Wrangler Shiloh Low-Rise Boot Cut Ultimate Riding Jean
What you need to know: This is a comfortable low-rise jean that comes in a flattering bootcut.
What you’ll love: These classic jeans are designed for riding and give you the freedom to move and breathe. The front pockets are big enough to securely hold a smartphone. The Western stitching is beautiful, especially on the back pockets. The denim is a good thickness.
What you should consider: They run big and may fit better on curvy figures.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Silver Jeans Co. Tuesday Low-Rise Slim Bootcut Jeans
What you need to know: Another bootcut-style jean that comes in five classic denim washes.
What you’ll love: The long length and bootcut work perfectly with cowboy boots or heels. The jeans have a little stretch and sit right at the hipbone. After a breaking-in period, these jeans become soft and your most comfy pair. The back pocket placement is flattering.
What you should consider: Many consumers have to order up two whole sizes for a correct fit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which oversized jean jacket is best?
Just about every decade from the last century has made a comeback in fashion. And with so many different trends coming together, it can be hard to find that one thing that ties your whole outfit together. Enter the oversized jean jacket.
This versatile piece of outerwear has a place in everyone’s wardrobe, from grunge to workwear. Indigo-blue is tried-and-true in the head-spinning world of changing fashion trends. No matter your style, you can’t go wrong with the Calvin Klein Jeans Oversized Vintage Denim Jacket.
What to know before you buy an oversized jean jacket
What is an oversized jean jacket
Oversized denim is iconic. Designed for that cool, slouchy look, this take on the classic piece of outerwear is the perfect mix between comfort and slacker swagger.
Unlike a regular denim jacket, oversized jackets are made to be loose in the arms and chest but not so big you’re swimming in them. Hemlines still usually fall at the waist, but you can go all in with a long oversized denim jacket if you’re after the trench silhouette.
Benefits of an oversized jean jacket
Whether you want the jacket-from-your-partner look, or you’re going after that “Breakfast Club” aesthetic, you cannot beat an oversized jean jacket. Lightweight and layerable, they’re perfect for those spring and summer months. You can wear it over your shoulders, off of one shoulder or throw on a sweater or sweatshirt underneath for added warmth.
Styling an oversized jean jacket
Oversized has that carefree attitude synonymous with the 1980s and 1990s. Go all-in with a baggy fit, or play with contrasts and accentuate your figure.
Part of what makes denim so versatile is that it works both for preppy, streetwear and workwear styles. You can add it to a pair of chinos and a casual button-down for a look you can wear out to dinner. Or layer it over your favorite graphic tee and black, skinny jeans for the streetwear aesthetic. Swap the sneakers for brown boots and the tee for flannel, and your oversized denim becomes a rugged staple in workwear.
What to look for in a quality oversized jean jacket
Wash
Washing is a production process that determines the color and distressing of your denim. Which wash you choose comes down to your own personal style:
- Indigo: This is the rich blue most commonly used for denim. It’s also the most versatile, pairing well with darks and lights or casual and dressy.
- Light-wash: This baby-blue distressed wash gives you that faded, well-worn look. Light-wash is an excellent counter to darker denim if you’re trying to double up. It looks great with black jeans.
- Dark-wash: Deep and saturated, dark-wash blue denim has an edgy side that goes well with the classic white tee or black leather jacket.
- Acid-wash: The result of a washing process that partially bleaches the denim, acid wash is a totally 1980s aesthetic that has fun applications in contemporary style. Wear it as a statement piece or as a part of a streetwear ensemble.
- Black: Black never goes out of style, and a black oversize denim jacket is all about combining a slimming fit with the rough texture of denim. Black wash is perfect if you’re feeling a little punk or rock ‘n’ roll.
- White: Beach-chic, summery white denim is crisp and preppy. Pair it with light-wash, indigo or white jeans, or throw it over a dress for some casual structure in your outfit.
Style
In addition to the wash, denim can have all sorts of aesthetic effects. Fringe is in right now, and this dangling textural element gives off a boho vibe that harkens back to cowboys and the wild west.
Patchwork is also making a comeback with its homespun look. These jackets have fun alternating squares of different-wash denim that allow you the opportunity to play with texture and color blocking.
Lastly, distressed denim is a classic, patinated style. You get the lived-in look of that storied favorite in your closet. It adds cool texture and has a bit of punk-rock edge.
Cut
The cut of your jacket describes its structure and fit. The three most common are trucker, chore and cropped denim jackets:
- Trucker: The trucker is the original denim jacket and is made to be close-fitting and hemmed at the waist. An oversized trucker will fall slightly below the waist and fit loose in the torso and arms.
- Chore: Originally designed for physical labor, this comfortable jacket with big pockets has a downward-draping fit that runs long in oversized denim.
- Crop: Cut short at the waist, cropped denim jackets are big in the arms and torso. These are great for that bomber-jacket look, so you can achieve an 80s slouch while still showing off your waist.
Material
True denim is 100% cotton. But today, many manufacturers mix in other fabrics such as polyester to cut costs and improve strength. These blended fabrics can lose their shape in the dryer. They also don’t have the slubby, rigid texture of real-cotton denim. If you’re after comfort, or a tight fit, however, stretchy blends are a great alternative to cotton for their body-conforming properties.
How much you can expect to spend on an oversized jean jacket
An oversized denim jacket made from a blend of fabrics is typically $30-$60. For 100% cotton designer brands, you can expect to pay up to $120 at major outlets.
Oversized jean jacket FAQ
Should I wash my denim jacket?
A. Don’t wash your denim unless it gets truly dirty. If you absolutely have to put it in the washing machine, do so on the gentlest setting using cold water and very little detergent. Turning your jacket inside out will not only protect the hardware and dyes but also expose the places that really need cleaning, such as the armpits. Don’t put your denim in the dryer. Either hang dry it or lay it flat.
Can I get the oversized look by just sizing up?
A. Part of what makes the oversize style so popular is that the jacket has subtle touches that still conform and flatter your body despite being roomy elsewhere. Merely sizing up can give that billow, slouchy look but might not be as comfortable or stay on as well as a fitted, oversize jean jacket.
What’s the best oversized jean jacket to buy?
Top oversized jean jacket
Calvin Klein Jeans Oversized Vintage Denim Jacket
What you need to know: This light-wash trucker from one of the biggest late-’90s brands hits all the right notes for an instant classic.
What you’ll love: Slightly faded for that vintage look, you’ll feel like you’ve had this denim jacket forever. It’s 100% cotton with enough extra fabric to loosely roll up the sleeves, but not so much that you’re committing to the full slacker look.
What you should consider: For the price and material, you really can’t go wrong with this classic cut and tasteful distressing.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top oversized jean jacket for the money
Cotton On Women’s The Oversized Denim Jacket
What you need to know: Cotton On’s indigo trucker is perfect for a crisp, clean look on a budget.
What you’ll love: Designed to fall just below the waist, this jacket has a boxy fit. The roomy sleeves are comfortable and taper at the wrist. And the lack of distressing makes this a versatile piece for various styles. This jacket pairs best with slimming or cropped tops.
What you should consider: The jacket is imported and uses Australian sizes, so be sure to check the conversion chart in the product’s details.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Worth checking out
Hotmiss Men’s Denim Jacket Casual Button Down Trucker Jacket Jean Coat
What you need to know: Baggy and lightweight, the Hotmiss trucker has a retro vibe with a unisex fit.
What you’ll love: This jean jacket is the quintessential early ’90s piece of outerwear. Unstructured and loose, you can roll up the sleeves and let it hang off your shoulders to really achieve the grunge look. It’s roomy for breathability on warmer days and layering potential in the colder months.
What you should consider: This jacket is a polyester, cotton blend.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which baby bath set is best?
Since a baby’s skin is delicate and sensitive, they can’t use the same products that adults or big kids use during their bath or shower. Whether you’re looking for bath products for a new mom or yourself, one of the best ways to get all your baby bath items is to buy a bath set.
For a bath set suitable for a baby with sensitive skin, The Honest Company Soapsox Fragrance-Free Whale Bath Gift Set is a top choice. It comes with everything needed to wash and moisturize your baby’s skin, including an antimicrobial whale sponge and terrycloth.
What to know before you buy a baby bath set
What items come in a baby bath set?
Baby bath sets come in all different sizes and include a variety of products. The most basic bath sets consist of shampoo, body wash and lotion. Additional bathing and skincare products are bubble bath, conditioner and diaper cream. Larger bath sets may include washcloths, towels, baby wipes, baby safe Q-tips and even baby bath toys.
Tips for bathing your baby
- Never leave your baby alone in the bath. Babies are known for maneuvering out of safe places, and even an inch of water can be dangerous.
- Take careful notice of the water temperature. Water that seems the right temperature to you may still be too hot for a new baby. Aim to get the water temperature at about 75 degrees.
- Keep baby warm. Since babies can get cold quickly, make sure to dry off your baby as soon as you’re done with the bath. You can also regularly pour warm water over your baby’s body during the bath.
- Bathe in moderation. Unless a baby is messy, they don’t need to be bathed every day. You also don’t need a lot of soap or shampoo.
What to look for in a quality baby bath set
Ingredients
Babies have sensitive skin that can’t handle all the ingredients used in most shampoo or bubble bath products. Fragrance is one of the top ingredients to avoid in baby bath products. While most of us love a sweet-smelling lotion, fragrance can cause skin allergies in both babies and adults. Parabens, phthalates and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives are other ingredients to avoid.
Product size
When looking at a bath set, pay attention to the size of the products included in the set. Some sets have travel-size items instead of full-size, which lowers the value and will be used up faster. However, if you’re looking to try a new product, a travel-size bath set is a great option.
No-tear formula
If you have a wiggly baby and you’re worried about shampoo or soap getting in their eyes, look for products with a no-tear formula. However, many no-tear products are formulated with questionable ingredients, so you might want to opt for a no-tear formula with a clean ingredient list.
How much you can expect to spend on a baby bath set
Depending on how large the bath set is and what items are included, a baby bath set costs $10-$100.
Baby bath set FAQ
How often do I need to bathe my baby?
A. Before a baby’s umbilical cord falls off, they need to be given a sponge bath every few days. After that, you don’t want to dry out your baby’s skin by giving them more than three or four baths a week. However, if your baby has an accident or gets messy, it’s OK to bathe them as needed.
What time of day is best to give my baby a bath?
A. There’s no right or wrong time to bathe your baby, and it usually depends on their schedule. However, many parents find that bathing their baby right before bed helps establish a routine and creates a soothing and calming atmosphere for bedtime.
What’s the best baby bath set to buy?
Top baby bath set
The Honest Company Soapsox Fragrance-Free Whale Bath Gift Set
What you need to know: Since this bath set is fragrance-free, it’s okay for all babies, especially those with sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: In addition to being fragrance-free, the included whale sponge is antimicrobial and machine-washable. This set also includes a full-size shampoo and body wash, conditioner, face and body lotion and bubble bath.
What you should consider: This bath set isn’t tear-free, so you should avoid contact with your baby’s eyes.
Where to buy: Sold by BuyBuyBaby
Top baby bath set for the money
Johnson’s 7-Piece Bath Discovery Baby Gift Set
What you need to know: This affordable and comprehensive bath set includes everything needed before, during and after your baby’s bath.
What you’ll love: All products in this bath set are hypoallergenic and free from dyes, parabens and phthalates. It also comes in a reusable bath caddy to keep all bath time products easy to access.
What you should consider: Most of the products have fragrances and might not be suitable for babies with sensitive skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and BuyBuyBaby
Worth checking out
Baby Dove + Nuby Splish Splash Bathtime Fun Bath Set
What you need to know: With bath products, toys and a rinse pail, this is a fun starter bath set.
What you’ll love: Included in this set is a full-size shampoo, wash and lotion, as well as five stacking cups, a bath duck and a rinse pail. All products are free of dyes, parabens and phthalates.
What you should consider: It’s one of the more expensive bath sets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which dark lipstick is best?
Vampy, mysterious, dramatic, glamorous — dark lips are always a surefire way to turn heads. Neither drugstore brands nor high-end designers shy away from offering rich, bold shades with unexpected depths. Don’t be afraid to experiment with dark lip colors like eggplant, wine, chocolate or even black, as you may be surprised by how flattering they look. Here are some of the best dark lipsticks you can find at any price point.
How to pick a dark lipstick
Whether you’re looking for a deep, rich red, a dark burgundy or even pure black lipstick, knowing what undertones to look for will help you pick a flattering shade. If you have cool undertones, lipsticks that lean purple or blue will be the best fit. For warm undertones, look for lipsticks with orange or bronze hues.
How to wear dark lipstick
Prep your lips for longer-wearing lip color by giving them a gentle scrub with a damp washcloth or a lip exfoliator. Lip scrubs help remove flakes and dead skin, creating a smooth surface for your lipstick to sit on. If you have drier skin, or if your lips tend to feel uncomfortable wearing liquid lipstick, apply a lip balm and blot away any excess to lock in moisture.
To apply dark lipstick evenly, you may prefer to use a lip brush to pick up color from the bullet instead of trying to apply it directly. Outline your lips with the brush’s narrow tip, then brush on the lipstick using short strokes for controlled coverage.
Best dark lipstick
Best dark lipstick
Dior Rouge Dior Refillable Lipstick
What you need to know: Available in a range of finishes and shades, this nourishing lipstick lasts up to 16 hours.
What you’ll love: It’s formulated with nourishing natural ingredients like red peony, pomegranate extract and shea butter. Dark shades include a satin-finish burgundy (869 Sophisticated Satin), matte plum (975 Opera Matte) and deep brick red (951 Cabaret Matte). Refills can be ordered to reuse the outer case and reduce waste.
What you should consider: The lipstick has added fragrance. Some users found the matte-finish formula drying.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Best dark lipstick for the money
Sephora Collection #LIPSTORIES Lipstick in 33 Wanderlust
What you need to know: One swipe of this richly pigmented lipstick delivers dramatic dark berry with a satin finish.
What you’ll love: Its creamy texture makes it easy to apply and comfy to wear. Plus, its packaging incorporates eco-friendly cardboard components.
What you should consider: The bullet is so soft that it can be prone to breakage. Some users need to use a lip liner with this lipstick.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Also consider
NARS Velvet Matte Lipstick Pencil in Train Bleu
What you need to know: The convenient pencil format of this lipstick delivers rich yet lightweight color in a dark eggplant shade.
What you’ll love: The formula glides on soft and smooth. It’s comfortable to wear and can also be used as a base color or lip liner.
What you should consider: The pencil can be difficult to keep sharp, even with the brand’s recommended sharpener. Application can be blotchy and may require frequent reapplication.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Macy’s
Best dark liquid lipstick
Best dark liquid lipstick
KVD Beauty Everlasting Longwear Liquid Lipstick
What you need to know: This cult-hit liquid lipstick comes in 19 pigmented shades.
What you’ll love: It’s formulated with vitamin E and a coconut oil derivative to help keep lips feeling comfortably hydrated. Popular dark shades include Vampira (deep burgundy), Exorcism (dark blackberry) and Witches (black).
What you should consider: Application can be patchy. Some colors don’t dry down as well as others.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta
Best dark liquid lipstick for the money
Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick
What you need to know: This lightweight liquid lipstick is famously pigmented and long-wearing.
What you’ll love: The formula is available in more than 50 shades, including Composer (a dark chocolate brown), Believer (a dark fuchsia) and Thrill Seeker (black). It lasts for hours and resists transferring.
What you should consider: Some users note inconsistencies between the online product photos and the true product color. The formula can be challenging to remove.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta and Amazon
Also consider
Fenty Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color in Underdawg
What you need to know: This long-wearing black-cherry shade flatters a wide range of skin tones.
What you’ll love: The matte formula is easy to apply thanks to the doe-foot applicator. Once it dries down, it lasts for hours without transferring, feathering or bleeding.
What you should consider: It can take a long time to dry down. The formula doesn’t have a very long shelf life compared to some liquid lipsticks.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta
Best hydrating dark lipstick
Best hydrating dark lipstick
Rare Beauty Lip Souffle Matte Cream Lipstick in Transform
What you need to know: This deep wine shade has a lightweight, whipped texture that dries down to a non-drying matte finish.
What you’ll love: The unique texture feels velvety and comfortable compared to most liquid lipsticks. It’s formulated with Vitamin E and an assortment of nourishing botanicals. This lipstick is vegan and cruelty-free.
What you should consider: Color may require a few layers to achieve the desired level of opacity. It’s not as transfer-proof as some liquid lipsticks.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Best hydrating dark lipstick for the money
Urban Decay Vice Hydrating Lipstick
What you need to know: Urban Decay’s best-selling Vice lipsticks get a hydrating makeover with this aloe-infused formula.
What you’ll love: It comes in 35 shades in satin (like Iced Americano, a deep brown) and matte finishes (like Hex, a dark red). The vegan, cruelty-free formula also includes avocado oil for comfortable, moisturizing wear.
What you should consider: Some users still experienced drying lips with this formula.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Ulta and Macy’s
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Which retro shower curtain is best?
Thanks to social media, interior-design styles are being unearthed every day. We now have access to decades of funky, artsy and avant-garde decor ideas.
One overlooked canvas for retro inspiration is the humble shower curtain. When styled as an accent piece, a shower curtain can be that perfect springboard for filling your bathroom with fun colors and flamboyant patterns. The best shower curtain to achieve a retro look is the YoKii Vintage Abstract Art Fabric Shower Curtain.
What to know before you buy a retro shower curtain
What retro is
Retro is all about nostalgia. The theme encompasses a broad range of styles that went out of fashion but are now in vogue as iconic — albeit dated — vestiges of the past. Rooted in memories of the homes people grew up in, retro statement pieces help anchor your decor to a specific time or open up room for some playful pastiche.
Popular retro styles
The most popular retro style today is mid-century modernism. Generations who grew up in the postwar era have rediscovered natural woods, organic forms and muted palettes. But other styles are also making a comeback thanks to the internet.
The ’60s, ’70s and ’80s are all big right now. From boho-hippie psychedelica to Technicolor open-plan living to Memphis design, there’s no shortage of inspiration.
You can also go all the way back to the prewar period’s Jazz Age and Art Deco, or break the mold with early-20th-century ornamentation.
Retro patterns
If you’re going retro, your best bet is a pattern. Intricate geometric patterns with limited palettes (bonus points for gold) look great in mid-century modern decors. Psychedelic floral or abstract prints work best for a ’60s vibe, while psychedelic color-blocking and geometric patterns capture the essence of the ’70s. And zooty pop-art prints with loud pastel palettes are as ’80s as it gets when it comes to shower curtains.
Retro colors
If you want a solid-color shower curtain, you’ll need to be a little more strategic. Aim to match it to the palette of the respective decade you’re hoping to emulate. For example, avocado green was all the rage in the flower-power ’60s, only to be replaced by harvest gold in the groovy ’70s. By the time you get to the ’80s, it’s either mauve (shabby chic) or primary colors (Memphis design).
At any rate, you can’t go wrong if you pick a color from a palette based on one of these colors.
What to look for in a quality retro shower curtain
Material
Shower curtains come in three materials that not only affect their appearance, but also their durability and texture.
- Cotton: This luscious fabric feels and looks premium. It’s perfect for solid colors and soft decors. Cotton’s not waterproof, and it is the most expensive, but if you wash it regularly, it can last for years.
- Vinyl: The budget option, vinyl is easy to print on and swap out as you play with style. This completely water-resistant material is either made from PVC or eco-friendly PEVA or EVA.
- Polyester: A synthetic fabric, polyester combines the waterproofing power of plastic with the woven splendor of cotton. There will always be that plasticky sheen, but this is the best of both worlds if you want a print on sophisticated material without shelling out for cotton.
Size
- Standard: At 72 by 72 inches, these are made to cover one long edge of the standard bathtub.
- Extra-wide: For those with a freestanding or corner tub, a standard width won’t cut it. Extra-wide curtains extend from 108-180 inches to wrap around additionally exposed sides.
- Extra-long: If you have high ceilings, an extra-long shower curtain adds 1-2 feet in length so you don’t have to worry about soaking your floors.
- Narrow: Stall showers tucked into small bathrooms don’t have a lot of room to spare, and standard curtains will bunch up. Narrow curtains halve the length to 36 inches so you can have privacy without sacrificing precious space.
Installation
Shower curtains are installed on a rod via grommets. These are holes sewn into the top of the curtain that are reinforced with plastic or rustproof metal. Some curtains have grommets large enough to slide the curtain directly onto the rod. This is the easiest method of installation, but your curtain won’t lie as flat or pull as easily.
If your grommets are too small, you’ll need shower hooks. These slide onto your curtain rod and clip into the grommet. Shower hooks require a little more dexterity, but make for easy operation. They also limit bunching better than grommets.
How much you can expect to spend on a retro shower curtain
A vinyl curtain typically runs $5-$20. Polyester is usually $25-$60. And a high-quality cotton shower curtain can be as much as $70-$120.
Retro shower curtain FAQ
Should I use a curtain liner?
A. These protective barriers help ward off mold and mildew, which lower the lifespan of your curtain. While they aren’t strictly necessary for vinyl and polyester, a liner will get you much more use out of these materials. And they’re a must with cotton.
How do I clean my shower curtain?
A. Most shower curtains, regardless of their material, can be cleaned in a washing machine. Just follow care instructions on the packaging. You should do this once a month. Vinyl can also be cleaned with standard household cleaner and paper towel.
What’s the best retro shower curtain to buy?
Top retro shower curtain
YoKii Vintage Abstract Art Fabric Shower Curtain
What you need to know: What’s more ’60s and ’70s than a lava-lamp motif in beautiful, flowing pastels?
What you’ll love: This curtain is a blast from the past that will have you feeling like you’re showering in the summer of love. Available in standard sizes, this heavy-duty polyester curtain comes in two other psychedelic designs. You also get hooks with it.
What you should consider: There are no alternative sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top retro shower curtain for the money
Allenjoy Mid-Century Boho Shower Curtain Set
What you need to know: This mid-century modern curtain is a versatile throwback statement piece.
What you’ll love: Featuring an earthy palette with subtle accents and a minimalist geometric pattern, it will fit with a myriad of decor schemes. It’s polyester and comes in standard sizing. You also get 12 hooks to hang it with.
What you should consider: You can’t get this is in narrow, extra-wide or extra-long sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Amhnf Mid-Century Shower Curtain
What you need to know: This curtain is fun and retro-futurist with a googie motif that will send guests right back to the ’50s.
What you’ll love: Depicting zany nuclei in a toned-down palette of primary colors, this shower curtain is right out of the Atomic Age. You have your choice of a few other fun designs in a similar spirit from Amhnf. And the best part of this polyester curtain is that it’s available in a huge range of sizes and comes with hooks.
What you should consider: This might be a little too playful for more sophisticated decor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which hunting blinds are best?
The key to a successful hunt isn’t always gear or marksmanship. Animals are skittish by nature, and when they see a human, they will know that something is brewing. That is why you need a hunting blind.
The pop-up devices act as cover to hide behind and obscure yourself from your target’s view. Several designs and camouflage types are available, but if you want to remain practically invisible, the Primos Hunting Double Bull Surround View Blind is an excellent option.
What to know before you buy a hunting blind
Hard-sided vs. soft-sided
Most people think of a hunting blind as a piece of cloth or a small tent. While that isn’t incorrect, there are also hard-sided blinds. As the name implies, these aren’t made from fabric but plastic. As a result, they are naturally more robust than fabric blinds but not as portable. On the other hand, fabric blinds have excellent mobility but poorly shield you from the elements.
The size of the blind matters
You must consider the size of the blind if you want to guarantee a successful hunt. A smaller one-person blind will be perfect if you are hunting by yourself. But you also need to consider your gear as you’ll need more room when hunting with a recurve bow. If you get a blind that’s too large, you might struggle to break it down and move to a new location quickly.
The camouflage can work against you
There are several camouflage designs available and for a good reason. Animals have different eyesight and smell, and if you use the wrong pattern to blend in, they could easily spot you. For example, if you hunt deer, get a blind you can cover with brush or leaves. A blind pattern doesn’t matter too much for hunting smaller animals like turkeys. Then you’ll need a blind that you can move quickly.
What to look for in a quality hunting blind
Many windows for optimal coverage
The key to a hunting blind is to remain hidden while having a few of everything around you. Good-quality hunting blinds will have at least one window per side, letting you see 270-degrees. If you don’t have enough windows, you could miss a target or lose sight of it. The size of the blind can also determine the number of windows.
One-way windows
While the number of windows is critical, animals mustn’t see you through it. That is why a good-quality hunting blind will have one-way windows so that you can see out, but the animals can’t see in. It is achieved through special layers and fabrics and gives you the maximum concealment.
Waterproof outer layer
There are few things as irritating when on the hunt as water dripping on your or your gear. To prevent this from happening, a good-quality hunting blind will have a waterproof outer layer or be coated with a water-resistant element. Just remember to air out your blind after every hunt if it got exposed to moisture – otherwise, mold could build up.
How much you can expect to spend on a hunting blind
The average price of a hunting blind will depend on the construction materials, the size and the manufacturer. A hunting blind with few windows can retail for $70-$90, while larger, more complex blinds can retail for $200-$400.
Hunting blind FAQ
How do you secure a hunting blind?
A. You don’t want the slightest of breezes to flap or lift your blind. To secure it to the ground, many blinds come with stakes that you can easily peg into the ground for stability.
What can you use instead of a hunting blind?
A. If you don’t want a square or domed hunting blind, you can opt for a sheet of camouflage fabric to drape over yourself. This will keep you concealed and is highly mobile. You can also invest in a hunting table that has a sleeping bag of sorts on top to remain hidden.
What’s the best hunting blind to buy?
Top hunting blind
Primos Hunting Double Bull Surround View Blind
What you need to know: Animals will find it very difficult to spot you, as this hunting blind features one-way walls. This lets you see your surroundings at 270-degrees, and it has a rear blackout wall too.
What you’ll love: Standing 55 inches by 70 inches, this hunting blind has seven shooting ports, making sure that you can stay on track with the animal’s movements. It comes in a Truth camo pattern, uses the Power Hub framework and weighs 21 pounds.
What you should consider: The blind doesn’t have a floor or groundsheet, so if the exposed ground is of concern to you, it will be better to use your own.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hunting blind for the money
Guide Gear Deluxe Pop-Up Hunting Ground Blind
What you need to know: Taking on a domed shape, this hunting blind is the perfect size for one to two people. It has three full-zip windows and four smaller shooting holes.
What you’ll love: It is very easy to set up and only weighs nine pounds, so you can move it in a hurry if you have to. It’s weather-resistant and flame-retardant and comes in a fall camo pattern.
What you should consider: Due to its smaller size, it’s best for use with shotgun or rifles, but not for recurve bows.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Ameristep Care Taker Kick Out Pop-Up Ground Blind
What you need to know: Perfect for two people, the mossy oak country camo pattern hunting blind has two windows on two sides and a zippered entrance.
What you’ll love: Measuring 60 inches high and 55 inches in width and length, the Care Taker features a black ShadowGuard coating on the inside so that animals don’t see your shadow or silhouette. It comes with a carry bag, ground stakes and high wind tie-downs.
What you should consider: You could use this blind for bow hunting, but some users have indicated that you need to tilt the bow slightly for it to fit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which Batman watch is best?
A watch can complement any outfit and make you look more stylish. Watches with gold trim and diamond bezels are gorgeous, but they’re usually expensive. If you want a watch you can wear casually every day, and you’re a Batman fan, you can get the best of both worlds.
Many Batman watches are for children, but some fashionable models are for adults. For example, the Fossil Unisex Batman Stainless Steel Quartz Watch is a top choice that any Batman fan would love for its automatic movement and subtle but stylish black-tone case.
What to know before you buy a Batman watch
Who is Batman?
If you’re looking into buying a Batman watch, you probably already know a lot about the character. However, for those who don’t know much about the caped crusader, there’s a bit of history you should be familiar with.
Batman debuted way back in 1939 and is one of the most popular and recognizable DC Comics characters. Tim Burton directed the 1989 film “Batman,” which was a massive success. However, the franchise has seen a resurgence in recent years thanks to Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight Trilogy” and the latest reboot, “The Batman,” released this year and directed by Matt Reeves.
Movement
Watches have either mechanical or automatic movement. Mechanical watches must be maintained regularly to keep them accurate, while automatic watches will only be off by a few seconds per year. Automatic or quartz watches use batteries, so occasionally you’ll have to visit a jeweler to replace them, but mechanical watches use an intricate system of gears and coils to keep time.
Type
There are five main types of watches: diving, dress, pilot, driving and minimalist. The most common Batman watches are minimalist, as they have simple designs. However, you can find some diving and dress watches as well. Diving watches are water-resistant and have a durable build, while dress watches are known for having jewels embedded in their movements to reduce friction.
For everyday wear, you’re best going with a diving or minimalist watch, but for business or formal occasions, wear a dress watch.
Size
The case size you want depends on the size of your wrist but can also be a matter of preference. The smaller it is, the more casual it usually looks, while larger watches tend to have a more sophisticated look, and they’re also bulkier. A watch can have a case size anywhere between 1.3 and 1.8 inches (34 to 46 millimeters).
What to look for in a quality Batman watch
Batman design
The world of Batman is so rich and diverse that there are countless possibilities for how a Batman-inspired watch can look. Traditional Batman colors are black and yellow, so most watches either have a black or dark grey color scheme with yellow also in the mix. Also, the Bat logo is what makes a Batman watch pop, so if you want a recognizable watch to show off your love for the comic-book hero, make sure it has the logo on the dial.
Brand
Lesser-known brands manufacture most Batman watches, but some are made by famous designer brands such as Tissot and Invictus. Naturally, those are usually more expensive, but they also have a flashier look and resemble the average office-wear watch more closely.
Bands
Metal bands go great with watches that have more prominent cases and dials. Smaller, casual watches look better with nylon, silicone or canvas bands. They’re more lightweight than metal bands and easier on the wrist, making them more suitable for wearing all day.
Water-resistance
It’s always a good idea to take off your watch when you shower or go swimming, but some Batman watches are water-resistant, so it’s not a big deal if you get them wet. There are certain specifications for how long and deep a watch can be submerged underwater.
For example, a watch may claim that it’s water-resistant for 30 minutes and up to 500 meters. That means you can wear your watch 500 meters below the surface — 1,640 feet, or nearly a third of a mile — for half an hour before water threatens to damage it.
How much you can expect to spend on a Batman watch
Unlike other designer watches, Batman watches are inexpensive. The most you’ll pay for a high-end Batman watch is $300, but you can find several solid options for $100-$250.
Batman watch FAQ
How do I adjust a metal band?
A. To adjust a metal band, you need to take your watch to a jeweler where they’ll remove enough links to make it fit to your liking.
How can I prevent nylon and silicone bands from wearing out?
A. They’ll naturally wear out over time, but you can prolong the process by not exposing them to heat, direct sunlight or moisture.
What’s the best Batman watch to buy?
Top Batman watch
Fossil Unisex Batman Stainless Steel Quartz Watch
What you need to know: This watch is inspired by the latest Batman film, “The Batman,” and is an excellent watch for every type of fan.
What you’ll love: It has a black stainless-steel case and boasts self-winding automatic movement. It comes with three interchangeable straps and never needs batteries. Also, it’s water-resistant up to 164 feet, or 50 meters.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have much color, so if you want something more vibrant, consider other watches.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Batman watch for the money
Accutime Batman Black Tonal Bracelet Watch
What you need to know: It’s a basic bracelet watch, but it’s deceptively stylish and perfect for casual and business wear.
What you’ll love: The watch has a metal band and measures 7.5 inches long, with the stunning glass case measuring 1.85 inches. It has an analog display, and the black tonal dial makes for an excellent complementary piece to any outfit.
What you should consider: The band can rub off on the skin after extended wear.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Invicta Men’s DC Comics Batman Stainless Steel Quartz Men’s Watch
What you need to know: It’s inexpensive but has a shiny look perfect for casual business settings.
What you’ll love: The dial sports the classic black and yellow Batman colors, and it has a high-quality stainless-steel band. It’s water-resistant up to 328 feet, or 100 meters, and features a 1.73-inch (44-millimeter) stainless-steel case with an elegant mineral crystal.
What you should consider: It’s a little on the flashy side, so it might not be ideal for casual wear.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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For a comprehensive look at candidates running in Pennsylvania's gubernatorial and congressional races, click here.
After much speculation regarding which Republican candidate he would support, former President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he’s endorsing Dr. Mehmet Oz for Pennsylvania senate.
In a statement, Trump described Oz as “Pro-Life, very strong on Crime, the Border, Election Fraud, our Great Military, and our Vets, Tax Cuts" and as someone who would “always fight for and support our under siege Second Amendment.”
“Perhaps most importantly, I believe that Mehmet Oz will be the one most able to win the General Election against a Radical Left Democrat looking to do unthinkable harm to our Country,” Trump wrote.
Oz is one of seven Republican candidates running for one of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seats following incumbent two-term Republican Senator Pat Toomey’s announcement in October 2020 that he would not run for a third term.
Experts say Pennsylvania’s November 8, 2022 election will play a key role in determining whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate in 2023.
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On Nov. 30, 2021, Oz announced he would run in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race as a Republican. His GOP opponents include Kathy Barnette, Jeff Bartos, George Bochetto, Sean Gale, David McCormick and Carla Sands.
Prior to his career in politics, Oz was best known as a celebrity heart surgeon and host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show.”
Oz valued his assets at between $104 million and $422 million, according to a tally by The Philadelphia Inquirer, a wide range that is a result of the Senate's request that each asset be valued within a certain dollar bracket. If elected, he would be one of the wealthiest members of the Senate — and possibly the wealthiest.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the leaders of Britain and Austria for their visits to Kyiv on Saturday and pledges of further support.
In his daily late-night video address to the nation, Zelenskyy also thanked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a global fundraising event that raised more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) for Ukrainians who have had to flee their homes.
Zelenskyy said democratic countries were united in working to stop the war. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer became the latest of several European rulers to meet Zelenskky in Kyiv.
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“Because Russian aggression was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone, to the destruction only of our freedom and our life,” he said. “The entire European project is a target for Russia.”
Zelenskyy repeated his call for a complete embargo on Russian oil and gas, calling them the sources of Russia’s “self-confidence and impunity.”
“But Ukraine does not have time to wait. Freedom does not have time to wait. When tyranny begins its aggression against everything that keeps the peace in Europe, action must be taken immediately,” he said.
He added: "And an oil embargo must be the first step. Moreover, by all democratic states, the entire civilized world. Then Russia will feel it. Then it will be an argument for them to seek peace, to stop the senseless violence.”
This is a live update. Click here for complete coverage of the crisis in Ukraine.
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Funeral services held for Tyre Sampson, teen killed on free-fall ride in Orlando
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Funeral services were held Saturday in St. Louis for a 14-year-old teenager who died last month at an Orlando theme park.
Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a free-fall ride at Icon Park.
The investigation into his cause of death continues, and on Saturday, it was time for his friends and family to lay him to rest as hundreds attended the services for Tyre.
“There’s a lot of love here. There’s a lot of support. It’s terrible; it’s a tragedy. It’s something no mother should ever have to go through,” said family friend Kelly Southhall.
According to his family, Tyre was 6-foot-4 and 325 pounds and on the path to greatness on the football field.
Reggie Rice, Tyre’s cousin, says he will always carry his younger cousin in his heart.
“He asked me every time we played football, ‘what do you want to do when I get older or who did I want to be like when I get old.’ I was like, I don’t know, ‘who do you want to be like?’ And he told me, ‘nobody, I’m going to be myself,’” Rice said.
Tyre’s friends and family said bigger than his physique was his larger-than-life personality.
“I would always tease him about the size of his shoes, and he would joke it off and laugh it off. I was like, ‘what size is your shoe?’ He would say 17 with a lot of pride,” Tyre’s former teacher Vida Weekly said.
Weekly also said Tyre was growing into a great young man and leader as he helped younger students at City Garden Montessori School.
She hopes his loss helps others heal and grow.
“I pray that somebody in this situation learns from this,” Weekly said.
Family lawyer and prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called Tyre’s death “completely preventable.”
The teen’s death was captured on video, which Crump called the worst he has ever seen, except for the torture death of George Floyd.
The Orlando ride was billed as the tallest free-standing drop tower on earth, and it remains closed as investigators continue to figure out what exactly happened.
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NFL player and NJ native Dwayne Haskins killed by dump truck
The sports world suffered a tragic loss Saturday morning when Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed in Florida.
The Florida Highway Patrol says the 24-year-old was attempting to cross the Broward County stretch of I-595 on foot when he was hit by a dump truck. Haskins was pronounced dead at the scene.
An investigation is ongoing, but it remains unknown why Haskins was on the highway.
Dwayne Haskins was born and raised in Highland Park, NJ, before moving to Maryland in high school. He grew up a diehard New York Giants fan. One of his biggest mentors was another New Jersey native, veteran NFL wide receiver and Rutgers alum Mohamed Sanu.
As a kid Haskins adopted the nickname Simba, from the 1994 Disney film “The Lion King." The nickname originally stuck due to his hair, which reminded his mother of a lion's mane. But as he came into his own as a standout athlete, Haskins channeled the movie's coming-of-age story as motivation.
Haskins was drafted by the Washington Commanders in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft, 15th overall. He earned the honor after a prolific college career at Ohio State.
During his sophomore campaign, his lone starting season as QB of The Buckeyes, Haskins threw for over 4,000 passing yards and 50 passing touchdowns. That year he led his team to the Big Ten championship.
In the NFL, Haskins spent two seasons in D.C., before signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2021.
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin saying of Haskins' passing:
I am devastated and at a loss for words with the unfortunate passing of Dwayne Haskins. He quickly became part of our Steelers family upong his arrival in Pittsburgh and was one of our hardest workers, both on the field and in our community. Dwayne was a great teammate, but even more so a tremendous friend to so many. I am truly heart broken. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kalabrya, and his entire family during this difficult time.
Haskins' mentor, Mohamed Sanu, taking to Twitter to pay tribute to his friend:
Sanu's connection with Haskins was known around the league, with star Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson expressing his condolences to the wide receiver:
Dwayne Haskins would have turned 25 years old on May 3.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) On Saturday, Torrence Larry, a 44 year-old man from Fort Wayne, was sentenced to 420 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release. He was convicted of federal gun and drug charges.
Larry was arrested in June 2017 after police raided his home and found drugs and a gun. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Larry was also convicted of robbing a bank in 1998 and dealing cocaine in 2012.
At his December 2021 trial, Larry was convicted on all three distribution counts, as well as a single count of possessing with intent to distribute controlled substances. Larry was also convicted of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing a firearm during and in relation to his drug trafficking activities.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the assistance of the Fort Wayne Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration Laboratory, and the Indiana State Police Laboratory. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacey R. Speith.
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Since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians have fled their country and escaped to surrounding Eastern and Central European nations in droves. As of March 31, over 4 million, or about 10% of all Ukrainians, had left.
The massive scale and rapidity of the exodus out of Ukraine is unprecedented in recent European history and was last seen during World War II. The escalating refugee crisis highlights the welcoming attitudes of other European countries toward Ukrainian refugees, particularly among nations that have historically taken an antirefugee stance.
Understanding why Vladamir Putin invaded Ukraine is, in some ways, tied to where refugees are going. In 2004, Ukraine’s Orange Revolution set the country on a new path, politically and culturally aligning with Western Europe rather than Russia. After Kremlin-backed Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in 2014, Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula, giving Russia control over the economically and militarily important Sevastopol naval base.
Ever since, Putin has sought other ways to regain control over Ukraine, stoking pro-Russian separatist movements in eastern Ukraine and circulating rumors that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government is full of neo-Nazis. Leading up to the invasion, Ukraine tied itself closer to European powers like the European Union and NATO. Just before invading, Putin claimed his aims were to “demilitarize” Ukraine, while at the same time officially recognizing the pro-Russian separatist groups.
Now, Ukrainian refugees are fleeing to neighboring countries, many of which were also formerly part of the Soviet Union, and who have since joined NATO and the EU. Some analysts believe this shared history, as well as shared defiance of Putin, has led many Europeans to embrace Ukrainian refugees. However, there is a stark difference in Europe’s reception of refugees from Ukraine in contrast to refugees from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
According to a survey of 18,000 people across 15 European countries, factors like religion, language skills, and country of origin of potential refugees impact how many Europeans evaluate who is worthy of being granted safety and asylum. Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov put it explicitly when he said of Ukrainian refugees, “These people are Europeans. These people are intelligent, they are educated people. … This is not the refugee wave we have been used to…”
Other countries have also pledged to aid Ukraine in its efforts to fight back Russian forces and accept refugees. President Joe Biden has announced $1 billion in military aid and promised the U.S. would accept up to 100,000 refugees fleeing the crisis. Germany broke its long-standing policy of not sending weapons to conflict zones and has promised to aide Ukraine. The EU granted Ukrainian refugees a temporary residence permit that removes the need for them to request asylum in any EU member country, allowing them to move freely throughout Europe.
To determine which countries have taken in the most people fleeing Ukraine since fighting broke out Feb. 24, Stacker compiled refugee data (last updated April 3) from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The UNHCR compiles these statistics from several government sources from each country, primarily looking at border crossing data, but since the war between Russia and Ukraine is ongoing, these numbers are only estimates and does not consider refugees who have passed through one country to get to another. The only exception are refugees who have crossed the border between Moldova and Romania.
#7. Belarus
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 15,281
Although some Ukrainians have sought refuge in Belarus, it is the only country in the region to ally itself with Putin and the invasion. Since Belarus shares a large stretch of border with Ukraine, it has been valuable to Russia in terms of military strategy. Tens of thousands of Russian troops gathered in Belarus near the Ukrainian border in the months leading up to the invasion and were able to invade the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv easily from Belarus.
Refugees have also reported abuse from Belarusian asylum camps. Asylum seekers from the Middle East, who were once promised passage to the EU, are now being forced from the camps. Middle Eastern refugees can either go to Poland, where they were previously beaten back by Polish border police, or go into the active warzone of Ukraine.
#6. Slovakia
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 301,405
Sharing a short border with western Ukraine, Slovakia has seen a steady influx of mostly women and children refugees. According to Igor Matovic, Slovakia’s finance minister, Slovak households that provide refugees with shelter will receive financial assistance from the government. The country is also providing military assistance to Ukraine in the form of artillery ammunition and fuel.
Arriving refugees have been met by NGOs providing food and water, hygiene supplies, medical care, and legal advice. Veterinarians are even present to attend to people’s pets. The Slovak chapter of the Order of Malta, a Catholic human rights order, has been coordinating accommodations and rides for refugees who need to move to a different location.
#5. Russian Federation
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 350,632*
Russia has offered Ukrainian refugees a safe haven from the fighting it initiated in Ukraine and has also offered refuge in Putin-allied Belarus. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister as well as other EU member nations’ leadership denounced this as a “trap,” meeting the announcement with disbelief.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Russian citizens have fled Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. Many fear a Soviet Union-era crackdown on dissidents or not being able to leave in the future. Thousands of antiwar protestors in Russia have been arrested, and a group of Russian activists penned an open letter condemning the war and establishing an antiwar council. Other activists, journalists, and outspoken critics of the war have been arrested or intimidated at their homes.
*Please note that the Russian refugee intake numbers are as of March 29, the last time data was updated for this country.
#4. Hungary
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 390,302
Although the Ukraine-Hungary border is small, there has been a large stream of Ukrainian refugees into the country, made up of mostly women, children, and international university students. Hungarians have shown solidarity with the refugees, with many volunteers welcoming them at the border and supplying aid. Even famously antirefugee Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban—who campaigned on far-right, nationalistic, and xenophobic rhetoric—has expressed his support for incoming Ukrainian refugees.
This support contrasts heavily with Orban’s 2015 Syrian refugee policy, which earned the country the nickname “Fortress Hungary” due to its unwelcoming nature. Part of the policy, which involved deporting refugees to nearby Serbia, was deemed by the European Court of Justice to violate EU law. Border police also deployed attack dogs and water cannons to keep out refugees from the Middle East, raising questions about the notably disparate treatment Ukrainian refugees have received.
#3. Republic of Moldova
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 394,740
The Republic of Moldova’s location between Ukraine and Romania has led many Ukrainians to seek refuge in or pass through the roughly Maryland-sized country. The sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees has raised concerns about overwhelming Moldova, one of the poorest European countries, with limited resources to sustain aid.
Other nearby nations with more resources stepped up to help, with Romania arranging bus services to transport refugees out of Moldova and into Romania, supported by UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration. Germany has also committed to taking in 2,500 Ukrainian refugees from Moldova in order to alleviate some of the strain.
#2. Romania
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 643,058
While many refugees who entered Romania since the Russian invasion have departed for other countries, upwards of 84,000 remain, mostly concentrated in Bucharest, the nation’s capital. The country made shelters available, even converting part of the massive exposition center Romexpo to a refugee overflow shelter.
Dr. Raed Arafat, Romanian internal affairs minister, also said the country is attempting to make more permanent housing options available for refugees. Many Ukrainians have expressed their desires to return to their country when it’s safe to do so in order to rebuild, but the Romanian government began taking initiatives for long-term solutions for those who do not plan to go back.
#1. Poland
– Total recent Ukrainian refugee intake: 2,451,342
The vast majority of Ukrainian refugees have gone to Poland—in numbers equalling the population of Poland’s largest city, Warsaw. Movement into Poland is unsurprising, considering the country’s pre-war Ukrainian population was already the largest in the region at 1.5 million.
Poland’s government has already passed legislation to aid the massive influx of refugees, including allowing refugees to stay legally in Poland for 18 months without a visa, offering financial assistance to Polish households who help shelter refugees, and one-off subsistence payments to Ukrainian refugees. Ukrainian children received permission to integrate into Polish schools, and adult refugees can work without a Polish working permit. Refugees will have access to the Polish health care system, and since many refugees are lone mothers with children, Ukrainian families have access to financial assistance.
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(The Hill) — Several days before the results of the 2020 presidential election were called, Donald Trump Jr. texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about ways to overturn the results, according to documents viewed by CNN.
The network reviewed a text message that was sent from former President Trump’s son to Meadows that was part of correspondence obtained by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to CNN.
In the text to Meadows on Nov. 5 at 12:51 p.m., Trump Jr. reportedly referred to the idea of having Republican-controlled state Houses put forward “Trump electors.”
The former president’s son also reportedly referenced filing legal challenges to state results and supporting recounts.
“It’s very simple,” Trump Jr. texted Meadows, according to CNN. “We have multiple paths We control them all.”
He also suggested an idea to have the House of Representatives vote by state party delegation, with each state getting one vote, in the event that neither presidential candidate had enough electoral college votes to secure the presidency, CNN reported.
“This is what we need to do please read it and please get it to everyone that needs to see it because I’m not sure we’re doing it,” Trump Jr. reportedly texted Meadows before laying out his ideas.
The last idea floated to Meadows by Trump Jr. was firing FBI Director Christopher Wray and White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci.
“Fire Wray; Fire Fauci,” he said, according to the news network.
He then suggested that former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell head the bureau.
An attorney for Trump Jr. said that the texts were most likely something the president’s son had forwarded from someone else.
“After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded,” Alan Futerfas told The Hill in a statement.
George Terwilliger, an attorney for Meadows, did not have a comment when contacted by The Hill about the CNN report.
A House select committee spokesperson declined to comment to CNN regarding the matter.
The development comes as Trump and others have continued to push unsupported claims that the 2020 president election was fraudulent.
The Hill has reached out to the House committee for comment.
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Beautiful weather continue Sunday; Rain and storm chances next week
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Quiet conditions are ahead for tonight with temperatures in the mid-30s and partly cloudy skies. Light winds are expected out of the southeast at 5-10 mph.
Another beautiful day is on tap for Sunday with seasonal temperatures in the mid-50s. A mix of sun and clouds is expected for the day with breezy southeast winds at 10-15 mph with gusts near 30 mph at times.
Monday starts the new work week off on a quiet note with mostly sunny skies and highs in the mid-50s.
All eyes turn towards our next spring storm system as it takes aim at the Upper Midwest for the midweek. Isolated showers are possible Tuesday afternoon and evening with highs in the mid-50s. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected Wednesday with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s. Additional showers are possible Thursday with temperatures in the low 40s. The exact storm track is still unclear at this time, so a couple of questions still remain. Could some storms become strong to severe? Could we see some snow out of this system?
Cooler weather settles in on the backside of this system for the start of the weekend with temperatures only looking to manage the low to mid-40s.
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City of Winona raises $2,600 for sister city in Ukraine
WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – Saturday, the city of Winona hosted a rally to show support for Ukraine and raise funds for its sister city in Poland. More than 100 people attended the rally.
“We are all neighbors, and regardless of where we come from, what we look like, what we believe in, we have to respect each other,” Winona Mayor Scott Sherman said.
“While this might be a small thing, this make a big difference for the people of Ukraine, and we’re all participating in that,” (R) Sen. Jeremy Miller of Winona said.
The community members of Winona are raising money to send to its sister city in Poland called Bytow. The city is currently rehousing refugees from Ukraine.
“Our shared sorrow can bring us in communion, and not be a weakness, but an actual strength,” Lutheran Campus Center Pastor Corrine Haulotte said.
Attendees heard from many at the rally, including a Ukrainian woman who has family living in Ukraine right now.
“Russia continues to do many war crimes. They struck the missiles a couple days ago in Kramatorsk, and a lot of innocent people died. Those people just wanted to live in a free country, free from dictators in a democracy,” Vika Shevchuk said.
And as more and more Ukrainians flee their country, the Winona community members will accept the refugees with open arms.
“As people from Ukraine or anywhere else in the world that decide to come to this beautiful community that we have here, that we share, it’s important that we respect those other opinions. It’s important that we respect each other,” Sherman said.
“Today, my country is fighting for freedom, for a good future Ukraine got unfortunate to have a neighbor like Russia, but it’s fortunate to have courageous and brave people like we have,” Shevchuk said.
The donation goal was to raise $2,000 in the next two weeks. After Saturday’s rally, the community raised $2,600 for its sister city in Poland.
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Former Alexandria police chief charged with theft
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 4:39 PM CDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (AP) - A former Alexandria police chief was arrested and charged with theft for using city funds to purchase items for his personal use.
After a yearlong investigation, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the 57-year-old Richard Wyffels, who retired in September 2020, charged more than $65,700 to a city-issued credit card, beginning in December 2014.
None of the items that were purchased could be found in the Police Department. Wyffels was arrested Friday. The investigation is ongoing.
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Funeral services held for Tyre Sampson, teen killed on free-fall ride in Orlando
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Funeral services were held Saturday in St. Louis for a 14-year-old teenager who died last month at an Orlando theme park.
Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a free-fall ride at Icon Park.
The investigation into his cause of death continues, and on Saturday, it was time for his friends and family to lay him to rest as hundreds attended the services for Tyre.
“There’s a lot of love here. There’s a lot of support. It’s terrible; it’s a tragedy. It’s something no mother should ever have to go through,” said family friend Kelly Southhall.
According to his family, Tyre was 6-foot-4 and 325 pounds and on the path to greatness on the football field.
Reggie Rice, Tyre’s cousin, says he will always carry his younger cousin in his heart.
“He asked me every time we played football, ‘what do you want to do when I get older or who did I want to be like when I get old.’ I was like, I don’t know, ‘who do you want to be like?’ And he told me, ‘nobody, I’m going to be myself,’” Rice said.
Tyre’s friends and family said bigger than his physique was his larger-than-life personality.
“I would always tease him about the size of his shoes, and he would joke it off and laugh it off. I was like, ‘what size is your shoe?’ He would say 17 with a lot of pride,” Tyre’s former teacher Vida Weekly said.
Weekly also said Tyre was growing into a great young man and leader as he helped younger students at City Garden Montessori School.
She hopes his loss helps others heal and grow.
“I pray that somebody in this situation learns from this,” Weekly said.
Family lawyer and prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called Tyre’s death “completely preventable.”
The teen’s death was captured on video, which Crump called the worst he has ever seen, except for the torture death of George Floyd.
The Orlando ride was billed as the tallest free-standing drop tower on earth, and it remains closed as investigators continue to figure out what exactly happened.
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Rochester resident hosts 24th annual Jackie’s Easter Egg Hunt
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Easter is just around the corner, and folks are getting ready with all the holiday festivities like Easter egg hunts.
Saturday was the 24th annual Jackie’s Easter Egg Hunt at Badger Ridge Park in Rochester. Around 500 people attended the egg hunt.
Rochester resident Jackie Beltz first started hosting an Easter egg hunt for her family and close friends. Now it’s grown to the entire community of Rochester.
Beltz and her small team laid out more than 25,000 eggs all over the park for children of all ages to gather.
When Beltz was asked why she continues to put this on every year, she said the answer was obvious.
“The kids. When you’re standing out in the middle of the field and you’re looking at them as their all lined up ready to go, and they are so excited, because they can see the color out there. It’s what drives me,”
Like all great Easter egg hunts, Beltz’s eggs were filled with candy, temporary tattoos, stickers and more. Besides a few donations Beltz’s received, she bought most of the supplies herself.
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DON’T TELL Jim Roach it must be great to be back in business.
He never left.
But it feels a lot different now than a couple of years ago when the pandemic put a chokehold on the entertainment industry, and the musicians and comedians the promoter represents had to scramble to make a living.
Over the past few weeks, Roach has presented shows by Juston McKinney at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord and Bob Marley at the Palace Theatre in Manchester to capacity crowds. Gone are the masks and the empty rows of seats purposely left unsold that kept comedy alive but tempered the laughs.
“We’re slowly coming back. People are still nervous to come out. People are still a little worried,” Roach said last week. “And we have to get them back in that habit again and come out and experience something live.”
McKinney chose the Capitol Center date to tape a new comedy special for Amazon Prime. After the show, Roach was mingling with the crowd in the lobby, helping fans get their selfies taken with McKinney.
That kind of contact was off limits not so many months ago, when a Bob Marley show at the 1,300-seat venue was capped at 300 people.
“There were 1,000 empty seats. We sold the show out doing 300 people in the room,” said Roach, who operates JJR Productions in New Boston. “They were in the front row and the back of the balcony. It was weird. But some people came out, and they were willing to do that.”
The artists had to be willing to work differently, too. Headliners like Marley who were popular enough to continue performing during the restricted era had to work harder for less money. Shows originally booked for the Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury were moved outside to the venue’s sister operation, Surfside. And there were a lot more of them.
“We did 25 shows at 100 people each show,” Roach said.
That formula worked for a lone comedian but not for music acts, who were largely sidelined during the height of the pandemic due to social distance precautions.
“I’ve got one group, Mike Girard’s Big Swinging Thing, which is a 21-piece classic rock big band with Hula-Hoop girls. There was no way we could do that during the pandemic,” Roach said. “We would have had to have a stage the size of a football stadium to put them on.”
The band is once again booking shows, with an upcoming gig at the Flying Monkey in Plymouth on April 30.
Roach likes to tell people that the entertainment business has learned a lot of new skills over the past couple of years – skills he hopes he never needs to use again. How to clean venues between shows, how to properly space people in a hall safely.
“Is it two chairs or is it three chairs between people? Do we skip a row? How do we mark that? How do we sell that online? Ticket systems weren’t set up that way so we had to find other ways of doing it.”
The systems were also not set up to pump out refunds, which became an issue during the pandemic as people were unable to attend a show or were afraid to do so because of a COVID spike.
“The industry counts on when you buy a ticket, if someone says at the last minute we want our money back, you really can’t give it back because you can’t resell the ticket,” Roach said.
While he’s still taking a cautious approach to bookings, trying to keep pace with demand, Roach is happy to see some semblance of normality return — and for artists and audiences to once again make those special connections.
“When you are in a room and you’re watching a comedian or a poet or a dancer or a musician, it doesn’t matter what race, creed, color, religion you are,” he said. “If you are enjoying what they’re doing or you’re just being human by laughing, crying, dancing or singing — if there’s a human emotion there, it makes us better.”
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THE LEGISLATURE reached “crossover” last week, the unofficial halfway point of the legislative session.
At this time, the House has considered all House bills and sent those that survived to the Senate. The Senate has done the same, sending its bills to the House. This provides a convenient time to assess the session and focus on remaining bills that could directly impact employers, positively or negatively.
Business taxes
Two bills are still alive. House Bill 1221, which is in the Senate Ways and Means committee, reduces New Hampshire’s business profits tax from 7.6% to 7.5%. It’s a modest reduction, but it could provide significant relief to BPT payers hit hard by the pandemic. Senate Bill 435 is in House Ways & Means. The bill removes a punitive double apportionment for multi-state companies declaring a loss. New Hampshire is the only state in the country requiring multi-state companies to apportion their losses twice, and doing so creates an unfavorable business tax climate. BIA is supporting both bills.
Employment law
HB 1089 and SB 296 are two problematic bills employers will want to focus on.
HB 1089, now in Senate Commerce, would severely impact employers who use non-compete agreements for employees who have access to critical corporate information, client lists, etc. The bill stipulates that any “material change in employment” would invalidate an existing non-compete agreement. The bill did not define a material change in employment, and that would lead to uncertainty and increased litigation.
SB 296, currently in House Judiciary, would remove an employer’s ability to have a case removed from the Commission on Human Rights and sent directly to the courts. Plaintiffs would still enjoy this right. Aside from its blatant unfairness in how plaintiffs and defendants are treated, there isn’t a compelling reason to disrupt a system that has worked smoothly for decades.
Workforce housing
Most of the work this session has been spent putting out fires. There were multiple proposals to eliminate or roll back recent legislation establishing the statewide administrative Housing Appeals Board. This body operates much like the Board of Land and Tax Appeals and gives developers a faster, easier and less expensive appeals process when they believe workforce housing projects were improperly killed at the local level.
BIA led the effort to enact the Housing Appeals Board, knowing workforce housing is crucial for New Hampshire employers, and it worked hard this session to kill legislation designed to cripple it. On the positive side, SB 400, currently in House Municipal and County Government, provides numerous “carrots and sticks” to encourage greater development of workforce housing and educate local planning and zoning boards on existing municipal obligations to allow the creation of workforce housing. BIA is supporting that effort.
Environmental
An extraordinarily dangerous bill, SB 341, was quietly making its way through the legislative process. The bill, which focused on the PFAS controversy in Merrimack, sought to upend legally valid settlement agreements between the town and a local manufacturer.
It was inappropriate to call out a single employer the way the bill did, but the real problem was the precedent of a legislative body essentially using the power of the state to scuttle a legal agreement they didn’t like.
PFAS is a significant concern, but invalidating legal settlements would have long-lasting negative ramifications and create a hostile business environment for employers. The Senate tabled this bad legislation and it’s unlikely to go any further, but tabled isn’t dead, so we’re keeping a close eye on it.
Vaccine mandates
We started the year with 40 or more bills relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, and especially employer vaccine mandates. Many bills remain in play, but the one that has BIA’s attention is HB 1210, currently being considered by Senate Health & Human Services.
This bill establishes a new personal conscience exemption from vaccine mandates. Unlike other existing exemptions available to employees (religious or medical), personal conscience is impossible for employers to evaluate. Actually, any determination by an employer to grant an exemption would be taken away by HB 1210.
Passing this bill could result in the loss of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of dollars to New Hampshire from federal Medicaid and Medicare aid to the state. It also would certainly result in increased wrongful termination litigation between employers forced to grant an exemption and employees terminated for not following the vaccine mandate. This bill is bad for employers, and BIA is working overtime to see that it’s defeated in the Senate.
There’s a lot happening between now and the end of the session in May. We advise employers to keep an eye on what’s happening at the State House because legislation could pass that directly impacts how they do business in the Granite State.
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APRIL IS Financial Literacy Month, and while my recent column on women being more active in investing and saving for retirement (“More Women Are Investing, and at a Younger Age”) highlighted a positive trend, a new report on financial literacy efforts, this time involving children in kindergarten through 12th grade, showed stalled progress.
The biennial Survey of the States for 2022 (tinyurl.com/ypt426we), conducted by the nonprofit Council for Economic Education, found stagnation on one front and a small gain in a second category compared with 2020.
The survey, which debuted in 1998, examines “the state of K-12 economic and financial education in the United States.” The latest version found that 25 states require students to take a course in economics to graduate, which, unfortunately, was unchanged from two years prior.
While the report called economics a core skill “that’s necessary for understanding the world and making better decisions,” it pointed out that 22 states required economics for graduation in 2011, and that number has increased by only three states in 11 years.
Further, according to the CEE, there has been proposed legislation in states like Georgia and South Carolina that would remove economics requirements. And another negative sign pointed out by the CEE: The National Assessment Governing Board decided in 2019 to remove economics from its National Assessment of Educational Progress schedule.
In contrast, a slightly more positive trend was found involving states requiring students to take a course in personal finance in order to graduate — the number was up two states from the results in 2020 for a total of 23 states. The two states (Nebraska and Ohio) were highlighted in the survey for passing legislation in 2021 requiring a full semester course in personal finance before a student can graduate.
The survey also found that there are nine states with dedicated courses in personal finance (as opposed to including personal finance in other coursework), up from six in 2020.
You can see your state’s status in the categories of economic and personal finance education by looking at the maps and charts included in the survey.
What can be done to accelerate financial literacy in schools? If you are a proponent of financial literacy education, consider becoming an advocate.
The CEE offers an advocacy toolkit (tinyurl.com/3mtpmyr8) for parents and community leaders. The toolkit includes “useful information on general advocacy, basic facts about economic and personal finance education in the U.S., suggestions for interacting with elected officials, and sample legislation and rules from states with end-to-end requirements in economics or personal finances.”
Other efforts are underway. For example, the CEE (tinyurl.com/3w2pt4nd) is partnering with credit card company Visa to promote FinEd50, a coalition of nonprofit organizations, corporate partners and others that is “committed to effecting change in education policy at the state level.” More details can be found at FinEd50.com.
Working in Support of Education, aka W!se (wise-ny.org), and Moneyworks (tinyurl.com/2p9xafs8) are also promoting financial education in schools.
So efforts are being made. Of course, more can always be done. From my perspective, the very worthwhile goal is educating the investors and financial decision-makers of tomorrow.
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IT IS HARD to believe the number of income tax refunds the IRS processed for the 2020 tax year. It was more than 128 million. In total, about $355.3 billion in tax payments were returned to taxpayers. The refund may be “found” money for some and planned-on money for others.
Let’s see how some 2020 taxpayers thought they might use the money. Of the recipients, 27% planned to use the money on existing expenses, and 8% planned to splurge. For those who spent the money, one common use was in the form of a vacation. Given the many potential uses of the money, what are some of your options?
One possibility is adding to your retirement nest egg. Every bit saved brings you closer to your retirement goals. Consider making IRA contributions. For those eligible to do so, a $6,000 contribution may be made for 2022; those age 50 or older may make a $7,000 one. The ability to contribute depends on your income level, whether or not you are making other retirement plan contributions, and the type of IRA you choose.
An important point to also consider is contributing to your workplace retirement plan. The limit for 2022 is $20,500 ($27,000 if age 50 or older). You might use the tax refund for everyday expenses but increase your workplace retirement plan contributions. This is essentially a swap of dollars with the refund being for everyday use and the paycheck for furthering 401(k) or 403(b) contributions. This is especially true if it helps you obtain more of the matching employer contributions. If you are considering either of these, be sure to discuss it with your financial professional. There are some eligibility rules to follow.
Another use for a refund is to increase your or your child’s college fund. Carefully consider which savings vehicle to use. A Section 529 Plan may be the perfect fit. Contributions into the Section 529 plan grow tax-free. If the money is withdrawn for qualified education expenses, the withdrawal is tax-free, as well. If you are considering using a 529 Plan, be sure to check your state’s rules on these. Some states offer tax benefits for contributions made.
Another potential use of the refund is debt reduction. Some may want to pay down their home mortgage. One consideration in doing so is the rate you are paying on the mortgage. Paying it down faster allows you to accumulate home equity quicker. If you have an attractive interest rate on the mortgage, it might make more sense to invest the return if it can earn a greater rate than you are paying on your mortgage over the long run. Keep in mind that if you pay down your mortgage, the home mortgage interest tax deduction will be reduced. Be sure to plan for this when you are reviewing your taxes. Lastly, once you use the funds to pay down the mortgage, it isn’t available for other purposes such as investments or unanticipated expenses.
It might make more sense to pay off higher rate debt. Paying off higher-interest, nondeductible debt such as credit cards can have a bigger benefit in the long term. Without those debt payments in the future, you may have more flexibility with your finances.
Something we alluded to earlier is unanticipated expenses. Your tax return may be the perfect time to start building an emergency fund.
One other use is something not often considered: an investment into yourself. Maybe there are classes or training programs you want to take to further your career. Taking the classes may increase your worth in the workplace and future earning potential.
Lastly, using your tax refund money isn’t an all or nothing proposition. Maybe a portion of the refund can be used to have some fun! Making a good decision is about examining your choices and making the ones that best fit you and your future.
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HANOVER — Dartmouth College says it plans to return the papers of Samson Occom to his tribe’s homeland in Connecticut in a repatriation ceremony later this month.
Occom was a Presbyterian minister, scholar, educator and a member of the Mohegan Tribe who helped Eleazar Wheelock secure the funds for what would become Dartmouth College.
Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon plans to lead a delegation from Dartmouth to Connecticut for an April 27 repatriation ceremony for the papers, the college said in an announcement.
The papers include journals as well as letters from Occom, Wheelock and others, traditional plant remedies, some of the earliest known samples of written Mohegan language, and other significant documents, the college said.
“The repatriation of the Samson Occom papers to the Mohegan Tribe will serve to renew the historic bonds between the Mohegan Tribe and Dartmouth,” said Bruce Duthu, the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies and chair of the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies.
“In returning Occom’s papers to his Mohegan homeland, we acknowledge and celebrate his contributions to the establishment of Dartmouth College and join with the Mohegan Tribe in welcoming their ancestor back home.”
Dartmouth has a “complicated history” with Occom, according to the college.
Occom was born on Mohegan land near New London, Conn., in 1723 and was one of the first Native Americans ordained a Christian minister. In 1766, he traveled to England to raise money for Wheelock’s new school, believing Wheelock intended the funds to support Indigenous students.
“His journey was a wild success, in part because Occom himself was an embodiment of the kind of Christian education Wheelock’s school promised to Native students,” according to College Archivist Peter Carini. The 9,494 pounds (about $12,300) in donations Occom raised was critical for the founding of the college, Carini said.
“It would have been hard for the college to start without that money,” Carini said.
However, by the time Occom returned from England, “Wheelock had already shifted the school’s direction toward the sons of white New England families and moved the school from Connecticut to New Hampshire,” Carini said. “Between 1769 and 1970, Dartmouth graduated only 20 Native students.”
“Your having so many white scholars and so few or no Indian scholars, gives me great discouragement,” Occom wrote Wheelock in a July 1771 letter included in the collection.
Although disappointed, Occom continued to be an outspoken advocate for Indian rights in Connecticut and a religious leader in his tribe’s community.
The Native American Visiting Committee, which advises the Dartmouth president on Native American issues, has been advocating for Dartmouth to better recognize Occom’s contributions to its founding as well as his disagreements with Wheelock. The committee also brought the idea of repatriation to Hanlon.
“This repatriation is particularly meaningful because Occom felt betrayed by Wheelock,” Sarah Harris, vice chairwoman of the Mohegan Tribal Council and a member of the committee, said in the announcement. “Due in part to his crushing disappointment with Wheelock’s diversion from the planned school for Native students, Occom left Mohegan and New England altogether. This repatriation marks the beginning of a new chapter in the shared history of the Mohegan People and the Dartmouth community, one in which Occom’s dream of an education for Native students moves closer to fulfillment.”
The April 27 ceremony is planned to take place outdoors at the Mohegan Church in Uncasville, on land that has belonged to the Mohegan people since before Europeans arrived in North America. The event is for members of the tribal community and invited guests.
The tribe has given the college permission to retain digital copies of the papers for its archives.
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T he two dozen students remaining at Dover’s Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy are bracing to lose their little community when the arts-focused charter high school closes in June after a 17-year run.
Seniors like Natalie Bragg loved the way she could get to know everyone at the small school.
“It is a family thing — even if you don’t have the same hobbies or the same little niches every person does — that’s what it’s about,” Bragg said.
School administrators had expected 43 students. Thirty-nine showed up. By November, said school business manager Brenda McCartney, just 25 were left.
At the same time, Cocheco Arts has been struggling to get fundraising and family volunteering back on track while scrambling to find a new building to rent for next school year.
“We’ve talked about how if it were any one factor we probably could work through it and overcome it,” McCartney said. “And then we saw the steep decline in the fall and we said, ‘We’re done.’”
“Charter school funding is always kind of dicey,” McCartney said.
Unlike regular public schools, charter schools don’t get funding from local property taxes. Instead, the state gives charter schools a higher per-pupil allotment, and schools have to find a way to make up the rest of their costs.
The state law that established charter schools made it clear that the schools would be expected to raise money, in part to show community support.
Some schools get grants from large foundations, and new and expanding schools can receive federal grants. Some schools have skilled fundraisers who know how to go after donors or throw profitable events for a base of families willing and able to give.
For a school that struggles to fundraise, the per-pupil allotment from the state is all-important. Cocheco has struggled for years.
The school has had close calls before. Periodic cash flow trouble required staff to make loans to the school to cover payroll, and the school had to scramble to find a new building a decade ago.
COVID spelled trouble
The pandemic amplified all sorts of issues. With the school fully remote from March 2020 through April 2021, McCartney said, the community that kept Cocheco Arts afloat fell away.
There were no in-person showcase nights or fundraisers last school year, and finding parent volunteers to help out was hard. Even after the students came back to school, McCartney said, the parent volunteer pool didn’t really rebound.
As if fundraising wasn’t enough of a headache, Cocheco is among the charter schools that rent their buildings — and rent is going up. The school had hoped to move into a mill building in Gonic, but the landlord balked at the cost of bringing the space in line with school safety standards. Without capital of its own, the school couldn’t foot the bill.
Enrollment was never completely predictable, but COVID demolished the normal patterns. Every year sees a certain amount of ebb and flow between schools, but the pandemic showed the range of choices students had — even beyond different schools.
“Students and parents have discovered there are other choices than being in school all day,” McCartney said. Some seniors opted to get their GEDs rather than finish high school, while others decided on homeschool or the state’s virtual charter school.
“That’s a type of competition we’ve never seen before,” McCartney said.
The student body got smaller and smaller in the fall of 2021.
Pandemic relief funds helped, but where other schools are using the one-time money on temporary programs and big one-time expenses, Cocheco Arts has been using the funds to cover regular expenses, board meeting minutes show.
By November, the school decided to let families know: The school couldn’t go on another year.
“It’s scary and it’s sad and everyone’s just so tired,” said senior Lucy Bemis.
Students are raising money to help pay the school’s bills this spring, Bemis said, as well as for graduation and prom.
They’re feeling some pressure.
“It’s a lot more stress with graduation and prom,” said senior Andrew Moses. “Because it has to be special. Because it’s the last one.”
The last semester
This spring, Cocheco Arts counts 11 staffers, all of whom work multiple jobs in the school — teaching two or three different subjects as well as serving as administrators or class advisers.
The school cut its principal to save money years ago, McCartney said, and staff put in hours on an “administrative team,” sharing the day-to-day leadership with guidance from a board of directors.
McCartney herself was filling in as a science teacher this semester, she said. After the science teacher left at the end of the fall semester and with no replacement coming, McCartney figured she could lead students through lessons in the textbook as well as anyone.
After lunch one recent afternoon, students finished their cleaning shifts and moved to their afternoon classes.
A jazz-rock ensemble rehearsed in one room, while another group of students taught each other complicated board games. A teacher led students through a sculpture exercise in the cafeteria, where strands of duct tape dangled from the wall — the aftermath of a fundraiser that involved taping a teacher to the cafeteria wall.
Fundraisers like that one, or like holiday candy sales, are part of what made Cocheco Arts fun, said junior Skyler Haley.
She’ll miss that kind of experience at Dover High School next year — and she worries about finding her niche at a bigger school.
“When I went to Dover Middle School, everyone seemed to judge me and nobody sat with me at lunch,” Haley said. She hopes high school will be better — but it’s hard to imagine it will be anything like Cocheco Arts.
“It’s a ton of fun here,” Haley said.
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An environmental group has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Manchester-based Nylon Corporation of America has violated the Clean Water Act and other water pollution laws.
A complaint filed in U.S. District Court last week by the Conservation Law Foundation alleges the Nylon Corporation has been dumping too-hot water from its heat exchanges into the Merrimack River, and letting zinc, oil and other chemicals, and plastic pellets and dust wash into the river.
Nylon did not respond to a request for comment Saturday. According to the complaint, Nylon pulls water from the Merrimack River to cool equipment in its Sundial Avenue manufacturing facility, and then pumps water from its heat exchanges back into the river.
The complaint states Nylon is not supposed to release water warmer than 83 degrees into the river, but the complaint alleges that at least six times since the summer of 2018, the plant has released water above that temperature limit — from 84 to 87 degrees. Nylon has discharged water with higher concentrations of zinc, the complaint alleges, and has not submitted required monitoring reports to the the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration.
The complaint also alleges plastic pellets and plastic dust, as well as fuel oil and other chemicals, have been spilled and trickled into culverts, and washed into the Merrimack River.
The Conservation Law Foundation is asking the federal court to impose fines for violations of the Clean Water Act and other water-pollution laws.
The allegations that Nylon released overheated water into the river are similar to those against the Merrimack Station, the coal-fired power plant in Bow run by Granite Shore Power, in a 2019 suit brought by the Conservation Law Foundation and the Sierra Club.
Earlier this year, a judge ruled that lawsuit could move forward.
The March 2019 suit claims releasing heated water violates the terms of the plant’s EPA license because it blocks the zone of fish passage, changes indigenous populations, and has substantial contact with surrounding shorelines.
In his ruling in January, Judge Joseph Laplante said testimony from experts convinced him that enough material facts are in dispute that the case can move forward.
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Q: I love more light in the evening, but some experts say the change to permanent daylight savings time could be harmful. What’s the story? — Jake J., Portland, Maine
A: We known that in the days after a time change — either in the spring to daylight savings time or in the fall back to so-called standard time — there are changes in heart health. A 2014 study in Open Heart found that the Monday following springtime changes was associated with a 24% increase in heart attacks. However, once the change was in place, there was no increase in the incidence of heart attacks in the following weeks. Similarly, a study in Finland found that more folks had ischemic strokes in the first two days after a transition to DST, but the increased risk faded after that.
So the question is: Once you have DST in place permanently, and there’s no going back and forth, is it healthy? Well, maybe, maybe not. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, “the one-hour time shift in the spring ... results in sleep loss and resultant sleep debt, in addition to circadian misalignment.”
A chronically disrupted internal body clock (circadian rhythm) is associated with mood changes, cognitive problems, and an increased risk for heart disease, gastric upset and diabetes. And it may hit school kids big time — especially high-schoolers — since starting school too early is already associated with poorer learning. However, you can adjust your internal clock. So try to:
• Go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day. Initially, if you can’t fall asleep at your desired time, set an alarm and wake up at the set time anyway. You’ll adapt.
• Sleep in a dark bedroom. No blue (digital) light, and consider wearing an eye mask.
• During the day, be exposed to full spectrum light early and often.
• Eat breakfast and lunch one hour later, but keep your last meal of the day well before sunset.
Q: There’s a new study that says the link between high LDL cholesterol and heart disease is “inconsistent.” What does that mean? And are statins legit or not? — David R., Buffalo, N.Y.
A: You are talking about a new study out of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland that looked at whether having an elevated level of lousy LDL cholesterol was really as strongly linked to having a heart attack or stroke as previously thought. The article, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, also questioned whether statins that lower your LDL actually lead to a meaningful reduction in your risk for cardiovascular disease. The best answers the researchers could come up with were “maybe” and “sometimes.” Seems gaining substantial benefits from lowering LDL and taking a statin is highly individual.
So what does this mean in terms of protecting yourself from cardiovascular disease and all its life-threatening complications? Clearly, it reinforces the profound wisdom of protecting your heart health with smart lifestyle choices. There is no question that a diet that is plant-based, avoids trans and saturated fats and red and processed meats, and is packed with fiber and lean protein keeps your blood vessels clearer. Consistent physical activity is also essential for heart health — as are good sleep habits, managing stress and having a caring, generous outlook.
What about taking a statin to lower your LDL — and protect your heart? There’s no doubt statins’ benefit to overall health and longevity (even newly discovered anticancer benefits) comes in part from their anti-inflammatory powers. And even if they don’t always lower LDL as much as was thought, they have other powerful benefits that outweigh their risks. Chronic inflammation is linked to many diseases.
A side note: Keep triglyceride levels low after you have a stroke. Seems taking a statin that lowers LDL and triglycerides may not do that well enough. Researchers echo what I just said: Don’t rely on the statin alone. Use diet and exercise to lower triglyceride levels.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband passed away four months ago, after battling cancer for years. He declined in a month, and we chose hospice at home. (I did not find them particularly caring or helpful.) This was even more depressing because it happened during COVID.
After my husband’s death, all the emotional support stopped — no family visits and no phone calls. If I don’t text, I have no contact with anyone. After a marriage of 55 years, I am now totally isolated and alone. I have meltdowns at times over nothing. Sleep escapes me. Grief counseling is shut down except for Zoom, and I don’t have a computer.
I know it takes years to adjust to a new way of life, but my mobility issues aren’t helping. I was always independent; now I feel like a burden. It takes me forever to get around. Abby, I’m not sure how to proceed from here. Any suggestions for moving forward?
— TOO MUCH CHANGE IN FLORIDA
DEAR TOO MUCH CHANGE: Yes, I do! Place a call to your physician and tell them what’s going on. Because you have no computer, peer-to-peer grief counseling by phone may be an option. There might be help for your sleep problems as well. As to your meltdowns, in time they will lessen. But you must accept that grieving is a process that takes time.
When you feel isolated, do you pick up the phone and call others, or do you expect them to do the calling? A step toward healthy independence would be to make yourself reach out and communicate with others. You might also consider adopting a dog, which would not only force you to get out of the house — which is healthy — but also give you an opportunity to meet others.
I know it’s sometimes an effort to just get out of bed. But if you start doing these things, they are all steps in the right direction and will help you to reclaim your life.
DEAR ABBY: When I texted my faraway sibling, “Pat,” to thank them for a thoughtful gift I really liked, they said, “Oh no, the mailing labels for the boxes mailed to you and our other sibling must have been mixed up.” Then Pat insisted I immediately trade gifts with our sibling. Pat immediately contacted our mutual sibling’s spouse to inform them of the mix-up rather than trust me to handle the situation.
Am I wrong to feel that Pat should have left well enough alone, since I had expressed appreciation for the gift, and sent a similarly thoughtful gift to its intended sibling to rectify things? I have never been in a situation like this before, but it seems to me that I am getting the short end of the stick.
— MIXED-UP OVER THE MIXUP
DEAR MIXED-UP: Not knowing the discrepancy between the gift you received and the one your sibling received, I can’t judge whether you got “the short end of the stick.” But Pat should have replaced the gift received by the sibling rather than insist you relinquish the one you received. I don’t blame you for being offended. The way Pat handled the situation was beyond rude.
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DEAR HELOISE: Today’s column included a letter from a reader who suggested that when filling a new prescription it might be better not to get all the pills prescribed at once. As a prescriber and as a patient, I caution readers that they should discuss this suggestion with the doctor before they do this. Many medications need to be taken AS PRESCRIBED for quite a few days before the medicine’s desired effect can be felt or achieved.
If, for example, you are prescribed a 30-day supply of a new medicine and you decide on your own that you are only going to get enough pills for 10 days, you might not be giving the medicine enough time to tell if it works. And if, for any reason, you fail to get the next 10 days’ worth in time to start taking those pills right after the first 10 days, then you might have let blood or tissue levels of the medicine decrease to the point that your next 10 days of medicine is like starting the 30 days over, rather than continuing the medicine course as the doctor had intended.
You also might end up paying more for your complete prescription. A pharmacist has to charge you not just for the pills but also for his time, overhead and knowledge. So each prescription he fills will have a nominal charge that you are paying. If you get a three-month supply, you pay that charge only once, but if you buy a month at a time, you are paying that charge three times over those three months.
So the reader is right that you might want a smaller amount of pills for a NEW prescription, but for continuing medicines it makes more sense to get the full prescription filled if you can.
— J. Teal, M.D., Los Alamitos, Calif.
Help reaching things
DEAR HELOISE: I frequently drop things in places where it’s hard to retrieve them, like between the counter and the refrigerator or behind or under a piece of furniture. Also, my washing machine tub is so deep that I have trouble reaching the articles that are in the bottom after the final spin. Now I keep a cheap, wooden back scratcher handy to help me get things out of the washer, as well as to retrieve items that are hard to reach.
— P. Crotteau, Keizer, Ore.
Biography
DEAR HELOISE: I am in my 80s and had a recent minor stroke. I had an epiphany while recovering. I thought, what do our family members know about our past schooling, work and other educational or vocational doings? So I decided to write a short biography on my wife and I for family members. We have wills, but that doesn’t fill in the past. I hope this will be a hint for others to think about.
— Richard, Fredericksburg, Va.
Tomato paste
DEAR HELOISE: Reading your article about the tube of tomato paste reminded me of a trick I learned long ago. Since tomato paste is thick and difficult to get out of the can with a spoon, open both ends of the can. Using one of the detached lids, push the contents out the other end. You get every drop of tomato paste from the can. It’s so easy.
— Nick, Little Rock, Ark.
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KYIV — Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered fresh financial and military support during a surprise visit.
At a meeting in Kyiv, Johnson told Zelensky that Britain would provide armored vehicles and anti-ship missile systems, along with additional support for World Bank loans.
Britain also will continue to ratchet up its sanctions on Russia and move away from using Russian hydrocarbons, he said.
The support aims to ensure that “Ukraine can never be bullied again, never will be blackmailed again, never will be threatened in the same way again,” Johnson said.
Johnson was the latest foreign leader to visit Kyiv after Russian forces pulled back from areas around the capital just over a week ago.
Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian leader met Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Kyiv, warning in a joint news conference that while the threat to the capital had receded, it was rising in the east.
“This will be a hard battle, we believe in this fight and our victory. We are ready to simultaneously fight and look for diplomatic ways to put an end to this war,” Zelensky said.
Air-raid sirens sounded in cities across eastern Ukraine, which has become the focus of Russian military action after the withdrawal from around Kyiv.
Ukrainian officials have urged civilians in the east to flee. On Friday, officials said more than 50 people were killed in a missile strike on a train station in city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, where thousands of people had gathered to evacuate.
Russia’s invasion, which began on Feb. 24, has forced around a quarter of the population of 44 million to leave their homes, turned cities into rubble and killed or injured thousands.
The civilian casualties have triggered a wave of international condemnation, in particular over deaths in the town of Bucha, a town to the northwest of Kyiv that until last week was occupied by Russian forces.
“We will never forget everything we saw here, this will stay with us for our whole lives,” said Bohdan Zubchuk, a community policeman in the town, describing his life before and after the war.
Russia has denied targeting civilians in what it calls a “special operation” to demilitarize and “denazify” its southern neighbor. Ukraine and Western nations have dismissed this as a baseless pretext for war.
Fifty two die at station
Friday’s missile attack at the station in Kramatorsk, a hub for civilians fleeing the east, left shreds of blood-stained clothes, toys and damaged luggage strewn across the station’s platform.
City Mayor Oleksander Honcharenko, who estimated 4,000 people were gathered there at the time, said on Saturday that the death toll had risen to least 52.
He said he expected just 50,000 to 60,000 of Kramatorsk’s population of 220,000 to remain as people flee the violence.
Russia has denied responsibility, saying the missiles used in the attack were only used by Ukraine’s military. The United States says it believes Russian forces were responsible.
Reuters was unable to verify the details of attack.
The Ukrainian military says Moscow is preparing for a thrust to try to gain full control of the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk that have been partly held by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.
Air attacks are likely to increase in the south and east as Russia seeks to establish a land bridge between Crimea — which Moscow annexed in 2014 — and the Donbas but Ukrainian forces are thwarting the advance, the British Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update.
Russia’s military said on Saturday it had destroyed an ammunition depot at the Myrhorod Air Base in central-eastern Ukraine.
Foreign leaders visit
Johnson and Nehammer visited Ukraine a day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The EU on Friday adopted new sanctions against Russia, including bans on the import of coal, wood, chemicals and other products. Oil and gas imports from Russia so far remain untouched.
Zelinskiy urged the West to do more.
“It’s time to impose a complete embargo on Russian energy resources, They should increase the amount of weapons being supplied to the people of Ukraine,” he said during his meeting with Johnson.
The visits by foreign leaders were a sign that Kyiv was returning to some degree of normality after the Russian retreat. Some residents have begun to return to the capital, with cafes and restaurants reopening, and Italy said it plans to re-open its embassy in the city later this month.
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The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) were welcomed aboard the orbiting research platform Saturday to begin a weeklong science mission hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight.
Their arrival came about 21 hours after the four-man team representing Houston-based startup company Axiom Space Inc. lifted off on Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, riding atop a SpaceX-launched Falcon 9 rocket.
The Crew Dragon capsule lofted into orbit by the rocket docked with the ISS at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday as the two space vehicles were flying roughly 250 miles above the central Atlantic Ocean, a live webcast of the coupling from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration showed.
The final approach was delayed for about 45 minutes by a technical glitch with a video feed used to monitor the capsule’s rendezvous with the ISS, but it otherwise proceeded smoothly.
The multinational Axiom team, planning to spend eight days in orbit, was led by retired Spanish-born NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, 63, the company’s vice president for business development.
His second-in-command was Larry Connor, a real estate and technology entrepreneur and aerobatics aviator from Ohio designated as the mission pilot. Connor is in his 70s, but the company did not provide his precise age.
Rounding out the Ax-1 crew were investor-philanthropist and former Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe, 64, and Canadian businessman and philanthropist Mark Pathy, 52, both serving as mission specialists.
With docking achieved, it took nearly two hours for the sealed passageway between the space station and crew capsule to be pressurized and checked for leaks before hatches were opened to allow the newly arrived astronauts to come aboard the ISS.
The Ax-1 team was welcomed by all seven of the regular, government-paid crew members already occupying the space station: three American astronauts, a German astronaut from the European Space Agency and three Russian cosmonauts.
The NASA webcast showed the four smiling Axiom astronauts, dressed in navy blue flight suits, floating headfirst, one by one, through the portal into the space station, warmly greeted with hugs and handshakes by the ISS crew.
Lopez-Alegria later pinned astronaut wings onto the uniforms of the three spaceflight rookies of his Axiom team — Connor, Stibbe and Pathy — during a brief welcome ceremony.
Stibbe is now the second Israeli to fly to space, after Ilan Ramon, who perished with six NASA crewmates in the 2003 space shuttle Columbia disaster.
SCIENCE FOCUSED
The new arrivals brought with them two dozen science and biomedical experiments to conduct aboard ISS, including research on brain health, cardiac stem cells, cancer and aging, as well as a technology demonstration to produce optics using the surface tension of fluids in microgravity.
The mission, a collaboration among Axiom, Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and NASA, has been touted by all three as a major step in the expansion of space-based commercial activities collectively referred to by insiders as the low-Earth orbit economy, or “LEO economy” for short.
NASA officials say the trend will help the U.S. space agency focus more of its resources on big-science exploration, including its Artemis program to send humans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars.
While the space station has hosted civilian visitors from time to time, the Ax-1 mission marks the first all-commercial team of astronauts sent to ISS for its intended purpose as an orbiting research laboratory.
The Axiom mission also stands as SpaceX’s sixth human spaceflight in nearly two years, following four NASA astronaut missions to the space station and the Inspiration 4 launch in September that sent an all-civilian crew into orbit for the first time. That flight did not dock with the ISS.
Axiom executives say their astronaut ventures and plans to build a private space station in Earth orbit go far beyond the astro-tourism services offered to wealthy thrill-seekers by such companies as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, owned respectively by billionaire entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.
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