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Beleaguered Pac-12 says it will pursue expansion with Colorado, USC and UCLA all leaving next year

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

The Pac-12 Conference issued a statement aimed at stability after Colorado became the third school in a year to announce plans to leave. The nine schools remaining for the 2024-25 season were largely silent Friday. Colorado on Thursday announced it would join the Big 12 beginning in 2024, joining Big Ten-bound Southern California and UCLA in an exodus that could continue in coming weeks and months. Their departures coincide with the expiration of the league’s current media rights deals and the Pac-12 has not yet announced a lucrative deal going forward.Shortly after CU’s regents approved the move to the Big 12, the Pac-12 issued a statement pledging to soldier on. Possible Pac-12 expansion targets could include San Diego State and SMU.“We are focused on concluding our media rights deal and securing our continued success and growth,” the Pac-12 said. “Immediately following the conclusion of our media rights deal, we will embrace expansion opportunities and bring new fans...

Body found in St. Lawrence River linked to migrant deaths

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

MONTREAL (AP) — A body found this month in the St. Lawrence River belonged to a man connected to an investigation into the deaths of eight migrants, Canadian authorities said Friday.Akwesasne police said the coroner’s office identified the dead man as Casey Oakes, 30, a local resident who had been missing since March.His boat was found near the bodies of eight migrants who died while trying to cross illegally into the United States through Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, which straddles provincial and international boundaries and includes parts of Quebec, Ontario and New York state. The bodies of the migrants were pulled from the St. Lawrence River in Akwesasne, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Montreal, on March 30 and 31.Authorities said they were members of two families, one from India and the other from Romania.Akwesasne Mohawk Territory is known for being a transit point for the trafficking of contraband and the smuggling of people because of its location.___Follow AP&#...

IR, PUP, NFI. What do all of those NFL roster designations mean?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

NFL players compete all offseason and through training camp to make the active roster of their current team — or perhaps even elsewhere.But staying there isn’t easy. Especially with injuries a constant factor in such a physical sport.When the regular season begins, each team can have up to 53 players on its active roster. That comes after three cutdowns during the summer from the 90-player rosters with which teams open training camp. Players could end up having other roster designations as teams try to upgrade positions or compensate for injuries at certain spots. But what do they mean — to the players and teams?INJURED RESERVEOfficially, it’s called the reserve/injured list but is commonly referred to simply as IR. Teams place players on this list when they have a football-related injury and will need to miss at least a few weeks. Players on IR don’t count against the active roster.If a player is placed on this list before the regular season begins, he’s for...

Authorities charge an Alabama woman who acknowledged she fabricated a story about her kidnapping, finding toddler

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Authorities charge an Alabama woman who acknowledged she fabricated a story about her kidnapping, finding toddler.Source

Landowner kills mountain lion on property, but is that legal?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife said a homeowner in Larkspur killed a mountain lion that walked onto his property and attacked his livestock.Thursday morning, CPW said it received a report of a mountain lion kill in Larkspur. When CPW rangers arrived at the residence, the homeowner told them he saw a mountain lion attack one of his sheep. The homeowner then shot and killed the lion.Can you legally kill a mountain lion in Colorado?CPW said they are not anticipating that any charges will be filed against the homeowner.According to CPW, you can legally hunt mountain lions in the state, but there are some rules to follow. Why did Jeffco wait to warn about the trail predator? If you are hunting the cat, you must apply for and carry a mountain lion license. Before a mountain lion license can be issued, hunters are required to have a mountain lion education certificate issued by CPW. Hunters will only receive the certificate after completing CPW’s mountain lio...

New Hampshire governor asks for federal assistance for damages from ‘severe winter storm’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has requested federal emergency assistance to repair damage from severe storms earlier this year and over the past month or so.“I request that a major disaster be declared for the State of New Hampshire,” Sununu wrote in a letter to President Biden dated today, adding that a severe winter storm and associated flooding between the end of April and the beginning of May “resulted in damages” in Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Merrimack and Strafford Counties “and overwhelmed State and local resources requiring an immediate and urgent response.”“Given the severity and magnitude of this natural disaster and the events that have transpired during the April 30 – May 1, 2023, incident and since then, Federal assistance is necessary to supplement the efforts and available resources of the state and local governments to recover from disaster related losses,” he continued later in the letter.He wrote that the damages “were concentrated in Carroll County where the heavie...

The backup driver in the 1st death by a fully autonomous car pleads guilty to endangerment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

By JACQUES BILLEAUD AND ANITA SNOW (Associated Press)PHOENIX (AP) — The backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018 pleaded guilty Friday to endangerment in the first fatal collision involving a fully autonomous car.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge David Garbarino, who accepted the plea agreement, sentenced Rafaela Vasquez, 49, to three years of supervised probation for the crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. Vasquez told police that Herzberg “came out of nowhere” and that she didn’t see Herzberg before the March 18, 2018, collision on a darkened Tempe street. Vasquez had been charged with negligent homicide, a felony. She pleaded guilty to an undesignated felony, meaning it could be reclassified as a misdemeanor if she completes probation.Authorities say Vasquez was streaming the television show “The Voice” on a phone and looking down in the moments before Uber’s Volvo XC...

‘The Beanie Bubble’ review: Zach Galifianakis shines in engaging toy story

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

If only because it is the feature debut of co-directors Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash Jr. (singer and director of the band OK Go), it’s surprising how consistently engaging and entertaining “The Beanie Bubble” proves to be.Already given a limited theatrical release, the comedy-drama built around the wild Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s from Imagine Entertainment debuts this week on Apple TV+.Penned by Gore (“Saturday Night Live,” “Futurama”), it is based loosely on Zac Bissonnette’s book “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute,” with significant liberties taken for narrative purposes.Related ArticlesMovies | ‘Underrated’: Why Stephen Curry finally agreed to star in a documentary Movies | Waiting for ‘Oppenheimer?’ Here are 10 films about the bomb to watch now “There are parts of the truth you just can’t make up,” reads text that greets the viewer in the film’s opening seconds. “The rest, we did.”Of all the fine choices m...

Biden jokes that Republicans may impeach him because inflation is starting to cool down

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

By JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM (Associated Press)AUBURN, Maine (AP) — President Joe Biden — buoyed by new signs the economy is continuing on the upswing — took a swipe on Friday at House Republicans’ flirtations with an impeachment inquiry, quipping that GOP lawmakers may decide to impeach him because inflation is cooling down. Standing in a textile manufacturing facility in Auburn Biden pointed to inflation statistics that showed the U.S. has the lowest rate of price increases among the world’s biggest economies. Though he was careful to say he was not taking a victory lap on the economy, Biden suggested that his Republican opponents in Congress may need to find a fresh line of attack against him because of improving economic circumstances.“Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down,” Biden said. “I don’t know. I’d love that one.”Earlier this week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made his mo...

Patriots training camp Day 3: Bill O’Brien’s offense opens up, but where are the weapons?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:45:20 GMT

FOXBORO — Bill O’Brien may prove to be the Patriots’ savior this season, even if only for his Xs and Os.But through the start of training camp, O’Brien might already be running short on fishes and loaves.As the Patriots expanded their increasingly clever offensive playbook Friday, three of their five best pass-catchers literally came up empty. Through three training camp practices, wide receivers Kendrick Bourne and Tyquan Thornton and tight end Mike Gesicki have yet to catch a single pass during competitive team drills. Meanwhile, sixth-round rookie wideout Demario Douglas caught four Friday — by himself.It should be noted the Pats offense continues to operate within the tight confines of the red zone against a defense that expects pass and rolled over 10 starters from last season. But if Gesicki, Bourne and Thornton fail to play to their potential, the schemes and game plans O’Brien draws up won’t matter. Football is a game of matchups.Not...