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Hail Flutie: BC celebrates 40th anniversary of Miracle in MiamiNEW YORK — Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to New York state murder charges that brand him a terrorist. Mangione, 26, was escorted into Judge Gregory Carro's 13th-floor courtroom in the New York state criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan with a court officer on each arm, and a procession of a half dozen officers following him. He was in handcuffs and shackles, and wore a burgundy sweater over a white-collared shirt. ADVERTISEMENT Mangione leaned into a microphone and said "not guilty" when Carro asked how he pleaded to the 11-count indictment charging him with murder as an act of terrorism and weapons offenses. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's UNH.N insurance unit UnitedHealthcare, was shot dead on Dec. 4 outside a hotel in midtown Manhattan where the company was gathering for an investor conference. The brazen killing and ensuing five-day manhunt captivated Americans. While public officials have condemned the killing, some Americans who decry the steep costs of healthcare and insurance companies' power to deny paying for some medical treatments have feted Mangione as a folk hero. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 9. After deciding last week not to fight extradition, he was transferred to New York, where he was led off a helicopter in lower Manhattan by a large phalanx of police officers and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. That spectacle and other statements by public officials suggest Mangione may not be able to get a fair trial, his lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo said at Monday's hearing. "They are treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, some sort of spectacle," Agnifilo said. "He is not a symbol, he is someone who is afforded a right to a fair trial." ADVERTISEMENT Several dozen people gathered outside the courthouse in freezing temperatures to express support for Mangione and anger at healthcare companies. One person held a sign with the words "DENY, DEFEND, DEPOSE," a phrase that echoes tactics some accuse insurers of using to avoid paying out claims. Authorities say the words "deny," "delay," and "depose" were found written on shell casings at the crime scene. Kara Hay, a 42-year-old schoolteacher, said she believed it was wrong for Mangione to be charged with terrorism. "Shooting one CEO does not make him a terrorist, and I do not feel terrorized," said Hay, who held a sign reading "innocent until proven guilty." After the 30-minute hearing, officers once again shackled Mangione and led him out of the courtroom. He is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal lockup in Brooklyn. Carro set Mangione's next court appearance for Feb. 21. Dual state, federal cases Monday's arraignment was the second court appearance in New York for Mangione, who also faces a four-count federal criminal complaint charging him with stalking and killing Thompson. ADVERTISEMENT He has not yet been asked to enter a plea in that case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Katharine Parker ordered Mangione detained at a Dec. 19 hearing in Manhattan federal court. The federal charges would make him eligible for the death penalty, should the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan decide to pursue it. The separate federal and state cases will proceed in parallel. The state case is currently expected to go to trial first, federal prosecutors said. At the hearing, Friedman Agnifilo said it was difficult to defend her client in dual state and federal cases. "He is being treated like a human ping-pong ball between these two jurisdictions," Friedman Agnifilo said. She also said the Manhattan District Attorney's office, which brought the charges, has not handed over any evidence to the defense to help prepare for trial, a process known as discovery. A prosecutor responded that the office would begin handing over evidence soon. According to the federal criminal complaint, the police who arrested Mangione found a notebook that contained several handwritten pages that "express hostility towards the health insurance industry and wealthy executives in particular." ADVERTISEMENT A notebook entry dated Oct. 22 allegedly described an intent to "wack" the chief executive of an insurance company at its investor conference. ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Juan Sebastian Gorosito scored 21 points as Ball State beat Bellarmine 86-82 on Saturday. Gorosito added three steals for the Cardinals (4-6). Mickey Pearson Jr. added 18 points while going 3 of 6 and 12 of 12 from the free-throw line and he also had three steals. Jermahri Hill shot 6 for 9 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 1 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 14 points. The Knights (3-8) were led in scoring by Billy Smith, who finished with 33 points. Bellarmine also got 18 points, six rebounds and two steals from Dylan Branson. Gorosito scored 12 points in the first half for Ball State, who led 47-42 at the break. Hill's jump shot with 16:02 remaining in the second half gave Ball State the lead for good at 52-50. NEXT UP Up next for Ball State is a Saturday matchup with Evansville at home, and Bellarmine visits Wyoming on Thursday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Analysis: Week 12 full of sloppy play, especially on special teamsHow co-writing a book threatened the Carters' marriage
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First-year Middlesex County boys basketball coach suspended for recruiting violationThree decades ago, Andrew Luger’s biggest worry when he left his federal prosecutor job in Brooklyn to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office in his wife’s native Minneapolis was that he’d be bored here. Yet during two stints as the state’s top federal prosecutor — first from 2014-17 and now since 2022 — some of the state’s most profound criminal cases have unfolded under his watch. His first term was marked by international terrorism recruitment investigations and the prosecution of Jacob Wetterling’s killer. Luger’s second will be defined by a novel approach in going after street gangs and a still-swelling array of pandemic and health care fraud cases. “I wanted to take the impact that this office can have with significant cases and bring it to address what was happening in Minnesota, and in Minneapolis in particular, to make a difference,” Luger said in a recent interview in his office. “The idea that we could actually make a difference in a relatively new phenomenon, which is high violent crime in a city that just wasn’t known for that before.” Luger said he will step down before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in Jan. 20, and he expects many of his Biden-appointed peers to do the same. His resignation will avoid a repeat of 2017 when Luger was stunned via a wave of Friday firings early in Trump’s first term. Presidential appointees must clear the U.S. Senate. Under Biden, Minnesota’s two Democratic senators organized efforts to recommend U.S. Attorney, U.S. marshal and federal judicial candidates. But with a Republican returning to the White House, that task now shifts to Minnesota’s GOP congressional delegation. Former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson is leading a committee to find candidates, and a deadline to apply passed on Friday. Other search committee members included attorney David Asp; John Hinderaker, president of the Center of the American Experiment; Allie Howell, trial and appellate counsel at the Upper Midwest Law Center; Tad Jude, a former state court judge who twice ran for office as a Republican in recent cycles; and Ilan Wurman, a University of Minnesota law professor. Multiple sources told the Minnesota Star Tribune that those being considered to succeed Luger include Erica MacDonald, whom Trump first appointed as U.S. attorney in 2018. Joe Teirab, an ex-federal prosecutor and Republican defeated by Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., in November is also in the mix, as are Minneapolis attorney Ronald Schutz and Maple Grove attorney Ryan Wilson, who narrowly lost his 2022 race for state auditor as a Republican. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, who has led the office’s Feeding Our Future prosecution and its ongoing probe into fraud suspicions at some Minnesota autism centers, is also said to have applied ahead of last week’s deadline. Sources did not identify a front-runner as the application window closed Friday. Luger’s focus on violent crime, drug trafficking and fraud is not a radical departure from what might be expected from his Trump-appointed successor. “Every U.S. Attorney comes in with their own ideas about how to improve service to the community, to the state. I did, and my successor will, and I’ll support those,” Luger said. “But I don’t expect a major shift fighting fentanyl trafficking, child exploitation, gangs, the Feeding Our Future-type frauds. That’s bipartisan.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Kirkpatrick, as Luger’s first assistant, will take the reins of the office as Acting U.S. Attorney until the Senate approves Trump’s pick. She could be in that position for a while: Greg Brooker served as an interim U.S. Attorney for 15 months before MacDonald’s 2018 confirmation. When MacDonald left in February 2021, the office was again led on an acting basis for more than a year before Luger’s second confirmation in 2022. Kirkpatrick will oversee an office that in 2025 will be dominated by lengthy, complex trials. As a continuation of Luger’s violent crime focus, 19 alleged members of the Highs gang are scheduled for a series of trials between March and July on charges that include racketeering. More than a half-dozen, multi-defendant trials in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case are scheduled for between February and December of next year, including a Feb. 3 trial involving Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock. All of that is on top of potential new charges that could stem from an ongoing related FBI investigation into possible Medicaid fraud perpetrated by autism centers in Minnesota. MacDonald, whom Trump picked to succeed Luger in 2018, emphasized that only the presidentially appointed leader of the U.S. Attorney’s Office will be departing and that “the bread and butter of the work of the office remains the same.” MacDonald declined to comment when asked about her interest in succeeding Luger. Speaking generally, she anticipated that violent crime would remain a focus of the next administration. She praised Luger’s effectiveness at “communicating with the public on a regular basis about what is going on.” “Just knowing that the federal authorities are watching can be enough to have a deterrent effect,” MacDonald said. Though the U.S. Attorney is appointed by the president, MacDonald said that “if done right, it is not a political job.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a longtime friend and an influential figure in advancing Minnesota federal nominees, applauded Luger for laying out a vision at his swearing-in ceremony in 2022. “A lot of his legacy will be the big cases he handled ... but also it’s going to be accountability and trust when we really needed it,” Klobuchar said. Luger said he began his second term with a much clearer focus due to the sustained spike in violent crime that began in 2020. He knew right away that the office needed a strategy. “That doesn’t compare to anything we did last time because it was clear the day I started it, and it’s been clear every day I’ve been here that we needed to do this,” Luger said. Luger prefers to do much of his strategizing over shared meals. During one such occasion with Attorney General Merrick Garland, Luger outlined the rise in shootings and carjackings in Minneapolis. Garland, Luger recalls, responded by asking if Luger considered pursuing racketeering conspiracy cases to tie together a history of shootings and other crimes as part of one big conspiracy case. The strategy had scarcely been deployed against Minneapolis gangs before and was instead long associated with organized crime. That work led Luger to a fast friendship with Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, a fellow East Coaster who took over the department in 2022 after moving from Newark, N.J. The two led a panel on their work together earlier this month at a federal law enforcement conference that brought together more than 600 personnel from across the country. In remarks kicking off the conference — which also included joining Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in presenting Luger with a plaque for his service — O’Hara called Luger “a crucial partner” and “a mentor and close friend.” “People here should know that we here in the state of Minnesota have been fortunate to have a U.S. Attorney that is truly a national treasure,” O’Hara said. The occasion had a funereal tone, as O’Hara acknowledged Luger’s imminent departure. “It’s been really an incredible privilege to work with him and to see him be a leader that is astute enough to recognize what the major problem is and pivot quickly to bring federal resources to bear on it,” said Steven Dettelbach, ATF director, in an interview at the conference. Dettelbach has since said he too will resign before an expected Trump firing. Retirement is off the table, Luger said, though he declined to disclose what might come next. Luger returned to private practice after his 2017 dismissal, joining Jones Day. In mid-March 2020, he’d returned from an international work trip when he fell sick upon reaching home. His doctor confirmed Luger had COVID-19, which rapidly worsened and required three weeks in intensive care, two of them in a coma. “I came as close to death as I think was possible,” Luger said. “I’m not an epiphany person, but you come out of a coma that not everybody was convinced you’d come out of, you have to reflect on what it means. I did not immediately say, ‘Boy, I want to be U.S. Attorney again,’ but I knew I wanted to serve, and I knew that I wanted as much meaning in my life going forward.” --------- ©2024 The Minnesota Star Tribune. Visit at startribune.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.WA news LIVE: ‘I’m not a quitter’: Mettam responds to ‘catastrophic’ polling that suggests Zempilas should be Liberal leaderMissed kicks. Poor tackling. Costly penalties. Week 12 was filled with sloppy play around the NFL, leading to some upsets and surprising outcomes. Jayden Daniels nearly led Washington to an improbable comeback down 10 in the final two minutes against Dallas only to fall short because Austin Seibert's extra point sailed wide left. After a field goal and successful onside kick, Daniels connected with Terry McLaurin on an 86-yard catch-and-run touchdown to bring the Commanders within one point with 21 seconds remaining. But Seibert's point-after attempt failed and the Cowboys returned the ensuing onside kick for a touchdown to seal a 34-26 victory. Special teams were atrocious for both teams. Seibert also missed his first extra point and Washington allowed KaVontae Turpin's 99-yard kickoff return for a score earlier in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys missed a field goal, had another blocked and had a punt blocked. "What a wild special teams moment of blocked punts, kicks, kickoff returns, blocked field goals, just a number of things going to that spot," Commanders coach Dan Quinn said. Washington (7-5) was a 10 1/2-point favorite over the undermanned Cowboys (4-7) but ended up losing a third straight game. The Houston Texans were 8-point favorites against the lowly Tennessee Titans and let the game come down to Ka'imi Fairbairn missing a 28-yard field goal that would have tied it with just under two minutes left. C.J. Stroud threw two interceptions, was sacked four times and the Texans (7-5) committed 11 penalties, including an illegal shift that negated a go-ahead 33-yard TD pass to Nico Collins on the drive that ended with Fairbairn's miss in the 32-27 loss. The Titans (3-8) averaged just 17 points per game before putting 32 on the scoreboard against Houston's defense that entered No. 4 in the league. "We didn't do anything well enough to win this game," Texans coach DeMeco Ryans said. "Out of all the positives that we did have, there were way too many negatives. Too many negative plays. Score, get a penalty, get touchdowns called back. Get penalties on special teams. Just way too many negative plays defensively, like unexplainable explosives for touchdowns. We just didn't play good across the board." The San Francisco 49ers didn't have quarterback Brock Purdy, star edge rusher Nick Bosa and All-Pro left tackle Trent Williams against Green Bay. That was no excuse for their undisciplined performance. The Niners committed nine penalties and their tackling was shoddy in a 38-10 loss to the Packers. The defending NFC champions are 5-6 with a trip to Buffalo (9-2) coming up. They're still only one game behind Seattle and Arizona in the NFC West. "I'm really not concerned right now about how many guys were missing. We didn't play good enough, so that's not a factor. But, when you are missing some guys, you do have to be better. When you have those penalties and we didn't stop the run like we did and we had those three turnovers in the second half, that's how you get embarrassed." Coming off their first loss of the season, the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs needed Patrick Mahomes' heroics on the final drive to beat Carolina 30-27. Mahomes ran 33 yards to set up Spencer Schrader's 31-yard field goal as time expired. Kansas City had 10 penalties, including a pass interference that gave the Panthers (3-8) another chance to make the 2-point conversion that tied the game with 1:46 remaining. On defense, the Chiefs (10-1) suddenly shaky unit gave up 334 total yards against Bryce Young and an offense that entered last in the NFL. "We've got to do better. We're doing good in the red zone but that's only a third of the field," Chiefs safety Bryan Cook said. "We will go back and look at the film to see what we're doing week to week, and see the tendencies that we're giving up, and just move forward from there. At the end of the day, we're all vets in the room for the most part. ... got to go back to the drawing board and see what we're doing and correct it from there." The Vikings allowed the Bears to recover an onside kick with 21 seconds left and Caleb Williams followed with a 27-yard pass to D.J. Moore to set up Cairo Santos' tying 48-yard field goal. But Minnesota won in overtime, 30-27. The Chiefs and Vikings overcame their mistakes in narrow victories. The Commanders, Texans and 49ers couldn't. They have to be better down the stretch to make a playoff run. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!
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