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Nike shoes not quite right for Tiger Woods at Masters
The Nike swoosh isn’t quite right for Tiger Woods' feet this week — and it couldn’t be worse timing for the apparel brand.
- The golf legend showed up to practice for the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday in a pair of black FootJoy Premier Series-Packard golf shoes, CNBC reported.
Catch up quick: Woods has been associated with Nike since 1996, a relationship that has likely netted him well over half a billion dollars in endorsements, according to estimates.
- And the relationship might even be better for Nike. In 2019 it was estimated that Nike reaped around $22.5 million in brand value from Woods marching around Augusta in Nike apparel on a single Sunday of the Masters.
Context: Woods is getting enormous publicity this week as he prepares to return to competitive golf after he shattered his right leg in a devastating car accident in February 2021.
- If he plays — and especially if he performs well — Nike will have to stomach footage of the 15-time major winner playing in someone else’s shoes.
Be smart: Woods is still wearing Nike clothes, so it doesn't look like a breakup is in the works. But fans are speculating that he needs more comfortable shoes to enable him to play on his injured leg.
- “Like golf fans around the world, we are delighted to see Tiger back on the course,” Nike said in a statement. “He is an incredible athlete, and it is phenomenal to see him returning to the game at this level. His story continues to transcend sport and inspire us all. As he continues his return, we will work with him to meet his new needs.”
- Acushnet Holdings, which owns the FootJoy brand, did not respond to a request seeking comment.
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Wrapping up all nine mainline "Star Wars" moves in Lego packaging, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment delivers the holy grail of Lego video games.
Each of the previously released film adaptations have been revamped, with fresh takes that emphasize the humor and nostalgia that the originals delivered.
Delayed from an originally planned 2020 release, the long-anticipated game has finally arrived.
Phil Villarreal: Going through the old movies was surprisingly emotional for me. The original "Lego Star Wars" games were some of the first titles I played through with my now 15-year-old son, and getting the chance to play some co-op with him again was a profound experience. Even the newer trilogy, which can't quite compare with the original films or even the prequels, brought back some strong waves of emotional memories from some of the transcending cinematic moments those movies provided.
This is a true treasure trove for fans of "Star Wars," or even people who enjoy mocking the films' sillier aspects. What impressions did the game make with you, Sean?
Sean Newgent: When I was a kid, "Lego Star Wars" was a staple of my gaming diet and to return to not only a nostalgic franchise movie-wise, but also game-wise, had me a tad emotional as well Phil. While you'll have a hard time getting me to sit through the prequel trilogy at my age, getting the abridged, Lego version through this game has been an enjoyable experience. Even for those of us who think the latest trilogy was one of the worst things to happen to film since the last worst thing to happen to film, it's still a delight to play through the episodes in irreverent Lego-format.
Each of the nine films is given five individual levels focusing on the most exciting moments. Most of this comes down to ship combat or little boss fights. Getting to fly around through iconic Star Wars moments in X-Wings or even the Naboo fighter Annie uses to take down the Trade Federation is so much fun with a sense of speed and a 360-degree range of movement that is easy to grasp and arcade-y in a way I feel many games totally miss. Then the lightsaber battles offer up varied gameplay, changing the button inputs to allow for blocking, dodging, and a number of quick-time-events that really make these fights feel weightier than you would ever think Lego battles should be.
That variety and polish was a stand-out to me Phil but what stood out to you?
Phil Villarreal: I mean, with a two-year extension along with 16 years of "Lego Star Wars" history to work with, it had better be polished, right?
What impressed me most is how far "Lego Star Wars" games have come along since the creaky versions from the early days. Gone are the obtuse puzzles, bottlenecks and dialogue-free cut scenes. This compilation is fan service at its finest, delving into all nine games with an obsessive eye for detail and boundless sense of joy.
I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to plop characters into situations that the movies never found them, and stage melees between heroes and villains from different corners of the "Star Wars" universe. At its finest, this game is a sandbox extravaganza with a seemingly limitless amount of "Star Wars"-branded characters and settings to mess around with.
The game is such an exhaustive accomplishment that it's just about impossible to imagine a film adaptation that stands up to the amount of material there is to play with here.
Final thoughts, Sean?
Sean Newgent: There is so much content here. Hundreds of collectibles and unlockables including characters, ships, and even the cursory upgrade system it feels every game has to shoehorn in. On top of the 45 levels, there are massive hub worlds where you can access those story levels or do side quests, complete puzzles, search for every little brick to get that hundred-percent completion status, or play as your favorite character just to wreak havoc on the townsfolk. Rolling around as a Droideka and terrorizing Coruscant's little brick people has a certain childish appeal and can bring a smile to anyone's face, no matter their age. Reenacting "Falling Down" in Dex's Diner with Obi-Wan had to be one of the toybox roleplay highlights of my time so far with the game.
My only real critique of this otherwise fantastic game is that those hubworlds feel empty and a bit soulless. The architecture is not made of Lego's and the maps can stretch for huge stretches making them feel more like liminal spaces than cohesive, interest worlds. While there are civilians walking about and collectibles to find dotted throughout, hubs like Theed on Naboo or Kamino's clone facility are needlessly large. If you're just roaming through to get from one story mission to another, it can feel a chore.
That's a minor gripe though on an otherwise fantastic game, well worth the 60-dollar price tag. "Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga" is fun for adults, kids, grandma, and even those who don't like "Star Wars". It has so much variety, content, and pure joy. All in all, it's definitely not another Lego brick in the wall; this game stands alone as a crowning achievement for the long-running franchise and one of the best games of the year so far.
Past game reviews by Sean and Phil:
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Diablo II Resurrected
NEO: The World Ends with You
Rainbow Six: Extraction
King of Fighters XV
WWE 2K22
Weird West
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Phil Villarreal is the senior real-time editor for KGUN 9. He is also a digital producer and host of "Phil on Film" seen weekly on Good Morning Tucson, Phil moved to KGUN after 17 years with the Arizona Daily Star, where he was a movie critic, columnist, and reporter. He has penned three books: Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel, Stormin' Mormon and Zeta Male. A University of Arizona business graduate, he has four children. Share your story ideas and important issues with Phil by emailing phil.villarreal@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Sean Newgent is a producer for KGUN 9. Sean has been with KGUN since January of 2020 producing newscasts. Sean graduated from Illinois State University with a degree in broadcast journalism. While at ISU, Sean wrote movie reviews for the paper, anchored and produced student newscasts, and was nominated for a student Emmy for broadcast film reviews. He has also written a number of anime reviews, as well as reviewing movies, TV, video games, comics, and books. In his free time he is a voracious reader of history and writes weird horror short stories. Share your story ideas and important issues with Sean by emailing sean.newgent@kgun9.com or by connecting on Twitter.
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Shares in a company planning to buy former President Donald Trump's new social media business plunged on Monday after a news report that two key executives have departed.
The report by Reuters follows a filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp. that it will miss a key deadline to file its annual financial statements. The news has added to worries about Trump's Twitter rival, called Truth Social, after a February launch of the app was marred by outages and long waitlists to gain access. The shares have fallen by more than a third since then.
As the Associated Press reported, somewhere around 1.5 million potential subscribers were still waiting to be given access to the app as of Monday.
Truth Social was at the top of Apple's App Store in the free rankings section the day it launched in the store and was made available to a limited number of subscribers. It has since fallen down the charts below the top 200.
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I love coming across a story like this and then realizing it’s an update to something I had blogged about a couple of years ago.
A Texas law that limits the use of remotely piloted drones to capture images is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Austin ruled Monday.
The National Press Photographers Association, the Texas Press Association and former Dallas Observer editor Joseph Pappalardo challenged the so-called “Texas Privacy Act,” which threatened criminal charges and punishing civil lawsuits against anyone taking images “of an individual or privately owned real property in this state with the intent to conduct surveillance on the individual or property captured in the image.”
Well, almost anyone. Academics, law enforcement, Realtors, surveyors, utility companies, gas and oil drillers, pipeline companies and others with a “commercial purpose” were exempt under the law, provided that commercial purpose wasn’t reporting the news.
“Professors, students, employees of insurance companies, and real estate brokers all appear on this list; journalists do not,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman wrote in his decision declaring the law unconstitutional and enjoining the state from enforcing it. “As Plaintiffs note, the same drone image taken legally by a professor would constitute a misdemeanor if captured by a journalist.”
The law also banned drone images of “critical infrastructure,” which to Texas lawmakers included things like gas wells and pipelines. So, hypothetically, under Texas law, a pipeline company could use drones to take pictures of its own lines and use those photos in its marketing materials to investors. If that same pipeline leaked and began spewing oil over the countryside, any news photographer who dared to use a drone to take a picture of the leak could face criminal charges and be sued by the pipeline company.
Oddly, the law applied only to drones, which are relatively cheap and readily available. Pictures taken from helicopters, airplanes, hot air balloons, stepladders or tall trees were all OK.
This didn’t square with the U.S. Constitution, Pitman ruled.
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The defendants in the case are Steven McCraw, the director of Texas Department of Public Safety; Dwight Mathis, chief of the Texas Highway Patrol; and Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau. In their own motion for summary judgment, they argued that since none of the plaintiffs had been charged with violating the law, they had no standing to sue.
The chilling effect from the threat of criminal charges and civil lawsuits was enough to allow the case to go ahead, the judge ruled.
See here for the background. A copy of the ruling is embedded in the story. The Express News also covered this – like the Dallas Observer, they had a reporter that had been affected by the law.
Chapter 423, which the Legislature passed in 2013 and amended in 2015, had two sets of provisions.
The first imposed civil and criminal penalties on people who use drones to create images of an individual or privately owned property with the “intent to conduct surveillance.” Lawmakers claimed the law would protect Texans’ privacy.
While that portion of the law included exemptions for certain purposes — such as scholarly research — it didn’t exempt news gathering.
The second set of provisions imposed criminal penalties for flying a drone over a correctional facility, detention facility or sports venue at less than 400 feet. That set of provisions also included a set of exemptions — including those for “commercial purposes” — but not for journalism.
In its lawsuit, the plaintiffs — which also included the Texas Press Association and Joseph Pappalardo, an independent journalist based in Texas — alleged that the provisions were “unconstitutionally vague and overbroad” because the terms “surveillance” and “commercial purpose” were not defined.
They also alleged that the second set of provisions effectively prohibited the use of drones at those locations, because Federal Aviation Administration regulations require drones to fly below 400 feet.
The law “unconstitutionally drew distinctions that disallowed journalistic drone photography but allowed the exact same drone photography when done for other favored purposes,” Hemphill said.
Brandon Wade, a news photographer and a member of National Press Photographers Association, said in a deposition in support of the lawsuit that the provisions affected his work several times.
At one point, Wade said, he was prohibited from using his drone to take photographs for a newspaper of the Texas Rangers ballpark — even though the Rangers used the same type of photography for the team’s commercial purposes.
That story was in the Thursday print edition of the Chron. I thought the lawsuit had merit at the time, and I think this is the right ruling. I don’t see any indication in either story about an appeal, so we’ll have to wait and see if this is the final word.
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The New York Yankees plan to continue to fight the unsealing of a letter from MLB detailing alleged sign-stealing by the organization.
The Athletic, citing a source with knowledge of the team’s plans, reported Friday the Yankees will appeal the release of the 2017 letter from commissioner Rob Manfred. A federal appeals court on March 21 had affirmed a U.S. District Court judge’s June 2020 order to unseal the letter.
Friday’s report said the Yankees plan to file a petition either later in the day or Monday, the deadline for submission, for an en banc hearing with the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. That appeal would ask the circuit court’s 13 active judges to rehear the case. The appellate court’s previous ruling was made by a three-judge panel.
Historically, en banc reviews have been rarities in the Second Circuit.
The Yankees have claimed making the letter public would result in “severe reputational damange.”
See here for the background. I can’t imagine they’d continue on to SCOTUS if they lose again, but at this point who can say? As ol’ Jack Burton once said, you never know till you try.
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Trustees make first contact with the Superintendent’s plans.
More than a month after Houston ISD Superintendent Millard House II unveiled a strategic plan aimed at making the district more equitable, trustees still have unanswered questions about how to pay for it and concerns about whether parents and community members understand some of the changes that would occur.
Chief among the changes prompting some of those questions is House’s call to centralize funding for certain positions and programs, a shift from the district’s decentralized system that empowers school principals to spend their budgets as they see fit.
Under the plan, the district would centrally fund such jobs as assistant principals, nurses and fine arts teachers, in an effort to ensure all campuses staff those positions, which currently is not the case. Additionally, the district would centrally fund programs such as Advanced Placement, special education supports and athletics.
In interviews and during budget workshops this month, trustees largely have agreed that all campuses should have those staffers and programs but several say they want more information about how the changes will affect principals’ autonomy.
They also want to know how the district will pay for the initiative, which is projected to cost $255 million to implement in the first year of the five-year plan.
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The district plans to use federal COVID-19 relief money and general budget funds to pay for the first year. Funding it in the other years, however, has not yet been discussed in great detail.
“This isn’t the first time that this type of change has been proposed, right? What I would like to see as a trustee is to see there is transparency around the process, that there is community understanding and buy-in,” said Trustee Judith Cruz, currently serving as board president, “and ultimately that there is alignment to the board’s vision and goals.”
Most recently, former Superintendent Richard Carranza proposed centralizing various staffing and budget decisions, but the plan fizzled out after he left the school system in 2018, less than two years into his tenure. His successor, interim Superintendent Grenita Lathan, said the district needed more outreach before changing its funding model.
The district was expected to create a committee to study resource allocation. It is not clear if it ever did.
Trustee Dani Hernandez asked House during a workshop Thursday if that group ever had been formed and produced any reports. House said he was not aware of any.
“I feel like it’s a lot more of a plan than it previously was,” Hernandez said after last week’s presentation. “I still have a lot of questions about it.”
Administrators have said the change will not be a complete abandonment of the district’s decentralized operations but more of a hybrid model in which principals still will make some budgeting decisions.
Duncan Klussmann, former superintendent of Spring Branch ISD, said the level of autonomy given to principals that often is associated with HISD could lead to different programming available to students across the district without “guardrails.”
A 2019 report by the Texas Legislative Budget Board called for structural changes across the district after finding the decentralized model had delivered inconsistent resources to students and poor monitoring of spending.
“I think there is a balance that organizations are always looking to,” Klussmann said, “to try to figure out that right balance between campus autonomy and centralization.”
See here and here for the background. The story goes on to quote an expert who has some reservations about the plan and the speed with which it is moving forward. She and a colleague turned those concerns into this op-ed piece calling to slow things down.
Houston’s school board needs to take the time the city deserves to see if consolidating budget power back to the top is the right way to go. As such, we respectfully call for the board to stand up for the community and ensure a full public vetting process. It’s what such a monumental decision warrants before a well-established budget strategy with a lot of wins is ditched in the blink of an eye.
Those wins include the fact that the current model, known as weighted student funding, advances equity. Under the highly transparent model, the district gives schools more dollars for students with higher needs. Peer-reviewed research proves it: in fiscal year 2019, HISD spent $384 per student more on schools attended by the average low-income student than schools attended by other students. The weighted student funding strategy brought student achievement gains that won HISD the coveted Broad Prize for Urban Education. (The link between implementation and positive student test scores is documented in our research .) And while the district today clearly has ample room to improve, in a district like HISD with very limited dollars, there’s no wiggle room to get it wrong. It is these successes that led the school board to make weighted student funding a cornerstone of district strategy.
The Houston superintendent’s move goes against the tide of dozens of mega-districts that have adopted WSF in recent years — from Atlanta and Denver to Chicago and New York, Memphis-Shelby County and Metro Nashville — each posting equity gains as a result. Most recently, District of Columbia Public Schools approved weighted student funding, swayed by the evidence backing it. And in 2015, the bipartisan federal Every Student Succeeds Act included a pilot program enabling districts to expand their weighted student formulas to include federal funds as well.
We understand that the natural state of many districts is to centralize power over finances. But HISD’s board has long resisted that pressure, choosing instead to run a system that gives principals latitude in how best to staff their schools to meet differing student needs.
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The district need not jettison weighted student funding to mandate that all schools apply an effective reading curriculum or offer fine arts — things that leadership has called for. The district can absolutely require all schools to offer certain programs or services under weighted student funding; principals simply keep the leeway to decide how best to deliver those offerings at their school. It’s the district’s responsibility to then hold principals accountable for outcomes.
So, a centralized funding model does not win more money for schools. It does, however, incur losses. Principals — who know their students and the strengths of their unique mix of staff — lose their flexibility to decide how to tailor their resources to meet the needs of their diverse students. And a proven track record of equity hangs in the balance.
In working with scores of districts through our national school finance research center, we can confidently say that Houston’s rush to change is unprecedented. We have never seen a big-city district so dramatically overhaul its finance model without at least two years of planning. And while the threat of a state takeover continues to hang over HISD, there is no evidence that the Texas Education Agency is demanding this rapid-fire shift.
As I said before, I generally support the goals of Superintendent House’s vision. I’m fine with taking all the time needed to study it and make sure that we’re not disrupting things that are working well or implementing things that don’t have empirical backing yet. I’m out of my depth beyond that, so that’s all the more reason why I’d say taking more time on this is worthwhile.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 40 to 55 mph with gusts up to 80 mph expected.
Winds may locally exceed 90 MPH near the Sierra Madre Range in
the Upper North Platte River Valley.
* WHERE...Lower elevations of Carbon and Albany Counties including
Muddy Gap, Shirley Basin, Baggs, Rawlins, Saratoga, and Laramie.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be an extreme risk for
vehicle blowovers!
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts of
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High winds buffeting Laramie and southern Wyoming bend tall grass at the corner of Harney and Third streets in Laramie. A high wind warning is in effect for the area through 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Wyomingites can expect a lot of fresh air this week as high winds are expected throughout the southern portion of the state.
The forecast has prompted a high wind warning starting Monday afternoon and continuing at least through Wednesday morning, with gusts reaching up to 70 mph in Laramie.
To the east in Cheyenne and Nebraska, winds are expected to continue throughout the day Wednesday. Areas to the west, such as Arlington and Elk Mountain, can expect gusts of up to 85 mph, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Brothers.
The winds come along with a chance of snow in the Laramie area Tuesday. Though only about a half-inch is expected in the city, the Snowy Range Mountains could see about 6 inches.
Drivers should be aware of the wind and be sure to obey high wind warnings, said Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeremy Beck.
If wind gusts start up on the road, drivers should pull over to a safe place and wait for the gusts to pass, he said. The greatest risk is to light and high-profile vehicles like campers or semitrailers.
“If you’re doubting if you have enough of a load, you should probably wait it out,” Beck said.
Interstate 80 is typically closed when wind gusts are in excess of 60 mph, so closures the next few days are possible. To check the latest road conditions, visit tinyurl.com/4csh3rfa.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 40 to 55 mph with gusts up to 80 mph expected.
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* WHERE...Lower elevations of Carbon and Albany Counties including
Muddy Gap, Shirley Basin, Baggs, Rawlins, Saratoga, and Laramie.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM MDT Wednesday.
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A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
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Wyomingites can expect a lot of fresh air this week as high winds are expected throughout the southern portion of the state.
The forecast has prompted a high wind warning starting Monday afternoon and continuing at least through Wednesday morning, with gusts reaching up to 70 mph in Laramie.
To the east in Cheyenne and Nebraska, winds are expected to continue throughout the day Wednesday. Areas to the west, such as Arlington and Elk Mountain, can expect gusts of up to 85 mph, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Brothers.
The winds come along with a chance of snow in the Laramie area Tuesday. Though only about a half-inch is expected in the city, the Snowy Range Mountains could see about 6 inches.
Drivers should be aware of the wind and be sure to obey high wind warnings, said Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeremy Beck.
If wind gusts start up on the road, drivers should pull over to a safe place and wait for the gusts to pass, he said. The greatest risk is to light and high-profile vehicles like campers or semitrailers.
“If you’re doubting if you have enough of a load, you should probably wait it out,” Beck said.
Interstate 80 is typically closed when wind gusts are in excess of 60 mph, so closures the next few days are possible. To check the latest road conditions, visit tinyurl.com/4csh3rfa.
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GREEN RIVER – It will be an evening of recognition at Tuesday’s Green River city council meeting.
Mayor Pete Rust will proclaim April as Child Abuse Awareness Month.
According to the proclamation, an estimated 1,096 children in Wyoming are victims of abuse and neglect each year.
National Library Week will also be noted during the meeting. It is observed April 3-9.
According to the proclamation, libraries are accessible and inclusive places that foster a connection and build community.
April 6th will be recognized as National Service Recognition Day.
According to the proclamation, the nation’s cities are increasingly turning to national service and volunteerism as a cost-effective strategy to meet their needs.
Along with other communities nationwide, Sexual Assault Awareness Month will be recognized.
The YWCA Center for Families and Children promotes sexual assault prevention by offering educational presentations in schools, churches and civic organizations as well as professional training and collaboration with medical, mental health, law enforcement, educators and criminal justice personnel regarding sexual assault issues.
National Public Safety Telecommunications Week is April 10-16.
The proclamation states that public safety telecommunications are the first and most critical contact our citizens have with emergency services.
Corporal Karl Bode will be recognized for his service in the community.
The Sweetwater Economic Development Coalition will present updates to the council.
The council will consider approving Federal 601 Funds to help build more houses to the City in the Riverbend Subdivision.
A consideration of the Waste Water Treatment Plant Replacement Facility loan restructure amendments will be discussed among councilors.
The City has received two Wyoming Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) Loan Program loans for the Wastewater Treatment Plant Replacement Facility - a Design Loan (CW160) for $2.4 million and a Construction Loan (CW182) for $27.6 million. Each of these loans were originated with an interest rate of 2.5%. Recent modifications to the CWSRF program have allowed the City to request a reduction of the interest rate to 0.5%, and the State Loan and Investment Board has approved this request. The Amendments will document these interest rate adjustments for the two loans.
A second reading regarding the construction of a new fuel and concession kiosk will take place as well.
The Green River City Council will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5 in City Hall chambers, 50 E. 2nd N.
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ROCK SPRINGS--Downtown Rock Springs will once again be turned into a pilgrimage site on this coming Holy Thursday, April 14. Occasionally called Maundy Thursday in some church denominations, Holy Thursday is the day before Good Friday and is three days before Easter, and it is commemorated by many different Christian groups as the day of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ and his apostles.
The Holy Thursday Downtown Interfaith Pilgrimage is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. in front of the Broadway Theatre at 618 Broadway in Downtown Rock Springs, and is expected to last approximately one hour. During the ecumenical event, pastors from different area churches will process with pilgrimage participants from various denominations to different Downtown sites, including the police station and Rock Springs City Hall, to provide a brief Scripture reading, a brief prayer, and a short reflection lasting a few minutes at each stop. Police will assist participants to safely cross streets, as there will be no blocking off city streets for the pilgrimage event. The final stop will be at the Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency headquarters at 603 South Main Street. Confirmed participants this year include Rev. Kelly Lucas (First Congregational Church/United Church of Christ), Fr. Marcelo Florante (Associate Pastor-Holy Spirit Catholic Church), Fr. Flo (Holy Spirit Catholic Community), Rev. Jim Chrisawn (United Methodist Church), Rev. Levi Powers (Mount of Olives Lutheran Church), Pastor Richard P. Carlson (Rock Springs Evangelical Free Church), and Pastor Gene Emerson (Restoration Ministries).
“We are hoping for a good turnout of pilgrimage participants from different denominations representing the Rock Springs faith community,” said Chad Banks, head of the Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency. “The event is open to people of all faiths or no particular faith,” Banks added. The Rock Springs Main Street/URA is helping to promote the Downtown pilgrimage march. The annual event began in 2017. The event was cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus but was renewed in 2021.
Banks expressed appreciation for the clergy who have agreed to provide sermonettes. Pastors of over 30 local churches were invited, and several have expressed interest in helping to give brief reflections at the stopping sites. The entire event is designed so that people on their noon lunch breaks from work can attend, along with others who have the day free.
Rock Springs Main Street/URA Arts & Culture volunteer committee member Paul Murray has done much of the legwork in getting the fifth annual Holy Thursday Downtown Interfaith Pilgrimage off the ground.
“We expect the event to be highly successful in this fifth year,” Murray said. “The Holy Thursday Downtown Pilgrimage is a simple, reflective way to begin the holiest weekend on the Christian calendar. Participating pastors and pilgrims walking to the different sites will have a reflective, thought-provoking opportunity to consider how the Scriptures relate to everyday life in downtown Rock Springs. This is not intended to be a big mega-type production, taking a lot of time and effort on anyone’s part. It’s meant to be a simple reflection service at each stop which will give participants a better understanding of the interconnectedness between Scripture and Rock Springs,” Murray said, adding, “We wanted to think of an event that would cater to anyone interested, including people who will be out of town on Easter weekend from Good Friday onward. We felt, however, that it would be jumping the gun to schedule an Easter Egg Hunt on Holy Thursday.”
Further information about the event is available by contacting Paul Murray at 389-5351 or the URA at 352-1434.
“We want to see people coming Downtown to shop, eat, and do business,” Banks said. “These types of events such as Holy Thursday, Rods and Rails, the Halloween Stroll and so on are meant to get people to visit Downtown Rock Springs. We need to get the word out that shopping or eating on Dewar Drive or going to Salt Lake City are not the only options that people have. Without these kinds of events, some local folks would never visit Downtown and have a chance to discover what’s there.”
Murray echoed Banks’s sentiments and added a few of his own. “The Holy Thursday Pilgrimage is meant to attract people to Downtown who might never come to an art festival, a farmer’s market, or a Brown Bag Lunch Concert, as well, of course, to attract those who do,” Murray said. “We realize that there is a wide diversity of interests among the Rock Springs community, and we are trying to have one or more events that will attract as many people as we can to our Downtown. And, hopefully once they see all that’s here, they will come back to Downtown often.”
The Rock Springs Main Street/URA is charged with the redevelopment of Downtown Rock Springs. As part of their mission, there are three standing committees—Promotions, Business Development and Arts & Culture. Main Street/URA events throughout the year are intended to draw people Downtown with the goal of attracting attention to the many fine stores, restaurants and businesses that Downtown Rock Springs has to offer. For more information on the Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency, contact Chad Banks, Rock Springs Main Street/URA Manager.
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Forecast updated on Monday, April 4, 2022, at 4:10 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight: Increasing clouds and cool. Low 43°. Wind: S 2-7 mph.
Tuesday: Cloudy with showers likely. High 65° (Beaches will stay near 53°. Wind: SE 6-14 mph.
Tuesday Night: Cloudy with rain likely at times. Mild and humid. Low 54°. Wind: S 4-11 mph.
Wednesday: Cloudy with showers likely early and spotty showers PM. Total rainfall from Tuesday-Wednesday will exceed 0.5 inches. High 66°. Wind: NW 8-16 mph. Beaches will stay near 55-60°.
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Tonight will be cool with a south wind developing ahead of a low pressure system and clouds will increase. Look for lows in the low 40's across the area. Tuesday looks gray with showers at times and a SE breeze. Afternoon temps. should reach the mid 60's as milder air arrives with higher humidity. Rain is likely Tuesday night into Wednesday as the low pressure system moves across Delmarva.
Wednesday will be cloudy with morning showers. Scattered showers will linger into the day/evening. It will be mild and humid with lows near 55 and afternoon temps. will reach the mid 60's. Rainfall amounts from early Tuesday through Wednesday night may exceed 0.5 inches. Forecast confidence is only fair today and rainfall may be higher in some areas. Winds will turn to the NW Wednesday as a low-pressure system moves east of the area into the Atlantic.
In the long-range, showers will return later Wednesday into Thursday, as a slow moving cool front pushes through the area. Winds will turn to the south ahead of the front Thursday then turn to the NW Thursday night. Look for temps. to reach the upper 60's Thursday afternoon, with showers lingering into the evening. Clouds will linger Friday with some clearing and temps. will be in the mid 60's. The weekend looks mostly sunny with afternoon high temps. in the upper 50's and lows near 40.
The average high for today is 62 degrees with an average low of 41 degrees.
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Chicago to offer rebates for home security cameras
CHICAGO - Chicago home and small business owners concerned about violent crime will soon be eligible for "rebates up to certain limits" to defray the cost of security cameras, outdoor motion sensor lighting, cloud storage and vehicle GPS trackers.
For the fourth time in five days, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is offering a multi-million-dollar giveaway to Chicago residents in advance of a mayoral election that’s now less than a year away.
Last week, it was 50,000 gas cards worth $150 each, 100,000 Ventra cards loaded with $50 apiece and 5,000 free bicycles, helmets, locks and lights for Chicagoans eager to try an alternative mode of transportation.
This week’s $5.3 million giveaway offers "rebates up to certain limits that cover the cost of outdoor security cameras and one-year of cloud storage for video footage." The unspecified rebates will also cover outdoor motion sensor lighting and vehicle GPS trackers.
Homeowners will be eligible to receive "up to $225-per-camera for a total of $450" in residential security expenses.
"That means that, if you would like to purchase a $50 camera, you can purchase multiple. We know of a lot of associations and other places that have multiple entrances,’ said Tamara Mahal, chief coordination officer for the city’s Community Safety Coordination Center.
"You’ll also be eligible for certain subscription costs for the first year of cloud-based subscription. … For lighting, you’ll be eligible for up to $100 per light. And for vehicular tracking devices, you’ll be eligible for up to $50 per device and up to one year’s subscription costs."
Though the city has budgeted "around $5.3 million through 2024" for the entire rebate program, according to Hall, she did not reveal where the money is coming from.
All subsidized camera systems will be registered with the Chicago Police Department to serve as a force-multiplier in crime-plagued neighborhoods and help provide inundated CPD officers with the video evidence they need to solve violent crime.
Lightfoot also urged Chicago homeowners and small business owners to register their existing cameras with the Chicago Police Department.
The rebate program — and a $1 million fundraising drive for what Lightfoot billed as the largest gun turn-in program in Chicago history — follows suggestions made during a series of town hall meetings on public safety.
"If you’ve been wanting to get a camera for your home, for your business, but haven’t taken the step or if money has been a prohibition, this is the time to step up. And if you’re like me—not so handy with the tools, but want to take advantage of this—we can help you with that as well. Don’t let the installation be" a roadblock, Lightfoot said at a news conference at Chicago Tabernacle, 3231 N. Cicero Ave.
She added, "This technology will create a visible crime deterrent and provide tremendous access and assistance to CPD’s investigations, undoubtedly boosting their efforts to hold criminals accountable and solve crimes much more quickly."
Lightfoot stressed the program is voluntary, but added: "If you sign up and you get the rebate, we want you to register your camera with CPD."
"That footage is really important. So many crimes have been solved over this last year alone because we’ve been able to tap into residential video or video with the owner’s consent. This will just speed up that process. We’ve got a network of registrations already. Detectives will know exactly where to go," she said.
CPD Supt. David Brown urged every Chicago resident and business owner to register their existing camera systems.
"Video is a crucial, crucial part of solving all crimes, but particularly homicides and shootings," Brown said, citing two recent examples of a burglary and a carjacking solved by already-registered cameras.
Brown assured participating home and business owners CPD will not have direct access to registered camera systems.
Nor can the police department access camera footage without a home or business owner’s consent. There is also no requirement that participating home and business owners provide footage to CPD — even after a crime.
"Your authorization is always required for you to share that footage," Brown said.
"The camera system is your property and you have the right to refused any request. Your information will not be shared with anyone. And you can also request that your information be removed at any time."
Lightfoot said she is "not comfortable with the idea that we’re just gonna tap into those cameras automatically, even if the technology would allow" CPD to do just that.
"We’ve got to win the confidence and the faith of our residents and not have a Big-Brother-esque camera system," she said.
Council members who have not yet approved the parade of mayoral giveaways were suspicious of the mayor’s motives.
"There’s a pattern here. It’s Christmas in April," said downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), who is mulling a campaign for mayor against Lightfoot.
"These generous giveaways using taxpayer dollars are an obvious attempt to buy favorable support. … We’re getting into campaign season. That changes everything. She’s a politically unpopular mayor. That’s a fact. Whether she can gain support in the City Council for what may be an obvious political ploy remains to be seen."
Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th), another potential mayoral challenger, found out about the latest freebie after a briefing on the gas card and Ventra card giveaways.
During at least one of the briefings, suspicious alderpersons demanded to know whether the cards being customized for the city — or the brochure sent out with the cards — will include Lightfoot’s name or a personalized message from the mayor.
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If they do, there could be significant City Council opposition, sources said.
"We’re just giving away everything. I just don’t think that’s the proper way to govern — giving stuff away. I have a real problem with it," Sawyer said.
"We should make life better for everyone. Not just give away some trinkets and make people feel better. That’s not real relief. That’s a temporary fix. That’s a Band-Aid."
Mayoral challenger Paul Vallas branded Monday’s security camera rebate the latest "political act of desperation" by a mayor destined to serve just one term.
Instead of giving stuff away, Vallas urged Lightfoot to provide broad-based relief by canceling the automatic escalator that ties annual property tax increases to the rate of inflation.
"She has absolutely no answer to the public safety challenges the city is facing, so she resorts to these gimmicks. It’s questionable use of stimulus money and once again, disrespecting the City Council. Doing things unilaterally without even consulting the City Council," Vallas said.
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"When she’s not manipulating or distorting [crime] data, she’s resorting to….meaningless things that are more p.r. than substantive like handing out these cameras. It’s clearly a political act of desperation and further evidence that they absolutely do not know what they’re doing."
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Disney hand sanitizers recalled due to Benzene and Methanol presence
Best Brands Consumer Products is voluntarily recalling two lots of Disney-brand hand sanitizers, citing the presence of benzene and methanol. The Mickey Mouse and Mandalorian-edition hand sanitizers were produced by a third-party manufacturer.
Food and Drug Administration testing found benzene, a human carcinogen, in the Mandalorian hand sanitizer and methanol in the Mickey sanitizer. Best Brands was notified of the testing results in late February and followed up with their own investigation.
Both lots were produced in April and May 2020 but were later removed from sale in April 2021 due to "unrelated commercial reasons."
Benzene exposure via inhalation, orally, or skin could result in life-threatening cancers and/or blood disorders. Likewise, methanol exposure can result in "nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or death," according to the FDA.
Best Brands has yet to receive any complaints or reports of adverse effects from any Disney-themed products. They have already advised consumers to discard items from lot 20E21 with an expiration date of Sept. 30, 2022 of the Mandalorian sanitizer and the Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer from lot 20D21, with a June, 30, 2022 expiration date.
Customers have been advised to report any concerns or issues to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program.
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Coal City man killed in crash involving train in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, Ill. - An Illinois man died after his truck was struck by a train Monday afternoon.
At about 1:54 p.m., Will County Sheriff's deputies responded to a fatal train versus pickup truck crash.
The incident occurred at Murphy and Cooper Roads in Wilmington Township.
According to initial reports, at about 1:20 p.m., a northbound BNSF freight train struck a GMC Sierra 2500 that was heading westbound when it was struck.
The truck came to rest upside down about 150 feet north of the crossing.
The crossing signal, signal bells and crossing gates were still operating after the incident occurred, authorities said.
The train engineer was unharmed.
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The driver of the truck was identified as a 64-year-old man from Coal City.
Authorities said the victim was ejected from his vehicle after being struck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other passengers or witnesses were located, authorities said.
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Initial reports also indicate that the man may have been stuck in a gravel area on the north side of the railroad crossing when he was struck, authorities said.
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Oak Forest officer wounded in grocery store shootout in serious condition
CHICAGO - An Oak Forest police officer is in serious but stable condition Monday after a shooting at a Food4Less grocery store this weekend.
Officers responded to a call for a motorist in need of assistance about 11 a.m. Sunday in the 6000 block of 159th Street when they noticed the driver was armed, according to Oak Forest police.
Officers said they tried taking the woman, 21-year-old Ketura Wilson, in for a mental health evaluation, but she started running away.
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When officers tried to negotiate with Wilson, she took out a gun, ran into the Food4Less grocery store at 5556 West 159th Street and started shooting at officers.
Wilson was shot and later died at the hospital.
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The officer is recovering.
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Suspect arrested in connection with Sacramento mass shooting, police say
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A 26-year-old has been arrested in connection with the Sacramento shooting that claimed the lives of six people and left a dozen others wounded, police announced.
The Sacramento Police Department named Dandre Martin as a suspect in the case on Monday. Martin was arrested just after midnight Monday. He was booked on assault and illegal firearm possession charges, authorities said.
According to Sacramento County jail record, Martin also has an outstanding warrant from Riverside County. He is being held without bail and is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Tuesday.
During the course of the investigation, detectives served search warrants at three residences where they recovered at least one handgun.
Dozens of rapid-fire gunshots rang out around 2 a.m. Sunday in downtown Sacramento, leaving three women and three men dead and 12 people wounded. Authorities said they believed at least two shooters carried out the massacre.
Authorities said Monday that at least three buildings and three cars in the downtown area were hit by gunfire. More than 100 expended shell casings were found at the scene.
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The victims struck and killed by the gunfire were identified as Sergio Harris, 38, Devazia Turner, 29, Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21, Johntaya Alexander, 21, Melinda Davis, 57, and Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32.
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The Magnificent Mile, already hit hard by pandemic, faces new threat in mass thefts
CHICAGO - Chicago's iconic Michigan Avenue is facing an uphill battle. Stores on the Magnificent Mile shuttered because of the pandemic, but now it faces a new threat in mass thefts.
Retailers on Michigan Avenue are seeing neighboring vacancies and in some cases, repeat burglaries.
Two more luxury break-ins occurred on Michigan Avenue just last week.
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On Thursday, Burberry was targeted once again when four unknown suspects entered the store and made off with luxury products.
This comes as vacancies are rising. However, an expert with Cushman and Wakefield said it's not just happening on Michigan Avenue, and it's not necessarily tied to crime.
The Mag Mile currently has a retail vacancy of 24.7%, but that's in line with 5th Avenue in New York City.
The same expert said it's more to do with consumers' shopping habits, as they now tend to purchase fast fashion online and stick with purchasing luxury in person.
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It's a trend that consumers are noticing too.
"Definitely in the Water Tower Place in general they change the stores all the time, it's a really big turnover. Like the other day, I wanted to go to Aldo, and I was like, 'when did Aldo leave?' I didn't even know that wasn't there anymore," said Rose Filipas, a shopper on the Mag Mile.
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Despite those luxury break-ins, the expert at Cushman and Wakefield said luxury shopping is on the rise.
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Zion man, 18, killed in vehicle crash
ZION, Ill. - An 18-year-old Zion man died in a vehicle crash Monday morning.
At about 3:49 a.m. Monday, police responded to a traffic crash near 9th Street and Lorelei Drive in Zion.
When officers arrived, they discovered a single vehicle crash with multiple injuries.
According to authorities, the vehicle left the roadway, went into a ditch and struck a utility pole.
One of the passengers in the vehicle, an 18-year-old man, was later pronounced deceased.
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The driver and other passengers were evaluated and/or taken to the hospital, with what police say are non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause of the crash is currently unknown.
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Anyone with information on this crash is asked to contact the Zion Police Department at (847)-872-8000.
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Associated Press recognizes work by Times Recorder
Sam Blackburn, Chris Crook and Erin Couch recognized for work in 2021
COLUMBUS — The Zanesville Times Recorder won 11 honors at the recent Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Awards for work in 2021. The TR competes in Division II.
Reporter Erin Couch placed second and third for best explanatory reporting for stories on Fultonham rebuilding its village government and property taxes being overvalued in minority areas of Zanesville. She also placed second for best public service for a story on sewer issues in Licking View.
Photographer and reporter Chris Crook placed second for best feature writer, third for best photographer, first for best photo story on creation of a John Glenn statue and first for best public service story for a look at COVID-19 care.
Sam Blackburn placed second for best sports columnist, best sports writer and best sports enterprise for a story on wrestling teams adapting to COVID-19 protocols.
The Times Recorder also won first place for best digital presence and received third place for general excellence, based on other awards won.
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Local News Briefs: Fundraiser set for New Lexington's arts center
Arts center hosting mystery dinner
NEW LEXINGTON — A mystery dinner fundraiser will be at 6 p.m. April 30 and 2 p.m. May 1 at the Perry County Cultural Arts Center, 447 S. Main St., New Lexington. "More Tea Anyone" is written by Jane Beattie with Marry Ann Headley as director.
Tickets are available at Ogden's Insurance, Thompson's Insurance and from cast members. Only 60 tickets will be sold for each performance in advance. There is also a reward for super sleuths who solve the mystery.
Spring Cuddles on the Farm set
ZANESVILLE — Spring Cuddles on the Farm will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 9, 15 and 16 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 10 at McDonald's Greenhouse and Corn Maze, 3220 Adamsville Road.
The event will include baby goat therapy, love a bunny, hold a baby chick and doughnuts. Cost is $3 a person with those under age 2 free. Proceeds benefit Trulight Ministries.
CCP program from OUZ
ZANESVILLE — A College Credit Plus information night will be virtually at 6 p.m. Thursday through Ohio University Zanesville.
CCP is for students in seventh to 12th grades to earn college credit prior to high school graduation. Credit can count toward high school graduation and transfers to most colleges and universities.
If a student qualifies, all tuition and textbooks are free. Register for the information session at ohio.edu/zanesville/visit.
Board of DD to meet
ZANESVILLE — The Muskingum County Board of Developmental Disabilities will meet at 5:30 p.m. April 14 at the board office, 1304 Newark Road.
Mid-East board having session
ZANESVILLE — Mid-East Career and Technology Centers Board of Education will meet in regular session at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the administrative center of the Zanesville campus, 400 Richards Road.
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A 40-year-old Yakima man accused of voyeurism at a local store and threatening to kill officers with knives was arrested Friday night following several hours of negotiations by the SWAT team, according to Yakima police.
Police were first alerted by staff and customers that a man was taking photos or recording women inside dressing rooms at a store on Lincoln Avenue last week. When police confronted the suspect at the store around 1 p.m. Friday, he left in a car and failed to stop for officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Police tracked the man to an apartment in the 400 block of West D Street, the affidavit said. When he was asked to come out, he threatened officers with knives, and officers could see him holding several kitchen knives, the affidavit said. The Yakima SWAT team was called and the crisis response unit attempted to negotiate for several hours, police said. Police sought and received a search warrant to enter the home.
Around 7 p.m., officers deployed several “diversionary devices” before breaching the front door and using a chemical agent in the house, the affidavit said. The suspect charged out the door at the officers, and he was bitten by K-9 Zorro, a police dog, the affidavit said. Police discharged less-lethal 40 mm rounds, the affidavit said.
The suspect was taken to Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital for treatment and was arrested on suspicion of voyeurism, eluding, felony harassment and first-degree assault. He was scheduled to appear in Yakima County Superior Court on Monday afternoon.
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Yakima firefighters are responding to a house fire in the 7000 block of Englewood Avenue that started around 2 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2022.
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Gerald R. “Gerry” Brong, 82, of Ellensburg died Saturday, March 26, at Prestige Post-Acute & Rehab in Ellensburg.
Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Ellensburg, 509-925-2902.
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After South Carolina defeated UConn to win their second NCAA women’s basketball title, Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley sought to clarify controversy about her team allegedly boycotting the national anthem.
Before Friday’s semifinal game against Louisville, South Carolina was not out on the court for the anthem. A number of stories were written about it, on sites such as Insider, Daily Mail and OutKick. While Staley has previously spoken about her team’s decision to sit or kneel for the anthem, she said that the team staying in the locker room on Friday was a result of the timing of when it was played — and not a deliberate protest.
“I don’t know who wrote an article about our players not being out on the court for the national anthem,” Staley told reporters Sunday night. “We’re just creatures of habit. I think it was played at the 12- or 10-minute mark [on the countdown clock before the game started]. That’s just not the time that we’re out on the court because of our pregame ritual. If the national anthem is at triple 0’s like it was today, we were out there standing for the national anthem.”
Staley called on journalists to fact-check, and said her team was called names over not being out on the court for the anthem against Louisville.
“So whoever this journalist was that wrote that, please do your research,” Staley said. “Ask the questions before you go out and write an article. And then I’m called all kinds of names. Our players are called all kinds of names. Before you do that, please fact check. And don’t put us under the gun like that because it was a distraction for us. I didn’t let it be a distraction but it was a distraction. People were all on my accounts and all of that.
“And I can take the heat. But when you write something and it’s during one of the most important times of our season, let it be factual. I think we can come up with a whole lot of things you can write about our basketball team during this time than one that was full of untruths. And then other articles come out from that. And then we’re called unpatriotic, some of the nastiness. It’s because we’re a predominantly black team. So when you do that, understand your power. If it’s facts, I can’t fight that. But they were full of untruths.”
Last year, Staley spoke to ESPN’s Undefeated (now rebranded to Andscape) about Gamecocks players choosing to sit during the national anthem to protest racial injustice in America.
“The majority of our players has sat during the playing of the national anthem every game this season – a decision made by our players to bring awareness to racial injustice in our country,” Staley said last January. “If opposing teams choose to play the anthem during the time we’re in the locker room, then we choose to stay in the locker room.”
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Two teams with drastically different paths are set to battle Monday night. Kansas, winners of the Big 12 regular season and tournament, have coasted to the championship game, winning three of its last five games by double digits and outscoring its last two opponents 127-80 over the past three halves.
North Carolina, meanwhile, was firmly on the bubble a month and a half ago, having fallen to lowly Pittsburgh at home by nine. Since then, the Tar Heels have beaten Duke (twice), defending national champion Baylor (who tied Kansas for the regular-season Big 12 title), and UCLA.
Hubert Davis took over from Roy Williams, who has a history of coaching both these teams, winning three national championships at UNC. Williams never won a title with the Jayhawks, who are playing in the championship game for the 10th time in its history. Of their previous nine, have only converted three of those.
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This potential treatment may not be for the squeamish.
Accidentally swallowed a magnetic ball? Not to worry: Hong Kong scientists have created a state-of-the-art “slime robot” that can be magnetically manipulated to retrieve inadvertently ingested objects, among a myriad of other real-world applications.
A case study detailing the cybernetic cutting-edge invention was published recently in the journal “Advanced Functional Materials.”
“The ultimate goal is to deploy it like a robot,” the goo-bot’s co-creator, Li Zhang, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Guardian.
Zhang and his team reportedly concocted the revolutionary ooze by mixing neodymium magnet particles with household detergent borax and the resin polyvinyl alcohol, the first ingredient so it can be controlled magnetically, Reuters reported. They then coated the toxic magnetic particles with silica to hypothetically make them safe for use inside the human body.
The resultant product has “visco-elastic properties” — meaning that it behaves like a liquid or a solid depending on the level of the force applied. Think of a fun-sized liquid metal T-1000 from “Terminator 2,” if it was built to help rather than harm.
“When you touch it very quickly it behaves like a solid,” said Zhang. “When you touch it gently and slowly it behaves like a liquid.”
If that wasn’t SyFy Channel enough, the magnetic glob can also heal itself, form “C” and “O” shapes and even conduct electricity. In fact, the bot’s abilities seemed so far-fetched that social media thought it was an April Fools’ Day gag when it debuted on April 1, the Guardian reported.
However, a freaky breakthrough video shows a soft-bodied robot pulling wires together, enveloping objects like “The Blob,” navigating passages as narrow as 1.5 mm and even glomming together after being chopped apart, behaving like mercury from a broken thermometer.
Scientists believe that the globule could boast a range of essential applications, such as “transporting harmful things” and “circuit switching and repair,” per the study.
Most importantly, perhaps, it could potentially extract non-food items accidentally ingested by people — a critical function given recent horror stories of people swallowing pointedly dangerous foreign objects, from needles to car keys. No word as to whether the flubber-like substance works on objects accidentally lodged in people’s urethras.
The goop spawned mixed reactions social media, with one gawker deeming it “kinda frightening.”
“I think i’d rather have whatever was swallowed pass through naturally than ingest what looks like magnetic turd,” wrote another naysayer, scoffing at the invention’s potential medical uses.
Others, including the official Sony account, compared the dark blob to the eponymous space symbiote from the “Venom” movies.
Others deemed it a vicious Trojan horse that the government could use to implant hardware under the guise of performing invasive surgery.
“Yes like they’re gonna spend millions on developing this for retrieving items accidentally swallowed,” said one social media conspiracy theorist. “Right. Implant maintenance more like.”
“Be not afraid of the living, controllable robot glob that can slither into your body,” wrote another snarky doomsayer. “The glob is your friend. The glob only wants to help.”
Fortunately, as many Twitter users pointed out, the slimeball is not sentient.
“It’s not intelligent. It has no parts,” said one Twitter realist in retort to other users’ paranoid free associating. “It’s just a blob you move around with magnets.”
Zhang explained that while, for now, the robo-glob is not autonomous, “we still consider it as fundamental research — trying to understand its material properties.”
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Prine time
The Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith will this week host a night in memory of singer-songwriter John Prine. David Hennessy spoke to Ralph McTell and John’s son Tommy Prine, who will be among the performers paying tribute.
This Thursday (7 April) is the second anniversary of the death of American country singer-songwriter John Prine.
It is on that night that The Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith is celebrating the man and his music.
Blow Up Your TV! Remembering John Prine will feature performances by Ralph McTell and John’s own son, Tommy Prine.
John’s widow Fiona is from Ardara, Co. Donegal. Fiona, John and their family spent much time in Kinvara, Co. Galway where they had a home.
Of the vast amount of tributes paid to John when his death was announced in 2020, many came from Ireland, which took to him just as much as he did to it.
The concert’s bill also features Tanya McCole from Ardara in Donegal, who toured as a special guest for many John Prine concerts, John’s longtime friend Paul Mulligan – a singer-songwriter from Kinvara, Co. Galway and former Altan fiddle and accordion players, Ciaran Tourish and Dermot Byrne.
Ralph McTell told The Irish World: “I can’t say we were intimate or close friends.
“I would have loved to have known John better.
“Sometimes you feel you know someone through their music, and that tends to be backed up by what other people say. That’s my feeling with John.
“John is the definitive old country protest singer really firmly in the footsteps of one of my great heroes, Woody Guthrie.
“I don’t think ‘three chords and the truth’ applies to anyone better than John.
“John’s uncompromising lyrics and his simple tunes are deceptive, the way they get into you.
“I remember when I got my first Woody Guthrie song book about 100 years ago, Pete Seeger had written the introduction and he said, ‘Any damn fool can get complicated, but it takes a genius to keep it simple’.
“John fits that description perfectly because the simplicity is deceptive, is really very deep quite often.
“It’s a voice of honesty.
“It is pure American, pure honesty – it’s strength, it’s gritty.
“He was a very, very special writer and we will wait a long time if ever someone comes along as strong and as honest and as direct and good and melodic as John.
“That will be a long time.
“John has got that pure kind of – you can almost feel the coal dust under the fingernails, you know what I mean?
“Obviously there’s so much humanity in his songs and they are very approachable and very singable and all that.”
His songs are known for their humour, protest and social commentary. Prine was active from the 1970s right up to his death.
“I first noticed him with a song called Sam Stone about the veterans coming home from the war in Vietnam, and the kind of problems that they had adjusting to civilian life and so on.
“It was a beautiful, but very sad, song.
“Sporadically through my musical career, I would pick up the odd John Prine song.
“I was on my own song-writing track, which is different, but my roots are the same.
“Some years ago, I was given a BBC award for folk music and then the following year, or a year after I think, John was nominated, and he asked who else had one. They said me, and he said, ‘Well, that’ll do me’. That was his acceptance speech, which was one of the best compliments I’ve ever had.
“I sat with him when he received his award but of course, by that time he didn’t chat a lot because of the hideous throat cancer thing that he had bless him, but we chatted away.
“I think it was his tour manager that remarked that we hit it off really well together.
“I’m very honoured to be asked to play. I’m surprised, and this is no offence to the Irish Cultural Centre which I go to on a regular basis to listen to traditional Irish music and so on, but I’m surprised at the size of the venue. I thought he ought to have had the Albert Hall – that’s how big he is.
“But this will have an intimacy and a friendliness. It’s a very special occasion and I’m delighted to be able to accept.
“I’m learning one of his songs for the show and they’ve asked me to play a couple of mine.”
Ralph, an Irish World Award winner, is known for his classics Streets of London and From Clare To Here.
“John lived in Nashville for a long time, and I know that’s where Nanci Griffith first heard the song From Clare to Here so I know that John will have known that song.
“Nanci recorded John’s song Speed of the Sound of Loneliness and she also recorded From Clare to Here so that’s the way I shall link my songs on the night.”
Although not Irish, Ralph is proud of how From Clare to Here is so associated with the country.
“It’s quite well known that it was a phrase uttered by a young labourer I was working with.
“When he was missing home, he said, ‘It’s a long way from Clare to here’.
“I have always said that if he said, ‘It’s a long way from here to Clare’, I would have just nodded and that would have been it but because he put Clare first it suggested to me that’s where his heart was.
“I thought, ‘That’s a song waiting to be written’.
“People have been kind enough to say some very positive things about the song, so it seems to have worked its way into the Irish canon of songs. I’m so proud of that.
“It’s very touching and humbling.
“I’m desperately searching for an Irish relative. I haven’t found one yet, I think there must be something there because I feel very bonded to Ireland and the Irish people.”
“Irish culture embraces quite sentimental songs with hard reality songs because of the history and the pain of emigration, separation and so on.
“That suits me down to the ground because that’s the sort of music I like best as well when it comes to writing. John would certainly have found a home for the honesty of his work over there – Ireland would probably be a natural place for him to be at ease.
“You can’t get much further away from Nashville than Galway, really.”
“When you write your songs, you sort of let them go. If they find their way to others’ interpretation, that’s a bonus.
“As Woody Guthrie wisely said, ‘Anyone found singing my songs without my due consent and permission is a true friend of mine because that’s what I wrote them for’.
“John seemed to be quite shy and retiring but we chatted, and we clicked, and I was so thrilled to be in his company and sit next to him and talk for a while and loudly applaud when he went and made his little short speech and accepted the award. It was a great moment.”
Tommy Prine is following in his father’s footsteps as a singer-songwriter and will release his debut album later this year,
He told The Irish World that he will be honoured to play in honour of his father at the ICC this week and how much his father’s encouragement meant to him.
Tommy said: “I’m really excited. I can’t wait.
“I know he’s my father and everything, but it’s not like I assume that I’m always gonna be a part of it.
“So obviously, I was very honoured just to even be asked to do something like this.
“There’re so many talented artists out there that can do justice to my father’s songs.
“I was just very grateful and honoured that I got the opportunity to share this experience with everyone.
“It’s a blessing that my father meant so much to so many people around the world.
“There is a distinction, for me at least, between John Prine and then my dad.
“The world lost a great songwriter in John Prine, I lost my father.
“It really does mean a lot. You can see in people’s eyes whenever they come up and talk to me and share about how much my father meant to them.
“That is a really, really, really special thing that I get to experience.
“It was a little hard at first but it’s really, really special. I’m very blessed my father’s reached so many people through his music.
“It’s gonna be really special for sure. All the songs that I learn to play that are my father’s take on a whole new meaning once I get to play them and use my voice.
“It’s hard to explain but it’s really special.”
What can you tell us about John Prine the man himself?
“To a certain degree who you thought he was, was who he was – he was simple. He was happy. He was interesting, he was funny.
“He was exactly how you would imagine him to be if you ever met him.
“The way that he would describe the world around him and the way that he would talk or use words in his song, was exactly who he was as a person.
“He probably had an easier time deciphering the world around him through his music than he did just through conversation. That’s part of what made him such a special person as an artist as a special person in general.”
As father and son, you shared the stage with him many times over the years.
“To his credit and my mum’s credit, they never pushed me to do anything.
“When it comes to music and stuff, they were never like, ‘Oh, you should do this’ or ‘You should do that’.
“I just gravitated naturally towards the guitar and started picking and playing and writing.
“I’d show my dad stuff that I’d come up with and it was the ultimate proud moment whenever I’d show him a song and he told me it was a good one, because he was always honest.
“He’d be like, ‘Oh, keep working on that one, I don’t think that one’s quite there yet’.
“Sometimes, very, very seldom, he would be like, ‘That’s a really good song, Tommy’.
“No one could tell me anything after he told me that, I was on top of the world for sure.
“I cherish the moments that I had on stage with him. I know he did too.”
“You know, my dad always had a deep appreciation for culture and for people and what those two things would come up with.
“He could never put his finger on what really drew him to Ireland, but its people would probably be his number one answer.
“It always will hold a very special place in my heart.
“When I was a kid, we would spend two to three months at a time out of every year during the summer, just to go hang out in Kinvara, and lots of very important childhood memories were made there. They’re near and dear to my heart.
“I remember the many, many, many times that we would pull over on the side of the road so we could stop and get a ‘99’.
“That was always fun and always his idea. Always hold those memories very close.”
“Every chance that I get to have a tribute with my father is going to be very special.
“This is definitely going to be a very significant moment for me and my family.”
Blow Up Your TV! Remembering John Prine – 7.30pm this Thursday (7 April) at The Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.
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Splitting up is hard to do
Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker spoke to David Hennessy about the return of the BBC’s divorce law drama, The Split.
Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker returned to screens this week in BBC’s divorce lawyer drama, The Split as it returns for its third and final series.
The Split is created by Abi Morgan, the Welsh playwright who is also known for screen work like The Hour, The Iron Lady and Shame starring Michael Fassbender.
The series began airing in 2018 and follows the lives of the Defoe family, many of whom work in divorce law with a supporting cast the includes Fiona Button, Kildare actor Damien Molony and Ian McElhinney of Derry Girls.
The second series, which was the third most watched drama series on BBC iPlayer in 2020, saw Hannah (Walker) and Nathan (Mangan)’s marriage fall apart.
The latest instalment joins them ten months on.
Both lawyers have been respectfully negotiating their separation and seem to have reached an amicable agreement following the end of their previously rock-solid 20 year marriage.
But it’s clear that both have become aware of what they are about to lose and there is the additional complication of Hannah learning that Nathan has met someone else.
Stephen told The Irish World: “I want to shake him (Nathan) sometimes. I have huge empathy for him, but the whole thing is messy. That’s what’s interesting to watch: Nice people having a nice life doing nice things doesn’t make good drama.
“You can be a good person and make some bad decisions.
“Or you can be a good person put in a very difficult situation and not handle it in a textbook way.
“So that’s what’s so lovely about this show.
“I mean, I had people shouting at me in the street after the first series went out, ‘How could you cheat on Nicola Walker? How could you join an internet dating website?’
“Even though she did sleep with a handsome Dutch guy.
“There was a lot of anger directed towards me.”
However, the tables turned when in series two it was Hannah having an affair with Dutch lawyer Christie Carmichael.
“The second series, I got a lot of sympathy.
“People would tell me, ‘Oh mate, that was so tough. That’s been a really difficult journey’.
“I’m not coming out of my house for the next six weeks.”
Is it easy in that way to always empathise with the character if, as he says, the public reaction has been quite angry at times? “I think that’s the job, to understand them and like them.
“You know, if you read it and go, ‘Oh, my God, why did he do that? Why?’
“I think if you’re playing a mass murderer, you’ve got to go back and go, ‘Okay, given those situations, it seemed to him or her like that was the thing they should do at that time’.
“However externally wrong it looks I think you can’t go, ‘Oh, I’m doing a terrible thing here’. Because I think that’s commenting on it and it’s a bit dull.
“I think your job as an actor is to be in the corner of your character and see the world from their point of view and sell their actions as reasonable.”
Nicola adds: “Even when they don’t feel that proud of their actions. Abi’s characters judge themselves.
“They’re not completely blind to where they’re messing up quite often. They’re self-aware.”
From the first episode of this series, the audience can see the reluctance of both Hannah and Nathan to sign divorce papers and that there is still so much there between them.
And while the audience is asking themselves if the split is too deep to repair, Monday’s episode saw the family rocked by tragedy when Rose’s husband James was killed when his bike was hit by a van.
Stephen says: “If they hated each other and wanted to separate, there’s no show so their lives are stitched together.
“Not only do they have three kids but they have been together since they were at college, that takes some working out and I can’t tell you whether they end up together, or whether they separate.
“But you’ve seen how many bombs have been put in by Abi at the beginning. You can see how much there is already.
“Plus, she’ll throw more at us as we go.
“You’re guaranteed huge twists and turns and I think what’s lovely about her writing is you really don’t know which way it’s going to go.”
Nicola adds: “I think that (episode) would take most writers a whole series. Abi’s audacious. It keeps coming.
“What appealed to me (about the show) was my agent phoning and saying there was a script written by Abi Morgan and Sister are making it: Yeah, I’d really like to read that, please. Yeah, I’d like to go for that audition. Thank you very much’.
“That’s it. I was desperate to work with those women again. That was very easy.”
Irish World award winner Stephen Mangan is known for his roles in comedies such as Episodes (alongside Matt Le Blanc), Green Wing and I’m Alan Partridge, said he will be sad to say goodbye to the character and series.
That’s a sense that comes from many of the cast and crew, that they have become like family over the last five years.
“It’s been a treat. I mean, so many great scenes.
“You know, sometimes you’re lucky in a series if you get one or two really great scenes.
“Every episode, there’s another fantastic and difficult- That’s the other thing: Big, big emotions, big situations that you’d have to sell, try and find a way through.
“And that’s what you want.
“You don’t want to be a sort of meat puppet.
“You know those sort of films where literally a can opener could play the part because it’s all CGI.
“And this is really difficult, interesting stuff and it’s just a joy.”
Nicola Walker, known for leading roles in dramas such as Unforgottten and Last Tango in Halifax, was also very sad that the show is coming to an end.
“I’m very, very sad to say goodbye to her and Nathan but it’s been one of the most fulfilling jobs I have ever had, and probably ever will.
“From the first meeting with Abi, she said, ‘In an ideal world with a fair wind behind us, we might get to tell this story in three beats, three seasons, and this is roughly what I think it will be’. And she got to do it.
“So yes, but it’s a proper ending.
“We’ve all been watching lots of telly during lockdown and I can’t tell you how many dramas I’ve watched where the last episode I thought, ‘I’ll never get those six hours back, that’s a really disappointing ending…’
“I really don’t think you’ll be disappointed. It’s a very, very good, satisfying ending.”
Asked what she will remember about the show, Nicola says: “The things that I will take away from it as memorable, they will be somewhere between crying and laughing, usually with Stephen. So very high drama scenes in the house. Sobbing. Or then laughing my head off with him in the back garden.
“And I think that really sums up those characters and that relationship.
“So they’re the things. I’ll miss acting with Stephen full stop and I’m really hoping someone lets me act with him again, hope we’re not banned from acting together for a long time.
“It would be that, it would the extremes of emotion with Stephen and feeling so safe with him to do anything emotional, anything.
“Abi could ask us to do anything and I know I’ll be safe with Stephen and we will have a brilliant time doing it.
“I will miss that because it’s quite rare that.
“You (Stephen) ad libbing Christie Carmichael is still one of my favourite moments in front of a camera.”
Being a Spurs fan, Stephen did not want to hold onto any of Nathan’s Arsenal memorabilia.
“I spent the entire shoot hiding Arsenal mugs in cupboards.”
The current series starts with some tension as Hannah meets the new woman in Nathan’s life.
Stephen says: “I think you read a script and as an actor, you know that’s the scene.
“I mean, I’m walking out of a car and into a building. Fine. I can do that.
“The joy is when you are surprised because suddenly something just happens, you know?
“You can shoot this thing from 60 different angles. A scene where the camera’s on you or the two of you and something happens that really feels.. That’s the joy.
“You feel lucky.
“You feel like you’ve struck a little bit of oil there, gold or whatever.”
When asked how they decide which roles to do and which not to, Stephen begins: “I think you..”
Nicola adds with a laugh: “Sometimes you just take the jobs you get offered.”
Stephen agrees: “Yeah, you take the jobs you get offered.”
Nicola admits: “I don’t know if I am presenting us in the correct way.”
Stephen continues: “Yeah, I’m trying to present this image of 7,000 scripts: ‘No. No. No’.
“You just know immediately if a job is like, ‘Oh God, yeah’.
“You know, it’s the people.
“I always thought when I started out it was the parts, ‘I want to do the big Shakespeare parts, I want to do the big difficult parts’.
“You soon realize it’s the people you’re working with. Because Abi could have written an amazing script but if the director’s poor, the rest of the cast were, it wouldn’t work.
“You just spot a collection of people and think, ‘Okay’. But it’s always a gamble. Nothing’s a surefire thing.
“Otherwise, everything would be really good.
“There’s so many things that we’ve all thought, ‘Oh, that’s gonna be great’.
“And that’s mysterious. You don’t really know why that happens.
“You just want to read those scripts and go, ‘Oh, wait, this is great’.
“You want to know what happens next so that’s all you’re looking for.”
Stephen Mangan, whose parents came from Mayo, describes the Irish World award he picked up in 2008 as a ‘very beautiful thing’.
“I got Actor of the Year and it says Stephen Mangan (Mayo) which is where I’m from.
“It’s the only award I’ll ever get that says Steven Mangan (Mayo).
“It was a great night at the Galtymore.
“I was in Belmullet three weeks ago. I’m back all the time.
“Of course I’m proud (of the award). Absolutely.
“My dad and mum used to dance at the Galtymore when they came over.
“No one thinks of me as Irish. I’ve never played an Irish character. And I think of myself as Irish so it’s weird.
“I get offered everything else.
“People think of me as posh English and everything else so it’s nice to be recognized for what I actually am.”
And Stephen is not the only cast member with Irish family as Nicola reveals, “My grandmother’s from Cork.”
Nathan’s new love interest Kate may be new to the show but the actress Lara Pulver was not new to Nicola as they both worked on Spooks many years ago.
She says: “The last time I saw Lara she was hanging out of an audi or something with two guns and shouting at a stuntman, ‘It’s okay, I can do it myself’.”
Hannah and Kate have a tense stand off across the dinner table as battle lines are drawn in their very first scene together.
“It was brilliant it was Lara.
“That relationship, because we’ve known each other and we really love each other, meant we could really explore those early parts of their relationship.”
The series is also directed by Dee Koppang O’Leary, wife to well known TV presenter, LIC patron and Father Murphy’s hurling fan Dermot. Dermot also cameos in a later episode but says, “I’m just playing me. It’s not a stretch.”
And how it all ends is anybody’s guess as there have been two different endings shot.
Stephen jokes: “Christie and Nathan open an antiques boutique in the Cotswolds together but I’m not sure that made it int o the final cut.”
The Split is on BBC1 on Mondays at 9pm, also on BBC iPlayer.
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Situation report released on Friday revealed an improvement in the country’s job market, evident from the fall in the unemployment rate and increase in the nonfarm payroll employment level.
The unemployment rate stood at 3.6% in March, down from 3.8% in February and 4% in January. Also, the latest employment rate is way below the 14.7% mark recorded in April 2020.
Meanwhile, the nonfarm payroll employment increased by 431,000 in March. The incremental employment totals 1.69 million for the first quarter of 2022, with the monthly average being 562,000.
At this juncture, an industry-wise breakdown of job gains will help us identify the promising industries in the country.
Industry-Wise Job Additions
Per the official data, job additions (nonfarm payroll) in the leisure and hospitality sector stood at 112,000 last month. Notable growths were recorded for the food services and drinking places as well as for the accommodation industries within the sector.
The second-highest job additions, to the tune of 102,000, were done in the professional and business services sector. Job additions in the retail sector grew by 49,000 in March. In addition to these, notable job additions were recorded in manufacturing and other industries.
Long-Term Projections
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report on Employment Projections in September 2021. The Government agency predicted 11.9 million job additions from 2020 to 2030. The prediction suggests a 7.7% increase over the decade.
Of all the sectors, the fastest growth in employment is anticipated to occur in the leisure and hospitality sector.
3 Stocks with Growth Potential
Companies providing leisure and hospitality services are housed under services sector on TipRanks. Among service providers, we have selected stocks from restaurants, and travel & leisure industries.
The selected companies have a Strong Buy consensus rating, a Smart Score within the 8-10 range, a market capitalization of >=$2 billion, and a price target upside of >=5%.
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD)
Based in Chicago-IL, the company provides food services in the United States and across multiple other nations through its McDonald’s chain of restaurants and franchises. Over the past year, shares of the $185-billion company have grown 8.9%.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the company’s adjusted earnings per share increased 31% year-over-year while its total revenues expanded 13%.
In January, McDonald’s President and CEO, Chris Kempczinski, said, “We enter this new year with a clear focus on creating seamless and memorable customer experiences and harnessing our momentum to drive long-term, sustainable growth for all of our stakeholders.”
A few days ago, Dennis Geiger, an analyst at UBS, reiterated a Buy rating on McDonald’s with a price target of $290 (16.35% upside potential).
The company’s Strong Buy consensus rating is based on 20 Buys and three Holds. McDonald’s average price target of $282.73 suggests 13.43% upside from current levels. The burger-specialist scores a ‘Perfect 10’ on the TipRanks Smart Score rating system.
Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ: CHDN)
The $8.5-billion company provides gaming entertainment, racing, and online wagering services. It is based in Louisville, KY. Over the past year, shares of Churchill Downs have declined 2.6%.
Churchill Downs’ adjusted earnings per share grew 568.4% and its revenues increased 31.1% year-over-year. In the quarters ahead, the company is poised to gain from acquired assets, organic growth investments, and favorable shareholder-friendly policies.
Last month, KeyBanc analyst, Brett Andress, maintained a Buy rating on Churchill Downs while increasing the price target to $300 (34.61% upside potential) from $270. The analyst believes “Churchill Downs’ attractive organic growth narrative remains a key point of differentiation.”
The Strong Buy consensus rating on the company is based on five Buys. Churchill Downs’ average price target of $278.60 mirrors upside potential of 25.01% from current levels. It scores a 9 out of 10 on Tipranks’ Smart Score rating system.
SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: SEAS)
The Orlando, FL-based company is an entertainment and theme park company. Over the past year, shares of this $5.5-billion company have increased 40.7%.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the company reported earnings, as compared to a loss in the year-ago quarter. Its revenues expanded 140.7% year-over-year.
In 2022, the company anticipates benefiting from new rides, events, and attractions. The company’s CEO, Marc Swanson, said, “…we believe our forward ride, attraction and park enhancement investment plans are the most robust they have ever been, and currently reflect the cadence, focus areas and strategies we have been working towards.”
Last month, Chris Woronka, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, maintained a Buy rating on SeaWorld while increasing the price target to $83 (14.77% upside potential) from $74. The analyst said, “…a possible preference for domestic leisure options in light of geopolitical events could boost park visitation levels above currently anticipated levels.”
The company’s Strong Buy consensus rating is based on six Buys and two Holds. SeaWorld’s average price target of $78.86 suggests upside potential of 9.04%. The company scores a ‘Perfect 10’ on TipRanks.
Conclusion
Companies providing leisure and hospitality services are well-positioned to benefit as the demand is all set to overcome the Covid-19 impact. The aforementioned service providers have a strong foothold in their respective fields and offer immense growth potential in the quarters ahead.
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Chinese stocks like e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) looked great to investors for quite a while. BABA had a massive market to pursue and at least some government support to help if things turned sour. Then, the very real potential of delisting emerged. That left overseas investors like those in the U.S. skittish about further investment.
However, recent developments gave Chinese stocks new life in trading on Monday thanks to a potential move that could defuse the risk. Specifically, China offered a proposal to U.S. regulators that would allow for access to most Chinese stocks’ auditing reports. The latest word noted that U.S. regulators would have access to “the majority of the 200-plus companies listed in New York” and that access would be available by the middle of this year.
Pinning Hopes on a Long Shot
Alibaba recovered substantially as a result of the Chinese proposal. It wasn’t the only one, either; JD.com (JD), Netease (NTES), and Tencent Music (TME) are all seeing gains today as a result of the proposal.
There’s a problem with such a perspective, however. If the proposal falls through, then so too does the recovery. If U.S. regulators decide for whatever reason that the proposal is unacceptable, then we’re right back where we started from.
The idea that regulators will allow any of their requirements to be blunted in any particular way is also something of a long shot. There may be some wiggle room, but it’s hard to imagine that regulators will settle for “most.”
Meanwhile, there are other points that could hamstring Alibaba that have little to do with the threat of delisting from U.S. exchanges. The biggest of these is a recession in China. Alibaba depends heavily on its market—Chinese citizens—having disposable income they can use to shop.
Food prices are spiking throughout China; indeed, throughout much of the world. Inflation was at a 41-year high just in March. Disposable income may be hard to come by going forward. It’s easy to see that most Chinese citizens won’t be interested in buying new furniture or the like when they’re paying more for food.
Meanwhile, even the U.S. is seeing signs of potential stagflation to come, according to investor Ray Dalio. Plus, with China shuttering parts of Shanghai in response to new potential COVID-19 threats, that’s going to hamstring supply chains still further and potentially leave Alibaba all dressed up with nothing to sell.
So even if regulators take the Chinese proposal for providing access to at least some records seriously, that’s still going to leave a lot of potential failure points in play for Alibaba.
Wall Street’s Take
Turning to Wall Street, Alibaba has a Strong Buy consensus rating. That’s based on 17 Buys and one Sell assigned in the past three months. The average Alibaba price target of $169.76 implies ~45% upside potential. Analyst price targets range from a low of $65 per share to a high of $235 per share.
Concluding Views
Granted, it’s not all disaster ahead for Alibaba. The company is off its lows for the year, but still well under its average price target.
Still, most of the Chinese companies listed on the U.S. exchanges tend to rely heavily on disposable income. That’s a commodity that may be in shorter supply than any part of the supply chain soon. That prospect, coupled with the still-real potential of delisting, leaves me quietly neutral on Alibaba, among others.
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Chewy (CHWY) has a clear mission: to be the world’s most trusted and convenient vendor for pet owners. The company believes it is the prominent online seller of pet products, supplies, and prescriptions due to its extensive catalog of high-quality products and services, which it markets at competitive prices.
Additionally, due to Chewy providing an exceptional level of care and unique touch to develop its brand, the company’s customers have historically been very loyal, resulting in recurring purchases.
Chewy has been very successful in growing its sales over the years. That said, the pet industry is brutally competitive. Combined with the company’s efforts to provide its products and services at competitive prices, Chewy’s profitability prospects have been rather underwhelming.
With investors likely losing faith in the company’s ability to deliver growing profits over the long run, Chewy shares have been on a persistent downward trend for more than a year now. In fact, since February of 2021, Chewy shares have lost more than two-thirds of their value.
In my view, there is a lot to like about Chewy, including top-tier customer loyalty. That said, there are multiple risks attached to its investment case. While the stock price’s continuous decline could cause investors to reconsider whether Chewy is worth allocating capital to, I would rather see evidence of growing margins first.
I am neutral on Chewy stock.
Recent Performance
Ever since Chewy’s IPO in the summer of 2019, the company has achieved consistent quarter-over-quarter revenue growth.
Pet owners are in regular need of a supply of food and pet care products. Thus, Chewy enjoys very stable and predictable cash flows. Specifically, about $1.68 billion out of Chewy’s $2.38 billion in revenues in its most recent Q4 results were denoted as Autoship Customer Sales. In fact, Autoship sales as a percentage of total grew from 68.4% in Fiscal 2020 to 70.2% last year, with cash flow visibility further improvement over time.
This directs to the amount coming in from Chewy’s subscription service, which supplies pet owners with timely and modifiable auto-reordering and deliveries. This provides Chewy with predictable, high-quality cash flows and enhanced customer lifetime value. In my view, this is what makes Chewy’s platform a tremendous asset, as the company has invested in an invaluable component – that of trust.
In what is one of the most competitive industries, it appears that this is a great catalyst for Chewy’s customer retention strength. It makes for a great advantage for Chewy, as customer retention is the key to success in the pet business, and the company has certainly executed firmly in that regard.
Chewy ended Fiscal Q4 with 20.6 million customers, a 7.6% year-over-year gain, while net sales per active customer also grew by 15.6% to $430/quarter.
In my view, average revenue per user should continue to develop for years to come, as pet “parents” are increasingly passionate about providing their dear companions with the finest supplies.
Profitability Headwinds
The pet care market alone is anticipated to expand by a CAGR of 7.4% through 2027, and with Chewy accumulating a wider market share over retail sales, ARPU should continue growing at a more rapid pace.
Management’s Q1 guidance points towards revenue growth of 13% at its midpoint. Management expects revenue growth of close to 16% for the year, implying an accelerating intra-year pace. Still, growth is going to decelerate dramatically from Fiscal 2021’s revenue growth of 24.4%.
Here’s where my issue with Chewy arises. The company suffers from razor-thin margins (investors’ main concern), and with growth potentially decelerating in the medium term, Chewy is unlikely to achieve meaningful economies of scale any time soon.
Fiscal Year 2021 gross margins landed at 26.7%, a 120 basis point improvement compared to the previous year. However, they are still quite underwhelming.
Adjusted EBITDA for the year (which excludes the effect of non-cash expenses and certain variable charges) came in at $78.6 million, 7.8% lower year-over-year, with adjusted EBITDA margins falling from 1.2% to 0.9% during this period.
In fact, management’s guidance for Fiscal 2022 targets an adjusted EBITDA margin of around 1%, implying virtually no improvements.
Wall Street’s Take
Turning to Wall Street, Chewy has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on nine Buys, seven Holds, and one Sell assigned in the past three months. At $60.13, Chewy’s stock projections imply 33.1% upside potential.
Valuation & Conclusion
While Chewy stock’s prolonged sell-off may initially suggest that shares could be cheap, it is all relative to Chewy’s future margin expansion capabilities.
If adjusted EBITDA margins don’t meaningfully advance, it is entirely meaningless to speculate on a fair multiple for the stock.
With management expecting adjusted EBITDA margins at 1%, the stock is currently trading at an EV/forward EBITDA of 250x. Unless adjusted EBITDA margins develop towards anywhere between 5% and 10%, Chewy stock’s movement is likely to be entirely speculative.
I believe the company could be a decent acquisition target, as a bigger distributor (Nestle, even Amazon) could absorb expenses and achieve economies of scale much more efficiently. Still, this is entirely speculative as well.
Accordingly, while Chewy does feature some noteworthy qualities, substantial uncertainty surrounds its investment case.
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The past year has been brutal for PayPal (PYPL) stock. The digital payments pioneer has suffered at the hands of market rotation and has had to contend with investors turning away, as the company has been unable to sustain the huge growth seen during the height of the pandemic.
But is it time to start reassessing PayPal’s prospects? According to a digital wallet survey undertaken by investment firm Baird, analyst Colin Sebastian thinks the trend is signifying it might be time to do so.
“On a year-over-year basis,” said the 5-star analyst, “our survey indicates the number of e-commerce sites integrating with wallets, including PayPal/Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Amazon Pay, increased by more than 80%.”
Corresponding with this significant pivot toward e-commerce, numerous merchants are also adding various payment options, including alternative financing (BNPL/install pay).
It also appears merchants are eagerly seeking out new ways to improve conversion rates, given only around 50% of online shopping “sessions” in which consumers add products to their baskets ever reach the checkout pages.
As such, Sebastian believes “steady (or even accelerating) trends with respect to merchant integration with digital wallets is a key medium- and long-term positive for PayPal.”
On the other hand, given the overall positive merchant adoption trends, others are also making a dent in the ecommerce universe and are providing PayPal with competition which “continues to increase.” As noted above, Apple Pay and Google Pay’s online adoption is gaining traction, and finally Amazon Pay is making inroads too.
Nevertheless, while Sebastian heeds some caution given the current macro headwinds, slower growth and competition, given the “multiple growth drivers across commerce, payments, financial services, and merchant services,” the analyst still views PayPal as a “secular winner.”
Overall, Sebastian keeps his Outperform (i.e. Buy) rating for PYPL intact, yet “reflecting lower comparable multiples,” the analyst lowered his price target from $205 to $175. Still, there’s ~44% upside potential from current levels. (To watch Sebastian’s track record, click here)
Looking at the consensus breakdown, based on 29 Buys vs. 10 Holds and a single Sell, this stock claims a Moderate Buy consensus rating. The average price target is a touch higher than Sebastian’s, and at $179.83, represents potential one-year gains of ~48%. (See PayPal stock forecast on TipRanks)
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Lowering expectations has been a move many companies have succumbed to in recent times. For Rivian (RIVN), the well-known factors such as chip shortages and supply chain woes have been exacerbated by more company specific developments. These include January’s halt to production to make adjustments to the vehicle lines, whilst Omicron took 800 plant workers out of circulation for a period. As such, the company has reduced expectations of the number of vehicles it will deliver in 2022.
However, supported by recent data, RBC analyst Joseph Spak has “increased confidence that RIVN’s production ramp is improving.”
Going by the noises management made on the 4Q21 earnings call, and following some calculations, Spak thinks 1Q22’s production level is currently around 2,370.
In another positive development, while lacking a complete data set, Rivian app downloads appear to be on the rise, which Spak believes is “supportive of increasing vehicle deliveries.”
For now, Spak keeps his 2,100 1Q22 delivery forecast as is, but the analyst adds that his level of confidence is “higher,” while it is certainly not out of the question Rivian could exceed that mark.
For comparison purposes, Visible Alpha consensus has 1Q22 deliveries reaching 1,500.
With more “positive data points” potentially on the way, and a share price which year-to-date is down by 55%, Spak considers current levels as an “attractive entry point for long-term holders,” while also noting that hitting near-term targets could lead to renewed investor confidence.
Therefore, Spak maintains an Outperform (i.e. Buy) rating, backed by a $100 price target. Investors could be sitting on gains of ~115%, should Spak’s forecast play out as anticipated. (To watch Spak’s track record, click here)
What does the rest of the Street make of Rivian’s prospects? Based on 10 Buys vs. 5 Holds, the analyst consensus rates this stock a Moderate Buy. The average price target is a more modest $76.08, yet that figure could still generate solid returns of 64% in the year ahead. (See Rivian stock analysis on TipRanks)
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Contrary to the consensus on Wall Street, I am bearish on West Fraser Timber Co. (WFG) shares.
The timber and wood products industry is one of the sectors that has cooled off recently as traders focus on how to benefit from higher energy prices, which have been blamed on oil & gas supply concerns over the war in Ukraine. The trend has weighed on shares of many lumber stocks, including West Fraser Timber, which is down more than 17% so far this year.
The company has a solid balance sheet and profitable operations, but I fear these two factors will not be enough to reverse the trend, as lumber prices and volumes could trend downward in the coming months.
The company has more than 60 facilities in North America and internationally. These facilities produce wood and various wood products, including pulp, newsprint, wood chips, and other residues. These products are supplied to the paper industry and various companies involved in house building, repair and remodeling, and industrial processes.
Q4 and FY-2021 Results
The unprecedented flooding of late 2021 impacted the company’s operations in British Columbia and the regular flow of finished products shipped from Western Canada to its various markets. However, the company has overcome the challenges.
For the fourth quarter of 2021, West Fraser Timber reported earnings per diluted share of $3.13, beating the consensus estimate by $0.10 on total revenue of approximately $2.04 billion. Revenue rose 20% year-over-year but missed analysts’ expectations by $20 million.
Adjusted EBITDA declined nearly 22% sequentially to $615 million for an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 30% of total revenue. The increase in the lumber segment was not enough to offset the sequential decline in the engineered wood products segments in North America and Europe and the loss in the pulp and paper segment.
For full year 2021, earnings per diluted share were $27.03 (up 216% year-on-year) while total revenue increased to $10.52 billion (up 140.52% year-on-year).
Adjusted EBITDA was $4.57 billion, up 338.1% year over year, for an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 43% of total revenue. Adjusted EBITDA improved year-over-year in all business segments.
Solid Balance Sheet
WFG’s balance sheet is solid, as evidenced by an interest coverage ratio of 94x, meaning the company has no trouble paying the cost of outstanding debt, and an Altman Z-Score of 13.3, indicating that it is in the “safe” zone. For those that don’t know, the Altman Z-Score predicts the probability that a company will go bankrupt within a couple of years. A score above 2.99 is considered safe.
Additionally, as of December 30, 2021, West Fraser Timber’s debt-to-EBITDA ratio was 0.21, while the industry median was 3.13. The company’s EBITDA pays off all outstanding debt in less than a year compared to over three years for many competitors.
Its current ratio of 2.7 indicates that the company generates sufficient cash from operations to pay off current liabilities on a timely basis.
Strong Operations
All major financial profitability indicators are improving.
As of December 30, 2021, the trailing 12-month gross profit margin was 55.86% versus the industry median of 30.6% and WFG’s five-year average of 38.9%.
In the same period, its trailing 12-month EBITDA margin was 43.2% versus the industry median of 21.3% and its five-year average of 20.2%.
As of December 30, 2021, the trailing 12-month net income margin was 28.02% (versus the industry median of 8.78%). WFG’s five-year net income margin is 11.1%, indicating increasing profitability.
The Company’s Outlook for 2022
In his commentary on the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 results, Ray Ferris, West Fraser’s President and Chief Executive Officer, said: “Fundamentals for housing are favorable entering 2022, and we continue to see signs of resilience in repair and remodeling demand in both our North American and European markets.”
Lumber 12-Month Price Target
Given the current circumstances, an early end to the war in Ukraine seems unlikely.
Russia continues its terrible aggression against Ukraine, and the G7 countries continue to tighten restrictions on the economy of the Russian Federation and its oligarchs.
Economists fear these sanctions will have boomerang effects that could hurt economic growth in multiple ways, but policymakers seem more concerned about inflation than a possible economic recession.
As a result, the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates six times this year and twice next year to curb the current rapid rise in the price of goods and services.
It will take time for this tightening monetary policy to be reflected in higher interest rates on long-term borrowing, including home loans and home repairs and renovations, but it will happen.
Higher borrowing costs will affect the housing market and renovations and repairs to existing homes.
Therefore, it is expected that the demand for lumber will be lower in the future, which should be reflected in a lower price of the raw material. The fundamentals will certainly be less favorable for West Fraser Timber and other operators.
The impact of an expected fall in demand will be felt on lumber prices as early as this year, and analysts believe producers will be forced to sell at a much lower price of ~$742 per 1,000 board feet within a year, which will reflect a more than 20% drop from the current price of ~$970.
Wall Street’s Take
In the past three months, six Wall Street analysts have issued a 12-month price target for WFG. The company has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on six Buys, zero Holds, and zero Sell ratings.
The average West Fraser Timber Co. price target is $119.66, implying 53% upside potential.
Conclusion
The company has strong fundamentals, but this hasn’t been reflected in its stock price performance this year, as positive momentum in energy stocks has diverted traders’ attention away from timber stocks as well.
I expect this trend to continue with fresh headwinds likely caused by higher interest rates to combat elevated inflation. This will weaken demand for housing, home repairs, and remodeling, resulting in lower demand for wood products.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO) — A Great Dane dog weighing just 44 pounds – a fraction of what should be his healthy weight – has been rescued from an apartment on the southeast side of Des Moines.
The Animal Rescue League of Iowa says the dog, named Kal, was found shut in a crate with no food or water. Photos show the dogs bones clearly visible through his skin.
When he was released from the crate, he ran to a bathroom to ‘guzzle’ water out of the toilet – a sign of severe dehydration and starvation, according to the ARL. The average male Great Dane weighs 140-200 lbs, according to the American Kennel Club.
The ARL says that Kal is now gaining weight again under their care after he was administered IV fluids and placed on a special diet. They say he faces a long recovery before he can find a new home, but that he is safe now.
The Animal Rescue League has established a fund to accept donations for Kal’s care. No charges have been filed but the ARL says the investigation into the alleged mistreatment of Kal is ongoing.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Police in North Carolina have made a possible connection in a missing-person case dating back more than 15 years.
Dedrick Bernard Smith, 26, was reported missing on Oct. 4, 2006, according to the Winston-Salem Police Department. His last known contact with anyone was earlier that day, during a phone conversation.
“The investigation into the disappearance of Mr. Smith continued through the years, however no viable leads related to his disappearance were developed,” police wrote in an incident alert this week.
All of that changed on Friday, when Winston-Salem police were contacted by a search and recovery dive team known as “Adventures With Purpose,” who claimed they may have found what they believed to be Smith’s 1993 Pontiac Grand Am. The car, which was driven by Smith at the time of his disappearance, was submerged in Winston Lake.
Winston-Salem detectives and divers with Adventures With Purpose worked together to pull the Pontiac from Winston Lake on the morning of Saturday, April 2. The Pontiac was positively identified as the car that had been driven by Smith.
Remains were also found in the vehicle. Officials will be working to identify the remains and determine a cause of death in the coming days, police said.
Smith’s next-of-kin has been notified of the discovery.
Anyone with any information that could aid with the investigation is asked to call the Winston-Salem Police Department at (336) 773-7700 or (336) 728-3904 (en Espanol), or contact Crime Stoppers at (336) 727-2800. The Text-A-Tip program can be reached at (336) 276-1717 for those who wish to send tips, photos and videos to the Winston-Salem Police Department.
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Air Force Special Operations Command’s Civilian Development Education (CDE) nomination call will open on Apr. 18, 2022 and close May 17, 2022. There are 48 available slots in ten different programs, providing opportunities for our entry to senior level appropriated-fund and non-appropriated fund civilians. Five of the ten programs are new in Fiscal Year ’23.
“Our civilians are a key component to the success of AFSOC and professional development prepares them for new opportunities, experiences, and strengthens their current skillsets,” said Ms. Jodie James, Deputy Director, AFSOC A1D.
The ten programs offered are SOCOM’s Civilian Leadership Development Program, AFSOC’s CLDP, Women’s Executive Leadership, Senior Executive Course, Harvard Manage Mentor, Harvard Spark, Leadership and Management Certificate, Coaching Certificate, Microsoft Excel Series, and records review/developmental vector.
“Whether their desire is for career growth or to remain in their current positions, professional development is vital and provides many advantages,” said Mr. Donald Plater, Executive Director, AFSOC. “We encourage all civilians to take advantage of these unique opportunities and speak with their supervisors, leaders, and mentors to determine what the best fit is for them.”
Applications will be submitted through MyVector and approval is required by their supervisor and first GG/GS-15 or O-6 in the chain of command. A complete list of opportunities and additional information can be found on the CAC-enabled AFSOC Civilian Development Sharepoint site at https://usaf.dps.mil/sites/AFSOC-A1/A1D/CivilianDevelopment/SitePages/AFSOC-CDE-Call.aspx.
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Airman Leadership School graduated Class 22-C at the Powell Event Center, April. 1.
ALS is a five-week course designed to prepare senior airmen to assume supervisory duties through instruction in leadership, followership, written and oral communication skills, and the profession of arms.
Students gain an understanding of their role as military supervisors and how they contribute to the overall goals and mission of the Air Force. Senior airmen must complete ALS to assume the rank of staff sergeant.
Congratulations to the graduates!
Goodfellow Air Force Base:
Senior Airman Adam Bailey, 17th Communications Squadron
Senior Airman Austin Berry, 17th Training Wing Command Post
Senior Airman Justin Capulong, 17th Security Forces Squadron
Senior Airman Ian Fuselier, 17th Communications Squadron
Senior Airman Jade Herb, 17th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron
Senior Airman Jacob Scalf, 17th Communications Squadron
Senior Airman Daniel Rodriguez Medina, 17th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron
Staff Sergeant Nathan Seelman, 316th Training Squadron
Senior Airman Ashley Vera, 17th Comptroller Squadron
Laughlin Air Force Base:
Staff Sergeant Matthew Fox, 47th Contracting Squadron
Staff Sergeant Charles Gaines, 47th Security Forces Squadron
Staff Sergeant Tristan Matthews, 47th Operations Support Squadron
Senior Airman Alexia Hatzel, 47th Comptroller Squadron
Senior Airman Christian Quiroz, 47th Operations Support Squadron
Senior Airman Samantha Peralta-Hernandez, 47th Communications Squadron
Senior Airman Nathan Tyoe, 47th Operations Support Squadron
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ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hit man for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment March 28.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (KVEO) — Police in Fort Worth, Texas arrested a man who was driving over 150 mph when he collided with another vehicle, killing a teenager and injuring two others in March.
Fort Worth officers arrested Bryce Abernathy, 22, on two counts of aggravated assault and one count of manslaughter, according to a police press release.
At 11 p.m. on March 15, a white Camaro was traveling on westbound Interstate 20 when it collided with a silver SUV. One was killed in the collision and two others were injured.
The airbag control module showed that the Camaro was driving 157 mph, the release stated.
According to a report by NBC affiliate NBCDFW, the victim was identified as 19-year-old Shaundi Smallwood.
Smallwood had gone to a Six Flags amusement park with friends earlier in the night and was hanging out with them before the crash, his mother told the local TV station.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, Monday on whether to send Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor. But President Joe Biden’s nominee is still on track to be confirmed this week as the first Black woman on the high court.
The committee’s tie vote was expected, as there is an even party split on the panel and all of the Republicans are opposing Jackson’s nomination to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. But it was still a blow to Democrats who had hoped for robust bipartisan support — and it was the first time the committee has deadlocked on a Supreme Court nomination in three decades.
In order to move forward, Democrats planned a new vote to “discharge” Jackson’s nomination from committee Monday evening and then take a series of procedural steps in the coming days to wind it through the 50-50 Senate. With the support of at least one Republican, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Jackson is on a glidepath toward confirmation by the end of the week.
“Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next justice.”
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats cite her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said at Monday’s meeting that Jackson has “the highest level of skill, integrity, civility and grace.”
“This committee’s action today in nothing less than making history,” Durbin said. “I’m honored to be a part of it. I will strongly and proudly support Judge Jackson’s nomination.”
The committee’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because “she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government.”
The committee hadn’t deadlocked since 1991, when Biden was chairman and a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the committee, said last week that a panel tie vote on Jackson would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process,”
So far, Democrats know they will have at least one GOP vote in the full Senate — Collins, who announced last week that she would support the nominee. Collins said that though they may not always agree, Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.”
It’s unclear whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for the party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes.
“Questions are not attacks,” said Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, one of several GOP senators on the panel who hammered the point in the hearings two weeks ago.
Jackson pushed back on the GOP narrative, declaring that “nothing could be further from the truth.” Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions. And on Monday they criticized their GOP counterparts’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
The questioning was filled with “absurdities of disrespect,” said Booker, who also is Black, and he said he will “rejoice” when she is confirmed.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won’t support her this time around; Murkowski said she was still deciding.
Collins’ support likely saves the Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote to confirm Biden’s pick, and the president called Collins on Wednesday to thank her. Biden had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a major effort to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The trucking industry has been hit with major challenges recently, but President Joe Biden says his team has made progress in fixing some of the issues.
Big rigs were parked on the White House lawn on Monday as President Biden talked up his “Trucking Action Plan.”
“We’re building a better economy around American manufacturing and American supply chains,” Biden said.
The president says his team has created tens of thousands of trucking jobs, putting more truckers on the road through apprenticeship programs.
“A pipeline of hardworking men and women, from all backgrounds, highly trained and highly motivated to get behind the wheel,” Biden said.
The administration also says it has grown the industry by cutting red tape for things like commercial drivers licenses.
“So far in 2022, we’re issuing CDLs at double the rate of last year,” Biden said.
American Trucking Associations CEO Chris Spear says that progress impacts everyone.
“We really are the heartbeat of the country. We’re the glue of the economy,” Spear said. “There isn’t anything in this country that doesn’t at some point move by truck.”
But there’s still a shortage of truckers and they’re facing challenges, especially with the high price of fuel.
“If that continues too long, it’s really going to hurt our industry’s ability to serve the economy,” Spear said.
Spear hopes to see more federal action on fuel prices. He also wants lawmakers to fix chokepoints in the supply chain and streamline shipping.
“It’s absolutely critical that our elected officials break down those barriers and find the things that they can work together on,” Spear said.
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Once every four years for nearly a century, the men’s FIFA World Cup seems to dominate our global consciousness. For one month, the best soccer teams from around the world meet in the same country to compete for glory in a series of tournaments. This fall, Qatar will host the 22nd FIFA World Cup from November 21st through December 18th.
Each tournament comes with an official FIFA World Cup soccer ball that will be used throughout the games. These branded designs often incorporate the most cutting-edge advancements in soccer ball technology, and fans world-wide eagerly anticipate their release. Once unveiled, the resulting designs inspires a litany of reactions from literally every corner of the planet.
Adidas has designed the last 14 World Cup balls, including this year’s, which they’ve dubbed “Al Rihla.” Al Rihla is Arabic for “the journey,” which nods to “the culture, architecture, boats and flag of Qatar,” as FIFA shares in a statement on their site. Before Adidas finalized the design, the ball went through rigorous testing in their labs, including wind tunnels and on-field demos.
The shape of Al Rhila’s panels alludes to the triangular sails of the dhow boats native to Qatar. These 20 thermally-bonded panels also feature texturing and diamond debossing, which enhances the ball’s swerve and accuracy. FIFA even claims that Al Rhila’s Speedshel exterior and CRT-core make it the fastest ball in the tournament’s history.
The ball’s splintered, frenetic pattern takes inspiration from the Qatari flag and traditional Arab clothing. Pearlescent finish adds a literal extra sparkle to Al Rhila, which shimmers and gleams in the air. This sustainable design will also be the first World Cup ball made exclusively with water-based inks and glues.
Al Rhila is available now exclusively on Adidas.com for $165, with wide release slated for April 13th.
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The National Weather Service has confirmed a second tornado touched down, this one in Centreville, during last week's strong storms.
Surveys of localized damage from the evening of March 31 showed a brief tornado occurred near the end of Batavia Drive behind Cub Run Elementary School, the NWS said in a public information statement Monday evening.
The tornado touched down at 8:21 p.m. with 85 mph winds and traveled about 80 yards with a maximum width of 30 yards.
Multiple softwood pine trees surrounding the end of Batavia Drive were impacted or damaged, with several snapped and others uprooted.
No damage to nearby homes or other structures was evident during the survey, the NWS said. The tornado was on the ground for under a minute, touching down immediately east of Cub Run Elementary School and transiting from west to east toward the cul-de-sac at the end of Batavia Drive.
The cul-de-sac was formerly surrounded by about two dozen trees. The seven trees on the south side of the cul-de-sac were undamaged, while most of the remainder were either uprooted, snapped at the base, or snapped 10-15 feet in the air, the NWS said.
"One of the tree tops was turned in mid-air and landed opposite to its expected orientation had this been straight-line winds, indicative of a very brief tornado touchdown," the report said.
The tornado lifted as it moved east of the cul-de-sac.
Another small tornado touched down in Tysons on Thursday night, damaging two gas stations.
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CORALVILLE - Marvin Franklin Fritz, 88, of Coralville, formerly of Ackley, passed away on Friday, April 1, 2022, at Care Initiatives Lantern Park with his wife and daughter by his side. A celebration of life will be held at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Ackley at a later date.
Marv was born Sept. 13, 1933, to Frank and Cora (Stubbe) Fritz at home in rural Franklin County, Iowa. He attended country school through the eighth grade and graduated from Ackley High School in 1951. He married Frances Meyer on Aug. 15, 1953, in Pease, Minn. He served in the US Air Force from 1953-57, spending 18 months in Japan during his service as a radar operator. After discharge from the Air Force, Marv worked for civil aeronautics in Kansas City, Mo., Sioux City and Alexandria, Minn. After his time in Alexandria, he returned to the Ackley area and worked a variety of jobs until 1967, when he began working for Sears as an appliance service technician. He retired from Sears in 1995. After his retirement, he worked part-time as a weather observer at the Mason City airport.
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For over thirty years, the Eugene Police Department has collaborated with the local, mobile, crisis intervention program CAHOOTS. The partnership, considered a national model, was just bolstered by federal funding to buy and equip two new transit vans.
Staffed by White Bird Clinic personnel, CAHOOTS is credited for de-escalating thousands of crisis calls each year. Demand for their services has doubled since 2014, according to the department.
Police Chief Chris Skinner said police dispatch CAHOOTS for on-site intervention when someone has done nothing criminal but is in clear crisis on the streets.
“When CAHOOTS arrives, the way they look, the way they approach a particular call, has a tendency to de-escalate and have a calming effect,” he said, “which then turns into a better opportunity to get them the help they need.”
Two new transit vans will be purchased with a $200,000 grant awarded to EPD through Congressionally Directed Spending funds. U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley were instrumental in achieving the funding, EPD said.
CAHOOTS stands for Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets. The relationship between the EPD and CAHOOTS has proven to be a successful model of collaboration between law enforcement and crisis health services.
CAHOOTS personnel often provide initial contact and transport for people who are intoxicated, mentally ill, or disoriented and provide assistance for necessary non-emergency medical care.
The following is a quote from a Case Study on CAHOOTS by Vera.org, the “CAHOOTS teams deliver person-centered interventions and make referrals to behavioral health supports and services without the uniforms, sirens, and handcuffs that can exacerbate feelings of distress for people in crisis.
They reduce unnecessary police contacts and allow police to spend more time on crime-related matters. Eugene police may also request assistance if they arrive on-scene and determine that a CAHOOTS team can help resolve the situation.”
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IOWA FALLS - Lorae Nieuwendorp, 86, of Iowa Falls, passed away Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at Ashbrook Assisted Living in Iowa Falls. Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 5, at the Counsell Woodley Funeral Home in Iowa Falls. She will be laid to rest at the Union Cemetery. Counsell Woodley Funeral Home of Iowa Falls is caring for Lorae and her family.
Lorae Joan (Ingalls) Nieuwendorp was born on Dec. 14, 1935, to Vernon and Carrie (Diekevers) Ingalls in Rock Rapids. Lorae graduated from Sheldon High School and then attended Ellsworth Community College. In December 1954, Lorae was united in marriage to Robert Shane at the Methodist Church in Sheldon. The couple later divorced. Lorae kept busy as a full-time mother, attending all her children’s school activities and working as a medication aide. In October 1986, Lorae married Harold Wilson at the First United Methodist Church in Iowa Falls. He passed away in January 2000.
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Most vaccinated people will probably require yet another COVID-19 vaccine booster shot in the fall, a top Food and Drug Administration official said Monday.
"That's when we'll probably have a fair amount of waning immunity in combination with likely further evolution of the virus along with people going back inside," where the virus spreads more easily, Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, told NPR in an interview.
Marks says the country must start planning now for whether everyone needs another shot and, if so, what kind of shot exactly?
"We could basically wait until another wave comes along and then try to make another vaccine and try to deal with it, but I think we know that doesn't work, because we can't manufacture and deploy vaccine fast enough," Marks says.
The FDA is convening a special meeting of the agency's independent outside advisers Wednesday for a daylong meeting to begin to plan the next round of boosters.
The meeting comes about a week after the agency authorized a fourth shot — a second booster — for anyone age 50 and older to shore up immunity ahead of a possible new surge sooner than the fall. A more contagious omicron subvariant known as BA.2, which has fueled surges in other countries, is now dominant in the U.S., raising fears of another surge.
The tricky part of determining what do in the fall is determining what version of the virus will be dominant by then, Marks says. It could be omicron variant, but it could also be an entirely new variant. That raises doubts about just giving people a fifth shot of the current vaccine, he says.
"There is a certain diminishing return by giving the same vaccine over and over," Marks says. "We have had enough evolution of this virus that it would make sense to want to try to cover some of the genetic diversity that has been introduced into the mix."
One strategy would be to give people a new vaccine that specifically targets omicron or one of the other variants, such as beta, Marks says. Another option would be a new vaccine that combines at least two different strains into one vaccine, which could provide even broader protection against any new variants that might emerge.
"By this fall, we may be onto a new variant. It could be sigma. It may be tau. There may be something new that may be circulating that we'll have to deal with," Marks says. "We're going to have make a good guess at what may be most effective."
That's how the flu vaccine is formulated each year, though that virus is more predictable than SARS-CoV2.
So far, an omicron version of the vaccine hasn't produced very promising results in early testing. But scientists are waiting for more data about that shot, and about other new versions of the vaccines that combine strains, such as omicron and the original strain, omicron and beta, or delta and omicron.
Another question is how often people will have to keep getting vaccinated moving forward.
"Will it be something like the yearly flu vaccine, or not?" Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House science adviser, told NPR in an interview. "I have to emphasize: We don't know the answer to that right now."
Some experts worry the FDA is just assuming another shot will be necessary, instead of focusing on the more important problem of vaccinating the unvaccinated and boosting the unboosted.
"The FDA agenda implies that, without open, transparent scientific discussion, ... that repeated boosting is the way of the future. There has yet to be a discussion of the goals of boosting and the trade-offs," Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and senior fellow at Kaiser Health News, wrote in an email.
"People like to say we can walk and chew gum at the same time, but in a world of unlimited resources, there are choices and trade-offs to be weighed. What are we not doing at the expense of repeated boosting?" she says.
In a briefing document posted Monday, the FDA outlined the many questions the advisory committee will discuss on Wednesday. One issue is whether the U.S. or World Health Organization will take the lead in formulating the next version of the vaccine, like it does with the annual flu shot.
Unlike the flu shot, regulators will need specific new data demonstrating that any new formulation of the vaccine is safe and effective, the FDA says.
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Police in Sacramento, Calif., have arrested a suspect related to the mass shooting in the city's downtown area early Sunday morning.
Dandrae Martin, 26, was charged with assault and illegal firearm possession on Monday — the day after six people were killed and 12 others injured in the shooting. Other shooters are still being sought by investigators, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Police have released only small details of what transpired early Sunday. Investigators are seeking information from the public on other suspects and what, exactly, happened.
Here's what we know so far:
The ages of those killed range from 21 to 57
Local authorities released the names of the six people killed in the melee.
According to CapRadio, they are:
Police are looking for multiple shooters
During the preliminary processing of the crime scene, investigators found that at least three buildings and three cars near the scene were struck by gunfire. More than 100 shell casings were recovered.
Following Martin's arrest, police and SWAT detectives served search warrants at three houses in the area. At least one handgun was recovered from those searches.
The police have asked the public to submit any videos or photos through the department's evidence portal to help them find anyone who played a part in the shocking crime. So far, 100 video and photo files have been submitted.
Referring to those tips, Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester told journalists Sunday evening: "We are deeply grateful for that."
Footage of the violence was also captured by a police camera at an intersection near the shootings, she said. The chief also said police recovered a stolen handgun from the scene.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the shooting is "yet another horrendous act of gun violence," saying his administration is working closely with local and state law enforcement agencies.
Details from witnesses emerge
Police officers were in the area and raced to the scene when they heard the shots, Lester said. They rushed to learn what happened and to perform CPR on victims, she added.
Berry Accius, who runs a nonprofit that helps young people in the area, told Capital Public Radio that he went downtown less than an hour after the shooting.
"When I first came, I saw a victim who was injured, draped in blood, and another person screaming about her son. ... Another lady screaming, saying she saw her sister take her last breath," he said.
A large fight broke out just before the gunfire
The gunfire erupted near the corner of 10th and K streets, close to the California State Capitol, around 2 a.m., according to the Sacramento Police Department's Facebook page.
Cellphone videos circulating online captured a fight among a large crowd of people on a sidewalk in the area of the shooting. The footage shows people running for their lives as the first shots ring out, followed by dozens more shots. It's not yet known how that fracas might be linked to the shooting.
Investigators found "hundreds of pieces of evidence at the scene," Lester said.
"What happened last night is the biggest and most recent example of what we all know," the police chief said. "Gun violence is truly a crisis in our community, and it has increased not only here in Sacramento but across the nation."
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Goldman Sachs on USD/JPY:
- We are revising up our 3-month forecast to 123 (vs. 117 previously) to reflect continued weakness around current levels, with possible further USD/JPY upside in the very short term
- Over a longer horizon, we still think that the upside in USD/JPY is getting constrained as we get closer to historical intervention thresholds. Moreover, the Yen's deep undervaluation and its typical use as a recession hedge could make it an increasingly attractive buy for longer-term investors.
- Combined with our broad Dollar views, we still see reason to forecast Yen appreciation in the medium-term with USD/JPY at 120 in 6 months and 118 in 12 months (vs. 117 in 6 months and 115 in 12 months previously)
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Overnight, ICYMI:
- Saudi Arabia hiked its Arab Light price for Asian buyers by $4.40 a barrel over the month (SA raised its prices for customers in all regions. Asia saw the biggest gain )
- European Union warned of new sanctions on Russia ... French President Macron said possible sanctions on oil and coal; German Finance Minister Linder said all economic ties with Russia must be severed as soon as possible
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Lack of information, misinformation, and disinformation all coming out of China official media on the situation in Shanghai, which is recording the worst coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. With no end in sight.
Case numbers are rocketing higher. Of course, these are probably understated.
26m Shangahi reisdents are being 'mass tested'.
Some snippets from various reports (from media not approved by China's state):
- “The port of Shanghai is still operating, though at considerably lower productivity. Lack of dockworkers, due to restrictions, are impacting loading and unloading. Additionally, limitations and delays on trucking do affect container availability. In an effort to get around the disruptions, shippers are shifting their cargo to nearby ports such as Ningbo and ocean carriers are omitting Shanghai calls,”
- “This is bad news for carriers as it chokes off the supply of goods and forcibly reduces demand for their services,”
Analysts at Nomura are forecasting additional shipping delays and say:
- “Markets so far have underestimated the severity of the situation in China”
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(CNN) — The grotesque pictures emerging from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha are some of the strongest evidence yet of apparent war crimes by Russian forces in Ukraine: Dead civilians on the street, some with hands bound and shot execution-style, others apparently mowed down at random.
For anyone who has followed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s way of war, it’s a depressingly familiar pattern. Russia’s military has a culture of brutality and scorn for the laws of armed conflict that has been extensively documented in the past.
“The history of Russia’s military interventions — be it in Ukraine or Syria, or its military campaign at home in Chechnya — is tainted with blatant disregard for international humanitarian law,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.
“The Russian military repeatedly flouted the laws of war by failing to protect civilians and even attacking them directly. Russian forces have launched indiscriminate attacks, used banned weapons and sometimes apparently deliberately targeted civilians and civilian objects — a war crime.”
That statement, made less than a month before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has proven sadly prophetic. In the opening weeks of the war, the international community reacted with horror as Ukrainian cities came under relentless Russian bombardment. Protected civilian infrastructure was hit, much as Russian aircraft once targeted Syrian schools and hospitals.
But the scenes unfolding in places like Bucha suggest an intimate kind of violence, something reminiscent of Russia’s war in Chechnya.
During the second Chechen war — which coincided with Putin’s rise to power — allegations also surfaced of widespread human-rights abuse by Russian troops. In 2000, to cite just one well-known incident, investigators with Human Rights Watch documented the summary execution of at least 60 civilians in two suburbs of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
Locals unearthed mass graves in Chechnya; international officials made fact-finding trips to the region and made concerned statements about the reports of abuse and extrajudicial killings. Those statements did not stop Russia’s military from grinding ahead with its ruthless pacification campaign.
Similar evidence of summary executions abounds in towns such as Bucha. A CNN team visited the basement of one building and saw the bodies of five men before they were removed by a Ukrainian team. An adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, told CNN that the five men had been tortured and executed by Russian soldiers.
CNN cannot independently verify Gerashchenko’s claims. But equally troubling is the alleged treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces. The Ukrainian parliament’s human rights ombudsman, Liudmyla Denisova, said Monday that Russia’s treatment of prisoners of war violates the Geneva Conventions, laying out a theoretical case for potential war crimes prosecutions.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Denisova said that released Ukrainian soldiers have “told of the inhumane treatment of them by the Russian side: they were kept in a field, in a pit, in a garage. Periodically, one was taken out: beaten with rifle butts, shots fired next to their ear, intimidated.”
CNN cannot independently verify Denisova’s claims.
Igor Zhdanov, a correspondent for the Russian state propaganda outlet RT, posted videos on March 22 depicting Ukrainian prisoners of war being processed for “filtration” — Zhdanov’s choice of word — after they were captured. The videos show masked Russians searching their captives for tattoos or insignia, which would supposedly show affiliation with nationalists or “neo-Nazi” groups that the Russians have cast as their main enemy in Ukraine.
Zhdanov said in his post that Ukrainian POWs were being treated humanely. But his choice of words was ominous. During the war in Chechnya, Russian forces notoriously used so-called “filtration camps” used to separate civilians from rebel fighters. Legendary Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya gathered testimony from Chechen civilians detained in filtration centers, where detainees said they were held in pits and subjected to electric shock, beatings and ruthless interrogation.
Russian forces have also targeted local Ukrainian mayors for detention — and in at least one case, Ukrainian officials say, an extrajudicial killing.
“At the moment, 11 local mayors from Kyiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Donetsk regions are in Russian captivity,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a message posted on social media Sunday. She said the Ukrainian government learnt Saturday that Olga Sukhenko, the mayor of Motyzhyn, a village in the Kyiv region, was killed in the custody of Russian forces.
Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of the southern city of Melitopol — who was detained by Russian forces but subsequently freed as part of a prisoner exchange — said Russian forces occupying his city were appropriating local businesses, saying that the “situation is difficult, because Russian soldiers have declared themselves as authorities but of course, they don’t care about people and their problems, they only care about taking the money from the businessmen, [and seizing] their businesses.”
Long before the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military had a reputation for a culture of cruelty. Russia has a hybrid manpower system of contract soldiers and conscripts. Although the Russian government claims to have made strides in professionalizing its forces, the country’s military still has a brutal hazing system known as dedovshchina, a notorious tradition that encourages senior conscripts to beat, brutalize or even rape younger conscripts.
Putin recently announced a decree on spring conscription, fixing a target for 134,500 individuals to be called up into the Russian armed forces. The Russian President originally claimed that Russian conscripts would not take part in what Russia has euphemistically dubbed the “special military operation” in Ukraine. But the Russian Ministry of Defense subsequently acknowledged that draftees were fighting in Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces claim to have taken a considerable number of Russian conscripts prisoner.
Ukrainian investigators are already launching criminal probes of alleged crimes by Russian forces as more areas are freed from Russian control — particularly around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv.
It will be days, or perhaps weeks, before we get a fuller picture of what happened in Bucha. But if the past is any guide, there is little hope that Russian perpetrators would be brought to justice.
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK, BECKY BOHRER and KEVIN FREKING
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “historic nomination” to the Supreme Court, bolstering bipartisan support for the first Black woman to be nominated for the court.
The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions Monday evening ahead of a procedural Senate vote to advance the nomination. They join Sen. Susan Collins of Maine as Republicans who say they will support Jackson.
Jackson, a federal appellate court judge, was nominated by President Joe Biden to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Murkowksi said her decision to support Jackson’s confirmation “also rests on my rejection of the corrosive politicization” of the Senate’s process for Supreme Court nominees, which she said is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.”
She said, “While I have not and will not agree with all of Judge Jackson’s decisions and opinions, her approach to cases is carefully considered and is generally well-reasoned.”
The GOP senators’ announcements come as Democrats are taking steps to confirm Jackson by the end of the week.
Earlier Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send Jackson’s nomination to the Senate floor. But Biden’s nominee was still on track to be confirmed this week as the first Black woman on the high court.
The committee’s tie vote was expected. There is an even party split on the panel, and all of the Republicans are opposing Jackson’s nomination to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. But it was still a blow to Democrats who had hoped for robust bipartisan support. It was the first time the committee has deadlocked on a Supreme Court nomination in three decades.
In order to move forward, Democrats were voting to “discharge” Jackson’s nomination from committee Monday evening and then to take a series of procedural steps in coming days to wind it through the 50-50 Senate. With the support of at least one Republican, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Jackson is on a glidepath toward confirmation by the end of the week.
“Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next justice.”
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats cite her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said at Monday’s meeting that Jackson has “the highest level of skill, integrity, civility and grace.”
“This committee’s action today in nothing less than making history,” Durbin said. “I’m honored to be a part of it. I will strongly and proudly support Judge Jackson’s nomination.”
The committee’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because “she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government.”
The committee hadn’t deadlocked since 1991, when Biden was chairman and a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the committee, said last week that a panel tie vote on Jackson would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process,”
So far, Democrats know they will have at least one GOP vote in the full Senate — Collins, who announced last week that she would support the nominee. Collins said that though they may not always agree, Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.”
It’s unclear whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for the party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes.
“Questions are not attacks,” said Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, one of several GOP senators on the panel who hammered the point in the hearings two weeks ago.
Jackson pushed back on the GOP narrative, declaring that “nothing could be further from the truth.” Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions. And on Monday they criticized their GOP counterparts’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
The questioning was filled with “absurdities of disrespect,” said Booker, who also is Black, and he said he will “rejoice” when she is confirmed.
Derrick Johnson, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, expressed disappointment with the tie, even as he noted that Jackson had cleared an important hurdle. He said “history will be watching” during the full Senate vote later this week.
“It’s a stain on the committee that this vote was not unanimous but instead was a tied vote along party lines,” Johnson said.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won’t support her this time around; Murkowski said she was still deciding.
Collins’ support likely saves the Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote to confirm Biden’s pick, and the president called Collins on Wednesday to thank her. Biden had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a major effort to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Restoration advocates are warning the State House is in desperate need of repair, as parts of the 120-year-old building atop Smith Hill are crumbling.
On Feb. 28, a large chunk of marble from a corbel — which helps support a balcony — fell and smashed into the ground near where people enter the building from the uphill side on Smith Street. The incident spurred state officials to quickly construct scaffolding above the door. Longer term, the R.I. Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance is reviewing its options after requesting tens of millions of dollars for maintenance work.
“The area where the piece fell has been cordoned off for safety and workers’ access, and the rest of the corbels are being evaluated,” state spokesperson Derek Gomes explained.
An initial investigation led state officials to conclude the crumbling was caused by water infiltration along with repeated freezing and thawing. Gomes said inspectors have examined the other balconies with similar architecture, and they didn’t find any similar damage.
“The state is continuing its investigation with an architect, engineer, and mason to remove a marble corbel, design a permanent repair, and implement it,” he added.
The falling marble has drawn concern from state workers, lawmakers and others who regularly attend General Assembly hearings, along with State House Preservation Society Chair Sally Strachan, who said the incident should serve as a warning that the building is in dire condition.
“The people’s house is in disrepair,” Strachan said.
Strachan’s organization typically advocates for the restoration of historical material inside the State House. The nonprofit raises private dollars to maintain and restore various items, such as the art collections and paintings that adorn the hallways between chambers.
Despite the indoor focus, however, Strachan said she’s become increasingly worried in recent years about some of the bigger-ticket items keeping the building together, such as the exterior marble.
“When you stand here and look up you can see underneath here, it is terrible,” Strachan told Target 12 during an interview outside the State House.
The deterioration was exacerbated beginning several decades ago when the marble was improperly cleaned, Strachan explained. The cleaning solution ruined the finish of the marble, she added, exposing it to the unforgiving elements of Rhode Island weather.
“When a piece of marble falls of a historic building — that is a sign of a problem,” she said. “That doesn’t just happen. That would be a red flag.”
And it’s not just the exterior facing challenges.
Strachan also pointed to other issues plaguing the historic building, including an internal HVAC system that fails to properly heat and cool the building during summer and winter months. The HVAC issues are so bad that at times lawmakers’ windows can be found wide open in the middle of winter, in an effort to offset sweltering temperatures.
On the other hand, anyone who regularly attends a House Finance Committee hearing in the building’s basement knows to bring an extra layer of clothing, as the room where some of the state’s most important financial decisions are made becomes frigid — regardless of the outdoor temperature.
Beyond frustrating lawmakers and others who frequent the State House in person, Strachan said the lack of control over how the building is heated and cooled damages material inside.
“It’s not good for the walls, it’s not good for papers,” she explained. “There is a great deal of work that needs to be done.”
In his budget plan released in January, Gov. Dan McKee proposed spending $54 million over the next six years on State House renovations, including replacing the HVAC system, improving legislative leaders’ office suites and repairing the roof. Part of the money would come out of the state’s $618 million budget surplus from last year. Lawmakers typically make a final decision on the budget by the end of June.
The McKee administration also recently solicited bids from consultants for assistance with a “comprehensive visioning effort” for the 16-acre State House grounds. State officials said they hope to create “a well-developed, facilitated shared Mission Statement and Strategic Vision for the Rhode Island State House moving forward.” Three firms are vying for the contract.
The bidding document noted the State House’s history: “The building has the fourth-largest self-supporting marble dome in the world, and it houses numerous works of art, monuments, and memorials of significant historic value, including the original Rhode Island charter granted by King Charles II in 1663.”
Strachan said she’s encouraging lawmakers to support the proposed State House renovation money, which she said will go toward addressing some of the most concerning issues. And she argued all residents have an interest in seeing the work get done.
“The building belongs to the people of Rhode Island,” Strachan said.
Tim White (twhite@wpri.com) is the Target 12 managing editor and chief investigative reporter at 12 News, and the host of Newsmakers. Connect with him on Twitter and Facebook.
Eli Sherman (esherman@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter for 12 News. Connect with him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Ted Nesi (tnesi@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter and 12 News politics/business editor. He co-hosts Newsmakers and writes Nesi’s Notes on Saturdays. Connect with him on Twitter and Facebook
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CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island has hired a consulting firm for $569,000 to help Eleanor Slater Hospital deal with its regulatory woes, Target 12 has learned.
The R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospital — which oversees Eleanor Slater — entered into a one-year agreement with Courtemanche & Associates in March. The firm was hired on an emergency basis without going through a competitive bidding process, which state officials said was necessary because of an impending April 4 deadline with federal regulators.
“The challenges at ESH are wide-ranging, and the timeframe to address these challenges is limited,” state spokesperson Randy Edgar wrote in an email.
The hospital was required to submit a so-called “plan of correction” to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, because of multiple patient care issues at the hospital over the past year. CMS has launched multiple inquiries, including one last fall after a patient was improperly left unsupervised and partially removed their own eye with a spoon.
On a separate occasion last spring, a psychiatric patient walked off the hospital’s Cranston campus and was later discovered wandering near a busy intersection. More recently, a dozen correctional officers wearing tactical gear searched rooms inside the hospital’s Benton facility in search of contraband, an unusual decision that advocates decried as highly inappropriate and abusive.
“The alarming video of the December 10, 2021 search at Benton reflects a deeply concerning culture at ESH, and indicates that patients with disabilities are at continual risk of abuse and/or neglect,” Disabilities Rights Rhode Island executive director Morna Murray wrote in a letter to state leaders in February.
Courtemanche visited Eleanor Slater during the final three days of March to conduct inspections like those carried out by CMS, according to Edgar. Procurement documents reviewed by Target 12 show the state is paying the firm $479,000 for services and up to $90,000 for travel expenses.
In an explanation for why the firm was hired on an emergency basis rather than through a competitive bidding process, BHDDH Director Richard Charest said officials were pressed for time, so the hospital called three vendors and Courtemanche was the only one with the right services that responded.
“The first specialized in solely behavioral health, the second was non-responsive and Courtemanche responded to ESH’s inquiry,” Charest wrote in a single-source justification form submitted to the R.I. Department of Administration on March 30.
“Given the impending April deadline for the completion of the Plan of Correction, coupled with Courtemanche’s demonstrated ability to work with CMS and state hospitals in a similar accreditation disposition as ESH’s; it was determined that Courtemanche is an industry leader and would be the best choice for ESH,” he added.
Charest also highlighted that Eleanor Slater was able to negotiate a 5% discount off the initial cost, which he offered as a response to why the offered price should be considered reasonable.
The hospital — with Zambarano in Burrillville and three more units in Cranston — has come under intense public scrutiny in recent years for patient endangerment, insufficient staffing, improper billing practices and failures of leadership.
Last month, the Rhode Island Independent Expenditure Council estimated that the cost per patient at the hospital had ballooned to more than $700,000 per year, although state officials have pushed back at the estimate, arguing the influential think tank used outdated numbers that inflated the true cost.
Multiple governors have sought to reform the hospital system, which has proven to be a regulatory and financial liability for the state. The McKee administration has proposed relicensing the Benton facility as a standalone psychiatric hospital, which state officials are hopeful will help address some of its financial and regulatory challenges.
The R.I. Health Services Council is scheduled to take up the proposed licensing changes for Eleanor Slater on Tuesday afternoon.
Courtemanche is only the latest organization hired to examine the many problems at the hospital, which has gone through multiple reviews since a group of state workers raised internal concerns in the fall of 2019. In addition to its ongoing regulatory challenges, R.I. Attorney General launched an investigation into financial and patient care issues more than a year ago.
Eli Sherman (esherman@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter for 12 News. Connect with him on Twitter and on Facebook.
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The person of interest in the disappearance of Ella Goodie is due in court later this week in Missouri.
Brandon Francisco is believed to have been the last person to see Ella Goodie who has not been seen since March 9, 2022.
Family members say Goodie was giving Francisco a ride to Houston.
Her SUV was found last week, but still no sign of the missing Scott woman.
Francisco's next court date will be April 6 for the fugitive for out of state case, and April 29 for a preliminary hearing on the possession of a firearm charge, according to Buchanan County, Missouri clerk of court office.
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Tuesday looks to start out on the stormy side for portions Acadiana, especially the northern parishes, with a severe weather risk that may prompt a tornado watch for portions of the area.
A fairly active frontal system looks threaten much of the South with the possibility of severe storms, from Texas overnight to Georgia and South Carolina by the end of Tuesday.
The risk will be significantly higher north of our area.
The greatest severe storm risk for Acadiana, looks to be in the northern Acadiana parishes (per usual) and especially into Central/Northern Louisiana starting several hours before sunrise Tuesday with activity sliding southward, and potentially weakening for the rest of Acadiana after daybreak through mid-morning.
Thereafter it should be quieter into Tuesday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center has much of Northern into Central Louisiana hatched in for an enhanced risk (level 3 out of 5) of severe storms late Monday night into early Tuesday, with most of the Acadiana area in a slight risk...a level 2 out of 5.
The chance of severe storms should be lower toward the coast and to the west.
The prime-time severe weather threats, if they materialize in Acadiana, should be within a few hours of daybreak (before and after) Tuesday.
The primary severe storms threats will be for super cell storms that could produce damaging winds and perhaps an isolated tornado.
Activity looks to tone down into Tuesday afternoon with a cloud and sun mix returning along with highs reaching the lower 80s.
Rainfall does not appear to be an issue for our area with a few inches of rain possible mainly across the northern areas. Most other areas will likely see an inch or less.
Look for partly cloudy and warm conditions to return Wednesday with temperatures soaring into the mid-80s prior to a cool front pushing through the area.
That front may generate a few widely scattered showers or a thunderstorm, but no organized severe weather is anticipated.
Thereafter, the weather pattern looks perfect for Acadiana with lots of sunshine accompanied by seasonably cool temperatures, especially at night.
The weekend looks great too as temperatures slowly moderate.
The pattern looks to get a little more active again by mid-next week.
See the KATC 10 Day Forecast for the latest.
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Paul Barys made his way to the Humane Educational Society on Monday and he has another adoptable pet who’s looking for a forever home!
This week Paul is introduces us to Sawyer, a 4-year-old shepherd-mix.
If you’re interested in adopting one of Paul’s Pets, you can visit HES Chattanooga at 4155 Randolph Circle, call 423-624-5302 or click here to learn more.
Be sure to check out Paul’s Pets every Monday on Local 3 News First at 4!
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Local fire crews sent to battle last week's wildfire in Sevier County have returned home. Over 14 local fire crews across the Tennessee Valley were sent to help with the Hatcher Mountain-Indigo Lane fire that burned over 2500 acres and damaged 300 structures.
Steep terrain and unpredictable winds made things difficult for firefighters, "Wildland firefighting is much harder work than structural fire fighting. There is a lot of hiking involved, you're carrying tools and it is much more demanding," explained CFD Battalion Chief Chris Warren.
Many of our local crews had prior experience firefighting in this part of Sevier County when a series of deadly wildfires broke out in late November 2016. The 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires damaged over 2000 structures, burning nearly 18,000 acres of land. Although the Hatcher Mountain-Indigo Lane fire took a slightly different path, the experience gained in 2016 helped local crews, "A lot of the people that I took up there had been up there before with the Gatlinburg fire, so we had some kind of experience with which way it was going to go," said Warren.
The Hatcher Mountain-Indigo Lane fire is now 98% contained. All roadways and areas affected are now open.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a wedding reception at the White House this November for their eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden, the first lady's communications director Elizabeth Alexander confirmed to CNN. The White House reception is set for November 19; there is no word yet on where the nuptial ceremony will occur.
"The first family, the couple, and their parents are still in the planning stages of all of the wedding festivities and look forward to announcing further details in the coming months," Alexander said.
Naomi Biden, 28, is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle. She is a lawyer, currently based in Washington, DC. Biden became engaged to Peter Neal, 24, in September of last year when Neal proposed near his childhood home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, according to a White House official. Biden's engagement ring includes the band of Neal's grandmother's engagement ring. The couple has been together for approximately four years, after meeting in New York City on a date, set up by a mutual friend. Neal is in his final semester of law school at the University of Pennsylvania.
The White House has a long history as the location for weddings of presidential offspring, dating back to the 1800s, when the children of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler and Ulysses S. Grant were married there. Both of Woodrow Wilson's daughters held their weddings at the White House, as well as his niece, in 1913, 1914, and 1918, respectively.
More recently, Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson, was married in the White House East Room in 1967. Her sister, Luci Johnson, held her reception at the White House the year prior, following a ceremony at a nearby church. Tricia Nixon was walked down the aisle in the Rose Garden by her father, Richard Nixon, when she married Edward Cox in 1971.
However, Naomi Biden will follow her most recent predecessor in president-related White House wedding celebrations -- Jenna Bush, daughter of George W. Bush -- by holding only the reception at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush married Henry Hager at the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas, in May 2008, but her parents later hosted a reception for 600 guests, complete with music by the United States Marine Band, at the White House the following month.
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GREENWOOD, S.C. (WSPA) – Greenwood County Emergency Medical Services received new upgrades to its ambulances and training equipment.
Derek Oliver, the Director of Emergency Services, said these improvements will make their jobs easier and help them better treat patients.
“It’s pretty much like working on a human,” said Oliver.
Oliver said the department received three ‘manikins’ which will help EMS members train for real-life situations. He said the simulators are high-tech and mimic a real-life patient. The ‘manikins’ can blink, talk, breathe, and more.
“You can get it to bleed, you can use it to learn how to properly apply a tourniquet, so once you apply tighten the tourniquet down, the mannequin stops bleeding. You can give it IVs and give it fluid,” said Oliver.
Oliver said it’s a big upgrade for the department and gives more hands-on training.
“The mannequins that we used before were just basic CPR mannequins,” said Oliver.
They’re controlled by a trainer through a computer, giving team members a chance to practice their skills in a safe environment.
“You practice that here, so it’ll avoid any mistakes on the truck,” said Oliver.
New power loaders were also installed on all of the ambulances.
“We installed these systems, so now, one person can do it, push of a button,” said Oliver.
Oliver said it’s a reliable system to easily load patients in or out of the ambulance. He also said it keeps patients from tipping over, making it safer for everyone.
“These load systems for the truck, that helps us load patients a lot easier and a lot safer for the crews,” said Oliver.
Oliver said the new equipment is already being utilized by team members. Both were funded by American Rescue Plan Money from the County. A county spokesperson said the power loaders cost more than $378,000 and the three ‘manikins’ cost nearly $170,000.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (KVEO) — Police in Fort Worth, Texas arrested a man who was driving over 150 mph when he collided with another vehicle, killing a teenager and injuring two others in March.
Fort Worth officers arrested Bryce Abernathy, 22, on two counts of aggravated assault and one count of manslaughter, according to a police press release.
At 11 p.m. on March 15, a white Camaro was traveling on westbound Interstate 20 when it collided with a silver SUV. One was killed in the collision and two others were injured.
The airbag control module showed that the Camaro was driving 157 mph, the release stated.
According to a report by NBC affiliate NBCDFW, the victim was identified as 19-year-old Shaundi Smallwood.
Smallwood had gone to a Six Flags amusement park with friends earlier in the night and was hanging out with them before the crash, his mother told the local TV station.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, Monday on whether to send Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor. But President Joe Biden’s nominee is still on track to be confirmed this week as the first Black woman on the high court.
The committee’s tie vote was expected, as there is an even party split on the panel and all of the Republicans are opposing Jackson’s nomination to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. But it was still a blow to Democrats who had hoped for robust bipartisan support — and it was the first time the committee has deadlocked on a Supreme Court nomination in three decades.
In order to move forward, Democrats planned a new vote to “discharge” Jackson’s nomination from committee Monday evening and then take a series of procedural steps in the coming days to wind it through the 50-50 Senate. With the support of at least one Republican, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Jackson is on a glidepath toward confirmation by the end of the week.
“Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next justice.”
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats cite her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said at Monday’s meeting that Jackson has “the highest level of skill, integrity, civility and grace.”
“This committee’s action today in nothing less than making history,” Durbin said. “I’m honored to be a part of it. I will strongly and proudly support Judge Jackson’s nomination.”
The committee’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because “she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government.”
The committee hadn’t deadlocked since 1991, when Biden was chairman and a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the committee, said last week that a panel tie vote on Jackson would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process,”
So far, Democrats know they will have at least one GOP vote in the full Senate — Collins, who announced last week that she would support the nominee. Collins said that though they may not always agree, Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.”
It’s unclear whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for the party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes.
“Questions are not attacks,” said Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, one of several GOP senators on the panel who hammered the point in the hearings two weeks ago.
Jackson pushed back on the GOP narrative, declaring that “nothing could be further from the truth.” Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions. And on Monday they criticized their GOP counterparts’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
The questioning was filled with “absurdities of disrespect,” said Booker, who also is Black, and he said he will “rejoice” when she is confirmed.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won’t support her this time around; Murkowski said she was still deciding.
Collins’ support likely saves the Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote to confirm Biden’s pick, and the president called Collins on Wednesday to thank her. Biden had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a major effort to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote.
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GENEVA — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.
The World Health Organization, about six months after tightening its guidelines on air quality, on Monday issued an update to its database on air quality that draws on information from a growing number of cities, towns, and villages across the globe — now totaling over 6,000 municipalities.
WHO said 99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds its air-quality limits and is often rife with particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the veins and arteries, and cause disease. Air quality is poorest in WHO's Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, followed by Africa, it said.
“After surviving a pandemic, it is unacceptable to still have 7 million preventable deaths and countless preventable lost years of good health due to air pollution,” said Dr. Maria Neira, head of WHO’s department of environment, climate change and health. “Yet too many investments are still being sunk into a polluted environment rather than in clean, healthy air.”
The database, which has traditionally considered two types of particulate matter known as PM2.5 and PM10, for the first time has included ground measurements of nitrogen dioxide. The last version of the database was issued in 2018.
Nitrogen dioxide originates mainly from human-generated burning of fuel, such as through automobile traffic, and is most common in urban areas. Exposure can bring respiratory disease like asthma and symptoms like coughing, wheezing and difficulty in breathing, and more hospital and emergency-room admissions, WHO said. The highest concentrations were found in the eastern Mediterranean region.
Particulate matter has many sources, such as transportation, power plants, agriculture, the burning of waste and industry – as well as from natural sources like desert dust. The developing world is particularly hard hit: India had high levels of PM10, while China showed high levels of PM2.5, the database showed.
“Particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is capable of penetrating deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) and respiratory impacts,” WHO said. “There is emerging evidence that particulate matter impacts other organs and causes other diseases as well.”
The findings highlight the sheer scale of the changes needed to combat air pollution, said Anumita Roychowdhury, an air pollution expert at Center for Science and Environment, a research and advocacy organization in New Delhi.
India and the world need to brace for major changes to try to curb air pollution, including using electric vehicles, shifting away from fossil fuels, embracing a massive scaling-up of green energy and separating types of waste, she said.
The Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a New Delhi-based think tank, found in a study that more than 60% of India’s PM2.5 loads are from households and industries.
Tanushree Ganguly, who heads the council’s program on air quality, called for action toward reducing emissions from industries, automobiles, biomass burning and domestic energy.
“We need to prioritize clean energy access for households that need it the most, and take active measures to clean up our industrial sector,” she said.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers motto; People, Team, Mission, goes beyond just the a saying. The PEOPLE of the Buffalo District serve the Great Lakes and the Nation in solving the world’s most complex water resource and environmental remediation challenges. Our TEAMS pave the way towards an environmentally sustainable future and our MISSION is to partner with our sister districts and communities we serve to best deliver the program. (U.S. Army video by Yvonne Najera)
This work, What is the mission of the USACE Buffalo District?, by Yvonne Najera, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
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(FOX 17) — Longtime Michigan State assistant basketball coach Dwayne Stephens has been hired by Western Michigan University to be the school's head men's basketball coach.
“I’m very excited for the opportunity to lead Western Michigan basketball,” Stephens said in a statement released by WMU. “My family and I would like to thank President (Edward) Montgomery and Director of Athletics Dan Bartholomae for giving us this opportunity."
Stephens has been on staff with Tom Izzo in East Lansing for the past 19 seasons.
“From our earliest conversations, DJ rose to the top of an incredibly competitive candidate pool as the right choice to lead our men’s basketball program to excellence," Bartholomae said in a statement released by the University. "His reputation as one of the nation’s most elite recruiters and his experience in developing some of the world’s finest basketball athletes separated him as one of the country’s most outstanding basketball coaches."
WMU will officially introduce Stephens at press conference on Wednesday.
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Supreme Court makes it easier to sue police over wrongful arrests
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former criminal defendants who sue law enforcement for a wrongful arrest don't need to prove that they were innocent of the offenses they were charged with, only that their underlying cases ended without a conviction.
Why it matters: The 6-3 decision is a "major win for plaintiffs in police accountability cases," Law360 notes. It will make it easier to pursue lawsuits under the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable seizures.
Details: The Supreme Court sided with Larry Thompson, a Navy veteran who sued the New York Police Department for violating his civil rights.
- The sister of Thompson's now-wife "apparently suffered from a mental illness" and called 911 accusing him of abusing their newborn, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion.
- When police arrived, Thompson refused to let them enter without a warrant. He scuffled with the officers before they arrested him and took the baby. Medical examiners later found no signs of abuse on the baby.
- Thompson was nevertheless charged with obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest, and spent two days in jail. The charges were dismissed before trial without explanation.
Monday's decision strikes down an earlier ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which said Thompson could not sue the officers without proving his innocence.
What they're saying: The question of whether a criminal defendant was wrongly charged does not logically depend on whether the prosecutor or court explained why the prosecution was dismissed," Kavanaugh wrote.
- "And the individual’s ability to seek redress for a wrongful prosecution cannot reasonably turn on the fortuity of whether the prosecutor or court happened to explain why the charges were dismissed. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion."
The other side: Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch disagreed. The court's ruling "has no basis in the Constitution and is almost certain to lead to confusion," Alito wrote in the dissenting opinion.
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Russell Medical is hoping a job fair will bring in its next round of employees.
The hospital hopes to hire employees for its environmental services and food services departments at a job fair Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.
“We will have applications, open interviews and tours of the work environment,” Russell Medical director of marketing Susan Foy said. “We will also have light refreshments.”
Foy said Russell Medical is trying something a little different recruiting jobseekers with this job fair hosting it on site.
“We hope the fair will be successful because they get to see everything at the same time,” Foy said. “They get to see where they would work and get to many of the people they would be working for and around.”
Foy said the hospital is looking to fill full-time, part-time and as needed positions with new rates of pay. The full-time positions offer benefits.
The job fair at Russell Medical is from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 6 and Thursday, April 7. Applicants should enter the front lobby of the hospital and proceed to the cafeteria and follow COVID-19 protocols for hospitals which include properly wearing a mask.
Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.
Mostly clear this evening. Becoming mostly cloudy with showers developing after midnight. Low 52F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
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Mostly clear this evening. Becoming mostly cloudy with showers developing after midnight. Low 52F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
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Strong thunderstorms likely. Damaging winds, large hail and possibly a tornado with some storms. High around 70F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 2 to 3 inches of rain expected.
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With the spring sports season in full swing after spring break’s conclusion, there’s plenty of action to recap from last week in local baseball and softball circles.
Horseshoe Bend softball tore off a six-game winning streak, Dadeville softball picked up three wins including a slobberknocker of a rivalry victory while Reeltown’s baseball team grabbed a key area series win.
Here’s a quick team-by-team rundown of last week’s action:
Benjamin Russell
Benjamin Russell’s baseball team went an even 2-2 last week to keep their record six games above .500 on the year.
An 11-6 loss at Rockbridge March 30 snapped a string of eight wins in nine games for the Wildcats, and despite a stellar six-inning start on the mound from Jaxon Hay, the Wildcats fell in extra innings to Hickman that same day.
March 31 served as the inverse, with Charlie Morgan tossing his own six-inning, one-run gem to hand Benjamin Russell a 3-2 win over Westminster Christian and a strong 7-3 win against North Jackson. Senior outfielder Sam Scales received a bump to the No. 2 spot in the Wildcats’ lineup and delivered with two hits.
The biggest challenges are ahead, however. Area play starts this week for the Wildcats, and though their 14-8 record is nothing to sneeze at, the other two teams in their grouping are 17-4 Wetumpka and 14-9 Stanhope Elmore, who split an earlier series against each other.
On the softball side, Benjamin Russell went 1-2-1, the lone victory a 12-1 blowout defeat of Oak Grove. Ryann Ruffin and Chloe Davis each collected multiple hits while Ruffin, Leah Leonard and Naskia Russell each batted in multiple runs.
Central Coosa
While Central Coosa went just 1-2 last week on the softball diamond, that one win came in area play against Comer in a 12-7 victory. Alissa Cosby shined brightest in a lineup full of active bats, going 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
A 12-6 loss to Dadeville and 14-0 downing by Horseshoe Bend sandwiched the win.
In baseball the Cougars dropped back-to-back area games against Fayetteville, both by 20-1 tallies.
Dadeville
Don’t look now, but Dadeville’s softball team is starting to pick up steam.
The Tigers went 3-0 in last week’s action including an 11-1 clobbering of Russell County.
Undoubtedly the highlight of the week was the team’s matchup with Reeltown, though. The two area rivals battled to a 13-12 result that Dadeville came out on the winning end of. The Tigers trailed 12-9 in the bottom of the seventh and final inning of that game and amassed a four-run frame to win it, ending on a walk-off single from Jamaya Bandy.
Dadeville baseball fell to Reeltown in both area series games the teams played by scores of 7-0 and 14-3, though the Tigers did beat the Rebels in the following tiebreaker game 5-2. Senior catcher Lane Smith hit a home run in the second loss while a four-hit, three RBI day from Buster Coker pushed Dadeville to its lone victory.
The Tigers took on Handley and lost 15-7 to close out their week.
Horseshoe Bend
Make it six wins in-a-row for the once-lowly 2022 Horseshoe Bend softball team.
The Generals have gone from 2-8-1 to an even 8-8-1 this year, and all six wins in that streak came last week.
It started when Horseshoe Bend beat Reeltown 9-4 on the road March 29, which bled into an area win at Ranburne two days later and a 14-0 beating of Central Coosa Friday.
Saturday is when the fireworks really started, though.
The Generals rattled off three consecutive wins in tournament play including two against key area rivals.
Last week started slow for Horseshoe Bend baseball, which fell 8-5 at Beauregard March 28, but it certainly closed fast.
Dominating Beulah with back-to-back 12-run victories at home and on the road, respectively, the Generals boosted their record to 9-7 on the season.
Reeltown
It’s always nice to get a leg up in area competition, and that’s precisely what Reeltown baseball accomplished last week.
By beating Dadeville 2-0 in the two sides’ area series — even if the Tigers took the ensuing tiebreaker game 5-2 — the Rebels are one win away from securing a playoff berth. They’ll have a chance to do so next week against Beulah in their final area series.
Reeltown softball went 0-6 last week, though its loss to Dadeville March 31 came by a single run in a 13-12 slugfest.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — FSU’s Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship held an Entrepreneurship expo.
It was a time for them to share their companies, products, and services and be graded not only by faculty but by their fellow students.
We spoke with Jeff Whalen, Professor at the college of entrepreneurship, and he says, "They start in the Fall semester where they conceive and validate a new company and then they move into spring semester where they then execute and launch that company.”
Although this is a great way for students to get their businesses out there, their grade is determined by their ability to sell, visual representation of their product, validation experiment, and pitch.
Kennedy, a junior at FSU, says the Entrepreneurship Program was one of the main reasons she chose to enroll at FSU in hopes to one day tap into the retail industry.
She says, "I believe it offers such a holistic approach to education and teaches me so much about the field that I’m trying to go into.”
With the help of the student’s peers, and members of the community, this expo provides customer feedback, experience, and allows students to turn a profit.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) announced Monday that he plans to vote in favor of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice.
"After reviewing Judge Jackson's record and testimony, I have concluded that she is a well-qualified jurist and a person of honor," Romney said in a statement. "While I do not expect to agree with every decision she may make on the Court, I believe that she more than meets the standard of excellence and integrity."
President Joe Biden nominated Jackson in February to fill the seat that will be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer, who is retiring at the end of the term.
"I congratulate Judge Jackson on her expected confirmation and look forward to her continued service to our nation," Romney's statement said.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is another Republican who has said she will support Jackson.
READ: Senate Judiciary deadlocks on Judge Jackson's Supreme Court nomination
Republicans have said Jackson has a history of being soft on crime and lenient toward criminal offenders in their sentencing, particularly those involving child pornography cases.
They have also focused on Jackson not answering the question when asked to define what a woman is during her confirmation hearing in March.
On the other hand, Democrats have talked about what a historic moment this vote is for the U.S., with Senator Amy Klobuchar saying, the judge "is truly an inspiration to young Black girls."
If confirmed, Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Her confirmation would also mark for the first time in history that four women would sit together on the nine-member court.
I intend to vote in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. My statement: pic.twitter.com/uGaxx8sJn5
— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) April 4, 2022
Romney has a history of voting across party lines during his first term as a U.S. Senator — perhaps most notably, voting to convict former President Donald Trump in both of the ex-commander-in-chief's impeachment trials.
This story was originally published by Spencer Burt of KSTU in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 150th anniversary year, the park's fundraising arm is seeking $1,500 donations in exchange for an annual entry pass that can be used by carloads of the donor's descendants to visit the park in 150 years.
Yellowstone Forever will use the money raised through the sale of 'Inheritance Passes' to support park projects like trail improvements, education, native fish conservation and scientific studies. The president and CEO of Yellowstone Forever says its the organization's way of celebrating 150 years of Yellowstone National Park and helping to preserve the park for another 150 years.
A design firm called Havas Chicago created the concept.
“To celebrate Yellowstone’s 150th anniversary, rather than look back, we thought it would be the perfect time to look ahead and think about how we can preserve the park for future generations,” said Bailey Doyle with Havas Chicago.
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Looking for fresh air? Don’t hold your breath.
Nearly every human on the planet — a staggering 99% — breathes air that does not meet quality standards set by global health officials.
The new data comes from a survey of over 6,000 municipalities in more than 100 countries across the world, according to an update from the World Health Organization on Monday, which recently tightened its guidelines for air quality as it hopes to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels for energy.
Pollution stemming from the combustion of coal, crude oil and natural gas is known to cause short- and long-term respiratory illnesses, such as coughing, wheezing and chronic asthma, and may be linked to other diseases.
These toxic particles are “capable of penetrating deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) and respiratory impacts,” WHO said. “There is emerging evidence that particulate matter impacts other organs and causes other diseases as well.”
Some areas have recently shown levels of atmospheric dust that were three to four times over WHO’s minimum standard of 50 micrograms per square meter.
Air quality is worst in the eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, followed by many in Africa. Nevertheless, no nation on earth has managed to achieve WHO’s recommended limit of hazardous airborne particles — no more than 5 micrograms per cubic meter — while only 3.4% of individual cities surveyed met the goal, according to recent data compiled by Swiss air quality monitoring group IQAir.
“After surviving a pandemic, it is unacceptable to still have 7 million preventable deaths and countless preventable lost years of good health due to air pollution,” said Dr. Maria Neira, director of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment, in Monday’s statement. “Yet too many investments are still being sunk into a polluted environment rather than in clean, healthy air.”
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There may not be a more polarizing player in this year’s NFL draft than LSU cornerback Derek Stingley Jr.
The 20-year-old had an amazing freshman season in 2019 with six interceptions and 15 pass breakups to help the Tigers to the national title. But he has only played in 10 games over the last two injury-filled years, has no interceptions in that time and NFL teams have to wonder about his durability.
“I find this one to be extraordinarily tough,” former Jets GM and current ESPN analyst Mike Tannenbaum said, “and I’d much rather be in the media making this decision than a real one because this is one that really keeps you up at night. If in three years, we said that he was one of the two or three best football players from this draft, I wouldn’t be surprised and if we said in two or three years there were questions about his durability, I wouldn’t be surprised. That’s what makes the draft process so difficult.”
Stingley was widely considered to be the best cornerback in this year’s draft class going into the 2021 season. But he suffered a Lisfranc injury and had surgery on his foot on Sept. 29, missing all but three games. Stingley’s draft stock has fallen and many people now rate Cincinnati’s Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner ahead of him. Stingley has gone from being a surefire top-10 pick to someone who could slip into the late teens or maybe even the 20s.
ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. still believes Stingley is the best cornerback in this class.
“Stingley, Jr. was a lock-down corner as an 18-year-old true freshman in 2019 when LSU won a national title and finished 15-0,” Kiper said via email. “He also went up against Ja’Marr Chase every day in practice that same year. They had some epic battles. COVID hit in 2020 and he was injured in 2021 and forced to shut it down early on due to the injury.
“He’s several years removed now from that one great season, that’s why Sauce Gardner has moved ahead of Stingley, Jr. on some analysts boards. I really like Gardner, but am sticking with Stingley, Jr., provided there are no issues with the injury which we won’t know for sure until his pro day.”
That pro day is on Wednesday, six months from Stingley’s surgery. He was unable to participate in drills at the NFL Scouting Combine, but now teams will get to see how healthy he is. Stingley is not lacking in confidence.
“I know myself and I know that when I’m at the best version of myself, I’m the greatest,” Stingley said at the combine.
NFL GMs may not be so sure. Tannenbaum said the risk factor may be too great for teams picking in the top 10.
“He has incredible ability, but when you’re picking high, you want to check as many boxes as possible and the fact that he’s played in 10 games in two years, that gives me a lot of concern,” Tannenbaum said.
Kiper said teams will have a tough call to make.
“Stingley, Jr. does provide a difficult evaluation,” Kiper said. “You always want a player drafted early to finish strong both in terms of the regular season as well as the entire draft process. That wasn’t the case with Stingley, Jr., but was the case with Gardner.”
Kiper believes Stingley could go to the Jets at No. 10 or shortly after that.
“Washington or Minnesota would be excellent landing spots for Stingley, Jr.,” Kiper said. “Same for the New York Jets, who select at 10. Washington is at 11 and Minnesota is at 12. The Jets need a true #1 lockdown CB and Washington and Minnesota have CB as one of their major needs.”
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Two people were evacuated and no one was injured in a house fire fought amid driving winds on Monday afternoon in the west end of Yakima.
Yakima firefighters responded shortly after 2 p.m. to an attic fire at 7008 Englewood Ave., Deputy Fire Chief D.J. Goldsmith reported.
"Winds blew the fire from the west side completely through the rest of the house," Goldsmith said. "When you have this type of wind at this location, it's a major factor."
The home is at a crest on the hilly portion of Englewood in northwest Yakima, and Monday's fire came amid a high wind warning issued by the National Weather Service.
Westerly winds between 25 and 35 mph were reported by the NWS at Yakima Air Terminal Monday afternoon, with gusts up to 55 mph. This helped spread smoke from the fire several blocks down the street, with Englewood closed to traffic at 66th Avenue.
Goldsmith said a second alarm was issued due to the potential for wind to spread the fire, but it was "pretty well knocked down" roughly an hour after it was reported. Fire damage and several holes could be seen on the roof.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, he said. While the occupants were evacuated, it was unclear if any pets were in the house.
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Visitors to popular Kittitas County sno-parks have a new source for avalanche information, which is still crucial as shown by the recent storm that brought heavy snow and high avalanche risks to the Cascades.
In March, four avalanche beacon boards were installed at the heavily used sno-parks at French Cabin Creek, Cooper River, 29 Pines and Crystal Springs Sno-parks, according to a news release from the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office. The boards were completed and installed in memory of Washington state trooper and Kittitas County resident Steve Houle.
On Feb. 8, 2021, Houle was caught and buried in an avalanche while snow-biking in the French Cabin Creek area, north of Cle Elum. Sheriff’s office deputies and volunteers with Kittitas County Search and Rescue rode into the steep, remote backcountry where Houle’s riding partner showed them what happened, the release said.
Houle’s body was recovered and escorted home to his family after hours of searching with probes and canines. His family partnered with search and rescue to buy and erect the seasonal beacon boards.
The solar-powered beacon boards activate automatically with nearby motion. They show people whether their avalanche beacon is transmitting properly. The boards also direct users to updated avalanche conditions and forecasts from the Northwest Avalanche Center (nwac.us) and remind them of basic avalanche safety practices and equipment.
Each of the donated beacon boards reads, “In Memory of Steve Houle — WSP 1168," memorializing Houle’s State Patrol badge number. The boards will be taken down later this month and reinstalled each winter, according to the sheriff's office.
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Yakima firefighters are responding to a house fire in the 7000 block of Englewood Avenue that started around 2 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2022.
This story is developing, and more information will be provided as it is available.
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Southwest winds 30 to 45 mph with gusts around 60 mph expected. * WHERE...In Washington, Lower Columbia Basin of Washington, Simcoe Highlands, Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington and Yakima Valley. In Oregon, Foothills of the Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon, Lower Columbia Basin of Oregon and Foothills of the Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon. * WHEN...Continuing through 11 PM PDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if you must drive. &&
Yakima firefighters are responding to a house fire in the 7000 block of Englewood Avenue that started around 2 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2022.
This story is developing, and more information will be provided as it is available.
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Days after Will Smith laid the palm of his hand against Chris Rock’s face, a letter that was allegedly written to Tupac Shakur by Willow Smith has resurfaced on the web.
For reference, Jada Pinkett Smith was very close to the late rapper, and many thought that they may have dated at one point. Will Smith also has spoken out before and said that he felt tortured by the bond that Jada and Tupac shared.
Willow Smith wrote a letter to Tupac 👀 pic.twitter.com/vlpRb7XTDf
— The Platform Podcast (@LoveThePlatform) March 31, 2022
The letter reads, “I know you are alive some place I think my mommy really misses you. Can you please come back[?] Can you come back so momy [mommy] and me can be happy! I wish you were here … I really Do. Love, Willow.”
The letter was reported to be written in 2011 when Willow was just 11 years old. Also, Willow wasn’t born when Tupac died, which makes this letter seem pretty strange.
Many people that have seen the story are dismissing the message, but others think that Willow may have written the letter. Kevin Samuels, a viral (and in some quarters, maligned) relationship “adviser,” had a few comments about the letter and thinks that it’s a bad look for Will Smith.
Kevin Samuels – Why is Will Smith’s daughter writing a letter to Tupac? 🤦🏾♂️🤯😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/AacKcYrYta
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A 58-year-old man died Monday after being stabbed with a large kitchen knife in Lower Manhattan, police said.
The man was stabbed around 4:30 p.m. at 125 Division Street in Chinatown, cops said.
EMS rushed the man to Bellevue Hospital, but he could not be saved, police said.
The suspect was at large.
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The Grammy Awards celebrate some of the best music made by some of the most creative and brightest artists in the world. Even though everybody is celebrated, there is still a time when someone has to be a winner and someone has to go home without an award.
The Grammys may have not lived up to the Oscars drama a week ago, but this was a great time to sit back and look at some of the music that the world has been blessed with over the last year.
Check out some of the winners and losers from last night’s awards.
Winner: Silk Sonic
Silk Sonic was one of the frequent winners of the night, landing all four of the awards that they were nominated for, which included Song of the Year and Record of the Year for “Leave the Door Open.” When receiving the award, Anderson .Paak kept it plain and simple saying “we’re trying to remain humble but in the industry, we call that a clean sweep.”
Loser: Lil Nas X
A few years ago, Lil Nas X was hot in the music industry, and earned two Grammys. This year was a little different, as he was nominated for five awards, but didn’t win a single one. His Grammys record now stands at two wins out of 11 nominations, but he did have a nice performance with Jack Harlow during the show.
Winner: Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste took home five awards, including Album of the Year for his project We Are. Batiste led the field with 11 nominations. Though Batiste may have been one of the least popular nominees of the awards show, his music speaks louder than anything else.
Loser: J. Cole
Like Lil Nas X, Cole has had a lot of nominations, but not many awards to show for it. He’s earned 16 nominations, but only has one win, for Best Rap Song for “A Lot” in 2020. The one that may have hurt the most during the night was his loss against Tyler, the Creator for Best Rap Album. Cole’s album The Off-Season was received well by the masses, but it looks like Tyler had the biggest draw of the voters.
Winner: Black women
The Black women looked amazing at the Grammys, and some also won some big awards as well. Jazmine Sullivan took home the first Grammy of her career, tying with Silk Sonic for Best R&B Performance, and winning Best R&B album. Doja Cat and SZA also won their first Grammy, as the two won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group.
Loser: Ties (c’mon, Grammys, pick a winner)
Last night yielded ties for awards in two categories; Silk Sonic and Jazmine Sullivan shared the award for Best R&B Performance, and Jon Batiste and Carlos Rafael Rivera tied for Best Score Soundtrack.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP)The Chicago White Sox acquired Reese McGuire from the Toronto Blue Jays for Zack Collins on Sunday in a trade of reserve catchers.
McGuire was selected by Pittsburgh in the first round of the 2013 amateur draft. He batted .253 with a homer and 10 RBIs in a career-high 78 games last year.
The 27-year-old McGuire made his big league debut in 2018. He is a .248 hitter with nine homers and 26 RBIs in 141 career games, all with the Blue Jays.
Collins, 27, set career highs with a .210 batting average, four homers and 26 RBIs in 78 games for the AL Central champions last year.
Collins was drafted by Chicago with the 10th overall pick in the 2016 amateur draft. He is a .195 hitter with seven homers and 38 RBIs in 114 career games, all with the White Sox.
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP)The Seattle Mariners avoided arbitration with right fielder Mitch Haniger, agreeing to terms on a $7.75 million contract for the 2022 season on Sunday.
Haniger is coming off arguably the best season of his career with a career-high 39 home runs and 100 RBIs. The 31-year-old was an All-Star in 2018 before injuries derailed the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
Haniger played in 157 games last season and batted .253 with an .805 OPS. The team did not announce his 2022 salary. He made $3.010 million last year and will be an unrestricted free agent after this season.
Hanger had asked for $8 million in arbitration, and Seattle was offering $6.71 million.
Seattle has two arbitration-eligible players remaining that it has not agreed to terms with: second baseman Adam Frazier and outfielder Jesse Winker. Both Frazier and Winker were All-Stars last season. Frazier made $4.085 million and Winker made $3.15 million.
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WEST PALM BEACH , Fla. (AP)To the Washington Nationals, too many games ended last season with star Juan Soto watching from the on-deck circle instead of swinging in the batter’s box.
Nationals manager Davey Martinez hopes to limit the number of times that occurs this season by moving Soto to the second spot in the batting order.
”Last year there were 14 times when he was on deck and didn’t get that last at-bat,” Martinez said. ”If he’s going to get an opportunity to hit again, you want him to hit.”
Last year, Washington’s No. 2 hitter made 19 more plate appearances that its No. 3 hitter. But that’s not the only reason Martinez likes Soto hitting second.
With the National League adopting the designated hitter this year, the ninth hitter – for the Nats, often this spring it’s been Victor Robles – isn’t a pitcher, which should provide the No. 2 hitter with more RBI opportunities.
Martinez also helped sell Soto on the move to the second spot with a persuasive factoid.
”I told him seven of the last 10 MVPs did hit second,” Martinez said.
Christian Yelich, Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Freddie Freeman and Jose Altuve are among the stars who hit second primarily or saw significant at-bats there during their recent MVP seasons.
Big hitters Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge and Manny Machado also have seen ample time in that slot.
Soto is embracing the opportunity to follow their paths.
”I am going to accept the challenge and see how it goes,” Soto said. ”It’s going to take a little bit to get used to it but I think it’s going to be fine.”
Aside from being ready to hit a minute or two earlier in games, Soto expects to be asked to fulfill some of the more traditional duties of the No. 2 hitter.
”It’s not always to bring the run in, sometimes you’ve got to get him over or get on base for the guys behind you, and all that stuff,” Soto said.
He’s even considering more steal attempts.
One of baseball’s most prolific young hitters, the 23-year-old Soto hit .313 with 29 homers and 95 RBIs last season. Hitting primarily from the No. 3 spot in front of Josh Bell, Soto led the majors by drawing 145 walks, 34 more than second-place Joey Gallo, to top baseball with a .465 on-base average.
Soto led the NL with a .351 batting average during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
The Nationals believe that by signing veteran Nelson Cruz to be their designated hitter, they addressed concerns regarding teams pitching around Soto.
The top of Sunday’s lineup against Houston was representative of what Martinez plans for opening day, with Cesar Hernandez leading off, followed by Soto, Cruz and Bell.
”I think he’s got pretty good – not pretty good, really good – protection,” Martinez said.
Even with that protection, Soto still will likely get his walks.
Blessed with an uncanny ability to judge borderline pitches, Soto is being actively encouraged to be as selective as ever this year.
”Honestly, I say this about him every year, but I think he’s going to have a monster year,” Martinez said. ”My big thing with him as we always talk about is accepting his walks, especially early in the season. Early in the season it seems like he wants to swing, swing, swing.”
Soto swings so often early as a means of refining his timing at the plate. That timing proved elusive earlier this spring, but with two Grapefruit League games remaining before opening day, was Soto is 7 for 23, with two homers, five RBI and six walks.
”I feel good,” Soto said. ”I’m ready to go since a week ago.”
The Nationals open the season Thursday at home against the New York Mets.
NOTES: The Nationals reached an agreement with Robles on a one-year contract for the 2022 season, thereby avoiding arbitration with the outfielder. … After being outrighted to Triple-A Rochester, OF Andrew Stevenson accepted the assignment rather than pursue free agency. … Washington reassigned reliever Aaron Sanchez to minor league camp.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday she wouldn’t seek a second term after a rocky five years marked by huge protests calling for her resignation, a security crackdown that has quashed dissent and most recently a COVID-19 wave that overwhelmed the health system.
Her successor will be picked in May, with the city’s hard-line security chief during the 2019 protests seen as a likely choice.
“I will complete my five-year term as chief executive on the 30th of June this year, and I will also call an end to my 42 years of public service,” Lam said at a news conference. The 64-year-old career civil servant said she plans to spend more time with her family, which is her “sole consideration.”
Speculation had swirled for months about whether she would seek another term, and she repeatedly declined to comment on the possibility. But on Monday, she said her decision had been conveyed to the central government in Beijing last year and was met with “respect and understanding.”
Her time in office will likely be remembered as a turning point during which Beijing firmly established control over the former British colony, which was returned to China in 1997. For years, the city rocked back and forth between calls for more freedom and growing signs of China extending its reach, chipping away at a promise by the mainland government to give Hong Kong the power to govern itself semi-autonomously for 50 years.
Lam’s popularity sharply declined over her five-year term, particularly over legislation that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial and her leadership during the protests that ensued in 2019. The mass demonstrations were marked at times by violent clashes between police and protesters. Authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing insisted that overseas forces were fueling the movement, rather than local activism, while protesters denounced the police crackdown as excessive and said that claims of sedition were attempts to undermine the pro-democracy cause.
Lam said she came under great pressure because of the extradition bill, “interference from foreign forces” and the pandemic. “However, the motivation for me to press on was the very staunch support behind me by the central authorities,” she said, according to a simultaneous translation by a government interpreter.
Later, Lam strongly backed the national security law initiated by Beijing and implemented by her government that was seen as eroding the “one country, two systems” framework that promised after the handover from Britain that city residents would retain freedoms not found in mainland China, such as a free press and freedom of expression.
The security law and other police and court actions in the years since have virtually erased the city’s pro-democracy movement, with activists and the movement’s supporters either arrested or jailed. Others have fled into exile. Lam and the central government in Beijing say their actions have restored stability in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong media have reported this week that Chief Secretary John Lee, the city’s No. 2 leader, is likely to enter the race to succeed Lam. Lee rose through the ranks as a police officer to become deputy commissioner in 2010, and was the city’s secretary of security during the 2019 protests. He is known for his support for the police force during the protests and his tough stance against protesters.
Hong Kong’s leader is elected by a committee made up of lawmakers, representatives of various industries and professions, and pro-Beijing representatives such as Hong Kong deputies to China’s legislature. One of the unfulfilled demands of the 2019 protests was direct election of the city’s chief executive.
The election for the chief executive had been set on March 27 but was postponed until May 8 as the city endures its worst coronavirus outbreak.
Lam said that holding the polls as originally scheduled would pose “public health risks” even if a committee of only 1,462 people is involved.
Hong Kong has reported nearly 1.2 million cases, 99% of them during the wave driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant. It has strained the healthcare system, with hospitals at times placing patients on beds outdoors. More than 8,000 people have died in the latest outbreak, and mortuaries operating at capacity have used refrigerated containers to temporarily store bodies.
Lam’s government has been widely criticized for flip-flopping policies, including mixed messaging in February and March on whether a lockdown and compulsory mass-testing would be implemented. The uncertainty sparked panic among residents, who cleared out store shelves to hoard daily necessities.
The plans for compulsory mass-testing were dropped, and Lam last week urged all residents to test themselves with rapid antigen kits between April 8 to 10. She later said the exercise was voluntary as it was not possible to enforce.
Lam previously served as chief secretary and secretary for development and in other civil service positions. She earned the nickname “good fighter” for her tough stance and refusal to back down in political battles.
Lam renounced her British nationality in 2007 when she was appointed secretary for development. Her husband and two children have retained their British nationalities.
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UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.N. Security Council for the first time at a meeting Tuesday that is certain to focus on what appear to be deliberate killings in the town of Bucha on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv.
The discovery after the withdrawal of Russian troops has sparked global outrage and vehement denials from the Russian government.
The United Kingdom holds the council presidency this month announced late Monday that the Ukrainian leader will speak at the open meeting.
Videos and photos of streets in Bucha strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some with their hands tied behind their back, have led to global revulsion, calls for tougher sanctions, and Russia’s suspension from the U.N.’s premiere human rights body, the Human Rights Council.
According to Ukraine’s prosecutor-general Iryna Venediktova, the bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces.
Associated Press journalists have reported seeing the bodies of at least 21 people in various spots around Bucha, northwest of the capital.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities
— Ukraine accuses Russia of massacre, city strewn with bodies
— World reacts with horror at images of slain civilians in Ukraine towns
— Drug shortages persist in Russia after start of Ukraine war
—Ukrainian refugees find jobs, kindness as they settle in
— Russian, Ukrainian ballet stars to dance together in Naples
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
PARIS — The French foreign ministry announced Monday that France has decided to expel “numerous” Russian diplomats, saying their “activities were contrary to our security interests.”
The announcement came hours after Germany said it was expelling 40 diplomat and Lithuania said it expelled the Russian ambassador and will recall its envoy in Moscow. No number was immediately given for how many are being expelled by France.
German news agency dpa quoted German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser as saying that the diplomats being expelled are those “whom we attribute to the Russian intelligence services.”
Faeser says that “we won’t allow this criminal war of aggression to also be conducted as an information war in Germany.”
UNITED NATIONS — Britain’s U.N. ambassador says a previously planned U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday is certain to focus “front and center” on the killing of large numbers of civilians in Ukraine.
Some of the dead were found with their hands tied behind their backs after Russian troops left the Ukrainian town of Bucha on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv.
The United Kingdom holds the council presidency in April, and Ambassador Barbara Woodward said Britain didn’t grant Russia’s request for a meeting on the situation in Bucha on Monday because “we didn’t see a good reason to have two meetings back to back on Ukraine.”
She told reporters that the Security Council will be briefed Tuesday by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths and U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo.
Woodward said that “the images that we saw coming out of Bucha over the weekend were harrowing, appalling, probable evidence of war crimes and possibly a genocide.”
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MOSCOW — Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the country feels no impact from the expulsion of its diplomats by various European countries, and indicates Russia will respond in kind.
Medvedev was Russia’s president from 2008 through 2012 and is now deputy chairman of the security council under President Vladimir Putin. Writing on the messaging app Telegram, Medvedev says that “everyone knows the response: it will be symmetrical and destructive for bilateral relations.”
His comments came after Germany expelled 40 Russian diplomats Monday and Lithuania expelled the Russian ambassador and said it would recall its envoy in Moscow. France on Monday also announced it will expel “numerous” Russian diplomats.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says more than 1,550 civilians were evacuated on Monday from the besieged port of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.
Vereshchuk said a total of 2,405 people were evacuated along a humanitarian corridor route running from Mariupol to the Ukraine-held city of Zaporizhzhia, with 1,553 of those coming from Mariupol itself and the rest from other locations in the heavily contested area.
She said the people used the dwindling number of private vehicles left in the area to get out of Mariupol and that a convoy of seven buses sent to help remained unable to enter the city to collect people.
Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, is a key Russian military objective that has faced horrific bombardment.
Vereshchuk added that 971 other people were evacuated from five locations in the eastern Luhansk region, where Russia is now focusing much of its military efforts. She accused Russia of “systematically breaching” a local cease-fire planned to facilitate evacuations there.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian prosecutor-general Iryna Venediktova told Ukrainian TV today that a “similar humanitarian situation” to Bucha exists in other parts of the country where Russian forces recently left, such as the areas around the northern cities of Sumy and Chernihiv.
Ukrainian authorities said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in areas outside the Ukrainian capital, including Bucha, after last week’s withdrawal of Russian troops, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture.
She also said the situation in Borodyanka, which is further from Kyiv and was also held by Russian forces until recently, may be even worse.
Venediktova didn’t specify what exactly had happened in Borodyanka but said “the worst situation in terms of the victims” is there.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Romania’s parliament Monday evening in a video call in which the leader said had Ukraine not defended itself, Russia would have carried out atrocities like that of Bucha “all over Ukraine.”
Zelenskyy, who visited the town of Bucha on Monday to see the alleged crimes of Russia’s forces against Ukrainian civilians, shared grim video footage during his address that showed areas strewn with dead bodies. The Bucha killings — which Zelenskyy labeled a “genocide” — have become the center of worldwide outrage against Russia.
“The military tortured people and we have every reason to believe that there are many more people killed,” Zelenskyy said. “Much more than we know now.”
The Ukrainian leader also called for tougher sanctions, saying “Russia must be deprived of all resources, primarily economic” and said that the fate of the region will be decided by the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
Before the Ukrainian leader’s address, the president of Romania’s Chamber of Deputies, Marcel Ciolacu, said the last few days “have shown us horrible images that have overwhelmed and revolted us all.”
“I support a speedy investigation by the International Criminal Court,” Ciolacu said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government says that 18 journalists have been killed in the country since Russia’s invasion began on Feb. 24.
The Ukrainian Culture and Information Ministry said in a statement on social media Monday that each of the deaths and other crimes against media representatives will be investigated.
The ministry added that another 13 journalists had been wounded, eight had been abducted or taken prisoner and three journalists were still missing. It said that several crimes had been committed against journalists from 11 countries, including Ukraine.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The governor of Ukraine’s northern Sumy region says Russian forces no longer control any settlements in the area following their retreat, although some small groups of Russian troops remain.
The city of Sumy is near the border with Russia and was besieged by Russian troops when the invasion began in February, as other Russian forces pushed onward to join efforts to attack the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, from the northeast. Russia began withdrawing troops from the area around Kyiv last week and says it is now focusing its efforts on the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Sumy Gov. Dmytro Zhyvystskyy said on Ukrainian TV that “currently there are no occupied settlements” and that invading forces have pulled back across the border into Russia with their vehicles and artillery.
However, he added, “there are still individual units and small groups of Russian troops and now they are being caught” by the Ukrainian army and local Territorial Defense volunteers.
“A clean-up is happening across the whole territory of the region,” he said.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The United States is allocating $250,000 to the global chemical weapons watchdog to provide “assistance and protection” to Ukraine if it is targeted or threatened with chemical weapons.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced the contribution Monday, following a meeting last Thursday between Marc Shaw, deputy assistant secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance and OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias.
Western nations have warned of possible chemical weapons attacks by Russian forces since Moscow launched its invasion of its neighbor in late February.
Shaw said in a statement that the United States “stands with Ukraine and all those who face the threat of chemical weapons use.”
He says he hopes the money will allow the organization to “quickly assist Ukraine as it seeks protection against chemical threats from the Russian government.”
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and additional sanctions following reported atrocities in Bucha, one of the towns surrounding the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found.
“What’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it,” Biden said.
Biden’s comments came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the city called the Russian actions “genocide.” Zelenskyy also called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.
Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide.
The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces, said Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, Iryna Venediktova. Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various spots around Bucha, northwest of the capital.
“We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the detail so this can be an actual — have a war crimes trial,” Biden said.
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WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. defense official says about two-thirds of the roughly 20 Russian battalion groups that had been located around Kyiv have now left and are either in Belarus or on their way there.
The U.S. has said that the “vast majority” of Russia’s approximately 125 battalion groups had been in Ukraine overall during the early fighting.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a military assessment, said the U.S. assesses that Russian forces are being resupplied and reinforced in Belarus and would then go back into Ukraine, potentially in the Donbas region in the east.
In addition, Russian troops have been moving out of Sumy and back into Russia. But they have been reinforcing and repositioning their artillery and putting more energy into the fight around the city of Izyum, which lies on a key route to the Donbas.
The official said overall, Russia has launched more than 1,400 missiles into Ukraine since the war began. In recent days, those strikes have been more focused on the east and on Mariupol. The defense official said the U.S. can’t independently verify details of the atrocities in Bucha, but has no reason to doubt the claims. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was speaking with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov on Monday morning.
– AP writer Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.
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VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
The Baltic country also decided to close a Russian consulate in the port city of Klaipeda, where it has a large offshore LNG import terminal.
“Lithuania strongly condemned the atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces in occupied Ukrainian cities, including the brutal massacres in Bucha. All war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine will not be forgotten,” Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said Monday.
He added that Lithuania’s ambassador to Ukraine was returning to Kyiv and that Lithuania’s European Union and NATO partners have been informed of its decision to expel the Russian ambassador. He called on them to do the same.
In neighboring Latvia, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said that Riga will narrow diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation, according to the Baltic News Service. No decision was made regarding reducing the ties.
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A Russian law enforcement agency says it has launched its own investigation into allegations that Ukrainian civilians were massacred in suburbs of Kyiv which were held by Russian troops, focusing on what it calls “false information” about Russian forces.
The Investigative Committee claims Ukrainian authorities made the allegations “with the aim of discrediting Russian troops” and that those involved should be investigated over possible breaches of a new Russian law banning what the government deems to be false information about its forces.
Russian law enforcement has launched several investigations since Russian troops entered Ukraine, typically into incidents such as the shelling of areas held by Russia-backed separatists.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia needs to move quickly to negotiate an agreement to end the war.
Speaking on a visit Monday to the town of Bucha outside Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were found dead after Russian troops’ retreat last week, Zelenskyy said the evidence of atrocities makes it hard to conduct talks with Russia.
“It’s very difficult to conduct negotiations when you see what they did here,” Zelenskyy said, adding that in Bucha and other places “dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured.” He added that the Russian leadership “needs to think faster if it has what to think with.”
Zelenskyy added that “the longer the Russian Federation drags it out, the worse it will exacerbate its own situation and this war.” Zelenskyy reaffirmed his criticism of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s opposition to Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, saying that she and other Western leaders who resisted the move should come to Bucha to “see what the flirting with the Russian Federation leads to.”
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GENEVA — The United States plans to seek a suspension of Russia from its seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body in the wake of rising signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Monday.
According to a statement from her office, Thomas-Greenfield made the call for Russia to be stripped of its seat in the Human Rights Council in the wake of reports over the weekend about violence against civilians in the town of Bucha, near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after Russian forces pulled out.
Any decision to suspend Russia would require a decision by the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Russia and the other four permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Britain, China, France and the United States — all currently have seats on the 47-member rights council, which is based in Geneva. The United States rejoined the council this year.
Thomas-Greenfield mentioned the U.S. plan in a meeting with Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, her office said.
In New York, General Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubiak said on Monday that no request for a meeting on the issue has been received yet.
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GENEVA — The United Nations’ top human rights official is calling for “independent and effective investigations” into what happened in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement Monday that she is “horrified by the images of civilians lying dead on the streets and in improvised graves.”
She added that “reports emerging from this and other areas raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes, grave breaches of international humanitarian law and serious violations of international human rights law.”
Bachelet said it’s essential that all bodies be exhumed and identified so that victims’ families can be informed and the exact causes of death determined. She said all measures should be taken to preserve evidence.
“It is vital that all efforts are made to ensure there are independent and effective investigations into what happened in Bucha to ensure truth, justice and accountability, as well as reparations and remedy for victims and their families,” Bachelet said.
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LONDON — Britain has condemned Russia’s “barbaric” killing of civilians in Ukraine, though it stopped short of calling Moscow’s actions genocide.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, said bodies found in areas recently recaptured from Russia showed “despicable attacks against innocent civilians, and they are yet more evidence that Putin and his army are committing what appear to be war crimes in Ukraine.”
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some Western leaders have accused Russia of committing genocide.
Blain said “the prime minister’s view is that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago,” but added that only a court can make a determination of genocide.
Britain is urging Western allies to enforce tougher sanctions to “ratchet up” pressure on Russia, including cutting it off completely from t
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MOSCOW — Russia’s top diplomat has dismissed Ukraine’s accusations that Russian troops committed atrocities against its civilians as a staged provocation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the start of his talks Monday with U.N. Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths that Moscow sees the Ukrainian claim of a massacre of civilians in Bucha outside Kyiv as “a provocation that posed a direct threat to global peace and security.”
Lavrov noted that Russia has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council but the U.K. that currently chairs it refused to convene it. He vowed to press the demand for holding the meeting.
Ukrainian authorities said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in areas outside the Ukrainian capital after last week’s withdrawal of Russian troops, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture. A growing number of world leaders have voiced outrage and called for tougher sanctions against Moscow.
Lavrov charged that the mayor of Bucha made no mention of atrocities against civilians a day after Russian troops left Bucha on Wednesday, but two days later scores of bodies were photographed scattered in the streets in what the Russian minister described as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.”
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin has strongly rejected the accusations that Russian troops committed atrocities against civilians in Ukraine and pushed for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the Ukrainian claims that Russian troops had killed hundreds of civilians outside Kyiv can’t be trusted, adding that “we categorically reject the accusations.” Peskov’s comment in a conference call with reporters followed the Russian Defense Ministry’s statement accusing the Ukrainian authorities of stage-managing what it described as a “provocation” to smear Russia.
Ukrainian authorities have said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in areas outside the Ukrainian capital after last week’s withdrawal of Russian troops, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture. International leaders have condemned the reported atrocities and called for tougher sanctions against Moscow.
Peskov said that photo and video materials from the area reflected unspecified “manipulations” and urged international leaders to carefully analyze the facts and hear the Russian arguments before rushing to blame Moscow.
Russia has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council but the U.K. which currently chairs it refused to convene it, according to Mikhail Ulyanov, the Russian envoy at the international organization’s offices in Vienna.
Peskov said that Russia will keep pushing for the meeting, noting that Russia wants the issue to be discussed at the highest level.
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BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top diplomat has joined a growing chorus of international criticism blaming the Russian armed forces for alleged atrocities committed against civilians in Ukraine.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says “the Russian authorities are responsible for these atrocities, committed while they had effective control of the area. They are subject to the international law of occupation.”
Borrell said Monday that the “haunting images of large numbers of civilian deaths and casualties, as well as destruction of civilian infrastructures show the true face of the brutal war of aggression Russia is waging against Ukraine and its people.”
Working with the U.S., U.K. and other international partners, the EU has been ramping up sanctions against Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February. Borrell says the 27-country bloc “will advance, as a matter of urgency, work on further sanctions against Russia.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “historic nomination” to the Supreme Court, bolstering bipartisan support for the first Black woman to be nominated for the court.
The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions Monday evening ahead of a procedural Senate vote to advance the nomination. They join Sen. Susan Collins of Maine as Republicans who say they will support Jackson.
Jackson, a federal appellate court judge, was nominated by President Joe Biden to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Murkowksi said her decision to support Jackson’s confirmation “also rests on my rejection of the corrosive politicization” of the Senate’s process for Supreme Court nominees, which she said is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.”
She said, “While I have not and will not agree with all of Judge Jackson’s decisions and opinions, her approach to cases is carefully considered and is generally well-reasoned.”
The GOP senators’ announcements come as Democrats are taking steps to confirm Jackson by the end of the week.
Earlier Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send Jackson’s nomination to the Senate floor. But Biden’s nominee was still on track to be confirmed this week as the first Black woman on the high court.
The committee’s tie vote was expected. There is an even party split on the panel, and all of the Republicans are opposing Jackson’s nomination to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. But it was still a blow to Democrats who had hoped for robust bipartisan support. It was the first time the committee has deadlocked on a Supreme Court nomination in three decades.
In order to move forward, Democrats were voting to “discharge” Jackson’s nomination from committee Monday evening and then to take a series of procedural steps in coming days to wind it through the 50-50 Senate. With the support of at least one Republican, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Jackson is on a glidepath toward confirmation by the end of the week.
“Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next justice.”
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats cite her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said at Monday’s meeting that Jackson has “the highest level of skill, integrity, civility and grace.”
“This committee’s action today in nothing less than making history,” Durbin said. “I’m honored to be a part of it. I will strongly and proudly support Judge Jackson’s nomination.”
The committee’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because “she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government.”
The committee hadn’t deadlocked since 1991, when Biden was chairman and a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the committee, said last week that a panel tie vote on Jackson would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process,”
So far, Democrats know they will have at least one GOP vote in the full Senate — Collins, who announced last week that she would support the nominee. Collins said that though they may not always agree, Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.”
It’s unclear whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for the party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes.
“Questions are not attacks,” said Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, one of several GOP senators on the panel who hammered the point in the hearings two weeks ago.
Jackson pushed back on the GOP narrative, declaring that “nothing could be further from the truth.” Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions. And on Monday they criticized their GOP counterparts’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
The questioning was filled with “absurdities of disrespect,” said Booker, who also is Black, and he said he will “rejoice” when she is confirmed.
Derrick Johnson, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, expressed disappointment with the tie, even as he noted that Jackson had cleared an important hurdle. He said “history will be watching” during the full Senate vote later this week.
“It’s a stain on the committee that this vote was not unanimous but instead was a tied vote along party lines,” Johnson said.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won’t support her this time around; Murkowski said she was still deciding.
Collins’ support likely saves the Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote to confirm Biden’s pick, and the president called Collins on Wednesday to thank her. Biden had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a major effort to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed.
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TORONTO (AP)Kyle Lowry kept his tears in check, then took care of his old teammates from Toronto.
Lowry had 16 points and 10 assists against his former team, Max Strus scored all of his 23 points in the second half, and the Miami Heat beat the Raptors 114-109 on Sunday night.
”It’s something I’m going to cherish for a long, long time,” Lowry said after being showered with love throughout his first game in Toronto for more than two years. ”I got the win, so that made it better. Even if I didn’t win, it would have been a great night, a special night.”
Victor Oladipo scored a season-high 21 points, Tyler Herro had 18 and Bam Adebayo 16 as the Heat won their fourth straight and remained two games ahead of Boston atop the Eastern Conference standings. Each team has three games remaining.
Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam each scored 29 points, and Scottie Barnes and Gary Trent Jr. both had 19. But Toronto lost for the first time in six games, and OG Anunoby sat because of a sore thigh.
The Raptors have the same record as fifth-place Chicago but the Bulls hold the tiebreaker. Toronto is 2.5 games ahead of seventh-place Cleveland after the Cavaliers lost at home to Philadelphia on Sunday. Sixth place is the last guaranteed postseason spot, with teams finishing in the Nos. 7-10 spots headed for the play-in tournament.
Miami shot 6 for 20 from 3-point range in the first half, then went 12 for 18 from distance in the second half.
”We didn’t play defense worth a darn,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said.
Leading 113-109 with 13 seconds left in the game, Miami turned the ball over in their own half but VanVleet missed a 3 that would have cut the deficit to one point.
Miami’s Jimmy Butler sat because of a sore left big toe a day after getting 22 points in Saturday’s 127-109 win at Chicago. The Heat were also without center Dewayne Dedmon (sprained right ankle), forward P.J. Tucker (left knee), and guard Gabe Vincent (right big toe).
Lowry hadn’t played in Toronto since Feb. 28, 2020, when the defending champion Raptors lost to Charlotte. Less than two weeks later, the season was shut down by the pandemic, eventually resuming inside the bubble.
After Miami’s other starters were introduced, the arena lights dimmed and a video tribute to Lowry’s nine seasons with Toronto played on the scoreboard. As the sellout crowd of 19,800 rose to their feet, Lowry was introduced as a visitor the same way he once was as a local star, with the words ”From North Philly to your city .”
With his two young sons by his side, Lowry walked out to center court, holding his hands aloft in gratitude, but managing to contain his emotions. He’d previously said he might cry.
”It meant the world to me for the fans to show their appreciation, give me an ovation like that,” Lowry said. ”The first time is always special and you don’t forget that.”
Strus said the reception for Lowry was the kind many athletes dream about hearing.
”It’s a testament to who he is as a person,” Strus said. ”You don’t get that type of chants and love like that if you’re not a good person and a great teammate. It just shows true to who he is and who we know him as.”
Heat assistant coach Chris Quinn, who handled coaching duties because Erik Spoelstra was in the NBA’s health and safety protocols, praised Lowry for not letting the emotional introduction impact his performance.
”I’m surprised he was able to reel it back in and play so well,” Quinn said. ”Obviously we needed him tonight as the quarterback of our team. What a cool night.”
VanVleet came in needing three 3-pointers to top Lowry’s single-season team record of 238 and wasted no time, connecting on his third 3 of the game with 5:39 left in the opening quarter. VanVleet scored 17 points in the first as Toronto led 34-28 after one.
VanVleet said his hot start was inspired by the intense drive to succeed he and Lowry famously share.
”That’s what respect looks like,” VanVleet said. ”Obviously I want to give him my best and he deserves that. He brings out a different competitive edge in myself.”
The Raptors led 55-45 at halftime but Strus scored 14 points in the third, connecting on four of six from long range, as Miami took a 79-78 edge to the fourth.
”I was the beneficiary of a lot of good ball movement, just made open shots when I had them.” Strus said.
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Heat: Quinn also stood in for Spoelstra in a March 26 loss to Brooklyn when the coach missed the game for personal reasons. . Strus shot 7 for 9 from 3-point range. He made a career-best nine 3-pointers against Boston on Jan. 31. . Lowry had six rebounds.
Raptors: Khen Birch started in place of Anunoby. . VanVleet shot 11 for 11 at the free throw line.
SOCCER ROYALTY
Brazilian soccer star and 2002 World Cup winner Ronaldinho watched from a courtside seat adjacent to the Miami bench. Siakam, who played soccer as a child, stopped by for a quick handshake.
UP NEXT
Heat: Host Charlotte on Tuesday night
Raptors: Host Atlanta on Tuesday night.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)Backup center Olivier Sarr scored a career-high 24 points and Aleksej Pokuveski recorded his first career triple-double to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 117-96 victory over the NBA-leading Phoenix Suns on Sunday night.
Sarr came off the bench to shoot 9 of 12 from the field, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range. The other 7-footer, Pokuveski, had 17 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds while playing point guard for the bulk of the game.
In the first half, Pokuveski struggled to run the offense, committing five turnovers. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said he didn’t say anything to the second-year player before the second-half turnaround in which he continually set up teammates and turned it over just once.
”One thing Poku has worked on since he’s been here is having a steady, reliable offensive game in terms of decision making,” Daigneault said. ”So when he goes out there and kicks it around the way he did, we trust at this point, he knows how to course correct and he obviously did settle in.”
Pokuveski is getting the chance to run the offense with Josh Giddey and Tre Mann sidelined for the remainder of the season and he said it took some time for him to get comfortable.
”The first half wasn’t the best for me, and I was just being more aggressive and making better decisions,” he said. ”It’s something I couldn’t do last year or the beginning of this year.”
Sarr, who is on a two-way contract with the Thunder, continually pulled the Suns’ big men away from the basket and even got the opportunity to complete a four-point play when Cameron Johnson fouled him on a 3-pointer in the fourth quarter.
”It felt amazing. Being a big, you’re jealous seeing guards having four-point plays all the time, so it felt great,” Sarr said. ”Every night is a job interview for me. It’s just being ready all the time. Whatever it is, offense, defense, being a great teammate. It’s really a job interview for guys like me in this position and I’m trying to make the most out of it.”
The Thunder put seven players in double figures and took advantage of the Suns’ worst 3-point shooting effort of the season. Playing without scoring leader Devin Booker, Phoenix hit just 7 of 38 (18.4%) beyond the arc, well below its previous season low of 22% in a January win over Dallas.
”We’ve got to get back to playing our kind of basketball,” Phoenix coach Monty Williams said. ”We had a bad second half. We didn’t play well, didn’t make a shot, didn’t have great energy and they did. They played with great energy the whole night. You give them a lot of credit. We can sit here and talk about what we didn’t do but they did well the whole night.”
Phoenix led by 12 in the first quarter, but the Thunder refused to go away, getting a halftime buzzer beater from Isaiah Roby to go into intermission down 53-52.
The Thunder got the opening points of the third quarter on a goaltending call on JaVale McGee to grab their first lead of the game and held it the rest of the way. Oklahoma City took an 11-point lead into the fourth quarter and doubled it to 22 before Phoenix emptied the bench in the final four minutes.
Mikal Bridges led Phoenix with 18 points. The Thunder outrebounded Phoenix 54-32 and hit 17 3-pointers.
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Thunder: Jeremiah Robinson-Earl is still on restricted minutes after coming back from a foot injury, but he is making the most of his time on the court. In 11 first-half minutes, he hit all four shots, including three 3-pointers, to lead the Thunder with 11 points and also grabbed three rebounds. He finished with 14 points and five rebounds in just 15 minutes.
Suns: Chris Paul got his usual rousing welcome from Thunder fans, who credit him for popularizing NBA basketball in the city when the-then New Orleans Hornets were relocated to Oklahoma City after Hurricane Katrina. Paul sent the fans a message with his game shoes which carried the message ”Thank You OKC!!”
UP NEXT
Suns: Host the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday.
Thunder: Host Portland on Tuesday
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