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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Public Library will no longer require masks be worn inside any of their 10 buildings starting Monday, March 14.
Masks will be optional for staff and visitors.
The library’s mandate had been in place since the beginning of the pandemic, but the decision to drop the mandate comes after the latest recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and discussions with local health leaders.
Since the updated guidelines were posted, a majority of local county and school district masking policies have expired. | https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-city-public-library-drops-mask-requirement/ | 2022-03-14T16:41:03 | en | 0.936035 |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Police Department is searching for a missing 15-year-old girl, last seen leaving the 7600 block of E. 112th Street.
Kaitlyn Horn, a.k.a. Caitlyn Horn or Haylee Peterson, was reportedly seen walking around the downtown area.
She is 5-foot-7-inches tall, weighs about 150 pounds has long, pink hair and wears a fake bull ring piercing in her nose.
Horn was last seen wearing and orange and pink crop top and black leggings.
Family told police that she suffers from several medical conditions and they are worried for her well-being.
Anyone who sees Horn or knows of her whereabouts is asked to contact police immediately.
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(NEXSTAR) – If you have any respect for math, you’ll eat a slice of pie today.
Pi Day, observed each year on March 14, is an unofficial holiday that was first established in 1988 to celebrate the mathematical constant of pi. Today, scholars and schoolteachers across the globe commemorate the date by teaching the many formulas that utilize pi, or lecturing on its mathematical significance.
The rest of us usually think about consuming the more tangible type of pie. Y’know, like apple or strawberry rhubarb. Out of respect for math, of course.
The analysts at Yelp have taken it upon themselves to try to determine the best place for pie in each state. It’s worth noting, however, that Yelp’s results are based on the ratings and reviews of the bakeries and eateries that offer pie, rather than the pie itself. Even still, Yelp’s analysts did their best to find businesses that specialized in pie. And they used plenty of math, most likely.
According to the rankings, Upper Crust Pie Bakery in Overland Park is the best pie in Kansas and Ashleigh’s Bake Shop in Kansas City is the top pastry in Missouri.
“We identified businesses in the bakery, dessert, and food categories on Yelp with a large concentration of reviews mentioning ‘pie,’ then ranked those spots using a number of factors, including the total volume and ratings of reviews mentioning ‘pie,’” Yelp explained in its Pi Day blog post.
Hungry to show your respect for math? Check out Yelp’s list of the country’s top places for pie below:
- Alabama: Jawanda’s Sweet Potato Pie in Birmingham
- Alaska: A Pie Stop in Anchorage
- Arizona: Sugarjam in Scottsdale
- Arkansas: Gooseberry Handmade Pies in Bentonville
- California: Morika’s Southern Delights in Laguna Hills
- Colorado: Sweet Sweetz Ice Cream and Desserts in Denver
- Connecticut: Granny’s Pie Factory in East Hartford
- Delaware: Old World Breads in Lewes
- Florida: Mixed Fillings Pie Shop in Jacksonville
- Georgia: Southern Baked Pie Company in Atlanta
- Hawaii: Maui Pie in Kihei
- Idaho: Birdie’s Pie Shop in Post Falls
- Illinois: Spinning j Bakery & Soda Fountain in Chicago
- Indiana: Pots and Pans Pie Co in Indianapolis
- Iowa: Kathy’s Pie in Cedar Rapids
- Kansas: Upper Crust Pie Bakery in Overland Park
- Kentucky: Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen in Louisville
- Louisiana: Windowsill Pies in New Orleans
- Maine: Islandbound Treats in Southwest Harbor
- Maryland: The Ugly Pie in Salisbury
- Massachusetts: Thwaites Market in Methuen
- Michigan: Crane’s in the City in Holland
- Minnesota: Hot Hands Pie and Biscuit in St. Paul
- Mississippi: Urban Foxes in Jackson
- Missouri: Ashleigh’s Bake Shop in Kansas City
- Montana: Iron Horse Cafe and Pie Shop in Three Forks
- Nebraska: Modern Love in Omaha
- Nevada: Sweets Raku in Las Vegas
- New Hampshire: Woodstock Pie and Coffee in Woodstock
- New Jersey: Pie Lady Cafe in Moorestown
- New Mexico: The Village Buttery in Ruidoso
- New York: Miss American Pie in Brooklyn
- North Carolina: Baked Pie Company – Woodfin in Asheville
- North Dakota: Nichole’s Fine Pastry and Cafe in Fargo
- Ohio: Rood Food and Pie in Lakewood
- Oklahoma: Pie Junkie in Oklahoma City
- Oregon: The Pie Guy in North Plains
- Pennsylvania: The Pie Place in Pittsburgh
- Rhode Island: Pastiche Fine Desserts in Providence
- South Carolina: Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop in Greenville
- South Dakota: Purple Pie Place in Custer
- Tennessee: Sweet Creations Pie Bakery in Nashville
- Texas: Fredericksburg Pie in Fredericksburg
- Utah: Flake Pie Co in Jordan
- Vermont: The Southern Pie Cafe in Chester
- Virginia: Proper Pie in Richmond
- Washington: Cakes of Paradise in Seattle
- West Virginia: Orrs Farm Market in Martinsburg
- Wisconsin: Stockholm Pie and General Store in Stockholm
- Wyoming: Devils Tower View in Devils Tower
Meanwhile, only one of the above establishments can claim to be Yelp’s best-reviewed pie place in the whole country. A representative for Yelp confirmed to Nexstar that Florida’s top-rated pie shop — Mixed Fillings in Jacksonville — can currently boast that honor.
More about Yelp’s rankings, and links to Yelp’s top-reviewed pie places, can be found on the site’s blog. | https://fox4kc.com/news/pi-day-who-serves-the-best-pie-in-kansas-missouri/ | 2022-03-14T16:41:16 | en | 0.814203 |
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(The Hill) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak virtually to members of Congress on Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced in a joint letter.
“As war rages on in Ukraine, it is with great respect and admiration for the Ukrainian people that we invite all Members of the House and Senate to attend a Virtual Address to the United States Congress delivered by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine on Wednesday, March 16th at 9:00 a.m.,” they wrote.
The speech is only open to members of Congress. To attend, lawmakers who aren’t fully vaccinated will need to wear a mask.
The virtual address comes after roughly 300 members of both the House and Senate participated in a Zoom call with Zelensky earlier this month.
Since then, Congress has moved to provide $13.6 billion in Ukraine-related aid. The House also passed legislation last week to cut off Russian oil and is expected to take up legislation this week ending normal trade relations with Moscow.
But Zelensky has pushed the United States, along with countries in Europe, to help implement a no-fly zone.
The administration and lawmakers are largely opposed to that because of concerns it would lead to direct conflict between the United States and Russia and spiral into a larger war. Zelensky is also asking for more planes and other military equipment as Ukraine tries to fight off a much larger Russian army.
“The Congress remains unwavering in our commitment to supporting Ukraine as they face Putin’s cruel and diabolical aggression, and to passing legislation to cripple and isolate the Russian economy as well as deliver humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine. We look forward to the privilege of welcoming President Zelenskyy’s address to the House and Senate and to convey our support to the people of Ukraine as they bravely defend democracy,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote in the letter. | https://fox4kc.com/news/zelensky-to-make-virtual-address-to-us-congress/ | 2022-03-14T16:41:22 | en | 0.970649 |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Byron Pringle is set to test the free agency market, according to reports.
Pringle enjoyed his best statistical year during his time with the Chiefs in 2021 hauling in 42 catches for 568 yards and 5 touchdowns.
He scored two touchdowns in the AFC Wild Card game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The former Kansas State Wildcat signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2018, following the NFL draft.
Pringle spent time as the Chiefs’ main kick returner during his tenure with the team.
He returned 25 kicks for 621 yards in 2021.
After the 2020 season, the 28-year-old re-signed with the Chiefs as a restricted free agent.
The Chiefs have been linked with several free agent wide receivers the past two offseasons and are reportedly working on an extension for Tyreek Hill. | https://fox4kc.com/sports/chiefs/chiefs-wr-byron-pringle-enters-free-agency-report-says/ | 2022-03-14T16:41:28 | en | 0.984968 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — According to reports, after failing to sign a deal to stay with the Kansas City Chiefs, running back Darrel Williams will look for a new home in free agency.
NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo said, Williams and the Chiefs tried to put together a deal before the beginning of the window, but were unable to come to an agreement.
Williams is coming off a season where he put up career-high numbers in almost every statistical category including 1,010 total scrimmage yards and 8 total touchdowns.
The former LSU Tiger signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2018.
With Williams’ departure and Jerick McKinnon also a free agent, the running back position for Kansas City now consists of Clyde Edwards-Helaire and exclusive rights free agent Derrick Gore.
At 3 p.m. on Monday, March 14, the two-day legal negotiating period begins ahead of the start of the new league year and free agency period on Wednesday, March 16. | https://fox4kc.com/sports/chiefs/report-chiefs-rb-darrel-williams-headed-to-free-agency/ | 2022-03-14T16:41:34 | en | 0.957334 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Community spread was the primary cause of COVID-19 outbreaks in long term care facilities, according to new research.
The review looked at 36 studies. The final analysis has been published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The American Health Care Association said the paper supports other findings showing the size and location of a facility were the strongest predictors of whether a facility would have an outbreak, especially if it was located in an area with high COVID-19 rates.
The study also determined that if communities had been able to control the virus, nursing homes would have had a better chance of minimizing outbreaks.
The review also determined that ownership and performance were not strong indicators of how prepared a nursing home was for the pandemic, according to the American Health Care Association.
Residents in long term care facilities are more likely to get COVID-19 because of their age and other medical conditions.
The American Health Care Association said caregivers and facilities often lacked support and resources such as personal protective equipment and testing, at least early in the pandemic.
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living requested meetings with President Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. They want to discuss ways the government and facilities and providers can implement change to help protect residents and employees.
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SHAWNEE, Kan. — A Power Traffic Alert for Johnson County drivers.
Crews will fully close a section of Interstate 435 starting March 18, to demolish the Renner Road bridge in Shawnee.
The Renner Road bridge will be closed to traffic at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 17.
Beginning Friday at 8 p.m., crews will close southbound Interstate 435 and associated ramps from Shawnee Mission Parkway to 87th Street. Northbound Interstate 435 and associated ramps will be closed to traffic from K-10 to Midland Drive.
Crews expect to reopen Interstate 435 around 5 a.m. Monday morning, and don’t expect the project to impact the morning drive.
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After a much nicer Sunday and a mild day today, you might be wondering IF were done with winter in KC? Let me remind you that last year we had 3.5″ of snow on April 20th.
So odds are we’re not done with snow opportunities yet. More on that in the discussion. Also there’s this: The biggest snow storm in KC weather history happened in late March back in 1912 on the 23rd and 24th. More than 25″ fell.
The reason to bring this up is we know March can be fickle. There is a storm coming later Thursday into Friday morning that looks like a rain event, but a few twists can allow some brief backside snow to happen. Odds aren’t good for that potential, but just worth noting.
It does look like we’re going to remain pretty mild for awhile though and that would take us through the upcoming weekend. Spring starts on Sunday!
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Forecast:
Today: High clouds this morning with lower clouds coming in this afternoon. Warm and breezy with highs in the mid 60s
Tonight: Cloudy for awhile followed by clearing skies before daybreak. Lows near 40°
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and pleasant with highs in the lower 60s
Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild with highs well into the 70s. Windy as well
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Discussion:
There is moisture coming up from the south that will be noticed in the form of low clouds coming up during the late morning and afternoon so while we’re starting the day in the lower 40s…we’ll warm up quickly before the lower clouds arrive early this afternoon.
You can see those lower clouds by looking at the satellite loop. See them down in AR/OK/TX?
These clouds are coming up from the south in response to a cold front that is cutting through the Plains this morning.
The cold front will actually sag through the area overnight. The air behind it though will modify…and we should start the day in the 40s before the sun returns and we go right back up into the 60s by the end of the day.
Then we await the St Patrick’s Day system which at this point looks to hold off till later in the day into the overnight hours. This is connected to a piece of energy that will be cutting through the Pacific aided by strong jet stream winds off of Asia. This will rapidly move into the west coast (it will be very minor upon US arrival) but should start to strengthen and organize a bit more in the 4 Corners region on Wednesday.
From there it comes out into NM and then moves through OK later Thursday and then through AR early Friday. Moisture will again return northwards…and as we warm up on Wednesday (with wind) that moisture will be around for the system to work with.
With that said and with the southern track of this being a bit too far southwards…the KC area is sort of modelled to be on the northern and NWestern side of this…so we sort of get into the comma-head part of the system later Thursday evening into Friday morning.
That’s an area that is favorable to see a cooling aloft. The GFS as a matter of fact has so much cooling happening above us that it switches us over to snow in the wee hours of Friday morning. The EURO did this yesterday and then backed off in the last couple of runs…not creating enough sub-freezing air aloft to allow this to happen. It gets the air about 5-6° away from it happening whereas the GFS is sort of going for it.
The reason why…the GFS has a stronger solution to the system. Look at the comparison between the two models. This is from the early model data this morning (1AM run from the GFS and the evening run from the EURO). Also notice how the GFS is farther north in addition to being stronger
You can really see the difference.
So that is the next system to track.
There is very little ensemble support for accumulating snows from any of the models that crank out ensembles…including the GFS so I lean against anything problematic on Thursday night or Friday morning. Right now the worst case might be some wet snowflakes mixing in but even that could be a push.
There isn’t any real cold air behind this system since it won’t tap into anything of note from the northern US…so that means the Pacific air behind it will warm up quicker after the storm passes through…allowing a nice start to Spring this weekend.
For timing on Thursday though…since we’ve got the big parade in KC…I think we’re in good shape. There might be clouds and wind but overall 50s for the parade warming into the 60s in the afternoon!
Our feature photo is from Mary Lu Norland. Her Dwarf Iris has started to make an appearance.
Spring is coming…
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Ford says it will have three new electric passenger vehicles and four new electric commercial vehicles in Europe by 2024, part of the automaker's continued push to grow its presence in the EV market.
Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it plans to sell more than 600,000 electric vehicles in the Europe by 2026. It anticipates producing 1.2 million electric vehicles in Cologne, Germany over six years.
Ford will start production of an all-new electric passenger vehicle, a medium-sized crossover, in Cologne next year. A second electric vehicle will be added to the Cologne production line-up in 2024. An electric version of the Ford Puma will be made in Craiova, Romania beginning in 2024.
For commercial vehicles, the Transit will include four new electric models – the Transit Custom one-tonne van and Tourneo Custom multi-purpose vehicle in 2023, and the smaller, next generation Transit Courier van and Tourneo Courier multi-purpose vehicle in 2024.
“I am delighted to see the pace of change in Europe – challenging our entire industry to build better, cleaner and more digital vehicles," Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. "Ford is all-in and moving fast to meet the demand in Europe and around the globe.”
Earlier this month Ford announced that it was splitting its electric vehicle and internal combustion operations into two individual businesses. Ford Blue will focus on traditional combustion engines and Ford Model e will develop electric vehicles. The Detroit company now expects that half of its vehicles will be electric by 2030.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Davidson is heading to space.
The “Saturday Night Live” star is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezo's space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced Monday.
The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight. William Shatner was on a flight in October, blasting off from West Texas and reaching a height of roughly 66 miles above Earth on the 10-minute jaunt.
Former NFL great and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan flew on Blue Origin's second passenger flight in December, joining astronaut Alan Shepard's daughter on the journey. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, flew on the company's first passenger flight last July.
The other passengers on next week's flight are CEO and investor Marty Allen; Sharon and Marc Hagle; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and George Nield, a former NASA manager who has worked to promote commercial spaceflight.
Marc Hagle is CEO of the commercial and residential property company Tricor International. His wife, Sharon Hagle, founded SpaceKids Global, a nonprofit aimed at inspiring children about spaceflight.
Blue Origin flights give passengers a few minutes of weightlessness above the Earth's surface before the capsule parachutes and lands in the West Texas desert. The company has not disclosed the ticket price for paying customers.
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“Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana” by Gene Eric Salecker (Naval Institute Press)
Nearly 1,200 people perished when the steamship Sultana exploded and burned in the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, in the Mississippi River. It's the worst maritime disaster in United States history, yet it's not as well known as other doomed ships such as the Titanic or the Lusitania.
In “Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana," Gene Eric Salecker offers a comprehensive and at times compelling account of the disaster. The book is the second written on the Sultana by Salecker, a retired police officer and teacher who is a consultant for the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion, Arkansas.
The Sultana's sinking occurred in one of the most momentous months in the nation's history, just days after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the end of the Civil War.
Most of the passengers on the overcrowded ship were Union soldiers who had been held as prisoners of war, finally on their way home after being in captivity.
Not surprisingly, the most gripping sections of Salecker's book are descriptions of the ship's destruction and its aftermath. Salecker deftly lets the accounts of the survivors, rescuers and witnesses speak for themselves. These accounts leave readers with haunting images that will stay with them.
Though not as dramatic as the descriptions of the disaster itself, Salecker's book also takes a detailed look at the mechanical causes as well as the human factors that contributed to so many perishing. He further debunks already disproven yet persistent conspiracy theories that the explosion was caused by Confederate saboteurs.
The book is a must-read for Civil War buffs and those wanting to learn new details about the Sultana. Though it's a challenging read at times for those not familiar with the event, Salecker's account is a solid introduction to an oft-overlooked piece of history. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/entertainment/article/Review-Sultana-revisits-a-little-known-17000829.php | 2022-03-14T16:48:45 | en | 0.966107 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A clutch of live performances by Tony- and Grammy Award-nominated artists — including Micky Dolenz, Paul Williams, Michael Cerveris and LaChanze — have been collected into a benefit album for arts education.
“Rockers On Broadway: Live” features Alex Brightman and Cervaris belting out “Under Pressure,” Dolenz of The Monkees singing “I’m a Believer,” LaChanze doing “Purple Rain,” Alice Ripley singing "Hallelujah," Constantine Maroulis singing "No Rain" and Williams performing his signature “The Rainbow Connection.”
Others songs on the album include “What About Us” by Isabelle Gottfried, “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)” by Christian Hoff and Donnie Kehr, “Dream a Little Dream” by Emma Hunton, “The Show Must Go On” by Morgan James, “Space Captain” by Michael Lanning and “Thugz Mansion/A Change Is Gonna Come” by Donald Webber.
The album is a selection of live performances from Rockers On Broadway concerts over the past 28 years. Proceeds will support ongoing initiatives for The PATH Fund, dedicated to supporting arts education with scholarship and program funding.
“Out of an abundance of caution and to allow the Broadway community the necessary time to focus on performing their shows safely, we have held off on our annual live concert, but rest assured, we are still going to bring you the rock,” said Rockers creator Donnie Kehr and Executive Producer Cori Gardner in a joint statement.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
01-02-05-06-10-12-14-16-19-20-21-23
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
9-7-6-2, FIREBALL: 4
(nine, seven, six, two; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
9-7-6-2, FIREBALL: 4
(nine, seven, six, two; FIREBALL: four) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17000731.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:04 | en | 0.823632 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
3-9-9, FIREBALL: 6
(three, nine, nine; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
3-9-9, FIREBALL: 6
(three, nine, nine; FIREBALL: six) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Morning-game-17000730.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:10 | en | 0.870874 |
TOWN OF DECATUR, Wis. (AP) — One person was injured when a small plane crashed at Brodhead Airport in Green County, sheriff's officials said.
According to authorities, the crash happened Sunday afternoon in the town of Decatur as the pilot was practicing landing techniques. Sgt. Zack Degner said the 1975 Cessna began having some mechanical troubles.
The pilot, Delbert Devries, that as he was attempting to land the plane, speed and weather condition cause it to go beyond the landing strip and overturn. Devries was not seriously injured, but a passenger, John Musser, was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries.
The Federal Aviation Administration was notified. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/1-person-injured-in-crash-of-small-plane-in-Green-17000839.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:16 | en | 0.9783 |
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The budget for the Hanford nuclear reservation for the current fiscal year will be nearly $128 million more than proposed by the Biden administration and about $25 million above the fiscal 2021 budget.
The U.S. Senate approved the budget last week as part of a massive spending bill for the fiscal year that began in October. The Tri-City Herald reports the spending package includes a record high amount of nearly $2.6 billion for maintenance and environmental cleanup of the site in Eastern Washington.
But even that amount falls shy of cleanup costs, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., pointed out in budget hearings. Congress would need to budget for than $11 billion a year for the next 57 years to complete Hanford cleanup, she said.
The 580-square-mile (1,502-square-kilometer) Hanford site, located along the Columbia River, produced almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War.
Hanford contains approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks, representing one of DOE’s largest environmental risks and most complex challenges. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Congress-approves-money-for-Hanford-nuclear-17000933.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:22 | en | 0.928099 |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers on a House panel on Monday approved legislation to boost reading skills among young students with optional full-day kindergarten.
The House Education Committee voted to send to the full House the bill giving school districts the option of full-day kindergarten by using $73 million in literacy intervention money.
Republican Gov. Brad Little has made boosting reading scores among young students a priority, saying good reading skills make for life-long learners and gives students the best chance for a successful academic career and life.
Backers of the bill say about 25% of third-graders aren't reading at grade level, and full-day kindergarten will help.
“We're going to change the trajectory of their lives,” said Republican Rep. Ryan Kerby.
Opponents said the Idaho Constitution only requires spending taxpayer money on education starting in first grade. They also cited high gas prices faced by taxpayers and lack of confidence in results of kindergarten.
The legislation removes any ambiguity that the money can be used for all-day kindergarten. Half of the money will be based on enrollment of students in kindergarten to third grade. The other half will be based on students improving their reading skills, with districts with higher-improving students getting more.
The bill passed the Senate 31-2 last week. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/House-panel-approves-full-day-kindergarten-17000855.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:28 | en | 0.954846 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clarissa Ward interrupted her live TV report on Ukrainian refugees to help a distraught older man, then a woman, down a steep and explosion-mangled path, gently urging them on in their language.
A day later, Lynsey Addario, a photographer for The New York Times, captured a grim image of a Russian mortar attack’s immediate outcome: the bodies of a mother and her two children crumpled on a road, amid their suitcase, backpacks and a pet carrier.
The memorable reports illustrate both the skill and gutsiness of female journalists serving as eyewitnesses to Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and the way their presence has changed the nature of war reporting.
They cover the tactics of war, but give equal measure to its toll.
“People are so exhausted, they can barely walk,” Ward told viewers in her report. “It’s just an awful, awful scene. And they’re the lucky ones.”
The author of “You Don't Belong Here,” a 2021 book that profiles three pioneering women who covered the Vietnam War, said there's "absolutely no doubt that the reporting is what I would call more humane, looking at the human side of war.”
Elizabeth Becker argues that Frances FitzGerald of the U.S., Kate Webb of Australia and Catherine Leroy of France were foundational to modern war reporting. Arriving in Southeast Asia on their own dime, without a staff job and little or no journalism experience, they broke the male grip on war reporting with daring and innovation.
Traditionally, “the coverage was the battlefield, which is important,” said award-winning journalist Becker, a 1970s Cambodian war correspondent. She said it took newcomer FitzGerald to ask, “’OK, what does this mean in terms of the Vietnamese and the villages?’”
FitzGerald earned a 1973 Pulitzer and other honors for “Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam,” and her 2017 work, “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America,” was short-listed for the National Book Award.
War reporting is “a sense of mission, it’s a sense of purpose, it’s a sense of being able to tell a story,” said Christiane Amanpour, the London-born chief international anchor for CNN. “And women are really very good at it, it seems.”
It’s also a matter of logic, said Holly Williams, the Istanbul-based correspondent for CBS News on assignment in Ukraine.
“I’m acutely aware of the fact that if you don’t tell women’s stories, you’re missing at least half of the picture,” said the Australian-born Williams, who has reported on conflicts in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and worked for BBC News.
Ward, who also has hopscotched across those regions, worked for CBS News prior to joining CNN and, before that, was based in Moscow and Beijing for ABC News.
“Often women do have a different perspective on war, and for a long time that was not really at the forefront of a lot of coverage,” Ward said. She strives to include “the humanity behind the story, the experience of ordinary people who are living in war zones. To me, that is equally as important as the military component.”
The prominence of TV correspondents and the reach of their outlets adds to their impact. Oprah Winfrey offered online praise of network reporters “risking their lives to show the world the truth,” singling out Ward as a “fierce, unshakable and outstanding journalist.”
Many of their male colleagues also contribute nuanced reporting, as ABC News veteran Martha Raddatz and others noted. But Raddatz recalls a not-so-distant time when men tended to “love the equipment, love the airplanes.”
Ward and and other female journalists tip their cap to their predecessors, including FitzGerald and the late Martha Gellhorn, whose reporting stretched from WWII to the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989-90. They also praise recent trailblazers, including Amanpour.
Her decades of conflict reporting include the 1991 Gulf War, subsequent clashes in the Middle East region and, in southeastern Europe, the deadly 1992-96 siege of Sarajevo during the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“I think my generation and myself, we were perhaps the last line of the rare woman foreign correspondent,” Amanpour said. In every form of media it’s “exploded into a very female friendly profession.”
But parity has yet to be achieved in pay, Amanpour said. Or in all journalism jobs, according to Ward.
The growing number of female TV correspondents belies “a fairly male-dominated profession in general,” Ward said. “Don’t forget, the person in front of the camera is one person. Then you have, for TV, four people holding the camera, behind the camera, and most of them are still men.”
In U.S. journalism overall, men retain a numerical advantage over women even in a changing media industry, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data. While the number of people working in any facet of print, online or video journalism fell by nearly 17% between 2008 and 2018, men remained a majority at the end of the decade at 64%, “on par with their share in 2008” of 60%, Pew found.
That's widely reflected, according to “The Missing Perspectives of Women in News,” a 2020 report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Despite progress, “the majority of journalists in newsrooms globally are men,” the report said, citing several multi-country studies.
Female reporters face additional challenges in non-democratic countries and some regions, Amanpour said.
“They come under a huge amount of societal pressure in many parts of the developing world, and certainly in the Islamic world and other areas of what I call the patriarchy,” she said. “It’s very difficult, but they’re doing it and coming out into this profession more and more, and I really applaud them.”
The presence of women reporting in Ukraine is set against a backdrop of traditional roles and expectations, with women and children allowed to flee war’s violence while men are required to stay behind and defend their country.
Yonat Friling, a Jerusalem-based senior producer for Fox News Channel who worked in Ukraine with correspondent Trey Yingst, is aware of how attitudes can vary. In 2004, she was on the international desk for an Israeli TV channel when she asked her boss to switch her to field producer.
“He told me, ‘This is a job for men. Only men can do that,’” recalled the Israeli native. “Then I left, I joined Fox (in 2005). And on several occasions, including this time, I keep texting him, ‘A job for men? Yeah, right.’”
The Ukraine assignment proved deeply emotional for Friling. When she recently joined the stream of refugees leaving Kiev, it was a reminder of grandparents who fled Nazism and Soviet occupiers in Europe in the 1940s.
“I saw children and women, and I (saw) my grandparents in their faces. ... I know how much this is going to influence their whole life and the next generations,” she said.
Raddatz, who covered early refugee evacuations and returned to Ukraine on Friday, realizes how much has changed for her and her female colleagues over the years. The chief global affairs correspondent for ABC News covered the Bosnian crisis in the late 1990s and has focused on Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I remember in Iraq, I always thought that if something happened to me, it (the reaction) would be, ‘How could she do that, go over there when she has two children?’ whereas they would never say that with a guy,” she said. “Now, I don’t think they would do that.”
Family needs and concerns add to the burden of war reporting.
NBC News correspondent Erin McLaughlin said that before Russia struck at Ukraine, the threat of what might happen made her parents worry more than they had over her previous assignments, including in Iraq.
“My brother went to stay with them for the weekend because they were so nervous,” McLaughlin said. “It was really tough, but at the same time they understand that this is my calling. It’s an important job, and someone needs to do it.”
Ward, married and with two children, said her work takes an inevitable toll.
“It’s my son’s 4th birthday today, which has been really hard to miss,” Ward said at the end of another draining day in Ukraine, her voice emotional. “There’s the entire juggling act — you’re FaceTiming with your kids and there’s air raid sirens and bombs going off in the distance.”
“I’m not going to pretend this isn’t hard. But I also wouldn’t be anywhere else right now,” she said.
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Associated Press researcher Jennifer Farrar contributed to this report. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/In-Ukraine-female-war-reporters-build-on-legacy-17000778.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:34 | en | 0.973005 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A search was underway Monday for a gunman who has been stalking homeless men sleeping on the streets of Washington, D.C., and New York City, fatally shooting two people and wounding three more in less than two weeks.
Police released surveillance photographs of the suspected gunman late Sunday, including one in which the hooded man can be seen holding a pistol in a blue glove.
The killer's motive — if any — was unknown and authorities turned their attention Monday to trying to offer what protections they could to homeless people who might become targets.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said police officers and homeless outreach teams would focus on finding unhoused people in the subways and other locations and would urge them to seek refuge at city-owned shelters.
“The case is a clear and horrific intentional act of taking the life of someone, it appears, because he was homeless,” Adams said at a news conference late Sunday. “Two individuals were shot while sleeping on the streets, not committing a crime but sleeping on the streets.”
The earliest known shooting happened at around 4 a.m. on March 3 in Washington D.C., police said, when a man was shot and wounded in the city's Northeast section. A second man was wounded on March 8, just before 1:30 a.m.
At 3 a.m. the next day, March 9, police and firefighters found a dead man inside a burning tent. A subsequent autopsy revealed that the man had died of multiple stab and gunshot wounds.
The killer then apparently traveled north to New York City, police said.
At 4:30 a.m. Saturday, a 38-year-old man sleeping on the street in Manhattan not far from the entrance to the Holland Tunnel was shot in his right arm as he slept.
The victim screamed and the gunman fled, police said.
About 90 minutes later, the gunman fatally shot another man on Lafayette Street in SoHo, police said. The man's body was found in his sleeping bag just before 5 p.m. Saturday.
Police determined the same person committed the attacks based on the similarities of each shooting and evidence recovered from the scenes. The victims were attacked without provocation, police said.
“We are committed to sharing every investigative path, clue and piece of evidence with our law enforcement partners to bring this investigation to a swift conclusion and the individual behind these vicious crimes to justice," Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said in a news release.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting in the investigation.
The attacks were reminiscent of the beating deaths of four homeless men as they slept on the streets in New York's Chinatown in the fall of 2019. Another homeless man, Randy Santos, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in those attacks.
A year ago, four people were stabbed in New York City, two fatally, by a man who randomly attacked homeless people in the subway system. That assailant, who was also homeless, is awaiting trial. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Man-sought-in-homeless-killings-in-New-York-17000873.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:40 | en | 0.979309 |
PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors in Arizona's most populous county have dropped nearly 200 criminal cases because charges weren't filed before the statute of limitation ran out.
Ryan Green, a division chief in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, told The Arizona Republic that a supervisor never delegated 180 cases to prosecutors.
The cases include drunk driving, domestic violence, assaults and criminal damage incidents that happened in 2020. Most of them were initiated by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the county sheriff's office.
Green says a staffing shortage and high volume of cases contributed to the issue.
The lapse in case handling comes as County Attorney Allister Adel continues to be questioned about her abilities to lead the office. Some, including former County Attorney Rick Romley, have urged Adel to resign. They say her sobriety struggles have caused her to be absent from crucial day-to-day tasks.
Adel told the newspaper a failure of “a few employees” does not mean she cannot do her job. She says she is committed to ensuring this does not happen again. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Maricopa-County-prosecutors-forced-to-drop-180-17000888.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:47 | en | 0.978489 |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police in South Carolina say a woman is dead and four people are injured after an argument at a party escalated into a shooting.
The Columbia Police Department is investigating the shooting after officers were dispatched early Sunday morning to the Greene Crossing Apartments complex in Columbia.
Police say early information suggests the victims were at a party inside the apartment when an argument started and several people began shooting.
The Richland County Coroner’s Office identified the slain woman as 20-year-old Jamacia Dowling to news outlets on Monday. Four other people between the ages of 16 and 22 were also shot.
Officers arriving at the apartment complex Sunday saw people running and driving away, but did interview several people and gathered evidence at the scene, police said. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Police-1-dead-4-injured-after-shooting-during-17000767.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:53 | en | 0.982391 |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has been unable to visit prisons in Myanmar since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in late 2019, a top official said Monday.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Red Cross director-general Robert Mardini said officials with his organization have, however, remained in contact with Myanmar.
“We are in constant dialogue on this on this question," he said. "Our access to detention places has been unfortunately disrupted since the pandemic started, so we are now working to start again those important visits. And at the same time, we are stepping up significantly our humanitarian activities in the country.”
Myanmar's military seized power in February last year, ousting the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which has likely complicated communication efforts. Resistance to the takeover has now led to what some U.N. experts have characterized as a civil war. Activists say thousands have been arrested. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Red-Cross-say-it-hasn-t-visited-Myanmar-prisons-17000909.php | 2022-03-14T16:49:59 | en | 0.973937 |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities believe speed was a factor in a North Las Vegas collision that left two motorcyclists dead.
Sgt. Vince Booker, a North Las Vegas police spokesman, said the crash happened Sunday around Cheyenne and Mary Dee avenues just east of U.S. 15.
Three motorcyclists were riding east when two of them crossed into the westbound lanes. One was hit by an SUV. Another struck a sign on the median.
Booker says both died at the scene.
A woman driving the SUV and the third motorcyclist were hospitalized. Their injuries are non-life-threatening.
Police say the motorcyclists were all men in their 40s and 50s.
The investigation remains ongoing.
The collision happened about a mile away from a car wreck that killed nine people in January. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Speed-factor-in-deaths-of-2-North-Las-Vegas-17000753.php | 2022-03-14T16:50:05 | en | 0.98451 |
BULLETIN (AP) — Mikal Williams, Dem, nominated U.S. House, District 14, Texas. AP Elections 03-14-2022 11:06 | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/TX-House-14-nominated-17000881.php | 2022-03-14T16:50:12 | en | 0.822653 |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries.
NASA insists Vande Hei’s homecoming plans at the end of the month remain unchanged, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in canceled launches, broken contracts and an escalating war of words by the Russian Space Agency’s hardline leader. Many worry Dmitry Rogozin is putting decades of a peaceful off-the-planet partnership at risk, most notably at the International Space Station.
Vande Hei — who on Tuesday breaks the U.S. single spaceflight record of 340 days — is due to leave with two Russians aboard a Soyuz capsule for a touchdown in Kazakhstan on March 30. The astronaut will have logged 355 days in space by then, setting a new U.S. record. The world record of 438 continuous days in space belongs to Russia.
Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, America’s record-holder until Tuesday, is among those sparring with Rogozin, a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin. Enraged by what's going on in Ukraine, Kelly has returned his Russian medal for space exploration to the Russian Embassy in Washington.
Despite the deadly conflict down here, Kelly believes the two sides “can hold it together” up in space.
“We need an example set that two countries that historically have not been on the most friendly of terms, can still work somewhere peacefully. And that somewhere is the International Space Station. That’s why we need to fight to keep it,” Kelly told The Associated Press.
NASA wants to keep the space station running until 2030, as do the European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies, while the Russians have not committed beyond the original end date of 2024 or so.
The U.S. and Russia are the prime operators of the orbiting outpost, permanently occupied for 21 years. Until SpaceX started launching astronauts in 2020, Americans regularly hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules for tens of millions of dollars per seat. The U.S. and Russian space agencies are still working on a long-term barter system in which a Russian would launch on a SpaceX capsule beginning this fall and an American would fly up on the Soyuz. That would help ensure a U.S. and Russian station presence at all times.
Vande Hei, 55, a retired Army colonel, moved into the space station last April, launching on a Soyuz from Kazakhstan with Pyotr Dubrov and another Russian. He and Dubrov stayed twice as long as usual to accommodate a Russian film crew that visited in October.
As the situation 260 miles (420 kilometers) below intensified last month, Vande Hei acknowledged he was avoiding conversations about Ukraine with Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, their Russian commander. Three more Russians will blast off from Kazakhstan on Friday to replace them.
“We haven’t talked about that too much. I’m not sure we really want to go there,” Vande Hei told a TV interviewer in mid-February.
Space station operations continue as always — in orbit and on Earth, according to NASA.
“It would be a sad day for international operations if we can’t continue to peacefully operate in space,” said NASA’s human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders, who noted it would be “very difficult” to go it alone.
To mark Tuesday’s milestone, NASA turned to Twitter to gather questions for video-recorded responses, and some asked whether Vande Hei might switch to an American ride home. SpaceX is taking three wealthy businessmen and their ex-astronaut escort to the space station at the end of March for a brief visit. Then in mid-April, SpaceX will deliver four astronauts for NASA before bringing back four who have been on board since November.
NASA and SpaceX officials refuse to speculate on whether a seat could be made available. They say a NASA plane and small team will be on hand in Kazakhstan, as usual, to whisk Vande Hei back home to Houston.
Former NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, whose father was born in Ukraine, concedes it’s a difficult situation.
“We’re sanctioning Russia. Companies are pulling out of doing business in Russia. But then yet you still have the U.S. government — the space agency — doing business with the Russians,” she said. “You can’t push a button and separate the two” sides of the space station.
Besides threatening to pull out of the space station and drop it on the U.S., Europe or elsewhere, Rogozin had the flags of other countries covered on a Soyuz rocket awaiting liftoff with internet satellites earlier this month. The launch was called off, after the customer, London-based OneWeb, refused his demands that the satellites not be used for military purposes and the British government halt its financial backing.
The European Space Agency also is reeling. After missing a 2020 launch deadline for its Mars rover — a joint European-Russian effort — the project was on track for a September liftoff from Kazakhstan. Now it’s most likely off until 2024, the next opportunity for Earth and Mars to be properly aligned. And Russia has pulled its staff out of the French-run launch site in South America, suspending Soyuz launches of European satellites.
All this comes on top of the Russian government's antisatellite missile test in November that added countless pieces of junk to the debris already encircling Earth and put the space station's four Americans, two Russians and one German on alert for days.
Jeffrey Manber, now with the private Voyager Space company, helped forge U.S. and Russian ties back in the mid-1990s, with the first piece of the space station launching in 1998. He sees the outpost as “one of the final holdouts of collaboration” between the two countries. But, he added, “there is no going back if the partnership is ended and the result is a premature ending of the ISS program.”
Regardless of how things play out at the space station, John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University, expects it will mark the end of large-scale space cooperation between Russia and the West.
“Russia has been moving toward China already, and the current situation will probably accelerate that move,” he said.
While Vande Hei has been silent on Twitter, Kelly and others have gone into overdrive, taking offense at Rogozin's threats.
Elon Musk's private SpaceX took a swipe at Rogozin after he said Russia would stop supplying rocket engines to U.S. companies — Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance — adding they could use broomsticks to get to orbit.
At a launch last week, a SpaceX official responded: “Time to let the American broomstick fly and hear the sounds of freedom.”
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/US-astronaut-to-ride-Russian-spacecraft-home-17000814.php | 2022-03-14T16:50:18 | en | 0.947248 |
NEW YORK (AP) — POLL ALERT: Gonzaga lands at No. 1 in final AP Top 25 for 2nd straight year; top NCAA Tournament seeds ranked 1-4.
NEW YORK (AP) — POLL ALERT: Gonzaga lands at No. 1 in final AP Top 25 for 2nd straight year; top NCAA Tournament seeds ranked 1-4. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/Alert-POLL-ALERT-Gonzaga-lands-at-No-1-in-17000867.php | 2022-03-14T16:50:24 | en | 0.85111 |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton's Ryan Hawkins is leading a charmed life as a basketball player, and he would be the first to tell you.
No school except tiny Wayne State in Nebraska recruited him out of high school, and he planned to go there until a coaching change gave him an out.
He landed at Division II powerhouse Northwest Missouri State, which took a chance on the awkward, skinny 6-foot-7 kid from Iowa and developed him into one of the top players in program history. The Bearcats won three national championships in his five years there.
Now look at him. He's finishing his sixth year as a collegian as the undisputed leader of a new-look Creighton team that overachieved after being picked eighth in the 11-team Big East. The Bluejays (22-11) finished fourth, reached the championship game of the conference tournament and earned the No. 9 seed in the NCAA Midwest Region. They will play eighth-seeded San Diego State (23-8) in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday.
“I’ve exceeded my wildest dreams,” the 24-year-old Hawkins said.
Of nine Division II players who transferred to schools in the six major basketball conferences for 2021-22, none has made close to the impact Hawkins has at Creighton.
He leads the Bluejays in scoring (13.9 ppg) and rebounding (7.8 rpg) and was voted to the All-Big East second team after recording a conference-best 11 double-doubles.
Among active NCAA players, Hawkins is second with 2,556 career points and first with 1,206 rebounds. In games he's played for the Bearcats and Bluejays, his teams are 146-18.
“You’re talking about one of the greatest winners in all of college basketball,” Northwest Missouri coach Ben McCollum said.
Hawkins' experience along with his upbeat demeanor made him a perfect fit for Creighton coach Greg McDermott's team, which has had four freshmen play major minutes and has had three start.
“I was just hoping to be able to bring a leadership piece to a team that essentially had a black hole in the leadership category because their whole starting five was gone,” Hawkins said. “I thought I could insert my experience and my ability to stretch the floor into coach McDermott’s offense."
Hawkins grew up about an hour east of Omaha, in Atlantic, Iowa, and played six sports in high school. He dabbled as a quarterback in football and was naturally gifted in track and cross country. He was a star midfielder in soccer and a hard-throwing pitcher in baseball.
He was best at basketball, winning all-state first-team honors in his school's division after averaging 22 points and 13 rebounds per game as a senior. At Northwest Missouri, McCollum said Hawkins was a project, which is why he sat out his first season as a redshirt.
“I remember the first time I watched him play against our guys, and I called my assistant at the time, Austin Meyer, and I said, ‘Coach, I think we might have made a mistake on this one,'” McCollum said. “I compare it to a baby deer on ice. All over the map but super excited, super ready to go.”
Hawkins' improvement was rapid. He shot 46% on 3-pointers over his last two seasons with the Bearcats and was Most Outstanding Player at the 2021 Division II Elite Eight. He had 31 points and 18 rebounds in the national title game against West Texas A&M and left Northwest Missouri as the program's second 2,000-point scorer.
Had it not been for the NCAA allowing players a sixth year of eligibility because of the pandemic, Hawkins said, he would have been looking for a 9-to-5 job after last season. With an extra year to play, he sought a new experience.
About 40 Division I schools called the first day his name was in the transfer portal. He wanted to stay close to home, so when McDermott contacted him, he knew Creighton probably would be where he landed.
McDermott said he never doubted Hawkins' shooting ability would carry over to Division I. What impressed him most was how Hawkins let his leadership take root organically rather than forcing it.
“Ryan took the time to really get to know these guys when they first met in June, even though he’s five or six years older,” McDermott said. “They were like in sixth grade when he was a senior in high school. And because of that, they really respect what he says and they respect his daily actions. And it’s not just talk. He backs it all up with the way he is, with his positive attitude.”
Hawkins is among the few players who have thrived after transferring from a lower division. Duncan Robinson went from Division III Williams College to Michigan and on to the NBA. Max Strus went from Division II Lewis University to DePaul and to the NBA. Matt Mooney went from Division II South Dakota to Texas Tech and now plays overseas.
“There are a lot of guys at the Division II level who can play, and I was fortunate enough to play at probably the highest level of D2 basketball in history,” Hawkins said. “But the speed of the game and athleticism is completely different here. Everything is bigger, faster stronger at this level, and that's been the biggest difference and biggest adjustment for me.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/D-II-star-Hawkins-finishes-with-dream-season-at-17000856.php | 2022-03-14T16:50:30 | en | 0.988653 |
Gonzaga will head into the NCAA Tournament exactly where it ended up in the final AP Top 25: right on top.
In fact, that's where the Bulldogs began the season, too.
It wasn't all smooth sailing for coach Mark Few's team, which dropped as low as fifth after a couple of early losses. But the Bulldogs wound up with 54 of the 61 first-place votes from a national media panel Monday after romping through the West Coast Conference Tournament to land at No. 1 in the final AP Top 25 for the second straight year.
Now, it's a matter of finishing things off. The Bulldogs, who earned the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, lost to Baylor in last year's national championship game.
“It's an amazing accomplishment,” Few said. “It's a reward for being good for four months, 4 1/2 months, and this (NCAA) tournament is a reward for being good for three weeks. So I think it's an amazing accomplishment by this group and last year's group, and these No. 1 seeds we've been able to earn is also simply another amazing accomplishment.”
The Bulldogs begin their quest for that elusive national tile on Thursday against Georgia State in Portland, Oregon, where they should have a hefty fan advantage. They would face Boise State or Memphis in the West Region's second round.
“It's a fool's errand to look down the road. There's so many good teams,” Few said. “We just finished a two-game tournament and that's what this is: a two-game tournament. You don't win the first one, you don't get the second one.”
The top four teams in the final AP Top 25 landed on the top four seed lines of the NCAA Tournament.
Arizona, which got the other seven first-place votes to finish second, will open against the play-in winner between Wright State and Bryant in the South Region. The Wildcats were followed by at No. 3 by Kansas, the top team in the Midwest, and Big 12 rival Baylor, which landed on the top seed line in the East Region.
The Jayhawks play the Texas Southern-Texas A&M Corpus Christi winner while the Bears open against Norfolk State.
The biggest departure between the bracket and the final poll came with SEC Tournament champ Tennessee, which landed at fifth in the AP Top 25. The Vols didn't get the same kind of support from the selection committee, earning the third seed in the South Region and a tough potential road through Arizona and No. 2 seed Villanova to reach the Final Four.
“Wherever they put us, we’ll go. Got to be ready to play, and again,” Volunteers coach Rick Barnes said. “Just I’m happy for our guys, and we’ll see what happens going forward. We have a new season starting again. We have to be ready.”
BEST OF THE REST
Villanova was sixth in the final Top 25, followed by Kentucky, Auburn and Duke — all of them No. 2 seeds in the NCAA tourney — with Purdue rounding out the top 10. The Boilermakers earned the No. 3 seed in the East Region.
UCLA was 11th and Texas Tech was No. 12. They were followed by Providence and Wisconsin, each of which was left off one of the Top 25 ballots, with Houston coming in at No. 15. Big Ten Tournament champion Iowa was 16th with Arkansas, Saint Mary's, Illinois and Murray State rounding out the top 20. UConn, Southern California, Boise State, Colorado State and Texas finished out the final Top 25 of the college basketball season.
POLE-RIZING PREDICTIONS
No team has been No. 1 in the final Top 25 and gone on to win the national championship since Kentucky in 2012, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good barometer for who to watch in the NCAA Tournament. Each of the last six national champions finished among the top six in the final poll, including Baylor, which was third last season.
In fact, the lowest ranked team to win the title in at least 20 years was UConn, which was 18th in the 2014 final poll.
UP AND DOWN, IN AND OUT
Iowa was the biggest mover, climbing eight spots to No. 16, while Auburn slid four spots to No. 8. The only newcomer was Boise State at No. 23 while North Carolina fell out after losing to Virginia Tech in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
CONFERENCE WATCH
The Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 tied for the most teams in the final Top 25 with four apiece, while the Pac 12 and Big East each had three. The West Coast and Mountain West conferences each had two teams while the once-mighty ACC had only Duke — the same number of teams as the Ohio Valley (Murray State) and American (Houston) conferences.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Anirban Lahiri of India steadied himself early with a par and moved back in front with a 12-foot birdie to complete a 5-under 67 on Monday morning and take a one-shot lead into the final round of The Players Championship.
The tournament that seems like it will never end now has a clear sight to the finish line and the $3.6 million payoff to the winner.
And the road is just as crowded.
Sebastian Munoz of Colombia completed the low round of the long week with bogey-free 65 and was in the group one shot behind along with Doug Ghim (68), Paul Casey (69) and Sam Burns (71).
Fourteen players were separated by three shots, the margin Justin Thomas made up in the final round last year. The final round this year was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Lahiri would be among the biggest surprise winners in a championship that features the strongest and deepest field in golf. While he has won nine times on tours in Asia and Europe, and played in the Presidents Cup in 2015, he has never won on the PGA Tour.
He is No. 332 in the world and goes after that first PGA Tour title at an event with the largest purse in golf at $20 million, with $3.6 million to the winner.
None of that was enough to cause him a sleepless night going into the final day. He knew he had 25 holes left when he returned in ideal conditions Monday morning.
“That's a lot of golf on a lot of golf course,” Lahiri said. “There’s not much to get too far ahead of yourself. I’m just trying to stay in the moment and just do what I need to do next.”
Lahiri, after a bogey on No. 15 to fall back into a share of the lead, got up-and-down from left of the green on the par-5 16th with a 12-foot birdie putt to move ahead. He was at 9-under 207.
Thomas was trying to stay in the game in his bid to become the first back-to-back winner of The Players since it began in 1974. But he found the water on the par-5 16th for bogey, and his pitch from the trees on the 18th went into the water. He had to make a 12-foot putt for bogey and a 72, leaving him six shots behind.
Tom Hoge, who shared the 18- and 36-hole lead, had a 72 and joined Cameron Smith (69) in the group two behind. Among those three back were former British Open champion Shane Lowry, whose third round was highlighted by a hole-in-one on the island-green 17th; Louis Oosthuizen and Russell Knox, who left Scotland for Jacksonville University and never left.
While it has been hard to keep track of days, the tournament finally took shape Monday morning as the number of players in contention seemed to grow.
The Players is looked upon as the fifth-biggest tournament in the world with its $20 million purse, a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour and three-year exemptions to the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open.
It requires navigating a final round on the Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass, famous for its water even in sunshine.
Munoz made the cut with one shot to spare. Because of all the delays, he began the third round on the back nine away from the leaders and wound up among them, making an 18-foot birdie on the par-5 ninth hole to finish his round.
Casey is the most experienced among the top seven on the leaderboard, mainly from his Ryder Cup appearances. He started The Players with a triple bogey and now is one behind.
“What an opportunity,” Casey said. “I know you guys would say it’s not a star-studded leaderboard, it’s not the usual suspects. But every single PGA Tour event, the level of golf is unbelievable.”
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VENICE, Fla. (AP) — Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna says he has addressed teammates and is sorry to fans for an arrest last year on charges of aggravated assault by strangulation and battery after police officers said they witnessed him attacking his wife.
Ozuna returned to the team this week for the first time since his May 29 arrest. He was placed on administrative leave during Major League Baseball's investigation and missed Atlanta's World Series championship run last fall.
MLB suspended the 31-year-old retroactively for 20 games under its domestic violence policy in November, allowing him to return for the start of the 2022 season.
“Yeah, I talked to my team," Ozuna said Monday, the first day of full-squad spring training workouts. "I spoke to my team and said, ‘I’m sorry, I made a mistake.’”
Ozuna was welcomed by teammates in the clubhouse Monday, and several Latino players gathered around his locker before practice began, just like old times.
“It’s good to have him back,” teammate Ronald Acuña Jr. said via interpreter. “You know, he’s a such a good ballplayer. You know, on and off the field and, you know, the things that happened off the field, those are challenges for everyone. Certain things that happen off the field, they can happen to anyone.”
Police body cam footage obtained by TMZ Sports two days after MLB announced its suspension appeared to show Ozuna grabbing his wife’s neck as officers arrived at their Georiga home. The Sandy Springs Police Department said in a statement in May that it also observed Ozuna throwing her against a wall and striking her with the cast on his injured left hand.
Ozuna said he has completed the requirements of a pretrial diversion program, a condition provided by the Fulton County District Attorney's office in order to have charges dropped. The program included 3-6 months of supervision. Ozuna also was ordered to complete a 24-week family violence intervention program, at least 200 hours of community service and an anger management course.
“I learned everything," he said of counseling. "I learned how you treat a person, how you be a better person, how you be the best daddy, how you be a human being. You learn everything from that.”
Ozuna said he is now “on the same page” with his family. He said he didn't think he had ever spent alone time with his three children prior to last summer and has been taking them to the playground and toy stores.
“I give time to my kids, that’s the most important thing,” he said. "Family first. That’s what I worry about right now, my family and then coming here, working hard, being honest with my teammates. That’s the most important thing.”
Ozuna said he hoped the public could forgive him.
“My fans, I’m going to give you the best and I’m going to be a better person, and I’m sorry," he said.
Ozuna was asked specifically what he would say to fans who are also victims of domestic violence.
“I just tell them, just treat me as the person that I was before,” he said. “Like, I was an amazing person out in the field. So I want to be like that. I’m going to give you my smile. If they think it’s not time to give me like good crowd, it’s OK.”
Ozuna's ban cost him $1.55 million of his $12 million salary last season. He is entering the second year of a $65 million, four-year contract with the Braves.
ACUÑA AT 95%
Star outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. also returned to the club this week after tearing his right ACL in July.
The 2018 NL Rookie of the Year said the rehab process was difficult, doubly so because it sidelined him through a World Series championship run.
Asked where he is with his power and strength, Acuña estimated he's at 95%. He said he's resumed baserunning and defense drills but will wait for the green light from trainers and medical staff before returning to game action.
“If it was up to me, I’d say I’d be ready for opening day," he said via interpreter. “But we all know it’s not my decision. So either way, I’m just going to be ready.”
Atlanta hasn't put a timeline on Acuña's return.
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LONDON (AP) — Sports federations have set precedents by banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition following the invasion of Ukraine and they must remain firm to keep them in place, Olympic great Sebastian Coe said Monday.
Coe is a two-time Olympic champion runner from Britain who is now the president of World Athletics, the governing body of track and field. He spoke four days before the start of the world indoor championships. Both Russians and Belarusians have been excluded from that event, which will be held in Serbia.
“There’s not a single sports federation out there that naturally wants to exclude teams or individuals. That’s not something that we came into the sport for,” Coe said during a video conference call. “But I think we have to recognize that this is such a game changer. And, yes, it will set precedents.”
Athletes and teams from Russia and Belarus have been kicked out of dozens of sports since Russian forces invaded Ukraine last month, with some soldiers entering via Belarus. The biggest events to be immediately impacted by the decision to ban Russians and Belarusians include the upcoming track championships, the figure skating world championships and soccer.
The bans from soccer, which include the Russian national team from World Cup qualifying and Russian club Spartak Moscow from the Europa League competition, have been challenged by the Football Union of Russia. The first appeal rulings are expected this week from the Court of Arbitration for Sport — the highest sports court in the world.
“We absolutely accept that this will set precedents and those precedents will have to be faced individually and sequentially and they will be with us for years," Coe said. "We haven’t made this easy on ourselves but it is still the right decision.
“You cannot have aggressor nations, where you have so altered the landscape for the integrity of competition being untouched, while the actions of their governments have so influenced the integrity of sport elsewhere.”
Russia’s opponent in the World Cup qualifying playoffs, Poland, has said it won’t play against the country on March 24. The two next possible opponents, the Czech Republic and Sweden, have said the same.
Track and field had previously been the hardest on Russians following the country's state-sponsored doping scandal dating back to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Russians now have to be individually vetted in order to compete in international track events. The Russian track federation has been banned since 2015.
“I don’t have a problem with (banning Russians) because that’s what we’ve done in our sport. I don’t see why that should be different in any other sport if you’re making that judgement on the integrity of the sport,” Coe said. “Goodness me, in football, you’ve already seen teams that decided they’re not going to play in playoff rounds.
“The impact is across the board. So they are going to need to remain really firm on this and do exactly what we’ve done.”
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Here are the 20 best places to live in Minnesota, according to Niche
One neighborhood in Minnesota has made it on the list of top 100 places to live in the United States, according to 2022 rankings published by Niche.
The Mac-Groveland neighborhood in St. Paul came in at No. 47 on the national ranking and No. 1 in Minnesota.
No other Minnesota cities made it in the top 100 for the national ranking. Here's the top 20 for the top places to live in Minnesota (and where they come in on the national list):
- No. 1 Mac-Groveland in St. Paul, No. 47 nationally
- No. 2 St. Anthony Park in St. Paul, No. 146 nationally
- No. 3 Falcon Heights, No. 197 nationally
- No. 4 Eden Prairie, No. 220 nationally
- No. 5 Summit Hill in St. Paul, No. 297 nationally
- No. 6 Lauderdale, No. 373 nationally
- No. 7 Union Park in St. Paul, No. 374 nationally
- No. 8 Highland in St. Paul, No. 418 nationally
- No. 9 Edina, No. 423 nationally
- No. 10 Como in St. Paul, No. 475 nationally
- N0. 11 Shoreview, No. 522 nationally
- No 12 Hamline-Midway in St. Paul, No. 581 nationally
- No. 13 Fulton in Minneapolis, No. 668 nationally
- No. 14 Linden Hills in Minneapolis, No. 688 nationally
- No. 15 Kingfield in Minneapolis, No. 697 nationally
- No. 16 Plymouth, No. 782 nationally
- No. 17 Mendota Heights, No. 822 nationally
- No. 18 Chanhassen, No. 879 nationally
- No. 19 downtown St. Paul, No. 892 nationally
- No 20 Page in Minneapolis, No. 934 nationally
To determine the rankings, Niche uses data from the U.S. Census and FBI, and combines that with resident rankings and community reviews.
On this year's best places to live in America, there are 228 cities and 18,515 towns and neighborhoods. It marks the eighth year of this ranking.
Niche has also recently ranked the best cities to live in America and the best cities for young professionals in America (Minneapolis was 8th), among other rankings. | https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-living/here-are-the-20-best-places-to-live-in-minnesota-according-to-niche | 2022-03-14T16:51:09 | en | 0.918679 |
2-year-old boy in critical condition after being shot in Minneapolis
A 2-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after being shot in Minneapolis early Monday morning.
Minneapolis police officers responded to the 1500 block of LaSalle Avenue at about 4:36 a.m. Monday, where they found the boy who was suffering from a gunshot wound to the face.
The child was transported to the hospital, where he is listed in critical but stable condition, police said.
Police believe the child was staying with a family member when he was shot.
"Officers were provided with limited information as to how the gunshot wound occurred," police said. But they believe he was staying with a family member who is not a parent when he was shot.
No other details have been shared and no arrests have been made.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar joins bipartisan group on visit to Poland, near Ukraine border
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is among the lawmakers who traveled to Poland over the weekend to show support amid Russia’s ongoing invasion into Ukraine.
Klobuchar was joined by Democrat and Republican senators from Ohio, Connecticut and Mississippi as she traveled to Poland Saturday. The group met with diplomats, military leaders, aid workers and Ukrainian refugees near the Ukraine border.
“I am proud to stand with my colleagues from both sides of the aisle with our friend and ally Poland,” Klobuchar said in a statement.
“Poland has been a stalwart ally to Ukraine, welcoming Ukrainian refugees and providing critical resources during this unprovoked attack. We will make clear our commitment to stand with the Ukrainian and Polish people against Vladimir Putin.”
The visit comes as Russian missiles struck a Ukrainian military base near the Polish border Sunday, killing at least 35 people, according to ABC News.
Klobuchar posted a video in Poland around 15 miles from the site of the attack on Sunday. In it, she discusses meeting with refugees making their way into Poland.
“We just spoke to a group of refugees,” a somber Klobuchar said. “They’re coming in… with their lives on their backs, with their dogs, their families. They told us horror stories.”
There have been numerous reports that Russian forces have fired upon civilians trying to flee Ukraine to neighboring countries including Poland, resulting in numerous fatalities.
This includes reports Sunday that Ukraine accused Russia of firing on an evacuation convoy near Kyiv, killing six women and a child.
Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, Klobuchar said she told the White House that she would back sending U.S. fighter jets to Poland if and when the time is right, which in turn would see Polish fighter jets sent to Ukraine.
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2 killed, 3 hurt in recent homeless shootings in New York, D.C.
NEW YORK (AP) — A search was underway Monday for a gunman who has been stalking homeless men sleeping on the streets of Washington, D.C., and New York City, fatally shooting two people and wounding three more in less than two weeks.
Police released surveillance photographs of the suspected gunman late Sunday, including one in which the hooded man can be seen holding a pistol in a blue glove.
The killer’s motive — if any — was unknown, and authorities turned their attention Monday to trying to offer what protections they could to homeless people who might become targets.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said police officers and homeless outreach teams would focus on finding unhoused people in the subways and other locations and would urge them to seek refuge at city-owned shelters.
“The case is a clear and horrific intentional act of taking the life of someone, it appears, because he was homeless,” Adams said at a news conference late Sunday. “Two individuals were shot while sleeping on the streets, not committing a crime but sleeping on the streets.”
The earliest known shooting happened at around 4 a.m. on March 3 in Washington D.C., police said, when a man was shot and wounded in the city’s Northeast section. A second man was wounded on March 8, just before 1:30 a.m.
At 3 a.m. the next day, March 9, police and firefighters found a dead man inside a burning tent. A subsequent autopsy revealed that the man had died of multiple stab and gunshot wounds.
The killer then apparently traveled north to New York City, police said.
At 4:30 a.m. Saturday, a 38-year-old man sleeping on the street in Manhattan not far from the entrance to the Holland Tunnel was shot in his right arm as he slept.
The victim screamed and the gunman fled, police said.
About 90 minutes later, the gunman fatally shot another man on Lafayette Street in SoHo, police said. The man’s body was found in his sleeping bag just before 5 p.m. Saturday.
Police determined the same person committed the attacks based on the similarities of each shooting and evidence recovered from the scenes. The victims were attacked without provocation, police said.
“We are committed to sharing every investigative path, clue and piece of evidence with our law enforcement partners to bring this investigation to a swift conclusion and the individual behind these vicious crimes to justice,” Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said in a news release.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting in the investigation.
The attacks were reminiscent of the beating deaths of four homeless men as they slept on the streets in New York’s Chinatown in the fall of 2019. Another homeless man, Randy Santos, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in those attacks.
A year ago, four people were stabbed in New York City, two fatally, by a man who randomly attacked homeless people in the subway system. That assailant, who was also homeless, is awaiting trial.
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Bands of snow causing problems on Twin Cities roads Monday morning
Bands of snow and mixed precipitation are proving to be one last hurrah (maybe!) from Old Man Winter and they are causing headaches on the roads Monday morning.
The immediate Twin Cities and points south are dealing with mostly wet roads at this point (8:40 a.m.), but anywhere along and north of Interstate 694 could be problematic as roads are covered in snow and crashes are mounting.
You can see in the MnDOT traffic map from 8:30 a.m. (above) that there are numerous crashes and spinouts as the snow falls and creates slippery road conditions. And this is a bit more than a nuisance dusting of snow.
Meteorologist Todd Nelson tweeted a photo of 3 inches of snow in St. Michael.
As of 8:35 a.m., it was mostly snow falling in the north metro while a band of rain and snow was sliding into the south metro.
The St. Michael area was forecast to get 1-2 inches, according to the National Weather Service, so the amounts are already overachieving the NWS prediction. | https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/bands-of-snow-causing-problems-on-twin-cities-roads-monday-morning | 2022-03-14T16:51:27 | en | 0.961083 |
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Waterspout chases Florida beachgoers
Published: Mar. 14, 2022 at 11:00 AM CDT|Updated: 50 minutes ago
FORT MYERS, Fla. (CNN) - A little wind and waves can make for a nice beach day, but a lot of wind in Florida turned it into a panic.
A day at the beach turned scary when a huge, whipping waterspout made landfall, chasing beachgoers in Fort Myers.
It started when the spout was spotted in the waves, turning heads as beach visitors marveled at the weird weather event.
But as the spout began to come ashore, people raced away from the swirling sandstorm.
No injuries were reported.
The National Weather Service confirmed the spout/beachfront tornado, which they say is a common occurrence in coastal Florida during rainy seasons.
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Dolly Parton withdraws name from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - Dolly Parton announced Monday she was withdrawing her name from consideration for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The country music icon was first nominated to enter the hall of fame at the beginning of February with several other musicians, including Eminem, Eurythmics and Rage Against the Machine. Parton was ranked fourth in the fan vote as of Monday.
Parton posted that while she was “extremely flattered and grateful” to be nominated, she did not feel that she earned the right to be in the running.
“I do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out,” Parton said. “I do hope that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will understand and be willing to consider me again - if I’m ever worthy.”
She also announced a new venture in the post, teasing an upcoming rock ‘n’ roll album that would be released at “some point in the future.” Parton also said that her husband, Carl Dean, was a rock ‘n’ roll “freak” that always encouraged her to record the album.
Although she withdrew her nomination, she wished the other nominees good luck.
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Former San José State trainer accused of sexually assaulting female student-athletes, DOJ says
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Gray News) – The former director of sports medicine and athletic trainer at San José State University is facing charges in connection with accusations he sexually assaulted female student-athletes.
According to the Department of Justice, Scott Shaw is accused of inappropriately touching at least four women without their consent under the guise of treating them for their injuries.
The DOJ said Shaw is accused of touching the student-athlete’s breasts and buttocks between 2017 and 2020.
Shaw faces a maximum of six years in prison if convicted of all counts.
San José State University released the following statement in response to the allegations:
San José State University continues to be grateful for the student-athletes who came forward to share their painful stories. Their bravery and resilience are commendable, and we hope that with the charges today, they are one step closer to justice.
The federal charges come after earlier allegations of sexual assault filed by more than a dozen female swimmers who accused Shaw of inappropriately touching them during physical therapy from 2006 to 2009, when the university investigated and cleared Shaw of all wrongdoing. He denied misconduct, and no criminal charges were filed against him.
The school launched a second investigation in 2019 after swimming coach Sage Hopkins alerted school officials of more alleged misconduct.
Shaw resigned in 2020, and fallout from the growing scandal prompted university President Mary Papazian and athletic director Marie Tuite to resign in 2021 after federal prosecutors found that the university had failed to adequately respond to reports of sexual misconduct against Shaw even though complaints had been reported for years.
San José State agreed to pay $1.6 million to 13 female student-athletes as part of a settlement announced in September 2021 between the university, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.
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Former Minnesota GOP chair Jennifer Carnahan running for late-husband Jim Hagedorn's 1st District seat
Jennifer Carnahan, the controversial former Minnesota GOP chairwoman and widow of late First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn, announced Monday she is running for Congress in the special election to fill her husband's now-vacant seat.
"It’s official. I’m running to honor my husband’s wish that I run for, and win, his seat. Jim fought so hard to put Minnesota first. I promise you I will continue his fight," Carnahan tweeted Monday morning. Hagedorn died on Feb. 17 after representing Minnesota's 1st Congressional District from 2019-2022.
In a news release, Carnahan said she is committed to continuing Hagedorn's legacy of "fighting to secure the border, defending conservative values, safeguarding the integrity of our elections, and serving the people of Minnesota's First Congressional District."
Carnahan most recently served as the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Minnesota from 2017-2021. She was forced to resign in August after coming under fire for her ties with Anton Lazzaro, a Republican Party donor who has been charged with sex trafficking. She has denied knowing anything about Lazzaro's alleged crimes.
But pressure grew as she was accused of ignoring harassment claims from former Republican activists and creating a toxic work environment within the Minnesota GOP. She also apologized to her husband after a recorded phone call was released in which she spoke of him in scornful tones, saying: "Jim's not gonna be alive in two years."
In her announcement, Carnahan likens herself to former President Donald Trump, saying she is a "businesswoman and a fighter." She also says she "brought the Republican Party back to relevance." During her tenure, the Minnesota GOP did make pickups in the 1st and 8th congressional districts and managed to hold onto the Minnesota Senate in 2018 and 2020, but failed to win any statewide elections.
The two-week filing period began March 1. A special primary will be held on May 24, followed by a special election on Aug. 9. Whomever wins will have to run again to hold their seat in November.
Other candidates who have filed to run in the race include Democrat Jeff Ettinger, the former CEO of Hormel Foods; Republican Matt Benda, an agricultural law attorney from Albert Lea; Republican state Rep. Jeremy Munson; former state Rep. Brad Finstad, a Republican; Democrat Richard Painter, a law professor and former associate counsel to the president from 2005-2007; and Democrat Sarah Brakebill-Hacke, a political consultant. | https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/former-minnesota-gop-chair-jennifer-carnahan-running-for-late-husband-hagedorns-1st-district-seat | 2022-03-14T16:51:33 | en | 0.975408 |
Gas prices remain high, but falling oil prices halts daily surge in pump prices
(Gray News) – The average price of gas has increased for the 11th straight week across the United States, climbing 26.4 cents from a week ago, according to GasBuddy.
GasBuddy reports the national average stands at $4.32 per gallon, which is up 83.6 cents from a month ago and $1.47 per gallon higher than a year ago.
AAA reports the national average fell a penny since Friday and held at that price throughout the weekend.
“While the decrease could be short-lived, it is nonetheless a well-needed break from the large surge in gas prices we’ve experienced over the last few weeks,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
According to AAA, the price of crude oil has gradually fallen below $110 per barrel.
AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross explained the cost of oil accounts for 50% of what drivers pay at the pump.
“This war is roiling an already tight global oil market and making it hard to determine if we are near a peak for pump prices, or if they keep grinding higher. It all depends on the direction of oil prices,” Gross said.
Consumers can expect the current trend at the pump to continue as long as crude prices climb.
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Minnesota's COVID-19 update for Monday, March 14
Monday's COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health includes 530 newly reported cases and 16 newly reported deaths. The state's COVID-19 death toll is now 12,280.
Today's update includes case data that was reported in a 24-hour period ending at 4 a.m. Friday, Mar. 11. Data from the weekend will be included in Tuesday's update.
Minnesota's test positivity rate on a 7-day rolling average (through March 4) was 3.6%, having been as high as 23.7% on Jan. 21. Anything over 10% puts Minnesota in the high-risk threshold for community transmission of the coronavirus.
Hospitalizations
Through Mar. 11, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 298 – down from the 313 reported on Mar. 10. Of those hospitalized, 38 people are in intensive care (down from 39) and 260 are in non-ICU care (down from 274).
ICU admissions for COVID-19 haven't been this low since July 24, 2021.
Vaccine, booster stats
As of Mar. 9, the state reported that 3,885,959 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 3,671,760 people have completed the vaccine series. There are 2,547,329 Minnesotans who are "up to date" with their vaccine shots, which includes boosters.
The percentage of Minnesota's population with at least one shot, based on age group:
- 5-11: 41%
- 12-15: 66%
- 16-17: 69%
- 18-49: 72%
- 50-64: 80%
- 65+: 97%
- Total population: 69.8%
The percentage of Minnesota's population that have completed the vaccine series, based on age group:
- 5-11: 36%
- 12-15: 61%
- 16-17: 65%
- 18-49: 68%
- 50-64: 78%
- 65+: 93%
- Total population: 66.0%
Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers
- Total tests: 19,023,778 (up from 19,004,503)
- People with at least 1 vaccine shot: TBD (up from 3,885,959)
- People who have completed vaccine series: TBD (up from 3,671,760)
- People who are up to date with their vaccine series (inc. boosters): 2,547,329
- Positive cases: 1,422,344 (up from 1,421,869)
- Reinfection cases: 62,154 (up from 62,106)
- Deaths: 12,280 – 200 of which are *non-laboratory confirmed* (up from 12,264)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 1,405,731 (up from 1,404,873)
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Missing St. Cloud woman found dead near Mississippi River
The missing St. Cloud woman last seen on the St. Cloud State University campus last week has been found dead, police say.
Annette Louise Brown, 62, was last seen Thursday on the 100 block of 8th Street South in St. Cloud. A Saturday update from the St. Cloud Police Department stated that Brown remained missing and police continued to ask for the public’s help in locating her.
But according to the department, a person walking near the Mississippi River in the area of Sportsman’s Island Road on Sunday spotted the body of a woman.
Officers confirmed the woman was dead, and that the body was that of Brown’s.
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Jackson State introduces Mo Williams as head basketball coach
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Jackson State University has found their next head basketball coach.
The news comes shortly after head coach Wayne Brent announced his retirement following the 2021-22 season.
Jackson native Mo Williams has been tabbed to replace Brent.
Williams, a Jackson native, attended Murrah High School and went on to play 13 seasons in the NBA. He was voted an NBA All-Star in 2009 and became an NBA champion in 2016.
Williams has served as Alabama State’s head coach for the last two seasons with an 11-34 record and a 10-23 conference record.
Williams says he’s excited to be back in Jackson.
“It feels so great to get back into the community, my community, and help out in so many ways,” Williams said.
Williams’ parents and his brother both attended Jackson State and he says there’s plenty of familiar faces at JSU.
Though he didn’t attend JSU, he’s thinking long-term as a coach.
“Jackson State University is getting the best of me,” he said, noting he might have “a good 20 years” in him, as opposed to one or two as a player they may have gotten.
More than just winning, he says he wants to help the lives of kids in Mississippi and instill “the championship mindset.”
“You don’t just wake up and be a champion. It’s daily deposits every single day to be a champion. That’s a championship mindset. If you have a championship mindset, I shouldn’t have to worry about you going to class. I shouldn’t have to worry about you going to study hall. I shouldn’t have to worry about you diving on that ball.”
He credits his success to going to the Y on Fortification every morning at 5 a.m. to workout.
“I did that every day in high school. So you can’t tell me because of where you’re from, you can’t be successful. That’s a mindset.”
He says he has a close relationship and respect for Wayne Brent, whose shoes he is filling.
He talked about wanting to make everyone around him proud, including Brent, the school athletic director and president, and most importantly his family.
“I have the same burning desire as when I left school and decided to pursue my dreams in professional basketball...When I left school, I had a chip on my shoulder to prove everyone wrong.”
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Extending Kirk Cousins means finding answers that haven't been there
A no-trade clause?
Everything else about the Minnesota Vikings’ decision to extend Kirk Cousins was foreseeable and made sense on some level.
With their cap situation ($15 million over the cap at the start of Sunday), the pseudo deadline of the NFL opening up its “legal tampering” period on Monday and the fact that the Vikings needed to get cap compliant by the start of the new league year on March 16, signing the veteran quarterback to a deal that would lower his cap hit and push out money into the future was always toward the top of the list of logical outcomes to the Cousins saga.
But when details of his new contract came out, it was stunning to see that a no-trade was included in the deal. That means that new general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and head coach Kevin O’Connell are fully committed to Cousins for the next two years unless he says otherwise. Had they simply extended him into 2023 with void years to follow, they would have still been leaving the door open to drafting a quarterback this year and moving on after the 2022 season. Now they are all-in.
The message that the Vikings’ brass is sending is that they believe they have answers that Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman never found.
There will be no rebuild, only a redoing everything that the Vikings have already done in the past, except in Adofo-Mensah and O’Connell’s minds, those things will be different enough to take the Vikings to places that they have never approached over the last four seasons.
Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the exact details of the contract go like this: Cousins is extended through 2023 with a $35 million guaranteed for the 2023 season and then two voidable years are tacked on to lower his cap hit by about $14 million this year, per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. Almost enough to get them under the cap. There’s still more work to be done on a roster that has needs abound.
NFL Network also reported that the Vikings had been receiving trade calls in recent days and elected instead to stick with their QB. One person with knowledge of the situation suggested that the offers may not have satisfied ownership’s requirements for a deal.
Without the presence of the no-trade clause, the decision to hang with Cousins would have come across as the new brass giving itself time to evaluate the quarterback position and still having flexibility down the road to move on if needed. It would have allowed them some space to get the salary cap in order, study the younger players on the team and make long-term plays with the roster while still remaining competitive.
If they evaluated the upcoming draft class and free agent crop of quarterbacks and found that they weren’t happy with any of the options, they could have gone the same direction as a team like the Broncos: Keep a solid quarterback for one year, fight for a playoff spot and then see what comes available the following season. What came available for the Broncos turned out to be Russell Wilson.
A number of teams in similar situations have been rewarded in recent years for not locking themselves into an expensive veteran quarterback and drafting a successor. The Baltimore Ravens took at shot at Lamar Jackson while Super Bowl winner Joe Flacco was still the team’s quarterback and landed the NFL MVP. The Buffalo Bills drafted Josh Allen rather than stay with Tyrod Taylor, who had gone 22-20 as a starter from 2015-2017. The Los Angeles Chargers let Philip Rivers walk to pick Justin Herbert. And most famously the Kansas City Chiefs traded away Alex Smith to pick Patrick Mahomes.
The Vikings can’t follow the Alex Smith model now — not unless Cousins approves a trade. Cousins has again proven to be the master of leverage. His agent belongs in the Hall of Fame.
For the Vikings’ leadership, they have to show — and not tell — Vikings fans why this will be different.
Over the years, the fan base has been told that they were only a few pieces away from being a legitimate Super Bowl contender. The team made win-now draft picks and trades to desperately plug holes that sprung up because of Cousins’ bulbus cap hit. By locking into Cousins for the next two years, Adofo-Mensah and O’Connell are saying that won’t happen to them as they rebuild a squad that needs at least defensive end, linebacker, corner, safety and interior offensive line help.
The onus is on them to prove that a new way of thinking about the offensive philosophy or new analytics-driven approaches to free agency or the draft or a new trainer who understands sports science or a new organizational philosophy of “collaboration” is going to make the difference between averaging eight wins per season and the 12-plus that is usually the threshold to compete for the Super Bowl.
Signing Cousins to a contract that carries cap hits of $31 and $36 million in the next two years, per OverTheCap, means that there is no transition period for expectations. Keeping an older quarterback at a higher cap hit than the Rams paid Matthew Stafford last year can only be evaluated as a play to compete for a deep playoff run in 2022. For Adofo-Mensah and O’Connell, it’s win right away or be booed off the field in the same way as their predecessors.
It feels like the depth of failure of the 2018-2021 seasons isn’t being taken much into account with this decision. While Cousins had strong runs of playing well, the team won fewer games against teams with winning records than the New York Jets during the same period of time. They made the playoffs as often as the Washington Football Team. The Bears had a better win percentage and more playoff appearances from ‘18-’21 with Mitch Trubisky, Andy Dalton and Justin Fields at QB. The Vikings only ranked 14th in points scored in the last four years, three spots ahead of the Atlanta Falcons and 347 points behind the NFL’s leader.
These things can’t all be pinned on Cousins — again, he often played at a high level — but the NFL isn’t a quarterback rating or PFF grade contest. The Vikings have had no team success, just as Washington before them with an expensive Cousins at the helm.
There isn’t much evidence to suggest that teams with expensive mid-pack quarterbacks can win the Super Bowl. Since 2012 there has only been one Super Bowl in which one of the quarterbacks hasn’t been on a rookie deal. The Seattle Seahawks had a better QB in Wilson and traded him away after seeing their roster fade around his contract. The Cowboys just had to trade away Amari Cooper. Veteran deals are hard to justify outside of the top few QBs but the Vikings, as they often did under Zimmer/Spielman, are flying in the face of that history and saying: We are different.
It has to be said: Which Wall Street stock trading secret or data algorithm came up with this being the right move when history so strongly says otherwise.
Had they gone in another direction i.e. trading Cousins and drafting one of the available quarterbacks with the 12th overall selection, there would have been plenty of patience from fans. It would have been considered a complete reset and a fully fresh direction. Leadership would have been given time to shape the roster in their eyes. Now O’Connell has to be so much better at clock management than Zimmer, so much better at play calling than Kevin Stefanski and Gary Kubiak and Adofo-Mensah’s draft classes have to provide so many more hits to keep fans from asking: How is this different?
If there weren’t a no-trade clause that locked Cousins into his spot as the franchise QB, you could look down the road and see a succession plan. It would have given Adofo-Mensah and O’Connell the space to make a future decision. Instead your crystal ball only sees No. 8 at QB until the end of the 2023 season — and then you can still see his remaining cap hit from the void years in 2024 and 2025.
It’s possible that Cousins could still be moved if things don’t work out in 2022 but trading him got vastly more difficult. Not only can he veto any deal but this year had an inordinate number of teams with strong rosters looking for a proven quarterback. ESPN reported on Sunday that the Colts showed interest in Cousins, for example.
The road from here is foggy. In the short term, things still need to happen for the Vikings to create any space for movement in free agency. Is that in the form of restructures? Cuts? Trades? How will those spots be filled?
For the long-term, how will they get closer to the Super Bowl with Cousins’ contract still constricting roster building? Are they planning on drafting a successor after 2023? Or are they destined to repeat history again if he shows just enough flash to make them believe they will be different.
Elite quarterbacks in the NFL are king. Always and forever. But the next best thing is cap space and flexibility at the QB position. The Vikings gave themselves neither with another extension and no-trade clause.
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US astronaut to ride Russian spacecraft home during tensions
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries.
NASA insists Vande Hei’s homecoming plans at the end of the month remain unchanged, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in canceled launches, broken contracts and an escalating war of words by the Russian Space Agency’s hardline leader. Many worry Dmitry Rogozin is putting decades of a peaceful off-the-planet partnership at risk, most notably at the International Space Station.
Vande Hei — who on Tuesday breaks the U.S. single spaceflight record of 340 days — is due to leave with two Russians aboard a Soyuz capsule for a touchdown in Kazakhstan on March 30. The astronaut will have logged 355 days in space by then, setting a new U.S. record. The world record of 438 continuous days in space belongs to Russia.
Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, America’s record-holder until Tuesday, is among those sparring with Rogozin, a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin. Enraged by what’s going on in Ukraine, Kelly has returned his Russian medal for space exploration to the Russian Embassy in Washington.
Despite the deadly conflict down here, Kelly believes the two sides “can hold it together” up in space.
“We need an example set that two countries that historically have not been on the most friendly of terms, can still work somewhere peacefully. And that somewhere is the International Space Station. That’s why we need to fight to keep it,” Kelly told The Associated Press.
NASA wants to keep the space station running until 2030, as do the European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies, while the Russians have not committed beyond the original end date of 2024 or so.
The U.S. and Russia are the prime operators of the orbiting outpost, permanently occupied for 21 years. Until SpaceX started launching astronauts in 2020, Americans regularly hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules for tens of millions of dollars per seat. The U.S. and Russian space agencies are still working on a long-term barter system in which a Russian would launch on a SpaceX capsule beginning this fall and an American would fly up on the Soyuz. That would help ensure a U.S. and Russian station presence at all times.
Vande Hei, 55, a retired Army colonel, moved into the space station last April, launching on a Soyuz from Kazakhstan with Pyotr Dubrov and another Russian. He and Dubrov stayed twice as long as usual to accommodate a Russian film crew that visited in October.
As the situation 260 miles (420 kilometers) below intensified last month, Vande Hei acknowledged he was avoiding conversations about Ukraine with Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, their Russian commander. Three more Russians will blast off from Kazakhstan on Friday to replace them.
“We haven’t talked about that too much. I’m not sure we really want to go there,” Vande Hei told a TV interviewer in mid-February.
Space station operations continue as always — in orbit and on Earth, according to NASA.
“It would be a sad day for international operations if we can’t continue to peacefully operate in space,” said NASA’s human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders, who noted it would be “very difficult” to go it alone.
To mark Tuesday’s milestone, NASA turned to Twitter to gather questions for video-recorded responses, and some asked whether Vande Hei might switch to an American ride home. SpaceX is taking three wealthy businessmen and their ex-astronaut escort to the space station at the end of March for a brief visit. Then in mid-April, SpaceX will deliver four astronauts for NASA before bringing back four who have been on board since November.
NASA and SpaceX officials refuse to speculate on whether a seat could be made available. They say a NASA plane and small team will be on hand in Kazakhstan, as usual, to whisk Vande Hei back home to Houston.
Former NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, whose father was born in Ukraine, concedes it’s a difficult situation.
“We’re sanctioning Russia. Companies are pulling out of doing business in Russia. But then yet you still have the U.S. government — the space agency — doing business with the Russians,” she said. “You can’t push a button and separate the two” sides of the space station.
Besides threatening to pull out of the space station and drop it on the U.S., Europe or elsewhere, Rogozin had the flags of other countries covered on a Soyuz rocket awaiting liftoff with internet satellites earlier this month. The launch was called off, after the customer, London-based OneWeb, refused his demands that the satellites not be used for military purposes and the British government halt its financial backing.
The European Space Agency also is reeling. After missing a 2020 launch deadline for its Mars rover — a joint European-Russian effort — the project was on track for a September liftoff from Kazakhstan. Now it’s most likely off until 2024, the next opportunity for Earth and Mars to be properly aligned. And Russia has pulled its staff out of the French-run launch site in South America, suspending Soyuz launches of European satellites.
All this comes on top of the Russian government’s antisatellite missile test in November that added countless pieces of junk to the debris already encircling Earth and put the space station’s four Americans, two Russians and one German on alert for days.
Jeffrey Manber, now with the private Voyager Space company, helped forge U.S. and Russian ties back in the mid-1990s, with the first piece of the space station launching in 1998. He sees the outpost as “one of the final holdouts of collaboration” between the two countries. But, he added, “there is no going back if the partnership is ended and the result is a premature ending of the ISS program.”
Regardless of how things play out at the space station, John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University, expects it will mark the end of large-scale space cooperation between Russia and the West.
“Russia has been moving toward China already, and the current situation will probably accelerate that move,” he said.
While Vande Hei has been silent on Twitter, Kelly and others have gone into overdrive, taking offense at Rogozin’s threats.
Elon Musk’s private SpaceX took a swipe at Rogozin after he said Russia would stop supplying rocket engines to U.S. companies — Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance — adding they could use broomsticks to get to orbit.
At a launch last week, a SpaceX official responded: “Time to let the American broomstick fly and hear the sounds of freedom.”
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Kicker Greg Joseph is re-signing with the Vikings
Greg Joseph will kick again for the Minnesota Vikings in 2022.
Joseph's agent, Brett Tessler, announced on Twitter that the Vikings are tendering a contract to Joseph, with NFL Network's Ian Rapoport saying it's a one-year deal that will pay Joseph $2.433 million.
Joseph made $780,000 last season, which was his first with the Vikings after winning a Super Bowl on Tampa Bay's practice squad in 2020.
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US Customs: Nearly 150 grams of cocaine found in ‘high school cookbook’
(Gray News) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a cookbook that had a lot more than just recipes in it last month.
Officers at an express consignment hub in Memphis, Tennessee, examined a package described in the paperwork as a high school cookbook on Feb. 17, according to a CBP press release. The package contained one hardcover book titled “The Multi-Cultural Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago & the Caribbean.”
However, the agency found several of the 500 recipes and 32 colored photographs missing, cut out to make room for a rectangular packet of cocaine weighing 147.6 grams.
The shipment was sent from Trinidad and Tobago to an address in the Little Caribbean neighborhood of New York City.
“How was the recipient intending to cook his traditional callaloo, with all the pages cut up and replaced with cocaine,” said Area Port Director Michael Neipert. “Smugglers continue to conceal narcotics and other contraband in myriad ways, which my officers seize over and over every shift.”
February’s seizure took place within the Area Port of Memphis, which covers ports of entry throughout the state of Tennessee and falls under CBP’s New Orleans Field Office.
The border protection personnel are trained to identify patterns and red flags that enable them to intercept shipments that may contain illicit and potentially dangerous goods, according to the agency.
U.S. importers provide advance information about container cargo, express consignment shipments and some international mail parcels bound for the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection uses this data to target and intercept high-risk shipments.
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Report: Multiple execs would 'put money' on Trevor Story signing with the Twins
After a wild weekend that saw the Twins trade Mitch Garver to the Rangers for Isiah Kiner-Faleh, then trade 2021 top draft pick Chase Petty to the Reds for Sonny Gray, followed by Kiner-Faleh, Josh Donaldson and Ben Rortvedt being dealt to the Yankees for Gary Sanchez and Gio Urshela, the Twins might not be done.
Numerous reports say the Twins are interested in acquiring free agent shortstop Trevor Story, including MLB Network's Joel Sherman, who took his report a step further with inside info from "multiple executives."
"There's kind of an information super highway in baseball and as soon as this trade was made last night I got multiple texts from executives that were like, 'I'll put some money on Trevor Story ending up at shortstop for the Minnesota Twins,'" Sherman said.
The Twins have money to spend thanks to the Yankees taking on all $50 million remaining on Donaldson's contract. But the question with Story, wherever he winds up, is if he can shake the alarming home/road splits that matter-of-factly say he's a great hitter at Coors Field and an average hitter outside of the thin air.
Last year, Story slashed .296/.365/.515 at home and .203/.292/.426 on the road. In 2020 he only played 59 games but he still hit .333 at home and .246 on the road, and his splits are just as staggering in years prior.
In 2019 he hit .328 and slugged a ludicrous .662 with 24 homers at home, but hit just .260 with a .445 slugging percentage and 11 homers on the road. Same story in 2018 as 26 of his 37 homers were at Coors Field and his slugging percentage was more than 200 points lower on the road (.678 at home, .452 on the road).
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Woman charged in deadly DUI crash given $100K bond
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A South Mississippi woman is facing a $100,000 bond following her initial appearance in Jackson Municipal Court.
Monday, Kathryn Blankenship was given a $100,000 bond by Jackson Municipal Court Judge Henry Clay.
At the time, Blakenship had a blood-alcohol level two times the legal limit of 0.08 percent, Clay said in court.
She was arrested and taken to the Hinds County Detention Center. She is facing one count of aggravated DUI.
As conditions of her bond, Blankenship will be required to surrender her license and passport and submit to a curfew, Clay said.
Blakenship began crying before being led out of the courtroom.
Her public defender, Kendrick Amerson, offered a spirited argument for a lower bond, pointing to the fact that his client has no prior criminal history and that if she surrendered her license she would not be a danger to society.
“She has no prior convictions whatsoever,” he told the judge. “She is willing to face these charges head-on. If anybody is a candidate (low) bond... it is my client.”
“She’s already stunned by this tragic event.”
If Blankenship bonds out, she also will be required to wear an ankle monitoring device.
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Section championship week in Minnesota boys basketball
It is section championship week in Minnesota boys high school basketball, with the winners advancing to next week's state tournament. This week will feature the girls' state tournament at Williams Arena and Maturi Pavilion in Minneapolis.
Next week's boys basketball state tournament, held March 22-26, will be played at Target Center and Williams Arena. Consolation games for the boys' and girls' tournaments will be played at Concordia in St. Paul.
The majority of the section tournaments in 4A and 3A have reached the championship round, while smaller schools in 2A and 1A will play the bulk of their semifinal games Tuesday or Wednesday, with Friday night serving as the platform for the championship matchups.
State tournament brackets will be released on Saturday.
Class 4A section playoffs
Section 1: #1 Farmington vs. #2 Owatonna – March 18, 6 p.m.
Section 2: #1 Shakopee vs. #2 Eden Prairie – March 18, 7 p.m.
Section 3: #1 Eastview vs. #2 Park of Cottage Grove – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 4: #1 East Ridge vs. #2 Cretin-Derham Hall – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 5 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Park Center vs. #4 Mounds View; #2 Osseo vs. #6 Spring Lake Park
Section 6: #1 Wayzata vs. #3 Minneapolis South – March 15, 7 p.m.
Section 7 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Andover vs. #4 Duluth East; #2 Coon Rapids vs. #6 Forest Lake
Section 8: Brainerd vs. Moorhead – March 17, 7 p.m.
Class 3A section playoffs
Section 1: #1 Austin vs. #3 Winona – March 18, 8 p.m.
Section 2: #1 Mankato East vs. #3 New Ulm – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 3: #1 South St. Paul vs. #2 DeLaSalle – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 4: #1 Columbia Heights vs. #2 Totino-Grace – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 5: #1 Princeton vs. #2 Becker – March 18, 7 p.m.
Section 6: #1 Orono vs. #3 Mound Westonka – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 7 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Hibbing vs. #3 Cloquet; #2 North Branch vs. #3 Hermantown
Section 8: #1 Alexandria vs. #2 St. Cloud Tech – March 17, 7 p.m.
Class 2A section playoffs
Section 1: #1 Caledonia vs. #2 Plainview-Elgin-Millville – March 17, 7 p.m.
Section 2 semifinals Tuesday: Belle Plaine vs. Glencoe-Silver Lake; Maple River vs. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial
Section 3: #1 Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta vs. #2 Redwood Valley – March 17, 8 p.m.
Section 4 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Minnehaha Academy vs. #4 St. Agnes; #3 Concordia Academy vs. #7 Twin Cities Academy/Great River
Section 5 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Minneapolis North vs. #4 Providence Academy; #2 Rockford vs. #3 Maranatha Christian Academy
Section 6 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Annandale vs. #4 Osakis; #2 Mora vs. #3 Albany
Section 7 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Esko vs. #4 Crosby-Ironton; #2 Pequot Lakes vs. #3 Moose Lake-Willow River
Section 8 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton vs. #4 Thief River Falls; #2 Pelican Rapids vs. #3 Perham
Class 1A section playoffs
Section 1: #1 Hayfield vs. #3 Goodhue – March 17, 6 p.m.
Section 2 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Sleepy Eye-St. Mary's vs. #2 BOLD; #4 Mt. Lake/Comfrey vs. #6 Madelia
Section 3: #1 Central MN Christian vs. #2 Russell-Tyler-Ruthton
Section 4 semifinals Tuesday: #1 New Life Academy vs. #4 Liberty Classical; #3 Legacy Christian vs. #7 Hope Academy
Section 5 semifinals Tuesday: #1 Nevis vs. #2 Browerville; #1 Barnum vs. #2 Cromwell-Wright
Section 6 semifinals Tuesday: #1 New York Mills vs. #2 Henning; #1 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa vs. #3 Hancock
Section 7 semifinals Wednesday: #1 Cherry vs. #4 Mountain Iron-Buhl; #2 North Woods vs. #3 Deer River
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Ford says it will have three new electric passenger vehicles and four new electric commercial vehicles in Europe by 2024, part of the automaker's continued push to grow its presence in the EV market.
Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it plans to sell more than 600,000 electric vehicles in the Europe by 2026. It anticipates producing 1.2 million electric vehicles in Cologne, Germany over six years.
Ford will start production of an all-new electric passenger vehicle, a medium-sized crossover, in Cologne next year. A second electric vehicle will be added to the Cologne production line-up in 2024. An electric version of the Ford Puma will be made in Craiova, Romania beginning in 2024.
For commercial vehicles, the Transit will include four new electric models – the Transit Custom one-tonne van and Tourneo Custom multi-purpose vehicle in 2023, and the smaller, next generation Transit Courier van and Tourneo Courier multi-purpose vehicle in 2024.
“I am delighted to see the pace of change in Europe – challenging our entire industry to build better, cleaner and more digital vehicles," Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. "Ford is all-in and moving fast to meet the demand in Europe and around the globe.”
Earlier this month Ford announced that it was splitting its electric vehicle and internal combustion operations into two individual businesses. Ford Blue will focus on traditional combustion engines and Ford Model e will develop electric vehicles. The Detroit company now expects that half of its vehicles will be electric by 2030.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Davidson is heading to space.
The “Saturday Night Live” star is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezo's space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced Monday.
The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight. William Shatner was on a flight in October, blasting off from West Texas and reaching a height of roughly 66 miles above Earth on the 10-minute jaunt.
Former NFL great and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan flew on Blue Origin's second passenger flight in December, joining astronaut Alan Shepard's daughter on the journey. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, flew on the company's first passenger flight last July.
The other passengers on next week's flight are CEO and investor Marty Allen; Sharon and Marc Hagle; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and George Nield, a former NASA manager who has worked to promote commercial spaceflight.
Marc Hagle is CEO of the commercial and residential property company Tricor International. His wife, Sharon Hagle, founded SpaceKids Global, a nonprofit aimed at inspiring children about spaceflight.
Blue Origin flights give passengers a few minutes of weightlessness above the Earth's surface before the capsule parachutes and lands in the West Texas desert. The company has not disclosed the ticket price for paying customers.
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“Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana” by Gene Eric Salecker (Naval Institute Press)
Nearly 1,200 people perished when the steamship Sultana exploded and burned in the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, in the Mississippi River. It's the worst maritime disaster in United States history, yet it's not as well known as other doomed ships such as the Titanic or the Lusitania.
In “Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana," Gene Eric Salecker offers a comprehensive and at times compelling account of the disaster. The book is the second written on the Sultana by Salecker, a retired police officer and teacher who is a consultant for the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion, Arkansas.
The Sultana's sinking occurred in one of the most momentous months in the nation's history, just days after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the end of the Civil War.
Most of the passengers on the overcrowded ship were Union soldiers who had been held as prisoners of war, finally on their way home after being in captivity.
Not surprisingly, the most gripping sections of Salecker's book are descriptions of the ship's destruction and its aftermath. Salecker deftly lets the accounts of the survivors, rescuers and witnesses speak for themselves. These accounts leave readers with haunting images that will stay with them.
Though not as dramatic as the descriptions of the disaster itself, Salecker's book also takes a detailed look at the mechanical causes as well as the human factors that contributed to so many perishing. He further debunks already disproven yet persistent conspiracy theories that the explosion was caused by Confederate saboteurs.
The book is a must-read for Civil War buffs and those wanting to learn new details about the Sultana. Though it's a challenging read at times for those not familiar with the event, Salecker's account is a solid introduction to an oft-overlooked piece of history. | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Review-Sultana-revisits-a-little-known-17000829.php | 2022-03-14T16:52:47 | en | 0.966107 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A clutch of live performances by Tony- and Grammy Award-nominated artists — including Micky Dolenz, Paul Williams, Michael Cerveris and LaChanze — have been collected into a benefit album for arts education.
“Rockers On Broadway: Live” features Alex Brightman and Cervaris belting out “Under Pressure,” Dolenz of The Monkees singing “I’m a Believer,” LaChanze doing “Purple Rain,” Alice Ripley singing "Hallelujah," Constantine Maroulis singing "No Rain" and Williams performing his signature “The Rainbow Connection.”
Others songs on the album include “What About Us” by Isabelle Gottfried, “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)” by Christian Hoff and Donnie Kehr, “Dream a Little Dream” by Emma Hunton, “The Show Must Go On” by Morgan James, “Space Captain” by Michael Lanning and “Thugz Mansion/A Change Is Gonna Come” by Donald Webber.
The album is a selection of live performances from Rockers On Broadway concerts over the past 28 years. Proceeds will support ongoing initiatives for The PATH Fund, dedicated to supporting arts education with scholarship and program funding.
“Out of an abundance of caution and to allow the Broadway community the necessary time to focus on performing their shows safely, we have held off on our annual live concert, but rest assured, we are still going to bring you the rock,” said Rockers creator Donnie Kehr and Executive Producer Cori Gardner in a joint statement.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
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