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Kansas City (14-1) at Pittsburgh (10-5) Wednesday, 1 p.m., EST, Netflix. BetMGM NFL Odds: Chiefs by 2 1/2. Against the spread: Chiefs 7-8; Steelers 10-5 Series record: Steelers lead 25-14. Last meeting: Chiefs beat Steelers 42-21 in the first round of the playoffs on Jan. 16, 2022, in Kansas City. Last week: Chiefs beat Texans 27-19; Steelers lost to Ravens 34-17 Chiefs offense: overall (13), rush (15), pass (12), scoring (11). Chiefs defense: overall (3), rush (3), pass (17), scoring (3). Steelers offense: overall (19), rush (11), pass (25), scoring (12). Steelers defense: overall (11), rush (8), pass (20), scoring (7). Turnover differential: Chiefs plus-4; Steelers plus-16. WR Marquise Brown, who hurt his shoulder on the first play of the preseason and landed on injured reserve, made an impressive regular-season debut against Houston last week. “Hollywood” caught five passes for 45 yards, including an early 13-yarder that converted a fourth down and led to an eventual touchdown. But perhaps most importantly, Brown's mere presence kept Houston from double-teaming Xavier Worthy, DeAndre Hopkins and Travis Kelce all afternoon. LB T.J. Watt. The perennial All-Pro is dealing with an ankle injury and had a quiet game in the loss to Baltimore, finishing with just four tackles and didn’t have a single hit against Ravens QB Lamar Jackson. Pittsburgh's best chance at pulling the upset relies heavily on disrupting Kansas City QB Patrick Mahomes at every turn. To do it, Watt will need to do some Watt-like things. The 30-year-old leads the NFL in forced fumbles for a defense that thrives on takeaways. Steelers RBs Jaylen Warren and Najee Harris against the Chiefs rush defense, which is ranked third in the NFL and allowing just 91.4 yards per game. The Chiefs held the Texans' Joe Mixon to just 57 yards rushing last week, the latest in a season-long trend of shutting down top running backs. The Browns' Nick Chubb had 41 yards the previous week, and the Ravens' Derrick Henry, the Falcons' Bijan Robinson and the Saints' Alvin Kamara are among those who have similarly struggled against Kansas City. Chiefs: LT D.J. Humphries (hamstring) and CB Chamarri Conner (concussion) are likely to miss a second straight game. DT Chris Jones (calf) and RT Jawaan Taylor (knee) are iffy after getting hurt against Houston. Steelers: WR George Pickens (hamstring) should return after missing the past three games. S DeShon Elliott (hamstring) and DT Larry Ogunjobi (groin) may also be back after sitting the past two weeks. Starting CB Joey Porter Jr. (knee) and backup wide receiver/special teams ace Ben Skowronek (hip) are out. The Steelers have dominated the series, leading 23-14, but the Chiefs have won the past three games. That includes a 42-21 rout in their most recent matchup in the wild-card round of the playoffs on Jan. 16, 2022 — the last game played by Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Prior to the Chiefs' three-game win streak, the Steelers had won three in a row, including an 18-16 victory in the divisional round on Jan. 15, 2017, that they won despite not scoring a touchdown. Kansas City can clinch the No. 1 seed and first-round playoff bye with a win over the Steelers, or if the Bills lose or tie when they play the Jets on Sunday. ... Pittsburgh has dropped two straight, but can still earn its first AFC North title since 2020 by winning its last two games. ... The Chiefs can set a franchise record for regular-season wins with their 15th by beating Pittsburgh or Denver in their regular-season finale, breaking a tie with the 2020 and ‘22 teams. ... The Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes needs three TD passes to break Peyton Manning’s record of 244 for a QB's first eight seasons. Mahomes did not start as a rookie and has played just 111 games while Manning played 128 over that span. ... Mahomes has dominated the Steelers so far in his career, throwing 14 touchdowns without a pick while leading Kansas City to three victories in as many tries. ... Chiefs WR DeAndre Hopkins has an NFL-leading 177 straight games with a catch. TE Travis Kelce is second with 173. ... Kelce has 76 TD catches, tied with Tony Gonzalez for the Chiefs record. Kelce has 79 total TDs, four shy of Priest Holmes' franchise record. ... WR Xavier Worthy has five TD catches, tied for the sixth most by a rookie in Chiefs history. Worthy also has three TD runs, and the eight total is also tied for sixth most in franchise history. ... Chiefs DB Trent McDuffie has intercepted a pass in back-to-back games. He did not have a pick in his first 48 games. ... This is the 12th game in Steelers history to be played on Wednesday and the first since 2020, when a showdown with the Ravens was repeatedly postponed because of COVID-19 issues. Pittsburgh is 5-6 all time on Wednesdays. ... A healthy Pickens will likely give the Steelers passing game a serious boost. QB Russell Wilson is averaging just 167.7 yards per game in Pickens' absence, down from 271 yards per game with Pickens in the lineup. ... This is Pittsburgh's first regular-season game against a team with 14 wins. ... The Steelers have five wins against the defending Super Bowl champions since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. ... Pittsburgh is 26-12 in Weeks 17 and 18 since the start of the 1990 season, the second-most wins in the NFL over that span behind Green Bay (28). ... The Steelers have won seven straight games and 12 of their past 13 the week following a loss of at least 17 points. ... Pittsburgh leads the NFL with 31 takeaways. and has forced at least two turnovers 11 times. It might be championship week in your league, so why not turn to a championship quarterback. Mahomes has earned the benefit of the doubt even in a “down” season by his standards and with Pittsburgh missing its top cornerback and the pass rush slowed of late, give Mahomes a start against a team he has toyed with in his career. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith — admitting that correction officials were not following their own execution protocols — the state has announced a new method that could allow it to resume executions halted since May 2022 . But that won’t happen right away. The Tennessee Department of Correction announced in a brief statement Friday it had “completed its revision of the lethal injection protocol, which will utilize the single drug pentobarbital .” The Department did not immediately release the new protocol to the public or give any further details. Kelley Henry, chief of the federal public defender’s habeas unit that represents many of Tennessee’s death row inmates, said the announcement was “notable for its lack of detail.” “The secrecy which shrouds the execution protocol in Tennessee is what allowed TDOC to perform executions in violation of their own protocol while simultaneously misrepresenting their actions to the courts and the public,” Henry said in a text message to The Associated Press. Smith’s 11th hour reprieve from execution came after Henry requested the results of required purity and potency tests for the lethal injection drugs that were to be used on him. Documents obtained through a public records request later showed that at least two people knew that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to use hadn’t undergone some required testing. A subsequent independent review found the state had has not complied with its own lethal injection process ever since it was revised in 2018. RELATED COVERAGE Takeaways from AP’s report on social safety nets in states that ban abortion In states that ban abortion, social safety net programs often fail families Titans and Jags meet for 2nd time in 4 weeks, but with QB Mason Rudolph starting for Tennessee Commissioner Frank Strada took over the Correction Department in January 2023, the same month its top attorney and inspector general were fired . In announcing the new protocol on Friday, Strada said, “I am confident the lethal injection process can proceed in compliance with departmental policy and state laws.” Henry noted that death row inmates have an ongoing lawsuit in federal court challenging Tennessee’s previous lethal injection protocol, which used three different drugs in series. They put the case on hold pending the state’s review and revision of the procedure. Their agreement with the state gives them 90 days to look over the new protocol and decide whether to amend their complaint to challenge it. Henry said no new execution dates should be set while their court case is ongoing. She also noted that the U.S. Department of Justice is currently reviewing the use of pentobarbital in its executions. “We know from the scientific data that single drug pentobarbital results in pulmonary edema which has been likened to waterboarding,” she said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network could face decades in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to federal fraud charges, admitting that he misled customers about the business. Alexander Mashinsky , 58, of Manhattan, entered the plea in New York federal court to commodities and securities fraud. He admitted illegally manipulating the price of Celsius’s proprietary crypto token while secretly selling his own tokens at inflated prices to pocket about $48 million before Celsius collapsed into bankruptcy in 2022. In court, he admitted that in 2021 he publicly suggested there was regulatory consent for the company's moves because he knew that customers “would find false comfort” with that. And he said that in 2019, he was selling the crypto tokens even though he told the public that he was not. He said he knew customers would draw false comfort from that too. “I accept full responsibility for my actions,” Mashinsky said of crimes that stretched from 2018 to 2022 as the company pitched itself to customers as a modern-day bank where they could safely deposit crypto assets and earn interest. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a release that Mashinsky “orchestrated one of the biggest frauds in the crypto industry” as his company's assets purportedly grew to about $25 billion at its peak, making it one of the largest crypto platforms in the world. He said Mashinsky used catchy slogans like “Unbank Yourself” to entice prospective customers with a pledge that their money would be as safe in crypto accounts as money would be in a bank. Meanwhile, prosecutors said, Mashinsky and co-conspirators used customer deposits to fund market purchases of the Celsius token to prop up its value. Machinsky made tens of millions of dollars selling his own CEL tokens at artificially high prices, leaving his customers “holding the bag when the company went bankrupt,” Williams said. An indictment alleged that Mashinsky promoted Celsius through media interviews, his social media accounts and Celsius’ website, along with a weekly “Ask Mashinsky Anything” session broadcast that was posted to Celsius’ website and a YouTube channel. Celsius employees from multiple departments who noticed false and misleading statements in the sessions warned Mashinsky, but they were ignored, the indictment said. A plea agreement Mashinsky made with prosecutors calls for him to be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison and to forfeit over $48 million, which is the amount of money he allegedly made by selling his company's token. Sentencing was scheduled for April 8.
Nicolas Jackson has become the biggest beneficiary of Chelsea leaving behind last year’s awkward, awful messI've got $2,000 and I'm on the hunt for cheap ASX shares to buy in DecemberThumbs up to the Fayette County Humane Society staff and volunteers who served a special Christmas dinner to more than 100 dogs and cats housed at the shelter. Thumbs up also go to contributors from the community who made the special holiday meal possible. The Christmas meal included turkey, pumpkin purée, cookies, whipped cream, and other trimmings. Serving the animals a holiday meal began at Thanksgiving, said Fallyn Wakefield, executive director of the Fayette County Humane Society. “We just started it this year on Thanksgiving,” Wakefield said. “And it’s going to be a tradition that we’re going to try to carry through. “It’s just thinking about these dogs on Christmas,” she said. “They have no families, so we try to make it the best we can here for them.” ••• Thumbs up to the steady growth in the number of visitors to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve since the park’s redesignation four years ago. On Dec. 27, 2020, the New River Gorge National River officially became the 63rd national park after the U.S. Congress passed funding through the New River Gorge National Park Designation Act. Encompassing more than 70,000 acres of land along a 53-mile stretch of the New River, the park extends from the Bluestone Dam in Summers County, up through Raleigh County, and on to its most northern point at Hawks Nest Lake in Fayette County. “Typically after a redesignation, numbers will settle out at about a 20-percent increase, but we’re almost double that,” said Eve West, the park’s chief of interpretation. West noted the park is seeing people who visit simply to visit and are not just passing through. “It used to be, New River was just a place people passed through to get to Shenandoah, to get to the Smokies and other areas, but we have truly become a destination point now, we are a place where people will come, spend three days a week, you know, it has really changed that a lot,” she said. West said national parks are wonderful places that bring people together to explore the vastness of nature this country has to offer, and they are proud West Virginia can now be a major contributing factor in that. “I think that’s a really, really important piece of what we do,” she said. “You know, it’s hard to say no to nature, it’s a place you can get out, be healthy, find solace, it’s a place you can have a bonding experience with friends and family, and I think we offer a lot of really, really good opportunities for the United States population right now.” ••• Thumbs up to the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute for providing patients greater access to a groundbreaking Alzheimer’s disease treatment. In 2020, approximately 38,000 West Virginians – or 10.2 percent of adults over the age of 65 in the state – had Alzheimer’s. Nearly 14 percent of West Virginians who are 45 and older have subjective cognitive decline, diagnosed when a person experiences memory loss or confusion, but performs normally on cognitive tests. All patients receive an initial workup and examination at the RNI Memory Health Clinic, including MRI and PET imaging, blood tests, physical and neurological exams, and a neuropsychological evaluation. A multidisciplinary team then develops a treatment plan. Patients then receive the IV infusion at the infusion center closest to them. Return trips to Morgantown are only necessary for follow-up visits and MRI imaging to check for side effects. Along with the Cancer Institute, Wheeling Hospital, and Garrett Regional Medical Center, the program has expanded to include WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital, Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, and Thomas Hospitals in Charleston. “For patients on a Leqembi treatment regimen, there are already a lot of stressors in their lives and for their families,” said Stephen Cox, D.O., neurologist at Princeton Community Hospital’s Neurology Clinic. “Having access to this Alzheimer’s treatment right here in our region of southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia eliminates the need for hours of travel to an academic medical center. This not only eases the emotional and physical burden on families, but also improves the likelihood that patients can consistently attend all their appointments, which is crucial for the effectiveness of this treatment.” ••• Thumbs up to Oceana Middle School eighth-graders, who are among the four state winners in the annual First Lady Student Ornament Competition. Their ornament is displayed in the Great Hall of the Culture Center in Charleston along with the other submitted ornaments. The competition had 144 entries from 23 West Virginia counties. Each winning class was awarded a $100 gift card to purchase art supplies. Here’s to nurturing the creativity of youngsters. ••• Thumbs up to two Wyoming County schools – Oceana Middle and Pineville Middle – that have been named state finalists in the 15th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition. Additional state finalists include East Fairmont Middle School and two teams at Morgantown High School. Each state finalist wins a $2,500 technology prize package for their school. Three national winners will be selected from the 50 state winners to be named in March. Each national winner will receive a $100,000 prize package – part of a $2 million prize pool. The annual competition is designed to empower students to use the power of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to create innovative solutions addressing critical issues in their communities. By applying Problem-based Learning (PBL) principles, environmental stewardship, and social impact entrepreneurship, the competition engages sixth through 12th grades students in active, hands-on learning that can be applied to real-world problems – such as the climate crisis, mental health and wellness, and school safety issues – in an effort to make STEM skills more tangible and showcase its value both in and outside the classroom. Here’s to the hard work and extra effort of all the participating students and their teachers. Compiled by Mary Catherine Brooks for The Register-HeraldStock market today: Wall Street rises toward more records