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Proposal to create new tier for big-money college sports is just a start, NCAA president says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — NCAA president Charlie Baker said Wednesday his proposal to allow the most highly resourced schools in Division I to pay athletes through a trust fund is just a starting point as he tries to shift the association to be more proactive than reactive.“We need to be able to anticipate where conversations are going and to try to get this big, huge, diverse 180-committee with 2,000 members — like oh, my God! — to a place where they’re talking about stuff that’s common, and not just responding and reacting to other people’s agendas,” Baker said during an appearance at the Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletic Forum.On Monday, Baker laid forth an aggressive and potentially groundbreaking vision for a new NCAA subdivision at the very top of college sports in a letter he sent to the more than 350 Division I schools.“Some people are going to say you’re going too far and people will say but you’re not going far enough,” Baker said. “I promise you that’s...

Nevada grand jury indicts 6 fake Donald Trump electors

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada grand jury indicted six Republicans who submitted certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election in their state, making Nevada the third to seek charges against so-called “fake electors.”Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford began investigating the fake electors last month. He said in a statement Wednesday that he would do everything in his power to defend the institutions of the nation and the state.The announcement of the indictment represented a shift for Ford, who was quiet on whether he would investigate the fake electors before saying that state law would not allow him to do so.Ford had testified in support of a bill that would have criminalized future fake electors. That passed Nevada’s Democratic-controlled Legislature but was vetoed by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who said the punishment between four and 10 years in prison was too harsh. In December 2020, six Nevada GOP members signed certi...

Authorities responding to reports of multiple victims in shooting at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police officers were responding Wednesday to a “confirmed active shooter” in a building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the university announced in a post on the social media platform X.“This is not a test,” the university wrote. “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”Las Vegas police said in a separate post on X that there appeared to be multiple victims.The university said the shooter was at the Beam Hall, Frank and Estella Building, home of UNLV’s Lee Business School, and that police were responding to an additional report of shots fired at the nearby student union.The shooting occurred in a city still scarred by one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas, in which 60 were killed and hundreds more wounded.The Associated Press

Four GOP candidates will be on the debate stage, while Trump holds a fundraiser. Follow live updates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

Four Republican presidential hopefuls — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — will be participating in Wednesday night’s debate in Alabama. The early front-runner for the GOP nomination, former President Donald Trump, will be holding a fundraiser in Florida instead.What to knowHow to watch the Republican debateA narrowing field will debate less than six weeks before the Iowa caucusesThe debate will be a key moment for the young NewsNation cable networkThe fourth debate will be held in Alabama, the state that gave the GOP a roadmap to TrumpWill they take on Trump as the gloves come off?In case you haven’t noticed, some of these candidates don’t like one another very much. And six weeks before Iowa votes, the increasing pressure to break out, combined with the participants’ animus, could produce fireworks early and often.In the last debate, Haley called Ramaswamy “...

B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe retiring, saddened by overdose crisis policy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe has announced she is leaving her post after 13 years, deeply saddened the province has been unable to reduce the “tragic impacts” of toxic drugs on thousands of people.Lapointe says in a statement today the coroners service has been forever altered by the public health emergency that continues to take the lives of people of all ages in communities throughout B.C., including more than 2,000 people so far this year.Lapointe says recommendations by coroners service death-review panels, including providing a safe supply of drugs without prescription, are needed to end the overdose crisis, but she was “unable to influence the essential change necessary” to do so.The B.C. government rejected the recommendations last month, minutes before Lapointe was set to deliver a report on them at a news conference.Lapointe, whose third term ends with her retirement on Feb. 18, 2024, says she’s had the honour...

White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf meets with Nashville mayor during Winter Meetings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf met with Nashville mayor Freddie O'Connell Tuesday during the Winter Meetings.First reported by Politico, the mayor's office told WGN News the meeting was "introductory in nature."They also stated that O'Connell did not share anything that he "previously hasn't said publicly."It's been reported that Nashville has been interested in bringing a Major League franchise to the Music City.O'Connell told WGN's sister station WKRN Friday prior to the Winter Meetings that he is treating the situation as "informal" but he hoped to at least meet with Commissioner Rob Manfred."I'm treating this as informal. We are certainly not ready as a city and as an administration to say about any particular group, team, whatever — that we are already seeking that," O'Connell said. "I do hope to at least have an opportunity to formally meet with the commissioner and we will see about that. It would just be in the basis of introducing him to the city more...

15-year-old Joliet girl missing nearly a month may be in Chicago, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

CHICAGO — A search is underway for a missing Joliet teen Chicago police say may be in Chicago.Edith De La Fuente, 15, was last seen in the 5900 block of W. Diversey Ave. on Nov. 7. According to police, the teenage girl may be in the city's Belmont Cragin neighborhood.Edith stands 5 feet tall, weighs 160 pounds and has brown eyes and black hair. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines Anyone with information about Edith's whereabouts is asked to call Area 5 Detective at (312) 746-6554 or 911.

12 men arrested following Lake County Sheriff's Office prostitution sting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

LAKE COUNTY, Ill. - A recent human trafficking suppression operation resulted in the arrest of 12 men, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Group conducted a web-based operation targeting customers of prositutes.When the "Johns" arrived and offered money to undercover detectives for the sexual acts, they were arrested and booked at Lake County Jail. Police: 3 women arrested after stealing from Ulta, leading police on pursuit before crash in Oak Brook The following individuals have all been charged with solicitation of a sexual act:Nicholas B. SteeleVictor AndralaTraian BigSteven D. CarrIsrael G. Cisneros-SanchezDouglas M. DockeryChristian FelixNicholas A. HuemannRyan A. JugaAliaksandr KorsMichael P. MarcianoTheodore E. PfaffNicholas B. Steele, 44, of the 18100 block of Loretta Drive, MarengoVictor Andrala, 43, of the 1500 block of Eva Avenue, Park CityTraian Big, 49, of the 3700 block of Harlem Avenue, ChicagoSteven D. Carr,...

'We heard gunshots': Austin business owner near shooting spree site recalls events 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Frank Prior is the owner of ATX Bikes in South Austin. A group of around 50 mountain bikers meet at his shop every Tuesday evening for a group ride in a network of trails behind the store's shopping center off Slaughter Lane and the MoPac Expressway. “Shortly after 6 [p.m.],” Prior said, “we heard gunshots. We heard a few of them.” MORE: Six people dead after shooting spree in Austin, double homicide in Bexar Co. Prior said one person, who was planning to join the group, went out on the trail with his bike to warm up before the ride. “He comes back distressed with a gunshot wound, informing us there's someone out there with a gun who fired at him,” Prior said. “He wasn't even aware he'd been hit at that point. But he sure enough was,” he recalled. Prior told KXAN that the cyclist had a straight-through wound near his elbow.“The version that we heard is he's spinning on the trail, and in what he described as an ambush – this person stepped out, pointed the...

End of television contract creates some revenue uncertainty for Twins, other MLB teams

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:59 GMT

NASHVILLE — It may be some time still before the Twins know where their television home is — and thus, how much revenue they’ll be getting from their new deal — creating some uncertainty for the front office as it tries to attend to the Twins’ offseason needs.It was a relatively quiet Winter Meetings for the Twins — and much of Major League Baseball, as well — though Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said that uncertainty hadn’t changed their preparation or approach to the meetings in any way.The Twins’ deal with Bally Sports North concluded at the end of last season and the Twins expect to get less than they received for their telecast rights — around $55 million — in their new deal. They’re certainly not the only team dealing with these issues.“I think there are a host of clubs that are in that same conversation. We are definitely a part of that with the expiration of our deal this past offseason,” Falvey said. “There is some uncertainty. Certainly somethin...