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February movie preview: Uncharted, J.Lo, Hercule Poirot and more
CHICAGO - Blockbusters, romance and horror, oh my! This February promises to be a particularly eclectic month for movies, with everything from Channing Tatum teaming up with a dog (in a movie that’s hilariously just titled "Dog") to the long-delayed follow-up to "Murder On The Orient Express" finally hitting theaters.
Indeed, for those who are ready to (safely) return to megaplexes, there’s plenty on offer: Disaster aficionado Roland Emmerich wants to crash the moon into the earth (and Halle Berry), the gents of "Jackass" are ready to pratfall for your pleasure and Tom Holland will tumble out of an airplane and into a possible blockbuster franchise in "Uncharted."
Of course, those who’d prefer to stay safely snuggled on the couch have plenty of options too. HBO Max casts Catwoman-to-be Zoë Kravitz in the paranoiac tech thriller "Kimi," while Netflix has a new "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" on hand. Plus Jennifer Lopez serves up ready-made Valentine’s Day plans with her latest rom-com, "Marry Me," which arrives in theaters and on Peacock simultaneously. That’s one of several streaming rom-coms ready to warm (or tug at) your heart this February.
All that, plus Liam Neeson punching things, too. Here’s what’s headed your way, cinematically speaking, in Feb. 2022.
"Moonfall" (In theaters Feb. 4)
Halle Berry ("Jocinda Fowler," left) and Patrick Wilson ("Brian Harper," right) as stranded astronauts in the sci-fi epic MOONFALL.
Diaster movie aficionado Roland Emmerich starts February with a bang. Well, more like a blast. When the moon is knocked off its orbit and set on a collision course with Earth, two astronauts (Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson) and a conspiracy theorist (John Bradley) have to work together to try to save the planet. "Moonfall" promises all the souped-up disaster movie fun we’d expect from the man who gave us "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012." Oh and did we mention there’s a giant alien space worm angle here too? Should be a moonwalking good time.
Rated PG-13. 120 minutes. Dir: Roland Emmerich. Featuring: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Donald Sutherland.
WATCH: Halle Berry in "Kings," streaming for free on Tubi
"Jackass Forever" (In theaters Feb. 4)
Johnny Knoxville and a bull in "Jackass Forever" from Paramount Pictures and MTV Entertainment Studios.
The boys (er, late 40-somethings) of the "Jackass" series are back with a fourth and potentially final installment of pranks, stunts and general button-pushing spectacle. This time around, the original crew are joined by some new cast members too. And while the film’s trailer promises plenty of rowdy antics, it also leans into a surprising sense of sentimentality about the joy of getting together with friends to laugh your asses off.
Rated R. 96 minutes. Dir: Jeff Tremaine. Featuring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, Preston Lacy.
"The Worst Person in the World" (In theaters Feb. 4)
Renate Reinsve appears in "The Worst Person in the World" by Joachim Trier | photo by Kasper Tuxen
"Do we ever stop coming of age? That’s the question that implicitly sits at the heart of director Joachim Trier’s exceptional romantic dramedy, "The Worst Person in the World" — Norway’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards and an early contender for best film of the year. Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a 20-something who swiftly decides that med school isn’t for her, even if she isn’t entirely sure what comes next. Her new boyfriend Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie) is fifteen years older and struggling to figure out his own next step in life after finding early success as an acclaimed underground comic book artist." Read the rest of Caroline Siede’s review.
Rated R. 127 minutes. Language: Norwegian. Dir: Joachim Trier. Featuring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum. Opens in select theaters Feb. 4.
WATCH: Joachim Trier’s "Thelma" and "Louder Than Bombs"
"Kimi" (Streaming on HBO Max Feb. 10)
Zoë Kravitz in "Kimi." Photo: HBO Max.
The good news? You’ll be able to stream Steven Soderbergh’s latest film from the comfort of your own home. The bad news? It’s set during the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, it promises to offer plenty of escapism too, with its stylish tech thriller premise. Zoë Kravitz stars as an agoraphobic tech worker who overwhears what she believes to be a violent crime while analyzing a data stream from an Alexa-style device called KIMI. When her company’s bureaucracy refuses to take action, however, she must face her fears and head out into the increasingly tumultuous streets in this Hitchcockian thriller for the pandemic era.
Rated R. 149 minutes. Dir: Steven Soderbergh. Featuring: Zoë Kravitz, Rita Wilson, Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil, Erika Christensen.
WATCH: Steven Soderbergh’s "The Limey," streaming for free on Tubi
"Marry Me" (In theaters and on Peacock Feb. 11)
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Lopez in "Marry Me." (Screenshot: YouTube.)
Ah, that age-old romantic comedy premise: When a pop star played by Jennifer Lopez gets cheated on right before her much-publicized on-stage wedding at one of her concerts, she decides to pull Owen Wilson out of the crowd and marry him instead. Okay, so it might not be the most relatable plot in the world. But pairing Lopez and Wilson is the sort of appreciably out-there casting choice that could pay dividends if these two charming stars are able to generate some uniquely sparkling rom-com chemistry together.
Rated PG-13. 112 minutes. Dir: Kat Coiro. Featuring: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, John Bradley, Sarah Silverman.
"Death on the Nile" (In theaters Feb. 11)
Kenneth Branagh in "Death on the Nile." (Screenshot: YouTube.)
It’s been a strange ride for "Death on the Nile," which was first delayed for the COVID-19 pandemic and then over horrific allegations against cast member Armie Hammer. That’s a lot of baggage for the film to carry, but 20th Century Studios hopes viewers will still set sail on this star-studded follow up to 2017’s "Murder on the Orient Express." Kenneth Branagh (and his impressive moustache) return to direct and lead this latest Hercule Poirot mystery, which also features the likes of Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright and Annette Bening. Based on the famed Agatha Christie novel and set aboard a glamorous steamer tour along the Nile, this one aims to be an old-fashioned crowd-pleasing whodunit.
Rated PG-13. 127 minutes. Dir: Kenneth Branagh. Featuring: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright.
WATCH: Kenneth Branagh’s "Henry V," streaming for free on Tubi
"Uncharted" (In theaters Feb. 18)
Tom Holland in "Uncharted" (Screenshot: YouTube)
Video game fans rejoice, the long-awaited "Uncharted" film adaptation is finally here! And the marketing has been teasing the most exhilarating airplane setpiece this side of "Top Gun: Maverick." An origin story of sorts, the film stars Tom Holland as young treasure hunter Nathan "Nate" Drake and Mark Wahlberg as his mentor Victor "Sully" Sullivan. The film has been in development for so long that Wahlberg was originally meant to play the novice role, not the father figure one. But hopefully good things come to those who wait with this rollicking, action-packed Indiana-Jones-meets-James-Bond style adventure.
Dir: Ruben Fleischer. Featuring: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle, Antonio Banderas.
"Dog" (In theaters Feb. 18)
Channing Tatum and a very good dog in "Dog." (Screenshot: YouTube.)
Channing Tatum makes his directorial debut with this sweet road trip comedy about man’s best friend. Tatum also stars as a U.S. Army Ranger tasked with bringing a Belgian Malinois military working dog down the Pacific Coast in time to attend her handler's funeral. And if that premise alone is starting to make you tear up, you're definitely the right audience for this latest entry in Hollywood's ever-growing Dog Movie Cinematic Universe. Unlike "A Dog's Purpose" or "A Dog's Way Home," though, "Dog" stakes its claim with a simple, declarative title that says it all. Handsome men, cute dogs and some tear-jerking patriotism? What else could you need?
Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. Dir: Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin. Featuring: Channing Tatum, Jane Adams, Kevin Nash, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ethan Suplee, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bill Burr.
WATCH: Channing Tatum in "Foxcatcher," streaming free on Tubi
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (Streaming on Netflix Feb. 18)
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Cr. Yana Blajeva / ©2021 Legendary, Courtesy of Netflix
After 2021 gave us new takes on "Halloween" and "Candyman" and January kicked off with a new installment of "Scream," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is the latest beloved horror franchise to get a legacy reimagining. This one lands on Netflix and is slated to be a direct sequel to the 1974 original. (In other words, go ahead and ignore the other seven movies in between.) "Eighth Grade" star Elsie Fisher is among the new group of young people to venture to small town Texas and face off against the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. There they meet the franchise’s original heroine Sally Hardesty (now played by Olwen Fouéré), the sole survivor of Leatherface’s infamous 1970s massacre.
Rated R. 81 minutes. Dir: David Blue Garcia. Featuring: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Jacob Latimore, Moe Dunford, Olwen Fouéré, Alice Krige, Jessica Allain, Nell Hudson.
"Studio 666" (In theaters Feb. 25)
Dave Grohl in "Studio 666" (Screenshot: YouTube)
How did the Foo Fighters spend the early days of 2020? By secretly making a supernatural horror comedy in which they play themselves, of course. Based on a story by frontman Dave Grohl, "Studio 666" follows a fictionalized version of the band as they move into a new house to record their 10th album. When it slowly becomes clear the house is haunted by the malicious ghosts of a former rock band, however, the Foo Fighters have to fight to save their lives — and Dave’s soul. The group shot the film in the same house they recorded their 2021 album "Medicine at Midnight," and as Grohl put it, "There's no other band stupid enough to do this. It's absolutely insane."
Rated R. Dir: BJ McDonell. Featuring: Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffe, Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, Jeff Garlin.
"Cyrano" (Opens in wider release starting Feb. 25)
Haley Bennett and Peter Dinklage in "Cyrano."
"Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage puts his own unique spin on the classic swashbuckling romantic drama, "Cyrano de Bergerac." This time around, he sings! Based on a 2018 stage musical adaptation that Dinklage also starred in, this take on "Cyrano" adds a sweetly melodic touch to the age-old story about how our insecurities can be our own worst enemies.
With its stellar performances and an unusual score from Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the acclaimed rock band The National, this one is already garnering some awards-season attention. And those who missed its early limited release will now have more opportunity to seek it out.
Rated PG-13. 124 minutes. Dir: Joe Wright. Featuring: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Bashir Salahuddin, Ben Mendelsohn.
"Mothering Sunday" (In theaters Feb. 25)
Josh O'Connor and Odessa Young in "Mothering Sunday"
This month’s handsomely shot British period drama, "Mothering Sunday" follows the life of an orphaned maid named Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) in the wake of World War I. Written by "Normal People" screenwriter Alice Birch and based on a book by Graham Swift, "Mothering Sunday" is an "Atonement"-style romantic drama about love, class and writing. The real draw, however, is the impressive cast of period piece stalwarts, which also include Olivia Colman and Colin Firth as Jane’s affluent employers and Josh O'Connor ("The Crown") as the wealthy neighbor she’s secretly having an affair with.
Rated R. 104 minutes. Dir: Eva Husson. Featuring: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Sope Dirisu, Glenda Jackson.
And more!
FOR FAMILIES: "The Wolf and the Lion" (in theaters Feb. 4) follows the unlikely friendship between a wolf pup and a lion cub. And "Howard High" (on Tubi Feb. 4) blends "Bring It On" energy with song, dance and Black joy.
FOR ROMANTICS: "The Kissing Booth" star Joey King leads the supernatural romance "The In Between" (Paramount+ Feb. 11). "Tall Girl 2" aims to reach new heights (Netflix Feb. 11). Plus Charlie Day and Jenny Slate play two recently dumped people who team up to sabotage their exes’ new relationships in the lighthearted rom-com "I Want You Back" (Amazon Prime Video Feb. 11).
WATCH: Jenny Slate in the rom-com "My Blind Brother," streaming for free on Tubi
FOR TEENS: Arthouse director Josephine Decker adapts the best-selling YA novel "The Sky Is Everywhere" (in theaters and on Apple TV+ Feb. 11) about a music prodigy struggling with the sudden loss of her older sister.
FOR ACTION FANS: Liam Neeson plays a government operative with a shadowy past in "Blacklight" (in theaters Feb. 11). A Native American boxer takes center stage in the human trafficking thriller "Catch the Fair One" (in theaters Feb. 11). And John Cusack and Emile Hirsch play father and son in the action thriller "Pursuit" (in theaters and VOD Feb. 18).
WATCH: Liam Neeson in "Run All Night," streaming for free on Tubi
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS: Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunetin serves up a slice of sci-fi satire in "Bigbug" (Netflix Feb. 11). "Strawberry Mansion" (in theaters Feb. 18) promises whimsical indie sci-fi unlike anything you’ve seen before. And "Big Gold Brick" (in theaters and VOD Feb. 25) is a genre-bending dark comedy featuring Andy Garcia, Megan Fox, Lucy Hale and Oscar Isaac.
FOR DOCUMENTARY LOVERS: "Let Me Be Me" (in theaters and VOD Feb. 25) tells the 20-year story of a fashion designer with autism.
More great movies streaming (for free!) on Tubi
Guys and Dolls (1955): There are many reasons to watch this classic movie musical, from the iconic costuming to the fabulous dance numbers, but two rise above the rest. First: It’s a chance to watch Vivian Blaine sniffle through the comic masterpiece "Adelaide’s Lament," a performance that repeatedly brought down the house when she originated the role on Broadway. Second, and even more importantly: Perhaps you, dear reader, will be the one to solve the mystery of why the folks at MGM decided to give Marlon Brando the singing role and Frank Sinatra the acting role. TV-PG. 159 minutes. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Also features Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye.
Lion (2016): Dev Patel transformed his career (and his public image) with this critically acclaimed true story of a young Indian-Australian man who becomes determined to find his lost birth family. With four Golden Globe nominations, six Oscar nods and two BAFTA wins, it’s a cross-cultural story that resonated around the world. Rated PG-13. 118 minutes. Dir: Garth Davis. Also featuring: Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Priyanka Bose, David Wenham.
About Tubi: Tubi has more than 35,000 movies and television series from over 250 content partners, including every major studio, in addition to the largest offering of free live local and national news channels in streaming. The platform gives fans of entertainment, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is available completely free.
Tubi is available on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on OTT devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at http://www.tubi.tv/.
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About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, she lovingly dissects the romantic comedy genre one film at a time in her ongoing column When Romance Met Comedy at The A.V. Club. She also co-hosts the movie podcast, Role Calling, and shares her pop culture opinions on Twitter (@carolinesiede).
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About the writer: Allison Shoemaker is a Chicago-based pop-culture critic and journalist. She is the author of "How TV Can Make You Smarter," and a member of the Television Critics Association and the Chicago Film Critics Association. She is also a producer and co-host for the Podlander Presents network of podcasts. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @allisonshoe. Allison is a Tomatometer-approved Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes.
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WebXtra: East Texas cardiologist shares recommendations for heart-healthy lifestyle
Published: Feb. 4, 2022 at 3:13 PM CST|Updated: 1 hours ago
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KLTV) - Today heart disease awareness is emphasized, particularly among women, through the American Heart Association National Wear Red Day.
Nacogdoches cardiologist Dr. Vijaya Pokala speaks about heart disease prevention and his patient, Emily Harris, is listening. In late August, Harris was keeping her grandchildren during a trip to Galveston but when the vacation was over a stent was necessary.
Pokala emphasizes 25 percent of women die from heart disease and says this is the number one killer of both Caucasian and African-American women and offers suggestions for a healthier lifestyle.
Harris is following her doctor’s guidance and turns 93 on Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Klay Thompson took a flick pass from Stephen Curry in transition then drove hard past Davion Mitchell to the left corner and unleashed an off-balanced baseline 3-pointer that was spot on, raising an arm high to celebrate.
Thompson hit his first seven shots overall and initial six 3-pointers on the way to 23 points and seven assists, and the Golden State Warriors beat the undermanned Sacramento Kings 126-114 on Thursday night for their eighth straight victory.
“I’m happy with the night, but I want to build on this,” Thompson said. “I want to shoot the lights out all the time.”
Thompson knocked down four straight from deep during one dominant second-quarter stretch — including that spectacular 3 that had the Chase Center crowd roaring. Splash Brother Curry just kept sending him the ball.
“It was awesome to see. I love when he’s got that pep in his step and getting rewarded with shots going in,” Curry said. “He can get hot at any moment, he’s got that look in his eye. We love to see that, it’s a big boost for the whole team and for him as well.”
Thompson finished 8 for 11 from the floor with seven 3s and continues to make strides following his 2 1/2-year comeback from surgeries on his left knee and and right Achilles tendon.
“He’s had a couple games where he’s lit it up and caught fire, so this seemed almost routine to me,” coach Steve Kerr said. “Other than that crazy corner 3 when he was super hot, that felt a little out-of-body experience-ish.”
Curry scored 20 points and dished out seven assists playing with foul trouble, while Andrew Wiggins scored 12 in the Warriors’ fourth victory in a row against the Kings and fourth in the series at home.
Mitchell scored 26 points and Harrison Barnes added 25 against his former Warriors team as the Kings completed a back-to-back after a 112-101 win at home against Brooklyn on Wednesday night.
Interim Kings coach Alvin Gentry was on the Warriors staff in 2014-15 during Steve Kerr’s first year and Kerr credits Gentry for teaching him how to coach.
“First of all, I can say that I appreciate the compliment, but Steve worked his butt off from Day One as far as being a head coach,” Gentry said.
Golden State got some of its regulars back after the Warriors won Tuesday night at San Antonio without Curry, Thompson, Draymond Green and Wiggins in the second night of a back-to-back.
Rookie Jonathan Kuminga joked he took a shot when he could have passed to Thompson. It worked out just fine.
“I’ve got a chance to play with Klay now and see what he’s been doing for so long,” Kuminga said. “It’s super exciting to be on the court.”
FLOOR LEADER
While his shooting has been up and down, Curry continues to facilitate.
The reigning scoring champion has 71 assists to 24 turnovers his last nine games.
GREEN’S STATUS
Green, named an All-Star reserve and currently sidelined by a lower back injury that caused him a painful calf, is hopeful of returning in 3 to 4 weeks but is pain-free and thrilled he won’t need back surgery.
“When dealing with a back, the one thing I’m not going to do is rush back out there,” he said. “I want to return when I’m 100% confident that I’m healthy, when I feel like I’m in great shape, because the reality is, I don’t want to return not in somewhat of game shape and then, you’re laboring, your mechanics and running is wrong, and all of these things and then you’re compensating, and then I get hurt again.”
Green has resumed shooting after what he considered an encouraging follow-up appointment Monday.
“I think ultimately this will be a positive for me, I’ll come back stronger,” Green said.
TIP-INS
Kings: G De’Aaron Fox missed his seventh straight game because of left ankle soreness, but was a game-time decision. … Marvin Bagley III (left ankle sprain) sat out his third in a row. … Sacramento hasn’t won on the Warriors’ home floor since a 112-94 victory on Feb. 25, 2020, in Chase Center’s inaugural season.
Warriors: Kerr was credited for coaching his 600th NBA game, though Luke Walton guided Golden State the initial 43 games of 2015-16 as Kerr dealt with complications from back surgery. … Veteran Andre Iguodala, who turned 38 on Jan. 28, remained out after staying home from the quick two-game road trip through Texas to nurse a left hip injury. Kerr had hoped to have him back against the Kings, but Iguodala missed his eighth straight game and has been limited to just 25 contests so far. … Kevon Looney has 48 rebounds — 21 offensive — the last four games. … Otto Porter Jr. (left foot) missed his third straight game and Nemanja Bjelica (back spasms) his fourth in a row. … The Warriors are 23-8 against Western Conference teams.
UP NEXT
Kings: Host Oklahoma City on Saturday.
Warriors: At Oklahoma City on Monday night having won five straight in the series including two in a row on the Thunder’s home floor.
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The Michigan attorney general delivered an opinion Friday on how the Americans with Disabilities Act intersects with open meetings on both a state and local level.
Attorney General Dana Nessel released an opinion stating that the ADA requires state and local boards and commissions to provide accommodations in public meetings, including virtual participation. In the opinion, Nessel highlighted accommodations that are already in existence such as ramps and closed captioning while indicating the need for newer accommodations to fit the current situation.
“It is crucial that efforts aimed at removing those types of barriers continue,” the opinion states. “But medical conditions that make physical presence dangerous or impossible highlight a different but equally important need, and physical-presence requirements such as those of the OMA (Open Meetings Act) present an equally troubling barrier…”
The OMA requires meetings of certain public groups to be open to the public and for meeting minutes to be tracked and recorded.
The opinion was issued in response to a letter from Sens. Jeff Irwin and Wayne Schmidt to Nessel asking for a formal opinion on whether the federal act allows or requires reasonable accommodation on state and local levels for those with disabilities who wish to attend meetings virtually.
“This is a matter of great urgency and importance as the allowance of local governments, as well as their boards and commissions, to meet virtually in response to the COVID-19 pandemic ended on January 1, 2022,” the senators wrote in their letter.
The senators cited the ongoing pandemic and the dangers that it is presenting to those who are immuno-compromised. Nessel's opinion effectively allows and requires state level meetings to take into account the danger of the coronavirus and provide accommodations, including the use of virtual participation.
“While this opinion will only be binding for state boards, it is my hope that local boards will use this guidance and ensure fair access to public meetings for those who require appropriate accommodations as we continue to navigate our way through the pandemic,” Nessel said in the opinion.
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $133.5 million to education nonprofit
WASHINGTON - Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has made yet another substantial financial donation, this time to an education nonprofit that supports students in need.
Scott, who has a fortune estimated by Forbes at $59 billion, donated $133.5 million to Communities in Schools (CIS), a national organization that works with 3,000 schools nationwide to support at-risk students by providing them with resources and assistance to help them excel in school.
"With the pandemic continuing to interrupt public education and students’ lives, the work of Communities In Schools has never been more important," Elaine Wynn, chairman of the CIS Board of Directors said in a statement. "This generous gift will allow us to provide thousands more students with a significantly improved educational experience and the help they need to graduate from high school and go on to rewarding lives."
According to a release from CIS, Scott’s gift is the largest donation ever given to the nonprofit.
Scott is no stranger to giving massive donations to groups and organizations.
Her last three rounds of financial contributions have totaled nearly $8.7 billion, with much of the money going towards pandemic relief, colleges and universities, and organizations that serve minority communities.
After the police killing of George Floyd, Scott funded the top recipients of racial equity donations in 27 states.
In 2020, Scott reflected on her philanthropy in a blog post titled "No Dollar Signs This Time," saying that she wouldn’t reveal how much she had given to charity since her last round of donations that same year, to reduce the attention she draws. Instead, she wrote a reflection on what philanthropy means.
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"I’m not including here any amounts of money I’ve donated since my prior posts," Scott wrote in the post. "I want to let each of these incredible teams speak for themselves first if they choose to, with the hope that when they do, media focuses on their contributions instead of mine."
FOX5 Atlanta, FOX 6 Milwaukee, and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
This story was reported from Washington, D.C.
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WEBXTRA: Mammal curator describes cold-weather care at Caldwell Zoo
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - With temperatures below freezing, pets should be brought inside for safety and comfort. That applies to the animals at Caldwell zoo in Tyler, too.
Scotty Stainback, curator of mammals at the zoo, said they are well prepared for cold spells such as the one we are experiencing this week.
“There is plenty of food, extra water in barrels, and backup generators at the ready,” Stainback told us.
And while all animals are brought in nightly for their protection year ‘round, some mammals, like the giraffes, need extra care in the cold temperatures.
“The yard has got to dry out, with all this precipitation it’s wet out there. It makes it dangerous for them to walk around in slick areas, because obviously they are very long-legged and long-necked, so they are not that well balanced with that kind of height. We have to make sure their safety comes first,” Stainback said. “That means the yard drying up and temperatures getting up above 45.”
The zoo was closed Friday because of the danger of ice on walkways. They recommend checking their website to see if they will be able to open on Saturday.
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Tickets are going on sale soon for Michigan’s newest festival, a Spring Beer Festival.
Traverse City will host the newest addition to Michigan’s Beer Festival catalogue on May 7 at its Turtle Creek Stadium, home of the Traverse City Pit Spitters. The festival, organized by the Michigan Brewers Guild, will join the ranks of their successful Summer Beer Festival and Winter Beer Festival.
“This festival in northern lower Michigan is a great addition to the geographical footprint of our events and we are sure there will be a lot of enthusiasm in Traverse City and the surrounding area,” Scott Graham, executive director of the guild, said in a statement.
Michigan currently ranks sixth in terms of states with highest number of breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs, according to the guild. It has seen success with a number of other festivals throughout both the lower and upper peninsulas and expects the Spring Beer Festival in Traverse City to be no different.
“The Guild is known for putting on first-class events and we think this will be a festival all beer lovers from across the state will enjoy,” Traverse City Pit Spitter General Manager Mickey Graham said in a statement.
Turtle Creek Stadium, located just off of US-31 south in Traverse City, will join LMCU Ball Park and other venues in hosting a seasonal beer festival. The other festivals run by the guild are as follows:
• Winter Beer Festival – Feb. 23 at LMCU Ballpark in Comstock Park.
• Summer Beer Festival – July 22-23 at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti.
• U.P. Fall Beer Festival – Sept. 10 at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette.
• Detroit Fall Beer Festival – Oct. 22 at Eastern Market in Detroit.
Tickets for the Spring Beer Festival will be available to the general public at 10 a.m. Feb. 10 at MiBeer.com.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)Five major league pitchers are on the government’s witness list for the trial of a former Los Angeles Angels employee accused of providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs with the drugs that caused his overdose death.
Boston’s Garrett Richards, who spent his first eight big league seasons with the Angels, would testify that Eric Prescott Kay once asked him for unused oxycodone pills, according to filing by federal prosecutors posted Thursday.
Kay’s trial is scheduled to start Tuesday in Fort Worth after several postponements. He faces charges of drug distribution and drug conspiracy in Skaggs’ death. The charges carry a maximum of a life sentence and 20 years in prison, respectively.
Attorneys for both sides didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment. Kay has been free on his own recognizance.
Andrew Heaney of the New York Yankees, one of Skaggs’ closest friends when they were teammates, is on the witness list along with three other former Angels in Cam Bedrosian, Matt Harvey and Blake Parker.
All five pitchers on the list were with the Angels at some point during the 2017-19 seasons, when prosecutors allege Kay obtained oxycodone pills and distributed them to Skaggs and other players.
Bedrosian, Harvey and Parker are among those who would testify that Kay distributed drugs to Skaggs and other players, according to the government’s filing.
Skaggs, 27, was found dead in his suburban Dallas hotel room on July 1, 2019, before the start of what was supposed to be a four-game series against the Texas Rangers. The first game was postponed.
A coroner’s report said Skaggs had choked to death on his vomit with a toxic mix of alcohol and the drugs fentanyl and oxycodone in his system, which Kay is accused of providing.
The government’s filing said Heaney would testify about his attempts to reach Skaggs the day he was found dead and interactions between Kay and Skaggs.
Heaney and Bedrosian, who pitched for Cincinnati, Oakland and Philadelphia last year, were with the Angels all three of the seasons covering the allegations against Kay. Richards left for San Diego in free agency before the third season, 2019.
Harvey’s only year with the Angels was 2019. Blake Parker pitched for Los Angeles in 2017-18.
Kay was the Angels’ director of communications, and he served as their public relations contact on many road trips. He was placed on leave shortly after Skaggs’ death, and never returned to the team.
According to court filings, Kay spent about a month in drug rehab over oxycodone use starting in April 2019, a little more than two months before Skaggs died. Kay was on that trip to Texas.
Team officials have said they had not been aware that Skaggs was an opioids user and didn’t know any employees were providing drugs to players.
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Michael Avenatti convicted of stealing from Stormy Daniels
Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated adult film star Stormy Daniels out of the nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former President Donald Trump.
Avenatti, who acted as his own lawyer, stared straight ahead as the verdict was read. It was another crushing defeat for the California lawyer, who has faced legal problems after briefly rising to fame as one of Trump’s leading antagonists on cable news.
"I’m very disappointed in the jury’s verdict," Avenatti told reporters outside the federal courtroom in New York. "I’m looking forward to a full adjudication of all the issues on appeal."
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman ordered Avenatti to surrender Monday to U.S. marshals in California. Avenatti has delayed serving a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for his 2020 conviction in an extortion case while waiting for the book proceeds trial and the retrial of a fraud case in a California federal court.
Sentencing was set for May 24. Prosecutors said it was likely that Daniels will speak at sentencing.
The verdict came hours after the jury foreperson sent a note to the judge saying one juror was refusing to look at evidence and was deciding the case based on her feelings and emotions.
"She does not believe she needs to prove her side using evidence and refuses to show us how she has come to her conclusion," the note said. "Not going on any evidence, all emotions and does not understand this job of a jury."
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But the verdict was unanimous.
It capped an unusual trial in which Avenatti dumped his lawyers and decided to represent himself on the trial’s second day, setting up a face-to-face showdown with Daniels, his former client, who appeared in a new role as star witness.
Avenatti said after the verdict that he did not regret representing himself.
Prosecutors portrayed Avenatti as a common thief and serial liar. He countered by seeking to cast himself as a white knight who came to the rescue of Daniels until she turned on him.
Over two days of cross-examination, he questioned her about the allegations that he’d swindled her out of book proceeds — and about ghost stories she’d told for a possible show about the supernatural world.
In addition to the sentence he has yet to begin serving for trying to extort up to $25 million from sportswear giant Nike, he is awaiting a retrial in Los Angeles on charges that he ripped off clients and others for millions of dollars. He represented himself last year for six weeks before a mistrial resulted.
Daniels had initially hired Avenatti as she was trying to escape the terms of a $130,000 hush payment deal that kept her from speaking publicly about an alleged sexual encounter that Trump says never happened.
Avenatti parlayed his representation with Daniels into a string of cable news appearances in which he mocked and baited Trump.
When Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, was raided by the FBI in connection with tax evasion and payments made to women on Trump’s behalf, Avenatti contributed to the spectacle by bringing Daniels to the federal courthouse.
The relationship between the two fell apart after Daniels said she learned that Avenatti had taken a share of her $800,000 book deal for himself.
Avenatti insisted he was innocent of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
After opening statements and two trial witnesses, he shed his lawyers and confronted witnesses himself, setting up his questioning of Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford.
Avenatti asked her about things she’d said for a potential program called "Spooky Babes" about living in a haunted house in New Orleans.
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Among other things, Daniels had talked about an invisible assailant attacking her partner and communicating with dead people and with a doll who calls her "mommy."
Prosecutors argued Avenatti was trying to portray Daniels as crazy — what they called a "blame-the-victim" defense that failed to support his claim he was owed the money after spending millions of dollars representing Daniels.
"Whether you think it’s kooky to believe in the paranormal, whether you think it’s weird, she can believe whatever she wants and still be stolen from by the defendant and still deserve not to," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mathew Podolsky told the jury.
Text messages, prosecutors said, showed that Avenatti repeatedly lied to Daniels in 2018 when she pressed him on when she would get a large installment she was owed on the book deal. They said he’d already spent the money on airfare, food and payroll for his debt-ridden law firm.
Podolsky likened Avenatti to a store cashier taking $1,000 out of a register because he believed he’d worked really hard and deserved a bonus.
Avenatti argued at the conclusion of the two-week trial that the government failed to prove its case.
"I’m Italian. I like Italian food. Ladies and gentlemen, the case that the government is trying to feed you has a giant cockroach in the middle of the plate," he told the jury. "Would you eat that dish or would you send it back? I submit that you would send it back."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday:
Amazon.com Inc., up $375.88 to $3,152.79.
The online retailer's fourth-quarter profit surged and handily beat Wall Street forecasts.
Snap Inc., up $14.41 to $38.91.
The owner of the disappearing message platform Snapchat reported a surprise quarterly profit.
Pinterest Inc., up $2.74 to $27.25.
The digital pinboard and shopping tool company beat analysts' fourth-quarter earnings forecasts.
Ford Motor Co., down $1.93 to $17.96.
The automaker's fourth-quarter earnings and revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts.
Clorox Co., down $23.93 to $141.41.
The maker of bleach and other household products slashed its profit forecast for its fiscal year as it faces higher costs.
Skechers USA Inc., up $2.73 to $44.43.
The shoe company's fourth-quarter profit and revenue beat Wall Street forecasts.
Columbia Sportswear Co., up $4.54 to $94.59.
The maker of outdoor gear handily beat analysts' fourth-quarter profit forecasts.
Royal Caribbean Group, down $3.78 to $75.58.
The cruise line's fourth-quarter loss was bigger than Wall Street had forecast.
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Pence says Trump wrong in saying VP could overturn election
ORLANDO, Fla. - Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply "wrong."
In a speech to a gathering of the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Pence addressed Trump's intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that, as vice president, he had the unilateral power to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.
"President Trump is wrong," Pence said. "I had no right to overturn the election."
While Pence has previously defended his actions on Jan. 6 and said that he and Trump will likely never see "eye to eye" on what happened that day, the remarks Friday marked his most forceful rebuttal of Trump to date. And they come as Pence has been laying the groundwork for a potential run for president in 2024, which could put him in direct competition with his former boss, who has also been teasing a comeback run.
Trump this week had escalated his attacks against Pence. In a statement Tuesday, Trump had said the committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead probe "why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval." And on Sunday, he blasted Pence, falsely declaring that "he could have overturned the Election!"
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Vice presidents play only a ceremonial role in the counting of Electoral College votes, and any attempt to interfere in the count would have represented a profound break from precedent and democratic norms.
Pence, in his remarks Friday, described Jan. 6, 2021, as "a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol" and framed his actions that day as in line with his duty as a constitutional conservative.
"The American people must know that we will always keep our oath to the Constitution, even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise," he told the group Friday. He noted that, under Article II Section One of the Constitution, "elections are conducted at the state level, not by the Congress" and that "the only role of Congress with respect to the Electoral College is to open and count votes submitted and certified by the states. No more, no less."
He went on to call out those who have insisted that isn't the case.
"Frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president," he added. "Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election. And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024."
The audience applauded Pence's line about beating the Democrats in the upcoming presidential election, but remained silent when Pence said earlier that "Trump is wrong."
Pence was inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, presiding over the joint session of Congress to certify the presidential election, when a mob of Trump’s supporters violently smashed inside, assaulting police officers and hunting down lawmakers. Pence, who had released a letter moments before the session got underway that made clear he had no authority to overturn the will of the voters, was rushed to safety as some rioters chanted "Hang Mike Pence!"
Pence, in his remarks Friday, acknowledged the lingering anger among many in Trump’s base, even as he said it was time "to focus on the future."
"The truth is, there’s more at stake than our party or political fortunes," he said. "Men and women, if we lose faith in the Constitution, we won’t just lose elections — we’ll lose our country."
Trump’s escalating rhetoric comes as he has been under growing scrutiny from the House committee investigating the attack. The panel has interviewed hundreds of witnesses, issued dozens of subpoenas and obtained reams of government documents that Trump tried to keep hidden.
It also comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers has been pushing to update the Electoral Count Act to eliminate any ambiguity about the vice president’s role.
While a basic declaration of fact, Pence’s decision to describe Trump as "wrong" was especially significant given Pence’s own posture in the White House. As Trump’s vice president, Pence was exceptionally deferential to him, never publicly voicing disagreement and defending even his most controversial actions.
Pence has so far tried to thread a needle on his actions Jan. 6, which continue to enrage large portions of Trump’s base, posing a potential complication if he runs for president in 2024.
In recent months, he has generally refrained from voluntarily raising the events of that day but has defended his actions when pressed, saying he was abiding by his constitutional role and was "proud" of the actions taken by Congress that day.
"I will always be proud that we did our part on that tragic day to reconvene the Congress and fulfilled our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States," he said in one speech last year.
He has also accused Democrats and the media of continuing to focus on the insurrection to score political points against Republicans and divert attention from Biden’s agenda.
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Pence has been traveling the country, visiting early voting states, delivering speeches and hosting fundraisers for midterm candidates. Pence, unlike some possible 2024 presidential contenders, has notably declined to rule out running against Trump.
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NEW YORK (AP)Major League Baseball asked a federal mediator to intervene in stalled labor negotiations that likely will put off the start of spring training.
On the 64th day of a lockout, MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem asked Thursday for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to enter the dispute.
The players’ association must agree for the conciliation service to enter talks. The union declined to comment, and its lawyers were expected to consult with players.
There was little movement in the last negotiating session on Tuesday, leaving almost no hope spring training workouts will start as scheduled on Feb. 16. Baseball’s ninth work stoppage, its first since 1995, will soon threaten opening day on March 31.
Players made a new proposal with small changes Tuesday during the first negotiating session in a week, and management has not responded.
The federal mediation service entered the 1981 talks, and mediator Kenneth Moffett helped reach a deal that ended a midseason strike after 50 days, a stoppage that resulted in 713 canceled games.
”It is done in a fishbowl,” Moffett told The Associated Press in 1994. ”Every statement, every press release – anything – is for public consumption. In most negotiations, you don’t hear a peep until there’s a settlement.”
Moffett succeeded Marvin Miller as executive director of the players’ association in 1983 but was fired after 10 1/2 months. Moffett died last December at age 90.
After another strike began on Aug. 12, 1994, and led to the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years, President Bill Clinton picked former Labor Secretary W. J. Usery to mediate the dispute.
While Usery cajoled the sides into resuming talks, neither party found his presence productive in what has become a highly technical labor contract whose practices and effects outsiders have difficulty comprehending.
After Usery brought both sides to the White House and made suggestions for a settlement, the intransigent stances of both sides left Clinton ”exasperated,” White House spokesman Mike McCurry said.
The 1994-95 strike ended on April 2, two days after the National Labor Relations Board obtained an injunction from U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor to restore the terms and conditions of the expired contract. A new deal was not reached until March 1997, long after Usery had departed the talks.
Gregory Goldstein was appointed as acting director of the FMCS on Dec. 22 by President Joe Biden. Javier Ramirez, the FMCS executive manager of the division of agency initiatives, was nominated by Biden to be director last June 9 but has not been confirmed by the Senate.
The FMCS assisted in talks during the 2011 NFL lockout and the 2011 NBA lockout, the 2012-13 NHL lockout, the 2015 Major League Soccer negotiations with its players and 2014 MLS negotiations with on-field officials.
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US economy defies omicron and adds 467,000 jobs in January
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprising burst of hiring, America’s employers added 467,000 jobs in January in a sign of the economy’s resilience even in the face of a wave of omicron infections last month. The government’s report also drastically revised up its estimate of job gains for November and December by a combined 709,000. It also said the unemployment rate ticked up from 3.9% to a still-low 4%, mainly because more people began looking for work and not all of them found jobs right away. The strong hiring gain for January, which defied expectations for only a slight gain, demonstrates the eagerness of many employers to hire even as the pandemic raged.
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Amazon workers try new tactics to unionize in Alabama
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to convince their peers for the second time to unionize their warehouse. The union election starts Friday by secret ballot. The new organizing tactics come two months after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced the first election last year. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union estimates more than half of the 6,000 workers who voted last time around remain eligible this time. But the RWDSU still faces an uphill battle from Amazon, which doesn’t seem to have let up its aggressive anti-union stance.
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Stocks mixed, yields fly as jobs data raises rate outlook
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The stronger-than-expected data seems to lock in the Fed’s pivot toward fighting inflation by making moves that would ultimately act as a drag on markets. The S&P 500 climbed 0.5%, even though more stocks fell than rose in the index. The index got a boost from Amazon, which leaped 13.5% following a strong earnings report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%. ___
EU, US to resume trading oysters, mussels after long dispute
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from the end of February. The deal announced Friday settles a 10-year trade dispute. Trade in live mollusks between the EU and the U.S. had stopped in 2011 due to a divide in regulatory standards. Under the deal, Spain and the Netherlands will be allowed to export mollusks to the U.S., while Massachusetts and Washington can now trade to the EU. Both sides praised the deal as another positive step in their trade relationship since U.S. President Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump.
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Kohl’s: Buyout offers undermine value of business
NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s says that recent offers to purchase the department store chain undervalue its business, and it is adopting a shareholder rights plan to head off any hostile takeovers. The shareholder rights plan is effective immediately and expires in a year. The move comes as Kohl’s has received multiple buyout offers in recent weeks. Private equity firm Sycamore Partners had reportedly approached Kohl’s about a potential deal last month. A group called Acacia Research, backed by activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP, bid $64 per share, or about $9 billion. At the time the Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based retailer said that its board was reviewing the offers.
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Treasury urges closer watch on money laundering in fine art
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fine art isn’t just nice to look at. It’s also attractive to criminals trying to launder money, finance terrorism and trade illegal drugs and arms. And the Treasury Department wants art dealers and financiers to do something about that. The agency issued a report Friday recommending that financial firms and art dealers set up an information-sharing database to track how sales of fine art are linked to bad actors who make anonymous purchases. The need to monitor art sales has become more complicated and necessary with the recent rise in sales of digital assets known as NFTs, or non-fungible tokens.
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News Corp. hacked, reporters targeted; believed China-linked
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked, with data stolen from journalists and other employees. The cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion, Mandiant, says Chinese intelligence-gathering is believed to be behind the operation. The Journal reported that people briefed on the intrusion said it appeared to date back to February 2020 and that scores of employees were impacted. It quoted them as saying the hackers were able to access reporters’ emails and Google Docs, including drafts of articles. News Corp. says customer and financial data were so far not affected, nor were company operations interrupted.
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Biden solicitor swings mineral rights title back to tribes
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration says the mineral rights under the original Missouri River riverbed belong to a North Dakota tribal nation. The 68-page memorandum posted Friday by the U.S. Department of Interior is contrary to a May 2020 Trump administration opinion concluding that the state is legal owner of submerged lands beneath the river where it flows through the Fort Berthold Reservation. That memo rolled back an Obama administration opinion favoring the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes. At stake is an estimated $100 million in unpaid royalties and future payments certain to come from oil drilling beneath the river.
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The S&P 500 gained 23.09 points, or 0.5%, to 4,500.53. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 21.42 points, or 0.1%, to 35,089.74. The Nasdaq advanced 219.19 points, or 1.6%, to 14,098.01. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies gained 11.33 points, or 0.6%, to 2,002.36.
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VIDEO: Colorado deputy rescues dog from burning SUV
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. - A quick-witted deputy rescued a distressed dog from a burning vehicle in Douglas County, Colorado.
Body-cam footage released by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office shows Deputy Michael Gregorek breaking the SUV’s windows with a retractable baton before pulling the distressed dog to safety from the back window on Jan. 22.
"What a phenomenal ending to a scary situation for all," the department wrote in a Facebook post.
"I would’ve done, you know, the same thing whether it be baby, human, dog, cat," Gregorek said. "A life is a life and you kind of treat it as such in a situation like that."
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VANCOUVER , British Columbia (AP)American forward Brian White and Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps agreed Thursday to a four-year contract, a deal that includes a 2026 club option.
White, who turned 26 on Thursday, scored a team-high 12 goals last season with five assists as the Whitecaps reached the playoffs for the first time in four years.
A native of Flemington, New Jersey, White was acquired in June from the New York Red Bulls for $400,000 in general allocation money.
White has 27 regular-season goals since joining MLS in 2018.
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Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply.
The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The stronger-than-expected data seems to lock in the Fed’s pivot toward fighting inflation by making moves that would ultimately act as a drag on markets.
On Friday:
The S&P 500 rose 23.09 points, or 0.5%, to 4,500.53.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 21.42 points, or 0.1%, to 35,089.74.
The Nasdaq rose 219.19 points, or 1.6%, to 14,098.01.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 11.33 points, or 0.6%, to 2,002.36.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 68.68 points, or 1.5%.
The Dow is up 364.27 points, or 1%.
The Nasdaq is up 327.43 points, or 2.4%.
The Russell 2000 is up 33.85 points, or 1.7%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 265.65 points, or 5.6%.
The Dow is down 1,248.56 points, or 3.4%.
The Nasdaq is down 1,546.96 points, or 9.9%.
The Russell 2000 is down 242.95 points, or 10.8%.
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The Charlotte Hornets have been all over the scale when it comes to both good and discouraging performances.
Now with a four-game homestand, it could be a crucial time for the Hornets. The homestand will begin Friday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers visit Charlotte.
The Hornets have lost back-to-back games, including Wednesday night’s 113-107 decision at Boston. That came with a career-high 38 points from Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball.
Cleveland has lost two of its past three games, with a disappointing 115-104 setback Wednesday night at Houston, which has the worst record in the Western Conference.
The Cavaliers were 11-4 in January for the second-best mark among Eastern Conference teams. So February didn’t begin well.
“You don’t make up for the absence of another guy by trying to be somebody else,” Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “We didn’t get the job done at the level we’re capable of.”
The Cavaliers are trying to make it through a stretch without a full lineup. Darius Garland is out with a back ailment and Lauri Markkanen has missed five games in a row with a sprained ankle.
Rookie Evan Mobley posted a career-best 29 points Wednesday, so that was encouraging for the Cavaliers.
“He knew we needed him to score,” Bickerstaff said.
In Cleveland’s past four victories, the opponent has failed to reach the 100-point mark.
Young talent should be well-represented in Friday’s game based on selections for the NBA All-Star Weekend’s Rising Stars game. Mobley and Isaac Okoro from the Cavaliers along with Ball are among those tagged for that distinction.
When things haven’t gone well, the Hornets haven’t valued every possession as they should, coach James Borrego said. That can come back to haunt them.
“We’ve got to correct the turnovers moving forward because we’ve got some really aggressive defenses coming (as opponents) the next few nights,” Borrego said.
The discipline aspect extends to other parts of the offense as well.
“Taking better shots (so) we’re not settling for the first shot, the first look,” Borrego said.
Discipline has been a topic with the Cavaliers as well. That stemmed from them making only 15 of 27 free-throw attempts at Houston.
“You’ve got to go in there with a disciplined approach,” Bickerstaff said.
The Hornets moved forward P.J. Washington to the starting lineup, something that was described as a form of tinkering while Charlotte waits for the return of Gordon Hayward from an injury.
“It’s something we’ll look at,” Borrego said of revising Washington’s role. “He’s obviously somebody we trust in the starting lineup.”
The Hornets are hoping for a playoff spot, so they might see a sampling of the intensity that’s involved.
“We want to win every game; that’s our approach,” guard Terry Rozier said. “It’s going to be tough games.”
The Cavaliers and Hornets haven’t met since two matchups in the opening weeks of the season. Each team won on the road. Collin Sexton, who suffered a season-ending injury in November, had 33 points in Cleveland’s 123-112 loss on Oct. 22, while Ball scored 30 in Charlotte’s 113-110 setback on Nov. 1.
Cleveland’s Cedi Osman, who is in his fifth season, needs nine points to reach 3,000 for his career.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) _ Northeast Community Bancorp Inc. (NECB) on Friday reported net income of $4.2 million in its fourth quarter.
The bank, based in White Plains, New York, said it had earnings of 27 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $13.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $12.3 million, surpassing Street forecasts.
For the year, the company reported profit of $11.9 million, or 75 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $45.7 million.
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DETROIT (AP)Anthony Edwards scored 25 points, and Karl-Anthony Towns added 21 points and 14 rebounds and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Detroit Pistons 128-117 on Thursday night.
Taurean Prince added 23 points to help Minnesota win its third straight and fifth in six games.
Saddiq Bey had 21 points and 13 rebounds for Detroit, and Jerami Grant added 20 points. The Pistons lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Minnesota got off to a fast start, taking a 21-11 lead with five minutes remaining in the first quarter. But the Pistons outscored the Timberwolves 22-10 to take a 32-31 lead in the second quarter. The Pistons led 67-65 at halftime before Minnesota pulled away in the second half.
”I think being ready for and matching (Detroit’s) physicality, which bothered us in the first half,” Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. ”Just a little more attention to detail on the defensive end, in particular.”
The Timberwolves led by 16 in the fourth quarter before the Pistons rallied to cut it to five, at 122-117 with 50 seconds remaining.
”We did a god job down the stretch, but not enough,” Detroit coach Dwain Casey said.
Patrick Beverley then hit a 3-pointerfor Minnesota to put it out of reach.
Towns, who learned at halftime he had been named an All-Star, had a couple of key blocks down the stretch after missing a wide-open shot.
”If you’re going to miss a jumper, you have to make a block, make a stop,” he said.
The Timberwolves shot 51% from the floor to 44% for the Pistons.
CASEY’S OPTIONS
Pistons rookie point guard Cade Cunningham sat out because of a hip-pointer. While Cunningham has been the focus of Detroit’s offense this season, coach Dwain Casey says he likes to rely on more than one guard to run his offense.
”I believe in today’s game, you’ve got to have three (guards who can play the point),” Casey said. ”That’s why I like the three-guard offense. It doesn’t matter if it’s Cory (Joseph) bringing it down, Killian (Hayes) or Cade bringing it down.”
Having that kind of versatility, Casey said also allows him to use Cunningham at shooting guard or small forward.
UP NEXT
Timberwolves: Host Detroit on Sunday
Pistonst: Host Boston on Friday night.
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WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) _ Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. (PZG) on Friday reported a loss of $2.7 million in its fiscal second quarter.
The Winnemucca, Nevada-based company said it had a loss of 7 cents per share.
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The Academy Awards change more than the public might realize.
Every year the academy's leadership board reviews categories and potential changes. That's meant some categories — juvenile acting, dance direction and split winners for black-and-white and color films — have gone away. Best picture, film's highest honor, frequently gets reviewed. Remember the brief moment not too long ago when there was going to be a popular Oscar category?
This year one such change takes effect: 10 best picture contenders will be announced come nomination morning on Feb. 8. Here's what to expect:
WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE CATEGORY THIS YEAR?
There will be 10 movies announced as best picture nominees for the 94th Oscars on Tuesday. For the past decade, it’s been a sliding range of five to 10 nominees. Most years had eight or nine.
IS THIS UNPRECEDENTED?
No, the academy has shifted the number of best picture nominees several times. In the 1930s and early 1940s, eight to 12 films could be nominated in any given year. In 1944, it shifted to five and in 2009 it was expanded to 10. Then, in 2011, they went to five to 10.
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
A few reasons. A best picture nomination is a great asset to a movie. It increases awareness and can often lead to a box office bump (although this year may be an exception because of the pandemic). But, perhaps most importantly, many believe that expanding the field to 10 can open nominations up to genres that aren’t typically thought of as Oscar-material, including comic-book films. Many assumed the 2009 change was a direct response to “The Dark Knight” not getting a nomination. The conventional thinking is that when popular films are nominated, more viewers will tune in for the show, which has seen declining ratings over the years. The show’s biggest audience came in 1998 when over 55 million viewers tuned in to watch “Titanic” sweep the awards.
SO WILL SPIDER-MAN GET NOMINATED THIS YEAR?
The biggest blockbuster of the pandemic, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” doesn’t seem to have much of a chance at a best picture nomination anymore considering it didn’t get a Producers Guild nod. Same for the James Bond pic “No Time To Die.” But there could be surprises on Tuesday morning.
WHO VOTES FOR BEST PICTURE NOMINEES?
Most categories limit nomination voting to their specific branch (actors nominate actors, costume designers nominate costume designers), but all academy members can vote for best picture.
WHAT OTHER BEST PICTURE CHANGES ARE IN THE WORKS?
New inclusion standards for best picture hopefuls were announced in 2020 and are meant to encourage diversity and equitable representation on screen and off, addressing gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and disability, but won’t go into effect until the 96th Academy Awards in 2024.
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CLEVELAND (AP)Bill Fitch helped turn bad NBA teams into winners, and the Celtics back into champions.
A two-time coach of the year who guided Boston to one of its championships during a Hall of Fame coaching career spanning three decades, has died. He was 89.
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle, president of the National Basketball Coaches Association, said Fitch’s daughter told him her father died Wednesday night in Lake Conroe, Texas, surrounded by family.
”Coach Fitch’s numerous accomplishments pale in comparison to the giant impact he had on countless members of the basketball world in a legendary career that spanned 40-plus years,” said Carlisle, who broke in as an assistant under Fitch with New Jersey. ”His mark on the NBA game is indelible.”
Fitch coached for 25 seasons in the NBA, starting with the expansion Cleveland Cavaliers in 1970. He was Larry Bird’s first pro coach in 1979, won a title with the Celtics in 1981 and spent time with Houston, New Jersey and the Los Angeles Clippers.
While he had his greatest success in Boston, Fitch may be best remembered for his early seasons with the Cavs.
He helped develop a young team that won just 15 games in its first season and improved steadily before making the playoffs in 1976 and shocking the Washington Bullets in what became known as the ”Miracle of Richfield.”
Fitch was chosen coach of the year that season.
”Our franchise lost a great man and Rock that it was built on,” Cavs legend Austin Carr wrote on Twitter. ”Coach Fitch, may he rest in peace, love u Coach.”
Fitch spent nine seasons in Cleveland, winning 304 games.
”Coach Fitch earned the love and respect of his Cavaliers players as he embedded a high standard of accountability and a belief system that he felt was a reflection of the team’s motto as a `group of daring, fearless men, whose life’s pact was never surrender, no matter what the odds,’ something that continues to be greatly valued by those he coached and worked with on and off the court,” the Cavs said in a statement.
”Coach Fitch was a great friend and trusted mentor and teacher to so many across the entire basketball community, while his impact on the game, and the lives of those he touched, spanned multiple generations. He became a life-long friend to many members of the Cavaliers organization.”
Fitch was hired by Red Auerbach and the Celtics in 1979, the same year Bird arrived in Boston, which was coming off the two worst seasons in the famed franchise’s history. The Celtics went 61-21 in Fitch’s first season and won the championship the following year by beating the Rockets in six games.
”Fitch’s deep knowledge of the game, toughness, and dry wit made him a perfect fit for Boston and the Celtics,” the team said in a statement. ”Fitch had already built a reputation as a turnaround artist, and his ability to get the best out of his players paid immediate dividends as Fitch orchestrated what was at the time the best turnaround in NBA history, vaulting to a 61-21 record.”
Fitch went 242-86 in his four seasons in Boston.
He went from there to Houston for five seasons (1983-88), taking the Rockets to the Finals in 1986 with a team powered by Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson.
Fitch joined the Nets in 1989 and took a young team that won just 17 games in his first season to 40 victories and a playoff berth in his third year.
He wrapped up his coaching odyssey with the woebegone Clippers, leading them to the playoffs in his third season before retiring in 1998.
Fitch, who had a 944-1106 record, was elected to the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
Born in Davenport, Iowa, Fitch coached at his alma mater, Coe College, before stops at Minnesota, Bowling Green and North Dakota, where he saw promise in a young forward named Phil Jackson, who went on to win 10 NBA titles as a coach.
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Steve-O dropped out of college in 1993. He told everyone his plan was to become a famous stuntman with his home video camera. He remembers people feeling genuinely sorry for him. To be fair, he wasn’t even sure it would work or that he’d be successful, in the least, he just wanted to amass enough crazy footage so he’d have a legacy to outlive him when he, “Inevitably died young, having failed at life,” he said.
It wasn’t for lack of trying. Steve-O, born Stephen Glover, has spent his life treating every act as if it’s his last. His on-screen bits were shocking and his off-screen antics infamous, culminating in an intervention by Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass family in 2008 and stays in rehab.
So it’s as much a surprise to him as anyone that almost 30 years after making that wild proclamation, not only is he alive and “still getting away with it,” but he is actually thriving and moving up in the world.
At 47, Steve-O — the man who walked on a tightrope over an alligator pit with raw meat in his underwear, snorted lines of wasabi and fish-hooked his own cheek on camera —- is nearly 14 years sober with a successful stand-up comedy career, a podcast, a dog, a fiancé, a book of wisdom on the way, “A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions,” and another “ Jackass ” movie in theaters.
“I’m beside myself with gratitude,” he said in a Zoom call from his tour bus. It’s actually an RV, he wants to clarify, but it’s a “fun Class A RV” wrapped with “obnoxious” Steve-O art that’s causing a bit of a stir with passersby trying to take photos.
But he likes it. He is, he knows, a bit of an “attention whore.”
“I say that in a bit of a self-deprecating way, but it’s true,” he said. “At my core, I’m an exhibitionist and the idea of entertaining people, of communicating authentically is really what I’m all about.”
For the past decade, Steve-O has been grinding through comedy clubs, building his act in which he reveals all about his wild life. The pandemic provided a break from the grueling touring lifestyle, and he was able to focus on building his podcast and merchandising. When he started back up again, he’d crossed an important threshold for any comic: He’d graduated from clubs to theaters. His first sold-out theater gig was at the Paramount in Austin, Texas, which seats 1,200.
“I was on the verge of tears,” he said. “I was so emotional about it.”
But it was “Jackass,” of course, that made Steve-O a name. The raucous MTV show started in 2000 and birthed a franchise of spinoffs and movies in which the cast blended comedy with dangerous, sometimes outrageous, stunts. And in even in this mad bunch, Steve-O managed to stand out as one of the craziest.
He was certain that the third film, “Jackass 3D,” released in 2010 and filmed when he was newly sober, was their last. In fact, he’s been certain that every film has been their last —Knoxville has always made a point of saying so in interviews. So he wasn’t expecting “the captain,” as he calls Knoxville, to propose a fourth. It had been 10 years and they were all now in their late 40s and early 50s. He worried a bit that it might be “creepy” for an audience to see them getting hurt like they used to.
But Knoxville felt strongly that the older they got, the funnier it got.
“The whole formula is that we all get together and try to make each other laugh. Once we got together, the chemistry was evidently there. It was like we had never stopped filming,” he said. “We were as crazy as ever. What we learned is that we get knocked out more easily and our bones break a lot easier too.”
Knoxville has said that this is the last movie he’s going to risk his life for (a stunt with a bull left him with brain hemorrhage, a concussion, a broken wrist and a broken rib). But, Steve-O noted, this is actually the first time he hasn’t said that the franchise is done.
“He very much left the door open to there being another Jackass movie. Who knows, maybe that was the plan all along by enlisting these younger, fresher faces as new cast members," he laughed. "For all I know, this is just an exercise in us recruiting our replacements.”
Back when the first season of Jackass finished, Steve-O and the guys were at the wrap party at a bar and decided they didn’t want it to end at last call. They made up a game called “I’m not leaving” and the idea was that no one was allowed to walk out on their own two feet. No punches were allowed, but they were going to do everything they could to resist — make themselves dead weight, hang on to furniture, each other. It became a tradition and a kind of symbol for their whole improbable run.
“Every act in my career has been my last," Steve-O said. "If not officially, I think I’ve approached it as such.”
Soon he’ll announce another leg on his “Bucket List” tour, in which he’ll be on the bus traveling from Miami to Los Angeles, doing gigs along the way. And though he thought he’d mined every last thing for this show, he recently got an idea for another.
“It’ll be the Steve-O’s Gone Too Far Tour,” he said with a smile. “And I cannot imagine any possible way to follow that up. So that’s going to be my last.”
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SAN ANTONIO (AP)Tyler Herro scored 24 points, Bam Adebayo added 18 points and 11 rebounds and the Miami Heat dominated the short-handed San Antonio Spurs 112-95 on Thursday night in Kyle Lowry’s return.
Lowry missed nine straight games for undisclosed personal reasons.
”It’s just awesome to have him back in our locker room and having his spirit,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. ”Everything is just great. I couldn’t help but to smile walking into shootaround this morning. Seeing him there is just special.”
Lowry’s return enabled the Heat to have their projected starting five together for the first time since Thanksgiving weekend and they snapped a three-game losing streak.
Jimmy Butler added 17 points for Miami after being chosen for his sixth All-Star Game.
The Heat (33-20) led by as many as 26 points, allowing Butler to sit out the fourth quarter.
The Spurs struggled to score without injured starters Dejounte Murray and Jakob Poeltl, as well as Jock Landale, Doug McDermott and Keita Bates-Diop.
Derrick White, who also sat out the fourth quarter, had 22 points for San Antonio.
”I was just trying to be aggressive,” White said. ”I knew DJ, Doug, and Jak were out.”
Tre Jones, who had 16 points, was the only other player in double figures for the Spurs.
The game was moved up 1 1/2 hours due to inclement weather. The Heat cut their shootaround short Thursday morning after being informed of a possible change in start time.
”There have been a lot of firsts in the last two years, but I’ve never been part of a game that was changed the day of the game,” Spoelstra said. ”But I thought everyone responded well to it. No excuses, let’s not complain about it, let’s just do it.”
Miami outscored San Antonio 54-36 in the paint and held the Spurs to a season-low 38% shooting from the field.
San Antonio (19-34) has one home game remaining before embarking on a nearly monthlong road trip necessitated by the San Antonio Livestock & Rodeo using the AT&T Center. The Spurs have lost three straight.
”Every game, win or lose, is a learning experience,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. ”A wonderful experience for all our young guys. They gave it all they had, but Miami is sharp.”
White had 19 points in the first half to keep the Spurs from facing a larger deficit.
Miam’s bench outscored San Antonio’s 31-10 in first half.
Herro had 10 points off the bench in the first half and finished 11 for 20 from the field along with five rebounds and five assists.
”He’s confident,” Butler said. ”We all know that he can put the ball in the basket, but he also does a great job of getting everybody else involved. He’s getting better and better when it comes to making the right read in the pick-and-roll and the iso situation. If he keeps playing the way that he’s playing, he’s going to be key for us down the line.”
TIP-INS
Heat: P.J. Tucker had eight points in 24 minutes after being listed as day-to-day because of a knee injury. . Miami has won three straight over San Antonio, last losing Jan. 19, 2020. . F Markieff Morris remains out while reconditioning a neck injury after experiencing whiplash on a blow to the back by Nikola Jokic on Nov. 8. . The Heat are 15-14 on the road.
Spurs: Murray missed the game with a sprained left wrist and McDermott sat out with a sprained right ankle. . Poeltl and Landale are in concussion protocol after each was hit in the head Tuesday against Golden State. . Thaddeus Young made his initial start of the season after not appearing in 22 of the previous 25 games. He had seven points and eight rebounds in 24 minutes, the most since logging 24 minutes on Nov. 16. . San Antonio also scored 19 points in the first quarter at Philadelphia on Jan. 7.
GOOD TO BE BACK
Lowry had two points in 25 minutes, missing his only field goal attempt, but that didn’t bother him or the Heat. Everyone was just happy to have him back.
”Normally I have six turnovers, that’s about right,” Lowry said, smiling when asked about possibly being out of rhythm. ”No, it’s easy to play with these guys.”
Lowry and the Heat have not disclosed the circumstances surrounding his absence, but they have weighed heavily on the 16-year veteran.
”The last couple of weeks have been extremely tough, but day by day,” Lowry said of how he’s gotten through. ”I’ve had a lot of support from the Heat organization and my teammates, they’ve been unbelievable. I appreciate everything from them, and the NBA family. A lot of people reached out. Honestly, I thank them.”
UP NEXT
Heat: At Charlotte on Saturday.
Spurs: Host Houston on Friday.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-5-3
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-5-3
(two, five, three)
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The Utah Jazz and Brooklyn Nets had something in common heading into Wednesday’s NBA action: five-game losing streaks.
The Jazz are relieved their skid is over coming into Friday night’s matchup against the Nets in Salt Lake City.
While Utah was able to snap its skid by eking out a win over Denver, Brooklyn added another defeat to its streak in Sacramento.
Even after scoring just four points in the 112-101 setback against the Kings on Wednesday, James Harden said the Nets aren’t worried about their losing ways.
“There’s no concern. We don’t have our entire team and this is happening to us,” Harden said. “We’re just trying to figure out what works best, what guys fit, what guys don’t. Hopefully after the break we can get our whole roster and start making strides in the right direction.”
Brooklyn enters Friday without Kevin Durant (knee), LaMarcus Aldridge (ankle) and Joe Harris (ankle).
Nic Claxton recorded a career-high 23 points for the Nets, while James Johnson contributed 18 against the Kings. But Brooklyn only scored 15 points in the fourth quarter en route to losing No. 6 in a row.
It’s the longest losing streak for the Nets, who last won Jan. 21 in San Antonio, since they lost seven consecutive two years ago. Their five-game road trip has included losses at Golden State, Phoenix and Sacramento, and concludes Sunday in Denver.
“This trip our objective is to get better. The first two games and the first half tonight we were getting better,” Nets coach Steve Nash said. “We didn’t contain the ball enough in the second half and we didn’t make plays.”
The Jazz defeated Denver to snap their losing streak despite playing without Rudy Gobert (calf), Donovan Mitchell (concussion protocol), Jordan Clarkson (knee), Hassan Whiteside (back) and Danuel House Jr. (health and safety protocol). Coach Quin Snyder was also out due to COVID-19, while Joe Ingles (torn left ACL) is out for the season.
Utah was boosted by Trent Forrest’s career-high night — 18 points and eight assists — and 17 from Mike Conley in the 108-104 victory.
Bojan Bogdanovic made key plays in the final 10 seconds and scored 15 points. Royce O’Neale and Rudy Gay also had 15 points apiece as Utah wrapped up a 4-0 record vs. Denver this season.
“Everybody played well. We needed it. Everybody played with energy,” Forrest said. “More happy that we won, rather than how I played.”
Despite not having a traditional center, the Jazz outscored the Nuggets 64-42 in the paint while also turning 14 turnovers into 20 points.
“Those are the plays that are the most exciting for our team,” Conley said. “It wasn’t the dunks. It wasn’t the threes. It wasn’t the big plays. The big plays for us were when we scrapped for a loose ball or came up with a steal.”
The good news for the Jazz is that Mitchell is available to play against Brooklyn after clearing the NBA’s concussion protocol on Thursday. Mitchell hasn’t played since sustaining an injury to his head against the Los Angeles Lakers on Jan. 17.
Clarkson and Whiteside are questionable to face the Nets, while Gobert and House are listed as out.
–Field Level Media
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three longshot U.S. Senate candidates have filed with Indiana election officials to join the May primary ballot, although their names might not ultimately be listed.
Republican Sen. Todd Young and Democratic Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. appear to have safely met the state requirement for filing petitions signed by at least 500 registered voters from all nine congressional districts by Friday’s deadline.
Potential Republican challenger Danny Niederberger, an accountant from Westfield, said his campaign wasn’t able to submit its petitions from the 7th District in Indianapolis since the Marion County clerk’s office, which needed to verify the signatures, was closed Friday because of the winter storm.
The state election commission is scheduled to meet Feb. 18 to consider any challenges to candidate eligibility. Niederberger said he would argue his case if he was challenged.
The campaigns of Democratic hopefuls Haneefah Khaaliq, executive director of Gary’s Human Relations Commission, and Indianapolis psychologist Valerie McCray didn’t immediately comment on whether they believed they had qualified for the ballot.
McDermott campaign adviser Kevin Smith said the campaign would look closely at whether Khaaliq and McCray met the ballot requirements.
Avoiding a primary challenge could benefit McDermott as he entered this year with about $50,000 in campaign cash, while federal records show Young had nearly $6.2 million for his reelection campaign.
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Hidden in the Philadelphia 76ers’ loss to the undermanned Washington Wizards on Wednesday was the continued improvement of Tyrese Maxey.
He just keeps getting better.
The 21-year-old Maxey had 22 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in the Sixers’ 106-103 setback to the Wizards. It was his fourth career game with at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists. Even more impressive was that he had no turnovers.
Maxey, who earlier this week was chosen for the Rising Stars competition for All-Star Weekend, will try to duplicate his Wednesday effort when the 76ers visit the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night.
The All-Star game will be Feb. 20 in Cleveland.
“The kid is putting up All-Star numbers,” teammate Georges Niang said of Maxey. “I think it’s a no-brainer for him to be on a Rising Star challenge. I mean, he’s one of the best sophomores, if not the best in the league right now. He’s doing a great job of controlling this team and doing everything we ask of him, and he’s been nothing but tremendous.”
Maxey has proved to be a stellar complement to All-Star Joel Embiid and has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.9 to 1 this season, which ranks in the top 10 in the league.
“It’s pretty cool. All that means to me is that I’m out here doing my job, helping my team win,” Maxey said of traveling to All-Star Weekend. “And that’s all I really care about is trying to rack up as much wins as possible, us trying to get better every single day and build towards the playoffs.”
Embiid returned from a one-game absence to post 27 points, 14 rebounds and six assists against the Wizards, but the Sixers had their five-game winning streak snapped.
The Sixers will head to Dallas with a 14-7 record against the Western Conference.
The Mavericks will look to rebound after a disappointing 120-114 overtime loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday.
Luka Doncic had 40 points and 10 assists, and Reggie Bullock added 23 points and eight rebounds, but the Mavericks dropped their second game in a row, including a loss to Orlando on Sunday.
Kristaps Porzingis will miss his third straight game Friday because of a bone bruise on his right knee.
“Seeing him, he looks good,” Dallas coach Jason Kidd said of Porzingis. “His spirit is good. He’s working out, so hopefully he can get back soon.”
The Mavericks will have a much more daunting challenge against the Sixers than they did against the depleted Magic and Thunder.
“They just played harder than we did,” Kidd said after the team dropped back-to-back games for the first time since Christmas. “When it got tight there, we started to play better. We put ourselves in a position like Orlando: Someone had to make a shot – someone did. We just couldn’t get the stop on the other end.”
Doncic had a couple of chances to propel the Mavericks to victory, but he didn’t execute properly. He took all the blame post-game.
“This game is on me,” Doncic said. “Two stupid decisions by me the last two possessions. Shouldn’t happen. By far my worst defensive game this year, for sure, and it’s just on me.”
Jalen Brunson, who added 20 points for the Mavericks against the Thunder, said the team must change its mindset.
“It’s just more of us just not being mentally ready to go,” Brunson said. “Have to come out strong.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — US death toll from COVID-19 tops 900,000, propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant.
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The Denver Nuggets are sitting five games over .500, a pace well off what they’ve accomplished the last few years, but it is also an encouraging sign.
Denver has played all year without its second-best player in Jamal Murray and most of the season without its third-best in Michael Porter Jr. Both are out with injuries, and the team has been on the road for a majority of its schedule.
The Nuggets have played 29 of their 51 games away from home, but now they get a chance to spend a few days in their own beds. They start a three-game homestand Friday night against the New Orleans Pelicans, and figure to have star Nikola Jokic back.
Jokic (right toe soreness) and Aaron Gordon (left hamstring tightness) sat out Wednesday night’s loss at Utah, but the good news was that their injuries weren’t serious.
Denver is coming off a six-game road trip that ended with losses to Minnesota and the Jazz on consecutive nights. They won the first four games of the trip, including quality victories against Brooklyn and Milwaukee.
The Nuggets might have had a better chance had they not played Utah on the second of a back-to-back set. The Jazz swept the four games between the teams, with three of those wins coming after Denver played the night before.
It rankled coach Michael Malone, whose team nearly pulled out the win Wednesday despite missing the reigning MVP.
“The last couple of days is what the NBA’s all about,” he said. “You go from the euphoria of a great win in Milwaukee where you play great basketball and then two days later, you talk about the agony of defeat, getting your butts kicked in Minnesota. … As has happened three different occasions this year, we’re getting the Jazz on the second night of a back-to-back, and they’re just hanging out waiting for us.”
The Nuggets and the Pelicans will be rested for a rematch of their game played in New Orleans on Jan. 28. Denver took that game, 116-105, in the midst of a four-game skid for the Pelicans. They ended that losing streak with a win at Detroit on Tuesday night.
Brandon Ingram had 26 points in the win, which kept New Orleans close in the hunt for one of the Western Conference play-in spots. The Pelicans are 1 1/2 games behind the Portland Trail Blazers for the last spot despite the recent skid.
“What I like about this team is that we are trying to get better every night,” Ingram said after the 111-101 win over the Pistons. “No matter what we’re going through, we’re taking it in and learning from it.”
Josh Hart missed the win with a knee injury and is questionable for Friday’s game.
If Jokic can play as expected, he will be battling Jonas Valanciunas most of the night. Valanciunas has held his own against Jokic in their matchups, going back to his time with Toronto and Memphis. In his last seven games he is averaging 16.6 points and 11.3 rebounds.
He did not play in the loss last week but did score 27 in an overtime loss to Denver on Dec. 8.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that Connecticut prison inmates do not have a right to possess or view pornography in prison.
The ruling Thursday from a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2012 policy from the state Department of Correction banning porn from prisons with the stated goal of eliminating a hostile work environment for guards.
Judge Joseph Bianco, writing for the court, said the state ban “is reasonably related to legitimate penological objectives — namely, promoting a non-hostile work environment for DOC staff, enhancing the safety and security of DOC facilities, and facilitating the rehabilitation of sex offender inmates — and passes constitutional muster.”
The state argued that inmates would use the pornography to pleasure themselves, often in front of female correction officers. The ban on pornography was introduced in 2011 and phased in over a year. It made exceptions for scientific and artistic materials.
During 2012, correctional staff issued 494 public indecency tickets to inmates, according to the ruling. That number dropped to 79 in 2018, after the ban was instituted, Bianco wrote.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called the court's decision an important win for safe working conditions in the prisons.
“Sexually explicit images are not allowed in any state workplace, and the prohibition against pornography was a lawful measure to protect the safety and rights of inmates and workers alike,” he said in a statement.
Attorney Joseph Scully, whose firm was appointed on a pro bono basis to represent the inmates, declined to comment Friday.
He had agued before the court that inmates have a First Amendment right to pornography, which he argued was not properly weighed against the interests asserted by the state.
But Bianco said there was evidence at trial that the pornography ban not only helped maintain a safe working environment for guards, but also helped keep the material away from convicted sex offenders, helping in their rehabilitation.
The case was was originally brought by former death row inmate Richard Reynolds, who is serving a life sentence for the killing of a Waterbury police officer in 1992. He complained that he had never been accused of any sexual wrongdoing by guards but was forced to throw away about 60 magazines and 150 photographs. He said was later disciplined for keeping a lingerie catalog in his cell.
His complaint was later merged with those of six other inmates who challenged the policy.
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In the last hours, Juan Musso, one of the players in the Argentine National Team who managed to win the America Cup and the classification Qatar World Cup 2022, caused a stir on social networks by posting a photo where he was seen completely naked. There were reactions of all kinds and he took it with humor, but it did not stop there: his teammates made a joke of him.
The Colombian louis muriel, one of his companions in the Atalanta from Italy, showed through his Instagram account the mockery they made to Musso for the carelessness he had to dedicate a romantic photo to his partner, Anna Ariaudo. The members of the campus directed by Gian Piero Gasperini they did not sit idly by.
as showed Muriel, the unusual mistake of the Argentine goalkeeper had repercussions in the locker room of the cast of Bergamo, where they decided to cover the mirror of the corresponding locker. “This way you can take the photos quietly panita. Then you are no longer wrong”, wrote the striker who is usually called up to the Colombian team in a stories from Instagram.
Argentine goalkeeper 27 years, who emerged from the quarry of Racing Club and he also wore the Udinese shirt in Serie A, he did not hesitate to share the publication and, laughing, commented: “This is too much”.
Juan Musso He wanted to have a romantic gesture with his girlfriend and prepared a surprise for her: put several heart balloons inflated with helium in a room. But when capturing the moment to share it on social networks, he did not realize that he was seen in one of the mirrors completely naked.
Although Juan Musso He quickly deleted the image, they went viral on social networks and he had to publish another image the one he posted “the right photo” and some laughing emojis. His girlfriend also echoed the unusual mistake and dedicated a conciliatory message to him. “Fortunately I love you very much”, wrote Anna Ariaudo, with an emoji with a face of disbelief at her boyfriend’s mistake.
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DALLAS (AP) — The family of a Dallas man who died in police custody five years ago can proceed with their lawsuit against four officers, a federal appeals court ruled in an opinion filed Friday that overturned a lower court's ruling.
Qualified immunity shields conduct that “does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known," Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote for the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in sending the case back to U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas.
Godbey had thrown out the lawsuit brought by the family of tony Timpa, ruling that the officers were protected from liability in Timpa's 2016 death by the qualified immunity doctrine. The doctrine shields officers from liability for the legal performance of their duties.
The family accused Officer Dustin Dillard of using excessive force on Timpa by pressing his knee into Timpa's upper back for about 14 minutes. They also accused Sgt. Kevin Mansell, Senior Cpl. Raymond Dominquez and Officers Danny Vasquez and Domingo Rivera of failing to intervene to save Timpa, who was 32 when he died.
According to court documents, Timpa called 911 on Aug. 10, 2016, from a Dallas parking lot and said he was afraid and needed help, telling a dispatcher he suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was off his medication. Officers arrived to find him walking in traffic.
In police body camera videos, officers could be seen forcefully pinning Timpa to the ground for more than 14 minutes and cracking jokes even as the screaming, handcuffed man went still and fell silent. Shaking his limp body, the officers can be heard laughing and comparing Timpa to a child who doesn’t want to wake up for school. Not long after, a paramedic informed them he was dead.
Medical examiners ruled Timpa's death a homicide and said it was caused by cardiac arrest brought on by cocaine and the stress of physical restraint.
In 2017, a grand jury indicted Mansell, Vasquez and Dillard for misdemeanor deadly conduct in Timpa’s death, finding they had acted recklessly. Prosecutors dismissed the charges in March 2019 and the officers returned to active duty the next month.
Godbey threw out the family's lawsuit, which seeks almost $30 million in actual and exemplary damages.
But the three judges on the appeals court panel disagreed with Godbey's rationale and restored the lawsuit.
“Dillard’s continued use of force was not justified by a criminal investigatory function," Clement wrote. "The officers concede that Timpa’s criminal liability was ‘minor’ — no more than a traffic violation.” In fact, “the officers did not intend to charge him with any crimes.”
While overturning the summary judgment for Dillard, Hansell, Dominguez and Vasquez, the appeals court affirmed a summary judgment releasing Rivera from liability.
Dallas city officials do not comment on pending litigation, a city spokeswoman said. Attorneys for the family did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder aim to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers for the second time this week when they visit the Pacific Northwest on Friday night.
Oklahoma City trailed by as many as 18 points on Monday in a 98-81 home win over the Trail Blazers. The Thunder outscored Portland 59-34 in the second half.
Oklahoma City followed that triumph with a 120-114 overtime victory at the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. The two wins follow a stretch in which the Thunder dropped 12 of 13 games.
It also represents the first time Oklahoma City has won back-to-back contests since a three-game winning streak from Dec. 18-22.
The Thunder are without their top player, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (ankle), but third-year pro Luguentz Dort is capably filling the go-to scoring role.
Dort scored 14 consecutive Oklahoma City points in overtime against the Mavericks to cap a 30-point effort. He is averaging 25 points over the past three games.
“I just felt like I had to step up,” Dort said of the solo spurt against Dallas. “The whole team, we played together and we had a good game. I felt like at the end, someone had to make plays and I felt like I had to hit some big shots.”
Dort matched his season best of six 3-pointers while also doing displaying his typical hustle on the defensive end.
“You’ve got to give a lot of credit to him because of the job he does on both ends of the floor,” Thunder rookie Josh Giddey said of Dort. “He has to chase around the best guy every night for 40 minutes and then offensively what he does for us is huge.”
Rookie Tre Mann added a career-best 29 points for the Thunder.
In the recent win over Portland, Dort scored a team-high 18 points. CJ McCollum led the Trail Blazers with 21.
Portland is opening a five-game homestand after playing 10 of its previous 12 games on the road. The Trail Blazers have dropped five of their past six games.
Portland completed a 1-3 road excursion on Wednesday with a 99-94 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
“Not a good (trip) for us,” Trail Blazers swingman Norman Powell said. “So, (we’ve) got to tighten up when we get home, we have a nice homestand, get back to our beds, get back, settle, figure it out and hopefully pick up some much-needed wins on the home floor.”
Powell scored 30 points against the Lakers for his second-highest output of the season. He also matched his season best of five 3-pointers.
Portland certainly relishes another chance at the Thunder as Monday’s game ended with the club’s lowest-scoring output of the season.
After a 31-point first quarter, the Trail Blazers scored 16, 14 and 20 points in the ensuing periods. Portland finished a dreadful 7 of 38 (18.4 percent) from 3-point range.
“For the most part, this is one of those games where you couldn’t make a shot,” Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups said afterward. “Eighty-one points — anybody in the league scores 81 points, there’s no way you’re going to have a chance to win the game. But I thought we played the right way. Just couldn’t make them.”
Of course, Portland has been without the star of the offense, Damian Lillard (abdomen), for the past 17 games. Larry Nance Jr. (knee) is listed as questionable. He has missed the past 15 games.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An appellate judge in New Orleans on Friday retired for a job in the private sector.
Judge Regina Bartholomew-Woods, in a letter to Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, said she is giving up her seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal and will now serve as assistant general counsel for Entergy Corp. in New Orleans.
“It has been one of my highest honors serving the citizens of the greater New Orleans area and the State of Louisiana throughout the past decade,” she said. "I am humbled and grateful to have been given such an amazing opportunity by the voters of New Orleans. I have thoroughly enjoyed the scholarly work that I engaged in, as well as working alongside some of the judiciary’s best and brightest. While I will miss being an active member of the judiciary, I eagerly look forward to the next chapter of my career within the private sector.”
The 4th Circuit Court handles appeals in criminal, civil and juvenile cases from Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. Retired 40th District Court Judge Madeline Jasmine will temporarily fill Woods' seat until April 30, according to a Louisiana Supreme Court order.
Woods was sworn into the seat in January 2017. Before that, she worked as general counsel for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as the Orleans Parish School Board and was an attorney in private practice with several law firms.
She is the second judge to leave the 4th Circuit recently, The Times Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Former Chief Judge James McKay III resigned Jan. 3, nearly a year before his term was set to expire.
At least one more seat on the court will be vacant by the end of the year, the newspaper reported. Judge Edwin Lombard’s term is set to expire on Dec. 31, and he is too old to run again under Louisiana’s judicial age limits.
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TORONTO (AP)Pascal Siakam had 25 points and 13 rebounds, Chris Boucher added 16 points and 10 rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Chicago Bulls 127-120 in overtime on Thursday night.
Scottie Barnes scored 21 points, including the go-ahead basket with 1:44 left in OT, and Gary Trent Jr. added a decisive 3-pointer with 16 seconds remaining.
Trent scored 16 points, ending his career-best streak of 30-point games at five.
Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby each scored 21 as Toronto won its fourth straight overall and snapped a five-game losing streak against the Bulls.
”They out-physicalled us throughout the whole game,” Chicago’s Zach LaVine said.
Toronto finished with 113 field goal attempts, while the Bulls had 90. The Raptors also had 22 offensive rebounds, compared to 10 for Chicago.
Chicago committed 17 turnovers, leading to 22 points for the Raptors.
”It’s difficult because they have guys that have a lot of length and agility. They move really well and they cover a lot of space,” Bulls center Nikola Vucevic said. ”Obviously tonight, turnovers and then the offensive glass, we didn’t do a good job on that end.”
Vucevic matched his season high with 30 points and had 18 rebounds, his ninth double-double in 10 games.
”I feel that I’ve been able to find my rhythm,” Vucevic said.
DeMar DeRozan scored 28 points against his former team. Coby White had 16 points, LaVine had 15, Javonte Green 13 and Ayo Dosunmu 11 for the Bulls, who came in as the Eastern Conference leaders.
”When we had the floor spaced correctly, we got a lot of good things,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. ”When we did not have the floor spaced correctly, we kind of got up against it.”
LaVine said he played through back spasms for the second game in a row.
”It hurts,” he said. ”That’s what happens when you play a 42-minute game with back spasms.”
The Raptors led 103-93 after VanVleet’s 3 with 5:50 to go in regulation, but DeRozan tied it at 112 on a jump shot with 47 seconds left, capping a personal six-point run.
VanVleet lost the ball out of bounds and, after the officials initially ruled in Toronto’s favor, Chicago successfully challenged and got possession, taking the lead on Vucecvic’s basket with 8.6 seconds left.
VanVleet came up empty on a driving shot attempt at the other end, but Barnes tipped in the missed shot to tie it with 0.7 seconds left. Vucevic got a final shot off, but didn’t come close.
Toronto led 26-24 after one, and got nine points from Siakam to extend its lead to 54-50 at halftime.
Vucevic scored 10 points in the third but VanVleet answered with nine for Toronto as the Raptors took an 87-81 lead to the fourth. The Raptors shot 4 for 17 from 3-point range in the first half but went 6 for 11 from distance in the third.
STAR TURN
VanVleet’s teammates mobbed him in celebration on the court before the game when he was named an All Star reserve. Fellow All-Star DeRozan, his former Raptors teammate, also came over for a hug.
”It’s a special moment for me and my family,” VanVleet said.
He is the NBA’s first undrafted All-Star since Ben Wallace in 2006.
”It’s an incredible story and it keeps getting better,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said.
TIP-INS
Bulls: Played their first OT game of the season. . Vucevic had 12 points and 10 rebounds in the first half. . DeRozan went 14 for 14 at the free throw line.
Raptors: Precious Achiuwa had 11 rebounds. . VanVleet had nine assists. . Wearing a protective face shield, C Khem Birch returned to the lineup for the first time since fracturing his nose in a Jan. 14 loss at Detroit. . Siakam leads the Raptors with 15 double-doubles.
UP NEXT
Bulls: Visit Indiana on Friday.
Raptors: Host Atlanta on Friday.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago organizers vowed Friday to continue protests calling for federal charges against Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer released from a state prison Thursday after serving less than half of his nearly seven-year sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald.
The group speaking at a church on the city's South Side included eight people arrested Thursday inside the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago for violating the chief judge's order for demonstrations. Their arrests followed a larger protest outside the building.
William Calloway, a community organizer among those arrested Thursday, said the group linked arms, chanted and refused to leave as a planned act of civil disobedience before U.S. Marshals took them into custody.
“We are willing to sacrifice our freedom in the name of justice. And whatever we have to do to continue this message, whatever we have to do peaceably to get our message heard and to get justice for Laquan McDonald, that’s what we are willing to do,” Calloway said.
Calloway said the group of nine people arrested together were in custody for several hours, appeared before a federal judge and were released Thursday.
Van Dyke's conviction made him the first Chicago officer in about half a century to be found guilty of murder for an on-duty killing. But local organizations argued that his sentence and subsequent early release for good behavior was another sign of inequity in the criminal justice system.
“We have to set the standard,” said Ja'Mal Green, a former mayoral candidate who was among those arrested. “We need federal charges so that other officers understand that if you be like Jason Van Dyke, you will be prosecuted on a state level and a federal level.”
The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, on Tuesday also urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against Van Dyke in McDonald's death.
The Department of Justice did not comment this week on the written request addressed to Garland. Messages seeking comment from the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago on Friday weren’t immediately returned.
Civil rights charges filed against law enforcement officers are rare, largely because prosecutors must prove that they willfully violated an alleged victim's civil rights. That's a higher bar than an accident, negligence or poor judgment.
One high-profile example began last month in Minnesota, where three former Minneapolis officers who were with Derek Chauvin during the arrest that led to George Floyd’s killing are accused of violating Floyd's civil rights by failing to step in.
Kina Collins, who is running for the Illinois congressional seat long held by Democrat Rep. Danny Davis, was among those arrested Thursday. On Friday, Collins referenced national Democrats' public shows of support for Black Lives Matter and other protest movements and said Van Dyke's release was an opportunity for them to take genuine action.
“Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden ... Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, we want y'all all to come out,” Collins said. "Because in 2020, Black folks in this country did not make an excuse. We showed up to the polls. Now we're asking you to show up for us.”
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Friday appeared strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s.
At a hearing to argue the issue, Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan agreed with Cosby's attorney that the 84-year-old has a reasonable fear of again facing criminal charges for one or more of the many sexual assault allegations that have been publicly aired against him, and has a right to avoid saying anything under oath that might lead to such charges.
“It does appear he has a reasonable fear of prosecution, and if new information came out, that could cause a prosecutor to change their mind,” Karlan said. “I don’t see how one could find to the contrary, other than concluding that he has a reasonable fear.”
Attorneys for Judy Huth, who alleges Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him at the Playboy Mansion around 1974, are seeking to compel Cosby to give a second deposition. Cosby's attorneys denied the allegation. He gave an initial deposition soon after the lawsuit was filed in 2014, before his two criminal trials and a later-overturned conviction in Pennsylvania.
Huth's attorney John Steven West argued that accusations against Cosby have been aired for years, and that all the alleged incidents date back decades. He said that any criminal charges would already have been filed.
“The facts that are known overwhelmingly show that Mr. Cosby does not have a realistic fear of prosecution,” West said. “Despite the fact that for 16 years his name has been at the forefront of accusations of sexual misconduct, there has been exactly one prosecution.”
West pointed out that Los Angeles police investigated Huth's allegations seven years ago, that the district attorney declined to file charges, and that other prosecutors have done the same with other Cosby accusers.
The judge didn't buy the argument.
“The fact that prosecutors decline to prosecute, doesn’t mean that a newly elected prosecutor won’t take a different view,” Karlan said, “nor would any future district attorney be bound by a decision not to prosecute.”
The judge planned to issue a written ruling later, but left little doubt that it would favor Cosby.
Cosby's lawyer Jennifer Bonjean argued, and the judge agreed, that the Pennsylvania case was a cautionary tale that applied here. Cosby, believing he had assurance from a prosecutor that he would not face charges, then was prosecuted after making damaging revelations in a 2005 civil lawsuit.
“They told him they weren’t going to prosecute him,” Bonjean said, "then 10 years later, they revoked it, after what? After he gave a deposition.”
That reversal is what led a Pennsylvania appeals court to throw out Cosby's conviction in June, after he had served nearly three years in prison.
Cosby had become the first celebrity convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era when the jury at his 2018 retrial found him guilty of drugging and molesting college sports administrator Andrea Constand in 2004.
Earlier this week, Bonjean asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a bid by prosecutors to revive the case.
Cosby was already a groundbreaking Black actor and standup comedian when he created the top-ranked “Cosby Show” in the 1980s. A barrage of sexual assault allegations later destroyed his image as “America’s Dad” and led to multimillion-dollar court settlements with at least eight women.
Huth's is among the few lawsuits that he is still facing.
Karlan agreed to one more postponement, from April to May, of trial in the long-delayed case, but said Friday that he was determined to see the May date stick and have the jury trial begin.
The Associated Press generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault unless they speak publicly, as Huth and Constand have done.
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NEW YORK (AP)Devin Booker and Chris Paul were chosen Thursday as reserves for the NBA All-Star Game, giving the NBA-leading Phoenix Suns two selections.
The Utah Jazz also got a pair with Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, but the Cleveland Cavaliers had to settle for one player in the game they will host Feb. 20.
Guard Darius Garland will represent the Cavaliers but center Jarrett Allen was not among the seven players from the Eastern Conference.
The other reserves from the Western Conference were Luka Doncic of Dallas, Karl-Anthony Towns of Minnesota and Draymond Green of Golden State.
The remainder of the players from the East were Boston’s Jayson Tatum, Brooklyn’s James Harden, Chicago’s Zach LaVine, Toronto’s Fred VanVleet, Miami’s Jimmy Butler and Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton.
Reserves were voted on by the head coaches from each conference, who could not vote for players from their own teams.
The starter pool in the Eastern Conference announced last week included Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant, Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid in the frontcourt, along with Atlanta’s Trae Young and Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan.
In the West, it’s LeBron James, Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins, NBA MVP Nikola Jokic of Denver and Memphis guard Ja Morant.
James and Durant, as the leading vote-getters in each conference, will be captains who draft rosters for the game, though their own status for playing in it is unknown. Durant remains out with a sprained left knee ligament, while James is sidelined with a less severe knee injury.
The draft is Feb. 10. James will choose first from the pool of starters as the player who received the most total votes, while Durant has the first choice among reserves.
Green is also injured. Commissioner Adam Silver makes the selections to replace players who are unable to play.
That could open the door for yet another player from the Suns, who entered play with a 41-9 record. Mikal Bridges or Deandre Ayton could be one of the players that would be considered.
As it is, the Suns will send coach Monty Williams, who will lead Team LeBron, and now Paul and Booker. It’s the 12th selection for Paul, the career leader in assists in the All-Star Game, and the third in a row for Booker.
It’s also the third straight appearance for both Mitchell and Gobert, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year.
Garland is the first Cavaliers All-Star since both James and Kevin Love were selected in 2018. He is the only player besides Jokic averaging at least 19 points and 7.0 assists on at least 46% shooting.
Allen was among the group of East hopefuls who fell short that included Charlotte teammates LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges, and Miami’s Tyler Herro.
But Harden made it for the 10th straight time and VanVleet the first, while LaVine joins DeRozan in giving Chicago two All-Star guards.
The NBA champions also have two All-Stars, with Middleton joining Antetokounmpo for the third time.
The Team Durant coach is still to be determined. It will be the coach of the team with the best winning percentage among East teams through Sunday’s games. Chicago currently tops the conference.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China’s U.N. ambassador said Friday the United States should come up with “more attractive and more practical” policies and actions to reduce tensions with North Korea and avoid a return to the “vicious circle” of confrontation, condemnation and sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile program.
Zhang Jun said the solution lies in direct dialogue, and if the Biden administration wants to see a breakthrough “they should show more sincerity and flexibility.”
He told reporters before heading into closed consultations of the U.N. Security Council called by the United States following North Korea’s most recent test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of reaching the American territory of Guam that “what I see is the key in solving this issue is already in the hands of the United States.”
Asked what else the United States should do since it has already said it is prepared to talk with North Korea, the Chinese ambassador pointed to talks between former U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore and Hanoi.
“We have seen the suspension of the nuclear test, we have seen the suspension of the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles” by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the country's official name, he said. “And then what has been done by the U.S.?”
Zhang said the Biden administration should be asked “in what way they can accommodate the concerns of DPRK ... to really bring tension down and then to put things under control.”
The Chinese ambassador called this “a critical moment” and said all concerned parties, including Security Council members, “should stay prudent in words and actions" and avoid further escalation of tensions.
“We have seen a vicious circle -- confrontation, condemnation, sanctions, and then coming back to condemnation, confrontation and sanctions again,” Zhang said. “So, what will be the end?”
He said that’s why China and Russia tabled a draft U.N. Security Council resolution in November that would lift some sanctions against North Korea.
“We do not think that draft resolution will solve all the problems,” Zhang said. “But then, at least we are doing something in facilitating the further improvement and avoiding the escalation of the tension.”
Asked whether the Security Council should respond to the nine missile launches by the DPRK in January -- the most ever -- the Chinese ambassador said council members are still consulting.
“The question is in what way we can keep the situation under control and avoiding the escalation, the further escalation, the out-of-control of the situation and avoiding going back to a vicious circle,” he said. “That’s the point.”
Zhang said the answer lies in the hands of the United States.
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ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ski jumping captivates viewers every four years, when they fearlessly fly the length of an American football field plus the end zones.
Casual fans, though, probably have no clue about the scoring system or skills and techniques necessary to win gold even though the sport has been a part of the Winter Olympics since the first one in 1924.
In the U.S., most people can't probably name a ski jumper other than "Eddie the Eagle," from the 2016 film about Eddie Edwards' unlikely bid to become a British Olympian.
The Associated Press is here to help. Here's a look at what to watch, starting Saturday when the women go for gold, from the moment ski jumpers sit on a bar about as high as a 40-story building until they glide over machine-made snow and wait to see how far they flew and how the judges scored their performance.
THE BAR IS VERY HIGH
Ski jumpers sit on a bar, calming their nerves with deep breaths, and wait for a green light to go. If there's too much of a gust, they have to slide back off the bar and onto a step to wait for wind to calm down. A focused mind, which ignores fears, is key.
FUN ON THE IN-RUN
With skis wider and longer than those in other disciplines, jumpers go down a steep incline referred to as the in-run. They try to avoid making contact with the sides of ice-filled channels go as fast as 100 kph (62 mph) to help them fly farther.
Jumpers lead with their helmet, throw their hands back and crouch low into a tuck with a flat back for aerodynamics. Balance and flexibility are critical.
CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF
Near the end of the in-run, men and women make an explosive jump without moving their upper body to create lift for flight. The timing and technique in the take-off is perhaps the most important part of the 15-second process from sitting on the bar to sliding to a stop in the snow.
COME FLY WITH ME
Jumpers lean forward with hands near hips, hovering their torso over skis that are in a “V" shape in a technique used since Swedish ski jumper Jan Bokloev started doing it in 1985 after they previously had them parallel.
COMING IN FOR A LANDING
When skis hit the snow, judges want one slightly ahead of the other and for the jumpers to gracefully glide on what's known as the outrun.
STYLE POINTS MATTER
Jumpers are aiming for the K-point of the hill, where it starts to flatten out, to earn 60 points and those who fly past it earn more points while points are deducted from coming up short. Five judges award scores of up to 20 points for style from start to finish, looking for jumpers who look keep their torso and limbs still while floating through the air and land gracefully among other things.
SIZE MATTERS
There's a dirty little secret in the sport, which is plagued by eating disorders. Fat don't fly is a phrase heard at least in the U.S., because physics prevent a heavier jumper from flying farther than a lighter one.
Norway's Maren Lundby decided not to defend her Olympic gold because she put on weight and chose to put her physical and mental health first, leading to her skipping the season.
IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS
If you're looking for a winner, maybe don't pick an American. The U.S. has won only one Olympic medal, and that happened nearly a century ago in what was quite a tale. Anders Haugen left the first Winter Olympics in 1924 without any hardware, but 50 years later was awarded a bronze medal after a scoring error was confirmed.
Norway, Austria and Germany are traditional powers. Poland and Japan are pretty good, too. Japanese jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi and Germany's Karl Geiger are relatively safe bets to earn a spot on the podium.
On the women's side with Lundby taking time off and top-ranked Marita Kramer of Austria out after testing positive for COVID-19, Germany's Katharina Althaus and Sara Takanashi of Japan are the favorites.
HEY, WHAT’S NEW?
This year, for the first time at the Olympics, men and women will compete together in a mixed team event.
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ATLANTA (AP)There was no way a sore shoulder was going to prevent Trae Young from playing.
Not with Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns in town.
Young scored 43 points and led Atlanta’s flurry of 3-pointers as the surging Hawks beat Phoenix 124-115 on Thursday night to end the Suns’ 11-game winning streak.
”I think I just grew up just watching these moments and thinking about being in these moments,” Young said about the opportunity to face ”the best team in the league with the best record. … I love these moments.”
The Hawks made 20 of 41 3-pointers, including six by Young. Young’s final 3 made it 122-113 with 37 seconds remaining.
”It was a steady dose of Trae,” Paul said. ”Trae is just tough like that. If you watch him on a nightly basis, he’s a handful.”
NBA-leading Phoenix dropped to 41-10, losing for the first time since Jan. 8 at home against Miami. Devin Booker and Paul were named All-Stars before the game.
Booker led the Suns with 32 points. Mikal Bridges had 24, and Paul 18.
Kevin Huerter made five 3s and had 19 points for Atlanta. The Hawks (25-26) have won eight of their last nine games as they have started to regain the form which took them to last season’s Eastern Conference finals. They are still only 10th in the conference.
”We’ve got to use this as momentum,” Young said. ”It’s a big win for us.”
The Hawks have won eight of their last nine games, with their only loss to Toronto on Monday coming when Young was held out with a right shoulder contusion.
Young, who will start as Atlanta’s only representative in the Feb. 20 All-Star Game, was still being called a game-time decision by coach Nate McMillan less than 2 hours before the game.
The Suns couldn’t stop the 3-point attack by the Hawks, who led 100-91 entering the final period.
”Any team that scores 100 points after three quarters on us, that’s just not something we’re used to,” said Suns coach Monty Williams.
The Suns’ second winning streak of more than 10 games this season included eight games on the road. They set a franchise record with 18 consecutive wins from Oct. 30 to Dec. 2, including a 121-117 home victory over the Hawks on Nov. 6.
Booker’s layup trimmed Atlanta’s lead to 108-101 before John Collins answered with jams on back-to-back possessions to push the lead to 11 points and force a Phoenix timeout.
The Suns led 35-32 before Huerter sank four 3-pointers in a 15-4 Atlanta run early in the second period.
Thanks in part to a scoring flurry from Young, the Suns were not given the opportunity to test their 31-0 record when leading after three quarters. Young scored Atlanta’s last 12 points of the third.
Young sank two 3-pointers and had another basket following a steal of Booker’s pass in the hot streak.
TIP-INS
Hawks: Atlanta made 11 of 20 3s in the first half for a 64-61 lead at the break. Young set up a jam by Collins for the Hawks’ last basket of the half. … Atlanta’s streak of 12 games with 10 or more 3s is the third-longest in franchise history. … G Lou Williams (lower back spasms) did not play.
Suns: The All-Star honors are the 12th for Paul and third for Booker. … Phoenix took its last win in Atlanta on March 24, 2014, before eight consecutive road losses in the series. … Guards Cameron Payne (right wrist sprain) and Landry Shamet (right ankle sprain) and did not play.
THREE TIMES AN ALL-STAR
Booker said the All-Star honor ”felt great.”
”Three times,” Booker said. ”I don’t take it for granted. I think back to those days of dreaming just to be in the NBA. Now to be voted a three-time All-Star is pretty cool.”
INJURY SCARE
Collins scored 19 points before suffering a right shoulder injury with 1:49 remaining. Collins was escorted to the locker room before returning to the court for the end of the game.
Collins said the shoulder pain was initially ”excruciating” but said he doesn’t expect to miss any games.
BIG NIGHT FOR YOUNG
Young added five assists. He posted his fourth game of the season with at least 40 points and five assists, tying Golden State’s Stephen Curry for the most in the league.
UP NEXT
Hawks: At Toronto on Friday night.
Suns: At Washington on Saturday night.
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A group of states is renewing a challenge to a federal mandate requiring millions of healthcare workers across the U.S. be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The vaccine requirement for Medicare and Medicaid providers was one of several mandates President Joe Biden’s administration imposed upon private-sector employers to try to drive up vaccination rates and slow the spread of the coronavirus. Health workers in about half the states were required to have their first dose of the vaccine by Jan. 27 while the rest will have to meet deadlines in February.
Two of Biden’s other high-profile orders are on hold. While the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the mandate for health care workers, it blocked a separate rule that would have required employers with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly for COVID-19. A lower court also blocked a requirement for employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated.
Biden’s various vaccine orders were challenged in court by Republican-led states, conservative groups and some businesses. The lawsuits argued in part that the mandates exceeded federal executive powers and infringed on states’ rights to regulate public health matters.
Through early February, 68 percent of the U.S. population age 5 and older was fully vaccinated.
Following is a rundown of the Biden vaccine mandates that affect the private sector and the status of the legal fights over them.
HEALTH WORKER MANDATE
What it would do: Under a rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid on Nov. 5, a wide range of health care providers that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid funding are to require their workers to be vaccinated. The rule affects doctors, nurses, aides, technicians and even volunteers at hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient surgery centers, home-health providers and other medical facilities. It allows exemptions for medical and religious reasons.
The CDC says the requirement covers 10.4 million health care workers at 76,000 facilities.
Who challenged it: The rule was challenged by several separate lawsuits filed by Republican-led states, mostly in groups. The states argued there were no grounds for an emergency rule, that CMS had no clear legal authority to issue the mandate and that the rule infringed on states’ responsibilities.
Where it stands: The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 lifted injunctions that had been issued by lower courts prohibiting enforcement of the health care vaccine mandate in about half the states. That means the requirement will take effect nationwide, though in several waves.
CMS said health workers must have had their first dose of the vaccine by Jan. 27 in jurisdictions that had not challenged the mandate in court. That includes: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, along with the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Some of those places already had imposed their own vaccine mandates for health workers.
On Feb. 4, 14 states that had previously challenged the mandate, plus Tennessee and Virginia, filed another challenge in a Louisiana court. They argue that it's unconstitutional to include some state government agencies in the requirement and that the mandate is not needed because vaccines have been less effective at stopping the spread of the omicron variant.
What’s next: CMS said the first dose of the vaccine will be required by Feb. 14 in two dozen other states whose collective lawsuits prompted the Supreme Court decision. The requirement will kick in Feb. 22 in Texas, which had sued separately from the other states.
Guidance documents from CMS indicate it will initially grant leniency to health care providers who are showing progress in vaccinating their employees. But providers that don’t eventually have their full staff vaccinated or exempted ultimately could face penalties, including the loss of federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
LARGE BUSINESS MANDATE
What it would do: Under a rule published by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Nov. 5, businesses with 100 or more workers were to require employees to be vaccinated. If they were not, employees were to be tested weekly and wear masks while working, with exceptions for those who work alone or mostly outdoors. The requirement would have applied to businesses with a cumulative 84 million employees, and OSHA projected it could save 6,500 lives and prevent 250,000 hospitalizations over six months.
Who challenged it: The requirement was challenged by 27 Republican-led state governments, some conservative and business groups, and some individual businesses. The states mostly filed lawsuits in groups. They argued that the rule exceeded the agency’s powers and that it was the job of states, not the federal government, to deal with public health measures.
Where it stands: The Supreme Court on Jan. 13 blocked the vaccine rule from being enforced. It said OSHA exceeded its authority granted under federal law. The agency subsequently withdrew the rule.
What’s next: Businesses do not have to require their employees to be vaccinated as a result of federal policy, though businesses are free to impose their own requirements in some states.
FEDERAL CONTRACTOR MANDATE
What would it do: Under an executive order issued by Biden on Sept. 9, contractors and subcontractors for the federal government are required to comply with workplace safety guidelines developed by a federal task force. That task force subsequently issued guidelines requiring that new, renewed or extended contracts include a clause requiring employees to be fully vaccinated. There are limited exceptions for medical or religions reasons. The requirements could apply to millions of employees.
Who challenged it: The guidelines have been challenged through more than a dozen lawsuits, including seven brought by Republican-led states or coalitions of states. The arguments are similar to those against other vaccine mandates, asserting the Biden administration exceeded the procurement rule-making powers granted by Congress, infringed on states’ responsibilities and didn’t properly gather public comment.
Where it stands: The rule is on hold. A federal judge in Georgia issued a ruling Dec. 7 prohibiting enforcement of the requirement for contractors nationally. The nationwide injunction is in addition to rulings by other courts that blocked the requirement only in particularly states that sued.
What’s next: The nationwide injunction is on appeal to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court has declined a request by the federal government for expedited consideration of the case.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has agreed to change its living will template so that pregnant people will not be kept on life support against their wishes.
The move is part of a legal settlement reached this week with four women who said the state's law governing advance health care directives discriminates based on gender and subjects pregnant people to different medical treatment than others.
The women, represented by legal groups including the women’s rights organization Legal Voice and the end-of-life patient rights organization Compassion & Choices, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in 2018 targeting the state's Medical Consent and Natural Death Act. The act says competent people have a fundamental right to control decisions on their medical care, including when to have life-saving care withdrawn. But it also included a template living will that said the directive would have no force during the course of a pregnancy.
State officials interpreted the rule to mean pregnant people must receive life-saving treatment regardless of their living wills, and the template with the pregnancy exclusion was promoted on a state website.
At least 47 states have adopted laws allowing living wills or advance medical directives, and 11 of them placed restrictions on advance directives for pregnant individuals. Besides Idaho, the others are Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, according to Legal Voice.
Under the settlement, Idaho officials admit no wrongdoing but must make sure advance directives are followed regardless of whether the patient is pregnant. The state will create a new living will template, and notify everyone who has already filed a living will with the state's advance directive registry of the court's decision.
One of the women who brought the lawsuit, Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, said the settlement was a welcome relief. She was pregnant when the case was first filed, and is now pregnant with her second child.
“My family and I can rest assured my rights and choices will be honored as we anticipate our family growing later this year,” Gaona-Lincoln said in a statement. “There is enough for expecting parents in Idaho to worry about; due to the previous pregnancy exclusion, I wasn’t granted that peace of mind with our first child.”
The Idaho Attorney General's office declined to comment on the settlement.
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP)Bernhard Raimann was 13 the first time he even saw one of those ”egg-shaped balls” being tossed about in Austria but he swiftly fell for American-style football.
Once a wide receiver for the Vienna Vikings club team in Austria, Raimann made the trek to America and became a tight end for Central Michigan and finally a towering left tackle. Now, he is on the brink of an NFL career.
The 24-year-old former foreign exchange student is at the Senior Bowl and projected as one of the top offensive tackles in the upcoming NFL draft.
It’s been a long journey – literally – and one where he had to pack on pounds for a position change. But Raimann now seems to be right where he belongs: as a 6-foot-6, 304-pound tackle with a promising football future.
”I started playing soccer as most kids in Europe do,” he said. ”But I was kind of getting sick of soccer. I was getting tired of it. It wasn’t physical enough for me, so I was looking for something new.”
Then a 13-year-old Raimann saw some buddies throwing the ball around; the first time he said he had even seen a football.
He quickly got hooked on the sport and joined the club team in Austria on his 14th birthday, playing receiver and cornerback for the Vikings. But he didn’t want to stop there, so he headed some 4,500 miles away to Michigan as a foreign exchange student a year later.
”I was like, hey, I want to play under the Friday night lights,” Raimann said. ”I thought that was going to be awesome, which it was.”
The experience convinced him he wanted to continue playing in college. Once at Central Michigan, Raimann started to see the NFL as a potential destination.
Living with former Central Michigan player Rollie Ferris and his family – including Rollie’s son and current Chippewas guard Tyden Ferris – Raimann played at Delton-Kellogg High school.
Raimann was good enough to land a scholarship and after serving a mandatory stint in Austria’s military, he played two seasons for the Chippewas at tight end, where he was mostly used for blocking
He moved to left tackle in the spring of 2020 but only got in three practices at his new position before COVID-19 shut workouts down. The team only played six games that season, giving him about a season and a half of experience.
”He obviously had the frame and the feet to be successful at that position,” Central Michigan coach Jim McElwain said this week. ”And not only that, he had the intelligence to learn it.
”I think of all the guys that I’ve seen go out, this guy’s upside, I really think he’s going to be way better in year 4-5-6-7 than he was in Year 1, because he’s still kind of learning the position.”
Raimann weighed just 237 pounds in June 2019 but reported back for the following season at about 285-290, Central Michigan strength coach Joel Welsh said. He eventually was able to hold steady at about 304.
Welsh said he’s still maintained enough athleticism at that size to play tight end in some capacity. The strength coach said Raimann took a strongly regimented approach to eating in order to pack on the pounds.
”He is a rarity. I have not been around that guy that has been such a self-motivated, independent guy,” Welsh said. ”The word to use is pro. He’s just a pro.”
Raimann graduated with a double major in actuarial science and statistics and a 3.80 grade point average in May 2021. Then he started an accelerated master’s program in applied statistics and analytics.
But Raimann may not have to put those degrees to use just yet. He’s regarded as a likely early round draft pick and drew plenty of attention from scouts after that offensive line move.
”I’ll put it this way, there were a bunch of guys I hadn’t seen in a long time,” McElwain, a former Florida and Colorado State coach, said of the NFL scouts flocking around the Chippewas program. ”And I was like, `What the hell are you doing in Central Michigan?”’
Of course, people might have wondered the same about Raimann at one point.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Georgia man has pleaded guilty to scamming people in Louisiana while he was held in a Georgia prison.
Andre Deaveon Reese, 32, of Atlanta, entered the plea in federal court in Shreveport to one count of wire fraud conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown said in a news release Thursday.
Two Louisiana residents, aged 75 and 78, paid a total of $9,797 to Reese and other conspirators starting in August 2016, prosecutors said.
Brown said evidence shows that while serving time in Georgia’s Autry State Prison in 2015, Reese participated in a telephone scheme to tell victims they had failed to appear for jury duty and would be arrested unless they paid a fine. The scheme continued through July 2020.
Inmates used contraband cellular telephones to access internet websites to find names, addresses, and telephone numbers of potential victims, the news release said. When they called, inmates claimed to be law enforcement officials.
“Unfortunately, there are individuals such as this defendant who have no shame in taking advantage of people who are trusting,” Brown said. “We encourage the public that when someone calls and gives you a story such as this to be cautious and contact your local law enforcement office to confirm that the story is true before you agree to pay any money to anyone.
Reese is scheduled for sentencing on May 20 before U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter, who accepted the guilty plea on Jan. 28, Brown said. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two white men were arrested earlier this week, days after a Black delivery van driver accused them of chasing him and shooting at him after he dropped off a package in a Mississippi city.
But driver Demonterrio Gibson, 24, on Friday said he doesn’t believe police took him seriously at first and his attorneys say both suspects have been “undercharged” and should face charges of attempted murder.
Nobody was injured but the chase and gunfire have sparked social media complaints of racism in Brookhaven, Mississippi, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) south of Jackson — and pushback in local media from the city’s Black police chief.
Gregory Case and his son Brandon Case were arrested and released on bond Tuesday in connection with the alleged Jan. 24 attack on Gibson, 24. Gregory Case faces a charge of conspiracy; Brandon Case, shooting into a motor vehicle.
Lawyers for Gibson say more serious charges, including hate crime charges, are warranted in what they believe was a racially motivated assault. “I want both of them charged with attempted murder,” attorney Carlos Moore said Friday.
Moore and attorney James Bryant compared the incident to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was running empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision in 2020 when three white strangers chased him down and blasted him with a shotgun. The white men, including a father and son, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life. Defense lawyers said they suspected he had committed crimes in their neighborhood, but prosecutors said there was no evidence of that. The three still face a federal hate crime trial.
Brookhaven, with a population that is 68% Black, is in Lincoln County, where District Attorney Dee Bates said information will be presented to a grand jury for a decision on charges once police complete the investigation of the Gibson incident. Witnesses, including Gibson, will be able to testify.
Gibson told The Associated Press on Friday that he was in uniform when the incident happened. He said he was in a van rented by FedEx but that it did not have a FedEx logo on it. He pulled into a driveway and dropped off a package sometime after 7 p.m. on Jan. 24. Before he turned his van around in the driveway to exit, he said, he noticed a white pickup truck pulling away from another house on the same large lot.
He said the pickup driver tried to cut him off as he exited the driveway. Gibson swerved around him and then encountered a second man.
“I drive down about two or three houses and there's another guy standing in the middle of the street, with a gun pointed at my vehicle,” said Gibson. The man motioned for him to stop. “I'm looking at him, like shaking my head, because why would I stop for somebody with a gun?”
Gibson said the man fired as he drove away, damaging the van and packages inside. He said the white pickup chased him to the interstate highway near Brookhaven before ending the chase. Later, police told local news outlets that the elder Case was the suspected pickup driver, while Brandon Case was the man in the street. Gregory Case is 58, and his son is 35, according to The Daily Leader of Brookhaven.
Gibson said he called police and was told by one officer that police had received a call about a suspicious person at the same address at the same time. “I said, ‘Sir, I’m not a suspicious person. I'm a FedEx worker. I was just doing my job and they shot at me.'”
The Cases have not commented publicly on their arrests. The municipal clerk's office in Brookhaven said Friday morning it had not yet received paperwork on their arrests or information on their attorneys. Police chief Kenny Collins did not return calls from the AP seeking more information.
Early this week, Collins, who is Black, pushed back against allegations on social media of racism in Brookhaven. "We're not going to have outsiders coming in trying to stir that up," he told The Daily Leader. "Brookhaven is not a racist, prejudiced town. You can't judge a town by the actions of two individuals."
“People need to be careful what they post on social media,” Collins said. “If somebody is killed or hurt because of what you post on social media, you will be charged, too.”
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The FBI is reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas juvenile detention center, a county official said Friday.
Sedgwick County Commission Chairman David Dennis said he was told by county Sheriff Jeff Easter that the FBI requested all information regarding the death of 17-year-old Cedric Lofton, The Wichita Eagle reported.
“Sedgwick County provided everything that they asked for and will continue to do that,” Dennis said.
Dennis made his comments at a commission meeting that was called after a community task force recommended Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice be asked to review Lofton's death. The FBI is part of the Justice Department.
Lofton died two days after being taken to Sedgwick County Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center in Wichita on Sept. 24 after his foster father called authorities seeking help because the teenager was hallucinating.
Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said last month that the 5-foot-10, 135-pound Lofton assaulted at least one police officer before being taken to the intake center. Lofton walked out of a cell there and struggled with several staff members before he was shackled, put on his stomach and handcuffed, Bennett said.
Staff members eventually realized Lofton had no pulse. They attempted chest compressions and called for emergency personnel to take him to a hospital, where he died two days later.
An autopsy ruled that Lofton's death was a homicide.
Bennett has said the county employees involved in Lofton's death could not be prosecuted under Kansas' self-defense laws because they were protecting themselves. That decision has prompted some state lawmakers to consider revising the law.
County Counselor Mike Pepoon said Friday the federal investigation would not involve any discussion of the state law Bennett cited.
“The FBI and the DOJ could look into civil rights criminal violations, hate crimes, that sort of thing, like they’ve done in other cases,” Pepoon said. “They will not be looking at whether or not anybody violated any of the statues that Marc Bennett was looking at."
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Jimbo Fisher should have leaned into it.
Instead of going off about rumors that a multimillion-dollar, booster-funded NIL program is behind Texas A&M’s monster recruiting class, the Aggies’ coach could have injected some sanity into the current panic sweeping college football.
Throughout the history of college sports paying players equaled cheating.
Not anymore.
College athletes can now be compensated for use of their names, images and likenesses. The NCAA surrendered in this fight last year, bringing down the barriers between two groups that always seem to connect through capitalism: People with talent and people with money.
Everyone involved needs to come to grips with this new reality for college football to transition into its next iteration.
Until then, we’ll get what we had this week in the Southeastern Conference, which was wildly entertaining, though not terribly productive.
Fisher went flame on at his signing day media availability, taking aim at those who have perpetuated unfounded rumorsthat he and his staff were recruiting with a $30 million NIL war chest behind them. He defended his program and took to task those perpetuating internet misinformation, without calling out Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin by name.
Totally understandable. No one wants to be called a cheater, even when it’s not clear that what you have been accused of is against the rules.
One particular part of Fisher’s diatribe stood out.
”To me, it’s insulting to the players that we recruited that that’s why they would come here,” he said. ”You ever been to a game here? You ever come to school here and see the education? You ever talk about the 12th Man and the Aggie network when you’re done? There ain’t a better university in this country.”
This is the outdated culture of college sports. Even as schools race to publicly embrace NIL, it is still somehow ”insulting” to accuse an elite football player of considering how much money he could make when he decides where to ply his trade.
This attitude is oddly pervasive throughout sports, both college and professional. When was the last time a free agent said: ”I’d like to win and I’d like to live close to home, but ultimately I took the biggest payout.” As if there is something wrong with that.
Fisher and his fellow coaches have been playing this tune a lot lately.
He was lured to Texas A&M from Florida State five years ago by a 10-year, fully guaranteed contract worth $75 million. Now 10-year deals and salaries pushing $10 million per year are all the rage.
”I think it just comes down to, for me, an alignment about excellence,” Brian Kelly said after leaving Notre Dame to take a 10-year, $95 million deal at LSU. ”That’s what I’m about. Excellence in academics and athletics here at LSU and seeing that, feeling that, and now knowing that we can go off together and fulfill that goal.”
In big-time college sports, money is everywhere: Millions for coaches from schools chasing glory. Hundreds of millions for conferences from television networks desperate for content to keep them relevant.
But nobody wants to talk about it — at least not in public. As Sonny Corleone told his brother-in-law during dinner in the ”Godfather”: ”We don’t discuss business at the table.”
Coaches are starting to come to terms with players getting a piece of the pie.
They really have no choice. If your job is to recruit players, standing in the way of them getting a better deal is a losing position.
”I think it’s a good thing that players now have an opportunity to work and make money through name, image and likeness,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. ”I would hope we come up with some system in the future where – and I’m not accusing anybody of anything – but I don’t think players should make a decision about where they go to school relative to how much money they’re gonna make in name, image and likeness.”
Why not?
The players have always picked schools based on money. And we’re not talking hundred-dollar handshakes.
Money spent on facilities with waterfalls and barbershops. Money spent on locker rooms with iPads at every stall. Money spent by fans to pack huge stadiums and create the euphoric game-day experience players dream about.
Now the money can go straight into the players’ pockets.
Fisher was right to push back on the premise Texas A&M somehow has an unfair advantage, that the Aggies took a short-cut to pass Alabama and Georgia in the recruiting rankings.
But it also would have been nice to hear him say: ”We have a lot to offer at Texas A&M, including the opportunity for athletes, within the currently ambiguous rules, to make money.”
Eventually, college sports needs to get comfortable discussing business at the table.
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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy is being praised for smashing the windows of a burning SUV and rescuing a frightened dog in a neighborhood south of Denver.
Douglas County Deputy Michael Gregorek's body camera video from Jan. 22, which was released Thursday, shows him arriving on the scene as smoke pours from the driver's side window of the SUV. The owner frantically yells that his dog Hank is somewhere inside the locked vehicle.
Gregorek uses his retractable baton to smash a side window and then the rear window before pulling Hank out and quickly carrying him to a nearby snowbank.
“I just went in there and grabbed on. And his body had already kind of started to tense up, so I knew he was really in a bad way. ... Nothing else really mattered at that point other than getting Hank out of the car,” Gregorek said in an interview released by the sheriff's department.
A neighbor told the deputy his wife was a veterinarian, but by the time she got home, Hank was already sprinting around and ready to play.
“I’m a dog parent. My only child is my dog, so I would have done the same thing, whether it be baby, human, dog, cat. A life is a life, and you kind of treat it as such in a situation like that," Gregorek said.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Federal regulators told FirstEnergy Corp. to refund customers after an audit found the electricity provider didn't properly track $71 million it spent on lobbying for a nuclear plant bailout at the center of a state government bribery scheme.
The audit found that the improper accounting caused FirstEnergy to overcharge customers and that the utility may have done so to conceal or mislead how much it was spending on lobbying and why.
Regulators gave the company 60 days to come up with a plan to give customers refunds, according to an audit released Friday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
FirstEnergy spokesman Mark Durbin said the utility accepted the findings and recommendations in the audit and that changes in its accounting practices have been made or are underway.
FirstEnergy has faced multiple investigations over its role in a $60 million bribery scheme to win a legislative bailout in 2019 for two nuclear plants operated at the time by a wholly-owned subsidiary.
The Akron-based utility agreed in July to pay $230 million in penalties to avoid federal prosecution.
FirstEnergy has said it has made significant strides in reforming the company's policies in the wake of the scandal brought to light in 2020 when federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four associates.
Householder, who later was removed as speaker and expelled from the House, has pleaded not guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
The audit released Friday found that FirstEnergy paid $25 million for lobbying expenses related to the bailout and that FirstEnergy Solutions, a former subsidiary, paid $44 million.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of Amir Locke and their attorneys said Friday that the 22-year-old Black man was "executed" by a Minneapolis SWAT team that woke him from a deep sleep, and that he reached in confusion for a legal firearm to protect himself.
Locke’s parents, Andre Locke and Karen Wells, described him as respectful, including to police, and said some of their relatives work in law enforcement. Wells said the couple coached their son on how to act and do “what they needed to do whenever they encountered police officers” because of the danger to “unarmed Black males.”
“My son was executed on 2/2 of 22,” Wells said. “And now his dreams have been destroyed.”
The parents spoke at a news conference organized by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who said Locke’s family was “just flabbergasted at the fact that Amir was killed in this way” and disgusted at how the Wednesday morning raid was conducted. They said he was law-abiding, with no criminal record, and had a permit to carry a gun.
"They didn't even give him a chance," Crump said, adding that it was shocking that Minneapolis police had not learned from the death of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a botched raid at her home in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2020, leading to calls for an end to no-knock warrants nationwide.
Police said Locke pointed a loaded gun “in the direction of officers.” An incident report said he had two wounds in the chest and one in the right wrist.
The killing prompted outrage in Minneapolis, where prominent activists confronted the mayor and interim police chief at a news conference Thursday. Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney, called the city’s release of information “the anatomy of a cover-up.” Gov. Tim Walz called Locke’s death “a tragedy” and said it showed the need for further examination of no-knock warrants.
Body camera video released by police Thursday evening shows the footage in slow motion and at regular speed. It shows an officer using a key to unlock the door and enter, followed by at least four officers in uniform and protective vests, time-stamped at about 6:48 a.m. After they open the door, they repeatedly shout, "Police, search warrant!" They also shout "Hands!" and "Get on the ground!" The video shows an officer kick a sectional sofa, and Locke, who was wrapped in a comforter on the sofa, begins to move, holding a pistol. Three shots are heard, and the video ends.
The city also released a still from the video showing Locke holding the gun, his trigger finger along the side of the barrel. Otherwise, all that can be seen of Locke is the top of his head.
Levy Armstrong posted a link to the video on social media “for those who can stomach the murderous conduct of the Minneapolis Police Department.” She added: “The mother in me is furious and sick to my stomach. Amir never had a chance to survive that encounter with police.”
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said he asked Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to help review the case for possible charges. Ellison’s office led prosecutions of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s killing and of former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter in the shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright.
“Amir Locke’s life mattered,” Ellison said in a statement, promising a fair and thorough review “guided by the values of accountability and transparency.”
A gun-rights group highlighted the timing of the raid, saying it appeared from the video that Locke was awakened by a confusing array of commands from officers pointing lights and guns at him.
“Mr. Locke did what many of us might do in the same confusing circumstances, he reached for a legal means of self-defense while he sought to understand what was happening,” said Rob Doar, a spokesman for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.
Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman said during a news conference Thursday that Locke wasn't named in the warrants. She said it wasn't clear how or whether Locke was connected to St. Paul’s homicide investigation. A spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department said he could not comment because the homicide investigation was ongoing.
The search warrants that led the SWAT team to enter the apartment early Wednesday were still not public as of Friday morning. But a search warrant filed by state agents investigating the shooting was provided. It said the initial search warrants “were being executed for a homicide suspect who was apparently located” at the building where the shooting took place.
Mayor Jacob Frey said the video "raises about as many questions as it does answers" and that the city was pursuing answers "as quickly as possible and in transparent fashion" through investigations including one by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Huffman said the officer, Mark Hanneman, was in a difficult position.
“The still shot shows the image of the firearm in the subject’s hands, at the best possible moment when the lighting was fully on him. That’s the moment when the officer had to make a split-second decision to assess the circumstances and to determine whether he felt like there was an articulable threat, that the threat was of imminent harm, great bodily harm or death, and that he needed to take action right then to protect himself and his partners," she said.
Hanneman was hired in 2015. Records released by the city showed three complaints, all closed without discipline, but gave no details. Data on the website of the citizen group Communities United Against Police Brutality showed a fourth complaint, in 2018, that remains open. No details were given.
Huffman said the city had knock and no-knock warrants.
The shooting came as three former Minneapolis officers are on trial in St. Paul on charges that they violated George Floyd's civil rights. Floyd was among several Black men to die in confrontations with Minneapolis police in recent years, and his death spurred widespread protests and drive to remake the department. The Department of Justice is currently investigating the Minneapolis Police Department to see if it has a pattern or practice of civil rights violations.
Walz on Friday authorized the National Guard to provide public safety assistance if needed. Walz's order said it was in response to the city of St. Paul's request for aid during the trial in that city, but said Guard members would also be ready to serve in Minneapolis if needed due to Locke's death.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Michael Akuchie totaled 11 points and 10 rebounds to lift Youngstown State to a 61-55 win over IUPUI on Thursday night.
Dwayne Cohill had 14 points for the Penguins (13-10, 7-6 Horizon League). Myles Hunter added 12 points, while Shemar Rathan-Mayes scored 11.
B.J. Maxwell scored a career-high 22 points for the Jaguars (1-18, 0-9), who have now lost 13 straight games. Bakari LaStrap added 15 points and seven rebounds. Nathan McClure 10 rebounds.
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| 2022-02-04T22:53:00
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals tight end C.J. Uzomah missed a second day of practice due to a knee injury suffered in the AFC championship game.
Offensive lineman Jackson Carman has a sore back and also sat out Friday as the Bengals practiced for a second day in the indoor bubble at the University of Cincinnati because of bad weather, according to a pool report.
Uzomah became a clutch receiver for quarterback Joe Burrow this season, and the Bengals hope to get him back for the Super Bowl on Feb. 13. He was carted off with a knee sprain in last Sunday's AFC championship win over Kansas City.
“I don’t anticipate him doing much work this week,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. “The goal really is to see where he’s at this weekend and see where he’s going to be on Monday.”
The Bengals will practice Saturday and Sunday, likely in the bubble with temperatures in the teens and 20s predicted. They'll arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesday, five days ahead of the Super Bowl.
Unlike Thursday, when icy conditions delayed one of the team buses, all the buses made it through the snowy streets of Cincinnati to the UC campus without issue on Friday.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)Alabama trustees are considering a proposal to build a $183 million basketball arena.
Details of the proposed 10,136-seat arena were presented to the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on Thursday. It’s pending approval in the board’s meeting Friday.
The arena would replace 54-year-old Coleman Coliseum, but no timetable for completion was presented. The proposal gave a scheduled bid date for April 2023.
It would have 60% of the seats in the lower bowl, with student seating stretching around most of it and house men’s and women’s basketball and gymnastics.
”Our fan support and student section has been incredible, and we are excited about the possibility of bringing them even closer to the action,” Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats said in a statement. ”I’ve said multiple times how having that support really makes a huge difference in the home-court advantage, and this would certainly make for an outstanding game-day atmosphere for our team and our fans.”
The proposal indicated that extensive renovations for Coleman Coliseum would have cost some $150 million.
Athletic officials toured eight new or recently renovated Division I and professional arenas. Four possible locations were offered.
Alabama started a $600 million fund-raising campaign in 2018 and said more than $470 million has been raised. Bryant-Denny Stadium has already undergone renovations.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Prince George 2 Tri-City 0
Wednesday's results
Edmonton 6 Medicine Hat 2
Spokane 3 Prince George 2 (OT)
Friday's results
Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Red Deer at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Kelowna at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Regina at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.
Seattle at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 4:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Edmonton, 11 a.m.
Calgary at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Calgary at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)Teddy Allen had 22 points as New Mexico State won its seventh straight home game, topping California Baptist 68-57 on Thursday night.
Jabari Rice had 16 points for New Mexico State (18-3, 7-1 Western Athletic Conference). Johnny McCants added 12 points. Yuat Alok had 10 points.
California Baptist scored 24 points in the second half, a season low for the team.
Chance Hunter had 12 points for the Lancers (12-10, 2-7), whose losing streak stretched to four games. Ty Rowell added 11 points. Daniel Akin had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Tre Armstrong, who was second on the Lancers in scoring coming into the matchup with 13 points per game, was held to three points. He hit 13% from behind the arc (1 of 8).
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has agreed to change its living will template so that pregnant people will not be kept on life support against their wishes.
The move is part of a legal settlement reached this week with four women who said the state's law governing advance health care directives discriminates based on gender and subjects pregnant people to different medical treatment than others.
The women, represented by legal groups including the women’s rights organization Legal Voice and the end-of-life patient rights organization Compassion & Choices, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in 2018 targeting the state's Medical Consent and Natural Death Act. The act says competent people have a fundamental right to control decisions on their medical care, including when to have life-saving care withdrawn. But it also included a template living will that said the directive would have no force during the course of a pregnancy.
State officials interpreted the rule to mean pregnant people must receive life-saving treatment regardless of their living wills, and the template with the pregnancy exclusion was promoted on a state website.
At least 47 states have adopted laws allowing living wills or advance medical directives, and 11 of them placed restrictions on advance directives for pregnant individuals. Besides Idaho, the others are Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, according to Legal Voice.
Under the settlement, Idaho officials admit no wrongdoing but must make sure advance directives are followed regardless of whether the patient is pregnant. The state will create a new living will template, and notify everyone who has already filed a living will with the state's advance directive registry of the court's decision.
One of the women who brought the lawsuit, Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, said the settlement was a welcome relief. She was pregnant when the case was first filed, and is now pregnant with her second child.
“My family and I can rest assured my rights and choices will be honored as we anticipate our family growing later this year,” Gaona-Lincoln said in a statement. “There is enough for expecting parents in Idaho to worry about; due to the previous pregnancy exclusion, I wasn’t granted that peace of mind with our first child.”
The Idaho Attorney General's office declined to comment on the settlement.
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SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP)Caleb Asberry tossed in 16 points and Texas State knocked off Appalachian State 68-66 on Thursday.
Shelby Adams had 11 points and six rebounds for the Bobcats (14-6, 5-3 Sun Belt Conference), who have won four straight at home . Mason Harrell added eight assists.
Adrian Delph had 22 points for the Mountaineers (14-10, 8-3), whose six-game winning streak was snapped. Donovan Gregory added 17 points. James Lewis Jr. had nine rebounds.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A 38-year-old northwestern Indiana man has been arrested in the theft of five watches valued together at about $1 million from a luxury auto dealership in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood.
Carlos Valliant of Hammond, Indiana, faces theft and burglary charges, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Friday.
The watches were taken Dec. 11 by two men after jewelry display cases were smashed. Police still were seeking the second suspect.
The theft is among a national trend of smash-and-grab crimes at high-end retail shops over the past few months. Groups of thieves smash windows and display cases then flee before police arrive.
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PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — A couple accused of starving their teenage son, who has special needs, has agreed to plea deals, according to court documents.
Richard Joe Ryan and Jennifer Ryan, of Pleasant Hill, were charged in April of last year with first-degree kidnapping and neglecting a dependent person.
The teenager's condition came to light when a citizen reported seeing the teenager zip-tied to a chair while his mother worked an eight-hour shift at Smith Automotive in Pleasant Hill, KCCI-TV reported.
Doctors at Blank Children’s Hospital said the teenager suffered from severe malnutrition and was only 78 pounds when he arrived at the hospital.
Investigators found the boy was routinely confined to his room, which had an alarm on the door, and was not permitted to eat breakfast, according to court records.
New court documents show Richard Ryan has agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges of false imprisonment, neglect of a dependent person and two counts of child endangerment. He’s scheduled to be sentenced April 1.
Jennifer Ryan also will agree to a plea deal in court on April 1, according to court documents.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP)Luka Barisic had 22 points as Western Illinois narrowly beat Oral Roberts 90-85 on Thursday night.
Barisic hit 4 of 6 3-pointers. He added nine rebounds.
Will Carius had 19 points for Western Illinois (14-9, 5-6 Summit League). Trenton Massner added 18 points and seven rebounds. Colton Sandage had 13 points.
Western Illinois led 45-22 at halftime. Oral Roberts mounted a charge in the second half, scoring 63 but coming up just short. The Golden Eagles’ 63 points in the second half marked a season high for the team.
Max Abmas had 33 points for the Golden Eagles (15-8, 9-3). Issac McBride added 14 points. Kareem Thompson had 12 points and 10 rebounds.
The Leathernecks leveled the season series against the Golden Eagles. Oral Roberts defeated Western Illinois 87-86 on Jan. 8.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Epstein, a publishing innovator and bon vivant who helped put the classics in paperback, co-founded The New York Review of Books and worked with such novelists as E.L. Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at age 93.
Epstein died Friday “surrounded by his books” at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, said his wife, the author and former New York Times journalist Judith Miller. The cause was congestive heart failure, she said.
The book world has its share of accidental lifers and Epstein was one. Once a young bohemian who desired only enough money to have time for reading, he took a job at Doubleday in the early 1950s, joined Random House in 1958 and remained for decades as editorial director. He became one of the industry's most honored executives, receiving lifetime achievement awards from the National Book Foundation, presenters, of the National Book Award, in 1988; and from the National Book Critics Circle in 2002.
Epstein was not just a man of letters, but of food and drink, whose own books included the memoir “Eating” and whose dining companions ranged from Buster Keaton to Jacqueline Kennedy to the notorious attorney-political operative Roy Cohn. In “Making It,” a 1967 best-seller about the literary world, Norman Podhoretz wrote affectionately of Epstein’s tastes for imported shoes, first-class travel and “appallingly expensive” restaurants.
“He was beautiful to watch,” Podhoretz observed.
He was as well-read and as opinionated as the authors he worked with, “so damned intelligent,” Mailer would joke, once telling The Associated Press that he had to adjust to an editor “who might be a lot brighter” then he was. Epstein published an early excerpt of Nabokov’s “Lolita” and fought unsuccessfully to convince Doubleday to publish the scandalous novel about a professor’s obsession with a 12-year old girl. Epstein also feuded bitterly with Gore Vidal and became a critic of the Library of America, believing that the imprint he helped establish had grown bloated. Random House co-founder Bennett Cerf would call him the “cross I bear,” while Epstein labeled Cerf “the bear I cross.”
Among the many books edited by Epstein: Doctorow’s Depression-era novel “Billy Bathgate,” Jane Jacobs’ classic of urban studies “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” and Mailer’s CIA epic “Harlot’s Ghost.”
Epstein admittedly passed over the occasional best-seller, although he was proud of rejecting Shirley MacLaine’s New Age favorite “Out on a Limb.”
“We were friends and she actually wrote much of that book at my house in Sag Harbor (on New York’s Long Island). But she never told me what it was about,” Epstein told the AP in 2000. “I read this and I said, ‘Come on, Shirley, you’re nuts.’”
The son of a successful textile salesman, Epstein grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, where he acquired his longtime passion for fine cuisine and spent so much time at the library that one librarian saved his card while he and his family spent a year in New York City. In the late 1940s, he entered Columbia University, when the school’s president was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Epstein met the future U.S. president once, and, by accident, made a fine impression.
“I had spent the night downtown with a girl,” Epstein told the AP. “I could hardly stand up. I had been up all night and he thought I was a bright young fellow, up bright and early. He was beaming, and he shook my hand.”
In his early 20s, his quest for affordable classics inspired him to start one of publishing’s first literary paperback imprints, Anchor Books, now part of Penguin Random House. He also helped launch two other major and lasting projects. One came in the early 1960s when a newspaper strike and the general tedium of literacy criticism led Epstein and his then-wife, Barbara, to help found The New York Review of Books, along with critic Elizabeth Hardwick and editor Robert Silvers among others. In the late 1970s, he was among the creators of the Library of America, which offers hardcover editions of the country’s most influential writers.
He had two children with Barbara Epstein: daughter Helen Epstein, a contributor to The New York Review of Books; and son Jacob Epstein, a television writer whose time in the book world was brief and unfortunate. His novel “The Wild Oats” was published in 1979 and was soon found to contain numerous similarities to Martin Amis’ “The Rachel Papers.”
“Epstein wasn’t influenced by ‘The Rachel Papers,’” Amis wrote at the time, “he had it flattened out beside his typewriter.”
Jason Epstein was the rare publishing veteran to show early and unforced enthusiasm for technology. He looked for ways to sell books online before the rise of e-books and Amazon.com and was a strong advocate for in-store machines that could print and bind works on demand. Epstein essentially advocated a system that enabled authors to bypass the industry that employed him, looking back to the days when Parson Weems could sell books about George Washington by simply sitting under a tree and hitting on a drum.
“Soon writers and readers will be able to meet again on a worldwide green where writers may once more beat their drums or hire a Weems to drum up business for them,” Epstein wrote in “Book Business,” a memoir published in 2001. “On the World Wide Web, future storytellers and their readers can mingle at leisure and talk at length.”
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MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP)Johni Broome had a season-high 25 points plus 14 rebounds as Morehead State got past Tennessee Tech 75-68 on Thursday.
Skyelar Potter had 14 points and six rebounds for Morehead State (18-6, 10-1 Ohio Valley Conference). Jake Wolfe added 11 points and Ta’lon Cooper had 10 points, nine assists and five steals.
Jr. Clay scored a season-high 22 points for the Golden Eagles (5-17, 2-7), who have now lost five games in a row. Kenny White Jr. added 13 points and John Pettway had 10 points.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge on Friday temporarily halted an executive order by Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin that allowed parents to opt out of school mask mandates for their children.
The temporary restraining order means that mask mandates put in place by school boards may remain, at least for now.
Arlington Circuit Court Judge Louise DiMatteo ruled in favor of seven school boards that filed a lawsuit challenging the governor's order, one of the first actions Youngkin took after his inauguration Jan. 15.
The judge found that the single issue before the court was whether Youngkin, through his emergency powers, can override the decision of local school boards delegated to them under a 2021 state law that required boards to provide in-person instruction in a way that adheres to COVID-19 mitigation strategies “to the maximum extent practicable.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends universal masking, regardless of vaccination status.
“On this pivotal point, the Court concludes that the Governor cannot” override local school officials, the judge wrote in her ruling.
DiMatteo said that while the case is pending in court, there appears to be a benefit to keeping the current polices of universal mask mandates in place.
“Keeping rules in place that have been established over the school year helps children, families and staff understand how they may be impacted during the pandemic. Without a restraining order, children and staff would have to reassess certain health conditions they believe are impacted by a mask policy (any mask policy), having relied upon a universal mask mandate implemented by the School Boards,” DiMatteo wrote in her ruling.
A spokeswoman for Attorney General Jason Miyares said he will appeal the ruling.
Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in a statement that the decision was just the first step in the judicial process. “The governor will never stop fighting for parents’ ability to choose what is best for their children,” she said.
The school boards said in a joint statement that the judge’s order protects “the health and well-being of all students and staff and reaffirms the constitutional right of Virginia’s local school boards to enact policy at the local level.”
The school boards that sued were: Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Falls Church, Hampton, Prince William County and Richmond. They collectively serve over 350,000 students.
Districts across the state took various approaches to the governor's order, with many including those that sued telling students masks were still required, despite the governor's order. Others dropped their mask mandates.
The lawsuit is one of several related to Youngkin’s executive order.
A group of Chesapeake parents challenged the order in front of the Virginia Supreme Court, and parents of children with disabilities have filed a federal lawsuit. Another case was filed in Loudoun County against the school board and in support of the governor’s order.
The Arlington case was the first to go before a judge.
Fairfax County Public Schools Board Chair Stella Pekarsky said in an interview that the uncertainty of the past couple of weeks have been difficult for families, the vast majority of whom opted to have their children follow the district’s masking policy.
“We are hopeful this will be permanent,” she said of the judge’s order.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)Jordan Brown had 20 points as Louisiana-Lafayette rolled past Arkansas-Little Rock 75-51 on Thursday night.
Brown hit 9 of 12 shots. He added nine rebounds.
Theo Akwuba had 11 points and nine rebounds for Louisiana-Lafayette (10-10, 5-5 Sun Belt Conference).
Jordan Jefferson had 14 points for the Trojans (7-12, 2-5). Isaiah Palermo added 11 points and six rebounds.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two white men were arrested earlier this week, days after a Black delivery van driver accused them of chasing him and shooting at him after he dropped off a package in a Mississippi city.
But driver Demonterrio Gibson, 24, on Friday said he doesn’t believe police took him seriously at first and his attorneys say both suspects have been “undercharged” and should face charges of attempted murder.
Nobody was injured but the chase and gunfire have sparked social media complaints of racism in Brookhaven, Mississippi, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) south of Jackson — and pushback in local media from the city’s Black police chief.
Gregory Case and his son Brandon Case were arrested and released on bond Tuesday in connection with the alleged Jan. 24 attack on Gibson, 24. Gregory Case faces a charge of conspiracy; Brandon Case, shooting into a motor vehicle.
Lawyers for Gibson say more serious charges, including hate crime charges, are warranted in what they believe was a racially motivated assault. “I want both of them charged with attempted murder,” attorney Carlos Moore said Friday.
Moore and attorney James Bryant compared the incident to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was running empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision in 2020 when three white strangers chased him down and blasted him with a shotgun. The white men, including a father and son, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life. Defense lawyers said they suspected he had committed crimes in their neighborhood, but prosecutors said there was no evidence of that. The three still face a federal hate crime trial.
Brookhaven, with a population that is 68% Black, is in Lincoln County, where District Attorney Dee Bates said information will be presented to a grand jury for a decision on charges once police complete the investigation of the Gibson incident. Witnesses, including Gibson, will be able to testify.
Gibson told The Associated Press on Friday that he was in uniform when the incident happened. He said he was in a van rented by FedEx but that it did not have a FedEx logo on it. He pulled into a driveway and dropped off a package sometime after 7 p.m. on Jan. 24. Before he turned his van around in the driveway to exit, he said, he noticed a white pickup truck pulling away from another house on the same large lot.
He said the pickup driver tried to cut him off as he exited the driveway. Gibson swerved around him and then encountered a second man.
“I drive down about two or three houses and there's another guy standing in the middle of the street, with a gun pointed at my vehicle,” said Gibson. The man motioned for him to stop. “I'm looking at him, like shaking my head, because why would I stop for somebody with a gun?”
Gibson said the man fired as he drove away, damaging the van and packages inside. He said the white pickup chased him to the interstate highway near Brookhaven before ending the chase. Later, police told local news outlets that the elder Case was the suspected pickup driver, while Brandon Case was the man in the street. Gregory Case is 58, and his son is 35, according to The Daily Leader of Brookhaven.
Gibson said he called police and was told by one officer that police had received a call about a suspicious person at the same address at the same time. “I said, ‘Sir, I’m not a suspicious person. I'm a FedEx worker. I was just doing my job and they shot at me.'”
The Cases have not commented publicly on their arrests. The municipal clerk's office in Brookhaven said Friday morning it had not yet received paperwork on their arrests or information on their attorneys. Police chief Kenny Collins did not return calls from the AP seeking more information.
Early this week, Collins, who is Black, pushed back against allegations on social media of racism in Brookhaven. “We’re not going to have outsiders coming in trying to stir that up,” he told The Daily Leader. “Brookhaven is not a racist, prejudiced town. You can’t judge a town by the actions of two individuals.”
“People need to be careful what they post on social media,” Collins said. “If somebody is killed or hurt because of what you post on social media, you will be charged, too.”
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Tevin Brown posted 17 points and eight rebounds as Murray State won its 11th straight game, beating Austin Peay 65-53 on Thursday.
Justice Hill had 12 points and six assists for Murray State (21-2, 11-0 Ohio Valley Conference). DJ Burns added 10 points and seven rebounds.
Austin Peay scored 22 points in the second half, a season low for the team.
Drew Calderon had 15 points for the Governors (7-12, 3-6). Elijah Hutchins-Everett added 12 points. Elton Walker had 11 points and eight rebounds.
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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy is being praised for smashing the windows of a burning SUV and rescuing a frightened dog in a neighborhood south of Denver.
Douglas County Deputy Michael Gregorek's body camera video from Jan. 22, which was released Thursday, shows him arriving on the scene as smoke pours from the driver's side window of the SUV. The owner frantically yells that his dog Hank is somewhere inside the locked vehicle.
Gregorek uses his retractable baton to smash a side window and then the rear window before pulling Hank out and quickly carrying him to a nearby snowbank.
“I just went in there and grabbed on. And his body had already kind of started to tense up, so I knew he was really in a bad way. ... Nothing else really mattered at that point other than getting Hank out of the car,” Gregorek said in an interview released by the sheriff's department.
A neighbor told the deputy his wife was a veterinarian, but by the time she got home, Hank was already sprinting around and ready to play.
“I’m a dog parent. My only child is my dog, so I would have done the same thing, whether it be baby, human, dog, cat. A life is a life, and you kind of treat it as such in a situation like that," Gregorek said.
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RICHMOND, Ky. (AP)Jomaru Brown came off the bench to score 15 points and he made the second of two foul shots with 3 seconds remaining in the third overtime to lift Eastern Kentucky over Kennesaw State 82-81 on Thursday.
Michael Moreno had 21 points and nine rebounds for the Colonels (11-12, 3-6 Atlantic Sun Conference). Cooper Robb contributed 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Reserve Michael Wardy scored 10 on 5-of-6 shooting.
Chris Youngblood had 20 points, eight rebounds and three blocks for the Owls (9-13, 4-5), whose losing streak stretched to four games. Brandon Stroud added 19 points and 10 rebounds. Alex Peterson had 14 points and seven rebounds. Terrell Burden had a career-high 12 assists.
Terrell Burden, the Owls’ second leading scorer entering the matchup at 12 points per game, had three points on 1-of-13 shooting.
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MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors filed two murder charges Friday against a 25-year-old real estate agent accused in the deaths of two homeless men in Miami last year.
Willy Maceo was previously charged with attempted murder after his arrest in December, according to court records.
Investigators had previously identified Maceo as a suspect in the Dec. 21 death of Jerome Antonio Price, 56, who was fatally shot while sleeping on a sidewalk in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, and the Oct. 16 fatal stabbing of Manuel Perez, 59, in downtown Miami. Maceo is also accused in the non-fatal shooting of a homeless man just a few hours before Price's death.
Detectives linked Maceo's Dodge Charger to the Wynwood shooting through surveillance video, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said during a news conference Friday. Investigators tracked down the car and found a Glock 9mm handgun, whose bullets matched casings found at both shooting scenes.
Surveillance video also led detectives to link Maceo to the Perez death. The man in that video shows a man who looks exactly like Maceo, officials said.
Investigators said they also were able to use video evidence and cellphone records to help them trace Maceo’s movements on the nights both men were killed.
Maceo has no criminal record but has a history of mental illness, authorities said.
The Miami Herald last month reported that Maceo had been sent to a hospital for a mental-health evaluation after he was acting erratically at his parents’ home in Kendall. Police officers seized his Glock but later returned it to him after the department’s legal bureau decided he was not enough of a risk for court intervention.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan's top prosecutor tried Friday to blunt questions about his commitment to trying cases of armed robbery and assaults on police, backing away from some controversial policies he outlined days after taking office last month.
In a new memo, District Attorney Alvin Bragg said gunpoint and knifepoint stickups at stores will be prosecuted as felonies, as will illicit gun possession in most cases. The Democrat said his office will also “prosecute any person who harms or attempts to harm a police officer.”
“This office will continue to make case decisions that serve safety, accountability, fairness and justice,” Bragg wrote.
The memo comes a day after President Joe Biden visited New York to pledge more federal effort to help police and community groups combat gun violence, which has worsened nationally during the coronavirus pandemic. In New York, an 11-month-old baby and six police officers are among victims of gunfire since the start of this year; two of the officers died.
Bragg, a former federal prosecutor and civil rights lawyer who grew up in Harlem in the high-crime 1980s, campaigned as a progressive with firsthand experience of both violence and the toll of the criminal justice system. He said as a candidate that he would decline to pursue many low-level offenses.
Two days after taking office, he issued a lengthy memo telling staffers not to prosecute certain offenses, not to ask judges to detain people before trial on many charges, and not to seek prison time on many types of convictions.
“The memorandum has been a source of confusion, rather than clarity,” Bragg wrote Friday.
Some items, such as not prosecuting low-level marijuana possession and sale, build on moves that his predecessor and some others among New York City's five district attorneys made (the state went on last spring to legalize possession and use of small amounts of pot).
But Bragg quickly found himself on the defensive over other aspects of the new policy, including a direction to charge some armed robberies in commercial settings as misdemeanor petit larcenies if a suspect displays a weapon “but does not create a genuine risk of physical harm.”
That and several other provisions alienated Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. She told officers in an email that she worried that an instruction not to prosecute resisting arrest charges in some instances would “invite violence against police officers.”
Bragg and Sewell later held what both characterized as a productive meeting, but the criticism didn't end there. The head of the city’s largest police union called the policies in Bragg's original memo an “experiment in denying reality.” Some lawmakers called on Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, to remove the district attorney from office; she declined.
Bragg apologized last month and emphasized his office wasn’t backing away from serious cases, like gun violence and assaults on police.
“We put a legalistic memo out that gave rise to questions of good faith for many folks, and we’ve been in the process of trying to clarify and respond to them," Bragg said at a Jan. 20 forum hosted by New York University.
The New York Police Department responded to Friday's memo by saying it looked forward to "working together to ensure safety in our city.”
Messages were sent to civil liberties and other advocacy groups that have pressed for changing the criminal justice system.
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ELON, N.C. (AP)Darius Burford matched his career high with a season-high 27 points as Elon topped UNC Wilmington 78-65 on Thursday night.
Burford hit 13 of 17 shots. Hunter McIntosh had 17 points for Elon (7-16, 4-6 Colonial Athletic Association). Michael Graham added 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Jaylen Sims had 18 points for the Seahawks (15-6, 9-1), whose 12-game winning streak came to an end. James Baker Jr. and Mike Okauru added 12 points apiece.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams apologized Friday after a 2019 video surfaced showing him using a racial slur for white people when talking about the New York Police Department.
The video, first reported by the New York Daily News, shows Adams, who is Black, speaking at a private event in December 2019, during the early stages of his mayoral run.
Adams is a former New York City police officer who rose to the rank of captain before leaving to serve in elected office. While in the New York Police Department, he became an outspoken critic of the department and co-founded an advocacy group called 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, which pushed for criminal justice reform and spoke out against police brutality.
Speaking to a Harlem business group, Adams said “Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers' ass, man! I was unbelievable in the police department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement.” The line drew applause.
Adams was asked about the video at a news conference Friday and said he wanted to “definitely apologize” for his remarks and called them “inappropriate.”
“Inappropriate comments, should not have been used. Someone asked me a question using that comment and playing on that word. I responded in that comment. But clearly, it’s a comment that should not be used and I apologize not only to those who heard it but to New Yorkers because they should expect more from me, and that was inappropriate," Adams said.
The word has often been considered a derogatory term for poor Southern white people, but the origins of the term are not entirely clear.
A 2013 report from NPR found the term was used as an insult as far back as the 17th Century and was later used to refer to Scots-Irish immigrants settling in the Southern U.S.
The mayor, who has been in office a little over a month, said the comment referred to his efforts to combat racism in the department.
“My fight in the police department was fighting racism throughout my entire journey. And I was serious about fighting against that and that is what it was attached to, the question that was asked. And that, you got my response, based on what that question was," he said.
The head of the city's largest police union quickly put out a statement defending Adams.
“Whenever a controversial video of a police officer surfaces online, we ask for fairness instead of a rush to outrage. We will apply the same standard here," said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch, who is white.
"We have spoken with Mayor Adams about this video. We have spent far too many hours together in hospital emergency rooms these past few weeks, and we’ve worked together for decades before that. A few seconds of video will not define our relationship. We have a lot of work to do together to support our members on the streets.”
Adams apology came a day after he hosted President Joe Biden in New York City and they met with top law enforcement officers to discuss plans to try to cut down gun violence in cities.
That presidential visit followed the deaths of two New York City police officers in a shooting in Harlem.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP)D.J. Burns Jr. came off the bench to score 15 points to lead Winthrop to a 64-54 win over North Carolina A&T on Thursday night.
Sin’Cere McMahon had 13 points and six rebounds for Winthrop (14-8, 7-2 Big South Conference). Drew Buggs added eight assists.
Marcus Watson had 11 points for the Aggies (9-14, 4-5), who have lost four games in a row. Demetric Horton added 10 points and eight rebounds.
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2 charged in fatal shooting at suburban Minneapolis school
RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Two men have been charged in a shooting at a suburban Minneapolis school that left one student dead and another critically injured.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said Friday 19-year-old Alfredo Rosario Solis and 18-year-old Fernando Valdez-Alvarez, both of Minneapolis, each face one count of intentional second-degree murder for the death of 15-year-old Jahmari Rice, who was found outside the South Education Center in Richfield Tuesday.
A 17-year-old student also was found wounded in the school’s main entrance.
Solis and Valdez-Alvarez, who are both students at South, are also charged with two counts of attempted intentional second-degree murder.
It was not immediately clear if either defendant has an attorney, but they were expected in court Friday afternoon.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A man has been fatally shot by police after apparently holding multiple children and a woman hostage inside an Evansville home.
The man called 911 dispatchers Friday, told them he was “losing his mind” and was preparing to shoot and kill his family, according to 911 audio obtained by the Evansville Courier & Press.
He also called other agencies and a local television station, according to the newspaper.
Police Sgt. Nick Winsett said officers arrived at the home and were able to remove “multiple” children before the man allegedly retreated into a back room while holding a female hostage with a knife.
The man was shot after attempts by officers to negotiate with him were not successful, Winsett said.
”(The female victim) was starting to yell in pain and from the knife being held against her,” Winsett said. “That’s when our officers were able to neutralize him and rescue her.”
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SAN ANTONIO (AP)Devante Carter posted 14 points as Nicholls State narrowly beat UIW 63-60 on Thursday night.
Ryghe Lyons had 12 points for Nicholls State (14-9, 6-3 Southland Conference). Ty Gordon added 10 points. Manny Littles had 14 rebounds.
Robert ”RJ” Glasper had 13 points for the Cardinals (4-19, 1-8), whose losing streak reached six games. Johnny Hughes III added 10 points. Charlie Yoder had 10 points.
The Colonels, who beat UIW 87-56 on Jan. 6., swept the season series against the Cardinals.
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COVID-19 in Mississippi: 7,839 new cases reported Fri.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi State Department of Health reports 7,839 new cases and 48 deaths on Friday.
The number of presumed positive coronavirus cases in Mississippi is now at 751,862 since March 2020.
So far, 11,250 people have died from COVID-19 in Mississippi.
Click here to see the latest hospitalization numbers in the state.
Vaccines are available to all Mississippians 5 and older.
Click here for county-by-county totals.
The newest MSDH report shows 1,490,308 people are fully vaccinated and 3,628,759 doses have been administered in total.
On March 19, 2020, the first in-state death from the virus was reported of a man from Hancock County.
Mississippi Department of Health has a hotline open 7 days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for any coronavirus-related questions: 877-978-6453.
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Low-fat chocolate milk instead of only non-fat. Fewer whole-grain offerings. Less severe salt limits.
The Biden administration issued transitional standards for school lunches Friday that are meant to ease the path for cafeterias to get back on a more healthful course as they recover from pandemic and supply chain disruptions.
Schools have struggled to meet the government’s nutrition benchmarks through the pandemic but have not been punished for falling short. The “bridge” rule announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture extends emergency flexibilities for the next two school years as schools gradually transition back to normal.
“We applaud schools’ heroic efforts throughout the challenges of this pandemic to continue serving kids the most nutritious meals possible," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
"The standards we’re putting in place for the next two school years will help schools transition to a future that builds on the tremendous strides they’ve made improving school meal nutrition over the past decade,” he said.
The changes mean schools and child care providers will be allowed to serve low-fat -- not just nonfat — flavored milk, alongside low-fat regular milk. At least 80% of cereals, breads and rolls — instead of all of them -- will have to be whole grain rich.
The sodium allowed in school lunches will decrease by 10% beginning in 2023-24. That is a smaller reduction than previously planned but aligns with broader sodium reduction targets recently released by the Food and Drug Administration.
The USDA changed school nutrition standards in 2012 as part of then first lady Michelle Obama’s healthy eating initiative. Schools were told to do away with white bread and other refined grains over time while increasing fruits and vegetables, reducing sodium and setting calorie limits.
The Trump administration later rolled back the nutrition standards, but that move was thrown out be a federal judge in 2020. The judge said his administration did not give adequate public notice of the change.
USDA oversees the national school lunch and breakfast programs, which serve millions of free and reduced-price meals daily.
Administrators say supply chain problems have made it hard to find foods that meet the standards, and COVID-19 infections and exposures have depleted staff.
A November 2021 survey by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association found more than 96% of respondents cited challenges with suppliers not carrying sufficient whole-grain, low-sodium and low-fat menu items.
"School nutrition professionals are frantic just trying to get enough food on the tray for our students amid relentless supply chain disruptions and labor shortages," association President Beth Wallace said in a statement praising the Agriculture Department action.
She said the group hoped to collaborate with USDA "to assess the viability of nutrition standards moving forward.”
Vilsack said new long-term standards are planned for 2024-25 and beyond.
Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., who chairs the House Education & Labor Committee, said, “Throughout the pandemic, school meal programs have faced steep obstacles to serving students and families, from challenges to safely delivering food during school closures to securing the supplies and ingredients that school meal staff need."
He called on Congress to build on support for child nutrition programs that were included in the administration's American Rescue Plan.
"I am focused on securing the critical investments included in the House-passed Build Back Better Act and advancing a comprehensive reauthorization of federal child nutrition programs,” Scott said.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)Julian Champagnie had 27 points as St. John’s beat Georgetown 90-77 on Thursday night.
Joel Soriano had 14 points, nine rebounds and four blocks for the Red Storm (12-9, 4-6 Big East Conference). Aaron Wheeler added 13 points. Dylan Addae-Wusu had 11 points.
Donald Carey scored a career-high 23 points and had seven rebounds for the Hoyas (6-14, 0-9), whose losing streak stretched to 10 games. Kaiden Rice added 20 points. Dante Harris had 10 points and nine rebounds.
The Red Storm improved to 2-0 against the Hoyas for the season. St. John’s defeated Georgetown 88-69 on Jan. 16.
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Florida seniors say their political party affiliation was switched without their knowledge
MIAMI (Gray News) – Some senior citizens in Florida said they were duped into changing their political party affiliation to Republican.
All of the victims were older than 65 and live in Miami-Dade County.
A visit to the Miami-Dade County Elections Department shows that information on every registered voter in the county can be obtained for $20.
That’s how an official third-party voter registration organization – of which there are hundreds in Florida – can target voters like Armando Selva.
“They came to my door and they asked if I was interesting in voting,” said Selva, who was originally registered as No Party Affiliate (NPA).
Decades-long Democrats were shocked to learn that after voter registration visitors came by in November – whom the voters described as having red Republican Party of Florida hats and IDs – they received new voter ID cards showing their parties had switched.
“They changed me to the Republican Party,” said Juan Carlos Salazar, a longtime Democrat.
In the last year, records from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department show almost 5,500 Miami-Dade Democrats switched to Republican, and just under 1,700 Republicans switched to Democrat.
While the Republican Party of Florida has not responded to the recent allegations, in December the executive director of the party, Helen Aguirre Ferré, said the party follows laws and regulations and doesn’t make changes to voters’ registration without their permission.
The third-party voter registration organizations that assist with registration forms are legal, and all of them are registered with the state of Florida.
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OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Seattle woman was the person shot to death inside a Greyhound bus in Northern California after a 21-year-old man who was acting erratically opened fire, killing her and wounding four others, authorities said Friday.
Karin Dalton, 43, died at the scene of the Wednesday shooting in the city of Oroville, where the bus stopped at a convenience store, the Butte County Sheriff's officials said.
Asaahdi Coleman, of Sacramento, started shooting at passengers as they exited the Los Angeles-bound during a scheduled stop, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said Thursday.
Coleman fled the bus and was arrested, naked, inside a Walmart after getting into a fight with a customer. He was expected to be arraigned later Friday. It was not immediately known if has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Police received 911 calls shortly after 7:30 p.m. that someone was shooting inside the bus outside a convenience store in the small city of Oroville, about 65 miles (104 kilometers) north of Sacramento.
Officials said they recovered a dozen 9 mm bullet casings on the bus, which also had a bullet hole through the windshield. Detectives later recovered the weapon in a nearby construction site, Honea said.
A 32-year-old man who was shot multiple times and a 25-year-old pregnant woman remained at a hospital in critical condition and an 11-year-old girl was listed in stable condition. A 38-year-old man was treated for a minor injury and is expected to be released from the hospital soon, Honea said.
Moments before the shooting Coleman, who had boarded the bus in Redding, told passengers that Los Angeles was a dangerous city and showed them a firearm he was carrying in a satchel, authorities said.
He also got agitated and accused one of the passengers of being an undercover law enforcement officer, authorities said.
After the shooting, Coleman fled and ran to the Walmart about a half-mile (0.8 kilometers) from the bus and got into a fight with a customer.
the fight was broken up, he walked away and began taking off his clothes. He was taken into custody a short time later, officials said.
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Police: Infant dies after being found unresponsive at gas station near Georgia interstate; parents charged
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (Gray News) - Police in Georgia have arrested a couple accused of killing their 9-month-old child.
The Warner Robins Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers responded to a Buc-ee’s convenience store near Interstate 75 on Sunday after receiving a report that a child was not breathing.
The infant was transported to a nearby hospital and later airlifted to Atlanta to be treated, but the child died Friday.
Investigators determined there were injuries on the child that were signs of present and past abuse.
Police charged 40-year-old Christopher Palmer of New York and 26-year-old Shelly Rooks of Georgia with felony murder, aggravated battery and cruelty to children.
Rooks claimed that the child was injured after being dropped while getting a bath, police said.
The two are being held in the Peach County Detention Center.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP)Brenden Tucker had 21 points as Charleston easily defeated William & Mary 84-61 on Thursday night.
Reyne Smith had 14 points for Charleston (12-9, 4-5 Colonial Athletic Association). Dimitrius Underwood added 12 points and eight rebounds, and Ben Burnham had 11 points.
Connor Kochera had 17 points for the Tribe (5-18, 4-6). Brandon Carroll and Ben Wight each had 10 points.
The Cougars improve to 2-0 against the Tribe for the season. Charleston defeated William & Mary 74-73 on Jan. 25.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Five players were suspended Friday for violations of the minor league drug program, raising this year’s total to nine.
Free agent pitcher Nick Belzer and pitcher Charles Hall of Oakland’s Class A Central Lansing farm team were suspended for 50 games each for a second positive test for a drug of abuse. Miami Double-A outfielder Tristan Pompey also was suspended for 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse.
Detroit pitcher Hector Rodriguez and Arizona pitcher Jose Valdez were suspended for 60 games each following positive tests for the performing-enhancing substance Stanozolol. Both are on Dominican Summer League rosters.
Four players were given 60-day bans on Jan. 28 following positive tests for Stanozolol: Seattle pitcher Brayan Diaz, Chicago Cubs left-hander Carlos Garcia, Houston right-hander Jorge Geraldo and Texas right-hander Aron Vargas. All are on Dominican Summer League rosters.
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ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ski jumping captivates viewers every four years, when they fearlessly fly the length of an American football field plus the end zones.
Casual fans, though, probably have no clue about the scoring system or skills and techniques necessary to win gold even though the sport has been a part of the Winter Olympics since the first one in 1924.
In the U.S., most people can't probably name a ski jumper other than “Eddie the Eagle,” from the 2016 film about Eddie Edwards’ unlikely bid to become a British Olympian.
The Associated Press is here to help. Here's a look at what to watch, starting Saturday when the women go for gold, from the moment ski jumpers sit on a bar about as high as a 40-story building until they glide over machine-made snow and wait to see how far they flew and how the judges scored their performance.
THE BAR IS VERY HIGH
Ski jumpers sit on a bar, calming their nerves with deep breaths, and wait for a green light to go. If there's too much of a gust, they have to slide back off the bar and onto a step to wait for wind to calm down. A focused mind, which ignores fears, is key.
FUN ON THE IN-RUN
With skis wider and longer than those in other disciplines, jumpers go down a steep incline referred to as the in-run. They try to avoid making contact with the sides of ice-filled channels go as fast as 100 kph (62 mph) to help them fly farther.
Jumpers lead with their helmet, throw their hands back and crouch low into a tuck with a flat back for aerodynamics. Balance and flexibility are critical.
CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF
Near the end of the in-run, men and women make an explosive jump without moving their upper body to create lift for flight. The timing and technique in the take-off is perhaps the most important part of the 15-second process from sitting on the bar to sliding to a stop in the snow.
COME FLY WITH ME
Jumpers lean forward with hands near hips, hovering their torso over skis that are in a “V" shape in a technique used since Swedish ski jumper Jan Bokloev started doing it in 1985 after they previously had them parallel.
COMING IN FOR A LANDING
When skis hit the snow, judges want one slightly ahead of the other and for the jumpers to gracefully glide on what's known as the outrun.
STYLE POINTS MATTER
Jumpers are aiming for the K-point of the hill, where it starts to flatten out, to earn 60 points and those who fly past it earn more points while points are deducted from coming up short. Five judges award scores of up to 20 points for style from start to finish, looking for jumpers who look keep their torso and limbs still while floating through the air and land gracefully among other things.
SIZE MATTERS
There's a dirty little secret in the sport, which is plagued by eating disorders. Fat don't fly is a phrase heard at least in the U.S., because physics prevent a heavier jumper from flying farther than a lighter one.
Norway's Maren Lundby decided not to defend her Olympic gold because she put on weight and chose to put her physical and mental health first, leading to her skipping the season.
IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS
If you're looking for a winner, maybe don't pick an American. The U.S. has won only one Olympic medal, and that happened nearly a century ago in what was quite a tale. Anders Haugen left the first Winter Olympics in 1924 without any hardware, but 50 years later was awarded a bronze medal after a scoring error was confirmed.
Norway, Austria and Germany are traditional powers. Poland and Japan are pretty good, too. Japanese jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi and Germany’s Karl Geiger are relatively safe bets to earn a spot on the podium.
On the women's side with Lundby taking time off and top-ranked Marita Kramer of Austria out after testing positive for COVID-19, Germany's Katharina Althaus and Sara Takanashi of Japan are the favorites.
HEY, WHAT’S NEW?
This year, for the first time at the Olympics, men and women will compete together in a mixed team event.
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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP)Clemson starting forward Hunter Tyson is out indefinitely with a broken clavicle.
Tyson sustained the injury in the first half of the Tigers’ 75-69 victory over Florida State on Wednesday night. X-rays taken Thursday confirmed the broken bone that connects the sternum to the shoulder.
Tyson is a 6-foot-8 senior from Monroe, North Carolina, had started all 21 games this season and was averaging a career-best 10.4 points a game.
There was no timetable for Tyson’s possible return this season, the school said in a release.
The Tigers (12-9, 4-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) next play at Georgia Tech (9-12, 2-8) on Saturday.
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| 2022-02-04T22:54:43
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Most of the world’s best hockey players are spending this weekend in opulent hotel suites in one of the planet's top party towns instead of being confined to modest Olympic accommodations in freezing-cold Beijing.
The NHL All-Stars still aren't happy about missing their chance to compete for gold medals, but nobody was complaining Friday morning about the consolation prize of a sunny weekend in Vegas.
“It's disappointing, because you realize you never know when you’re going to get an opportunity to go to the Olympics,” said Pittsburgh left wing Jake Guentzel, a probable member of the U.S. team. "It’s something you dream about, and it’s disappointing that it didn’t happen. But it’s not too bad to be in Vegas. This is a great spot to have it, and I know a lot of guys are excited.”
With the skills competition Friday night and the game Saturday, the NHL's top talents are set to light up the Strip in a city that has become a vital part of the hockey landscape in less than five years.
The league had to skip its All-Star festivities last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. They're back in full force this week at T-Mobile Arena, which will be packed with its usual menagerie of Nevada's rabid hockey fans.
But the All-Stars can't help feeling bittersweet about the weekend when they see footage of the Olympics on television, or when they see their countrymen at All-Star events.
“Yeah, it’s a disappointment,” said Nashville captain Roman Josi, who was headed to his second Olympics after playing for Switzerland in Sochi. “It was an amazing experience in 2014, and I think it’s something every athlete wants to do. I wish we could have found a way to play in the Olympics."
Josi will watch the Swiss team in Beijing from afar, although he isn’t sure how the time difference works. That’s one of the many reasons the NHL passed on on playing in an Asia-based Winter Games four years ago and was a factor again this year before the pandemic forced the league to pull out.
“That's something that a lot of guys were really looking forward to,” said Toronto star Auston Matthews, who would have made his first appearance for the U.S. team. “I know I definitely was. It's too bad. It's just the circumstance we're in. Hopefully we're able to get a best-on-best tournament at some point here, just because there's so many good young players, and the league is in such a good place right now with the amount of talent and skill that's in it.”
Matthews was alluding to the open secret that the league and the players' union are in discussions about bringing back the World Cup of Hockey in 2024, perhaps in February during the NHL season.
The last World Cup was held in 2016, with Canada winning it. Most of the world's best players haven't represented their countries since then.
The league and the players seem to be definitely committed to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, but these All-Stars know the future is unpredictable. Not everybody here will be in the running four years from now, so their absence from Beijing stings despite the clear drawbacks.
“That was a huge opportunity for me,” said Tampa Bay goalie Andrey Vasilevskiy, who would have played for Russia. “I’ve played in the world championships, but it’s obviously not the same. Unfortunately we won’t be there, but I hope in four years we’ll be able to do that. It will be pretty cool to try it.”
NO OVI
Capitals star Alex Ovechkin will miss the weekend festivities after entering the NHL's COVID-19 protocols on Wednesday. The 12-time All-Star selection would have been the captain of the Metropolitan Division team, and he was likely to participate in the Hardest Shot competition Friday.
SIN CITY
The hockey world already knows plenty about Las Vegas thanks to the immediate success of the expansion Golden Knights, but the weekend allows their town to do what it does best: Throw an expensive party.
“I never would have guessed there would be hockey in Vegas 10 years ago, and here we are,” Knights All-Star defenseman Alex Pietrangelo said. “The response we have around the city is awesome. They love having us here, and we love being here. People have been wanting to have this weekend in town for a while now.”
Vegas jumped the line last year to host All-Star weekend because the NHL wanted its players on the West Coast so they could fly to Beijing immediately after the game.
VETERAN FLAVOR
Dallas' 37-year-old Joe Pavelski is the oldest All-Star since Jaromir Jagr in 2016, while Minnesota's 34-year-old Cam Talbot is the sixth goalie to become a first-time All-Star at 34 or older (Johnny Bower did it at a record 36 in 1961).
LIGHTNING STRIKES
With all 32 NHL teams required to have one representative on the All-Star rosters, nobody has more players in Vegas than the back-to-back champion Tampa Bay Lightning, who sent Vasilevskiy, Victor Hedman and Steven Stamkos.
“It's an opportunity to showcase our game in a great city,” Hedman said. “I know most of the guys here wanted to be playing in the Olympics, but it didn't happen, so we're happy to be here and show what our game is about.”
ALL-STAR WEEKEND
Vegas sports fans have an All-Star buffet this weekend: The NFL's Pro Bowl will be played at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday.
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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski will pay rival North Carolina a visit for the final time when the two programs meet Saturday night in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Krzyzewski, who turns 75 this month, is retiring at season’s end. Next month’s rematch with the Tar Heels will mark his last home game.
Krzyzewski said the “excellence of the games” will be what he remembers most about playing North Carolina at Dean Smith Center.
“Either here or there, at the jump ball, when you look at the guys on the court and say, ‘Whoa, there are a lot of good players on the court,'” Krzyzewski said. “I’ve seen so many great players play against us in Carolina uniforms. Thank goodness we’ve been able to have a few of our own, too, which has made it unbelievable.”
North Carolina leads the series 141-114; but, under Krzyzewski, Duke holds a 49-46 edge.
Both sides are on a roll heading into Saturday. Duke (18-3, 8-2 ACC) has won back-to-back road games and four straight overall. North Carolina (16-6, 8-3) has won four consecutive games, including an overtime triumph at Louisville on Tuesday despite not receiving a point from any of its reserves.
First place is also at stake, as Duke holds a half-game lead on North Carolina, Miami and Notre Dame.
It will be coach Hubert Davis’ first time in charge of the Tar Heels in this rivalry matchup. He said he wants his team to be excited when the spotlight is on.
“It’s not a time to be nervous,” Davis said. “It’s not a time to be stressed. It’s a time to enjoy it.”
North Carolina has had a solid turnaround after blowout losses to Miami and Wake Forest in mid-January.
“The biggest thing for us is our ability to stop it and to change,” Davis said. “And so after those two losses, to stop it and to change for the next four games, I just think that’s really good.”
After seven straight games with double-figure final margins, the Tar Heels eked out a 90-83 win over Louisville.
“It showed a lot of our growth,” Davis said. “I think it’s something that we can learn from. I really felt like there were a lot of learning experiences (from the Louisville game). We’re going to be in situations like this again.”
The Tar Heels are 12-0 at home this season.
Duke’s defense has been a key part of its recent success. The Blue Devils won 57-43 on Monday night at Notre Dame, handing the Fighting Irish their first home loss of the season.
It was the fewest points Duke had allowed in an ACC road game since a 56-41 win at Virginia on Feb. 16, 2011.
“We definitely didn’t play our best offensive game, but one thing we can always count on is our effort and defense,” Duke forward Paolo Banchero said. “Obviously, we’ve got to clean up on the offensive end and we can definitely shoot better.”
Duke freshman Trevor Keels returned after a three-game absence with a lower leg injury and played 26 minutes at Notre Dame. He posted three points, two rebounds and four assists with no turnovers.
“He really helped us in the first half, because we were kind of playing wild offensively and he settled us down,” Krzyzewski said. “He’ll be there. Having him back will help us and give us that depth on the perimeter.”
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals tight end C.J. Uzomah missed a second day of practice due to a knee injury suffered in the AFC championship game.
Offensive lineman Jackson Carman has a sore back and also sat out Friday as the Bengals practiced for a second day in the indoor bubble at the University of Cincinnati because of bad weather, according to a pool report.
Uzomah became a clutch receiver for quarterback Joe Burrow this season, and the Bengals hope to get him back for the Super Bowl on Feb. 13. He was carted off with a knee sprain in last Sunday's AFC championship win over Kansas City.
“I don’t anticipate him doing much work this week,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. “The goal really is to see where he’s at this weekend and see where he’s going to be on Monday.”
The Bengals will practice Saturday and Sunday, likely in the bubble with temperatures in the teens and 20s predicted. They'll arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesday, five days ahead of the Super Bowl.
Unlike Thursday, when icy conditions delayed one of the team buses, all the buses made it through the snowy streets of Cincinnati to the UC campus without issue on Friday.
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HOUSTON (AP)Max Fiedler had 22 points as Rice beat UTSA 91-78 on Thursday night.
Carl Pierre had 19 points for Rice (13-8, 6-4 Conference USA). Travis Evee added 16 points. Quincy Olivari had 12 points and 13 rebounds.
Jacob Germany had 20 points, nine rebounds and three blocks for the Roadrunners (8-15, 1-9). Isaiah Addo-Ankrah added 15 points. Darius McNeill had 12 points.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP)Savion Flagg had 26 points as Sam Houston easily defeated Dixie State 77-53 on Thursday night.
Demarkus Lampley had 16 points and seven rebounds for Sam Houston (14-10, 9-2 Western Athletic Conference). Kuba Karwowski added three blocks and Javion May had nine rebounds.
Hunter Schofield had 15 points and seven rebounds for the Trailblazers (11-11, 4-5). Dancell Leter added 12 points and Cameron Gooden had six assists.
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CONWAY, Ark. (AP)Tavian Dunn-Martin matched his career high with 34 points plus 10 assists to keep pace with Eddy Kayouloud and lead Florida Gulf Coast to a 95-93 overtime win over Central Arkansas on Thursday night.
Kayouloud led the Bears with a career-high 34 points.
Dunn-Martin made two free throws with 1:45 remaining in overtime and the Eagles held on.
Dunn-Martin made 9 of 10 foul shots. Kevin Samuel had 19 points, nine rebounds and five blocks for FGCU (14-9, 4-5 Atlantic Sun Conference). Cyrus Largie added 12 points.
The Bears’ Kayouloud added 17 rebounds for the Bears, who have lost four games in a row. Collin Cooper had 18 points for the Bears (6-15, 3-5). Masai Olowokere added 14 points. Camren Hunter had seven points and 10 rebounds.
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| 2022-02-04T22:55:13
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STATESBORO, Ga. (AP)Gedi Juozapaitis and Cam Bryant scored 10 points apiece and Kaden Archie made a basket with 19 seconds left to lift Georgia Southern to a 58-57 win over South Alabama on Thursday night.
Archie finished with seven points and Andrei Savrasov added nine points and eight rebounds for Georgia Southern (11-9, 4-5 Sun Belt Conference).
Jay Jay Chandler had 15 points for South Alabama (15-7, 5-4). Javon Franklin added 13 points – including nine in the final 5 minutes – and eight rebounds.
Tyrell Jones drove the left side of the lane and then dropped a pass to Franklin for a contested two-hand dunk to give the Jaguars a one-point lead with 47 seconds left but Archie got into the paint and, with the shot clock winding down, hung in the air before banking home the go-ahead bucket with 19 seconds remaining.
South Alabama trailed by 15 early in the second half before Jones converted a three-point play – his only points of the game – with 16 minutes left to spark an 18-5 run that trimmed its deficit to 48-46 midway through the period. Franklin scored the final nine points in an 11-3 spurt, capped by his dunk that made it 57-56 and gave the Jaguars their first lead of the game.
South Alabama, which beat Georgia Southern 73-67 on Jan. 15., split the season series with the Eagles.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)Evan Gilyard II had 23 points as Kansas City beat St. Thomas (MN) 81-72 on Thursday night.
Marvin Nesbitt Jr. had 19 points and 10 rebounds for Kansas City (14-9, 7-4 Summit League), which earned its fourth consecutive home victory. Arkel Lamar added 18 points and seven rebounds.
Parker Bjorklund scored a season-high 26 points and had eight rebounds for the Tommies (8-13, 2-7), whose losing streak stretched to six games. Anders Nelson added 23 points.
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Those who are guaranteed entry by competing in at least 10 races, or who deferred their place in 2020 or 2021, can register starting Monday, Feb. 7.
That registration window is open until 11:59 p.m. on February 13.
Then, the lottery for all other registrants opens at midnight on February 14 and closes on the 28.
The city is requiring runners to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to race, which means either one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
The race was canceled amid the pandemic in 2020 and moved to October in 2021.
📣 Registration for the 2022 BCBSR will be off and running on February 7 for those who are guaranteed entry! All other runners can cross the lottery starting line on February 14. Lottery registration will close on February 28. For more info visit https://t.co/A3bV9Lf6UP. #BCBSR22 pic.twitter.com/32BacBMTIe
— IBX Broad Street Run (@IBXRun10) February 4, 2022
"I'm happy to welcome the Blue Cross Broad Street Run back to Broad Street this spring. This is another sign that Philadelphia is returning to normal, and I thank everyone who has been vaccinated and following public health guidance for helping us get here," Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement.
The run is set for Sunday, May 1st.
For more information, visit BroadStreetRun.com
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FARGO, N.D. (AP)Sam Griesel had 17 points and nine rebounds and Tyree Eady posted 15 points and five steals as North Dakota State beat Nebraska Omaha 71-64 on Thursday night.
Jarius Cook had 11 points for North Dakota State (15-8, 7-4 Summit League). Boden Skunberg added 11 points.
Felix Lemetti had 17 points for the Mavericks (4-19, 3-9). Darrius Hughes added 12 points. Dylan Brougham had 10 points.
The Bison, who also beat Omaha 71-67 on Jan. 8., swept the season series with the Mavericks.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It was a big day for 14-year-old Austin Beltrante as he walked for the first time since his accident last May.
Cell phone video from inside St. Christopher's shows him walking out of the hospital this week. He says his family was told he could pick up his new prosthetic leg, and he was able to stand and walk out of the facility unassisted.
The 9th grader was shocked in May 2021 when he stepped on a live wire near SEPTA's tracks in Devon, Chester County.
He lost both hands and one foot and suffered burns on 75% of his body.
After nearly six months of care, he was discharged in November with a new set of wheels. But he was determined to one day stand again on his own two feet.
"I got to walk out of the hospital for the first time, and I got my leg!" he said. "I would always think one day, but I didn't know when though."
Austin says he's taking it day by day and started doing physical therapy with his new leg. He even hopped into a boxing ring, something he used to do regularly before his accident.
"Everyday it's another adventure. It's a blessing," he said.
14-year-old burn victim Austin Beltrante walks for the first time since accident in May
The 9th grader was shocked in May 2021 when he stepped on a live wire near SEPTA's tracks in Devon, Chester County.
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MT. PLEASANT, Mich. (AP)Cameron Healy had 23 points as Central Michigan beat Western Michigan 65-55 on Thursday night.
Kevin Miller had 18 points, six rebounds and six assists for Central Michigan (5-13, 4-3 Mid-American Conference). Brian Taylor added 11 points.
Lamar Norman Jr. had 18 points for the Broncos (4-18, 0-11), whose losing streak stretched to 12 games. Mileek McMillan added 10 points. Markeese Hastings had 10 rebounds.
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