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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Casey Simmons scored 18 points as Yale beat Vermont 65-50 on Saturday. Simmons had eight rebounds and three steals for the Bulldogs (5-5). Nick Townsend scored 13 points while shooting 4 for 10 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line and added six rebounds. Bez Mbeng had 11 points and went 4 of 11 from the field (2 for 5 from 3-point range). The Catamounts (5-6) were led by TJ Hurley, who recorded 21 points. Shamir Bogues added 12 points for Vermont. Ileri Ayo-Faleye finished with seven points and three blocks. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from . The Associated PressWest Harbor will be front row for tree lighting, LA Port boat parade on Dec. 7Nikola Jokic, Nuggets hope third time is charm vs. Clippers
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Jordan Jones scored 20 points as Cent. Conn. St. beat Holy Cross 69-56 on Saturday. Jones added six steals for the Blue Devils (6-3). Abdul Momoh scored 12 points and added three steals. Devin Haid had 12 points and shot 4 for 8, including 3 for 5 from beyond the arc. Max Green led the Crusaders (5-5) in scoring, finishing with 15 points and seven rebounds. Tyler Boston added 13 points and five assists for Holy Cross. Caleb Kenney finished with 12 points, nine rebounds, two steals and three blocks. Cent. Conn. St. took the lead with 6:53 remaining in the first half and did not give it up. The score was 38-25 at halftime, with Haid racking up 12 points. Cent. Conn. St. pulled away with an 11-3 run in the second half to extend a six-point lead to 14 points. They closed out the victory over Holy Cross from there, as Jones led the way with a team-high 14 second-half points. NEXT UP Cent. Conn. St.'s next game is Sunday against Rhode Island on the road, and Holy Cross visits Quinnipiac on Tuesday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Article content Across the planet, cultural rites can seem bizarre to people here. Recommended Videos Take Texas and the broader U.S. South. Down in Dixie, Friday night high school football is a religion and the coach is God. But kids’ beauty pageants and cheerleading are also up there as anomalies. Wanda Webb Holloway took cheerleading very seriously indeed. That level of motherly dedication made Holloway the Pom Pom Mom. *** Channelview, Texas is 24 km from downtown Houston but it might as well be 100. It is a hardscrabble place, tough but polite, where folks are always looking for the next thing. In Texas Monthly magazine , writer Mimi Swartz described it thus: “The only colour seems to be the perilous orange of the refinery gas flares; at the Dell Dale highway exit, the white elephant rearing about the flea market looks hopelessly grimy, and off the road the rain soaks the yards of the tract and trailer homes to a dirty brown. “Winter in Channelview can bring menace and breed hopelessness, two qualities with which Wanda Holloway, who had spent most of her life here, was more than well acquainted.” *** Most of the men in Channelview worked at the nearby oil refineries, all making the same money. But Wanda Holloway stood out. She was always better dressed, and better put together than the other women in town. And some resented her for it. Beneath the surface, her courteous manners and warm smile hid a brooder who would do anything for her 14-year-old daughter Shanna. In January 1991, Shanna narrowly missed earning a spot as a cheerleader on her junior high team for the second year. Friend Amber Heath got the place instead. This would not do. Wanda Webb Holloway had raised Amber to be a cheerleader. She was undoubtedly living her life through her daughter and something had to be done. She contacted her former brother-in-law, Terry Harper, and asked if he could arrange for Verna Heath, Amber’s mom, to be murdered. Her logic was that if Verna got iced, the kid would be so distraught she would quit the cheer squad. And that would open up a spot for Shanna. Harper had other ideas: He went to the cops. Holloway was arrested the next day. “When it all happened, it wasn’t talked about in my family,” Shanna told Good Morning America in 2012. “We didn’t discuss it. It was like it didn’t happen. It was just put on the back burner like nothing had happened.” Except it did. Every newspaper and network news outlet zeroed in on the bizarre yarn. *** At Holloway’s first trial, the cornerstone for the prosecution was tapes provided by Terry Harper, coupled with his testimony. The scheming stage mom offered diamond earrings never to see the unsuspecting Verna Heath alive again. Her team argued that it was Holloway’s ex-husband, Tony Harper and his brother Terry, who conspired to frame Wanda. And they had an ace: Terry’s estranged wife claimed he beat her into silence over the plot to help his brother get custody of his two children. Wanda was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to 15 years in the slammer. However, because one of the jurors was a felon, a mistrial was later declared. At her second trial, she pleaded “no contest.” It’s not an admission of guilt but a concession the prosecution has more than enough evidence to convict. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Sept. 9, 1996. Wanda was also ordered to pay $150,000 to the Heath family. *** Shanna Widner is now 46 years old and does not have much of a relationship with her mother who lives just a few miles away. She stays in touch through her children. “You have to understand that I’ve only started dealing with this two years ago,” she told Good Morning America about why she allows her mother and sons to stay so close. “So there would have been no reason for me to have to change the way I acted towards my mother if you pretend like nothing happened. When my boys were born, she was just as much a part of my life as she had always had been.” She has not taken her mother’s approach to parenting. “Obviously, I veer away from being a stage mom. I think I’ve learned that lesson,” she said on GMA . “My sons participate in football and one of my sons didn’t want to play anymore and I was okay with that. If it’s not fun I think parents should take that into consideration. If they’re not having fun, then try something different. It’s not worth it.” *** Any true crime aficionado knows that cases like Pom-Pom Mom are eternal. Now, Investigation Discovery has announced the airing of the Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot on Dec. 16. ID said in a press release: “Thirty years after Wanda Holloway was convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill her daughter’s cheerleading rival, the Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot unpacks what really happened in the lead up – and wake of – these shocking events that rocked not just the close-knit community of Channelview, Texas but also the nation.” The true crime network adds that Shanna will tell her side of the story about her mom’s “true motivations” and “who was secretly pulling the strings behind the curtain to set Wanda Holloway up.” bhunter@postmedia.com @HunterTOSunIndia, EU firm up extensive roadmap for green hydrogen cooperation
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Sutton scores 23, Omaha knocks off Sacramento State 70-60The cost of policing the ceremony was £21.7 million with a further £50.3 million in costs racked up by Britain’s department for culture, media and sport. About 20 million people in Britain watched Charles crowned at Westminster Abbey on TV, substantially fewer than the 29 million who had watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. The ceremony was attended by dignitaries from around the world, and a star-studded concert took place at Windsor Castle the following night. The annual report and accounts of DCMS, the lead department in Rishi Sunak’s government that worked with the royal household on the coronation, stated that the department “successfully delivered on the central weekend of His Majesty King Charles III’s coronation, enjoyed by many millions both in the UK and across the globe”. It described the coronation as a “once-in-a-generation moment” that enabled the “entire country to come together in celebration”, as well as offering “a unique opportunity to celebrate and strengthen our national identity and showcase the UK to the world”. Republic, which campaigns to replace the monarchy with an elected head of state and more democratic political system, described the coronation as an “obscene” waste of taxpayers’ money. “I would be very surprised if £72 million was the whole cost,” the Republic CEO, Graham Smith, told the Guardian. As well as the British home office policing and DCMS costs included in the figures, he said the UK’s ministry of defence, Transport for London, fire brigades and local councils also incurred costs related to the coronation, with other estimates putting the total cost at between £100 million and £250 million . “But even that kind of money – £72 million– is incredible,” Smith added. “It’s a huge amount of money to spend on one person’s parade when there was no obligation whatsoever in the constitution or in law to have a coronation, and when we were facing cuts to essential services. “It was a parade that Charles insisted on at huge expense to the taxpayer, and this is on top of the huge inheritance tax bill he didn’t pay, on top of the £500 million-a-year cost of the monarchy.” He added: “It was an extravagance we simply didn’t have to have. It was completely unnecessary and a waste of money in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis in a country that is facing huge amounts of child poverty. When kids are unable to afford lunches at school, to spend over £70 million on this parade is obscene.” - –GuardianAll constitutional, legal ways to be adopted for resolving issues with PTI: RanaCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Front Row Motorsports, one of two teams suing NASCAR in federal court, accused the stock car series Thursday of rejecting the planned purchase of a valuable charter unless the lawsuit was dropped. Front Row made the claim in a court filing and said it involved its proposed purchase of the charter from Stewart-Haas Racing. Front Row said the series would only approve it if Front Row and 23XI Racing dropped their court case. "Specifically, NASCAR informed us that it would not approve the (charter) transfer unless we agreed to drop our current antitrust lawsuit against them," Jerry Freeze, general manager of Front Row, said in an affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court of Western North Carolina. The two teams in September refused to sign NASCAR's "take-it-or-leave-it" final offer on a new revenue sharing agreement. All other 13 teams signed the deal. Front Row and 23XI balked and are now in court. 23XI co-owner Michael Jordan has said he took the fight to court on behalf of all teams competing in the top motorsports series in the United States. NASCAR has argued that the two teams simply do not like the terms of the final charter agreement and asked for the lawsuit be dismissed. Earlier this week, the suit was transferred to a different judge than the one who heard the first round of arguments and ruled against the two teams in their request for a temporary injunction to be recognized in 2025 as chartered teams as the case proceeds. The latest filing is heavily redacted as it lays out alleged retaliatory actions by NASCAR the teams say have caused irreparable harm. Both Front Row and 23XI want to expand from two full-time cars to three, and have agreements with SHR to purchase one charter each as SHR goes from four cars to one for 2025. The teams can still compete next season but would have to do so as "open" teams that don't have the same protections or financial gains that come from holding a charter. Freeze claimed in the affidavit that Front Row signed a purchase agreement with SHR in April and NASCAR President Steve Phelps told Freeze in September the deal had been approved. But when Front Row submitted the paperwork last month, NASCAR began asking for additional information. A Dec. 4 request from NASCAR was "primarily related to our ongoing lawsuit with NASCAR," Freeze said. "NASCAR informed us on December 5, 2024, that it objected to the transfer and would not approve it, in contrast to the previous oral approval for the transfer confirmed by Phelps before we filed the lawsuit," Freeze said. "NASCAR made it clear that the reason it was now changing course and objecting to the transfer is because NASCAR is insisting that we drop the lawsuit and antitrust claims against it as a condition of being approved." A second affidavit from Steve Lauletta, the president of 23XI Racing, claims NASCAR accused 23XI and Front Row of manufacturing "new circumstances" in a renewed motion for an injunction and of a "coordinated effort behind the scenes." "This is completely false," Lauletta said. Front Row is owned by businessman Bob Jenkins, while 23XI is owned by retired NBA Hall of Famer Jordan, three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin and longtime Jordan adviser Curtis Polk. NASCAR had been operating with 36 chartered teams and four open spots since the charter agreement began in 2016. NASCAR now says it will move forward in 2025 with 32 chartered teams and eight open spots, with offers on charters for Front Row and 23XI rescinded and the SHR charters in limbo. The teams contend they must be chartered under some of their contractual agreements with current sponsors and drivers, and competing next year as open teams will cause significant losses. "23XI exists to compete at the highest level of stock car racing, striving to become the best team it can be. But that ambition can only be pursued within NASCAR, which has monopolized the market as the sole top-tier circuit for stock car racing," Lauletta said. "Our efforts to expand – purchasing more cars and increasing our presence on the track – are integral to achieving this goal. "It is not hypocritical to operate within the only system available while striving for excellence and contending for championships," he continued. "It is a necessity because NASCAR's monopoly leaves 23XI no alternative circuit, no different terms, and no other viable avenue to compete at this level."