Dilraj, Kujur, Kushwaha run riot as India hammer Chinese Taipei 16-0 to make Jr Asia Cup semisShannon and Mike Farrell started what would later become their local farm from one pumpkin. “We started with a small garden and a friend of ours laughed at a pumpkin we grew. So I kinda went... Well, I’ll show you!” Mike said. “Poor Shannon,” Mike chuckled. “We started growing pumpkins en masse.” “To show that friend,” Shannon added. The two are the married team behind Comox Valley’s Shamrock Farm. They agreed to meet up with The Discourse during the farm’s winter market — which took place from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 — to share some of what they’ve learned over the last 30 years of running a local farm. The farm has been in operation since 1993. Mike said things began slowly, with the two introducing things little by little over the years to their 20-acre property in Little River, Comox. Since the pumpkin, the family farm has grown into a diversified local business with year-round crops and some goats, pigs and chickens. They are always experimenting, but some crops include pumpkins, garlic, lavender, squash, carrots, radicchio, tomatoes, greens, and one of Shannon’s favourites — kalettes, a cross between brussels sprouts and kale. From 1999 to 2019, the farm also offered field trips to school children. Shannon said this was a good way to spread the word about the farm before social media took off in the 2010s. The two were also busy raising their three boys at this time. One of their biggest focuses over the years has been the importance of not using pesticide or herbicide sprays even while opting not to undergo the cumbersome organic certification process. “Our philosophy was to be able to pull it out of the ground, wipe the dirt off and eat it,” Mike said. The farm scales up a bit every year and they focus on trial and error to grow and diversify their crops. “We have to be able to rotate into different areas all the time,” Mike said. This helps the farm maintain soil health, control pests and weeds, and enable diverse crop production on limited acreage. “It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle, actually.” Mike said the hardest part about having a farm that doesn’t use pesticides is the weeding, which increases the cost of labour. “We weed everything by hand so that puts our costs up,” Shannon said. “We have a great crew though.” And sometimes the farm does lose crops to bugs. “A few bitten bok choy leaves people will buy but when it gets really bad people won’t buy that vegetable.” Shannon said. Then there is the balance of pricing the vegetables. The Farrells said you can’t have them too expensive because then people won’t buy the vegetables. But if you price them too low, it’s not enough to keep the farm going. When COVID-19 hit, the team started thinking a lot about food scarcity and the supply chain issues that were hitting the Island at the time. “We were like, let’s plant as much as our fields can handle,” Shannon said. The farm did well. Shannon said she noticed a shift in how many people began to value local food. “People were worried about where their food was coming from, and I finally felt like the farm was supporting the family.” Autumn Farrell, Shannon and Mike’s daughter-in-law, has been helping out on the farm since she was in high school. Back then, her now husband Jesse Farrell asked her to help out because his parents needed some help on the farm. Now, a decade later, Autumn is still a lead farmhand weeding and harvesting vegetables, ordering seeds, operating the website and social media and sending out newsletters. “Over the years, I’ve just continued to work here. I also work in a hospital, and this is just a completely different environment for me. I really value being able to work outside and getting your hands dirty,” she said. “It’s so good to be... in nature and connecting with the soil and the earth.” “We focus a lot on diversity too,” Autumn said. Shannon added that their focus on diversity ensures there is something else to fall back on if a crop fails. It’s important for the long-term resilience of the farm. A diverse range of crops is also fun and gives them room to grow and experiment, she added. “I find it really cool, you’ve got these seeds and some of the varieties are really old heirloom varieties that have been passed down from all those generations,” she said. You save that seed, and then you grow it again, and it keeps going. I love that,” Shannon said. Shannon chuckled and added that sometimes this diversity doesn’t succeed because the farm is always experimenting. But that ends up helping them grow in the long-term. “Every year we usually try to find a few new weird varieties that people haven’t heard of before,” Autumn said. This year, it was forced radicchio. Radicchio — a type of chicory from Italy, is known for its white and purple to dark red leaves. They planted different varieties of radicchio for the farm this year, and Shannon experimented with “forcing” the plant. “So in Italy, historically, they would take their radicchio, which is field grown, inside and cover it, shade it from light, and change the water everyday... but because it doesn’t have light, you get these beautiful tender leaves that are dark red and pure white.” The lack of light reduces chlorophyll production, which also softens the bitterness that is often associated with radicchio. Radicchio is a winter vegetable, and Shannon added that she likes being able to grow during all four seasons. “Outside right now, we’ve got all of the brussels sprouts and kale and radicchio and all the winter cabbages and kalettes. Carrots are outside right now, radishes are outside right now. We are lucky that we can grow right through the season.” There are also lots of vegetables in the high tunnel right now, which is like a greenhouse but there is no heat. “We don’t like to waste anything, because obviously that’s money thrown away. So if something doesn’t sell, we pickle it right away, preserve it right away, or put it in the freezer for now in the winter.” The goats, they said, are part of the diversity gamble. The goat’s milk is used for the soap made on the farm, but the goats are a bit of a luxury, and the soap barely covers their cost. But the six pigs were a success. The farm had a forested area that needed some clearing, so they put the pigs in the area to clear it. Having animals for meat was a new experience for them, but the farmers said they see a need for serving people concerned about where their meat comes from. They even had one of the workers on the farm break a mainly vegetarian diet after seeing how well they were raising the pigs. “She could see where they were, they were outside 24/7, getting fed, they had their big wallow. They were getting all our vegetables.” Shannon said it was amazing to see how the pigs were helpful in clearing the land and is looking forward to seeing how things grow there now. They sold most of the pig meat but still have some cuts left. Shamrock Farms can often be found at the Comox Valley Farmer’s Market, and their products are also in many local restaurants. But most of their products are sold straight from the farm at their markets. Now that the winter farm market is complete, locals can look forward to the spring plant sale in May. Come July, the farm will host a lavender and garlic market then In late September and early October a fall harvest market. Shamrock Farm offered some advice for those who may want to get into farming: “Start small and pay as you go. Don’t reach for the moon and borrow a ton of money,” Mike said. Farming is tough, and the farmers said it’s important for the farm to be sustainable for not only the food they grow. “With sustainable farming, it has to be sustainable for the people who work on the farm too,” said Shannon. She said that the job can be exhausting and that breaks are important too. They also added that it’s important to have another form of income before going all-out in farming. In other words, don’t put all your eggs into one basket (pun intended). To learn more about Shamrock Farm, go to or email . None
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department's operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden's commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump's statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump's rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl's mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden's decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. _______ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.NASHUA, NH – Despite having lived in Nashua for over a decade, through all of the ’90s, I did not remember the Temple Street Diner when I pulled into their parking lot. I had arranged to meet there with Ed Briand and Chuck Smith, both enthusiastic hunters, to discuss Ed getting his 30th bear at the impressive age of 100 (Ed, not the bear). Chuck lives in Kingston, Ed lives in Nashua, and they figured the diner would be a good spot to meet. Plus, it’s a favorite of Ed’s. This became apparent, when, within minutes of meeting me there, Ed leaned toward me and said, “The girls here, they know me. I razz the shit out of ’em.” A few minutes later a waitress arrived, glanced at Ed, and said, “I wish I’d known it was THIS troublemaker who was coming!” Ed smiled at me as he said, “Told ‘ya!” A bit later, after his order of scrambled eggs & dry rye toast had been delivered, Ed dumped a container of his medications onto the plate of eggs. Maybe eight pills. I’ve seen people 30 years younger with far more complicated sets of medications. After a few bites Ed looked at me and asked, “So what kind of story we lookin’ for here?” I said, “That’s pretty much up to you.” Ed said, “First of all, I gotta ask, are you anything to do with the Fed?” “You mean the government? Law enforcement? Nope, not me.” “Are you sure?” he said, with the beginnings of a grin. Then I realized he was pulling my leg. That would become a theme in our conversation. On a Friday morning at 9:30, less than half of the diner’s tables are filled. The south wall is nearly all glass, facing the Henry Hanger Mill, which is currently undergoing major renovations to become the “ Hanger Mill Residences .” (They look like they will be impressive.) Ed said he remembered when it was a shoe mill with a shoe store on the ground floor. According to Ed, he worked at the shoe store for a while. In fact, he seemed to have worked at many places in and around Nashua. He explained that his father would get irritated with his habit of changing jobs frequently. “My old man used to get pissed off. I said, ‘Dad, I go there, I learn my limit, then: see ya.'” Forty years ago, Ed was at his last job before retiring, running his own full-service gun shop in Nashua, where he sold and serviced many kinds of guns. At that time Chuck was looking to purchase a gun, and that’s how he med Ed. Chuck bought a gun at Ed’s shop and they became friends, later hunting together often. Ed was born in Nashua in 1924. As a kid he skated on the Merrimack River when it froze over, which he says used to happen far more often than today. He and friends jumped trains in Nashua and rode them further north. Remember, Ed would have been 16 years old in 1940. Later he served briefly in the military during WWII. His service was cut short by an injury during training. Later still, Ed did all of the following: Worked on farms Worked in mills Worked as a Nashua city boiler inspector for a while Drove trucks Did some plumbing Worked in construction Supervised construction crews Dealt with workers gambling on the job Dealt with bookkeepers being overly creative Built from 70 to 100 homes on land he owned near Lincoln Park in Nashua, on streets Edmund Drive, Luke Street, Marie Avenue, Denise Street, among others Fished and hunted north of the arctic circle Worked as a caribou hunting guide in Canada Hunted bear, deer, caribou, moose, plus smaller game Has never eaten bear – but Chuck has Befriended Hells Angels members in Lowell, MA Was subject of article in Hawkeye magazine, regarding NH crossbow hunting regulation change Ed said that while running a construction crew, he once took a vacation, and when he returned, the amount of construction finished during his absence was far less than what he expected. As he asked around, some suspicions began to develop. He had three workers who spoke French but very little English. With the help of a translator he determined that one of the foremen had, in Ed’s absence, taken these French workers into the building and coerced them into gambling with him at cards. Unsurprisingly this guy had also won most of the hands, bilking the French workers out of most of their earnings. Ed questioned the guy, he owned up, Ed told him to get gone and not come back. Later Ed discovered a bookkeeper had been way too creative with the books. The outcome there was much the same – bye bye, bookkeeper. Ed spent some time north of the arctic circle. He visited the town of Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. This is the same lake seen on the History Channel TV show “Ice Road Truckers.” He fished in that lake and did some hunting and guiding in the surrounding territory. At some point Ed became a motorcycle rider and owner, and became acquainted with a few Hells Angels in Lowell, MA. He said that being friends with Hells Angels meant he always had a safe place to park his bike. Today Ed uses a cane for help with walking, is not as nimble as he used to be. He likes pizza and the occasional John Wayne movie. And still enjoys hunting. So how the heck did I learn about a 100-year-old hunter in Nashua, anyway? Earlier in the fall Chuck came to my house to perform a standard annual furnace inspection. Chuck works for Crawford-Vogel & Wenzel Oil Company in Manchester. While chatting he mentioned that he was looking forward to his vacation in a few weeks. I asked what he had planned. “Going bear hunting up north with a friend.” “No kidding? I’ve never been bear hunting.” “Guess how old my friend Ed is.” “No idea.” “In a month he’ll be 100.” I was flabbergasted. “One hundred years old? And he’s still hunting? Hunting bear?” “Yup. If he gets one this year it will be his 30th bear.” “Wow, that’s amazing. 100 years old. I’ll bet he’s got some stories.” Before I knew what was happening, Chuck pulled out his cellphone, punched a button, then was speaking into the phone saying, “Hey this is Chuck, I’ve got a guy here who wants to talk to you” then he handed me the phone, saying, “Here he is, go ahead, talk to him.” Trying to stop sputtering, I took the phone. “Hi, is this Ed?” “Yeah, who’s this?” “Hi, my name’s Jeff, Chuck is here at my house working on the furnace and telling me about his plans to go bear hunting. He says you’re going to join him.” “Yup, planning to.” “He also tells me that you’re about to turn 100.” “Yup, that’s right too.” I said, “Wow, 100 and still hunting bear. That’s pretty impressive.” “Well, it will be if I get one.” “Well, I hope you do. Maybe we can talk more about it after that.” “Sure, that would be great.” “OK, I’ll stay in touch with Chuck and we’ll see how the hunting goes this year.” After that Chuck and I exchanged numbers and I checked in with him periodically to see how the hunt was going. Meanwhile, I had a chance to educate myself about bear hunting in New Hampshire. At least two organizations are fantastic sources of information online. One is the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of NH , and they are the official non-profit partner of the second organization, the NH Fish & Game Department . For bear hunting specifically, Fish & Game has a lot of info at this link . And boy did I learn a lot. Within a single normal year, each hunter is only allowed to take a single bear. (2024 is not normal, more below.) Typically, about a thousand bears per year are killed by hunters in NH. Below are specific counts for years 2018 – 2022. 2018 — 1,053 2019 — 866 2020 — 1,184 2021 — 892 2022 — 1,156 The season typically starts September 01 and ends on November 30, with the bulk of the bear harvest occurring in September. However, the state’s area is divided into 19 “Wildlife Management Units,” or WMUs (see map), and not all units are included in that entire time frame. Those curious should consult the Fish & Game Department website for details. Within the overall bear season, there are three distinct smaller seasons: (1) allows stalking of bear, (2) allows stalking with dogs, (3) allows use of bait to lure bear. For each of these, a bear hunting license is required, and the latter two seasons each require an additional specific license. Furthermore, each of those distinct activities will have its own restrictions as to region (WMUs) where it’s allowed, and specific time periods when it’s allowed. Within a single year, hunters may normally take only one bear statewide. But in 2024 New Hampshire has an oversized population of black bears, currently at 0.64 bears per square mile, with a goal is 0.52. That’s a total of 5,955 bears in the state, where the desired population is 4,838, for an overpopulation state-wide of 1,117 bears. The overpopulation is worst in the White Mountains, at 1.24 bears per square mile, with a goal of 0.80 bears per square mile. At least partially as a result of this overpopulation, National Forest staff have fielded daily calls since July concerning human-bear interactions on the National Forest’s trails. (Those trails include Lincoln Woods, Bondcliff, Franconia Brook, Lincoln Brook, and at the Liberty Springs and Thirteen Falls campsites.) Staff generally want to minimize bear-human interactions. Therefore, as a form of population control, this year NH Fish & Game is allowing hunters to purchase a license for a second bear to be taken in the white mountains region (WMUs C1, D2, E, or F – the green areas on the map). There are 13 stations throughout the state where hunters may perform the legally-required registration of their kills. After educating myself, I checked back in with Chuck, and, sure enough, Ed had gotten a bear, which weighed about 145 lbs., and Chuck got one too. For Ed, this was his 30th bear kill in his lifetime. (BTW, all photos supplied by Chuck, except those of the diner taken be me.) Below are several photos taken during Ed and Chuck’s hunting trips over the years. Finally... Ed and Chuck have plenty of game cameras throughout the area. Below are various images they’ve captured over the years – two bears at night, one bear getting a close-up selfie, a bull moose at night, two cubs, and a lynx or bobcat.
Published 4:55 pm Friday, November 22, 2024 By Daily Herald Photo provided Photo provided Photo provided Photo provided By Tim Ruzek John Hulet heard his calling in 1933 while throwing horseshoes near the Cedar River in Horace Austin State Park. A man standing on the iron bridge that once extended North Main Street over the Cedar saw a 3-year-old boy fall into the river upstream. The man yelled to the 18-year-old Hulet, who ran to the river and pulled the boy out of about 5 feet of water. On the shore, Hulet gave CPR or “artificial respiration” to the boy – Roland Zook – for a few minutes until Zook showed signs of life, the Austin Daily Herald wrote Sept. 18, 1933. “(Hulet) then carried the boy to the Zook home, where he was worked on for about an hour,” the Herald wrote, adding that Zook was placed between warm blankets because he was blue from the river’s cold water. By the next day, however, Zook had “completely recovered from the narrow escape from drowning.” Zook went on to live until age 88, passing away in 2019 in northern California. After moving with his family to California, Zook served as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War; married his wife in Los Angeles; and raised two children while working as an iron worker and insurance agent. Nearly 30 years after Zook was saved, Hulet —now an Austin police officer since 1945 — heard another scream for help from the Cedar River at Austin Mill Pond. Hulet was fishing in Austin Mill Pond’s southwest corner on the Sunday afternoon of June 23, 1963. Four boys — ages 8 to 10 — had formed a chain while swimming in the river when one broke loose and went underwater where there was a steep drop. Hulet dove into the river, which was deep enough to go over his head, and pulled the boy out. Hulet told the Herald the boy appeared uninjured but was so scared he ran home before he could be identified. A woman at the scene verified the rescue. Hulet the hero In the early 1930s, Hulet and Zook lived a block apart along Lansing Avenue — today’s First Drive Northwest — with their backyards overlooking Austin Mill Pond and the state park. Their homes later were removed for building Austin’s first YMCA and the Red Cedar Inn (today’s Cedars of Austin complex). About 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 15, 1933, the 3-year-old Zook joined a 4-year-old girl in walking to the state park near the Rayman boat house on a sharp river bend that curved around the property that today hosts Bremer Bank. Zook and the girl were playing near the river when something got Zook’s attention. “The Zook boy thought he saw a fish in the water and reached down to seize it,” the Herald wrote. “He lost his balance and tumbled in. The water was about 5 feet deep.” A man never identified was standing on the Charles Fox Bridge (installed just two years earlier and removed in 1961). He saw the boy fall in the river and he called out to Hulet, who graduated four months earlier from Austin High School. “At this time of the year, there are very few people near the state park along the Cedar River,” the Herald wrote. “The only persons at the park at the time the boy fell in the water were the man on the bridge and Hulet.” Hulet’s “quick action” in pulling the boy from the river and use of CPR were credited by Zook’s father with saving his son’s life. The father said he wished he also could find the unknown man on the bridge to thank him. Life of service At the time of his death in 1989 at age 74, Hulet was described in a Herald obituary as an avid fisherman who “spent many pleasant hours on the shores of many a river and lake.” “A well-known and well-respected man in the community, he always had a ‘word of greeting’ to anyone who crossed his path,” the obituary stated April 2, 1989. “He was a kind and loving husband, a caring and dependable father, a protective grandpa and a faithful friend.” Hulet worked for 12 years at the Hormel plant after high school. During that time, Hulet also played on many amateur sports teams for baseball, basketball, bowling and even hockey – a rarity in the 1930s in southern Minnesota. Known as the “big Austin third baseman,” Hulet was named in 1937 as the “most valuable player” at the Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament, receiving the Governor’s Trophy. In 1945, Hulet left Hormel to start a 24-year career as an Austin police patrol officer. The father of five was highlighted for his police work numerous times in the Herald. Hulet then chose to work as a custodian for Austin Public Schools until 1977, when he retired for good.
Percentages: FG .429, FT .738. 3-Point Goals: 2-15, .133 (Taylor 2-8, Phelps 0-2, Wilcher 0-2, Carter 0-3). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 6 (Washington 4, Garcia, Obaseki). Turnovers: 12 (Phelps 4, Coleman 3, Taylor 3, Carter, Washington). Steals: 5 (Hefner 2, Carter, Garcia, Wilcher). Technical Fouls: Washington, 12:23 first. Percentages: FG .412, FT .882. 3-Point Goals: 6-26, .231 (Harper 2-6, Bailey 2-8, Williams 1-2, Hayes 1-5, Acuff 0-1, Davis 0-1, Derkack 0-1, Grant 0-2). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 1 (Harper). Turnovers: 16 (Bailey 4, Williams 4, Derkack 2, Martini 2, Acuff, Hayes, Ogbole, Sommerville). Steals: 7 (Bailey 2, Derkack, Grant, Hayes, Martini, Williams). Technical Fouls: Williams, 12:23 first. .
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was denied bail on Wednesday as he awaits a May sex trafficking trial by a judge who cited evidence showing him to be a serious risk of witness tampering and proof that he has violated regulations in jail. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian made the decision in a written ruling following a bail hearing last week, when lawyers for the hip-hop mogul argued that a $50 million bail package they proposed would be sufficient to ensure Combs doesn’t flee and doesn’t try to intimidate prospective trial witnesses. Two other judges previously had been persuaded by prosecutors’ arguments that the Bad Boy Records founder was a danger to the community if he is not behind bars. Lawyers did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment on the decision. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to for years, aided by associates and employees. An indictment alleges that he silenced victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. A federal appeals court judge last month denied Combs’ immediate release while a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan considers his bail request. Prosecutors have insisted that no bail conditions would be sufficient to protect the public and prevent the “I’ll Be Missing You” singer from fleeing. They say that even in a federal lockup in Brooklyn, Combs has orchestrated social media campaigns designed to influence prospective jurors and tried to publicly leak materials he thinks can help his case. They say he also has contacted potential witnesses through third parties. Lawyers for Combs say any alleged sexual abuse described in the indictment occurred during consensual relations between adults and that new evidence refutes allegations that Combs used his to induce into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male sex workers known as “Freak Offs.” Larry Neumeister, The Associated PressThe Gunners took two points out of Liverpool’s lead at the summit of the Premier League after Jurrien Timber and William Saliba struck in the second half – both from corners – to condemn Amorim to his first defeat as United boss. The hosts’ second-half strikes took their goals-from-corners tally to 22 since the start of last season – a statistic that is unmatched by any other team in the division. Asked if Arsenal are one of the best teams he has come up against on corners, Amorim replied: “If you follow the Premier League for a long time you can see that. “They are also big players and you see every occasion when (Gabriel) Martinelli and (Bukayo) Saka have one-on-ones, a lot of times they go outside and they cross, and they know that if the cross goes well, they can score, and if it is a corner they can score, too, so we have to be better on that. “You have seen in all Arsenal games that every team have had problems with that (corners). And the difference today was the set-pieces. “You see a goal and then the momentum changed, and it is really hard for us to take the full control of the game after that.” Timber leaned into Rasmus Hojlund at the front post before diverting Declan Rice’s set-piece into the back of Andre Onana’s net after 54 minutes to send Arsenal into the lead. Thomas Partey’s header from Saka’s corner then deflected in off Saliba’s shoulder with 17 minutes left. Arteta and the club’s set-piece guru Nicolas Jover embraced on the touchline as Amorim was left with his head in his hands. The Arsenal supporters cheered raucously every time they won a corner – landing 13 in all without reply. However, Arteta moved to play down the significance of Arsenal’s set-piece threat. “We need that, but we want to be very dangerous and very effective from every angle and every phase of play,” said Arteta. “Today we could have scored from open play like we did against West Ham and Sporting. Last year we scored the most goals in the history of this football club. Arsenal have won four consecutive Premier League matches against Man Utd for the first time ever! 💫 pic.twitter.com/biv1kvsJEP — Premier League (@premierleague) December 4, 2024 “Not because of only set-pieces, but because of a lot of things that we have. We want to create individual and magic moments, too.” Arsenal’s win against United – the first time they have recorded four victories in a row against the Red Devils in the league – was their fourth in succession since the international break. They will head to Fulham on Sunday bidding to keep the momentum going. Arteta continued: “The will to win is there. We try our best to do that. We won four in a row, but it doesn’t matter. We have to go to Fulham now, try to be better than them and try win the game. “It’s every three days that we play. It’s a crazy schedule. We’re going to need everybody and to mentally be very strong.”
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he ' win over the on Black Friday was a game that won't soon be forgotten, and neither was Al Michaels' performance. The Amazon Prime announcer was on the call for the game alongside The duo were treated to an exciting finish as the Chiefs came out 19-17 victors after the Raiders fumbled away a late chance to potentially kick a game-winning field goal. While the exciting finish made plenty of headlines, so did Micheals when he referenced , the former New England Patriots tight end who was found guilty of murder. was charged with the murder of in 2013 and later found guilty in 2015. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, but in 2017 he was found dead in his cell with his passing ruled a suicide. What Michaels said During Friday's game, likened the partnership of while with the Patriots to that of current Chiefs tight ends The comparison came after in the second quarter. While the companion was rather harmless, plenty of fans took to social media to question "No Al Michaels, let's not compare Noah Gray to Aaron Hernandez," wrote one fan. Another wrote: "Al Michaels casually comping Noah Gray to Aaron Hernandez is so f***ing wild..." "Al Michaels name dropping Aaron Hernandez was not on my bingo card, said another, while one fan was particularly frustrated: 'NOOOOOO AL MICHAELS DON'T MENTION AARON HERNANDEZ ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO BLACK FRIDAY FOOTBALL NOOOOOOOOO!" Some fans questioned whether the NFL and commissioner would be happy to hear mentioned. "Al michaels uttering the name "aaron hernandez" on air has to have activated whatever spidey-sense roger goodell possesses," wrote the fan.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a doctor in the state of New York alleging the doctor prescribed abortion medication to a woman in Texas therefore violating the state’s strict anti-abortion law. In the first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Paxton is testing the bounds of conflicting state abortion laws by pursuing litigation against a doctor in New York – where shield laws protect providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions. The 11-page lawsuit, filed in Collin County, Texas , alleges Dr. Margaret Carpenter illegally prescribed the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol via telehealth to a 20-year-old woman in Collins County. The lawsuit claims the 20-year-old woman sought and took the medications without informing the father of the fetus when she was nine weeks pregnant. But he later found out about the medication abortion after the woman had to be taken to the hospital for severe bleeding. Paxton alleges Carpenter was not permitted to prescribe the medication via telehealth because she is not a licensed physician in Texas and state law only allows for abortion when the patient’s life is at risk or there is a “serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.” The Texas AG claims Carpenter has seen multiple patients in Texas and has done this. Carpenter is the co-founder and co-medical director of Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine , a clinic that provides “telemedicine abortion care to patients in all 50 states.” Her biography says she has worked in reproductive health for years, volunteering with Planned Parenthood and providing medical and surgical abortions since 1999. The Independent has asked Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine for comment. “Carpenter’s knowing and continuing violations of Texas law places women and unborn children in Texas at risk,” Paxton argued. Paxton is asking the Texas court to prevent Carpenter from practicing telehealth in the state and impose a $100,000 fine for each violation. But it’s unclear how far the lawsuit can go given New York’s law protects providers from out-of-state lawsuits like this by refusing to order a defendant, like Carpenter, to comply with extradition, arrest and legal proceedings in other states The state’s shield law also gives prescribers who are sued the ability to countersue to recover damages. Paxton has relentlessly pursued litigation against those who provide or seek abortion in the state. He sent threatening letters to medical providers in 2023 after a woman named Kate Cox got explicit permission to obtain a medically necessary abortion. His lawsuit, of course, has only arisen because the Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade in 2022. Roe made abortion a federal right – preventing each state from outright banning it. But now, with each state responsible for creating its own law, immense legal and social conflict has arisen. One way those living in states with strict abortion bans, like Texas, have skirted around rules is by using telehealth to obtain abortion medication. But lawsuits like this and others risk the availability of it.
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