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NEW YORK (AP) — The steel bands and brightly colored costumes of Caribbean Carnival came back to the streets of New York City, with the West Indian American Day Parade taking place in person Monday after a pandemic-induced hiatus.
Throngs of people made their way to the streets of Brooklyn, where one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture takes place, after two years of virtual events.
Brooklyn is where hundreds of thousands of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have put down roots and turned the Labor Day celebration into a must-do event, with onlookers and participants carrying flags from a slew of countries.
The main parade started in the late morning and was expected to go into the early evening. A separate street party known as J’Ouvert, commemorating freedom from slavery, was held in the early morning hours before the larger parade started off.
Outbreaks of violence have occasionally marred both the early morning and main parade, with the most high-profile being the 2015 death of an aide to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo from stray gunfire during the hours of J’Ouvert, which used to start even earlier and was more informal.
Since then, a formal start time for J’Ouvert was instituted, along with checkpoints for entry, as well as an increase in police presence on the day.
Police had not reported any incidents in connection with Monday’s events. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/ap-colorful-west-indian-day-parade-returns-to-nyc-streets/ | 2022-09-05T21:43:18Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/ap-colorful-west-indian-day-parade-returns-to-nyc-streets/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — China has locked down 65 million of its citizens under tough COVID-19 restrictions and is discouraging domestic travel during upcoming national holidays.
Across the country, 33 cities including seven provincial capitals are under full or partial lockdown covering more than 65 million people, according to a tally published late Sunday by the Chinese business magazine Caixin.
It said that outbreaks have been reported in 103 cities, the highest since the early days of the pandemic in early 2020.
Despite a relatively low number of infections, authorities have adhered to a “zero-COVID” policy requiring lockdowns, quarantines and the confining of people suspected of being in close contact with any confirmed case.
China recorded 1,552 new cases in the latest 24-hour period across a nation of 1.4 billion people, the National Health Commission reported Monday.
Most of the 21 million people in the southwestern city of Chengdu are confined to their apartments or residential complexes, while in the eastern port city of Tianjin, classes have ben moved online after 14 new cases were reported, all but two showing no symptoms.
Chengdu lifted the lockdown for about 1 million people in Qionglai city and Xinjin district, two areas in its southwest. Three more rounds of mass testing are being held through Wednesday. and schools remain closed with all classes online.
Sept. 10-12 is China’s mid-autumn festival, the country’s second-most important holiday after the Lunar New Year. The anti-virus measures have taken a major toll on the economy, travel and society in general, but China’s ruling Communist Party says they are necessary to prevent a wider spread of the virus, first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
The fear of being caught in a lockdown or sent to a quarantine facility for even being in proximity with a person who tested positive has severely constrained people’s work, socializing and travel habits.
Since the outbreak began, China has placed tens of millions of people under lockdowns that have been strictly enforced, sometimes preventing residents from obtaining food, health care and basic necessities.
A more than five-week closure of Shanghai, China’s largest city and key financial hub, in the spring upended the local economy, prompted protests and led to an exodus of foreign residents. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-china-locks-down-65-million-as-holiday-travel-peak-looms/ | 2022-09-05T21:44:01Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-china-locks-down-65-million-as-holiday-travel-peak-looms/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu — whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at the forefront of sweeping changes on race — died Monday, a family friend confirmed. He was 92.
Ryan Berni, a longtime friend of the family, confirmed that Landrieu passed away early Monday.
“He died peacefully this morning surrounded by family,” Berni told The Associated Press.
A progressive white Democrat whose demeanor could be combative at times, Landrieu came from a blue-collar Roman Catholic family, served in the Army and sat alongside the first Black students at the city’s Loyola law school before winning a statehouse seat in 1960.
By then, six years had passed since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate nationwide, and Landrieu couldn’t in good conscience go along when Gov. Jimmie Davis steamrolled legislation to keep students in New Orleans separated by race. They passed by lopsided margins with Landrieu, at least once, the lone “no” vote.
The white politicians who had a lock on power on Louisiana said he’d dug his political grave, but he held onto his House seat in 1963 and then won a city council seat in 1965 with strong support from Black voters, whose influence was beginning to be felt at the polls.
To win his first mayoral term, Landrieu assembled a coalition of white liberals and African Americans and campaigned to bring Black people into important positions in government.
Integrating City Hall had its costs: In a 2018 memoir, Mitch Landrieu wrote that death threats were phoned into his family home and his school. Moon Landrieu discussed the blowback over race in a 1977 speech to the National League of Cities convention.
“If you embark on a campaign to end racial discrimination in your hometown, you will need nerves of steel, a will of iron, skin like leather and testicles of brass to withstand the slings and arrows,” he said. “I have myself these past eight years been known in some quarters as ‘Moon the Coon,’ an epithet that has caused me some pain at times, but that is also a badge of honor that bears testimony to what we try to do.”
His mayoral legacy also includes his support for the state’s construction of the Louisiana Superdome, which finally opened in 1975. It’s a beloved fixture of the city landscape now, but cost overruns and a contract scandal caused headaches for its supporters, including Landrieu.
“There has been an unbelievable emphasis on the few things that have been wrong with it and total neglect of the many, many things that are right with it,” he said several years later.
As Black voters gained influence, the coalition that elected Landrieu to the maximum two terms helped make Ernest “Dutch″ Morial the city’s first Black mayor, in 1978.
Landrieu then became President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of housing and urban development, an agency whose programs came under attack when President Ronald Reagan took office on a platform to reduce the federal government’s size and power.
Landrieu criticized Reagan for “gutting” public aid programs, and briefly considered a presidential bid of his own. But he never sought national office. Instead, he became a judge — “I really wanted to get out of my kids’ way,” he said – serving on Louisiana’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeal from 1992 to 2000.
Several of Landrieu’s nine children continue his legacy in law and politics: Mitch, also a two-term New Orleans mayor, is now President Joe Biden’s infrastructure coordinator; Mary, who served three terms as a U.S. senator, is now a policy adviser with a Washington law firm. Madeleine became dean of the law school at Loyola University New Orleans, and Maurice is a federal prosecutor.
Born Maurice E. Landrieu on July 23, 1930, he was called Moon, a family nickname, throughout his life and eventually made that his legal first name. He served three years in the Army before opening a small, walk-up law office with law school classmate Pascal Calogero, later the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Landrieu credited his wife, Verna, with nudging him into politics, and his Black classmates, including Norman Francis, who would become Xavier University’s dean and president, for opening his eyes.
“It wasn’t just a question of racial justice, but from a practical standpoint, I recognized — as a politician, as a legislator and councilman — that we were wasting so much talent, wasting so much energy, by precluding Blacks from participation in all matters,” he recalled in a 2020 interview with the New Orleans weekly newspaper Gambit.
“And I was determined, as I became mayor, to revitalize this city and to bring about racial integration, so that the city could enjoy the full benefit of white and Black participants.”
Gov. John Bel Edwards called Landrieu a man of “bold vision.”
“Moon Landrieu was a courageous and defining voice for Louisiana and his beloved hometown of New Orleans,” Edwards said in a statement. “In addition to his many contributions to our state and nation, he leaves behind the most enduring legacy of all – a family that continues his fight for equality.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-new-orleans-political-patriarch-moon-landrieu-has-died/ | 2022-09-05T21:44:38Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-new-orleans-political-patriarch-moon-landrieu-has-died/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BOSTON (AP) — Republicans hoping to hold on to the Massachusetts governor’s office are choosing between a Donald Trump-backed candidate and a more moderate businessman in Tuesday’s primary election.
Massachusetts is just the latest blue state to feature a top-of-the-ticket contest between a conservative candidate endorsed by Trump and a more centrist opponent. In recent primaries in Maryland and Connecticut, GOP voters have opted for the Trump loyalists, potentially worsening their chances of winning a general election.
The winner of Tuesday’s Massachusetts primary will take on Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey in November. If elected, she would be the state’s first openly gay governor and the first woman elected governor of Massachusetts. Republican Jane Swift served as acting governor after Gov. Paul Cellucci stepped down in 2001 to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.
The governor’s office is open this year because popular GOP Gov. Charlie Baker opted against running for a third term.
What to watch:
Former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who has Trump’s endorsement, is going up against businessman Chris Doughty, a political newcomer, in the Republican primary for governor.
Diehl, who launched a failed campaign for U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018, is popular among Republican activists. He won the party’s endorsement with 71% of delegates at the state party convention in May, but he could face a tougher climb in a general election in a state in which Trump won only 32% of votes in 2020.
Diehl has opposed COVID-19 mandates, falsely claimed the 2020 presidential race was rigged, fought against the extension of mail-in voting and said he supports the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Trump — a critic of Baker, who publicly refused to vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 — endorsed Diehl last October, saying in a statement that he is “strong on Crime, Election Integrity, our now under siege Southern Border, loves our Military, and has a big focus on taking care of our Vets.”
Doughty described himself as moderate when he entered the race but has since embraced the label of conservative as he tries to appeal to Republican primary voters. Doughty has said his experience running a manufacturing company gives him the know-how to be a successful chief executive.
He has said he wants to make Massachusetts more affordable for residents and businesses. He has described himself as “pro-life,” but acknowledges the state’s highest court has recognized a right to abortion and said he doesn’t have an interest in changing that.
Baker hasn’t endorsed either candidate.
Healey, who’s won two statewide races for attorney general, is running virtually unopposed, with her sole rival dropping out of the race in June, though she remains on the ballot. Healey is hoping to break a political “curse” in Massachusetts, referring to a string of unsuccessful campaigns by attorneys general for governor.
Despite being considered a Democratic stronghold, Massachusetts has a history of electing Republican governors as a check on a Legislature in which Democrats hold overwhelming majorities. Those Republican governors, including Mitt Romney, have typically been fiscally conservative but more socially moderate.
Baker said in December that he opted not to seek reelection so he could focus on helping the state emerge from the pandemic. He credited his administration’s focus on issues over personality as a big reason for his success with voters, which he said stands “apart from a lot of the bipartisan noise that’s created in politics generally these days.”
The election also features several statewide contested Democratic primaries, including for attorney general and secretary of the commonwealth.
Two Democrats are jockeying for the top law enforcement office: former Boston city councilor Andrea Campbell and workers’ rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan. A week before the election, a former assistant attorney general, Quentin Palfrey, announced he was suspending his campaign and endorsed Campbell.
The winner will face Republican Jay McMahon, a trial attorney who previously ran against Healey and lost, in November.
If elected, Campbell would be the first Black woman to hold the office in Massachusetts. She’s won the endorsement of several high-profile elected officials, including Healey, Sen. Edward Markey and half the state’s congressional delegation.
Liss-Riordan has the backing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and former acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey.
In the race for secretary of the commonwealth, Democratic incumbent William Galvin is hoping to win an eighth term in office. He’s fielding a primary challenge from fellow Democrat Tanisha Sullivan, a lawyer and president of the Boston branch of the NAACP. Sullivan would be the first Black person to serve in the post in the state.
There are also contested races in the Democratic primary for auditor and for the Democratic and Republican races for lieutenant governor.
None of the state’s nine incumbent Democratic U.S. House members is facing primary challengers. There are two contested Republican primaries, in the 8th and 9th congressional districts.
The Massachusetts primary lands on the day after Labor Day, raising concerns about a potentially low turnout, although early voting began on Aug. 27.
A new state law makes “no excuse” mail-in ballots and early voting permanent fixtures in Massachusetts elections. Many of the voting options included in the new law were implemented during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and proved popular.
The law also increases ballot access for voters with disabilities, service members overseas and incarcerated individuals.
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BOSTON (AP) — Republicans hoping to hold on to the Massachusetts governor’s office are choosing between a Donald Trump-backed candidate and a more moderate businessman in Tuesday’s primary election.
Massachusetts is just the latest blue state to feature a top-of-the-ticket contest between a conservative candidate endorsed by Trump and a more centrist opponent. In recent primaries in Maryland and Connecticut, GOP voters have opted for the Trump loyalists, potentially worsening their chances of winning a general election.
The winner of Tuesday’s Massachusetts primary will take on Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey in November. If elected, she would be the state’s first openly gay governor and the first woman elected governor of Massachusetts. Republican Jane Swift served as acting governor after Gov. Paul Cellucci stepped down in 2001 to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.
The governor’s office is open this year because popular GOP Gov. Charlie Baker opted against running for a third term.
What to watch:
Former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who has Trump’s endorsement, is going up against businessman Chris Doughty, a political newcomer, in the Republican primary for governor.
Diehl, who launched a failed campaign for U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018, is popular among Republican activists. He won the party’s endorsement with 71% of delegates at the state party convention in May, but he could face a tougher climb in a general election in a state in which Trump won only 32% of votes in 2020.
Diehl has opposed COVID-19 mandates, falsely claimed the 2020 presidential race was rigged, fought against the extension of mail-in voting and said he supports the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Trump — a critic of Baker, who publicly refused to vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 — endorsed Diehl last October, saying in a statement that he is “strong on Crime, Election Integrity, our now under siege Southern Border, loves our Military, and has a big focus on taking care of our Vets.”
Doughty described himself as moderate when he entered the race but has since embraced the label of conservative as he tries to appeal to Republican primary voters. Doughty has said his experience running a manufacturing company gives him the know-how to be a successful chief executive.
He has said he wants to make Massachusetts more affordable for residents and businesses. He has described himself as “pro-life,” but acknowledges the state’s highest court has recognized a right to abortion and said he doesn’t have an interest in changing that.
Baker hasn’t endorsed either candidate.
Healey, who’s won two statewide races for attorney general, is running virtually unopposed, with her sole rival dropping out of the race in June, though she remains on the ballot. Healey is hoping to break a political “curse” in Massachusetts, referring to a string of unsuccessful campaigns by attorneys general for governor.
Despite being considered a Democratic stronghold, Massachusetts has a history of electing Republican governors as a check on a Legislature in which Democrats hold overwhelming majorities. Those Republican governors, including Mitt Romney, have typically been fiscally conservative but more socially moderate.
Baker said in December that he opted not to seek reelection so he could focus on helping the state emerge from the pandemic. He credited his administration’s focus on issues over personality as a big reason for his success with voters, which he said stands “apart from a lot of the bipartisan noise that’s created in politics generally these days.”
The election also features several statewide contested Democratic primaries, including for attorney general and secretary of the commonwealth.
Two Democrats are jockeying for the top law enforcement office: former Boston city councilor Andrea Campbell and workers’ rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan. A week before the election, a former assistant attorney general, Quentin Palfrey, announced he was suspending his campaign and endorsed Campbell.
The winner will face Republican Jay McMahon, a trial attorney who previously ran against Healey and lost, in November.
If elected, Campbell would be the first Black woman to hold the office in Massachusetts. She’s won the endorsement of several high-profile elected officials, including Healey, Sen. Edward Markey and half the state’s congressional delegation.
Liss-Riordan has the backing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and former acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey.
In the race for secretary of the commonwealth, Democratic incumbent William Galvin is hoping to win an eighth term in office. He’s fielding a primary challenge from fellow Democrat Tanisha Sullivan, a lawyer and president of the Boston branch of the NAACP. Sullivan would be the first Black person to serve in the post in the state.
There are also contested races in the Democratic primary for auditor and for the Democratic and Republican races for lieutenant governor.
None of the state’s nine incumbent Democratic U.S. House members is facing primary challengers. There are two contested Republican primaries, in the 8th and 9th congressional districts.
The Massachusetts primary lands on the day after Labor Day, raising concerns about a potentially low turnout, although early voting began on Aug. 27.
A new state law makes “no excuse” mail-in ballots and early voting permanent fixtures in Massachusetts elections. Many of the voting options included in the new law were implemented during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and proved popular.
The law also increases ballot access for voters with disabilities, service members overseas and incarcerated individuals.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one Afghan civilian in a rare attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.
The blast went off at the entrance to the embassy’s consular section, where Afghans were waiting for news about their visas, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and the state news agency RIA Novosti. A Russian diplomat had emerged from the building to call out the names of candidates for visas when the explosion occurred, the agency said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility late Monday, saying a militant wearing an explosive belt blew up at the embassy entrance.
It was the latest in a series of bombings and other attacks since the Taliban seized power a year ago, deposing a Western-backed government and capping their 20-year insurgency.
Monday’s bombing, however, appeared to the first to target a foreign diplomatic mission in Kabul since the Taliban takeover. The campaign of attacks has largely targeted Taliban positions or mosques of minority groups, particularly Shiites. They have largely been blamed on the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, which opposes the Taliban and harbors a virulent hatred of Shiites, considering them heretics.
It was not immediately clear why militants targeted the Russian Embassy in particular.
The Russian mission is one of only a couple of international missions still operating and performing consular services in Kabul — and the only European one. Most nations closed their embassies when the Taliban captured Kabul in August 2021 as the U.S. and NATO withdrew their troops. No country has recognized the Taliban government.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the explosion “a terrorist act, absolutely unacceptable.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the embassy enhanced its security after the attack and additional Taliban authorities, including intelligence agents, were brought in.
“Let’s hope that the organizers of this terrorist act and its perpetrators will be punished,” Lavrov said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said an unknown militant set off an explosive device right outside the consular section’s entrance. It said two members of the diplomatic mission were killed, “and there are also casualties among Afghan citizens.”
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said at least one Afghan civilian was killed and 10 others wounded.
Zadran said security forces saw and shot the suicide bomber before he could get closer to the crowd outside the embassy. It was not immediately clear if the attacker was able to set off the blast before being shot, or if the gunfire detonated the explosives.
Attacks on embassies were rare even during the two-decade war between the Taliban and the Western-backed government. In 2017, the Taliban set off a massive truck bomb in a district where many government buildings and embassies were located, killing more than 90 Afghans and heavily damaging the nearby German Embassy. In 2015, a Taliban car bomb went off by the Spanish Embassy, killing a security guard.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in late June that Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan take part in running the country.
Although Moscow has designated the Taliban as a terrorist group, the Taliban have representation in Russia and a delegation attended the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — As hundreds of migrants line up along an Arizona border wall around 4 a.m., agents try to separate them into groups by nationality.
“Anyone from Russia or Bangladesh? I need somebody else from Russia here,” an agent shouts and then says quietly, almost to himself, “These are Romanian.”
It’s a routine task for the Border Patrol in the wee hours in this flat expanse of desert where the wall ends. Migrants from at least 115 countries have been stopped here in the last year, but that may be less striking than what’s missing: Mexicans are virtually absent.
Instead, families from Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, India and dozens of other countries arrive in Yuma after wading through the knee-deep Colorado River. Their presence reflects how a pandemic-era rule still shapes the journeys of many migrants, even though much of the U.S. has moved on from COVID-19.
The changing demographics mark a dramatic shift away from the recent past, when migrants were predominantly from Mexico and Central America’s Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. That’s especially clear at some of the busiest crossings, like Yuma and Eagle Pass, Texas, near where several people died in recent days while trying to cross the Rio Grande.
Mexicans still cross elsewhere but often try to elude capture because they are likely to be expelled under a pandemic rule that denies them a chance to seek asylum.
Mexicans still account for 7 of every 10 encounters in the Border Patrol’s Tucson, Arizona, sector, where smugglers order them to walk at night with black-painted water jugs, camouflage backpacks and boots with carpeted soles to avoid leaving tracks in the sand, said John Modlin, the sector chief.
“Incredibly different tale of two borders, even though they’re within the same state,” Modlin said.
Migrants who are not from Mexico and the Northern Triangle accounted for 41% of stops on the border from October through July, up from only 12% three years earlier, according to government data.
In Yuma, they wear sandals and carry shopping bags stuffed with belongings over their shoulders. Some carry toddlers. The migrants typically walk a short distance through tribal lands and surrender to agents, expecting to be released to pursue their immigration cases.
Meanwhile, Mexicans made up 35% of all border encounters from October through July, higher than three years ago but well below the 85% reported in 2011 and the 95% at the turn of the century.
In theory, the rule that denies migrants the right to seek asylum on grounds of preventing spread of COVID-19 applies to all nationalities. But in practice, Title 42 is enforced largely for migrants who are accepted by Mexico, which agreed to take in people expelled from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, as well as its own citizens.
It is difficult for the U.S. to send others to their home countries due to costs, strained diplomatic relations and other considerations.
“The challenge is what Mexico can accept,” Modlin said. “That’s always going to be a limiting factor.”
In Yuma, Title 42 has become almost nonexistent, with the pandemic rule being applied in only 192 of 24,424 stops in July — less than 1%. In Tucson, it was used in 71% of stops. A court order has kept Title 42 in place indefinitely.
It is unclear why routes are so divergent. U.S. officials believe inhospitable mountains and canyons near Tucson favor people trying to escape detection, while the ease of crossing in places like Yuma makes those paths better suited for families seeking to surrender.
“What we know with absolute certainty is that the smuggling organizations control the flow,” Modlin said. “They decide who goes where and when they go to the point. It’s almost like air traffic control of moving people around.”
In Yuma, groups of up to about two dozen migrants are dropped off by bus or car on a deserted Mexican highway and then begin arriving shortly after midnight at the edge of the imposing wall built during Donald Trump’s presidency.
If English and Spanish fail, agents use Google Translate to question them under generator-powered lights, take photos and load them onto buses.
Migrants arrive over several hours on different paths, sparking concern among agents that smugglers may be trying to confuse them to sneak some through undetected.
One recent morning, six Russians said they flew from Istanbul to Tijuana, Mexico, with a stop in Cancun, and hired a driver to take them four hours to the deserted highway where they crossed.
A 26-year-old man who flew from his home in Peru to Tijuana said the most difficult part of the journey was the anxiety about whether he’d make it to his destination in New Jersey.
Nelson Munera, 40, said he, his wife and their 17-year-old son got off a bus on the highway and crossed to Yuma because fellow Colombians had taken the same route.
Lazaro Lopez, who came with his 9-year-old son from Cuba by flying to Nicaragua and crossing Mexico over land, chose Yuma because that’s where his smuggler guided him.
“An opportunity presented itself,” said Lopez, 48.
The Border Patrol drops off hundreds of migrants each day at the Regional Center for Border Health, a clinic near Yuma that charters six buses daily to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Migrants are released on humanitarian parole or with a notice to appear in immigration court.
The clinic began the airport shuttles for migrants in February 2021 and recently added buses to Washington, paid for by the state of Arizona.
“We have seen families from over 140 countries,” said Amanda Aguirre, the health-care provider’s chief executive officer. “We haven’t seen one from Mexico, not through our processing.”
The shift is also evident on the Mexican side of the border.
The Don Chon migrant shelter in nearby San Luis Rio Colorado fills many of its roughly 50 beds with Central Americans who were expelled under Title 42.
Kelvin Zambrano, 33, who arrived in a large group of Hondurans, said he fled threats of extortion and gang violence. Border Patrol agents wouldn’t let him share his story, he said.
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Which heated blanket is best?
When the weather turns cold, there’s nothing better than getting cozy with a heated blanket. Most offer a range of heat settings, so you can find the perfect temperature to keep you toasty all night long.
The best heated blanket is the Woomer Electric Heated Blanket. It comes in two throw blanket sizes and four bed-related sizes, so you don’t have to worry about being fully covered.
What to know before you buy a heated blanket
Power source
Heated blankets can be powered by a variety of sources.
- Outlets are the most common power source as heated blankets are typically used in the home. These shouldn’t be used for traveling purposes.
- 12-volt blankets are designed for use on the road, such as for backup emergency use or if your heater is broken. They are also commonly used in RVs.
- USB blankets are the best option for those who want to use them both at home and while traveling. USB ports are commonly found on planes and in cars, plus you can use a USB to outlet adapter for use at home and in the airport. Some USB heated blankets have an additional USB port that you can use to charge your phone while you warm up.
Temperature
Heated blankets all have different temperature settings and ranges. The cheapest blankets have neither and are instead just off or on, though most blankets at the very least have low, high and sometimes medium settings. Better blankets can have up to 10 settings or even let you choose a temperature from its available range.
Most will heat up to at least 80 degrees, but more powerful blankets can heat up past 100 degrees.
Size
Most heated blankets are roughly 50 by 60 inches to resemble a standard throw blanket. Some blankets may add or subtract 10 inches, give or take a few more.
There are also bed-sized blankets that match the dimensions of standard mattresses to help you sleep.
What to look for in a quality heated blanket
Battery
Some heated blankets have rechargeable batteries, either as the sole power source or for use in cases where you have no power. If you want a heated blanket for emergencies, make sure it has one.
Cord length
It’s no use having a heated blanket if the power cable is too short to reach your preferred place of rest. On the flip side, having a blanket with too long of a cord increases the odds of tangles. As such, it’s best to grab a cable that’s only a little longer than you need.
Cords can be as short or shorter than 5 feet or as long as 20 feet (sometimes longer).
How much you can expect to spend on a heated blanket
They can cost as little as $25 or as much as $150. Small-sized and low-temperature blankets shouldn’t cost more than $50, while the average blanket costs $50-$100. The largest bed-sized blankets typically cost $100-plus.
Heated blanket FAQ
How do I clean a heated blanket?
A. That depends whether it’s machine-safe or not. And despite the wiring, many are. Either way, always start the cleaning process by disconnecting all external wiring.
- If it isn’t machine-safe, the next step is to check your blanket’s care instructions. Some blankets can be soaked, others need to be carefully spot cleaned. After either situation, hang it up to dry.
- If it is machine-safe, double-check its washer and dryer temperature and cycle requirements and run it through them. Don’t wash or dry it with anything else, clean it alone.
Are heated blankets safe?
A. Like anything that draws power, it’s perfectly safe as long as it’s used appropriately. Appropriate use for heated blankets means:
- Making sure the power source isn’t loosely connected.
- Turning it off if it gets wet and not using it again until fully dry.
- Not leaving it on and unattended.
- Replacing it if it gets damaged or when it wears out.
- Not sitting on it, but under it.
- Storing it carefully.
- Not using one if you’re insensitive to heat.
What’s the best heated blanket to buy?
Top heated blanket
Woomer Electric Heated Blanket
What you need to know: This is packed with features to make finding the perfect temperature a dream.
What you’ll love: It has 10 heat levels with larger sizes having two zones so those sharing a bed can have a personalized temperature. The cord is 19 feet long. There’s a timed auto-off feature that can be set for up to 12 hours in 30-minute increments.
What you should consider: A few consumers noted it as being light and thin; it can slide off your bed at night and some could feel the internal wiring.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top heated blanket for the money
Degrees of Comfort Electric Throw Blanket
What you need to know: This is a great budget option for those who only need a heated blanket occasionally.
What you’ll love: It comes in three sizes, two of which include pockets to slide your feet into, and in eight colors. There are three heat settings and an indicator light. The cord is 6 feet long and the blanket is machine-washable and -dryable.
What you should consider: It shouldn’t be used for travel as it’s only designed to handle house-based electrical sources. Some customers had theirs die quickly, but it has a five-year warranty.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is an excellent car-based blanket for daily comfort and emergencies.
What you’ll love: It has an indicator light and is made of polar fleece. The cord is 8 feet long.
What you should consider: It’s only available in solid black.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which watercolor paint set is best?
Whether you take up painting as a child or later in life as an adult, watercolors are a great place to start. They are not only the easiest paints to work with, but are inexpensive, too. Unlike oil and acrylic paints, watercolors need no canvases because they are made to paint on special paper designed to absorb just the right amount of moisture.
If you’re just starting out, take a look at the Sakura Koi Pocket Field Sketch Box, which packs 30 watercolors into an all-in-one kit that comes in its own plastic case.
What to know before you buy a watercolor paint set
Watercolor paint sets include paints and a brush. Beginning watercolorists want a simple set of paints and brushes. Students want more brushes, more colors and the right paper to paint on. Artists take great care in selecting their brushes and papers.
Quality
The three levels of painting skills are beginner, student and artist.
- Beginners are new to watercolors. Paint sets for beginning artists should be small, simple and inexpensive. If they find they enjoy painting with watercolors, they’ll soon want to move on to better paints and brushes. If they don’t, little has been lost.
- Students are actively seeking to learn more and improve their watercoloring skills. They want more colors, more brushes and drawing pads.
- Artists are skilled at painting with watercolors and likeliest to buy their paints and brushes separately to get exactly the materials and tools they need.
Colors
All painters mix colors to get the exact shade, tone and intensity they want in their paintings, and watercolor artists are no exception. The more paint you have, the more colors you can make by combining them. Think of watercolor paint sets like a box of crayons: bigger sets give you more artistic freedom and more ways to express what you see.
What to look for in a quality watercolor paint set
Cake pans vs. paint tubes
- Cake pans are the traditional way watercolor paints are made. Dried paints the size of pats of restaurant butter sit in shallow wells. They are difficult to mix and stir with your brushes. They are also runny, easy to cross-contaminate and often crack as they dry.
- Paint tubes are more expensive, but they are easier to use, easier to clean and come in more vibrant colors. They look like tiny toothpaste tubes with caps that seal so they don’t dry out.
Four things watercolorists want
Brushes
The quality of brushes that come in budget paint sets is as low as their prices. You can upgrade your watercoloring skills with professional-quality brushes.
Paper
Paper that’s too absorbent lets colors bleed together and turn muddy. Watercolors on paper that isn’t absorbent enough don’t stick to the paper. So look for premium paper.
Easel
When you have an easel to place your sketchpad upon, you can hold your brush with one hand and your palette with the other. Look for an easel that is lightweight but sturdy, adjusts to different heights and folds easily for taking along with you.
Palette
The idea behind a palette is that you don’t need all your colors all of the time. Choose a palette that is lightweight, easy to hold and has a snug-fitting lid.
How much you can expect to spend on a watercolor paint set
Depending upon the number of colors and brushes and any extras included, beginner sets cost $10-$20, student sets $20-$40 and artist sets $40-$100 or more.
Watercolor paint set FAQ
Can I mix cake pan and tube paints?
A. If you mean can you use them in the same painting, yes. Mixing tube paints with cake pan paints will only dull their vibrancy, so avoid mixing the two.
How do I take care of watercolor paint brushes?
A. Start by not grinding your paintbrush into your paint wells, the way most brushes get damaged. Rinse often while you’re painting. When you’re ready to put your brushes away, rinse them until the water is clear, pat them dry with a soft cloth and don’t put them away until they are completely dry.
What’s the best watercolor paint set to buy?
Top watercolor paint set
Sakura Koi Pocket Field Sketch Box
What you need to know: This set of 30 assorted non-toxic cake pan watercolors is organized into an all-in-one kit that comes in a plastic case.
What you’ll love: One of the inner compartments is removable so you can use it as a palette when you’re out in the field painting nature. The back has a pull-down ring for easy handling while you paint with the two-piece brush.
What you should consider: The case is too large to fit in a pocket.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top watercolor paint set for the money
Winsor and Newton Watercolor Pocket Box
What you need to know: Twelve colors and a brush come in this compact case not much bigger than a paperback book.
What you’ll love: The mixing palette is built into the lid and the colors are spelled out in English, French and Spanish. The paints are made from earths, metals and petroleum distillates and come in cake pans. This is one of the few watercolor sets that includes white paint.
What you should consider: Some say the brush is too small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Risebrite Watercolor Paint Set for Adults
What you need to know: This artist-level set comes with 24 non-toxic colors and 12 high-quality nylon brushes.
What you’ll love: You also get a 9- by 12-inch sketchpad, a pencil with eraser and sharpener, a small roll of masking tape and a 20-well palette. The watercolors come in paint tubes with vibrant colors and the brushes have a dozen shapes for creating different effects.
What you should consider: Each tube contains less than half a fluid ounce of paint.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Sunday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway was the first race of the NASCAR Playoffs with three Toyota Camry TRD drivers starting their march towards competing for this year’s championship. Two of those drivers – Denny Hamlin (second) and Christopher Bell (fifth) both earned top-five finishes while Bubba Wallace (ninth) also scored a top-10 finish as he is competing for the owner’s championship in the No. 45 Camry for 23XI Racing. Kyle Busch, who is also competing in this year’s Playoffs won the second stage of the race and led a total of 155 laps (of 367) before his engine expired with less than 30 laps remaining in the race. Fellow Toyota teammate, Martin Truex Jr. also led 48 laps of the race before also experiencing engine issues forcing an early end to his race.
Toyota Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Cup Series (NCS)
Darlington Raceway
Race 27 of 36 – 501.3 miles, 367 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Erik Jones*
2nd, DENNY HAMLIN
3rd, Tyler Reddick*
4th, Joey Logano*
5th, CHRISTOPHER BELL
9th, BUBBA WALLACE
15th, TY GIBBS
31st, MARTIN TRUEX JR.
30th, KYLE BUSCH
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
Was there anything you could have done in the closing laps to get around Erik Jones?
“Not without contact. Last night in the Xfinity race, there was like two-and-a-half minutes of fall off in the last 15-lap run and I think it was about a second for us in a 15-lap run. The speeds are so fast and so much on-throttle time, it’s just an air game. Erik (Jones) just did a great job. I also have to thank Sport Clips, sorry I couldn’t run the Xfinity race yesterday. Always proud to always carry the Sport Clips colors here at Darlington. Just a great day for Erik and a great day for our team.”
Were you concerned when you saw the 19 and the 18 have engine issues in the closing laps?
“We can’t come in and change the engine and we’re not going to give up track position so there’s nothing we’re going to do about it to fix something even if it’s obvious anyway. That late in the race, I just looked at it and said it was a tough one for those guys obviously. It’s a bummer, but there’s nothing I’m going to change in the car so I just concentrate on doing the best I can as the driver.”
How much more did you need on the final run to try to catch Erik Jones?
“Just tried to get the wheels to slide or spin on entry. Tried to do everything I could to get the car to respond with the front, but just a lot tighter than what we had been all day. I think Kyle (Busch) said he had the same thing. Might have just been a track thing, but overall we weren’t great on short run, but obviously we were good on the long run. Just needed that thing to go green.”
How were your pit stops overall tonight?
“We had some good ones, we had some bad ones and then we had some good ones again at the end, which is where you need them. We got fortunate on the one cycle where it went long and we got a caution. It allowed us to gain some of that track position back. Just not enough, but congratulations to Erik Jones, that’s pretty awesome.”
CHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 Yahoo Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 5th
How do you feel about your race overall tonight?
“Overall, a good points day, but just disappointed. Our Camrys were super-fast, but I don’t know, just whenever you have your teammates that are running one, two, three and you’re struggling to get up there and race with them, it’s disappointing. Overall, good day and it’s a good way to start this Playoff stretch and hopefully we can continue the momentum.”
Were you able to make passes during the race or was that challenging tonight?
“I don’t know if anybody could pass exceptional, but our teammates could make their way to the front so I’m disappointed with fifth just because of how strong our teammates were and we were always kind of back there always in that outside of the top-five range. Caught a couple bad breaks, but a couple good ones at the end and ended up fifth with some stage points. Overall a good day for the Yahoo Camry and we’ll try and build on this and continue the momentum into Kansas.”
How worried were you when you saw what happened to the 18 and 19 in the closing laps with both experiencing engine issues?
“It wasn’t ideal, that’s for sure. Especially after Richmond when we saw Ty Gibbs have an engine issue and then myself and Kyle (Busch) both had engine issues at Watkins Glen. It’s definitely on the back of our minds, but I have all the faith in the world that the guys at TRD will get it figured out and we’ll keep it rolling.”
BUBBA WALLACE, No. 45 Root Insurance Toyota Camry TRD, 23XI Racing
Finishing Position: 9th
How was your race today overall?
“All in all, a decent day for our Root Toyota Camry team. Just have to get better at calling the adjustments and getting on top of our balance to stay ahead of the curve. All in all, just proud to come out of here with a finish. Good car for us, just have to keep on trucking onto Kansas.”
TY GIBBS, No. 23 Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD, 23XI Racing
Finishing Position: 15th
How was your race car overall tonight?
“We were really fast when the sun was setting but needed to make some different adjustments to keep our Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD fast into the night. The team did a good job, but we were just a little off tonight.”
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 30th
What happened in the closing laps of the race that ended your evening?
“Engine broke. Just unfortunate circumstances for us tonight. The guys did a great job and brought a really fast M&M’s Toyota Camry. Just real proud of the effort. All the stuff the guys have done and gone through – just all the news and everything that’s going on all year. They’ve dug in and never given up and continue. Just had a great car and don’t have anything to show for it. That’s what I really, really hate about it.”
How are you feeling right now?
“I don’t know. The sun will come up tomorrow.”
After such a dominant performance in the race, what happened that ended your night early?
“The engine broke. We were obviously leading a lot of laps and had a really fast car. Proud of the guys and their fight. The guys on pit road tonight were awesome. Had a lot of fun being up front, leading laps like that and show what we’re made of. I just hate that we can’t finish with the points we need.”
MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 31st
What did you feel in the engine before your race was over?
“I lost power steering and the car started overheating real quick and losing power. Kicked some belts off or something. Thanks to all my guys and everybody at JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing), TRD, everybody at Bass Pro for supporting us all year. It’s been tough and this is another tough night for sure, but we’ll come back next week and fight again.”
How would you describe your emotions right now?
“Just mad. Upset, angry. We deserve better and no matter what we do this year it seems wrong. When we run good, stuff goes wrong and when we run bad, nothing happens. Just one of those years that we can’t get anything to go our way. It’s about the fifth time I should have won this race and I’ve only won it once so pretty pissed off.”
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In a race that had more twists and turns than a Victorian melodrama, Erik Jones put the vaunted No. 43 Chevrolet back in Victory Lane for the first time since 2014.
In a remarkable run to the finish in the season’s first NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race, Jones held off Denny Hamlin in a 20-lap run to the finish to win the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway for the second time.
The Sunday night race took its toll on more than a handful of Playoff drivers, as Jones became the first non-Playoff driver to win the first postseason event since NASCAR introduced the elimination format in 2014.
The victory was Jones’ first of the season, the third of his career, and the first for Petty GMS Racing since that organization was former by merger before the 2022 campaign. The win was No. 200 for the 43 car number, which NASCAR Hall of Famer and car owner Richard Petty drove to seven series championships.
“Richard hasn't been to Victory Lane at Darlington probably since he last won here,” said Jones, referencing Petty’s 1967 victory in the Southern 500. “It's just awesome. Just so proud of these guys, Petty GMS and (sponsor) Focus Packer Crew.
“We've been so close all year, and I didn't think today was going to be the day. It was going to be a tough one to win, I knew, but no better fitting place. I love this track. I love this race. On that trophy twice, man. I was pumped to be on it once, but to have it on there twice—pretty cool.”
The victory was the first in the Cup Series for crew chief Dave Elenz. Jones won his first Southern 500 in 2019, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing but was released after the 2020 season in favor of Christopher Bell. On Sunday night, Jones held off a former teammate in Hamlin, who ran out of time in his pursuit of Jones and finished in the runner-up spot, .252 seconds behind the race winner.
“Well, I mean, I never lost any belief in myself through any of it,” Jones said. “I knew I could still do it, and I just knew we needed to grow the program to do it, and we have. We've brought on a lot of great people in the last year. Dave Elenz called a great race today. His first Cup win—that's pretty cool for him.
“I'm excited, man. We've been talking about this day a long time, and it is redemption in a lot of ways. Very fitting that it's here at this race again. I felt like this was the race that saved my job the first time around, and coming back here with this win, I guess it puts you back on the map.”
Tyler Reddick ran third, followed by pole winner Joey Logano, who vaulted to the top of the Playoff standings, six points clear of second-place William Byron, who finished eighth on Sunday.
Jones got his chance at the front of the field when Kyle Busch, who had led a race-high 155 laps, suffered a blown engine as he prepared for the final restart. Busch had inherited the top spot when his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr., suffered a similar failure on Lap 333 of 367.
But those retirements barely scratched the surface of the drama that unfolded throughout the race. Disaster befell Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick. Kyle Larson and his team accomplished an amazing salvage job.
And the Playoff picture remained just as uncertain as it had been entering the grueling 500-mile contest at the Lady in Black.
After a catastrophic Playoff opener, Elliott, the regular-season champion, is the series leader no more.
Elliott spun sideways in Turn 2 on Lap 113—two laps short of the end of Stage 1—cracked the back of his No. 9 Chevrolet and slid down the track into the path of Chase Briscoe, who couldn’t avoid the collision.
Elliott nursed his car to pit road where his team tried in vain to repair the damage, but with the right rear toe link and upper and lower control arms broken, the task was hopeless. The 10-minute time allotment under NASCAR’s damaged vehicle policy ran out, and Elliott retired from the race in last place (36th).
The 15-point advantage Elliott carried into the Playoffs was gone. Elliott scored the minimum one point for his efforts at Darlington and fell to ninth in the Playoff standings, 14 points ahead of 16th-place finisher Austin Cindric in 13th.
“I just hit the wall in (Turns) 1 and 2 and broke something in the right-rear,” Elliott said succinctly. And how would he approach the next Playoff race at Kansas Speedway? “A lot better than we did today.”
A solid run by 2014 series champion Harvick went up in flames on Lap 275. As he lost speed while running ninth, Harvick radioed to his crew, “My rocker panel’s on fire.”
Flames erupted on both sides of the car. Harvick parked the No. 4 Ford on the apron and scrambled from his smoke-filled cockpit. Harvick exited the race in 33rd place and dopped to the bottom rung of the Playoff standings, 13 points below the current cut line.
Larson, the reigning series champion, brought his car to pit road on Lap 79, sensing his engine was about to expire. He lost three laps as his team worked under the hood of the No. 5 but returned to the track and the “gremlins” disappeared after a few laps.
Using wave-arounds and his status as beneficiary under caution to advantage, Larson regained the lead lap and finished 12th, averting a major hit in the standings.
Notes: The last driver to win a race in the No. 43 was Aric Almirola, who took the car to Victory Lane on July 6, 2014 at Daytona… Logano led the first 37 laps from the pole and 64 overall, but an issue with the left front tire cost him valuable time during a green-flag pit stop on Lap 75, and he never regained the track position he lost… Ross Chastain lost a lap when he returned to pit road for an unscheduled stop on Lap 160 to address a loose wheel. He finished 20th, one lap down… Cindric, Austin Dillon, Briscoe and Harvick are the four drivers below the current cut line with two races left in the Round of 16. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72644-erik-jones-holds-off-denny-hamlin-in-action-filled-southern-500 | 2022-09-05T21:54:03Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72644-erik-jones-holds-off-denny-hamlin-in-action-filled-southern-500 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
17th
13th
14th
“Tonight, we wanted it all with the BetMGM Chevy and we didn’t get that, but there are some positives to our race at Darlington Raceway. Our BetMGM Chevy was tight from the word "go.” During the middle of the race, we had something that was decent, but it was too loose at the end and, overall, not great. I just wish we would’ve brought something a little better than that. The positive is that we're not last in points anymore. We made some improvements on the point situation so it was a decent night because of that. We’re just going to have to bring a better hot rod to Kansas Speedway and keep trying to advance to the next round of the NASCAR Playoffs.”
-Austin Dillon
Tyler Reddick and the No. 8 Lenovo Chevrolet Earn Top-Three Finish at Darlington Raceway
3rd
4th
5th
“We were battling a lot tonight in the Lenovo Chevrolet at Darlington Raceway. My cool suit went out, I was battling a tight race car, and I even needed a pep talk from my crew chief and spotter at one point during the race. I just couldn’t quite put the whole race together. I feel like I didn’t do a good job getting into the box tonight. I was a little inconsistent, so I wish I could have been better there. Last time we were here, I felt like I was pretty good at that, so I just got to figure out what changed. There’s always something to be learned. All things considered, it turned out okay. At one point we were in a pretty tight spot. I think Ty Gibbs, Austin Cindric and myself got sandwiched together off of the wall in Turn 4, so to rebound like we did and get third out of it was a really good night. It’s what we needed in the NASCAR Playoffs. Certainly, when you’re that close and one spot away on the restart from having the lead it stinks. We’ll head to Kansas and try for a win.”
-Tyler Reddick
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TOP TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL TOP-20 RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
1st ERIK JONES, NO. 43 FOCUSFACTOR CAMARO ZL1
3rd TYLER REDDICK, NO. 8 LENOVO CAMARO ZL1
8th WILLIAM BYRON, NO. 24 VALVOLINE CAMARO ZL1
10th ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1
12th KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1
17th AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 BETMGM CAMARO ZL1
18th DANIEL SUAREZ, NO. 99 JOCKEY CAMARO ZL1
19th JUSTIN HALEY, NO. 31 LEAFFILTER GUTTER PROTECTION CAMARO ZL1
20th ROSS CHASTAIN, NO. 1 WORLDWIDE EXPRESS CAMARO ZL1
TOP FIVE UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
1st Erik Jones (Chevrolet)
2nd Denny Hamlin (Toyota)
3rd Tyler Reddick (Chevrolet)
4th Joey Logano (Ford)
5th Christopher Bell (Toyota)
TEAM CHEVY POST-RACE NOTES AND QUOTES:
ERIK JONES, NO. 43 FOCUSFACTOR CAMARO ZL1 - Race Winner
Erik Jones does it a second time and puts Petty GMS and the 43 in Victory Lane. How about that? Of all places to do it, Erik, you put the 43 in Victory Lane at Darlington. What does that mean to you to put Richard Petty in Victory Lane tonight?
“I get a hat. He told me I get a hat if I win.
But Richard hasn't been to Victory Lane at Darlington probably since he last won here. It's just awesome. Just so proud of these guys, Petty GMS and FOCUSfactor Crew. We've been so close all year, and I didn't think today was going to be the day. It was going to be a tough one to win, but no better fitting place. I love this track; I love this race. On that trophy twice, man. I was pumped to be on it once, but to have it on there twice, pretty cool.”
I've got to ask you about the final few laps. How in the world did you hold off Denny Hamlin and how much were you driving out of the rear view mirror or the windshield?
“Man, I was focused forward. Honestly that's the calmest I've been in the race car going for a win ever, really. I think back to the last time winning here and I was driving my guts out; my nerves were pounding, my stomach was hurting, and today it was just business as usual.
Just feel good about this track and knew Denny (Hamlin) would run me clean. I knew it was going to be tough for him to pass. It was tough to pass all day, and we got a good restart there.
But man, so proud of everybody. Just what a dream come true. That's all you can say.”
What sort of redemption is this for you; let go by Joe Gibbs Racing, these guys took a chance on you and they put you in the 43. Now you've put them in Victory Lane.
“Well, I never lost any belief in myself through any of it. I knew I could still do it. I just knew we needed to grow the program to do it and we have. We've brought on a lot of great people in the last year. Dave Elenz (crew chief) called a great race today. His Cup win; that's pretty cool for him.
I'm excited, man. We've been talking about this day a long time, and it is redemption in a lot of ways. Very fitting that it's here at this race again. I felt like this was the race that saved my job the first time around; and coming back here with this win, I guess it puts you back on the map.”
You seem almost like you're in disbelief yourself.
“Well, we had a lot of good stuff go our way. We got the lead there with the 18 (Kyle Busch) losing a motor. And man, we've got a good shot if we can just get clear. We had a good car, we just weren't quite with the pace of some of those guys up front. And I knew -- we took the lead, I'm like 20 laps, I can just run hard, and those last two I was losing the balance a lot. I had been running really hard, but it was just enough. So just really proud.”
TYLER REDDICK, NO. 8 LENOVO CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd
Battling a lot out there. I know your cool suit went out; you needed a pep talk from Randall (Burnett, crew chief) at one point and then just a tight race car. What was the biggest thing that was keeping you from Victory Lane here tonight?
“I just couldn't quite put the whole race together. I didn't do a good job of getting in the box tonight. I just felt a little inconsistent. Ultimately I wish I could have been better there. Last time we were here, I felt like I was pretty good at that.
Just have to figure out what exactly changed. Always something to be learned; but considering all things, at one point we were in a pretty tough spot. I think Ty Gibbs, (Austin) Cindric and myself kind of got sandwiched together and got in the wall off (turn) 4. So to rebound like we did and get third out of it, it was a really good night. It's what we needed in the playoffs; what we didn't have here last year. So to get that tonight is great, but certainly when you're that close and one spot away on a restart from having the lead, it certainly always stings.
More from Reddick on his race:
“We all had to work really, really hard on this No. 8 Lenovo Chevy. It always stings a little bit when you’re that close, especially here at Darlington. The last two races, we’ve been that close and haven’t gotten it done.
All-in-all, a good night for our No. 8 Lenovo Chevy. A year ago today, and two years ago when we ran this race, we would just fall apart throughout the night. At times, it looked like we were going to do that again. But we recovered, we bounced back. We stuck true to what we knew was our race car. We decided to fight around it with some other ideas and it worked out. Really good start to the playoffs for us.”
KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 12th
Can we start with the engine.. do you have any idea what was going on with it?
“No, nothing. It felt like it was blowing up. It sounded funny off of (turn) two for a lap and by the time I got back around, it was really laying down. People are passing me, and I was kind of pulling down and letting people go. We pitted and nothing looked funny. We went back out and it kind of ran crappy for a few laps, and then kind of cleared itself out and it was fine the rest of the race. So, I don’t know yet what it was. If it was fuel pressure, my dash would have been lighting up. So, I don’t know if it was something electrical for a quick second or what. I am sure when they plug in the data, they will learn the whole story. I am just glad that it wasn’t terminal, and we were able to get back out there and fight back from three laps down.
We got back to the lead lap by the third stage. I was hoping for a better result, but we restarted like 30th every time, we were just trapped in dirty air and my balance wasn’t great. Finally there at the end, we were going to have some decent track position, but I wasn’t sure if we had a lug nut tight and we decided to pit to be safe rather than giving up 20 spots for more. So, pretty bummed about it, but also happy at the same time because I thought we were going to have another DNF. So, I just hope they just learn what happened and we can cure the problem.”
AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 BETMGM CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 17th
The way the race started, this could be considered a small victory.
“Yeah, for sure. We just didn’t have it tonight. We were tight from the start and in the middle of the race, we had something that was decent and then it flip flopped to loose.
Our No. 3 BetMGM Chevy wasn’t great, but we are not last in points right now and we made some improvements on the points situation. We just need to bring a better hot rod to Kansas (Speedway) and go get it from there.”
DANIEL SUAREZ, NO. 99 JOCKEY CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 18th
So many playoff drivers had issues tonight, including Ross (Chastain) and Kyle (Larson).
“I have no idea. I haven’t watched the replay, but heard they had issues.”
Obviously you started at the back and made your way forward, and didn’t succumb to those issues.
“My 99 Jockey Camaro ZL1 was good and felt like the pit crew did a really good job. I just made a mistake and sped on pit road. That shouldn’t happen.”
ROSS CHASTAIN, NO. 1 WORLDWIDE EXPRESS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 20th
Ross Chastain had a bizarre drive pin issue that put you a number of laps down. How did you still remain focused to finish this race?
“Just stayed in my bubble and kept my world small. It’s what we prepare for.. for moments like that. It’s not in my control. It’s a freak deal that we haven’t had happen in the whole time we’ve had this car, so it took me awhile to describe what was happening. To me, it felt like the left rear was just low on air.
Our No. 1 Worldwide Express Chevrolet team came back from four laps down, to be one lap down at the end and plenty fast enough to fight with these guys. It’s so cool to race in the Cup Series at Darlington (Raceway), let alone go fast. To come back to 20th and fight the way we fought is just a testament to this team.”
TEAM CHEVY RACE QUICK NOTES
Stage One:
· Just six laps into Race #1 of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 16, precipitation began to fall, forcing the race to go under yellow flag conditions.
· Daniel Suarez, who had to serve a pass through penalty at the beginning of the race due to pre-race inspection, was the first car one lap down; receiving the ‘lucky dog’ to put the No. 99 Jockey Camaro ZL1 back on the lead lap.
· The competition caution flew at lap 35, with William Byron leading the bowtie brigade in the running order in the third position. Coming down pit road for a four tire and fuel stop; the No. 24 Valvoline Camaro ZL1 pit crew gained Byron one spot on pit road to give the team a front row restart position.
· Byron powered his No. 24 Valvoline Camaro ZL1 around Joey Logano for the lead on lap 77. As green flag pit stops began to cycle through, Byron retained the lead.
· 2022 NCS Regular-Season Champion, Chase Elliott, was involved in an incident on lap 113, which ultimately ended the stage. Under the 10-minute DVP clock, the No. 9 NAPA / Children’s Camaro ZL1 ran out of time to make repairs, forcing the team to retire early from the race.
· Byron went on to take the Stage One win, marking his fourth stage win of 2022.
· Team Chevy: Stage One Top-10
1st William Byron, Valvoline Camaro ZL1
6th Ross Chastain, No. 1 Worldwide Express Camaro ZL1
7th Tyler Reddick, No. 8 Lenovo Camaro ZL1
8th Erik Jones, No. 43 FOCUSfactor Camaro ZL1
Stage Two:
· Team Chevy: Stage Two Top-10
5th William Byron, No. 24 Valvoline Camaro ZL1
7th Alex Bowman, No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1
8th Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Jockey Camaro ZL1
9th Erik Jones, No. 43 FOCUSfactor Camaro ZL1
Post-Race Notes:
· Erik Jones drove his No. 43 FOCUSfactor to victory lane in the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, marking his third career win in NASCAR’s premier series.
· The win marks the first for Chevrolet team, Petty GMS, since entering the NASCAR Cup Series.
· Jones is the ninth different Chevrolet driver to score a NASCAR Cup Series victory in 2022.
· In 27 NASCAR Cup Series races this season, Chevrolet has recorded a manufacturer-leading 16 wins, with Petty GMS becoming the fourth different Chevrolet team to score a victory.
· The winningest brand in NASCAR Cup Series history; Chevrolet now has 830 all-time NASCAR Cup Series victories.
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No. 2 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – Austin Cindric
Start: 6th
Race Finish: 16th
Stage 1 Finish: 13th
Stage 2 Finish: 21st
Laps Led: 0
Point Standings: 13th (-38)
Race Rundown: Austin Cindric and the No. 2 Discount Tire team set out for their first Southern 500 outing together at the historic Darlington Raceway, recording a 16th-place finish. Cindric showed the power of his Ford Mustang from the start of the weekend by topping the practice charts and advancing to the final round of qualifying to notch a 6th-place starting spot. Cindric navigated the latter part of the 115-lap opening segment with a free-handling Discount Tire Mustang, finishing 13th. At the break, Cindric received a four-tire service with an air-pressure adjustment and jetted off for the onset of Stage 2. The 24-year-old driver pushed through the second segment, working to navigate the short runs. As Stage 2 concluded, Cindric crossed the line 21st and headed to the attention of the pit crew for a big swing of adjustments to aid the handling of the car. The team continued to make adjustments during pit stops over the final stretch of the crown jewel event. Ultimately, the NASCAR Cup Series rookie finished 16th and heads to Kansas Speedway 13th in the playoff standings.
Cindric’s Thoughts: “We didn’t take ourselves out of it tonight and that was certainly goal number one. I just wish we would have made more progress in the car tonight. We really struggled on the short runs and really got my lunch money taken on restarts and felt like we could hang with the rest of them on the long runs, but anytime we’d try to fix that we’d kind of just hurt the rest. It’s certainly something to learn for tonight and those restarts and I lost track position really kept killing us, but we didn’t take ourselves out of it. We were able to come away with more points than a lot of guys, so I’ll take it, but I’m certainly not satisfied with it.”
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No. 12 Menards/Moen Ford Mustang – Ryan Blaney
Start: 9th
Race Finish: 13th
Stage 1 Finish: 9th
Stage 2 Finish: 3rd
Laps Led: 0
Point Standings: 6th (-18)
Race Rundown: Ryan Blaney finished 13th in Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway driving the No. 12 Menards/Moen Ford Mustang. Blaney started ninth and quickly slipped back outside of the top-10 reporting his Ford Mustang was tight. He would manage to hold on for a ninth-place finish in Stage 1. Good service by the Menards crew gained Blaney spots on pit road. The improved balance on the Menards/Moen Ford Mustang enabled Blaney to bring home a third-place finish in Stage 2. As the final stage began, Blaney would remain around the top-five. Unfortunately, a caution during the cycle of pit stops trapped the Menards Ford a lap down. Blaney took the waive-around and raced back into the top-10. On his final stop of the day, he was forced to come back to pit road for a potential loose wheel. He would come home in the 13th position.
Blaney’s Thoughts: “The caution hit us at the wrong time, but we were going to be fine and then we had to re-pit for a wheel that was going to be loose. You can’t do that when there are 20 laps to go in the race. It’s just unfortunate, but, like I said, we stayed in it all day and got some decent stage points and at least finished.”
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No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang – Joey Logano
Start: 1st
Race Finish: 4th
Stage 1 Finish: 11th
Stage 2 Finish: 4th
Laps Led: 64
Point Standings: 1st (+6)
Race Rundown: Joey Logano and the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil team finished fourth in Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Logano started from pole position and led 64 of the opening 65 laps of the 367-lap event. He would give up the lead prior to green flag pit stops. Unfortunately, during the stop a pit miscue would cost Logano track position and he would finish Stage 1 in 11th position. Stage two would see Logano make up lost ground including a late restart where he muscled his way back to fourth position at the end of Stage 2. Logano would work his way back to second as the final stage began but would get caught a lap down as the caution came out during a cycle of pit stops. Logano restarted outside the top-10 and managed to work his way back to fourth position at race’s end.
Logano’s Thoughts: It’s a solid day but a missed opportunity is probably where I would put it. With so many others having trouble, every time you come to the Southern 500, especially in the playoffs, you’ve just got to survive, and you get a solid finish. That’s what we were able to do is finish fourth after so many teams had issues. We had plenty of our own issues, too. We gave up track position a couple times and then we got caught with that caution and lost track position fairly late in the race, and then we just battled hard. It’s really hard to come up through the field here. It’s really hard to pass and I was able to kind of battle back and get a top five out of it, which is OK. I mean, you’ve got to be happy about it because we scored a lot of points and that’s what it’s all about here in the first round, but also a missed opportunity to win the Southern 500 and I really want that one. That one stings a little bit because I think we were better than the cars in front of us if we had the air. If we were able to stay towards the front we could tune to cleaner air, instead of going in the back and trying to tune to dirty air. We just set ourselves back too far.”
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Race Winner: Erik Jones of Petty GMS (Chevrolet)
Stage 1 Winner: William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 2 Winner: Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
SHR Race Finish:
● Aric Almirola (Started 19th, Finished 11th / Running, completed 367 of 367 laps)
● Cole Custer (Started 30th, Finished 14th / Running, completed 367 of 367 laps)
● Chase Briscoe (Started 22nd, Finished 27th / Running, completed 363 of 367 laps)
● Kevin Harvick (Started 18th, Finished 33rd / Fire, completed 274 of 367 laps)
SHR Points:
● Chase Briscoe (15th with 2,019 points, 10 points below top-12 cutoff)
● Kevin Harvick (16th with 2,016 points, 13 points below top-12 cutoff)
● Aric Almirola (19th with 602 points)
● Cole Custer (24th with 475 points)
Playoff Standings (with two races to go before Round of 12):
1. Joey Logano (2,065 points) +38 points
2. William Byron (2,059 points) +32 points
3. Denny Hamlin (2,057 points) +30 points
4. Christopher Bell (2,055 points) +28 points
5. Tyler Reddick (2,050 points) +23 points
6. Ryan Blaney (2,047 points) +20 points
7. Kyle Larson (2,044 points) +17 points
8. Ross Chastain (2,042 points) +15 points
9. Chase Elliott (2,041 points) +14 points
10. Alex Bowman (2,037 points) +10 points
11. Kyle Busch (2,035 points) +8 points
12. Daniel Suárez (2,029 points) +2 points
13. Austin Cindric (2,027 points) -2 points
14. Austin Dillon (2,025 points) -4 points
15. Chase Briscoe (2,019 points) -10 points
16. Kevin Harvick (2,016 points) -13 points
SHR Notes:
● Almirola earned his 13th top-15 of the season and his eighth top-15 in 15 career NASCAR Cup Series starts at Darlington.
● This was Almirola’s second straight top-15 at Darlington. He also finished 11th in the series’ prior visit to the track in May.
● Custer earned his eighth top-15 of the season and his third top-15 in seven career NASCAR Cup Series starts at Darlington.
● This was Harvick’s first finish outside of the top-10 at Darlington in 10 years. The last time he finished outside of the top-10 was in the 2012 Southern 500 (16th).
Race Notes:
● Erik Jones won the Cook Out Southern 500 to score his third career NASCAR Cup Series victory, his first of the season and his second at Darlington. His margin over second-place Denny Hamlin was .252 of a second.
● Jones was the 17th different winner in the 27 NASCAR Cup Series races run this season.
● There were nine caution periods for a total of 58 laps.
● Only 18 of the 36 drivers in the Cook Out Southern 500 finished on the lead lap.
Sound Bites:
“We just really struggled with the balance. At the beginning of the race, we were starting off extremely tight and then we got to where we were extremely loose, and then we had nowhere to go with the 9 car (Chase Elliott) when he wrecked. That kind of killed our day, but we were able to get lucky because a lot of those guys had issues, too. It’s not the way we wanted to start the round, by any means, but we’re going to have to improve and we’re probably going to have to win. I don’t even know what the points look like, but we shouldn’t have been in that situation where we were struggling, anyway. We just couldn’t find the balance. It’s unfortunate, but we know what we’ve got to do now and that’s what we’ll try to go do.” – Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 HighPoint.com Ford Mustang
“The car started burning and as it burned the flames started coming through the dash. I ran a couple laps and then as the flames got bigger it started burning stuff up and I think right there you see all the brake fluid that was probably coming out the brakes and part of the brake line, but the fire was coming through the dash. What a disaster for no reason. We didn’t touch the wall. We didn’t touch a car and here we are in the pits with a burned up car and we can’t finish the race during the playoffs.” – Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Retro Ford Mustang
Next Up:
The next event on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule is the Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday, Sept. 11 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. The second race in the 10-race NASCAR Playoffs starts at 3 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by USA and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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· Erik Jones drove his No. 43 FOCUSfactor to victory lane in the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, marking his third career win in NASCAR’s premier series. · The win marks the first for Chevrolet team, Petty GMS, since entering the NASCAR Cup Series. · Jones is the ninth different Chevrolet driver to score a NASCAR Cup Series victory in 2022. · In 27 NASCAR Cup Series races this season, Chevrolet has recorded a manufacturer-leading 16 wins, with Petty GMS becoming the fourth different Chevrolet team to score a victory. · The winningest brand in NASCAR Cup Series history; Chevrolet now has 830 all-time NASCAR Cup Series victories. DARLINGTON, S.C. (September 4, 2022) – In the opening race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) playoffs at Darlington Raceway, it was Erik Jones and the No. 43 FOCUSfactor Camaro ZL1 team that took the spotlight, capturing the checkered flag in the Cook Out Southern 500. Victory Lane at the South Carolina venue known as the “Lady in Black” is a familiar place for the 26-year-old Michigan native, with tonight’s win marking Jones’ second win in the crown jewel race. The playoff upset win is the first for Chevrolet team Petty GMS since the organization entered NASCAR’s premier series. The victory is also a monumental feat for the iconic No. 43, with Jones’ victory giving the car number that was made famous by Richard Petty its 200th win. “Just so proud of these guys, Petty GMS and FOCUSfactor Crew,” said Jones. “We've been so close all year, and I didn't think today was going to be the day. It was going to be a tough one to win, but no better fitting place. I love this track; I love this race.” With 27 points-paying races in the books, the Camaro ZL1 has extended its manufacturer-leading NCS win count to 16 thus far this season. Chevrolet – the winningest brand in NASCAR Cup series history – now sits at 830 all-time wins in NASCAR’s premier series. Jones is the ninth Chevrolet driver to add a tally in the win category in 2022, with Petty GMS becoming the fourth different Chevrolet team to make a trip to NCS victory lane this season. Jones led the bowtie brigade to four top-10 finishes in the final running order of the race, including 2022 NCS playoff contenders Tyler Reddick, No. 8 Lenovo Camaro ZL1, in third; William Byron, No. 24 Valvoline Camaro ZL1 in eighth; and Alex Bowman, No. 48 Ally Camaro ZL1, rounding out the Team Chevy top-10. Byron – who took the stage one win and led a total of 50 laps in the race – will head into race two of three in the NCS Playoffs Round of 16 second in the playoff points standings, just six points behind the leader. Race two of the 2022 NCS playoffs will get underway next Sunday, September 11, at Kansas Speedway with the Hollywood Casino 400 at 3 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on the USA Network, the NBCSports Gold App, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90. ERIK JONES, NO. 43 FOCUSFACTOR CAMARO ZL1; DAVE ELENZ, CREW CHIEF, NO. 43 FOCUSFACTOR CAMARO ZL1; AND JOEY COHEN, COMPETITION DIRECTOR, PETTY GMS – Press Conference Transcript: THE MODERATOR: Good evening, everyone. We are going to begin our post-race media availabilities. We are now joined by members of our race-winning team. We have Joey Cohen, competition director at Petty GMS, as well as crew chief Dave Elenz. We'll start with some questions. Q. When you guys first bring over EJ it's the old car so a lot of things have changed, obviously. But now with this new car what kind of leader has Erik been in terms of directing you guys, telling you what sort of feedback y'all need to build this car to make it better to the point where it's a race winning car? DAVE ELENZ: Yeah, I think Erik is doing a good job giving us direction all year. I don't think anybody really knew what you had to have in the car to start the season, so we've definitely learned through Erik's feedback to give us direction on how to build these cars at the intermediates because at the beginning of the season we were pretty good at California, but then we kind of tapered off on all the intermediate tracks. Throughout that time, Erik never really got down on us. He kept giving us guidance, kept giving us direction to keep building that program better, which I feel we have. JOEY COHEN: Yeah, exactly what Dave said. We had to spend a lot of time -- there's not obviously a lot of on-track time. We kind of went through the off-season and did the Charlotte test, but the rules changed so many times, so many iterations from what we had in the off-season, a lot of time with engineers, a lot of time on the simulator, kind of supplementing some of these things and just trying to let Erik lead us, what does Erik need in the car, because to your point it's totally different than any race vehicle. To a lot of credit to him. He's our senior leader. He's our guy that is going to lead the engineers, lead the crew chief, lead our guys to work on the car as to what he needs. Q. There's a lot of people leading this organization that expect winning and championships, but was there a conviction that it could happen this soon? You guys come out of the gate really fast. You guys are leading laps and running up front, but were you guys expecting to get it done this soon into this process with this new car? DAVE ELENZ: For myself this season, that was my expectation, to try to get a win. Then throughout the season, working with Joey and Mike, they definitely have embraced that quite a bit. I think that was our expectation. It's hard to tell people that that's your expectation because they don't believe you, but that was definitely our internal expectation of what we were going to do this year. JOEY COHEN: Yeah, for sure. Maury Gallagher, Mike Beam, those guys, they gave us all the resources we need. We never put a timeline on it, but it's definitely something that, okay, what's the next phase, what's the next step we need to be more competitive. I think a lot of it, like I told somebody the other day, we're still hiring people. We're still hiring resources. But Dave coming in with this group, the 43 group, that's a very established group, very senior group. Those guys have been together a long time. The pit crew has been together. The mechanics have been together. Erik, all those guys were here, and just bringing Dave in and kind of plugging him in there was a huge step forward for that program, and I agree with Dave; looking at that driver, that crew chief combination, I felt like a win was surely possible this year. I think we looked at a lot of times early in the season just a lot of things didn't line up perfectly. We talk about it all the time, you've got to have a clean sheet. You've got to have great pit stops, a fast car, you've got to execute on all levels. That's what they've been working on. It's 27 races here, but they got there. I think not that there was any expectations that it had to happen this year, but the thing we stress is that Petty GMS and GMS, we want to win, and that's what we're here to do, and that's what Maury and Mike give us the capabilities to do. Q. Dave, what were you thinking about as you walked down pit road and you got the high fives and selfies and everything else? DAVE ELENZ: Yeah, that's pretty cool because I've been around a while in the Cup garage, Xfinity garage. I have a lot of friends on different teams. Won with a lot of them, worked with a lot of them, and just to be able to walk down and see all those people, person after person, congratulating me, excited for the win, knowing how hard we've worked to get that, it was really special. I think that was my favorite moment tonight, so I enjoyed it. Q. Is there anything in particular that jumped out, interaction with anybody? DAVE ELENZ: I mean, getting to see Greg and Randolph, they're both -- I've worked alongside those guys in different roles as an engineer, Xfinity, crew chief, and I feel like we kind of came up together. So those guys have both had a lot of success, and just getting to see those guys and see how excited they were for me to get my first win, that was pretty special. Q. Was that your wife on the phone you were talking to? DAVE ELENZ: Yeah, yeah. They were actually here last night, and we watched the race and went to Victory Lane and watched Noah celebrate last night. I was a little jealous that that wasn't our car, so thankfully we were able to get it done tonight. Q. Dave, coming into this year, your first year in the Cup Series, obviously the car is new, but was that any more of an advantage for you because you didn't have to unlearn the previous Cup car, so to speak? DAVE ELENZ: Yeah, definitely that was a huge advantage for me. The Xfinity cars all had flange fit panels to them. The rules are a little bit tighter on them. Definitely everything that NASCAR has done with this new car fit into me coming in this year. It's provided the opportunity for me to understand what's going on and not be -- I would have been seven years behind on what the Cup cars were because I've been out of the Cup Series for so long. I couldn't catch up to people at that point. Everybody being on a clean slate starting out definitely helped with this whole season. Q. You guys are the first non-playoff team to win the opening race of the playoffs since there's been a playoff in 2004. How special is that to just steal the thunder right out of the gate? DAVE ELENZ: I mean, it's definitely cool that we're the first ones to do it. But I think the first thing Erik said to me is, Don't you wish we won Daytona. Very special that we've done it, but definitely it's so close to being our ultimate goal. It's special, but there's a little bit more there, too. ERIK JONES: Yeah, I agree. It's awesome to win here, but at the same time, yeah, you do look at it like that a little bit. Yeah, it's hard to get attention in the playoffs when you're not a playoff guy. What better way to do it than that? It feels good. I feel like coming up we've got more good tracks. I wouldn't say this is the only race that we have a shot at ending the year out. I feel like we can win more races, and sometimes all it takes is one. I think we've gained a lot in the last six months with this race car and learned a lot, and the whole group has done a really good job. It's a big testament to the people, right, when you can win a playoff race like that. There's some deflation after Daytona when you don't achieve your goal there, and we had a great car. Things just didn't work out. I think a testament to the group. Push just as hard as bring a good piece here. Q. Dave, you had your hands full. First you come over to the 43 and then you've got to pull this thing together. You look at the instant success Trackhouse had, and Mike Beam says a lot of that is we kind of started out as a truck team, they inherited a Cup team. How do you guys get to that level so that Erik and Noah next year are battling for wins like Chastain and Suárez? DAVE ELENZ: Yeah, I mean, definitely you look at the December time frame for the two different organizations and where we were at and what was at GMS and what was at Petty's. There was not a lot there compared to a Trackhouse organization that had an active team going into it. I mean, I think the first day we had a meeting over there we had like 20 people in the team meeting, and that was pretty much everybody that was there. So we've hired a lot of people since then, worked on a lot of relationships with Chevrolet, different people, trying to get more resources in house, more tools for us to be better. It's been good throughout the season. We're making gains on it. We have higher expectations than what we're doing right now. There's plans in place to get more people, better resources. I think we're going to grow more as this season ends up, and then next year I think we're even going to be a step better. I think it's just continuing to get the right people and the right resources in there. Q. Would you guys consider this a redemptive night for Erik? DAVE ELENZ: No, I don't think it's redemptive. Obviously last year was a tough season for him. I watched from afar last year. There was races that were good, a lot that weren't great. But that's resources. That's cars that he's having to run. That's nothing to do with him. I think he believed in himself and what he's capable of. I obviously believe in that. I think it's a continuation of where he left off more than redemption. ERIK JONES: Yeah, I would agree. Obviously I was a little in a bad spot towards the end of 2020 trying to find a new home, and the 43 car became that and took me in. I knew at the start there was -- it was a long-term outlook for me at least. I was like, all right, we've got to settle in and build and figure it out. It's not like I just came in and did that. There's a lot of great people that came in and were a huge part of that, to build to where we are now. But it's just been cool to see, cool to be a part of. Coming from four-car powerhouse team like I was at to what was a single-car team last year to now a two-car team this year and building into a race-winning program now has been very -- probably the most rewarding of my racing career. This is the 20th time I've said this tonight, but I'm very happy for myself to win a race, but more proud of the group. A lot of guys tonight it was their first Cup win. Some it was their first win in anything, any series. I've been fortunate to win many races in my career, and that's been awesome, and this is an awesome race to win. Don't get me wrong; I'm super happy. But just more proud of the group and what they've brought to the table and what we've built over the last year and a half. JOEY COHEN: Yeah, Erik is a foundational guy. He's not a redemptive -- he's still got the prime of his career in front of him. When we sign to go re-sign Erik earlier this year, this was the talk about a person that's got 12, 14 more years of solid racing in him, and somebody you build a program around. We're a young organization, but we're also an experienced organization. Like he said, there's a group that came with that 43 and there was a fresh young group that came out of GMS wanting to go Cup racing. Like he said, we all didn't know what we didn't know. We just wanted to go race and we wanted to go win. That was going to take resources. That was going to take Maury Gallagher, Mike Beam, Dave Elenz, a lot of guys just believing in that and trying to get Erik where he belongs. We're not doing anything but getting him exactly where he belongs, and that's in Victory Lane every single year. THE MODERATOR: Dave, Joey, thank you guys so much for joining us. Q. Erik, there are many distinguished drivers who have had long successful careers in NASCAR who have never won one Southern 500. You've got three career wins in the Cup Series, but two of them have come in this race. A lot of people usually talk about that this is sort of a driver's track and it says a lot about a drive. What does it say to you winning twice, having this twice? ERIK JONES: Geez, it's like asking me to be braggadocios about this, man. I mean, I just really like this track. There's tracks as a driver that you're really comfortable at, feel really good about, and Darlington is one of those places for me. Here, Bristol, there's a handful of tracks in the Cup Series for me that I know going into it, if the car is close and good, we can have a shot to win. This weekend was no different. I knew we had a good car coming into it. I knew we had made some good gains and had a shot to go and run up front. I'm blessed to win this race twice. Like you said, there's guys that have never won this race, very successful guys, but such a cool trophy. I kept that one in my house for a long time the last time I won it just to see those faces and those names. That's pretty special for me to be on, and I've been a big fan of the history of the sport for all my life, as a kid growing up and even until today. But just love this place, love the racing here. I love this race specifically. I feel like when we started coming here in the spring, I run okay in the spring race, feel like we're always a top-10 car, but I feel like this is the race I always have circled, from the length of it to the transition from day to night, just every bit of it I love. Q. Kind of on the redemptive note, I know how proud you were and excited to be able to make it to the Cup Series and to be able to do it with a big team at Joe Gibbs Racing and it didn't play out the way you wanted it to. There were good moments, but as a whole. When it comes down that you're not coming back there again and you're trying to put a piece together to stay here at this level, was there any doubt, trepidation, fear, that you couldn't get back to this level where you're winning marquee races? ERIK JONES: You know, it's a good question. I would say I was not in desperation mode when I went to the 43 car. I was in -- the outlook I had was to build. I knew last year was going to be a tough year, and I think there was some really high hopes in the 43 camp that last year was going to be a magic year. I'm like, man, I'd love to say I can plug in and just make this car win races, but it just doesn't happen like that. Coming in, I knew it was going to take time to build. I was fortunate to have been with a winning organization and have won races in Cup and know what it takes, which was a big help for sure coming into RPM at the time and now Petty GMS. Yeah, was there times when I doubted it? Probably. I remember -- you're not supposed to tell everybody what you're doing, but my close friends, I called them and said, hey, this is what I'm doing; I've signed this deal with the 43 car. You can tell in your close friends' voices when they're like, oh, yeah, that's good, man, I'm happy for you. I'm sitting there on the phone, like yeah, yeah, yeah, and I actually was talking to one of them the other week, and he's like, you know, I was really nervous when you first told me about this deal, and to see what you guys have done this year has really proved me wrong. So yeah, there's some nerves in there at times. I think the big thing for me, I never doubted myself, man. I never found myself in a bad place. Sure, I was disappointed at times, last year, absolutely. But I never -- I cannot say there was one time where I thought, man, I just can't do this. Q. What has been your role when it comes to building this new car, leading them as a team? I talked to the guys about that earlier, but in terms of how you decide to give them feedback, the team debriefs, what is a driver's role in developing this new car? ERIK JONES: I think with this car, it's obviously -- very obviously, it's put a lot of parity into the sport, and it takes a great team for sure. Some of it has been I think on the drivers to really learn about this car and the handling and the suspension. I feel like when I ask for changes and want to work on the race car, I really try to know what I'm talking about and really try to know what we're doing in the race car, and Dave knows that and tries to share as much information as he can with me. But obviously my role I guess is trying to trying to find the right people. When we were at the end of last season and knew we were making a change as far as crew chief, obviously there's a few names you kind of put on the board like okay, these are the guys we want to go after, and Dave was the resounding guy as far as who we wanted to get. I knew as soon as we got him signed it was going to be a different season. Dave is a sharp guy. He's got the kind of background I like. He's got the approach I like, the demeanor I like, and he was just really the guy that we've been looking for in the Cup Series. He was just the kind of guy I wanted to work with. He's been a bigger game changer than what I could ever bring to the table. Q. Erik, Joey Logano said that this to him, the Southern 500, is the longest and the toughest race. Obviously the Coke 600 is pretty long, but he said this one is the toughest. He said for you, you should be proud of yourself. Then when he realized this is your second one, he went, sheesh. So what does that mean to hear other drivers just give a compliment like that? ERIK JONES: Yeah, it's cool. I mean, you always -- every person seeks respect from their peers, right. It doesn't matter what you're doing. Obviously in racing we seek it, day-to-day work. It doesn't matter what you're doing. It is cool to have that respect. I've tried to earn the respect of my competitors as a driver and as a competitor. Darlington is a tough place. Like I mentioned, though, it's just a place I've felt good about. It reminds me so much of places that I just grew up racing at. Sure, it's bigger, but it takes a lot of things that I did as a young guy racing late models to be successful. It takes a lot of those same things here. Q. I think you said in your television interview this was the calmest you've ever been running for a win. Why was that? What was different about this time? ERIK JONES: I wish I knew. I'd do it every time. To be honest, I hadn't been in position to win a race in a while, number one. But I went and ran some late-model races this year, grabbed a win at ORP against William Byron up there, and kind of got me back in the mindset like all right, got to get in the mindset of winning these races again. I went through a year where we were not in contention to win. I went to Auto Club earlier this year with a winning car and didn't win the race, and a lot of it was just because I was rusty. I was sloppy on restarts and car placement and stuff that I know I can be better at, and I was like, man, I've just got to get back in that groove. But some of it's just having been there, right? I looked back towards the other Southern 500 I won here, and that was probably harder as a driver to be honest because I ran out the -- felt like the entire last segment. We went through pit stops, racing with those guys, racing with Kyle at the end for what felt like 50 laps. This one, I'm like, all I've got to do is 20. If I can get clear, just run 20 perfect laps and it's all mine, and I guess that's why I felt so good about it. Q. I think you segued into what I was going to ask you about. As I've watched you this season, seeing the top 5s, the top 10s, at what point did you feel like that as an organization you had turned the corner and that we have a fighting chance to win? ERIK JONES: Almost right off the bat. We went to Daytona 500 and we were good, but then we went to Auto Club, the second race of the season and qualified second. We had a shot at the pole. We led laps. We were up front in contention for the win. I was like, man, this new car, like we have a shot now. From that point on, I was like, we can do it. We can win a race, non-speedway race this season. There was ups and downs. I would say probably the past three months I would have said no way we could have won this race, but the last month, we've made some good stuff and good gains on this race car where we have been good enough to win these races. You know, I guess it's been a little bit of both. The start of the season I felt good and then we went through a lull but then we've been back on it. It's a good group, man, probably the best group I've had in my career at this level as far as people, and it shows. Q. Having got the 43 back in Victory Lane; what do you think about that, and have you talked to the King yet? ERIK JONES: Yeah, I talked to him on the phone, him and Dale Inman had left earlier to go home. They said it was getting too late. They needed to go and rest. They had to drive home. Yeah, I did talk to him, and that was cool. I obviously have gotten to know the King pretty well over the last year, almost two years now, and I wish I could have seen him face to face just to see his emotion, and I will. I really would love to just sit down and watch the race with him, especially the ending there and talk about it. But it's been fun, man. With Richard, he hasn't raced in almost 30 years now, but the cars change and everything, but what doesn't really change is the mentality. It's the same. He's a racer. He won 200 races, seven championships. I mean, he knows how to get it done, so he's shared a lot of wisdom with me and has given plenty of constructive criticism, which has been good, and I've enjoyed -- it's been just cool to hear from him, just cool to hear what he thinks after watching a race what I can do better, and there's totally been things I've learned from him. Some people may not believe that, but there's been stuff that I've definitely learned from that guy. Q. One of your pit crew guys on the pit box is from nearby Irmo, about an hour and a half away, Danny Efland. What has he meant to your team? Obviously kind of a jack-of-all-trades this year for you. ERIK JONES: Yeah, Danny has been -- I laugh, him and I have a good relationship, but just so cool to get him to Victory Lane. What he's done the last year and a half has been great. He had a tough role last season. He really had a heavy load, and this year I think him and Dave have meshed super well. It was Dave's decision. He could keep Danny or let Danny go, to be honest, at the start of the season. He wanted to keep Danny, liked Danny, wanted to work with him. Him and Dave have just meshed so well. Danny has done so much work in the simulator. I make fun of him because we go to the simulator so much and he makes me go so much, but he's definitely going to continue to make me go plenty now that we've won a race together. He just does a good job. He's a smart dude. He's really got a great role in what he does as far as being a race engineer, really loves that side of it, the technical side of it, running the sim, coming up with changes, bouncing ideas off of, and he takes it very seriously. He's very serious about the racing. I like how he approaches it. He's got a similar approach when he gets to the racetrack as what I do. It's all business when you're here, and you're here to race and you're here to win, and Danny has done a great job. Q. I'm sure you were as congenial a teammate at Gibbs as you can possibly be in this sport. Was it at all maybe a little odd that you're trying to chase down Martin who looks like he's got the strongest car, then you're trying to chase down Kyle, and then you're out racing Denny for the win? ERIK JONES: Yeah, I mean, they're fast, right? They're always fast. I had plenty of fast cars when I was with them. Yeah, it was funny at one point we were in the top 5 with four other JGR cars. I was kind of laughing but it's cool to get to go up there and race against those guys. At the end of the day they gave me a great home for, whatever it was, three years, and I had a great time there. I learned a ton. What I've learned there is what I've brought with me to this camp the last two years, and without that experience, I don't know that we would have ever built to this point, to be totally honest with you. I'm always thankful for what they did for me in my career early on, through trucks, Xfinity, early in Cup, and like I totally believe without them, I wouldn't have been at this point. Yeah, it was kind of funny getting to go up against those guys at the end, and when Kyle was sitting in front of me before he blew up, I was just like, man, this is just like three years ago; race against you for this one last time, and I was hoping to do it again, and Kyle has meant a lot to my career, so I was looking forward to getting to go up against him. Q. You kind of answered the question a little bit, but when the 18 and the 19 dropped out, it opened -- what was your perspective on that, and did you feel like, This is our chance? ERIK JONES: Yeah, I mean, when the 19 dropped out I was like, okay, we've got a shot. Kyle had got into the wall pretty good and I think he had some damage, enough that it was making a difference in his race car. But when the 18 blew up under yellow I was like, holy cow, this is a gift from above, right? I felt like it's a sign. I can't give it up at this point. I've never had anything like that happen in my racing career. But you've got to be there. We were in position. We were in second place before Kyle had his issue. I knew when we took the lead, I was like, geez, it's really my race to lose now. But yeah, it was crazy. I've never had anything like that happen. Q. You missed Victory Lane coming down pit road for the first time. ERIK JONES: Yeah, I did. It was funny because I was driving down the frontstretch and I was carrying the flag and enjoying everything with the fans, and I'm like, man, I know where Victory Lane is at here and everything, and I blew right past it, so I guess I'd forgot. It's been a minute. Q. Just kind of curious, Trackhouse has gotten a lot of attention this year, and you guys are kind of in that building process, as well. I'm just curious they all really believed in the philosophy of what Justin Marks was putting in. Do you feel like you're in the same position with Dave Elenz, you really wanted Dave Elenz, you got Dave Elenz. Maury has really tried to get to this point for several years. This wasn't an overnight deal for him, either. Do you see yourself getting to a point where you can build it up to have the kind of continual success that they're having? ERIK JONES: You know, yeah, I hope so. That's the ultimate goal for sure. Getting that first win is a big step for us. Maury has been building a lot of similar things as what they have, but Maury is a very quiet guy. Maury is obviously not even here tonight. I wish he was, but he doesn't like to be in the limelight. He's not flashy. He kind of just does his own deal. I appreciate that. I'm kind of the same way, so I can relate to him. It's funny, yeah, I think he's building the same stuff. He's got the same game plan. We do need to probably -- there's some stuff we need to improve on to be on the same level as what those guys are right now, but we have the potential and the people and the equipment to do the same sort of thing those guys have. Q. This win comes a week after the playoff cut. Tragically ironic, but does that make this win just a little bittersweet in a way? ERIK JONES: Yeah, I mean, yes and no. I don't look at life like that. I'm in the moment. I guess it's because I'm somewhat ADD. I just kind of roll with what's going on. I'm a little, what's ever happening is happening. But you can't dwell on what could be. Yeah, sure, it would be awesome to be two wins in a row and in the Round of 12, but I'm just proud that we've won this race at this point, and that's the way I look at it. I'm excited to celebrate with everybody. I'm proud of the group. Yeah, I mean, you can't help but think about it a little bit, but I don't dwell on it too much. Q. Erik, this is the 200th win for the No. 43. Does that add any significance to your win tonight? ERIK JONES: Yeah, it's cool for multiple reasons for me. Obviously getting No. 200 for the 43 is pretty cool, but just getting a win for the 43 in general is pretty special. It's been, I think, seven years, eight years since they last won a race, and before that a multitude of years and especially at a non-plate track, it's been 20, 30 years. Really special. As soon as I came to the 43 team, I got so many racing fans in my family. My grandma specifically was so pumped I was coming to drive the 43 car. I just could not wait to try to get a win for that group, and just wanted it, man. I wanted it more than ever. Getting them back to Victory Lane for the first time in a while has been really a dream come true today. Q. Of everything you experienced, what is most meaningful of being back in Victory Lane for you personally? ERIK JONES: Well, I guess for me personally, it's just I guess probably a lot of people counted me out. After the 20 car and leaving that, and obviously that's a very winning organization that's in contention for wins, championships week-to-week and year-to-year, I think there was a lot of people that was like, wow, he's going to run out whatever he can do with that group and he's done. I just never looked at it that way. My total view going in was to build and to -- I knew as soon as I met the group on the 43 team, which is almost all the same guys as it is today, that they had tons of potential. These are guys that have been at a few other teams but mostly the 43 group for a while. They had lots of potential. I guess the biggest thing for me that I'm proud of personally is just to see the growth. We went from a team last year that we were running 30th here last year and we blew a motor in the 500, Southern 500, and to come this year and be a top-5 car all day and then win the race, man, it's just something to be pretty proud of. Q. When you think about where you guys have come in the last nine to ten months, and obviously came out the gates quickly, is it easy to project what things could look like in nine to ten months, and if so, what does that look like potentially in your mind? ERIK JONES: Well, you don't want to go crazy. Obviously today is a great day, and we're not going to look at -- for us, our group, we're going to enjoy it, live it up for a day or two and then get back to work. For me, it's just -- we've been in contention. It's not like we just randomly won a race. There's been other days this season we've had cars good enough to win, we just haven't executed. Today, man, we hammered it. The pit crew was on it. Dave made some good calls at the end of the race. We got track position, and we made it happen. There's been other days we could have had the same or similar days. Some days things didn't go our way, some of it was bad execution, but in the future looking forward, you've got to -- you can't let it slip. You've got to continue to grow, build on this moment. We've got it going right now obviously with the car and what we're doing, but we've got to continue to get it better and continue to get our program better. We've hired a lot of great people, but there's -- hopefully with this win I'll boost more people to want to come over and work with us and continue to get this program stronger. 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Kevin Lacroix almost claimed another win at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park this Sunday, as NASCAR Pinty's concluded their last road course event of the season.
The driver of the #74 Lacroix Tuning | NAPA Auto Parts | Valvoline. car finished second after this fiery race. "With the championship race so close, I needed this win," said Kevin Lacroix after the race.
He was well on his way to climbing on the top step of the podium after setting the fastest time in Saturday morning's practice session and 3rd in qualifying.
At the start of the WeatherTech 200, Lacroix took the lead after just a few laps. Leading the field, Lacroix built a comfortable lead that melted during the first caution. Taking advantage of the caution flag, half of the field came down pit road, first for fuel, then a second time for the left side tires, and a third time for the right side tires.
The then race leader Andrew Ranger opted for a different strategy, staying on track. Starting 9th, Lacroix worked his way up to 3rd, where he was stuck behind Andrew Ranger and Marc-Antoine Camirand for a while before claiming second place.
The race had two more cautions. The last one spiced up the battle for the win with a few laps to go. Lacroix started in the second position and had to overtake Camirand while watching out for Gary Klutt behind. Camirand took advantage of the fight between Lacroix and Klutt to pull a gap. However, with two laps remaining, Lacroix was able to catch up with his main competitor. The 51-lap race ended with Lacroix in second place.
"Marc-Antoine (Camirand) did not make any mistakes during the race," explained the driver of the #74 NAPA Auto Parts | Valvoline | Lacroix Tuning car. "It was hard to fight against him, but we had a great car, especially at the end. I wish the race would have lasted longer, but he deserved the win, and we are happy with 2nd place!"
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A massive cushion and technical bottom, and the result is “The Guy” Derek Hagar racing his way to the front of the field at Lake Ozark Speedway with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network.
Derek’s 11th win of the season and 8th with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series since 2014, Lake Ozark Speedway, is the fifth track that Hagar has collected a win at and the fourth trip to Victory Lane in the state of Missouri.
Different from most, Hagar avoided the cushion, and the strategy paid off. Asked about the line choice, Derek said, “I told my guys I wasn’t messing with the top. I’m working middle to bottom, and that’s where we shine. We can float the middle, and these DynoTech Engines, they run good, and I feel I can just about out drag race anyone down the straightaway.”
Battling through the first half of the A-Feature to get into the top five, Hagar put his plan to work, while Dylan Westbrook and Chase Randall battled for the lead. On the point through the opening eight circuits, Westbrook would go on defense as Waco’s Chase Randall raced by for the lead. Trading numerous slide jobs before getting room over the Hills Racing No. 47x, that advantage was dashed on Lap 15 as Randall slammed the Bush’s Chicken No. 9 off the ever-growing cushion.
Having used the Lap 8 restart for Sam Hafertepe, Jr. to his advantage, Hagar, in third, chased the battle and was closing quickly.
On the pair and aiming for the top spot as the red lights displayed on Lap 17 after Randall slipped the cushion and grabbed the wall, the restart saw Hagar roll by the No. 47x, who flew the left side tires through the third and fourth turns.
Slowed working Lap 19, the DHR Suspension No. 9jr continued to trek the gutter of the one-third-mile oval. Growing his lead to over a second, that was all about to change as 18th starting Joe B. Miller ripped on, and at times, over the cushion to grab second on Lap 20.
Fresh off the POWRi 410 win, Miller raced all out to catch Hagar.
Putting himself 0.172-seconds away from the lead at the white flag, the No. 51b took to the cushion one more time, but a small mistake caught and upset the car. Able to stay upright, that was all that was needed to seal the deal for Derek Hagar, who crossed with 1.016-seconds to spare.
Joe B. Miller held on for second, while Sam Hafertepe, Jr. made a wild rebound from 22nd to third in the Hills Racing No. 15h, following his Lap 8 stoppage. Blake Hahn ended up fourth, with Wayne Johnson rebounding from a Saturday crash to complete the top five.
Dale Howard, in sixth, had Jason Martin rolling up 10 spots to grab seventh. A few shots off the cushion through the closing laps moved Dylan Westbrook back to eighth, with Tim Crawley and Matt Covington completing the top ten.
The Sunday field consisted of 34 drivers at Lake Ozark Speedway. SCE Gaskets Heat Race wins went to Dylan Westbrook, Dale Howard, Blake Hahn, and Matt Covington. BMRS B-Features were topped by Jason Martin and Joe B. Miller. Provisionals were used by Brandon Anderson and Gunner Ramey. The night’s quick qualifier was Chase Randall at 12.104-seconds.
The Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network races next on Thursday, September 8, at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., and Caney Valley Speedway on Saturday, September 10.
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes Regional Tours that encompass both wing and non-wing competition.
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Race Results:
Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour
ASCS Warrior Region
Lake Ozark Speedway (Eldon, Mo.)
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Car Count: 34
Event Count: 39
The Driver's Project Group Qualifying
The Drivers Project Qualifying 1 (3 Laps): 1. 9-Chase Randall, 12.104[4]; 2. 21-Gunner Ramey, 12.220[3]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 12.234[7]; 4. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, 12.326[5]; 5. 2C-Wayne Johnson, 12.380[1]; 6. 187-Landon Crawley, 12.642[2]; 7. 97-Scotty Milan, 12.676[6]; 8. 1XX-Brad Ryun, 13.071[8]; 9. 32D-Daryn Langford, 14.544[9]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 2 (3 Laps): 1. 1X-Tim Crawley, 12.298[9]; 2. 9JR-Derek Hagar, 12.512[8]; 3. 47-Dale Howard, 12.595[3]; 4. 10-Landon Britt, 12.598[4]; 5. 55B-Brandon Anderson, 12.650[1]; 6. 51B-Joe B Miller, 12.651[2]; 7. 77-Jack Wagner, 12.669[7]; 8. 24-Jeffrey West Jr, 12.833[6]; 9. 1JR-Steven Russell, 13.153[5]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 3 (3 Laps): 1. 23-Seth Bergman, 12.214[7]; 2. 52-Blake Hahn, 12.257[1]; 3. 36-Jason Martin, 12.378[8]; 4. 98P-Miles Paulus, 12.587[2]; 5. 86-Timothy Smith, 12.663[4]; 6. 10P-Dylan Postier, 12.685[3]; 7. 31-Casey Wills, 12.934[5]; 8. 12X-Brennon Blair, 13.140[6]
The Drivers Project Qualifying 4 (3 Laps): 1. 45X-Kyler Johnson, 12.270[6]; 2. 95-Matt Covington, 12.286[8]; 3. 14-Jordon Mallett, 12.627[1]; 4. 14E-Kyle Bellm, 12.666[4]; 5. 17B-Ryan Bickett, 12.755[7]; 6. 73-Samuel Wagner, 12.886[5]; 7. 12M-Greg Merritt, 12.937[3]; 8. 00-Broc Elliott, 13.268[2]
SCE Gaskets Heat Races (Top 16 in combined Qualifying/Passing Points advance to the A-Feature)
SCE Gaskets Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[1]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[2]; 3. 9-Chase Randall[4]; 4. 2C-Wayne Johnson[5]; 5. 21-Gunner Ramey[3]; 6. 187-Landon Crawley[6]; 7. 97-Scotty Milan[7]; 8. 32D-Daryn Langford[9]; 9. 1XX-Brad Ryun[8]
SCE Gaskets Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 47-Dale Howard[2]; 2. 10-Landon Britt[1]; 3. 9JR-Derek Hagar[3]; 4. 77-Jack Wagner[7]; 5. 1X-Tim Crawley[4]; 6. 51B-Joe B Miller[6]; 7. 55B-Brandon Anderson[5]; 8. 1JR-Steven Russell[9]; 9. 24-Jeffrey West Jr[8]
SCE Gaskets Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn[3]; 2. 98P-Miles Paulus[1]; 3. 23-Seth Bergman[4]; 4. 36-Jason Martin[2]; 5. 10P-Dylan Postier[6]; 6. 86-Timothy Smith[5]; 7. 31-Casey Wills[7]; 8. 12X-Brennon Blair[8]
SCE Gaskets Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 95-Matt Covington[3]; 2. 14-Jordon Mallett[2]; 3. 14E-Kyle Bellm[1]; 4. 45X-Kyler Johnson[4]; 5. 17B-Ryan Bickett[5]; 6. 73-Samuel Wagner[6]; 7. 12M-Greg Merritt[7]; 8. (DNS) 00-Broc Elliott
BMRS B-Features (Top 3 from each advance)
BMRS B-Main 1 (12 Laps): 1. 36-Jason Martin[1]; 2. 10P-Dylan Postier[2]; 3. 187-Landon Crawley[3]; 4. 97-Scotty Milan[5]; 5. 1JR-Steven Russell[7]; 6. 73-Samuel Wagner[4]; 7. 12X-Brennon Blair[8]; 8. 12M-Greg Merritt[6]; 9. 1XX-Brad Ryun[9]
BMRS B-Main 2 (12 Laps): 1. 51B-Joe B Miller[3]; 2. 17B-Ryan Bickett[2]; 3. 86-Timothy Smith[4]; 4. 21-Gunner Ramey[1]; 5. 31-Casey Wills[5]; 6. 55B-Brandon Anderson[6]; 7. 32D-Daryn Langford[7]; 8. 24-Jeffrey West Jr[8]; 9. 00-Broc Elliott[9]
A-Feature
Lucas Oil A-Main (25 Laps): 1. 9JR-Derek Hagar[9]; 2. 51B-Joe B Miller[18]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[7]; 4. 52-Blake Hahn[6]; 5. 2C-Wayne Johnson[14]; 6. 47-Dale Howard[4]; 7. 36-Jason Martin[17]; 8. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[1]; 9. 1X-Tim Crawley[16]; 10. 95-Matt Covington[5]; 11. 77-Jack Wagner[12]; 12. 14E-Kyle Bellm[15]; 13. 45X-Kyler Johnson[13]; 14. 10-Landon Britt[11]; 15. 17B-Ryan Bickett[20]; 16. 55B-Brandon Anderson[23]; 17. 10P-Dylan Postier[19]; 18. 187-Landon Crawley[21]; 19. 23-Seth Bergman[2]; 20. 9-Chase Randall[3]; 21. 21-Gunner Ramey[24]; 22. 86-Timothy Smith[22]; 23. 98P-Miles Paulus[10]; 24. 14-Jordon Mallett[8]
Lap Leader(s): Dylan Westbrook 1-8, 16-18; Chase Randall 9-15; Derek Hagar 19-25
Hard Charger: Joe B. Miller +16
Quick Time: Chase Randall - 12.104
High Point Driver: Blake Hahn
Provisional(s): Brandon Anderson (Points) / Gunner Ramey (Regional)
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Live-Scoring [Where Applicable]: MRP Live
2022 Race Winners: Wayne Johnson – 4 (3/18 – Devil's Bowl Speedway; 6/18 – Boothill Speedway, 6/25 - I-70 Motorsports Park; 7/23 – I-30 Speedway); Derek Hagar – 3 (3/25 – I-30 Speedway; 6/17 – Texarkana 67 Speedway; 9/5 – Lake Ozark Speedway); Tim Crawley – 2 (7/22 – Batesville Motor Speedway; 7/26 – Tulsa Speedway); Dylan Westbrook – 2 (5/28 – Lake Ozark Speedway; 7/27 – Caney Valley Speedway); Blake Hahn – 2 (8/2 – Lakeside Speedway, 9/2 – Lake Ozark Speedway); Matt Covington – 2 (7/1 – Boone County Raceway; 7/28 – 81-Speedway); Sam Hafertepe, Jr. – 1 (5/29 – Thunderbird Speedway; 8/4 – Knoxville Raceway); Seth Bergman – 1 (3/19 – Devil's Bowl Speedway); Aaron Reutzel – 2 (3/26 – I-30 Speedway; 8/6 – Knoxville Raceway); Jake Bubak – 1 (7/2 – WaKeeney Speedway); Zach Blurton – 1 (7/3 – WaKeeney Speedway); Gunner Ramey - 1 (7/15 – U.S. 36 Raceway); Brian Brown – 1 (8/5 – Knoxville Raceway);
2022 Driver Points (Top 15): 1. Blake Hahn 2,691; 2. Wayne Johnson 2,623; 3. Tim Crawley 2,578; 4. Matt Covington 2,540; 5. Jason Martin 2,523; 6. Brandon Anderson 2,380; 7. Landon Britt 2,201; 8. Landon Crawley 2,194; 9. Kyler Johnson 2,180; 10. Ryan Bickett 2,076; 11. Dylan Postier 2,001; 12. Garet Williamson 1,851; 13. Dylan Opdahl 1,685; 14. Dylan Westbrook 1,493 15. Dale Howard 1,120;
ASCS National Tour Drivers:
1x - Tim Crawley (Benton, AR)**
2c - Wayne Johnson (Oklahoma City, OK)**
2d-Dylan Opdahl (Madison, SD) (R)
10 - Landon Britt (Atoka, TN) (R)
10p - Dylan Postier (Stillwater, OK) (R)
17b - Ryan Bickett (Romona, SD)
24 - Garet Williamson (Columbia, MO)
36 - Jason Martin (Liberal, KS) (R)
45x - Kyler Johnson (Quinter, KS) (R)
52 - Blake Hahn (Sapulpa, OK)**
55b - Brandon Anderson (Glenpool, OK) (R)
95 - Matt Covington (Glenpool, OK)
187 - Landon Crawley (Benton, AR) (R)
(R) Signifies Brodix National Rookie
** Signifies past ASCS National Champion.
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Due to the persistent threat of inclement weather, the ARCA Menards Series Rust-Oleum Automotive Finishes 100 at DuQuoin State Fairgrounds will now start at 5:00 pm ET/4:00 pm CT. The command to fire engines will be at 4:01 pm CT with the green flag to follow at 4:08 pm CT. The practice/qualifying session that had been set for 3:30 pm CT has been cancelled, and the starting lineup will be set by current ARCA Menards Series owner points standings per the ARCA rule book, with Jesse Love on the General Tire Pole.
Love will be going for the $50,000 Performance Seed Dirt Double bonus after winning at the Illinois State Fairgrounds two weeks ago. He will start alongside current Sioux Chief Showdown leader Sammy Smith, who won last Sunday at The Milwaukee Mile.
The race will be televised live on MAVTV and streamed live on FloRacing. Visit ARCARacing.com for live timing & scoring and follow @ARCA_Racing on Twitter for up-to-the-minute updates.
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The NASCAR Pinty's Series converged at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP) last Sunday for the traditional Labour Day long weekend event. It was also the last race of the season for Louis-Philippe Montour at the wheel of the #13 Kamloop | GL Électricité-Automatisation | Gestion Or Concept car prepared by Dumoulin Competition for his fifth road course event this season.
The Saturday morning practice session was a learning experience for Louis-Philippe Montour; “It was my first run on a dry CTMP track”, he says, as there had been a torrential rainstorm at the May round. “We had a basic set-up like when we came here to practice in the spring. Dumoulin Competition worked very hard during testing to give me a car that suited my driving style.”
In late Saturday afternoon, the driver of the #13 Kamloop | GL Électricité-Automatisation | Gestion Or Concept car, qualified 13th for the WeatherTech 200 scheduled for Sunday afternoon. “It's a long race and it's a track I'm very comfortable on. We'll be working our way up through the field as we have been doing all season,” according to the driver.
Louis-Philippe Montour's objective was to finish the year in style by repeating his top-5 finish of last May. He was well on his way to achieving this objective when a competitor ran into the back of his car late in the race.
“We had a great start to the race and were up to 7th by lap 11. We took advantage of this to pit on lap 13 for fuel, but the stop took longer than expected and we lost 12 positions.”
Louis-Philippe Montour started his second climb towards the leaders with determination, “I was able to get up to 9th position, using strategy and patience. Then I had some good battles with the drivers around me.”
“However, an incident at the end of the race prevented us from reaching our goal,” he explained. “A competitor hit my rear bumper, turning the rear bodywork into a drag chute. We lost a lot of speed on the straight, as CTMP is a fast track where it's important to have effective aerodynamics, which I didn't have.”
After showing great speed in the early part of the race, Louis-Philippe Montour still finished 15th despite the late-race damage to his car inflicted by another driver. “It was a great experience; I loved my season. I'm very happy and above all proud to have brought the car back in one piece,” he concluded.
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This weekend’s Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Portland brought down the curtain on another successful season for the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires. Having arrived in the Pacific Northwest with a comfortable lead in the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, Exclusive Autosport’s Louis Foster was able to put the title beyond the reach of his rivals during the first of three races on Friday at the Portland International Raceway road course.
In contrast, the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship went down to the wire with three drivers still in for a chance at the crown prior to the final 25-lap race. Once the dust had settled, Michael d’Orlando profited from several incidents on the opening lap to emerge from behind and claim a victory for Cape Motorsports.
The achievements of both rising stars were lauded yesterday evening during the traditional Championship Celebration which began with a spectacular reception beside the Columbia River and with the majestic Mount Hood clearly visible in the background.
Over $1.1 million in scholarships and prizes subsequently were distributed in front of almost 200 in attendance.
Foster, a 19-year-old rookie from Basingstoke, England, in his very first season of racing in North America, earned a scholarship package valued at $614,425 to ensure his progression into Indy Lights, the next step on the unique open-wheel driver development ladder, in 2023.
Similarly, d’Orlando, 20, from Hartsdale, N.Y., took home a scholarship valued at $406,925 to make the step up to Indy Pro 2000 next season.
Both young drivers have their sights set firmly on a future in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and the Indianapolis 500.
Another highlight of the evening was provided by the presentation of a first-ever Road to Indy Lifetime Achievement Award to brothers Dominic and Nicholas Cape. Their Cape Motorsports team has enjoyed unparalleled success in USF2000, claiming 10 of the last 12 championships, and will also graduate along the Road to Indy in 2023 by fielding a new program in Indy Lights.
Up next for all the teams and drivers is an opportunity to commence preparations for the 2023 season with the traditional Road to Indy Fall Combine open test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course on October 22/23.
Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires Award Winners:
Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires Champion: scholarship package valued at $614,425 to advance to Indy Lights in 2023 – Louis Foster, Exclusive Autosport
Second Place ($40,000) – Reece Gold, Juncos Hollinger Racing
Third Place ($20,000) – Enaam Ahmed, Juncos Hollinger Racing
Team Champion ($10,000) – Juncos Hollinger Racing
Cooper Tires Rookie of the Year ($7,500) – Louis Foster, Exclusive Autosport
Hi-Tide Spirit Award ($1,000) – Reece Gold, Juncos Hollinger Racing
Tilton Hard Charger Award ($1,000) – Salvador De Alba, Jay Howard Driver Development
Move of the Year ($1,000) – Enaam Ahmed, Juncos Hollinger Racing
Makita Tools Mechanic of the Year ($1,000) – Derrick Barnes, Exclusive Autosport
Carl Haas Golden Wishbone Award ($1,100) – Turn 3 Motorsport
Original Artwork by Jim Swintal – Louis Foster, Exclusive Autosport
Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Champion: scholarship package valued at $406,925 to advance to Indy Pro 2000 in 2023 – Michael d’Orlando, Cape Motorsports
Second Place ($20,000) – Myles Rowe, Pabst Racing
Third Place ($10,000) – Jace Denmark, Pabst Racing
Team Champion ($7,500) – Pabst Racing
Hyperco Rookie of the Year ($2,500) – Jagger Jones, Cape Motorsports
Hi-Tide Spirit Award ($1,000) – Jace Denmark, Pabst Racing
Tilton Hard Charger Award ($1,000) – Jorge Garciarce, Jay Howard Driver Development
Move of the Year ($1,000) – Billy Frazer, Exclusive Autosport
Makita Tools Mechanic of the Year ($1,000) – Brendan Puderbach, Cape Motorsports
Carl Haas Golden Wishbone Award ($1,100) – DEForce Racing
Original Artwork by Jim Swintal – Michael d’Orlando, Cape Motorsports
Lifetime Achievement Award – Cape Motorsports
QUOTEBOARD:
Dan Andersen, Owner and CEO of Andersen Promotions: “At the beginning of each season, I always wonder what it will bring us in terms of driver talent and competition. And year after year, the Road to Indy produces the most amazing racing and training for kids that make it all the way to INDYCAR. It’s fun to watch the drivers develop and I am proud of what we do here at the Road to Indy. I want to congratulate our champions this year. They produced some fantastic racing and I wish them all the best as they move on up the ladder.”
Chris Pantani, Director of Motorsports, Cooper Tires: “On behalf of Cooper Tires, I am excited to see this year’s champions. It is an exciting time when drivers move from one series to the next through a championship prize fund that no other development series has. The next step of these young drivers’ career as they develop in the Road to Indy is an exciting time for them, their families and everyone associated with Andersen Promotions.”
Louis Foster, winner of the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires: "My first year of racing in America has been challenging and at times stressful, but that's made it all the more rewarding. I've met a bunch of amazingly skilled and dedicated people, and it's been an absolute pleasure to race and live here. I can’t thank the Exclusive Autosport team enough for this year. They have been amazing and the series has been amazing. It’s been a great year and it is great to be here tonight to finish off the year and celebrate with my team. We have had a lot of success and I am really looking forward to stepping up to Indy Lights next year.”
Michael d’Orlando, winner of the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship: “What a year. This is my third year in USF2000 with Cape Motorsports and it has been a long time coming. The past couple of years, I never had the luck here or there and I also didn’t have the experience. When I crossed the finish line on Saturday, I felt nothing but pure happiness. This is a dream I have had since I was 4 years old. When I left the track, there were tears rolling down my face and it was the greatest feeling ever. The maturity and consistency is what got me here today. This past weekend was a bit hectic but I managed to put myself in a good position and that’s all that mattered in the end. I am super looking forward to going to Indy Pro 2000. A huge thank you to Andersen Promotions, Cooper Tires and the Road to Indy for making this possible for me.” | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72659-championship-celebration-concludes-road-to-indy-season | 2022-09-05T21:55:38Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72659-championship-celebration-concludes-road-to-indy-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NHRA officials today announced the details of the full 2023 Camping World Drag Racing Series schedule, which will include a pair of Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Callout races in Gainesville and Indianapolis, as well as a return to the fan-favorite Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill.
NHRA previously released the dates for the first four events of the 2023 season, including the must-see opener, the 54th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway on March 9-12. The series also makes a highly-anticipated return back to Route 66 Raceway just outside of Chicago for the Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance on May 19-21. Tickets for the Chicago race will go on sale in October. Considered one of the top facilities on the tour, the track will host its first NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series race since 2019, one of many thrilling highlights for the upcoming season.
“We are thrilled to release our full schedule for the 2023 season, which will bring incredible racing action to tracks all across the country,” NHRA President Glen Cromwell said. “We’re proud of everyone involved who worked so hard to get Route 66 Raceway back on our schedule. Starting with what will be an incredible kickoff in Gainesville, there are lot of exciting moments to look forward to next year. We appreciate our fans, race teams, track partners and sponsors who all helped to put the 2023 plan in place.”
After previously announced races in Gainesville, which will also feature the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel All-Star Callout, the final event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Phoenix on March 24-26, the 63rd annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Pomona Raceway on March 30-April 2 and the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on April 14-16 in Las Vegas, the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series will visit state-of-the-art zMAX Dragway for the annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Charlotte on April 28-30.
NHRA then heads to Route 66 Raceway in May, leading into back-to-back races at New England Dragway in Epping, N.H., and Bristol Dragway on June 2-4 and June 9-11. The annual stop to Thunder Valley will take place a week earlier in 2023, giving teams a race weekend off before the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio on June 22-25.
That leads into the famed three-race NHRA Western Swing, which will also have a new look for 2023. Following the longtime trip to Bandimere Speedway in Denver for the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals on July 14-16 to kick off the Western Swing, the middle event in the intense three-race trek will now be the Flav-R-Pac NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Seattle on July 21-23. After a three-year hiatus, the NHRA returned to the track in 2022. With Seattle falling as the middle race in 2023, the finale of the Western Swing, the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals will take place at scenic Sonoma Raceway on July 28-30.
From there, teams will have back-to-back races at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, Kan. for the Menards NHRA Nationals presented by PetArmor and Brainerd International Raceway for the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals on Aug. 11-13 and Aug. 17-20. The regular season concludes with the 69th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Aug. 30-Sept. 4, highlighted by the Pep Boys NHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout.
The high stakes six-race Countdown to the Championship playoffs will kick off with three straight racing weekends, starting with the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway on Sept. 14-17 and continuing at zMAX Dragway on Sept. 22-24 and then the annual event at World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis on Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
The intense Countdown competition finishes with the Texas NHRA FallNationals on Oct. 12-15 at Texas Motorplex, the second race of the season at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Oct. 26-29 and the NHRA Finals in Pomona on Nov. 9-12, where champions will be crowned in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
Fans may renew or purchase their tickets for the 2023 season at https://www.nhra.com/schedule/2023. Details on class schedules for Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, as well as specialty series like the FuelTech NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by D-Wagon and Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown will be announced soon.
All races during the 2023 NHRA will be aired exclusively on FOX Sports, with select events on the FOX broadcast network. For more information on NHRA, please visit www.nhra.com.
2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Season Schedule
March 9-12: 54th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, Gainesville Raceway, Gainesville, Fl. The race will also include the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel All-Star Callout.
March 24-26: 38th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals, Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park, Phoenix
March 30-April 2: 63rd annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com, Pomona Raceway, Pomona, Calif.
April 14-16: 23rd annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas
April 28-30: 13th annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, zMAX Dragway, Charlotte
May 19-21: 23rd annual Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance, Route 66 Raceway, Chicago
June 2-4: 10th annual NHRA New England Nationals, New England Dragway, Epping, N.H.
June 9-11: 22nd annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, Bristol Dragway, Bristol, Tenn.
June 22-25: 17th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, Summit Motorsports Park, Norwalk, Ohio
July 14-16: 43rd annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals, Bandimere Speedway, Denver
July 21-23: 34th annual Flav-R-Pac NHRA Northwest Nationals, Pacific Raceways, Seattle
July 28-30: 35th annual DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.
Aug. 11-13: 34th annual Menards NHRA Nationals presented by PetArmor, Heartland Motorsports Park, Topeka, Kan.
Aug. 17-20: 41st annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, Minn.
Aug. 30-Sept. 4: 69th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis. The race will also include the Pep Boys NHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout.
COUNTDOWN TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP
Sept. 14-17: 38th annual Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa.
Sept. 22-24: 15th annual NHRA Carolina Nationals, zMAX Dragway, Charlotte.
Sept. 29-Oct. 1: 12th annual NHRA Midwest Nationals, World Wide Technology Raceway, St. Louis
Oct. 12-15: 38th annual Texas NHRA FallNationals, Texas Motorplex, Dallas
Oct. 26-29: 23rd annual NHRA Nevada Nationals, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas
Nov. 9-12: 58th annual NHRA Finals, Pomona Raceway, Pomona, Calif.
To purchase or renew tickets, please visit https://www.nhra.com/schedule/2023
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Saturday September 10th is the End of Summer Shootout at All American Speedway powered by Roseville Toyota with the championship races for the NASCAR Berco Redwood Late Models and Jr. Late Models. The F4 division will battle in a 50-lap shootout paying up to $1,000 to win with drivers from across Northern California in action. Foothills Tow Modifieds, Riebes Auto Parts Super Stocks, and Mini Cup/Bandos also race in their penultimate rounds of 2022.
Grandstands open at 5pm followed by heat races at 5:30pm. Opening ceremonies are at approximately 6pm with main events to follow. Tickets for End of Summer Shootout are available online at www.AllAmericanSpeedway.com All seats are general admission, priced at $20 for adults, juniors ages 6-12 are $15, and kids 5 & under are FREE!
Napa’s Dylan Zampa aims to close out a sensational 11-win season with the NASCAR Berco Redwood Late Model championship on Saturday night. Zampa has won 17 races at Roseville’s one-third mile across the past two seasons. Zampa will have a pair of 35-lap features to compete in, hoping to preserve a 62-point advantage over Loomis’ Kenna Mitchell. Mitchell – the 2021 Jr. Late Model champion - scored a pair of wins in July to gain a foothold on second place ahead of 2020 Jr. Late Model champion Aidan Daniels of Fort Bragg in third. Auburn’s Thomas Martin and Loomis’ Michael Mitchell round out the top-five drivers in the standings.
Fort Bragg’s Trey Daniels has only won once this year in the Jr. Late Model competition for drivers ages 10-16 years old. But the victory was enough for the 13-year-old to lead former Mini Cup champ Colton Nelson of Auburn by 20-points. Fellow former Mini Cup champion Bella Thomsen of El Dorado Hills ranks third. Martinez Vito Cancilla, 10, has rapidly raced up to fourth in the standings with two wins despite missing the season opener. Cancilla is within three points of Thomsen for third place. Two-time 2022 winner Lane Anderson of Fort Bragg is fifth with a pair of wins as well. The Jr. Late Models battle for 30-laps in their season finale.
The F4 50-lap shootout serves as their eighth points race of the year and is expected to draw a full field of drivers from across Northern California for a possible $1,000 to win prize. The winner will earn $50 per car competing up, to $1,000. The total purse is over $3,000 along with $100 for the fast-time, $100 for the hard charger, and select cash awards for various positions on various laps. The event is supported by to J&J Smith Boat & RV Storage, American Racer Tire, One Piece Racing, Outlaw Motorsports, and their partners.
Roseville’s Ray Molina has just one win as he searches for another F4 championship. He has stretched his advantage to 25-points over Citrus Heights’ Vic Theberge. Rocklin’s John Sproule is third followed by 2021 champion Matthew Fuhs of Roseville. Sun Valley, NV’s Rich Innis rounds out the top-five.
The Foothills Tow Modifieds have turned up the intensity level this season with exciting battles for the win in July that have garnered over 14,000 video views on social media. Eureka’s Brandon White won both of those duels to drive into the points lead. But a challenging race for White in August and a win for Rick Andersen of North Highlands places Andresen just eight points behind with two races remaining. Roseville’s Tyler Wentworth is only 20-points out of the lead as well. Windsor’s Sammy Nuno and Colfax’s Cody Bailey run fourth and fifth with a 30-lap feature on tap for the penultimate round on Saturday.
Roseville’s Josh Whitfield earned lucky number seven on August 6 with his perfect season continuing in the Riebes Auto Parts Super Stocks. Roseville’s Phil Wilkins has been his main adversary while running second in the standings. Antelope’s Terry Thomas ranks third followed by Galt’s Larry Thornhill and Loomis’ Harry Lambert. A 30-lap main event is scheduled this weekend.
Dayton Broyles of Roseville has accumulated a 50-point lead in the Mini Cup/Bando division but Stockton sixth grader Lucas Burton has the edge on main event wins with his four to Broyles’ two. Meadow Vista’s Cash Page has been the most improved driver throughout his rookie season to rank third overall. A 15-lap main event is planned for the speedway’s youngest drivers.
Additional information on fan attendance is available at www.AllAmericanSpeedway.com Competitors will participate in practice activities on Friday before racing on Saturday. Grandstands open at 5pm followed by heat races at 5:30pm. Opening ceremonies are at 6pm with main events to follow.
All American Speedway wants to thank @the Grounds for their support along with partners such as Roseville Toyota, Berco Redwood, Riebes Auto Parts, JM Environmental, Sinister Diesel, Foothills Tow, Velocity Solar, Cardinal Financial- James Clark, Legends Real Estate, AAMCO Transmission & Total Car Care of Auburn, CA, Kim White Realtor, A-All Mini Storage, and Roseville Moose Lodge for their strong support of All American Speedway. Without competitor support and local community partners, these events would not take place. All American Speedway mandates a sound regulation for all competitors as specified in the track rule book.
For more information, visit www.AllAmericanSpeedway.com or follow the speedway on social media!
2022 All American Speedway Schedule (Subject to Change)
September 10 NASCAR Late Model Twins, Modifieds, Super Stocks, F4s, Jr. Late Models, Mini Cup/Bando
October 1 ARCA Menards Series West, NASCAR Modifieds, Super Stocks, F4s, Mini Cup/Bando, Legends Tour Series
October 22 Malicious Monster Truck Tour (2 shows)
AAS PR | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/speedway-news/72656-end-of-summer-shootout-crowns-first-champions-of-2022-in-roseville | 2022-09-05T21:56:03Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/speedway-news/72656-end-of-summer-shootout-crowns-first-champions-of-2022-in-roseville | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The cars may be the stars when the Charlotte AutoFair returns to Charlotte Motor Speedway this Thursday through Saturday, but they are far from the only attraction bringing fans to the famed 1.5-mile superspeedway. An action-packed lineup of entertainment and fun includes a chainsaw artist, seminars with automotive icons, music, Q&As and more.
A Cut Above: Mountain Mike, one of the world’s preeminent chainsaw artists, will be on hand during the show carving up creative creations and sending sawdust soaring. The Maggie Valley, N.C.-based speed carver has been known to sculpt everything from zombies and dragons to birds and bears, bringing extraordinary, custom statues to life from seemingly ordinary stumps. Fans can watch the award-winning master carver at work throughout the weekend outside of victory lane. At least one of his weekend creations will be auctioned off prior to Saturday’s closing ceremonies to benefit the Charlotte chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities.
The More You Know: Car parts aren’t the only thing fans can find at this year’s Charlotte AutoFair. Car knowledge will also be in rich supply. New for 2022, Charlotte Motor Speedway will partner with some of the biggest names in the automotive industry to provide free, informative seminars for visitors throughout the weekend. Ray Evernham will lead a trio of educational classes designed to provide useful insights and tips from some of the very best in the business. Presentations by Hagerty and Retro Designs/TLC 4x4 are also scheduled. Check out www.CharlotteMotorSpeedway.com for a complete list of times/locations for these unique opportunities.
Now Taking the Stage: Also new to the fall Charlotte AutoFair, organizers will bring a midway stage to the heart of the infield, offering prime opportunities for interviews and Q&As with car lovers, music and more. Automotive builders/fabricators and television personalities David Ankin and Lou Santiago, will be among those to take the stage to share their stories. Cold Hard Art, which famously crafts custom pieces from used auto parts, will create a one-of-a-kind Walt Hollifield Best in Show trophy on-site throughout the weekend, with the magnificent creation going to the overall Charlotte AutoFair Best of Show winner, named during Saturday’s closing ceremonies.
NASCAR Greatness Returns: Former Cup Series driver Ryan Newman, whose nine pole wins at Charlotte Motor Speedway put him second all-time behind only David Pearson as the winningest pole sitter at Charlotte, will be on hand on Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. to sign autographs and greet fans. The meet-and-greet will be held inside the showcase pavilion, where the avid gearhead will have the opportunity to see some of the most unique and creative cars at the show all on display.
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Other show highlights include an 18-cylinder Chevrolet pickup truck, an assortment of movie tie-in vehicles such as vintage cars from Leatherheads and the 1959 Corvette from Animal House, the “Best of the Best” collection, a half-dozen of Oldsmobile’s finest performance machines, and an array of beautiful rides from the Xquisite Car, Truck and Jeep Club.
The Charlotte AutoFair features more than 50 car club displays and more than 10,000 vendor spaces offering an array of automotive parts and memorabilia. More than 1,500 collectible vehicles of all makes and models will be available for sale in the car corral that rings the 1.5-mile superspeedway throughout the three-day show. Hours for the Sept. 8–10 Charlotte AutoFair are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday.
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Single-day tickets are $10 on Thursday and $15 on Friday and Saturday for adults. Admission is FREE for children 12 and under with an adult. To buy tickets, AutoFair attendees can shop online at CharlotteMotorSpeedway.com, purchase at the gate, or call 800-455-FANS (3267).
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Today the Central Labor Council gathered for the third year in a row, to support homeless veterans in the area. The event collected materials such as socks, jackets, blankets, and food.
With more than 25 volunteers, within several agencies across the county, the event has already collected nearly $3,000 and that’s not including the additional supplies donated.
President of Leon Classroom Teacher Association Scott Mazur is honored to be a part of one of the many unions helping to give back.
“It’s giving, it’s giving back to the community. As organizations that serve it’s very important to us to make sure that we take care of our most vulnerable citizens in the area. Whether it’s our homeless or it’s our children we just want to make sure we can serve and support them,” says Mazur.
The drive may be over but it’s not too late to donate. The Big Bend Homeless shelter accepts donations year-round. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/the-central-labor-council-hosts-donation-drive-for-homeless-veterans | 2022-09-05T21:58:45Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/the-central-labor-council-hosts-donation-drive-for-homeless-veterans | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sean Penn and Ben Stiller are not welcomed in Russia.
The actors are among 25 Americans, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Rick Scott of Florida, to be recently banned from entering the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday, the Associated Press reported.
According to The Seattle Times and Bloomberg, the Kremlin said the latest names were added to its "stop list" in response to "the ever-expanding personal sanctions by the Biden Administration against Russian citizens."
Those with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin - his daughters and alleged girlfriend - have been sanctioned not only by the U.S. but by other countries as well since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Penn and Still were sanctioned because they both have previously voiced their criticism of Russia invading Ukraine, the Associated Press reported.
Just as the war began, Penn went to Ukraine to shoot a documentary about the invasion, Variety reported.
Stiller has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of his role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/penn-stiller-among-25-americans-to-be-recently-sanctioned-by-russia | 2022-09-05T21:58:57Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/penn-stiller-among-25-americans-to-be-recently-sanctioned-by-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Investigators are asking the community's assistance related to a Sunday morning fire in Sterling that started with explosions in a car next to a home.
Crews were called to Whittingham Circle in the Algonkian/Countryside area just after 4 a.m. for a car on fire next to a home. Firefighters arrived to find flames spreading to the front of the home.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, which left about $100,000 to both the house and the car, Loudoun County fire and rescue said in a news release.
The residents were home at the time and woke up to the sound of explosions coming from the vehicle. There were no injuries.
What caused the explosions and fire remain under investigation.
Neighbors in the area, specifically Whittingham Circle, Harrow Court, Thales Way, Byron Court, Teasdale Court, Rutledge Court, and Griswold Court, are asked to review home security camera footage from Sunday morning and report any unusual activity to the fire marshal's office. Information related to this incident should be directed to Investigator Boehret at 571-233-0186 or Capt. Herndon at 571-233-1010. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/investigators-seek-information-in-car-explosions-fire-in-sterling/article_cc8cbdcc-2d2d-11ed-8660-af52cd0c90a7.html | 2022-09-05T22:07:53Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/investigators-seek-information-in-car-explosions-fire-in-sterling/article_cc8cbdcc-2d2d-11ed-8660-af52cd0c90a7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8
Patriot at Forest Park, 6 p.m.
Stone Bridge at Freedom-Woodbridge, 7 p.m.
Quantico at Brunswick Academy, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9
Hylton at Briar Woods, 7 p.m.
Brentsville at Kettle Run, 7 p.m.
Battlefield at Gainesville, 7 p.m.
Freedom-South Riding at Colgan, 7 p.m.
Unity Reed at Woodbridge, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10
John Paul the Great at the Potomac School, 4 p.m. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/this-weeks-high-school-football-schedule-prince-william-county/article_afc2d520-2d5d-11ed-b1d0-2736cf095039.html | 2022-09-05T22:07:59Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/this-weeks-high-school-football-schedule-prince-william-county/article_afc2d520-2d5d-11ed-b1d0-2736cf095039.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Team Biden’s comment on news that school lockdowns cost America’s kids years of progress boils down to “Don’t blame us!”
Seriously: President Joe Biden’s Education Department late last week issued this absurdity: “When President Biden took office, most schools in America remained closed. President Biden got to work. He put teachers at the front of the vaccine line and got Congress to provide aid to improve ventilation and spacing in schools. This plan produced results: A few weeks after President Biden put these measures in place, a majority of schools were open for the first time since the pandemic started.”
What bull: The Biden administration without question slowed down school reopenings, in concert with Democrats nationwide who were rushing to please teachers unions that fought them.
It’s a known fact that schools reopened far sooner in Republican-led “red” states and cities than in Democratic-controlled “blue” ones. Teachers unions in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and other major cities kept schools closed far longer than in, say, Florida — which had in fact reopened well before Biden took office.
In February 2021, the White House pushed the Centers for Disease Control to accept the input of American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten, which led the CDC to adopt “advisory” language delaying reopenings.
The fact that most schools reopened after Biden took office had nothing to with him. In fact, local leaders had to ignore the Bidenites’ advice to realize that 1) kids were never actually at significant COVID risk, and 2) school shutdowns did enormous damage to children.
America’s children, particularly minority kids in major cities, needlessly suffered immense learning loss thanks to Democrats’ eagerness to satisfy a selfish special interest.
Now that the damage is obvious, all the villains from Weingarten to the White House are pretending they worked hard to reopen schools. It’s a shameful, self-serving lie. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/team-bidens-shameless-bid-to-dodge-blame-for-school-closure-damage/ | 2022-09-05T22:09:01Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/05/team-bidens-shameless-bid-to-dodge-blame-for-school-closure-damage/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When the 49ers re-worked Jimmy Garoppolo’s contract to bring him back another year, all we heard was, “if you can afford to keep Jimmy, then you keep him,” or something along the lines of it’s the best thing for the team to be deep at quarterback.
Inevitably, there was a positive spin on the signing, despite both Garoppolo and Trey Lance saying all of the right things.
Well, a week later, we’re starting to see the effects of Jimmy’s return in the media. Peter King predicted Lance would lose his job by Week 7 in his Football Morning in America column Monday morning:
QB changes: Kenny Pickett for Mitchell Trubisky in mid-October, Drew Lock yo-yos with Geno Smith starting in late October, Jimmy Garoppolo for Trey Lance prior to facing Kansas City in week seven, Desmond Ridder for Marcus Mariota in November, Tyrod Taylor for Daniel Jones in December. A rusty Deshaun Watson goes 3-3 in his six late-season post-suspension games in Cleveland. These things happen when you haven’t played a game of football in 100 weeks.
King later doubled down in his “I think” portion, going with the cliche, ‘this is a veteran team’ link of thinking:
8. I think I do not want to be a negative Nate here. I truly do not dislike the San Francisco agreement to bring back Jimmy Garoppolo. But in the midst of all the kumbaya coming out of the oh-it’s-great-we-re-signed-Jimmy lovefest, I wonder one thing: This is a veteran team that went to battle with Jimmy Garoppolo late last season and saw him beat the Rams in Week 18, then watch him be the QB in winning playoff games at Dallas and Green Bay. How will George Kittle and Fred Warner and Arik Armstead and Deebo Samuel, all good team guys, react privately if Trey Lance struggles the first month of the season? Will the Niners’ leadership council go to Kyle Shanahan and say, “Come on. We gotta win these games?”
Garoppolo was part of the reason the Niners had to make a memorable comeback in Week 18. San Francisco scored three points on four possessions in the second half, including an interception. The second half went much better, but the Rams also scored a touchdown off another interception.
Why do we ignore that? Context is critical because it helps paint the picture of what this team went through to get to the playoffs and make it to the doorstep of another Super Bowl. Referencing wins is lazy, and it appears we’re going to go through another season of that if Lance struggles.
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer attempted to close the book on a scenario that’s not ideal:
There’s too much on the line with the roster to worry about hurt feelings. And while I’d heard Lance was a little annoyed in the immediate aftermath, he’s a smart, mature kid who I believe can handle it. Truth is, if he couldn’t, you might have bigger questions about where the Niners are at the position.
Lance and Garoppolo can get along well and be great friends in the locker room and on the field. But there’s no doubt that you, the quarterback, would be mildly annoyed at the potential of a distraction.
Lance said last week that everything at practice was normal with Garoppolo, which is likely true. But if we’re talking about the second-year quarterback losing his job before he’s even thrown a pass, imagine once he turns the ball over or loses to a team everyone thought the 49ers should beat. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/5/23338100/49ers-garoppolo-lance-bench-week-7 | 2022-09-05T22:17:37Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/5/23338100/49ers-garoppolo-lance-bench-week-7 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK -- When Jessica Pegula lost the first two games of the second set to Petra Kvitova, it looked like the two-time major champion was on the verge of another comeback. Kvitova saved two match points in the third round against Garbiñe Muguruza and seemed to be trending in the same direction.
“I just told myself not to get frustrated,” the No.8-seeded Pegula said later. “I wanted to stay committed to hitting my spots and was able to work my way back.”
She was too modest. Pegula won six straight games Monday to defeat Kvitova for the first time, 6-3, 6-2.
Pegula will next play No.1 Iga Swiatek, who came back to beat Jule Niemeier 2-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Here are three thoughts on what Pegula and Swiatek need to do to continue their success in New York:
Iga Swiatek
Seek a good return on investments
One of the constants in Swiatek’s rise this year has been an uncanny ability to break opponent’s serves. Her athleticism and anticipation are the biggest reasons.
In her fourth-round victory against Niemeier, she managed it seven of 13 times. She’s an unworldly 21-for-37 at the US Open. The yearlong record, going back to 2008 when the statistic was instituted, belongs to Victoria Azarenka, who in 2013 won return games an astonishing 54.8 percent of the time.
Swiatek, who has been flirting with that number for much of the season, currently leads all players with 52.6 percent.
Manage the nerves
Swiatek sailed through her first four matches, winning all eight sets, but came a bit unglued in the opening set against Niemeier. She screamed in the general direction of her box, and gave its occupants a sarcastic thumbs up when she double-faulted away a service game. At the lowest point, she slammed her towel back into its bin with a snarl.
DIGGING IN for her first QF in NY 😤@iga_swiatek | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/wTmkYufy13
— wta (@WTA) September 5, 2022
“I’m just proud that I didn’t lose hope,” Swiatek said in her on-court interview. “I had a hard time pushing her back. I’m pretty glad it worked.”
Doubtless there’s more angst ahead when she meets Pegula for the third time this year. Keeping it all together should be Goal No.1.
Forget those Paris memories
Pegula and Swiatek have played three times, with Swiatek taking both matches in 2022.
She prevailed in the Miami semifinals, 6-2, 7-5 -- in a match that was more tightly contested than the score might suggest -- and the quarterfinals at Roland Garros 6-3, 6-2. That was on clay, of course, and Pegula is a better player on hard courts,
“She’s really consistent,” Swiatek said of Pegula. “She’s a great player. I know it’s going to be tough. We’re going to analyze for sure the previous matches. I think she has a game style that suits these courts.”
This one looks like a fair fight; both players are into their third major quarterfinal of the year. No other player left in the women’s draw can say that.
Jessica Pegula
Keep working through the distractions
After breaking Kvitova to open the match, there was an eight-minute delay when rain visited Arthur Ashe Stadium. After Kvitova broke back and played three points on her serve, the rain returned. This time it required 45 minutes to close the roof and mop up the mess.
Pegula left the court, did some stretching, and never lost her composure. She came out focused and methodically went to work on Kvitova. The placid look on her face during changeovers is the window to her poise in a turbulent environment.
It's been quite a year for Jessica Pegula!
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2022
That's three Grand Slam quarterfinal appearances in 2022. pic.twitter.com/SaQxXizJ5t
Kvitova, it should be mentioned, had won her past two matches against Top 10 players -- after having lost nine of the previous 10.
Continue that consistency
Pegula finished the 2020 season ranked No.63, but broke through at the 2021 Australian Open, reaching the first major quarterfinal of her career. It was hardly a fluke.
This year, she’s reached the quarters in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, in Melbourne, Paris and now New York. That’s vaulted her into the Top 10 for the first time back in June -- and she’s held her position nicely. Pegula reached the semifinals in Toronto, losing to eventual champion Simona Halep, and the quarters in Cincy, again falling to the eventual winner, Caroline Garcia.
At this US Open, Pegula has been going along nicely, dropping only one set, that coming in the third round against qualifier Yuan Yue.
Look forward, not back
With her victory over Kvitova, Pegula altered her history this fortnight.
She had lost both previous matches to Kvitova, including a third-rounder at the 2020 US Open -- both in straight sets.
Moreover, she had lost all three previous matches against seeds at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, to No.11 Belinda Bencic (2021), No.6 Kvitova (2020) and No.4 Agnieszka Radwanska (2016).
She advanced to second week at her home major for the first time. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2782337/how-pegula-swiatek-can-keep-the-momentum-going-at-the-us-open | 2022-09-05T22:17:37Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2782337/how-pegula-swiatek-can-keep-the-momentum-going-at-the-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK -- Coming into Monday’s fourth-round match, No.1-ranked Iga Swiatek had never lost to a player outside the Top 100 at a Grand Slam event. Before this year’s Wimbledon, Jule Niemeier had never won a major main-draw match.
That was the stark contrast Monday afternoon in Louis Armstrong Stadium, when Niemeier came tantalizingly close to springing the upset of this US Open. In the end, Swiatek escaped 2-6, 6-4, 6-0.
“Honestly at the beginning [of the second set] I felt like I’m just making a little bit less mistakes, but she also started playing less aggressively,” Swiatek told reporters. “It was easier for me to just play the ball in. Yeah, I think I started being more solid and I used a little bit more of the chances that I had.”
This is Swiatek’s third Grand Slam quarterfinal of the season. It was also her 19th 6-0 set win for Swiatek. It’s the most for any player since Serena Williams had 25 in 2013.
Swiatek will enter Wednesday’s match against No.8 Jessica Pegula feeling good about the matchup. Swiatek has won two of three, both in 2022 -- in the Miami semifinals, 6-2, 7-5 and the quarterfinals at Roland Garros 6-3, 6-2.
“I’m just proud that I didn’t lose hope,” Swiatek said. “I had a hard time pushing her back. I’m pretty glad it worked. I used my experience to keep my level the whole match.”
Match highlights: Swiatek hadn’t dropped a set through four matches, but Niemeier broke the two-time French Open champion in the opening game and raced to the first set.
DIGGING IN for her first QF in NY 😤@iga_swiatek | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/wTmkYufy13
— wta (@WTA) September 5, 2022
Niemeier scored the first break of the second with a spectacular crosscourt forehand return followed by an uncharacteristic mistake from Swiatek. With an open court looming in front of her, she chopped a forehand volley into the net. Swiatek broke right back to make it 2-all.
The turning point came in the fifth game, when Swiatek erased a love-30 hole with four straight points, finishing with an ace, a forehand winner and another ace. The momentum continued when she broke Niemeier in the next game when the German sprayed a forehand long.
With a massive backhand winner, Niemeier returned the favor and brought the set back on serve, 3-4. Swiatek, clearly irritated with herself, proceeded to break Niemeier for the third straight time -- before Niemeier broke her back. Swiatek flashed a sarcastic thumbs up to her box after double-faulting it away.
A fourth straight break of Niemeier’s serve gave Swiatek the match-leveling second set. Early in the third, Swiatek broke for the fifth straight time and ran out to a lead she would not relinquish.
The hard-hitting 23-year-old German produced 14 unforced errors in the third set, compared to one for Swiatek. She also hit 13 double faults in the match. Swiatek, meanwhile, broke Niemeier’s serve seven of 13 times.
Niemeier making strides: Contesting only her third Grand Slam main-draw, Niemeier has been surprisingly good in big matches. In her only previous meeting with a Top 10 player, she upset No.2 Anett Kontaveit in the second round at Wimbledon. It’s difficult to believe that coming into the US Open she had never won a Tour-level hard-court match.
Harder still to imagine that her last tournament before this was the ITF $60,000 in the Bronx. Niemeier lost to qualifier Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, ranked No.199, in the first round and received $557 in prize money. Niemeier's reward for reaching the fourth round is $278,000. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2782425/swiatek-comes-back-from-set-down-to-defeat-niemeier-at-us-open | 2022-09-05T22:17:43Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2782425/swiatek-comes-back-from-set-down-to-defeat-niemeier-at-us-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Overnight news on the cut, which reverses the output increase agreed to just last month:
The cut agreed to comes with Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members concerns on prices that were falling despite what appear to be quite strong fundamentals.
OPEC+ appear to be committed to propping up the oil price (which is pretty much their reason for existence). 100k /day is neither here nor there in this 100mn bbl/day market, hence the 'symbolic' in the headline.
More at that link. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/icymi-opecs-symbolic-output-cut-100k-bblsday-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T22:24:45Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/icymi-opecs-symbolic-output-cut-100k-bblsday-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I posted yesterday on likely new PM Truss, who while campaigning to become the new Prime Minister found the solution to every problem seemed to be generously throwing more (taxpayer) money at it:
Moody's are worried, via Reuters headline:
- Moody's on government of United Kingdom says new prime minister's fiscal pledges will complicate post-pandemic consolidation
While ratings agencies such as Moody's are adept at mangling the language, what they mean by this is Truss' promised fiscal profligacy poses an outlook and rating risk to the UK.
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Anyway, not to be churlish, congratulations to the new PM, good luck.
- Liz Truss is the new UK prime minister
- UK PM Truss: I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow the economy
At least she makes good holiday decisions: | https://www.forexlive.com/news/moodys-is-worried-about-the-fiscal-chops-of-incoming-pm-truss-20220905/ | 2022-09-05T22:24:51Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/moodys-is-worried-about-the-fiscal-chops-of-incoming-pm-truss-20220905/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
8 private student loans to help you pay for college
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Private student loans can help you pay for college when you’ve exhausted your federal aid options. Here’s what to know about getting one. (iStock)
Higher education is expensive. The average tuition for full-time undergraduate students has jumped 13% at public colleges since 2010, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
While federal student loans can help cover some of these costs, they aren’t always enough. If that’s the case with your college expenses, private student loans may be an option. Here’s what you need to know about private student loans, as well as some of the best lenders to consider.
With Credible, you can get personalized private student loan rates from multiple lenders in two minutes.
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8 of the best private student loans
If you’re looking for a private student loan, start with these eight Credible partner lenders:
Ascent
Ascent offers two loan options: one for students with a cosigner and another for those without one. You can borrow up to your school’s cost of attendance, and you won’t pay any application, origination, or disbursement fees.
The downside of Ascent is that its Independent loans (no cosigner) are only available for juniors, seniors, and graduate students. If you choose the Ascent Independent Loan, deferred payments are the only repayment option you’ll have.
Ascent’s options for rates and terms are more plentiful, though. You can choose from both fixed and variable rates, and terms range from five to 20 years. You’ll need a 2.9 GPA and a minimum credit score of 540 to qualify.
- Loan amount: $2,001 to $200,000
- Loan terms (years): 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20 (depending on loan type)
- Discounts: 0.25% to 1% automatic payment discount; 1% cash back graduation reward
- Cosigner release: After 24 months
Citizens Bank
Student loan options abound at Citizens Bank, which offers loans for undergraduates, graduates, and even parents of students. Program-specific loans for students studying law, healthcare, and other fields are also available.
The only real drawback of Citizens Bank is its limited forbearance options, which only go up to 12 months.
Rates come in both fixed and variable forms. Borrowers in all 50 states are eligible, and a soft credit pull is required when applying.
- Loan amount: $1,000 to $350,000 (depending on degree)
- Loan terms (years): 5, 10, 15
- Discounts: 0.25% autopay; 0.25% loyalty
- Cosigner release: After 36 months
College Ave
Online lender College Ave offers a wide range of loan programs and repayment options. You can borrow up to the full cost of your school’s attendance, and the lender doesn’t charge application, disbursement, or origination fees.
The big drawback of a College Ave loan affects cosigners. If you have a cosigner on your loan, they can’t be released from the agreement until you’ve reached the halfway point in your repayment term, which could be as long as 7.5 years.
College Ave’s loans come with both fixed and adjustable rates. The lender also offers a number of repayment options, including full deferral, interest-only loan payments, student loan forbearance, and more.
- Loan amount: $1,000 up to 100% of the school-certified cost of attendance
- Loan terms (years): 5, 8, 10, 15, 20
- Discounts: 0.25% autopay
- Cosigner release: After 24 months
Custom Choice
Custom Choice offers private student loans to both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at least half-time at an approved institution.
Expect no fees associated with Custom Choice loans, including no late or prepayment fees. And prequalifying takes only a soft credit pull, so it won’t hurt your credit.
- Loan amount: $1,000 to $99,999 annually ($180,000 aggregate limit)
- Loan terms (years): 7, 10, 15
- Discounts: 0.25% autopay; 2% graduation reward
- Cosigner release: After 36 months
EDvestinU
EDvestinU offers fee-free private student loans with a wide array of repayment options.
The biggest downside of EDvestinU is the lender’s eligibility requirements. EDvestinU requires a minimum income of $30,000 and a credit score of at least 750 for individual applicants. But for a cosigned application, cosigners only need a score of 675. The lender offers both fixed- and variable-rate loans, and cosigners may be released after 36 months of loan payments.
- Loan amount: $1,000 to $200,000
- Loan terms (years): 7, 10, 15
- Discounts: 0.50% autopay
- Cosigner release: After 36 months
INvestED
For Indiana residents, INvestED is a top choice. The lender offers no-fee student loans of up to 100% of a school’s attendance costs, and you even get 2% of your principal balance wiped clean if you graduate on time.
The obvious drawback here is that only Indiana residents or students at Indiana universities qualify. Cosigners are also locked in for longer than with most other lenders (four years).
Both fixed- and variable-rate loans are available. The minimum credit score to qualify is 670.
- Loan amount: $1,001 up to 100% of school-certified cost of attendance
- Loan terms (years): 5, 10, 15
- Discounts: 0.25% autopay; 2% reward for on-time graduation
- Cosigner release: After 48 months
MEFA
Despite its name, the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority offers private student loans to students across the country. You can expect no fees to apply, and you won’t pay any origination or disbursement fees either.
MEFA only offers fixed-rate loans, and terms are limited to 10 or 15 years. For graduate students, only 15-year loans are available.
You must have a minimum credit score of 670 to qualify and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
- Loan amount: $1,500 up to the school’s certified cost of attendance (depending on school type and minus other aid received)
- Loan terms (years): 10, 15
- Discounts: None
- Cosigner release: After 48 months
Sallie Mae
Sallie Mae is a well-known private student loan company that offers loans to students, parents, and medical and dental residents. You can also find loans for law students studying for their state bar exams. You won’t pay any application or origination fees for a Sallie Mae loan.
The one drawback is that Sallie Mae’s forbearance options are limited to just 12 months, which could pose a problem if you find yourself in serious financial hardship.
You can opt for a fixed- or variable-rate loan, and both 10- and 15-year terms are available.
- Loan amount: $1,000 up to cost of attendance
- Loan terms (years): 10, 15
- Discounts: 0.25% autopay
- Cosigner release: After 12 months
If you need to take out private student loans, visit Credible to compare private student loan rates from various lenders in minutes.
Other private student loan lenders to consider
The following lenders aren’t Credible partners, so you won’t be able to easily compare your rates with them on the Credible platform. But they may also be worth considering if you’re looking for a private student loan.
- Discover Student Loans
- Earnest
- iHelp
- LendKey
- MPOWER Financing
- PNC
- SoFi
- Wells Fargo
Lenders like MPOWER Financing, PNC, and SoFi offer loan terms of 5, 10, and 15 years, while Wells Fargo offers 15- and 20-year terms. iHelp offers a 20-year term, while Earnest offers terms ranging from 5 to 20 years. LendKey doesn't disclose its loan terms.
Methodology
Credible evaluated private student loan lenders in 10 different categories to determine the best lenders for graduate student loans. This included interest rates, repayment options, terms, fees, discounts, customer service availability, as well as eligibility requirements and cosigner release options.
How to get the best private student loan for you
Getting a low interest rate is critical to keeping your monthly payments and your long-term interest costs low. Here are some ways to get the best private student loan for your needs:
- Add a cosigner. Adding a cosigner to your loan makes it less risky for the lender. They may reward you with a lower interest rate as a result.
- Set up automatic payments. Many private student loan lenders offer discounts for putting your account on autopay. If you do this, just make sure you have enough money in your bank account before each payment comes through.
- Consider several lenders. Every lender has different overhead costs and appetites for risk, so their rates and terms vary too. Shopping around and comparing several lenders can ensure you get the lowest rate possible.
- Work on your credit. Increasing your credit score can be a great way to get a lower interest rate. You can do this by paying down debts, paying your bills on time, and disputing any errors on your credit report.
You should also be careful to borrow only what you need. Taking out a student loan that’s too large will only result in more interest costs in the long run.
Federal vs. private student loans
Students have two loan options when paying for college: federal loans and private loans.
Federal loans are offered through the U.S. government and typically come with lower rates and more favorable terms than private ones. They’re not based on your credit score and offer a wide array of repayment options.
Some federal loans may even be forgivable if you go into a public service career. For these reasons, it’s important to exhaust your federal loan options before moving on to private ones. You can use the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to apply for these loans, as well as other types of federal financial aid.
Private lenders, banks, and credit unions offer private loans. They have higher rates than federal loans and usually have fewer repayment options. In some cases, you can qualify for rate discounts with a private lender — often for setting up automatic payments.
A key difference to note with private student loans is that you may need to start repaying them while still in school. Federal loans have a built-in grace period until six months after graduation. You may also need a cosigner to qualify, as eligibility is largely based on credit score and income.
Many people use both federal and private loans to pay for their education, especially as college costs rise. If you do opt for private loans, it’s critical that you shop around for your lender. Every lender offers different terms and rates, so comparing your options is key to getting the best deal possible.
You can use a rate-shopping marketplace like Credible to learn more about private student loans and get personalized rates from multiple lenders without affecting your credit score.
What credit score do you need for private student loans?
Credit score minimums vary by lender. Though some lenders allow for lower credit scores (Ascent, for example, allows for scores as low as 600), a low score does result in higher interest rates and a more expensive loan in the long run.
If you have little credit or a low credit score, you may want to include a cosigner — or someone that’s responsible for making payments on the loan if you default. It’s best to choose a family member, like a parent or grandparent. If they agree, they’ll need to apply for the loan with you and sign the documents. They won’t need to make payments unless you fail to do so.
If you opt for a cosigner, make sure to choose one that has a strong credit history and a high credit score. This will help qualify you for the lowest rates and, in turn, lower monthly payments.
You have other ways to combat a bad credit score too. You can sign up for a secured credit card and gradually improve your score over time, or you can take steps like paying down debts, disputing errors on your credit report, and setting your bills on autopay (late payments can take quite a toll on your score).
Private student loan FAQs
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about private student loans.
How do private student loans work?
Private lenders issue private student loans. You’ll apply with the lender directly, and they’ll run a credit check and ask for various forms of financial documentation.
If you’re approved, the lender will send your student loan money directly to the school where you’re enrolled. The school will then use the funds to cover your tuition and other costs, and you’ll get a refund for any money left over.
Depending on the terms of your loan, you may need to start making payments within a few months. In some cases, your lender may offer a grace period until after graduation (or you’re no longer enrolled at least half-time).
How do you qualify for a private student loan?
Private student loan lenders primarily base your eligibility on credit score, income, and debt-to-income ratio. They want to be sure you have the funds to repay the loan.
The exact requirements vary by lender, but in general you’ll need a credit score of at least 600 to qualify and enough income to cover your expected monthly payment.
What happens after you apply for a private student loan?
After you apply for a private student loan, the lender will run your credit and evaluate your application and documentation. If it deems you eligible for a loan, it’ll present you with an official quote that details your loan amount, interest rate, and other terms.
You’ll want to get quotes from at least a few different lenders and compare each one’s fees, rates, and repayment terms. This will help you choose the best loan for your needs.
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More consumers shopping for new auto insurance to save money: J.D. Power report
High gas prices and other inflation issues have caused more drivers to search for new auto insurance in an attempt to lower their rates, according to a recent report from J.D. Power.
The rate at which drivers were given new auto insurance quotes increased by 11.8% in the second quarter of 2022, and the switch rate increased by 3.6%, according to J.D. Power’s Quarterly Shopping List Report.
"Even some of the top carriers are taking extra measures to stay profitable in this challenging environment," J.D. Power stated in its report.
Car insurance companies with the highest levels of loyalty included Amica, USAA, Erie, NJM and MAPFRE. On the other side, providers with lower loyalty rates included Kemper, Progressive, ACG, National General and GEICO.
If you are looking for ways to lower your auto costs, you could consider switching your insurance coverage provider. Visit Credible to find your personalized car insurance quote without affecting your credit score.
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Consumers consider usage-based auto insurance
As consumers consider switching their auto insurance, they are looking to change their premium type to one with a usage-based program, the report said.
"As consumers search for lower premiums they are increasingly turning to usage-based insurance programs to help alleviate the increased mobility costs," J.D. Power said. "Since LIST began tracking both shopping and overall usage of UBI, we’ve seen a steady increase in adoption, particularly by those in the lower self-reported credit tiers, a trend that is likely to continue as macroeconomic pressures continue to impact consumers – particularly those who are price-sensitive."
Over the first quarter, there was a 33% surge in auto telematics adoption, according to TransUnion. This option allows companies to monitor consumers’ driving to help determine their premium. The number of customers who chose this option increased from 49% to 65%.
"More consumers are warming to the idea of using a telematics tool to enhance safe driving, while also lowering costs," Michelle Jackson, TransUnion's senior director of personal lines market strategy, said. "Consumers are shopping for lower premiums, better coverage and superior service from their insurer."
If you are looking for ways to lower your auto insurance premiums, you could consider comparing multiple plans and providers. Visit Credible to compare multiple insurance options at once and choose the best coverage option for you.
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Consumers reduce driving to save
Many Americans have changed their driving habits and plans to buy a car amid high gas prices and rising inflation, according to a recent survey from Quicken.
As prices rise across the U.S., many Americans said they've changed their daily lifestyles, including how much they eat out and the foods they buy, according to the survey. And about two-thirds (66%) also said they cut back on how much they’re driving.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of inflation, increased by 8.5% annually in July, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This was a drop from 9.1% in June but still remains near record highs.
The price of gasoline fell 7.7% in July, offsetting increased costs in food and shelter, according to the report. The energy index also declined 4.6% over the month, even as costs for electricity increased.
If you are struggling amid rising inflation, switching to a lower auto insurance premium could help you save money each month. Contact Credible to speak to an auto insurance expert to see if this is the right option for you.
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Californians plagued with feet-eating 'mini-shark' bugs
Beach goers in Southern California are being targeted by swarms of tiny, aggressive sea bugs who have an appetite for human feet.
The bugs, who have earned the nickname "mini shark," have been identified as water-line isopods (Excirolana chiltoni), a crustacean species that grows to be around 0.3 inches (0.8 centimeters) long and can form swarms of more than 1,000 individuals, according to Walla Walla University in Washington.
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The "mini-sharks" live in the shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean and seasonally migrate up and down the coast leaving in their wake beach goers hopping in pain.
The bugs quickly find barefoot waders, and will bite into their flesh, drawing blood. Since the animals are so small the bites are tiny but painful like a pin prick. Experts recommend rapidly shuffling the feet reduces but does not eliminate the number of bites.
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People attacked by the isopods describe the bite as being "painful" and "surprising," noting how the bugs looked like a group of tiny piranhas had attacked their feet and ankles. Those attacked noted that the pain faded after 15 to 20 minutes.
Southern California beaches have not issued any warning to swimmers at this point.
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Chicago's Pullman Porter Museum tells the story of African American and labor history
CHICAGO - They rode the rails by the thousands, making both African American and labor history.
Now, a museum dedicated to telling the story of the Pullman Porters is planning a major expansion on Chicago’s Southeast Side — and a big part of that story involves the American labor movement.
Dozens of community leaders and politicians attended a groundbreaking ceremony Monday outside the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum at 104th and Maryland — and there's a reason they did it on Labor Day.
"A lot of people don't know, Labor Day started here in the 9th Ward, in our community," said 9th Ward Alderman Anthony Beale. "So we need to promote that history and that's what this museum does."
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The museum first opened in 1995 to tell the story of the thousands of African Americans who worked as porters on Pullman sleeping cars, starting shortly after the Civil War and lasting well into the 20th century.
For many, the jobs served as an entry point into the American middle class.
"They stressed the value of education and instilled in their children self-pride, self-discipline and the spirit of unity and caring about their community," said museum founder Dr. Lyn Hughes.
In 1937, the Pullman Porters made labor history by forming the first African American union, which was later instrumental in the Civil Rights movement.
The tiny museum has been getting new attention thanks to the new Pullman National Monument, about a mile to the south. The new attraction, run by the National Park Service, is helping fuel the expansion of the Pullman Porter Museum.
"We're looking to double our footprint, so we'll have another 1,800 square feet in a building right next door," said David Peterson, the museum's director. "It's a $5.3 million project. Once again, it's the Jesse Jackson Civil Rights wing, which will be the expansion of the museum."
It's a story that hits home for Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller, whose great-grandfather was a Pullman Porter.
"Families were made stronger by these jobs," Miller said. "Grandpa Norman was able to see my grandfather become a Colonel in the US Army. See his great-granddaughter graduate from college. He was at my graduation."
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Dixmoor water main breaks expected to be fixed this week
DIXMOOR, Ill. - Final repairs to a series of water main breaks in Dixmoor are expected to be completed this week.
The village had five mains break last Monday, forcing a two-day closure of schools and a boil water advisory.
That order was lifted on Friday.
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India carnival ride plummets 50 feet, injuring multiple people – including children – in horrifying video
Multiple people, including at least five children, were injured after a high-rise swing at a fair in northern India malfunctioned and plummeted to the ground below.
The horrific moment, caught on camera, occurred Sunday around 9:15 p.m. on the Dussehra fairgrounds in the city of Mohali.
A video of the accident shows the high-rise spinning ride slowly ascending a column. The swing remains at the top for a moment before free-falling about 50 feet. The swing slams into the ground, causing several people to fly out of their seats. Screams are audible as the scene unfolds in front of horrified fair attendees.
Good Samaritans helped load the injured riders into police vans as there were no ambulances on the fairgrounds, local outlet NDTV reported. At least 16 people were injured and taken to a civil hospital in Mohali, according to the outlet.
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An eyewitness told the Hindustan Times that fairground bouncers threatened those who tried to help and fair organizers "fled the scene."
The attraction was supposed to close on August 31 but was recently extended until September 11.
The cause of the malfunction remains unclear at this time. Police have launched an investigation, saying they will "hold an inquiry and strict action will be taken against the guilty."
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Mohali is located in the state of Punjab, about 160 miles north of New Delhi.
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Parents honor son hit, killed while running across US to thank frontline workers
STILLWATER, Okla. - It was the point in their son’s journey when Mark and Julie Lambert started to feel at ease.
They were initially worried and expressed concerns when 32-year-old Grady Lambert told them he was going to run across the country, from Oregon to South Carolina, to thank frontline workers at various hospitals for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"He said, ‘I’m finishing this race one way or another, Mom,‘" Julie told FOX Television Stations.
On August 28, Grady was nearly halfway done with his journey when he was hit and killed by a pickup truck driver in Carson County, Texas, near Amarillo.
"The driver told the police that when he came over that crest [of the road], the sun hit his eyes and he did not see Grady," Julie said.
Grady’s mother said she knew something was wrong because she always tracked her son’s progress via Life360, a location-sharing app.
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On that fateful day, the app told her Grady was traveling 96 miles per hour. After calling authorities in the Amarillo area, she found out her son was sent to Northwest Texas Hospital where he was in a coma.
The Lamberts rushed to the hospital. After a few days, Grady — an organ and tissue donor — succumbed to his injuries.
"We were with Grady when he passed," Julie added. "He passed so peacefully, and we got to witness that and hold his hand and be with him. And I am so grateful for that."
Grady Lambert’s mission across the US
The Lamberts said their son was working as a bartender in Portland, Oregon, when the COVID-19 lockdown started, shuttering restaurants and bars.
"He struggled with seeing all of his co-workers having such a hard time with it," Julie said.
However, Grady was more struck by the toll the pandemic took on healthcare workers. He came up with a plan to stop by as many hospitals as he could to show them gratitude.
Grady Lambert posing with healthcare workers. (Credit: Julie Lambert)
"He just wanted to show compassion for people," Mark said.
"Grady was one of those genuine, authentic guys that ... the version of Grady that I knew was the version of Grady everybody else knew," Julie continued. "He didn’t change for anybody."
Grady started his journey on March 16 from Canon Beach, Oregon. He intended to reach Hilton Head, South Carolina, by the beginning of 2023, running mostly along Interstate 40 and stopping at hospitals along the way.
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Mark said his son had run a little over 2,100 miles before his death. He was planning to meet up with his family in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and stay for a few days before continuing on his journey.
"He was approaching the halfway mark," Mark said. "He was just finishing what we considered the most difficult, and to some degree dangerous, lag in the desert."
The Lamberts said they’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster since their son’s tragedy.
"We’ve loved him so big," Julie said.
Keeping Grady’s memory alive
The Lamberts said they have now started a scholarship fund in honor of their son’s memory and are accepting donations. They also have a GoFundMe page.
The scholarship will be awarded to a student at Lincoln Academy, where Grady once helped build a library as part of the Eagle Scouts. Graduates will have to pursue a healthcare career to be eligible.
In talking with his parents about the danger of running across the country, Grady said that if he didn’t finish the race, he wanted his parents to take his ashes and finish the race for them.
Right now, the Lamberts are figuring out a plan on how to do that after receiving several requests from people to join them. They do plan to continue to stop at hospitals as Grady intended.
The parents said announcements will be made on Grady’s Instagram page, which he originally launched to document his run.
Forgiving the driver
The family said they don’t know what became of the driver who hit Grady. They said the driver wasn’t arrested at the scene, and they don’t know if he was charged.
"All we do know ... that he [the driver] was pretty distraught, as you might imagine," Mark said. "We know it was certainly an accident."
Mark said he has come to a point where he has forgiven the driver; however, Julie said she’s in the process.
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The Lamberts said they have tried to reach out to the driver but were unsuccessful. Julie said she would feel better if the driver would reach out to them.
"When I say that, I think about Grady’s mission of compassion, and I try to have compassion for the driver," Julie continued. "Maybe he is just too overcome and couldn’t even fathom facing Grady’s parents."
"My heart hurts for him immensely, but I think I would appreciate ... him contacting us sooner or later. I think that would do my heart good," she said.
FOX Television Stations has reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety for comment.
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Steve Irwin honored by Bindi, Robert Irwin on 16th anniversary of his death: 'Amazing guardian angel'
Bindi Irwin honored her father and her daughter's "Grandpa Crocodile" on the 16th anniversary of his death.
"Crocodile Hunter" star Steve Irwin died in 2006 after being stung by a stingray while filming a wildlife documentary. Bindi was 8 years old at the time while her brother Robert was 2.
Bindi, now 24, shared a throwback photo of her and her father on Sept. 4.
"Grandpa Crocodile, I know you would’ve been the most incredible grandfather because you were such an extraordinary dad," she wrote. "Thank you for being an amazing guardian angel for Grace."
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Despite Steve's death happening before her daughter was born, Bindi has introduced her to the "Crocodile Hunter" through documentaries.
"He would’ve been a good, good grandpa," she said while pregnant with her daughter. "I don’t think we would’ve ever seen our daughter. He would’ve just whisked her away into the zoo, and it would’ve been perfect. But it is so nice that we’ll be able to introduce her to her grandfather through all of the documentaries. It’s really special."
The zookeeper paid tribute to her late father with her daughter's name, Grace Warrior.
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"My dad was the first person to create the term ‘Wildlife Warrior,’" Bindi previously told The Bump. "Being a Wildlife Warrior means to stand up and speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. We’ve been referring to our daughter as our Baby Wildlife Warrior. I know in my heart that she will forge her own path to make our planet a better place."
Bindi's brother Robert also shared his own tribute to the "Crocodile Hunter" on Instagram.
"It's Father's Day today in Australia, and I am sending my love to those who are missing their dad today," he wrote. "I cherish all the good times with my dad and feel grateful to be able to keep his memory and legacy alive."
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Uvalde students return to classroom for first time since shooting on Tuesday
UVALDE, Texas - Uvalde CISD students will return to the classroom on Tuesday for the first time since 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Students will return to classrooms with several new safety and security measures in place.
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The start of the school year was pushed back to give schools extra time to install new safety equipment and implement new safety procedures.
On the district's website, a new tracker is in place for parents to check the progress of the new safety upgrades.
Dalton and Uvalde Elementary have new eight foot high non-climb fences surrounding the school. Similar fences have already been ordered for several other schools in the district.
UVALDE, TX-AUG 30: Families arrive at Uvalde Elementary School to visit the new campus and meet faculty members on Monday, Aug. 30, 2022 in Uvalde, TX. Jalissa, 9, was in the cafeteria of Robb Elementary when a shooter came into the school and opened
Video cameras systems with additional cameras will also be installed on all campuses.
Every school in the district has received upgraded Wi-Fi and communication.
A report on the shooting found issues with radio reception inside the school limited communication between officers on scene.
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Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that 30 Department of Public Safety officers will patrol Uvalde CISD campuses from 6:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. this school year.
Mental health professionals who specialize in trauma and grief will be available to meet students at all campuses, and all district staff members received training on how to support students impacted by trauma.
Uvalde CISD superintendent Hal Harrell says the district is dedicating the school year to the 19 students and 2 teachers killed in the shooting on May 24.
"I encourage everyone in our school district and our community to use their inspiration to motivate you to do your very best," said Dr. Harrell.
Mural for Navaeh Bravo, a 10-year-old student killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. (Source: Uvalde CISD)
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Robb Elementary School
The roughly 550 students who attended Robb Elementary will be relocated to two other schools.
Robb Elementary School will not be used as a campus so "students and staff will not have to return to the building at the site of the tragedy," according to the district.
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Advances long-term strategy by providing platform for growth in value-based care
WOONSOCKET, R.I., DALLAS and NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS) and Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) ("Signify") have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8 billion.
Signify Health is a leader in Health Risk Assessments, value-based care and provider enablement. With a network of more than 10,000 clinicians across all 50 states and a nationwide value-based provider network, combined with its proprietary analytics and technology platforms, Signify Health is improving patient engagement, patient outcomes and care coordination for stakeholders across the health care system. Signify Health's clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health's unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
"Signify Health will play a critical role in advancing our health care services strategy and gives us a platform to accelerate our growth in value-based care," said CVS Health President and CEO, Karen S. Lynch. "This acquisition will enhance our connection to consumers in the home and enables providers to better address patient needs as we execute our vision to redefine the health care experience. In addition, this combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payor approach."
Signify Health's network of clinicians – physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants – utilize home-based visits to identify a patient's clinical and social needs, and then connect them to appropriate follow-up care and community-based resources in order for the patient to have a more connected, effective care experience. In 2022, Signify Health's clinicians expect to connect with nearly 2.5 million unique members in the home, both in-person and virtually, and on average they spend 2.5 times longer with a patient in the home than providers spend in the average primary care office visit.
Notably, since acquiring Caravan Health in March 2022, Signify Health has further expanded its focus on value-based care and population health. Today, Caravan is already a partner to over 170 providers participating in accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving Medicare beneficiaries with a focus on improving the health of underserved communities. Signify Health recently announced that its ACOs generated more than $138 million in gross savings in 2021, and in 2023 the Caravan business is expected to serve ACOs representing over 700,000 people – rivaling many standalone platforms. As part of CVS Health, Signify Health will continue to advance its extensive primary care enablement capabilities, including turnkey analytics, network, and practice improvement solutions, to help providers transition to value-based reimbursement and improve quality of care.
"Signify Health's mission is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier by using actionable intelligence to understand what's really impacting outcomes and cost today," said Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Signify Health. "As we carefully considered our long-term strategic options, we determined that CVS Health is the ideal partner, given its focus on expanding access to health services and helping consumers navigate to the best sites of care. We are both building an integrated experience that supports a more proactive, preventive and holistic approach to patient care, and I look forward to executing on our shared vision for the future of care delivery."
"We formed Signify Health and recruited Kyle and the team to build a strategic innovation platform focused on leveraging technology as a catalyst for connecting key health care stakeholders to drive better patient outcomes," said Matt Holt, Chairman of the Board, Signify Health and President of Private Equity and Managing Director at New Mountain Capital, which owns a majority stake in Signify Health. "Together with CVS Health, Signify is uniquely positioned to continue to lead the transformation to value-based care. We look forward to the significant impact this transaction will make on health care for years to come."
Following the close of the transaction, Kyle Armbrester will continue to lead Signify Health as part of CVS Health. Signify Health's extensive network of over 50 health plan clients and their members will further augment CVS Health's longstanding and leading offering of payor-agnostic solutions for a diverse set of health plan and employer clients.
Transaction details
CVS Health will acquire Signify Health's stock for $30.50 per share. CVS Health expects to fund the transaction with existing cash from its balance sheet and available resources and is committed to maintaining its current credit ratings. The transaction was approved by the Board of Directors at each of the respective companies. It is subject to approval by a majority of Signify Health's stockholders, receipt of regulatory approval and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Private equity funds affiliated with New Mountain Capital, which owns approximately 60% of the common stock of Signify Health, have agreed to vote the shares they own in favor of the transaction, subject to customary exceptions. CVS Health and Signify Health anticipate that the transaction will close in the first half of 2023.
"This is a major step as we continue to execute on our strategy," said CVS Health Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Shawn Guertin. "We expect the acquisition to be meaningfully accretive to earnings and, as a result, are increasingly confident we can achieve our long-term adjusted EPS goals as outlined at our Investor Day in December 2021."
Joint Conference Call and Webcast
CVS Health and Signify Health will hold a joint conference call for analysts and investors on September 6, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET. An audio webcast of the conference call will be broadcast simultaneously on the Investor Relations portion of the CVS Health website at investors.cvshealth.com where it will be archived for a period of one year.
Advisors
BofA Securities is serving as financial advisor to CVS Health. CVS Health was advised on legal matters by Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Dechert LLP, and McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are serving as financial advisors to Signify Health. Ropes & Gray LLP is acting as Signify Health's legal advisor.
About CVS Health
CVS Health® is the leading health solutions company, delivering care like no one else can. We reach more people and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and over 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that's managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day. Follow @CVSHealth on social media.
About Signify Health
Signify Health is a leading health care platform that leverages advanced analytics, technology, and nationwide healthcare provider networks to create and power value-based payment programs. Our mission is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier. Our solutions support value-based payment programs by aligning financial incentives around outcomes, providing tools to health plans and healthcare organizations designed to assess and manage risk and identify actionable opportunities for improved patient outcomes, coordination, and cost-savings. Through our platform, we coordinate what we believe is a holistic suite of clinical, social, and behavioral services to address an individual's healthcare needs and prevent adverse events that drive excess cost, all while shifting services towards the home.
CVS Health Contacts:
Media
T.J. Crawford
212-457-0583
CrawfordT2@CVSHealth.com
Investors
Larry McGrath
800-201-0938
investorinfo@cvshealth.com
Signify Health Contacts:
Media
Lynn Shepherd
610-613-7263
lshepherd@signifyhealth.com
Investors
Jason Plagman
investor.relations@signifyhealth.com
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of CVS Health Corporation ("CVS Health") or Signify Health. Statements in this press release that are forward looking include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the benefits of the proposed acquisition of Signify Health and the associated integration plans, expected synergies and revenue opportunities, anticipated future operating performance and results of CVS Health, the expected management and governance of Signify Health following the acquisition, and the expected timing of the closing of the proposed acquisition and other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement. By their nature, all forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and are subject to risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and/or quantify. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the right of CVS Health or Signify Health or both of them to terminate the merger agreement, including circumstances requiring a party to pay the other party a termination fee pursuant to the merger agreement; failure to obtain applicable regulatory or Signify Health stockholder approval in a timely manner or otherwise; the risk that the acquisition may not close in the anticipated timeframe or at all due to one or more of the other closing conditions to the transaction not being satisfied or waived; risks related to the ability of CVS Health and Signify Health to successfully integrate the businesses and achieve the expected synergies and operating efficiencies within the expected timeframes or at all and the possibility that such integration may be more difficult, time consuming or costly than expected; risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction; the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of CVS Health and Signify Health's common stock, credit ratings or operating results; the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of CVS Health and Signify Health to retain customers and maintain relationships with each of their business partners, suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally; the risk of litigation and/or regulatory actions related to the proposed acquisition; and other business effects, including the effects of industry, market, economic, political or regulatory conditions. Also, CVS Health's and Signify Health's actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements for a number of additional reasons as described in our respective Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section and under the heading "Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements" in our respective most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, our respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for our respective second quarters of 2022 and our respective Current Reports on Form 8-K.
You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on CVS Health's or Signify Health's forward-looking statements. CVS Health's and Signify Health's respective forward-looking statements are and will be based upon each company's management's then-current views and assumptions regarding CVS Health's proposed acquisition of Signify Health, future events and operating performance, and are applicable only as of the dates of such statements. Neither CVS Health nor Signify Health assumes any duty to update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, uncertainties or otherwise.
This press release may include non-GAAP financial measures that CVS Health uses to describe its performance. In accordance with SEC regulations, unless stated otherwise herein, you can find the definitions of these non-GAAP measures, as well as reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, on the Investor Relations Resources portion of CVS Health's website. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures determined or calculated in accordance with GAAP. CVS Health's definitions of its non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
This communication is being made in respect to the proposed transaction involving CVS Health and Signify Health. A meeting of the stockholders of Signify Health will be announced as promptly as practicable to seek stockholder approval in connection with the proposed transaction. CVS Health and Signify Health intend to file relevant materials with the SEC, including the filing by Signify Health of a preliminary and definitive proxy statement relating to the proposed transaction. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to Signify Health's stockholders. This press release is not a substitute for the proxy statement or any other document that may be filed by Signify Health with the SEC.
BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISION, SIGNIFY HEALTH STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY READ THE PRELIMINARY AND DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENTS (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE INTO THE PROXY STATEMENT WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION.
Any vote in respect of resolutions to be proposed at Signify Health's stockholder meeting to approve the proposed transaction or other responses in relation to the proposed transaction should be made only on the basis of the information contained in Signify Health's proxy statement. You will be able to obtain a free copy of the proxy statement and other related documents (when available) filed by Signify Health and CVS Health with the SEC at the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov or by accessing the Investor Relations section of Signify Health's website at https://www.signifyhealth.com or the Investor Resources section of CVS Health's website at https://investors.cvshealth.com.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release is for information purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute, or form part of, an offer, invitation or the solicitation of an offer or invitation to purchase, otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of any securities, or the solicitation of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction, pursuant to the proposed transaction or otherwise, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities in any jurisdiction in contravention of applicable law. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Participants in the Solicitation
CVS Health, Signify Health and certain of their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Signify Health's stockholders in connection with the proposed transaction. Information regarding CVS Health's directors and executive officers is contained in CVS Health's Definitive Proxy Statement for its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders filed with the SEC on April 1, 2022. Information regarding Signify Health's directors and executive officers, including a description of their respective direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in the proxy statement described above. These documents (when available) may be obtained free of charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by accessing the Investor Relations section of Signify Health's website at https://www.SignifyHealth.com or the Investor Resources section of CVS Health's website at https://investors.cvshealth.com.
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Sailors assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) visit Albion College in Albion, Michigan, September 2, 2022. Twelve Ford Sailors traveled to Michigan for the ship’s annual namesake visit to learn about the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford and connect with local community members in Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and Albion. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Zack Guth)
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Sailors assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) observe the Albion College marching band at Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium in Albion, Michigan, September 3, 2022. Twelve Ford Sailors traveled to Michigan for the ship’s annual namesake visit to learn about the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford and connect with local community members in Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and Albion. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Zack Guth)
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
The 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
Labor Day – Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 4pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy, with a high near 73. Light south wind. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight – Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Low around 63. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday – A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming northeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday Night – Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 11pm, then a slight chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday – A chance of showers, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Wednesday NightA chance of showers before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Thursday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
Thursday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 56.
Friday – Sunny, with a high near 81.
Friday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 57.
Saturday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
Saturday Night – A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday – A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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Tiffany Haddish has commented on the recent allegations against her concerning child sexual abuse. In an Instagram post, she said that, due to the ongoing legal case, she is incapable of saying too much, but has deep regrets about the sketch she and Aries Spears recorded, which was, in her words, intended to be comedic. She added that she looks forward to sharing more as soon as she can.
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Late last week, it was revealed that Haddish had been sued by a 22-year-old unnamed woman on behalf of herself and her younger brother, age 15. In a statement to V.F., Haddish’s lawyer, Andrew Brettler, denied the claims in the lawsuit. He added that the plaintiff’s mother, Trizah Morris, has “been trying to assert these bogus claims against Ms. Haddish for several years.”
“Every attorney who has initially taken on her case—and there were several—ultimately dropped the matter once it became clear that the claims were meritless and Ms. Haddish would not be shaken down,” Brettler continued, before countering that “now, Ms. Morris has her adult daughter representing herself in this lawsuit. The two of them will together face the consequences of pursuing this frivolous action.”
The suit claims that Haddish, with whom the plaintiff claims she was familiar enough to call “Auntie Tiff,” appeared in a video as a minor that was sexually suggestive. The claim alleges that the plaintiff, aged 14 at the time, was encouraged to recreate a mock sandwich shop commercial that involved “moaning and making sexual noises” while eating a sandwich “in a manner that simulated the act of fellatio.” The plaintiff charges that doing so made her “physically, emotionally, and mentally uncomfortable.”
Additionally, the plaintiff alleges that her younger brother was molested by Spears while shooting a video called “Through a Pedophile’s Eyes” that was then uploaded to Funny or Die. The comedy website told The Daily Beast that “Funny or Die found this video absolutely disgusting and would never produce such content. We were not involved with the conceptualization, development, funding, or production of this video. It was uploaded to the site as user-generated content and was removed in 2018 immediately after becoming aware of its existence.”
Spears's, through his attorney Debra Opri, has also denied all claims, and Opri told V.F. that the comedian “isn’t going to fall for any shakedown.”
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BREAKING NEWS: Driver Killed as Pickup Crashes into House in Ringgold Township
RINGGOLD TWP., Pa. (EYT) – An area man was killed when his pickup traveled off the roadway and crashed into a house in Ringgold Township on Monday morning.
According to Punxsutawney-based State Police, the crash occurred around 8:41 a.m. on Monday, September 5, as 66-year-old David R. Hepler, of Punxsutawney, was traveling north on Ringgold Timblin Road, in Ringgold Township, Jefferson County.
Police say Hepler drove off the left side of the roadway, and his 2012 Ford F-150XLT pickup struck a large pile of gravel, continued straight, and struck a two-story single-family residence where the vehicle came to a final rest.
Hepler was pronounced deceased on the scene. He was not using a seat belt.
The pickup sustained disabling damage and was removed from the scene by Brosius Towing.
PSP Punxsutawney was assisted on the scene by Hawthorn Fire Department, Ringgold Fire Department, and Clarion Hospital Ambulance.
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Stir-Fry Rice Bowl
This recipe is easy to tweak for different spice-level preferences!
Ingredients
1 tablespoon canola oil
2 medium carrots, julienned
1/2 cup sliced baby portobello mushrooms
1 cup bean sprouts
1 cup fresh baby spinach
1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon chili garlic sauce
4 large eggs
3 cups hot cooked brown rice
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Directions
-In a large skillet, heat canola oil over medium-high heat. Add carrots, zucchini, and mushrooms; cook and stir for 3-5 minutes or until carrots are crisp-tender. Add bean sprouts, spinach, water, soy sauce, and chili sauce; cook and stir just until spinach is wilted. Remove from heat; keep warm.
-Place 2-3 in. of water in a large skillet with high sides. Bring to a boil; adjust heat to maintain a gentle simmer. Break cold eggs, one at a time, into a small bowl; holding the bowl close to the surface of the water, slip the egg into the water.
-Cook, uncovered, for 3-5 minutes or until whites are completely set and yolks begin to thicken but are not hard. Using a slotted spoon, lift eggs out of water.
-Serve rice in bowls; top with vegetables. Drizzle with sesame oil. Top each serving with a poached egg.
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Michaela “Mickee” Sue (Laird) Sheetz
Michaela “Mickee” Sue (Laird) Sheetz, 65, of Corsica, PA, passed away on Saturday, September 3, 2022, while at her home.
She was born on August 10, 1957, to Ida Leanne (Ivers) Barrett, in Rapid City, SD.
Mickee became an LPN at Jeff Tech, and held positions in the area at Penn Highlands Jefferson Manor, DRMC, Brookville Hospital, and Highland View.
In addition to her mother, Mickee is survived by four children; Jenifer (Marvin Richmond) Meley; Christian “C.J.” Long; Alyssa (Aaron Cross) Huffman; Autumn (Jeremiah) Stormer; five siblings; Robert (Lori) Laird; Jody (Sonia) Laird; Shaun Laird; Blaine (Tammy) Laird; Launi (Ray) Briggs; twelve grandchildren; Elanna Stormer; Aiden Stormer; Greyson Stormer; Devin Dempsey; Brady Dempsey; Stephan (Hope) Dempsey; Austin Dempsey; Keirsten (Clayton) Emery; Braedan Long; Parker Long; Paige Miller; Liam Forsythe; four great grandchildren; Jaxon Dempsey; Mavrik Dempsey; Josie Dempsey; Weston Emery; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mickee was preceded in passing by her maternal grandparents; Paul and Agnes Ivers.
Family and friends will be received on Thursday, September 8, 2022, from 1pm to 3pm at the McKinney – d’Argy Funeral Home, 345 Main Street, Brookville, PA 15825.
A funeral service will take place immediately following the viewing, beginning at 3:00pm and officiated by Pastor Brian Smeal.
Online condolences and other information may be found by visiting www.dargyfh.com.
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Motorcyclist Seriously Injured in Route 8 Collision
BUTLER CO., Pa. (EYT) – A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a two-vehicle collision on State Route 8 in Slippery Rock Township on Friday afternoon.
According to Butler-based State Police, the accident happened around 12:48 p.m. on Friday, September 2, on William Flynn Highway (Route 8) at its intersection with Branchton Road, in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County.
Police say 18-year-old Maya Zaffram, of West Seneca, New York, was traveling west on Branchton Road in a 2010 Honda Civic, and 71-year-old Gregory C. Sheakley, of Karns City, was traveling north on Route 8 on 2021 Harley Davidson FLHC motorcycle.
Zaffram proceeded into the intersection without proper clearance, and the Honda struck the Harley Davidson in a t-bone-style collision, according to police.
Sheakley then flipped off of the motorcycle and onto the northbound shoulder. Slippery Rock EMS transported him to Grove City Hospital for suspected serious injuries. He was using a motorcycle helmet.
Police say Zaffram was transported to Grove City Medical Center with arm, neck, shoulder, and back pain. She was using a seat belt.
She was charged with a traffic violation.
Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire Company assisted at the scene.
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WEATHER ALERT: Flood Watch Issued for Clarion County
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A Flood Watch has been issued for Clarion County and surrounding areas.
exploreClarion.com Weather Alerts for the Clarion County area are brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook.
The National Weather Service of Pittsburgh issued the following weather alert at 3:04 a.m. on Monday, September 5, 2022:
Flood Watch
The Flood Watch is in effect from September 5, at 4:00 a.m. EDT until September 5, at 11:00 p.m. EDT.
COUNTIES:
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…FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING…
* WHAT…Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE…
Portions of east central Ohio, including the following areas, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson OH, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas.
Portions of Pennsylvania, including the following areas, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Higher Elevations of Fayette, Higher Elevations of Westmoreland, Indiana, Jefferson PA, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Washington, and Westmoreland.
Portions of West Virginia, including the following areas, Brooke, Eastern Preston, Eastern Tucker, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Preston, Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston, Western Tucker, and Wetzel.
* WHEN…Through this evening.
* IMPACTS…Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…
– There is an increased threat of heavy rain today. The heavy rain combining with slow storm movement or storms repeatedly crossing the same locations will increase the risk of flash flooding.
– http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
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LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. — The Spokane Symphony has rescheduled its free Liberty Lake concert over concerns about air quality.
Now, the performance is rescheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m., at the Pavillion Park, located at 727 N Molter Rd., in Liberty Lake.
The concert was originally canceled over bad air quality. Now, with reports of the air clearing up after Labor Day, the beloved concert is back on to delight the masses.
The concert will have an array of music played by the Spokane Symphony. The genres will range from classical music to modern pop hits, patriotic hymns and iconic movie themes.
The Spokane Symphony Neighborhood concert series has been a beloved Labor Day special for more than 30 years. People are encouraged to bring chairs, picnic blankets, and loved ones to watch the concert.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga University has alerted students to a reported sexual assault on campus.
Gonzaga Campus Security & Public Safety received the sexual assault report on Sept. 4, 2022.
According to a notice released to students by campus security, the student reported the assault shortly after midnight on Sunday. The notice states that “The alleged responsible party is known to the reporting party.”
The student who reported the incident has been directed to the appropriate resources, and a Title IX investigation has been opened about the incident.
KREM 2 reached out to Gonzaga University and received the following statement from Jaime Aitken, director of Gonzaga communications:
“Gonzaga University officials have been notified that a sexual assault was reported as having occurred in a campus residence hall shortly after midnight on September 4, 2022. Per requirements of the Clery Act, the campus community has been timely notified; Gonzaga will follow Title IX policy and procedure. We will withhold further comment to preserve the privacy of those involved. Gonzaga has zero tolerance for any form of sexual abuse or misconduct, and support resources are being made available to those impacted.”
The original student notice was sent out as part of the Clery Act, an action that requires school campuses to provide warnings and notices of reports of crime, including sexual assault.
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WELDON, Saskatchewan — One of the suspects in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been found dead, and his injuries are not self inflicted, police said Monday as they continued the search for a second suspect.
Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said Damien Sanderson, 31, has been found dead and that they believe his brother, Myles Sanderson, 30, is injured and on the run. While Damien's body was found near the stabbing sites they believe Myles is in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan.
“His body was located outdoors in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined. We can confirm he has visible injuries. These injuries are not believed to be self inflicted at this point," said RCMP Commanding Officer Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore.
The discovery of the body came on the second day of a massive manhunt for the pair, who are suspected of carrying out a series of stabbings in an Indigenous community and a nearby town, which also left 18 people injured. It was the deadliest attacks in the nation’s history.
Authorities have said some of the victims were targeted and others appeared to have been chosen at random on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the town of Weldon in Saskatchewan. They have given no motive for the crimes— but a senior Indigenous leader suggested drugs were somehow involved.
While they believe Myles is in Regina, about 335 kilometers (210 miles) south of where the stabbings happened, authorities have issued alerts in Canada's three vast prairie provinces — which also include Manitoba and Alberta — and contacted U.S. border officials.
With one suspect still at large, fear gripped communities in the rural, working class area of Saskatchewan surrounded by farmland that were terrorized by the crimes. One witness who said he lost family members described seeing people with bloody wounds scattered throughout the Indigenous reserve.
“No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terrified to open their door,” said Ruby Works, who also lost someone close to her and is a resident of Weldon, which has a population of about 200 and is home to many retirees.
As the Labor Day holiday weekend drew to a close Monday, police urged Saskatchewan residents who were returning from trips away to look for suspicious activity around their homes before entering.
Arrest warrants have been issued for the pair of suspects and both men had faced at least one count each of murder and attempted murder. More charges were expected.
Police have given few details about the men. Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included Myles Sanderson, writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
While the manhunt continued, police also issued a provincewide alert for suspects in a shooting on the Witchekan Lake First Nation. Officials said the shooting was not believed to be connected to the stabbings, but such alerts are unusual and the fact that a second occurred while authorities were already scouring the Saskatchewan for the stabbing suspects was notable.
The stabbing attack was among the deadliest mass killings in Canada, where such crimes are less common than in the United States. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020, when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. In 2019, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Deadly mass stabbings are rarer than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
Canadian police got their first call about a stabbing at 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, and within minutes heard about several more. In all, dead or wounded people were found at 13 different locations on the sparsely populated reserve and in the town, Blackmore said. James Smith Cree Nation is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Weldon.
She couldn’t provide a motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested the stabbings could be drug-related.
“This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the chiefs and councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron.
As the manhunt stretched on, Regina Police Chief Evan Bray urged anyone with information to come forward.
Bray said they got a credible tip they were in Regina and he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that following a “very aggressive investigation” police believe they are still in the city.
The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation declared a local state of emergency.
Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson — who apparently is not related to the suspects — said everyone has been affected by the tragic events.
“They were our relatives, friends," Sanderson said of the victims. “It’s pretty horrific.”
Among the 10 killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns and the mother of their two daughters.
"It’s sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives,” Burns told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. “I’m hurt for all this loss.”
Burns later posted on Facebook that there were dead and wounded people everywhere on the reserve, making it look like "a war zone.”
“The look in their eyes couldn’t express the pain and suffering for all those who were assaulted,” he posted.
Weldon residents have identified one of the dead as Wes Petterson, a retired widower who made he coffee every morning at the senior center. He loved gardening, picking berries, canning, and making jam and cakes, recalled William Works, 47, and his mother, Sharon Works, 64.
“He would give you the shirt off his back if he could,” William Works said, describing his neighbor as a “gentle old fellow” and “community first.”
Sharon Works was baffled: “I don’t understand why they would target someone like him anyway, because he was just a poor, helpless little man, 100 pounds soaking wet. And he could hardly breathe because he had asthma and emphysema and everybody cared about him because that’s the way he was. He cared about everybody else. And they cared about him.”
The pair said there is hardly any crime in the rural town, except an occasional speeding ticket. They always left the door unlocked until the night of the slayings.
“Not even when I go to town, I don’t lock my door,” Sharon Works said. “But now I have to find my key to my house. I never used to lock the doors and nobody around here until this happened."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the flag above Canada’s parliament building in Ottawa would be flown at half-staff to honor the victims.
“Sadly, over these past years, tragedies like these have become all too common place. Saskatchewanians and Canadians will do what we always do in times of difficulty and anguish, we will be there for each other," Trudeau said.
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LONDON, UK — Liz Truss has been elected as the Conservative Party's new leader, the party announced Monday, and she will take office Tuesday as Britain's new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost-of-living crisis.
The 47-year-old Truss, who is currently foreign secretary, beat former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak after a leadership contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss received 81,326 votes, compared with Sunak’s 60,399.
She faces immediate pressure to deliver on her promises to tackle the cost-of-living crisis walloping the U.K. and an economy heading into a potentially lengthy recession.
Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally appoint Truss as Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday. The ceremony will take place at the queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, where the monarch is spending her summer, rather than Buckingham Palace in London.
The two-month leadership contest left Britain with a power vacuum at a time of growing discontent across the country amid spiraling energy and food costs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made no major policy decisions since he announced he was stepping down on July 7, and officials insisted that measures to address the energy cost crisis would be deferred until his successor is in place.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of workers have gone on strike to demand better pay to keep up with relentlessly rising costs. Inflation is above 10% for the first time since the 1980s, and the Bank of England has forecast that will reach a 42-year high of 13.3% in October. That’s largely driven by soaring energy bills, which will jump 80% for the average household starting next month.
“I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy. I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people’s energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply," Truss told party members after she was elected.
“I know that our beliefs resonate with the British people: Our beliefs in freedom, in the ability to control your own life, in low taxes, in personal responsibility," she added. “I know that’s why people voted for us in such numbers in 2019 and as your party leader I intend to deliver what we promised those voters right across our great country.”
Truss has won the support of many Conservatives with her zeal in rolling back state intervention and slashing taxes. Both she and her rival Sunak have spoken of their admiration for Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and her free-market, small-government economics.
But it's not clear how Truss’s right-wing brand of conservatism, which played so well with party members — who represent far less than 1% of the U.K.'s adult population — will go down with the wider British public, especially those most in need of government relief to afford essentials like heating their homes this winter.
Truss has promised to act “immediately” to tackle soaring energy bills, but declined to give any details so far.
“The Conservative Party members wanted that message of tax cutting. The country, I would guess, less so,” said Bronwen Maddox, director of London's Chatham House think tank.
“At the moment you’ve got people deeply rattled, many very, very afraid going into a year where all they can see are rising costs," Maddox added. "Until she’s got an answer on that, she doesn’t have a claim to the popularity of the country, I think."
While the economy is certain to dominate the first months of the new premier’s term, Truss will also have to steer the U.K. on the international stage in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, an increasingly assertive China and ongoing tensions with the European Union over the aftermath of Brexit — especially in Northern Ireland.
Truss will be the U.K.’s fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, entering Downing Street following Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron.
Johnson was forced to resign after a series of ethics scandals that peaked in July, when dozens of cabinet ministers and lower-level officials quit in protest over his handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by a senior member of his government.
Both Truss and Sunak were key players within Johnson’s Cabinet, though Sunak resigned in the last days of Johnson’s time in office.
A Truss government may not sit well with many because it reminds voters too much of Johnson’s misdeeds, said Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at Nottingham University.
“She’s basically been elected as Boris Johnson 2.0 by Conservative members — she’s made it very clear that she is a loyal Boris Johnson supporter,” he said. “I think she’s going to find it very difficult to disentangle herself from the whole Johnson shadow.”
Truss and Sunak were the final two candidates whittled down from an initial field of 11 leadership hopefuls.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one Afghan civilian in a rare attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.
The blast went off at the entrance to the embassy’s consular section, where Afghans were waiting for news about their visas, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and the state news agency RIA Novosti. A Russian diplomat had emerged from the building to call out the names of candidates for visas when the explosion occurred, the agency said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility late Monday, saying a militant wearing an explosive belt blew up at the embassy entrance.
It was the latest in a series of bombings and other attacks since the Taliban seized power a year ago, deposing a Western-backed government and capping their 20-year insurgency.
Monday’s bombing, however, appeared to the first to target a foreign diplomatic mission in Kabul since the Taliban takeover. The campaign of attacks has largely targeted Taliban positions or mosques of minority groups, particularly Shiites. They have largely been blamed on the Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan, which opposes the Taliban and harbors a virulent hatred of Shiites, considering them heretics.
It was not immediately clear why militants targeted the Russian Embassy in particular.
The Russian mission is one of only a couple of international missions still operating and performing consular services in Kabul — and the only European one. Most nations closed their embassies when the Taliban captured Kabul in August 2021 as the U.S. and NATO withdrew their troops. No country has recognized the Taliban government.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the explosion “a terrorist act, absolutely unacceptable.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the embassy enhanced its security after the attack and additional Taliban authorities, including intelligence agents, were brought in.
“Let’s hope that the organizers of this terrorist act and its perpetrators will be punished,” Lavrov said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said an unknown militant set off an explosive device right outside the consular section’s entrance. It said two members of the diplomatic mission were killed, “and there are also casualties among Afghan citizens.”
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said at least one Afghan civilian was killed and 10 others wounded.
Zadran said security forces saw and shot the suicide bomber before he could get closer to the crowd outside the embassy. It was not immediately clear if the attacker was able to set off the blast before being shot, or if the gunfire detonated the explosives.
Attacks on embassies were rare even during the two-decade war between the Taliban and the Western-backed government. In 2017, the Taliban set off a massive truck bomb in a district where many government buildings and embassies were located, killing more than 90 Afghans and heavily damaging the nearby German Embassy. In 2015, a Taliban car bomb went off by the Spanish Embassy, killing a security guard.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in late June that Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan take part in running the country.
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UVALDE, Texas — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.”
For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be going back to school as classes resume Tuesday in the small, southwest Texas city. The start of school will look different for her, as for other survivors of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 21 people died, with an emphasis on healing, both physically and mentally. Some have opted for virtual education, others for private school. Many will return to Uvalde school district campuses, though Robb Elementary itself will never reopen.
“I’m trying to make sense of everything,” Avila said in an August interview, “but it is never going to make sense.”
A scar down her torso brings her to tears as a permanent reminder of the horror she endured with her 16 students as they waited in their classroom for an hour for help while a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms nearby.
Minutes before she felt the sharp pain of the bullet piercing her intestine and colon, Avila was motioning students away from the walls and windows and closer to her. A student lined up by the door for recess had just told her something was going on outside: People were running — and screaming. As she slammed the classroom door so the lock would catch, her students took their well-practiced lockdown positions.
Moments later, a gunman stormed into their fourth-grade wing and began spraying bullets before ultimately making his way into rooms 111 and 112.
In room 109, Avila repeatedly texted for help, according to messages reviewed by The Associated Press. First at 11:35 a.m. in the text to her family that she says was meant for the teacher group chat. Then at 11:38 in a message to the school’s vice principal. At 11:45, she responded to a text from the school's counselor asking if her classroom was on lockdown with: “I’m shot, send help.” And when the principal assured her that help was on the way, she replied simply: “Help.”
“Yes they are coming,” the principal wrote back at 11:48 a.m.
It's unclear whether her messages were relayed to police. District officials did not respond to requests for comment on actions taken to communicate with law enforcement on May 24, and an attorney for then-Principal Mandy Gutierrez was not available for comment.
According to a legislative committee’s report that described a botched police response, nearly 400 local, state and federal officers stood in the hallway of the fourth-grade wing or outside the building for 77 minutes before some finally entered the adjoining classrooms and killed the gunman. Lawmakers also found a relaxed approach to lockdowns — which happened often — and security concerns, including issues with door locks. State and federal investigations into the shooting are ongoing.
The district is working to complete new security measures, and the school board in August fired the district's police chief, Pete Arredondo. Residents say it remains unclear how — or even if — trust between the community and officials can be rebuilt, even as some call for more accountability, better police training and stricter gun safety laws.
Avila recalls hearing the ominous bursts of rapid fire, then silence, then the voices of officers in the hallway yelling, “Crossfire!” and later more officers standing nearby.
“But still nobody came to help us,” she said.
As Avila lay motionless, unable to speak loud enough to be heard, some of her students nudged and shook her. She wished for the strength to tell them she was still alive.
A light flashed into their window, but nobody identified themselves. Scared it might be the gunman, the students moved away.
“The little girls closest to me kept patting me and telling me, ‘It’s going to be OK miss. We love you miss,’” Avila said.
Finally, at 12:33 p.m. a window in her classroom broke. Officers arrived to evacuate her students — the last to be let out in the area, according to Avila.
With her remaining strength, Avila pulled herself up and helped usher students onto chairs and tables and through the window. Then, clutching her side, she told an officer she was too weak to jump herself. He came through the window to pull her out.
“I never saw my kids again. I know they climbed out the window and I could just hear them telling them, `Run, run, run!’” Avila said.
She remembers being taken to the airport, where a helicopter flew her to a San Antonio hospital. She was in and out of care until June 18.
Avila later learned that a student in her class was wounded by shrapnel to the nose and mouth but had since been released from medical care. She said other students helped their injured classmates until officers arrived.
“I am very proud of them because they were able to stay calm for a whole hour that we were in there terrified,” Avila said.
As her students prepare to return to school for the first time since that traumatic day, Avila is on the way to recovery, walking up to eight minutes at a time on the treadmill in physical therapy and going to counseling. She looks forward to teaching again someday.
Outside of a shuttered Robb Elementary, a memorial for the people killed overflows at the entrance gate. Teachers from across Texas stopped by this summer to pay their respects and reflect on what they would do in the same situation.
“If I survive, I have to make sure they survive first,” said Olga Oglin, an educator of 23 years from Dallas, her voice breaking.
“Whatever happens to a student at our school, it just happens to one of my kids,” Olgin said, adding that as the person to greet parents, students and staff at the door in the mornings, she likely would be the first person shot.
Ofelia Loyola, who teaches elementary school in San Antonio, visited with her husband, middle school teacher Raul Loyola. She was baffled at the delayed response from law enforcement, as seen on security and police video.
“They are all kids. It doesn’t matter how old they are, you protect them,” she said.
Last week, Avila and several of her students met for the end-of-year party they were unable to have in May. They played in the pool at a country club and she gave them each a bracelet with a little cross to remind them that “God was with us that day and they are not alone,” she said.
“We always talked about being kind, being respectful, taking care of each other — and they were able to do that on that day,” Avila said.
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BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets sank Monday as Europe faced a new squeeze on Russian gas supplies.
London and Frankfurt opened lower. Tokyo, Hong Kong and South Korea fell while Shanghai gained. Oil prices rose more than $2 per barrel while the euro edged lower.
Markets were roiled by Russian energy giant Gazprom’s announcement Friday that a suspension of gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be extended indefinitely. That adds to shortages in Germany and other economies.
In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London lost 1.1% to 7,198.73 and the DAX in Frankfurt tumbled 3.2% to 12,628.44., The CAC 40 in France fell 2% to 6,047.28.
Gazprom’s announcement puts European stocks under “heavy pressure,” said Chris Turner of ING in a report.
Also Friday, U.S. government data showed hiring slowed in August but wages rose sharply. Forecasters said the Federal Reserve might see that as evidence more interest rate hikes are needed to bring down inflation that is at a four-decade high.
“Markets relinquished early optimism for a sense of foreboding,” said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 future was off less than 0.1%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained less than 0.1%.
The Dow also fell 1.1% on Friday after the Labor Department reported the U.S. economy added 315,000 jobs in August. That was down from July’s 526,000, but average hourly pay jumped by an unusually wide margin of 5.2% compared with a year earlier.
The Nasdaq composite lost 1.3%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.4% to 3,199.91 after the Chinese government tightened controls on movement in the southern business center of Shenzhen following virus outbreaks.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost 0.1% to 27,619.61 while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong tumbled 1.2% to 19,225.70.
The Kospi in Seoul lost 0.2% to 2,403.68 while Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 added 0.3% to 6,852.20.
New Zealand and Bangkok declined while Singapore and Jakarta advanced.
European economies face gas shortages after their governments agreed to wind down purchases from Russia to punish the Kremlin for invading Ukraine.
Last week, state-owned Gazprom announced a three-day suspension of gas supplies through Nord Stream 1 due to urgent maintenance work.
On Friday, the company said that would be extended indefinitely. Russia already has reduced supplies to countries that sided with Ukraine.
Meanwhile, traders are uneasily watching the Fed after chair Jerome Powell said Aug. 26 interest rates have to stay elevated to rein in surging inflation. That dashed hopes the Fed might back off due to signs U.S. economic activity is cooling.
The Fed has raised rates four times this year, twice by 0.75 percentage points, triple its usual margin.
Central banks in Europe and Asia also have hiked rates, fueling worries they might derail global economic growth.
The U.S. market has given up much of the gains made in July and August when traders hoped the Fed might ease up.
Traders expect another 0.75 percentage point rate hike at this month’s Fed meeting, according to CME Group.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained $2.18 to $89.05 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 26 cents to $86.87 on Friday. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, added $2.54 to $95.56 per barrel in London. It advanced 66 cents the previous session to $93.02.
The dollar advanced to 140.50 yen from Friday’s 140.13 yen. The euro declined to 99.26 cents from 99.64 cents. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-asian-stocks-follow-wall-street-lower-after-us-jobs-report-2/ | 2022-09-05T22:59:47Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-asian-stocks-follow-wall-street-lower-after-us-jobs-report-2/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 33 |
BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets sank Monday as Europe faced a new squeeze on Russian gas supplies.
London and Frankfurt opened lower. Tokyo, Hong Kong and South Korea fell while Shanghai gained. Oil prices rose more than $2 per barrel while the euro edged lower.
Markets were roiled by Russian energy giant Gazprom’s announcement Friday that a suspension of gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be extended indefinitely. That adds to shortages in Germany and other economies.
In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London lost 1.1% to 7,198.73 and the DAX in Frankfurt tumbled 3.2% to 12,628.44., The CAC 40 in France fell 2% to 6,047.28.
Gazprom’s announcement puts European stocks under “heavy pressure,” said Chris Turner of ING in a report.
Also Friday, U.S. government data showed hiring slowed in August but wages rose sharply. Forecasters said the Federal Reserve might see that as evidence more interest rate hikes are needed to bring down inflation that is at a four-decade high.
“Markets relinquished early optimism for a sense of foreboding,” said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 future was off less than 0.1%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained less than 0.1%.
The Dow also fell 1.1% on Friday after the Labor Department reported the U.S. economy added 315,000 jobs in August. That was down from July’s 526,000, but average hourly pay jumped by an unusually wide margin of 5.2% compared with a year earlier.
The Nasdaq composite lost 1.3%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.4% to 3,199.91 after the Chinese government tightened controls on movement in the southern business center of Shenzhen following virus outbreaks.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost 0.1% to 27,619.61 while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong tumbled 1.2% to 19,225.70.
The Kospi in Seoul lost 0.2% to 2,403.68 while Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 added 0.3% to 6,852.20.
New Zealand and Bangkok declined while Singapore and Jakarta advanced.
European economies face gas shortages after their governments agreed to wind down purchases from Russia to punish the Kremlin for invading Ukraine.
Last week, state-owned Gazprom announced a three-day suspension of gas supplies through Nord Stream 1 due to urgent maintenance work.
On Friday, the company said that would be extended indefinitely. Russia already has reduced supplies to countries that sided with Ukraine.
Meanwhile, traders are uneasily watching the Fed after chair Jerome Powell said Aug. 26 interest rates have to stay elevated to rein in surging inflation. That dashed hopes the Fed might back off due to signs U.S. economic activity is cooling.
The Fed has raised rates four times this year, twice by 0.75 percentage points, triple its usual margin.
Central banks in Europe and Asia also have hiked rates, fueling worries they might derail global economic growth.
The U.S. market has given up much of the gains made in July and August when traders hoped the Fed might ease up.
Traders expect another 0.75 percentage point rate hike at this month’s Fed meeting, according to CME Group.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained $2.18 to $89.05 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 26 cents to $86.87 on Friday. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, added $2.54 to $95.56 per barrel in London. It advanced 66 cents the previous session to $93.02.
The dollar advanced to 140.50 yen from Friday’s 140.13 yen. The euro declined to 99.26 cents from 99.64 cents. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-asian-stocks-follow-wall-street-lower-after-us-jobs-report-2/ | 2022-09-05T22:59:47Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-asian-stocks-follow-wall-street-lower-after-us-jobs-report-2/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 33 |
LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal information in violation of strict European Union data privacy rules.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said by email Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros ($402 million), though the full details won’t be released until next week.
The penalty is the second-biggest issued under the EU’s stringent privacy rules, after Luxembourg’s regulators fined Amazon 746 million euros last year.
Instagram parent Meta, which also owns Facebook, said that while it had “engaged fully” with regulators throughout the investigation, “we disagree with how this fine was calculated and intend to appeal it.”
The Irish watchdog’s investigation centered on how Instagram displayed the personal details of users ages 13 to 17, including email addresses and phone numbers. The minimum age for Instagram users is 13.
The investigation began after a data scientist found that users, including those under 18, were switching to business accounts and had their contact information displayed on their profiles. Users were apparently doing it to see statistics on how many likes their posts were getting after Instagram started removing the feature from personal accounts in some countries to help with mental health.
Instagram said the inquiry focused on “old settings” that were updated more than a year ago, and it has since released new privacy features for teens, including automatically setting their accounts to private when they join.
“We’re continuing to carefully review the rest of the decision,” the company said.
Under the EU’s data privacy rules, the Irish watchdog is the lead regulator for many U.S. tech companies with European headquarters in Dublin.
The watchdog has a raft of other inquiries into Meta-owned companies. Last year, it fined WhatsApp 225 million euros for breaching rules on transparency about sharing people’s data with other Meta companies. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-irish-regulators-fine-instagram-405m-euros-for-data-breach/ | 2022-09-05T23:00:23Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-irish-regulators-fine-instagram-405m-euros-for-data-breach/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 35 |
LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal information in violation of strict European Union data privacy rules.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said by email Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros ($402 million), though the full details won’t be released until next week.
The penalty is the second-biggest issued under the EU’s stringent privacy rules, after Luxembourg’s regulators fined Amazon 746 million euros last year.
Instagram parent Meta, which also owns Facebook, said that while it had “engaged fully” with regulators throughout the investigation, “we disagree with how this fine was calculated and intend to appeal it.”
The Irish watchdog’s investigation centered on how Instagram displayed the personal details of users ages 13 to 17, including email addresses and phone numbers. The minimum age for Instagram users is 13.
The investigation began after a data scientist found that users, including those under 18, were switching to business accounts and had their contact information displayed on their profiles. Users were apparently doing it to see statistics on how many likes their posts were getting after Instagram started removing the feature from personal accounts in some countries to help with mental health.
Instagram said the inquiry focused on “old settings” that were updated more than a year ago, and it has since released new privacy features for teens, including automatically setting their accounts to private when they join.
“We’re continuing to carefully review the rest of the decision,” the company said.
Under the EU’s data privacy rules, the Irish watchdog is the lead regulator for many U.S. tech companies with European headquarters in Dublin.
The watchdog has a raft of other inquiries into Meta-owned companies. Last year, it fined WhatsApp 225 million euros for breaching rules on transparency about sharing people’s data with other Meta companies. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-irish-regulators-fine-instagram-405m-euros-for-data-breach/ | 2022-09-05T23:00:23Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-irish-regulators-fine-instagram-405m-euros-for-data-breach/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 35 |
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Monday upheld a motion from Russian authorities to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that for years has been critical of the Kremlin, the latest move in a months-long crackdown on independent media, opposition activists and human rights groups.
The ruling against Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s most renowned independent newspaper, comes amid Russia’s grinding military campaign in Ukraine and the Kremlin’s effort to silence critics of what it calls a “special military operation.”
Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize-winning editor-in-chief of the newspaper, called the ruling on Monday “political” and “not having the slightest legal basis,” and he promised to contest it.
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media and internet regulator, petitioned the court to revoke Novaya Gazeta’s license, accusing it of failing to submit the newsroom charter to authorities on time.
Novaya Gazeta announced March 28 that it was suspending operations for the duration of what it referred to in quotation marks as “the special operation” in Ukraine, the term that Russian authorities insist media must use for the military action in Ukraine.
Its team, however, launched a new project, Novaya Gazeta Europe, from abroad, criticizing the operation in Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor.
Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia’s Kremlin-controlled parliament approved legislation that outlawed alleged disparaging of the Russian military or the spread of “false information” about the country’s military operation in Ukraine.
Dozens of Russian independent media outlets were banned as a result, while other announced halting any reporting related to Ukraine.
The U.N. Human Rights Office condemned the ruling in a statement Monday.
“The judgment against Novaya Gazeta is yet another blow to the independence of Russian media whose activities have been further compromised by legal restrictions and increased state controls imposed following” Russia’s military action in Ukraine, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-russia-revokes-media-license-of-top-independent-newspaper/ | 2022-09-05T23:00:51Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-russia-revokes-media-license-of-top-independent-newspaper/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Monday upheld a motion from Russian authorities to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that for years has been critical of the Kremlin, the latest move in a months-long crackdown on independent media, opposition activists and human rights groups.
The ruling against Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s most renowned independent newspaper, comes amid Russia’s grinding military campaign in Ukraine and the Kremlin’s effort to silence critics of what it calls a “special military operation.”
Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize-winning editor-in-chief of the newspaper, called the ruling on Monday “political” and “not having the slightest legal basis,” and he promised to contest it.
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media and internet regulator, petitioned the court to revoke Novaya Gazeta’s license, accusing it of failing to submit the newsroom charter to authorities on time.
Novaya Gazeta announced March 28 that it was suspending operations for the duration of what it referred to in quotation marks as “the special operation” in Ukraine, the term that Russian authorities insist media must use for the military action in Ukraine.
Its team, however, launched a new project, Novaya Gazeta Europe, from abroad, criticizing the operation in Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor.
Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia’s Kremlin-controlled parliament approved legislation that outlawed alleged disparaging of the Russian military or the spread of “false information” about the country’s military operation in Ukraine.
Dozens of Russian independent media outlets were banned as a result, while other announced halting any reporting related to Ukraine.
The U.N. Human Rights Office condemned the ruling in a statement Monday.
“The judgment against Novaya Gazeta is yet another blow to the independence of Russian media whose activities have been further compromised by legal restrictions and increased state controls imposed following” Russia’s military action in Ukraine, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-russia-revokes-media-license-of-top-independent-newspaper/ | 2022-09-05T23:00:51Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-russia-revokes-media-license-of-top-independent-newspaper/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was on the new sanctions list, as were several American senators: Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the group, which also included business leaders, academics and government officials, would be banned permanently from entering Russia.
Previous rounds of Russian sanctions against Americans have included President Joe Biden and members of his family, as well as lawmakers and business leaders. The U.S. has sanctioned numerous Russians, including government officials and business people.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-russia-sanctions-25-more-americans-including-penn-stiller/ | 2022-09-05T23:01:43Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-russia-sanctions-25-more-americans-including-penn-stiller/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 27 |
Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was on the new sanctions list, as were several American senators: Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the group, which also included business leaders, academics and government officials, would be banned permanently from entering Russia.
Previous rounds of Russian sanctions against Americans have included President Joe Biden and members of his family, as well as lawmakers and business leaders. The U.S. has sanctioned numerous Russians, including government officials and business people.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-russia-sanctions-25-more-americans-including-penn-stiller/ | 2022-09-05T23:01:43Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-russia-sanctions-25-more-americans-including-penn-stiller/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 27 |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in a former Taliban stronghold near the border with Afghanistan Monday, triggering a shootout that killed five soldiers and four insurgents.
Acting on intelligence, security forces launched the raid in North Waziristan, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a military statement.
North Waziristan and other former tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan were a base for the Pakistani Taliban and other militant groups until the army claimed that it cleared the region of insurgents. Occasional attacks have continued, however, raising concerns the Pakistani Taliban are regrouping in the area.
The Pakistani Taliban are a separate group but allies of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan a year ago as the U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout.
The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban, who are currently in peace talks with the government. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-5-pakistani-soldiers-4-militants-killed-in-shootout/ | 2022-09-05T23:04:02Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-5-pakistani-soldiers-4-militants-killed-in-shootout/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — The steel bands and brightly colored costumes of Caribbean Carnival came back to the streets of New York City, with the West Indian American Day Parade taking place in person Monday after a pandemic-induced hiatus.
Throngs of people made their way to the streets of Brooklyn, where one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture takes place, after two years of virtual events.
Brooklyn is where hundreds of thousands of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have put down roots and turned the Labor Day celebration into a must-do event, with onlookers and participants carrying flags from a slew of countries.
The main parade started in the late morning and was expected to go into the early evening. A separate street party known as J’Ouvert, commemorating freedom from slavery, was held in the early morning hours before the larger parade started off.
Outbreaks of violence have occasionally marred both the early morning and main parade, with the most high-profile being the 2015 death of an aide to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo from stray gunfire during the hours of J’Ouvert, which used to start even earlier and was more informal.
Since then, a formal start time for J’Ouvert was instituted, along with checkpoints for entry, as well as an increase in police presence on the day.
Police had not reported any incidents in connection with Monday’s events. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-colorful-west-indian-day-parade-returns-to-nyc-streets/ | 2022-09-05T23:04:37Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-colorful-west-indian-day-parade-returns-to-nyc-streets/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of flights were grounded and more than 200 people evacuated in South Korea on Monday as Typhoon Hinnamnor approached the southern region with heavy rains and winds of up to 170 kilometers (105 miles) per hour, putting the nation on alert for its worst storm in decades.
South Korea’s weather agency said the country will start to feel the full force of Hinnamnor, the strongest global storm this year, by early Tuesday when it is forecast to graze the southern resort island of Jeju before making landfall near the mainland city of Busan.
Government officials raised concern about potentially huge damage from flooding, landslides and tidal waves triggered by the typhoon, which comes just weeks after capital Seoul and nearby regions were hit with heavy rainfall that unleashed flashfloods and killed at least 14 people.
President Yoon Suk Yeol, who said he would stay at his office overnight to monitor the typhoon, urged maximum effort to prevent casualties during an emergency response meeting on Monday. Prime Minister Han Duk-soo called for proactive efforts to evacuate residents in areas vulnerable to flooding.
“This is forecast to be a historically strong typhoon that we never experienced before,” Han said.
Officials say Hinnamnor could bring more powerful winds than 2003 Typhoon Maemi, which left 117 people dead and was the strongest storm to make landfall in the country since the start of record keeping in 1904.
As of Monday evening, Hinnamnor was over the open sea 180 kilometers (112miles) southwest of Jeju. It has dumped more than 62 centimeters (24 inches) of rain in the central part of Jeju since Sunday, where winds were blowing at a maximum speed of 124 kph (77 mph) and were picking up.
South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety said there were no immediate reports of casualties. At least 11 homes and buildings were flooded in Jeju while more than 270 people were forced to evacuate in Busan and nearby cities because of safety concerns.
Around 370 domestic flights and 100 ferry services were grounded and hundreds of roads and bridges were closed nationwide as of Monday evening while more than 66,000 fishing boats returned to port.
Kindergartens and elementary schools in Seoul and all schools in Busan and nearby southern regions are scheduled to be closed or shift to online classes Tuesday, officials said.
North Korea was also bracing for Hinnamnor as it reported increasingly heavy rain in all parts of the country except for its border region with China. Agricultural workers across the country were engaged in “all-out efforts” to minimize damage to crops while officials were encouraged to take “double and triple emergency measures” to protect buildings and equipment from flooding and landslides, the North’s state media said.
South Korea’s military said North Korea also discharged water from a dam near its border with the South in an apparent preventive step without notifying its rival. South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said the North has so far ignored Seoul’s request to give notification before it releases water from the Hwanggang Dam.
Cities in eastern China suspended ferry services and classes and more than 100 flights were canceled in Japan on Sunday as Hinnamnor passed through the region. The typhoon is on track to move closer to eastern China later in the week. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-flights-grounded-in-south-korea-as-typhoon-hinnamnor-nears/ | 2022-09-05T23:04:44Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/ap-flights-grounded-in-south-korea-as-typhoon-hinnamnor-nears/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Advances long-term strategy by providing platform for growth in value-based care
WOONSOCKET, R.I., DALLAS and NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS) and Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) ("Signify") have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8 billion.
Signify Health is a leader in Health Risk Assessments, value-based care and provider enablement. With a network of more than 10,000 clinicians across all 50 states and a nationwide value-based provider network, combined with its proprietary analytics and technology platforms, Signify Health is improving patient engagement, patient outcomes and care coordination for stakeholders across the health care system. Signify Health's clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health's unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
"Signify Health will play a critical role in advancing our health care services strategy and gives us a platform to accelerate our growth in value-based care," said CVS Health President and CEO, Karen S. Lynch. "This acquisition will enhance our connection to consumers in the home and enables providers to better address patient needs as we execute our vision to redefine the health care experience. In addition, this combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payor approach."
Signify Health's network of clinicians – physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants – utilize home-based visits to identify a patient's clinical and social needs, and then connect them to appropriate follow-up care and community-based resources in order for the patient to have a more connected, effective care experience. In 2022, Signify Health's clinicians expect to connect with nearly 2.5 million unique members in the home, both in-person and virtually, and on average they spend 2.5 times longer with a patient in the home than providers spend in the average primary care office visit.
Notably, since acquiring Caravan Health in March 2022, Signify Health has further expanded its focus on value-based care and population health. Today, Caravan is already a partner to over 170 providers participating in accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving Medicare beneficiaries with a focus on improving the health of underserved communities. Signify Health recently announced that its ACOs generated more than $138 million in gross savings in 2021, and in 2023 the Caravan business is expected to serve ACOs representing over 700,000 people – rivaling many standalone platforms. As part of CVS Health, Signify Health will continue to advance its extensive primary care enablement capabilities, including turnkey analytics, network, and practice improvement solutions, to help providers transition to value-based reimbursement and improve quality of care.
"Signify Health's mission is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier by using actionable intelligence to understand what's really impacting outcomes and cost today," said Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Signify Health. "As we carefully considered our long-term strategic options, we determined that CVS Health is the ideal partner, given its focus on expanding access to health services and helping consumers navigate to the best sites of care. We are both building an integrated experience that supports a more proactive, preventive and holistic approach to patient care, and I look forward to executing on our shared vision for the future of care delivery."
"We formed Signify Health and recruited Kyle and the team to build a strategic innovation platform focused on leveraging technology as a catalyst for connecting key health care stakeholders to drive better patient outcomes," said Matt Holt, Chairman of the Board, Signify Health and President of Private Equity and Managing Director at New Mountain Capital, which owns a majority stake in Signify Health. "Together with CVS Health, Signify is uniquely positioned to continue to lead the transformation to value-based care. We look forward to the significant impact this transaction will make on health care for years to come."
Following the close of the transaction, Kyle Armbrester will continue to lead Signify Health as part of CVS Health. Signify Health's extensive network of over 50 health plan clients and their members will further augment CVS Health's longstanding and leading offering of payor-agnostic solutions for a diverse set of health plan and employer clients.
Transaction details
CVS Health will acquire Signify Health's stock for $30.50 per share. CVS Health expects to fund the transaction with existing cash from its balance sheet and available resources and is committed to maintaining its current credit ratings. The transaction was approved by the Board of Directors at each of the respective companies. It is subject to approval by a majority of Signify Health's stockholders, receipt of regulatory approval and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Private equity funds affiliated with New Mountain Capital, which owns approximately 60% of the common stock of Signify Health, have agreed to vote the shares they own in favor of the transaction, subject to customary exceptions. CVS Health and Signify Health anticipate that the transaction will close in the first half of 2023.
"This is a major step as we continue to execute on our strategy," said CVS Health Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Shawn Guertin. "We expect the acquisition to be meaningfully accretive to earnings and, as a result, are increasingly confident we can achieve our long-term adjusted EPS goals as outlined at our Investor Day in December 2021."
Joint Conference Call and Webcast
CVS Health and Signify Health will hold a joint conference call for analysts and investors on September 6, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET. An audio webcast of the conference call will be broadcast simultaneously on the Investor Relations portion of the CVS Health website at investors.cvshealth.com where it will be archived for a period of one year.
Advisors
BofA Securities is serving as financial advisor to CVS Health. CVS Health was advised on legal matters by Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Dechert LLP, and McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are serving as financial advisors to Signify Health. Ropes & Gray LLP is acting as Signify Health's legal advisor.
About CVS Health
CVS Health® is the leading health solutions company, delivering care like no one else can. We reach more people and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and over 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that's managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day. Follow @CVSHealth on social media.
About Signify Health
Signify Health is a leading health care platform that leverages advanced analytics, technology, and nationwide healthcare provider networks to create and power value-based payment programs. Our mission is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier. Our solutions support value-based payment programs by aligning financial incentives around outcomes, providing tools to health plans and healthcare organizations designed to assess and manage risk and identify actionable opportunities for improved patient outcomes, coordination, and cost-savings. Through our platform, we coordinate what we believe is a holistic suite of clinical, social, and behavioral services to address an individual's healthcare needs and prevent adverse events that drive excess cost, all while shifting services towards the home.
CVS Health Contacts:
Media
T.J. Crawford
212-457-0583
CrawfordT2@CVSHealth.com
Investors
Larry McGrath
800-201-0938
investorinfo@cvshealth.com
Signify Health Contacts:
Media
Lynn Shepherd
610-613-7263
lshepherd@signifyhealth.com
Investors
Jason Plagman
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Monday announced the long-awaited results of its investigation into the deadly shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, saying there was a “high probability” an Israeli soldier had mistakenly killed her during a raid in the occupied West Bank last May.
It was the closest that Israel has come to accepting responsibility for the shooting. But in a report that seemed to raise as many questions as it sought to answer, the military revealed no new evidence to back its claim that the Palestinian-American journalist might have been killed by Palestinian gunmen during a battle with Israel troops and Palestinian gunmen. It also said that no one would be punished for the shooting.
The conclusions were unlikely to put to rest an issue that has worsened what already were badly strained relations between Israel and the Palestinians. Both Palestinian officials and Abu Akleh’s family accused the army of evading responsibility for her killing.
“Our family is not surprised by this outcome since it’s obvious to anyone that Israeli war criminals cannot investigate their own crimes. However, we remain deeply hurt, frustrated and disappointed,” her family said in a statement.
Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American, was killed while covering an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on May 11. She had covered the West Bank for Al Jazeera for two decades and was a well-known face across the Arab world.
In a briefing with reporters, a senior Israeli military official said there was a “very high likelihood” that Abu Akleh was mistakenly shot by an Israeli soldier positioned inside an armored vehicle who thought he was aiming at a militant.
“He misidentified her,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under military briefing guidelines. “His reports in real time… absolutely point to a misidentification.”
“We know that he fired, but it could very well be that this happened from other fire,” he added.
Jenin is known as a bastion of Palestinian militants, and Israel has carried out raids there almost nightly since a string of deadly attacks inside Israel earlier this year, some of which were carried out by assailants from the area.
Repeating previous Israeli claims, the military official said the soldiers had been under continuous fire for almost an hour from multiple directions before Abu Akleh was shot. The army released several videos showing Palestinian militants firing automatic weapons and soldiers coming under fire that day.
But the military provided no evidence to support its claim that a fierce gunbattle was under way at the time that Abu Akleh was shot. Amateur videos as well as witness accounts have shown no evidence of militants in the vicinity and the area appeared to be quiet for several minutes before she was shot.
It also was unclear how Abu Akleh, who was wearing a helmet and vest marked “press” at the time, could be mistaken for a militant. The official only said that the soldier’s vision from inside the vehicle was “very limited,” causing Abu Akleh to be misidentified in a split-second decision.
He said the findings of the investigation had been turned over to the chief military prosecutor, who was satisfied with them and decided against a criminal investigation. That means no one will be charged in her death.
Critics have long accused the military of doing a poor job of investigating wrongdoing by its troops. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem accused the army of carrying out a “whitewash,” while Abu Akleh’s family and the Palestinian Authority both called for the case to be turned over to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The ICC has opened an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel in both Gaza and the West Bank.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, dismissed the announcement as “another Israeli attempt to evade responsibility for her killing.”
He said all evidence proves that “Israel is the culprit, that it killed Shireen, and it must be held responsible for its crime.”
The PA, Abu Akleh’s family and Al Jazeera have accused Israel of intentionally killing Abu Akleh, while a series of investigations by international media organizations, including The Associated Press, have found that Israeli troops most likely fired the fatal bullet. The United States concluded that an Israeli soldier likely killed her by mistake, but it did not explain how it reached that conclusion.
Al Jazeera’s local bureau chief, Walid Al-Omari, said Monday’s report was “clearly an attempt to circumvent the opening of a criminal investigation.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists called the Israeli findings “late and incomplete.”
“They provided no name for Shireen Abu Akleh’s killer and no other information than his or her own testimony that the killing was a mistake,” said Sherif Mansour, the group’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. “That does not provide the answers — by any measure of transparency or accountability — that her family and colleagues deserve.”
Israel has previously said she was killed during a complex battle with Palestinian militants and that only a forensic analysis of the bullet could confirm whether it was fired by an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian militant. However, a U.S.-led analysis of the bullet last July was inconclusive as investigators said the bullet had been badly damaged.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, declined to comment when asked about the investigation at a news conference.
The AP reconstruction of Abu Akleh’s killing lent support to witness accounts that she was killed by Israeli forces. Subsequent investigations by CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post reached similar conclusions, as did monitoring by the office of the U.N. human rights chief.
Abu Akleh rose to fame two decades ago during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli rule. She documented the harsh realities of life under Israeli military rule — now well into its sixth decade with no end in sight — for viewers across the Arab world.
Israeli police drew widespread criticism from around the world when they beat mourners and pallbearers at her funeral in Jerusalem. An Israeli newspaper reported that a police investigation found wrongdoing by some of its officers, but said those who supervised the event will not be seriously punished.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and has built settlements where nearly 500,000 Israelis live alongside nearly 3 million Palestinians. The Palestinians want the territory to form the main part of a future state.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The partner of a man suspected of trying to assassinate Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been arrested by police as investigators tried Monday to determine if the attacker was part of a wider plot.
Brenda Uliarte, the 23-year-old partner of Brazilian suspect Fernando André Sabag Montiel, was arrested Sunday night by Federal Police at a train station in the capital, Buenos Aires, according to images circulated by authorities.
She has not been charged, but officials were trying to determine if she had any role in the Sept. 1 incident in which a man pointed a Bersa 380 pistol at Fernández and pulled the trigger — though the loaded gun did not fire.
Officials also were trying to determine how and why data apparently had been wiped from a cellphone seized from Sabag Montiel when he was caught at the scene.
The apparent assassination attempt has shaken a nation where Fernández has been a central political figure for decades, serving as president from 2007 to 2015 following the term of her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, who took office in 2003.
A judicial source said Uliarte had been present in the area where the foiled attack took place, mixed among hundreds of Fernández’s sympathizers who had come to show support at a time she faces trial on corruption allegations. The source spoke on condition of anonymity due to rules governing case secrecy.
Sabag, 35, had lived in Argentina for more than two decades. Local news media have published images from his now-inactivated social media accounts showing him with arms tattooed with Nazi-like symbols.
Investigators say they are trying to determine why the gun did not fire and also to extract information from Sabag Montiel’s cellphone. Authorities say it came to Airport Security Police, who are in charge of trying to inspect it, reformatted, as if it had come from the factory.
An informatics investigator, Pablo Rodríguez told the Todo Noticias television channel that when a cellphone is confiscated, police should ensure it can’t be accessed externally by turning it off, removing the chip, putting it in airplane mode and leaving it in a bag that protects against external radiati9on.
“But is they didn’t do all that, the phone was active and it’s possible it could have been reset remotely.”
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister on Monday urged the European Union to stand firm against Russian energy “blackmail” and appealed for more weapons, including aircraft, for the war-ravaged country even as EU armament stocks run low.
“Russia wages a hybrid war in the European continent against the European Union. The gas blackmail, the oil blackmail, creation of the food crisis, migrant crisis, misinformation, cyberattacks,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
“But abandoning Ukraine alone against Russia — that would just be one of those steps for the further movement of Russia deeper into Europe. The only salvation is for Europe to be united,” he told reporters in Brussels after a meeting with senior EU officials.
The EU’s 27 member nations have been funneling weapons, ammunition and other assistance into Ukraine since Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24. The bloc has provided billions of euros in economic and refugee support. Sanctions are also gradually taking their toll on Russia’s economy, but concern is mounting that EU resolve may falter as inflation and energy prices rise.
However, Shmyhal insisted that Ukraine, which has been accepted as a candidate for future EU membership, still needs more help.
“Unfortunately, we see no signs that Russia is willing to stop the war. This is why we need more modern weapons, such as air defense, missile defense, anti-ship defense” as well as armored vehicles and aircraft, he said.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that “the European Union will continue supporting Ukraine, whatever threat, whatever blackmail Russia can put on us,” and that for “as long as it takes and as much as needed.”
But Borrell had warned earlier Monday that weapons stocks in the EU are running low and he urged member countries to better coordinate their spending on military materiel.
“The military stocks of most member states has been, I wouldn’t say exhausted, but depleted in a high proportion, because we have been providing a lot of capacity to the Ukrainians,” he said in a debate with European parliamentarians.
“It has to be refilled. The best way of refilling is doing that together. It will be cheaper,” he said.
At a meeting in the Czech Republic last week, EU defense ministers debated ways to better pool military materiel and resources, but also to bulk purchase ammunition and weapons like air defense systems which Ukraine continues to need.
Borrell warned Monday that if member countries keep expanding their military capabilities in the same way, “the result will be a big waste of money, because this is not a way of canceling our duplications — there are a lot of them — or filling our gaps.”
Borrell also rued what he believes was a missed opportunity for the EU to begin training the Ukrainian armed forces a year ago, many months before Russia launched its invasion more than six months ago, after several member countries requested such an operation.
“Unhappily we didn’t, and today we regret. We regret that last August we were not following this request, fulfilling this request,” he said. Had the EU responded at the time, Borrell said, “we would be in a better situation.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge kept up his bruising pace and hit his major league-leading 54th home run, connecting for the third straight day and sending the New York Yankees over the Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Monday.
Judge has homered in five of his last seven games for the AL East leaders. He snapped a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning when he hit a 3-1 slider from Trevor Megill (3-2) into the second deck in left.
“It’s getting hard to put into words what he’s doing,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Just a special season he’s in the midst of.”
The All-Star slugger reached 54 homers in his 131st game. He is on pace to hit 65 homers, four more than Roger Maris’ AL record in 1961. Judge has continued to play down his pursuit of history.
“Just trying to do what I can every single day,” Judge said. “I show up to work, prepared ready to go and do whatever it takes to help our team what it takes to get a win today. Whether it’s moving a guy over, driving a guy in, making a play on defense, that’s what I’m focused on.”
Judge reached 54 homers in New York’s 135th game; Maris hit his 54th when he connected off Washington’s Tom Cheney in New York’s 139th game on Sept. 6, 1961.
“I’m paying close attention to it. How could you not?” Boone said, adding, “it’d be pretty amazing.”
It was the ninth time in his career Judge homered in three straight games and third time this season.
Judge also doubled. His latest homer came after Gary Sánchez hit a 473-foot, two-run drive into the left field bleachers off Jameson Taillon in the fifth that tied it at 2.
Judge ended the game 18 homers ahead of Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber for the major league lead. He is 23 ahead of Houston’s Yordan Alvarez in the AL.
“Right now, especially the season he’s having, he’s always been a very good player, better than that even,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “This season he’s been as good of a player as any us of have seen in a long time.”
Sánchez tied the game by hitting for his 14th homer since the Yankees traded him along with Gio Urshela to Minnesota for Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ben Rortvedt on March 13.
After connecting, Sánchez watched the ball soar into the stands, dropped his bat and ran around the bases as some of his teammates pounded on the dugout rail.
Marwin Gonzalez also homered for the Yankees, ending a 0-for-29 skid with his first hit since July 6. Kiner-Falefa added his second homer this year in the seventh.
“It’s hard for me to just hit one,” Kiner-Falefa said of Judge. “For him to do what he’s been doing but still have base hits and contribute in other ways with walks, especially when guys don’t want to pitch to him, I think that’s what makes it so impressive.”
Greg Weissert (2-0) pitched 1 1/3 innings.
Clay Holmes pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 19th save.
Judge scored in the first when he doubled and scored on Donaldson’s single off the base of the left field wall. Judge scored just before Donaldson was tagged out at second after appearing to think he had homered.
New York went up 2-0 when Gonzalez hit a slider into the right field seats in the third.
FOR STARTERS
Taillon allowed two runs and six hits in five innings. Three of those came in the fifth inning and he was aided by rookie RF Oswaldo Cabrera’s fourth career outfield assist when Miranda was thrown out trying to stretch his single in the fifth.
Taillon pitched for the first time since exiting in the second inning Tuesday against the Angels when he took a comebacker off the forearm.
Minnesota’s Chris Archer allowed two runs and four hits in five innings and is winless in his last 10 starts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RF Max Kepler (hip tightness) was a late scratch. He struck out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth. …RHP Sonny Gray (right hamstring tightness) will throw his bullpen session Tuesday and his next start is being pushed back to Thursday’s series finale in New York
Yankees: DH Giancarlo Stanton was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth after fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth. Stanton grimaced and was unable to put any weight on his left foot. Boone said he’s not sure whether Stanton will be available for Tuesday night’s game. … LF Andrew Benintendi will have surgery on Tuesday after breaking a bone in his right wrist during a swing Friday night. Boone said Benintendi, acquired from Kansas City in late July, could play again this season. “I think the possibility of him returning is still in play,” Boone said. … 1B Anthony Rizzo (lower back) is expected to resume baseball activities Wednesday. Rizzo was originally scheduled to resume baseball activities Monday but experienced headaches as a side effect from an epidural shot. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (leg infection) may throw a bullpen session this week. … OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) hit in the cage and could begin a rehab stint next week.
UP NEXT
Minnesota RHP Joe Ryan (10-7, 3.88 ERA) opposes New York RHP Gerrit Cole (10-7, 3.28) on Tuesday. Cole allowed a career-high five homers in 2 1/3 innings June 9 in Minnesota.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees outfielder Andrew Benintendi will have surgery this week after breaking a bone in his right wrist, but the AL East leaders hope he can play again this season.
“I think the possibility of him returning is still in play,” manager Aaron Boone said after Monday’s 5-2 win over Minnesota.
The surgery is set for Tuesday.
Benintendi broke the hook hamate bone while taking a swing Friday night at Tampa Bay and was put on the 10-day injured list the next day.
An All-Star this season with Kansas City, the 28-year-old Benintendi was traded to the Yankees in late July. After a slow start with his new team, he recently began to produce more.
Benintendi is batting a combined .304 with 51 RBIs. He is hitting .254 with 12 RBIs in 33 games for the Yankees.
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Investment Expo: Minister of State for FCT woos Canadian investors
Canadian investors have been enjoined to leverage the favourable investment opportunities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to invest in agriculture, tourism, infrastructure development, transportation, healthcare, waste management and the hospitality industry.
Minister of State for FCT, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, made this call when she led a delegation of FCT to the just concluded inaugural Canada-Nigeria Investment Expo with the theme: “Creating Enduring Partnership” held at the Ontario Investment Trading Centre, Canada.
The Minister maintained that the participation of the FCT Administration in the investment summit has opened up more opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the Federal Capital Territory.
In a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja, on Monday by her Special Adviser on Media, Austine Elemue, Aliyu expressed satisfaction that various business groups in Canada have indicated interest to come and invest in Abuja, stressing that the Abuja Investment Company Limited (AICL) and Abuja Infrastructure Investment Centre (AIIC) would be working with the Ease of Doing Business unit to facilitate this process for speedy implementation.
According to her; “The Expo provided business investors from FCT and other parts of Nigeria with the opportunity to connect with Economic Development Organizations and Global Business leaders from across Canada to facilitate Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Public Private Partnership in Nigeria”.
Also, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, His Excellency, Adeyinka Asekun, in his remarks at the summit outlined the various efforts made by the Embassy that have yielded results.
He said one of such moves was the Canadian Governor General High powered visit to Nigeria in 2017 and the visit of the Nigeria Business community to Canada in 2018.
The Ambassador also informed the gathering of efforts being made to conclude the Bilateral Trade Agreement between Nigeria and Canada to increase the volume of trade which was currently below what was expected, given the number of Nigerians in Canada and the diverse opportunities.
At the sideline of the Expo, the minister held meetings with the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and other ministers in charge of Economic Development, Job creation, Sports, Tourism, and Agriculture amongst others.
The high point of the event was presentations from the Mandate Secretaries of Economic Planning and Revenue Generation (EPRG), Public Private Partnership (PPP), and Agriculture and Social Development where they exposed delegates to the various investment opportunities in Abuja.
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Juvenile justice advocates are briefing Congress this Wednesday on what’s known as Sara’s Law and the Unfair Sentencing of Minors Act.
The debate over whether youth offenders should be sentenced the same as adults also remains active in Oregon.
While the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and Human Rights for Kids is hosting the briefing, representatives from groups like the Oregon Justice Resource Center will also be present. Trevor Walraven of the OJRC cites research on young people’s brains that show they aren’t fully developed.
“That’s not to suggest they don’t know right from wrong and make bad choices,” said Walraven. “It’s just to highlight the fact that their understanding of long-term consequences, their likelihood to be reactive – especially in heightened emotional situations - is far different than that of a fully-developed adult.”
Walraven was 14 when he fatally shot a man in Josephine County. Sentenced to life, he was released in 2016 through Oregon’s “Second Look” process. He now works to advocate for juvenile offenders, and was a vocal supporter of SB 1008, which eliminated automatic shifting of 15-17 year olds charged with serious crimes to adult court.
Some scholars and justice officials have pushed back against the neuroscience, saying family, schooling, and mental health care are bigger factors.
Caren Harp is President Trump’s former appointee to head the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. She counters there are more factors to consider, including environment and parenting.
“All of this stuff being done in the laboratories and MRIs and all this wonderful imaging that exists out there, is still…it needs to stay in the laboratory. It’s not ready for the courtroom yet.”
Sara’s Law is named for a California victim of child sex trafficking, who killed her abuser. She was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in 1985. She was released after serving 19 years after Governors Schwarzenegger and Newsom commuted her sentence, and pardoned her, respectively. Supporters of Sara’s Law say an offender’s personal trauma should be weighed in sentencing decisions.
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FHM’s latest management made a public apology for publishing Kajal Aggarwal’s topless cover photo. The magazine’s latest management TCG Media in an official Instagram post observed that the controversial cover photo could have been morphed and also apologized to the actor for the unfortunate incident.
The controversial cover featuring Kajal Aggarwal was published in 2011. Though Kajal Aggarwal claimed that she has never done such a photo shoot and that it was morphed, the magazine rubbished those allegations. Along with asserting that the cover picture was not morphed, they said they even have documents to validate their claims.
In 2015, TCG Media took over the ownership of For Him India from MaxPosure Media Group. According to TCG Media, the Kajal Aggarwal photo controversy came to the attention of the magazine recently and the subsequent internal investigation found that the magazine may have morphed and used Kajal's pictures with the knowledge of the then management.
The magazine also stated that the new management is ready to cooperate with any kind of investigation into the incident.
The magazine unequivocally said that For Him Magazine will never support such bad trends in the fashion industry. TCG Media has also stated that it will have no tolerance for practices like morphing that outrages the integrity of women. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/09/05/kajal-aggarwal-topless-photo-morphed-one-admits-magazine.amp.html | 2022-09-05T23:10:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/09/05/kajal-aggarwal-topless-photo-morphed-one-admits-magazine.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated September 5, 2022 at 6:43 PM ET
One of the two suspects connected to a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been found dead, authorities said Monday. The search for the other suspect is ongoing, police said.
The mass stabbing that occurred on Sunday morning left 10 people dead and 18 injured, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Authorities said that Damien Sanderson was found with fatal wounds, and that his injuries do not appear to be self-inflicted. RCMP's Rhonda Blackmore told reporters it's "possible" Sanderson may have been injured by the second suspect in the stabbing attack, Sanderson's brother Myles Sanderson.
The stabbings took place across 13 locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon.
The number of injured has grown since Sunday
The number of people with reported injuries rose to 18 on Monday, police said in an update. The day prior, 15 people were sent to hospitals and additional people could have transported themselves to hospitals, Blackmore said.
"It is horrific what has occurred in our province today," she added. Police first received a call of a stabbing at the James Smith Cree Nation at 5:40 a.m. Police received more calls reporting more stabbings in the following minutes.
Warrants had been issued for the arrests of both suspects, said the Saskatchewan RCMP.
Myles Sanderson has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of breaking and entering a residence. Before his death was confirmed by police, Damien Sanderson had been charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of breaking and entering a residence.
A massive manhunt remains underway
The brothers, who police described as "armed and dangerous," were believed to have been traveling in a black Nissan Rogue SUV, license plate no. 119 MPI, but could have switched vehicles. The last sighting of the vehicle was in Regina, the provincial capital, at 11:45 a.m.
Police believe some of the victims were targeted by the suspects, and that others were attacked at random.
On Sunday evening, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the attacks "horrific and heartbreaking. I'm thinking of those who have lost a loved one and of those who were injured," he said on Twitter. He said federal authorities were monitoring the situation.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-09-04/one-suspect-found-dead-the-other-remains-at-large-following-mass-stabbing-in-canada | 2022-09-05T23:10:56Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-09-04/one-suspect-found-dead-the-other-remains-at-large-following-mass-stabbing-in-canada | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It goes downhill, or up? by Klawdipittup\nIt kind started happening like right the end of March... like mid april and we began the slow incluse from mid May and it became constant around august but then slow went back down mid to start of sept (it was only slightly). it seemed up down but slowly got steadied so like i have a sort feeling that this would all slowly end... MUSKEGON, Mich. — When Theresa Kanoza arrived to the Labor Day festivities in downtown Muskegon she had over two dozen copies of the novel The Women of the Copper Country in a box. By the time the event was over, they were all passed out.
“Well in this book it’s a historical novel,” Kanoza said during an interview with Fox 17. “It’s the strike of the copper mines in 1913. Women led it. Their husbands, fathers, and brothers were toiling in the mines, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.”
So, the women marched and striked for better wages for them, Kanoza said. The women marched every day beginning in September of that year. It lasted through the winter and ended by spring.
They didn’t win she said. Wages never changed, and when the mines closed many of the workers went to work in the auto industry in Michigan.
However, Kanoza said it’s important to remember them and their efforts on this day.
“Labor Day is a gathering where we can celebrate the rough time that the unions are and the American people are going through just to make it possible to have this day, to make sure that everybody has a living wage,” said Stephen Marshall, retired electrician of 30 years and a member of the IBEW Local Union 275.
Dozens of people lined the streets of downtown Muskegon for the annual Labor Day parade on Monday morning. Unions from mail services, public services, the healthcare industry, carpenters and millwrights walked, waved, and passed out candy in honor of the day.
“Back in the day when they first started unions were needed to make work safe and that’s still what they’re doing,” Marshall said. “We want our members to have a safe working environment. We want them to make enough money — a living wage — to support their family.”
Kanoza said that’s what the unions at Starbucks and Amazon are fighting for today.
“People are, their consciousness is being raised again,” Kanoza said while wearing a 1900s Edwardian dress and hat. “People are striking for the right to organize, for fair wages, better working conditions. It’s not a thing of 100 years ago. It’s still current even more so right now.”
Kanoza teaches English at Muskegon Community College and grew up in a union home. Monday, she was with the organization Great Michigan Read, all dressed in 1900s garb, demonstrating what the women strikers looked like back then.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 1983 there were 17.7 million union members. Today, there’s around 14 million.
She and others encouraged the public to get involved and support their cause to stop the downward trend.
“Think about the worker behind everything that we do. That it’s important to recognize the work that holds us all up and if we knew through COVID that it was essential, we should recognize that still,” Kanoza said. “We should support workers when there are strikes, you know, go out of our way to picket with them, to honk with them, to write letters with them for fair wages.” | https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/its-not-a-thing-of-100-years-ago-unions-supporters-celebrate-significance-of-labor-day | 2022-09-05T23:17:32Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/homepage-showcase/its-not-a-thing-of-100-years-ago-unions-supporters-celebrate-significance-of-labor-day | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Post Offici. 8-8 a.m Sat tow and tag. Tres parches, $l and I l.2 l\\ ., Tnlls, s2OJ, C,01'l1Oi,I12(4 acre lots $:J6 per day, :0o and J7l iacre -.n:ilots :JG5 per uay.-:..--,.- - The chase to win his third Grand Slam title this year has ended for Rafael Nadal.
On Monday, the 22-time Grand Slam champion lost to American Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the fourth round of the U.S. Open, the New York Times and the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlets, the 24-year-old reached the second major quarterfinal of his career, making him the youngest American man to get that far at the US Open since Andy Roddick did so in 2006.
Monday's upset also marks the first time that the sport’s so-called "Big Three," Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, are out of a Grand Slam tournament, The Times and Forbes reported.
Nadal, who was the No. 2 seed, was set out to win the US Open after winning the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June, the news outlets reported.
Tiafoe will face No. 9 Andrey Rublev on Wednesday. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/american-tiafoe-upsets-nadal-in-us-open-4th-round | 2022-09-05T23:17:38Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/american-tiafoe-upsets-nadal-in-us-open-4th-round | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sean Penn and Ben Stiller are not welcomed in Russia.
The actors are among 25 Americans, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Rick Scott of Florida, to be recently banned from entering the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday, the Associated Press reported.
According to The Seattle Times and Bloomberg, the Kremlin said the latest names were added to its "stop list" in response to "the ever-expanding personal sanctions by the Biden Administration against Russian citizens."
Those with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin - his daughters and alleged girlfriend - have been sanctioned not only by the U.S. but by other countries as well since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Penn and Still were sanctioned because they both have previously voiced their criticism of Russia invading Ukraine, the Associated Press reported.
Just as the war began, Penn went to Ukraine to shoot a documentary about the invasion, Variety reported.
Stiller has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of his role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/penn-stiller-among-25-americans-to-be-recently-sanctioned-by-russia | 2022-09-05T23:17:44Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/penn-stiller-among-25-americans-to-be-recently-sanctioned-by-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sean Penn and Ben Stiller are not welcomed in Russia.
The actors are among 25 Americans, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Rick Scott of Florida, to be recently banned from entering the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday, the Associated Press reported.
According to The Seattle Times and Bloomberg, the Kremlin said the latest names were added to its "stop list" in response to "the ever-expanding personal sanctions by the Biden Administration against Russian citizens."
Those with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin - his daughters and alleged girlfriend - have been sanctioned not only by the U.S. but by other countries as well since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Penn and Still were sanctioned because they both have previously voiced their criticism of Russia invading Ukraine, the Associated Press reported.
Just as the war began, Penn went to Ukraine to shoot a documentary about the invasion, Variety reported.
Stiller has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of his role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/penn-stiller-among-25-americans-to-be-recently-sanctioned-by-russia | 2022-09-05T23:19:26Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/penn-stiller-among-25-americans-to-be-recently-sanctioned-by-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By Michelle F. Davis and Kiel Porter | Bloomberg
CVS Health Corp. has reached a deal to buy home-health and technology services provider Signify Health Inc. for about $8 billion, as the drugstore chain continues to expand beyond its retail origins.
CVS is acquiring Signify for $30.50 a share, according to a statement Monday.
CVS emerged as the winning bidder over potential suitors that had included UnitedHealth Group Inc., Amazon.com and Option Care Health Inc.
Through its software and services, Signify aims to help clients — payers like health plans, government programs and employers — shift to value-based payment plans. It’s backed by New Mountain Capital, which formed the company in 2017, according to the private equity firm’s website.
“Signify Health will play a critical role in advancing our health-care services strategy and gives us a platform to accelerate our growth in value-based care,” CVS Health Chief Executive Officer Karen S. Lynch said in the statement. “This acquisition will enhance our connection to consumers in the home and enables providers to better address patient needs as we execute our vision to redefine the health-care experience.”
The companies said they expect the transaction to close in the first half of 2023.
Signify rose 1.3% to close at $28.77 in New York trading Friday, giving it a market value of about $6.7 billion.
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A Sherwin Williams at 5871 S. Transit Road in the Town of Lockport is closed for business after an SUV smashed through the front of the store late Monday morning.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the business about 10:30 a.m. Monday following reports of a vehicle crashing into the building. Responding deputies found a 2016 Chevy Traverse had driven through the front door, front window and brick wall.
The driver told deputies that she was pulling into a parking spot, hit the brakes but the vehicle would not stop. She was taken to Erie County Medical Center for evaluation. No one inside the store reported any injuries.
The Town of Lockport building inspector responded to the scene to assess the damage. There is no damage estimate available and the Sherwin Williams will be closed for repair, for an undetermined length of time.
The accident is still under investigation, sheriff’s officials said. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/sherwin-williams-store-heavily-damaged-after-suv-smashes-into-business/article_ddc406c8-2d59-11ed-8d9a-ef5db702bd0c.html | 2022-09-05T23:23:42Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/sherwin-williams-store-heavily-damaged-after-suv-smashes-into-business/article_ddc406c8-2d59-11ed-8d9a-ef5db702bd0c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Starbucks Workers United Union said Starbucks gave raises to their non-unionized stores, while their unionized stores didn't for three weeks. However, on Aug. 29, the union says those raises did come through for their member with no reasoning as to why they were delayed.
Leo Hernandez union partner of the North Monroe Street Starbucks Store said the Starbucks Workers United Waived their right to bargain for benefits and raises.
"It would allow starbucks to instate those benefits for us such as the raise,without having to negotiate it for part of the contract, starbucks refused," said Hernandez.
Although Union Partners got their raises, they're still missing out on some benefits they say other non-union stores received.
"They have updated the dress code, which is another thing that unionized stores do not get, the updated dress code,as well as new apron sizes, new trainings, all which is being withheld from unionized locations," said Hernandez.
Starbucks Corporate responded to the union. The company said in a statement:
"The law is clear: once a store unionizes, no changes to benefits are allowed without good faith collective bargaining. Partners still have access to all Starbucks benefits already in place when the petition was filed, but any changes to your wages, benefits and working conditions that Starbucks establishes after that time would not apply to you and would have to be bargained."
Caesar Scalia said he loves his Starbucks store off of North Monroe Street that he's worked at for over a year.
"Over the past four years I've been with the company, I've grown to love what we stand for, and I've grown to love the coworkers that i've met here and the friendships and the connections I've made here with my coworkers and my customers," said Scalia.
Scalia says over the past year, however, he's seen some things that made unionizing the store more important.
"It's really disappointing going from a family type environment with the customers and coworkers alike, to what it is now, kind of like glorified fast food," said Scalia. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-unionized-starbucks-protests-in-front-of-store-closes-for-labor-day | 2022-09-05T23:30:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-unionized-starbucks-protests-in-front-of-store-closes-for-labor-day | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming volleyball team picked up its first win on Saturday at the Grand Canyon Classic.
UW swept Idaho 25-21, 25-13, 25-14 in the first match of the day before losing to host Grand Canyon 25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 25-10 to close the Classic.
Against Idaho, Wyoming (1-5) hit a season high .284 as a team, while holding the Vandals to a .105 clip. The Cowgirls also were efficient at the service line, tallying a season best 15 aces as Idaho had five. UW also had a 7-4 edge in team blocks.
The Cowgirls were well-balanced in the sweep, led by Naya Shimé’s seven kills with Corin Carruth adding six. Four other Cowgirls, Lydeke King, Kayla Mazzocca, KC McMahon and Kasia Partyka added five kills each. Partyka also paced the team with 25 assists and added six digs. Shimé and Hailey Zuroske each had four aces each, with Carruth adding three.
In the nightcap against host-Grand Canyon, UW fought hard for three sets before running out of steam in the fourth.
Shimé led the Cowgirls with a season best 15 kills, and Carruth and McMahon added nine kills each. Defensively, Zuroske tallied a season high 24 digs. Teresa Garza had four aces.
For the match, GCU hit .276, while the Cowgirls hit .176. The Lopes (4-1) also had a 7-2 advantage in blocks.
The Cowgirls will next travel East for the Winthrop Tournament in Rock Hill, South Carolina. UW will play Delaware and Davidson on Friday before closing against the host-Eagles on Saturday. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowgirls-sweep-idaho-at-gcu-classic/article_629ae994-2d4f-11ed-83a5-93660256498e.html | 2022-09-05T23:30:54Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowgirls-sweep-idaho-at-gcu-classic/article_629ae994-2d4f-11ed-83a5-93660256498e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The University of Wyoming lines up on special teams during a game against Tulsa on Saturday at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. Michael Smith/for WyoSports
LARAMIE — With the University of Wyoming coming off a morale-boosting overtime win over Tulsa and Northern Colorado just a few days removed from a 12-point loss to Houston Baptist, historically one of the worst teams in the FCS, there seems to be a significant gap between the two teams that will meet on Saturday in Laramie.
However, the Cowboys know better than to look past their upcoming opponent, even with their Mountain West opener against Air Force looming next week.
Wins against FCS teams haven’t come easy for the Pokes in recent years. They needed last-minute touchdowns to beat Montana State and Wofford by three points in 2021 and 2018, respectively, and only won by five against Idaho in 2019.
Junior offensive lineman Frank Crum says the team is determined to have a different result this time around.
“We cannot look over Northern Colorado whatsoever,” Crum said. “Playing past FCS schools, it’s always been a tight game with Wyoming. That’s kind of been our trend. We can’t have that this week. We have to not overlook them, and give as much effort into prep as we would any other team.”
Despite a rough start to the season, and a 3-8 finish last year, UNC’s roster isn’t barren.
The Bears have a pair of former highly-touted high school prospects at quarterback, both of whom saw the field last week. Jacob Sirmon spent time at Washington and Central Michigan before joining the program this offseason, while Dylan McCaffrey came to Northern Colorado by way of Michigan prior to last season. The pair combined to complete 37 of 57 passes for 425 yards, four touchdowns and an interception in the loss to HBU.
Northern Colorado is also coached by a well-known name in the region, with three-time Super Bowl champion and former Denver Broncos All-Pro receiver Ed McCaffrey in his second season at the helm of the program.
“A lot of their players have some pretty significant names,” UW coach Craig Bohl said. “Both of their quarterbacks were both four-star recruits out of high school, so obviously, they have ability. They’re big up front. They have a big, big offensive line, and a very capable running back.
“Over on defense, (they bring) a lot of different pressures, which always poses problems, so (it’s) another opportunity.”
Around the Mountain West
The MW’s week one slate was filled with lopsided results — outside of Wyoming’s 40-37 win over Tulsa, which marked the only game decided by single-digits.
The Jay Norvell era at Colorado State began with a 51-7 loss to Michigan, while Boise State (34-17 to Oregon State), San Diego State (38-20 to Arizona) and Utah State (55-0 to Alabama) were also blown out by Power Five opponents. Hawaii was the league’s other loss, falling 49-17 at home to Western Kentucky.
Nevada rebounded from an underwhelming week zero performance against New Mexico State with a 38-14 win over Texas State, while Air Force (48-17 over Northern Iowa) and New Mexico (41-0 over Maine) handled their FCS opponents with ease.
Josh Criswell covers the University of Wyoming for WyoSports. He can be reached at jcriswell@wyosports.net or 307-755-3325. Follow him on Twitter at @criswell_sports. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/pokes-not-looking-past-northern-colorado/article_8341e07a-2d50-11ed-baa4-a74a46d7fbed.html | 2022-09-05T23:31:01Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/pokes-not-looking-past-northern-colorado/article_8341e07a-2d50-11ed-baa4-a74a46d7fbed.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming soccer team’s second-half effort couldn’t overcome an early deficit on Sunday afternoon in a 3-1 loss to UTEP at Madrid Sports Complex.
The decision drops the Cowgirls to 1-3-2 on the season and moved UTEP to 2-4-0.
“UTEP bodied us off the field in the first half, and that can’t be a thing, especially with conference play coming up,” UW coach Colleen Corbin said in a news release. “The Mountain West is a physical, competitive conference, and if teams like UTEP are going to knock us out of what we are going to do, we are going to have a tough go.”
The Miners recorded an efficient start with five shots, three of which found the back of the net. Tessa Carlin opened the scoring with a goal in the eighth minute, while Taya Lopez and Carlin logged scores in the 29th and 31st minutes, respectively.
The Cowgirls fired 10 shots in the second half to the Miners’ one and boasted their fifth different goal scorer of the season.
“It was a tale of two halves, and you can’t win a soccer game if you don’t play two halves,” Corbin said.
UW’s Maddi Chance scored unassisted during the 51st minute for her fourth career goal.
Cowgirl Jamie Tatum led all players with four shots. Alyssa Bedard and Alyssa Glover registered three shots each, while Faith Joiner and Jazi Barela each had two shots.
UW’s Allyson Fischer, making her second consecutive start in net, didn’t record a save. UTEP goalkeeper, Mariah Scott, logged six saves.
The Cowgirls will have a break from games before hosting St. Thomas on Sept. 17. Mountain West action begins the following weekend. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/soccer-drops-decision-to-utep/article_c9440046-2d4e-11ed-b170-87a4cca8208c.html | 2022-09-05T23:31:07Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/soccer-drops-decision-to-utep/article_c9440046-2d4e-11ed-b170-87a4cca8208c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
University of Wyoming sophomore Jacob White, center, competes in the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. He won the 5-kilometer cross-country race, crossing the finish line in 14 minutes, 46.3 seconds.
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming cross-country teams opened its seasons on Saturday by hosting the Wyoming Invitational on a 5-kilometer course at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne.
The season opener was highlighted by a sweep of the individual and team titles for the Cowboys, and a second-place team finish for the Cowgirls.
The Cowboys were led by Jacob White, who won the individual title by crossing the finish line in 14 minutes, 46.3 seconds. He closed the performance by pulling away from a pair of Colorado State runners late in the race, finishing more than two seconds ahead of the rest of the field.
Mason Norman and Mac Zastrow finished just behind White, taking fifth and sixth with times of 15:03.9 and 15:07.1, respectively. Rounding out the top five finishers for the Cowboys were Gus McIntyre (15:09.09) and Albert Steiner (15:13.5), who finished in eighth and 11th, respectively.
As a team, the Cowboys won the title with a low score of 27 points, finishing one point better than Colorado State, who is receiving votes in the USTFCCCA Coaches Poll and ranked three spots ahead of Wyoming in the Mountain Region. The Cowboys also bested Northern Colorado (89) and Central Wyoming College (109).
On the women’s side, UW’s Katelyn Mitchem had a strong start to her season by pacing the Cowgirls with her second-place finish clocking in at 17:15.2.
UW’s Leah Christians also turned in a strong race with third place at 17:31.1. Kylie Simshauser (17:48.9) and Abigail Whitman (17:52.5) also finished inside the top 10 by placing eighth and ninth, respectively. Kaylee Bentely (18:45.8) rounded out the top-five placers for the Cowgirls finishing in 16th.
The Cowgirls were second in the team standings by posting 34 points. They were ahead of Northern Colorado (83) and 11 points behind No. 13-ranked Colorado State (23).
The Cowboys and Cowgirls will next compete on Sept. 23 when they travel to Minneapolis to compete in the Roy Griak Invitational hosted by Minnesota. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/uw-cross-country-opens-season-at-wyoming-invitational/article_428477ee-2d4d-11ed-b4a4-7bee05cfb9f1.html | 2022-09-05T23:31:13Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/uw-cross-country-opens-season-at-wyoming-invitational/article_428477ee-2d4d-11ed-b4a4-7bee05cfb9f1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Arkansas football's secondary needs improvement with Spencer Rattler, South Carolina next
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football's secondary looked shaky in its opener against Cincinnati, and the Razorbacks aren't getting much of a break in Week 2.
Arkansas (1-0) will host South Carolina (1-0) on Saturday (11 a.m. CT, ESPN), and its defensive backs will be tested against perennially hyped-up transfer quarterback Spencer Rattler.
Rattler wasn't perfect in his Gamecocks debut against Georgia State, collecting 227 yards on 23 completions but throwing two interceptions in the win. But Arkansas' defensive backs weren't outstanding in their first game, either, particularly in the second half. Almost 75% of Cincinnati's 325 passing yards came in the second half, including a 35-yard touchdown pass.
"I just feel like we started to lose focus," safety Simeon Blair said after the Cincinnati game. "We started to lose our technique. We started to lose the details, which we're going to work on. We just have to be able to compete for four quarters like we did in the first half because in the first half, it wasn't a problem."
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Arkansas coach Sam Pittman acknowledged Monday the secondary needs improvement. It won't be easy considering the injuries the Razorbacks suffered against Cincinnati. Preseason All-American safety Jalen Catalon left the game with an undisclosed injury, as did starting nickelback Myles Slusher. Pittman did not say what injuries either player was dealing with or when they might return.
Redshirt senior Trent Gordon is behind Slusher on the depth chart at nickel, and Pittman said junior cornerback Khari Johnson could move over to the spot to back him up if Slusher isn't available. Georgia transfer safety Latavious Brini moved into Catalon's spot when the team captain left the game and would presumably start alongside Blair if Catalon is unavailable against South Carolina.
But Pittman said his focus for now is the players he knows will be able to play. They'll need to play better if Arkansas is to fix its issues in the secondary.
One of those players is cornerback Dwight McGlothern. The LSU transfer got the start against Cincinnati and made an immediate impact, picking off quarterback Ben Bryant on the nopening drive and returning the interception 51 yards. It was a big play that helped lead to Arkansas' first score, but Pittman wants to see more out of the junior.
"He’s got to be more consistent," Pittman said. "He played ball. I trust him. I’m happy he’s here, and I think he’ll just continue to get better and better."
McGlothern jumped redshirt senior LaDarrius Bishop on the Week 2 depth chart and should start alongside Hudson Clark at corner. Bishop struggled in coverage against Cincinnati, getting beaten by his receiver on some key plays in one of the Bearcats' touchdown drives. He wasn't the only defensive back who had that problem, and it's one Pittman plans to address in practice this week.
"We just didn't cover them sometimes and we didn't block them sometimes," Pittman said. "We've got to get better, but if you look back last year, I think the first game to the second game we improved quite a bit. That's an old coach's cliché, but that's pretty accurate. You should improve more in the second game. You get game tape, you get live action, so we look for a lot of improvement out of our team."
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PARIS, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EKINOPS (Euronext Paris: EKI) (ISIN: FR0011466069), a leading supplier of telecommunications solutions for telecom operators and businesses, announces that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative.
The UNGC is a voluntary initiative for companies and organizations to participate in the creation of a global framework for achieving sustainable growth by exhibiting responsible, creative leadership and acting as good members of society. Companies and organizations that sign the UNGC are required to uphold and contribute to the realization of 10 principles in four areas: Human Rights, Labor, Environment, and Anti-Corruption.
As part of its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policy, Ekinops engages in daily business activities with an endeavor to be a responsible company with respect to third parties and to limit the environmental impact of its activities to advance towards sustainable development goals.
Signing the UNGC means Ekinops is willing to integrate the UNGC principles into the Group's strategy, culture and daily operations, and to advance them in its area of influence. By signing the UNGC, Ekinops commits to publishing a yearly Community of Practice (COP), describing the Group's efforts to integrate the ten principles.
Didier Brédy, Chairman and CEO of Ekinops said:
"Several months after creating its ESG committee, Ekinops continues its efforts towards sustainable value creation. We are proud to be a signatory of this UN Global Compact statement and to take this commitment. Ekinops will play its role by ensuring we better ourselves alongside the other parts of our ecosystem."
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With polling showing a tightening race for governor in solid-blue New York, a battle for the airwaves will intensify after Labor Day between Republican nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin and Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
“There’s a whole lot of Democrats that want to declare this race, dead and over with – but they ain’t seen nothing yet,” Republican state Chair Nick Langworthy boasted Sunday.
But it is the Democratic incumbent and her allies who are taking the first shots, The Post has learned
A union backing Hochul is touting her record in office in a new 30-second spot landing upstate and on Long Island Tuesday where a recent Siena Poll showed Zeldin with a single-digit edge.
The $300,000 ad blitz is part of a $1 million effort by a PAC backed by the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters to Democrats this November.
“History tells us the ad war is going to enter its hot phase this month,” political consultant Jake Dilemani told The Post Monday. “Depending where you are in the state, you’re about to be inundated.”
The incumbent Democrat’s campaign also threw down $2 million last week to launch a post-Labor Day air offensive that will begin reaching English and Spanish-speaking voters from Erie County to Montauk in the coming days.
Republicans are bracing for the barrage while preparing their own counter-offensive.
“When ad buys are made, everyone will know about it because it will be a matter of public record,” Langworthy said Monday.
“He’s nearing somewhere around a total of 15 million raised,” he added about Zeldin.
Zeldin has spent the weeks after his big primary win loading up on cash, with ]$1.5 million raised on Sunday alongside ex-President Donald Trump at a New Jersey fundraiser and $1 million more last week.
Republicans say they are aiming to provide the Zeldin campaign some air cover through advertising bought by outside groups like a PAC formed last month by former GOP state Chair Ed Cox, former Rep. John Faso and political operative Jason Weingartner.
“Despite Gov. Hochul’s pay to play corruption and eagerness to sell access to Albany, Congressman Zeldin is the best funded Republican challenger for statewide office ever,” spokeswoman Katie Vincentz said in a text Monday.
“Congressman Zeldin is going to have all of the resources he needs to Fire Kathy Hochul,” she added.
Campaign filings from mid-July showed Hochul, who has also raised millions in recent weeks, with $11.7 million on hand compared to $1.6 million for Zeldin, with both campaign declining to give total fundraising figures as of Monday.
The dueling campaigns are taking aim at each other with messaging highlighting their preferred issues ahead of midterm elections that will determine control of the U.S. House, the state Legislature as well as statewide offices like governor.
Zeldin has assailed Hochul for backing progressive policies like bail reform amid an ongoing rise in crime while challenging her to take definitive stands on issues like a proposed repeal of qualified immunity for police officers.
He has also tried to leverage alleged pay-to-play schemes involving the governor to transform her big cash advantages into a liability with voters.
But his own efforts to raise money have opened him to new attacks from Hochul, who took a shot at him Sunday for campaigning alongside Trump, who remains unpopular with many voters in his home state.
Zeldin appears to be gaining momentum in the race based on a poll released Sept. 3 that showed her with just a four-point lead over Zeldin in a state where registered Democrats outnumber their GOP counterparts by roughly two-to-one.
Other polls have shown Hochul with leads ranging from 24 points to 8 points – with a widely-respected Siena College poll showing Zeldin down 53% to 39% in early August.
The race for governor is entering a new stage following the Labor Day holiday and political experts say the race remains far from over with just over two months to go before the final votes are cast.
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Republican: Wokeism Not a Latino Value
“Woke gender ideology, being so totally antithetical to the Latino language and culture, plays a huge part of why Hispanics are universally turning away from the Democrat party,” Peter Hernandez writes at Townhall. “We are not only a proud people, but a people who didn’t like mincing or especially confusing words,” yet “the left wants to replace Latino with ‘Latinx.’” So “are we to begin to call our sons and daughters by ninx rather than nina or nino?” No: “We must end this abuse of language and stop the disrespect of our masculine and feminine natures. Let’s maintain the proud heritage of the Spanish language.”
Conservative: Biden’s Mixed Message
President Biden’s speech last week is another move in Democrats’ “political operation in which the threat to democracy is leverage, used to keep swing voters onside without having to make difficult concessions to the center or the right,” argues The New York Times’ Ross Douthat. He blended “dire warnings about Trumpian authoritarianism” with “a strictly partisan agenda that offers few grounds for ideological truce, few real concessions to beliefs outside the liberal tent.” Biden even “conflated the refusal to accept election outcomes with opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage — implying that the positions of his own Catholic Church are part of a ‘MAGA Republican’ threat to democracy itself.” Meanwhile, Dems are “pouring millions in advertising into New Hampshire’s Republican Senate primary, in the hopes of making sure that the Trumpiest candidate wins — the latest example of liberal strategists deliberately elevating figures their party and president officially consider an existential threat to the Republic.”
March for Life prez: Abortion Activists Out of Touch
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, abortion activists have sought to “distract” from their “radical” agenda by “painting the pro-life movement as extreme,” observes Jeanne Mancini at The Washington Times. Yet it’s their side that’s vandalized and firebombed pregnancy centers and pushed legislation to “legalize abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.” The Women’s Health Protection Act would’ve even “done away with limits on painful late-term abortions, parental consent laws and bans against abortions based on sex or disability.” Fact is, “Democrats are wildly out of touch” with Americans, 71% of whom support “limiting abortion to the first three months of pregnancy,” as a recent Maris poll showed.
Foreign desk: Truss’ Tough Task
Can incoming British Prime Minister Liz Truss, asks The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, “lift her Conservative Party and country out of the economic and energy mess into which Prime Minister Boris Johnson has driven it”? She won “with a Thatcherite economic message the party and U.K. haven’t heard from the Conservatives in years. Tax cuts top her agenda.” And she “pushed back against the woke pieties that have swept United Kingdom media and academic elites.” That’s “a major break from the last 12 years of Tory governance,” as “the party began a leftward tilt that culminated in” the Johnson “fiasco” of “ruinous climate pledges and tax increases.” Conservatives became “another party of redistribution instead of standing as Britain’s party of prosperity” — and “failed miserably.”
Schools watch: Behind the Enrollment Plunge
People who “voted in 2020 with unprecedented enthusiasm” for the Democratic Party have “fled with equal gusto the states, cities, and public school systems managed by the Democrats,” marvels Carina Benton at The Federalist. Notably, “families, particularly those with elementary school children, are leaving not only blue zones in disproportionate numbers but are ditching the public education system in droves.” Why? COVID “lockdowns and masking mandates certainly had a role.” Another possibility: “Parents have cottoned on to the fact that their school districts are acting as a united front operation for the Democratic Party and its perverted, anti-family, anti-Christian agenda and are getting out.” They’ve “lost confidence in the public school systems” and “are seeking more wholesome and academically rigorous schooling environments.”
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a welder, I wanted to use a level without needing another person to help me," said an inventor from Gray Court, S.C., "so I invented the ADHERENT LEVEL."
The invention sticks easily to hard surfaces and eliminates the need to have a helper holding it. This could speed up jobs and projects as well as save time and money. Easy to use and convenient, the level is Patent-Granted, and a prototype has been created by the inventor.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-250, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I believe there should be a way for casino patrons to enjoy various card games without the need for a dealer or staff member at the table," said an inventor, from Carson, Calif., "so I invented the GREENE CARD DEALER MACHINE. My design could help to reduce the spread of germs and viruses at casino card tables."
The patent-pending invention provides an automatic way to deal cards to players at a casino game table. In doing so, it eliminates the need for a dealer to be present at the table. As a result, it helps to limit physical contact between casino employees and patrons and it enhances safety. Additionally, the invention features an innovative design that is easy to use so it is ideal for casinos.
The original design was submitted to the Orange County sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-OCM-1524, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe and comfortable way to communicate through a vehicle window without shouting, becoming soaked or risking exposure to airborne germs," said an inventor, from Calhoun Falls, S.C., "so I invented the SHIRLEY SAFETY SYSTEM. My design can be utilized in the drive-through lane or when speaking to anyone outside of the vehicle."
The invention provides an effective way to communicate with others outside a vehicle. In doing so, it eliminates the need to shout through the glass. It also reduces the risk of being exposed to airborne germs and it helps to prevent rain from entering the window. The invention features a safe and convenient design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-196, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was relaxing in bed and I thought there could be a better way to hold and use my tablet computer," said an inventor, from Loris, S.C., "so I invented the E Z TABLET. My design would eliminate the strain, discomfort and hassle associated with constantly holding the device in the air or propping it up with a pillow."
The patent-pending invention provides a hands-free way to support and use a tablet computer while relaxing in bed. In doing so, it eliminates the need to constantly hold the device at eye level. As a result, it enhances comfort and convenience and it could help to reduce stress and strain. The invention features an inventive design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-228, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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