Patriots coach Jerod Mayo believes narrow loss to Bills shows potential of his young teamA timeline of the full Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni beefOWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Fresh off one of its best showings of the season, the Baltimore defense now has another problem to worry about. Roquan Smith missed practice again Friday because of a hamstring injury. Although the Ravens didn't officially rule him or anyone else out — they don't play until Monday night — the All-Pro linebacker's status seems dicey. “Definitely it will be a challenge if Roquan can’t go,” defensive coordinator Zach Orr said. “We’re holding out hope and everything like that. I think it’ll just be by committee. Not one person is going to replace Roquan. Roquan’s an every-down linebacker.” Although the Ravens lost 18-16 last weekend, Baltimore didn't allow a touchdown. That was an encouraging sign for a team that ranks 26th in the league in total defense. Baltimore is on the road Monday against the Los Angeles Chargers. The Ravens appear to have dodged one potential nightmare. Star safety Kyle Hamilton injured an ankle against Cincinnati on Nov. 7, but he was able to play almost every defensive snap the following week against Pittsburgh. But Smith was injured in that game and didn't practice Thursday or Friday. Linebacker Malik Harrison had a season high in tackles last weekend and figures to have a significant role if Smith can't go. “We tell these guys, ‘You’re one play away to going in there — you never know, so you got to stay ready.’ Malik — he was ready,” Orr said. “I thought he went in there and did a good job, especially after the first series, he settled down. That’s what we expect from him.” It's hard to tell whether last week can be a significant turning point for Baltimore's defense. The Ravens allowed only 10 points in a dominant win over Buffalo in Week 4, then yielded 38 against Cincinnati the following game. After allowing 10 against Denver, the Ravens were picked apart by the Bengals again a few days later. So they still haven't shown they can play a good game defensively and then build on it. “I think it’s easier said than done. It’s something that we kind of got caught up saying against Buffalo and then coming up the next week and not doing," Hamilton said. "We’re aware of it now and know that we played a good game, but I think we can get a lot better, and I think that’s kind of the mindset everybody on defense has right now.” Hamilton's ability to make a difference all over the field is part of what makes him valuable, but positioning him deep is one way the Ravens can try to guard against big passing plays. Pittsburgh's Russell Wilson threw for only 205 yards against Baltimore. That's after Joe Burrow passed for 428 and four touchdowns in the Ravens' previous game. “I’ve always seen myself as a safety. A versatile one, but at the end of the day, I think I play safety,” Hamilton said. “If I’m asked to go play safety, I feel like that’s not an issue for me to play safety if I’m a safety.” NOTES: In addition to Smith, WR Rashod Bateman (knee), DT Travis Jones (ankle), S Sanoussi Kane (ankle) C Tyler Linderbaum (back) and CB Arthur Maulet (calf) missed practice Friday. WR Nelson Agholor (illness) returned to full participation after missing Thursday's practice. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL Noah Trister, The Associated PressNone
Volunteers with Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana sort through boxes of petitions submitted just before a deadline in 2022 to submit signatures to qualify for the November ballot. July 7, 2022. (Paul Hammel/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office and the Hall County Attorney’s Office are appealing the dismissal of criminal charges against a notary public who notarized medical cannabis petitions for the fall election. Hall County Attorney Marty Klein, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers and Assistant Attorney General Michael Jensen filed an appeal Friday to take the case to Hall County District Court against Jacy C. Todd, 54, a notary from York. Mark Porto, Todd’s attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday on the appeal but previously urged prosecutors to “ stop playing political games .” “A series of politically orchestrated (and false) Class II misdemeanors are among the least scary and intimidating things Mr. Todd has ever encountered,” Porto said in a statement last month. Prosecutors to appeal case against Nebraska notary, whose attorney asks ‘to stop playing games’ Prosecutors charged Todd on Oct. 2 with 24 counts of “ official misconduct ” for allegedly notarizing petitions outside the presence of a paid petition circulator — Michael Egbert of Grand — on 24 separate dates. Egbert pleaded guilty Nov. 8 to a Class I misdemeanor for circulator fraud, down from a felony. He testified in court that he used a phone book to illegally add and forge voter signatures. Hall County Judge Alfred Corey dismissed all charges against Todd on Nov. 22, finding that notaries are not public officials and that allegations of notarial “malfeasance” can already be tried administratively. Corey ordered the state to pay associated court costs. “While these duties greatly assist others, notary publics are not public servants who are performing governmental functions,” Corey wrote in a four-page opinion. The prosecutors, in their appeal, argue that Corey erred in finding that a notary was not a public official and said many states recognize notaries public as having governmental power. The prosecutors added that an administrative investigation doesn’t prohibit criminal prosecution. Todd is believed to be the first notary public criminally charged in Nebraska in actions involving allegations of notary malfeasance. Hilgers’ office accused about seven other notaries involved with the medical marijuana ballot initiatives of similar malfeasance by Hilgers’ office in a Lancaster County District Court case against the petitions . None of the seven have been charged in the same manner as Todd. The Lancaster County district judge dismissed the case after rejecting arguments from the AG’s Office, which included accusations of notarial malfeasance. That ruling is also being appealed . SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Originally published on nebraskaexaminer.com , part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange . Get local news delivered to your inbox!
ATLANTA , Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KORE Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KORE) ("KORE" or the "Company"), the global pure-play Internet of Things ("IoT") hyperscaler and provider of IoT Connectivity, Solutions, and Analytics, today announced it has received notification (the "Acceptance Letter") from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") that the NYSE has accepted the Company's previously-submitted plan (the "Plan") to regain compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standards set forth in Section 802.01B of the NYSE Listed Company Manual relating to minimum market capitalization and stockholders' equity. In the Acceptance Letter, the NYSE granted the Company an 18-month period from September 12, 2024 (the "Plan Period") to regain compliance with the continued listing standards. As part of the Plan, the Company is required to provide the NYSE quarterly updates regarding its progress towards the goals and initiatives in the Plan. 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Hal Lindsey, a former New Orleans tugboat captain who embraced end-of-days Christian prophecies and helped sharpen evangelical focus on the Middle East with a book that predicted apocalyptic warfare and sold tens of millions of copies, died Nov. 25 at his home in Tulsa. He was 95. The death was announced on his website, but no cause was noted. The cataclysmal scenarios in Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth,” first published in 1970, tapped into a long tradition of doomsday visions by American preachers and zealots. One movement in the 1840s led by Baptist clergyman William Miller had tens of thousands of followers awaiting the end of the world. Lindsey did not note any precise dates in his bestseller but used political and culture references that gave a contemporary context. His book (written with Carole C. Carlson) overlaid selected passages from scripture with Cold War-era fears — including forecasting a world war starting in the Middle East — that seemed starkly relevant to many Christian readers and others. Mr. Lindsey said part of his aim was to draw greater attention to belief in the second coming of Jesus and “the most thrilling, optimistic view of what the future could hold.” Yet all that would be preceded by global death and destruction on a mind-boggling scale, according to his writings. “I’ve always wanted to talk to the people who wouldn’t darken the door of a church,” he told the Religion News Service in 1997. “I hope my books would lead them to a curiosity that would drive them to search out these things more carefully, and as a result, come to faith.” Bantam Books acquired the mass-market paperback rights from the original publisher, Zondervan, a small religious imprint. “The Late Great Planet Earth” became a fixture on bestseller lists for much of the 1970s and in 1978 was made into a documentary hosted by Orson Welles. The book also helped launch a subgenre of Christian books with eschatological themes that included evangelist Billy Graham’s “Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (1983). None of the books matched the reach of “The Late Great Planet Earth,” which has sold an estimated 35 million copies in about 50 languages, according to Christianity Today magazine and other outlets. For Lindsey, the book provided the foundations for his rise as a powerful voice in Christian media. (His collaborator Carlson died in 1999.) He wrote more than 20 other books and established the Hal Lindsey Ministries, which led trips to the Holy Land and produced shows such as the “Week in Review,” a call-in program hosted by Mr. Lindsey that aired on more than 70 Christian radio stations. In “The Late Great Planet Earth,” he depicted domino-effect crises such as famines, social strife and a Russian invasion of Israel that leads to global nuclear war. “Imagine,” he wrote, “cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago — obliterated!” Then, as the “battle of Armageddon” threatens all life on earth, “Jesus Christ will return and save man from self-extinction,” he wrote. While he presented no specific time frames, Mr. Lindsey suggested harbingers of the end times were already in place, including the declaration of Israeli statehood in 1948 and its wartime victories in 1967 that left Israel in de facto control of Jerusalem and other areas. His views helped shape the priorities of many Christian evangelical groups that strongly support Israel. “For all its prophetic razzle-dazzle, ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’ was essentially an evangelistic exercise,” wrote Timothy Weber, a scholar of American Christian history and former dean of the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary (now the Northern Seminary) in Illinois. After “The Late Great Planet Earth,” Lindsey began to suggest that biblical prophecies could be completed by “1988 or so” — around four decades after the founding of the Israeli state. As the years passed after 1988, Lindsey tried to regroup by interpreting events such as the Gulf War in 1991 and the 9/11 terrorist attacks as part of the end-time puzzle being revealed. “There’s just a split second’s difference between a hero and a bum,” Mr. Lindsey told Christianity Today. “I didn’t ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I’m wrong about this, I guess I’ll become a bum.” At the same time, his increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Islam brought criticism from mainstream religious leaders and led the influential Trinity Broadcasting Network to temporarily cancel carrying Lindsey’s show. Among his comments were portrayals of Palestinians as “usurpers” of land that he said God promised to the “descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Trinity returned his show to its airwaves in 2007 after a more than one-year hiatus. Lindsey also faced questions about how much he used donor funds to bankroll a lifestyle that included luxury properties and salaries totaling more than $1.1 million for him and his wife, Jo Lynn. In February, the religious-affairs monitoring group MinistryWatch put the Hal Lindsey Website Ministries in a category that advised donors to “give with caution.” A MinistryWatch analysis said Mr. Lindsey’s organization spent about $3 million on outreach programs from net assets of about $25 million. Harold Lee Lindsey was born in Houston on Nov. 23, 1929. He enrolled at the University of Houston but left to join the Coast Guard during the Korean War, serving in New Orleans and later becoming a tugboat skipper in the Mississippi Delta. “I was pretty much content with living in the French Quarter and having every other week off with a full paycheck,” he told the AP in 1998. “But then I came to a point where I’d say, ‘What do you do for an encore?’ And that’s when I started searching.” He began reading the Bible, he recounted, and said he had a “born again” experience after meeting a Houston pastor, Robert Thieme Jr. Lindsey left his job to study at the Dallas Theological Seminary, a center of dispensationalist theology that includes a doctrine of events and time periods that lead to the return of Jesus. He graduated in 1962 and joined the Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru) and made his base the University of California at Los Angeles, seeking to evangelize students. His other books include “The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon” (1981); “Prophetical Walk through the Holy Land” (1983) and “The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad” (2002). Mr. Lindsay was divorced three times. Survivors include his fourth wife, Jo Lynn Lindsey; and three daughters from his second marriage, to Jan Houghton. He often portrayed the target audience of “The Late Great Planet Earth” as the student skeptics he encountered as a campus evangelist. “As I wrote, I’d imagine that I was sitting across the table from a young person — a cynical, irreligious person — and I’d try to convince him that the Bible prophecies were true,” he wrote.” “If you can make a young person understand, then the others will understand, too.”