HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s 2023-24 Legislative Session closed Dec. 1 and the next session, while officially underway, doesn’t fully begin until lawmakers are sworn into office Jan. 7. Looking back, members of the state House and Senate introduced 3,862 bills and 924 resolutions across the two-year session. There were 77 bills adopted into law in 2023 and 162 adopted in 2024. The combined total of 239 was far fewer than the previous six legislative sessions. There hasn’t been a lower total since 2009-10 when 226 bills advanced into law — the last time the Pennsylvania General Assembly had a partisan divide. Democrats controlled the House while Republicans led the Senate. Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, often cites the challenge of advancing legislation with a split government. That dynamic won’t change in 2025-26. Though there are 20 new members joining the legislature — 16 in the House, four in the Senate — the respective parties defended their majorities. Republicans have a 28-22 advantage in the Senate while Democrats maintained a 102-101 margin in the House. What follows is a look back at the outcome of legislation proposed last session by area lawmakers. Aaron Bernstine — 8th Legislative District Rep. Aaron Bernstine will formally begin his fifth term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives when members are sworn into office on Jan. 7, 2025. He ran unopposed in both the primary and general elections. Bernstine, a Republican, represented Pennsylvania’s 8th Legislative District — parts of Lawrence and Butler counties — since redistricting took hold in 2023. Prior to that, he represented what had been the former 10th District. He held three committee assignments along with a subcommittee appointment during the 2023-24 Legislative Session: Commerce, Finance and Gaming Oversight committees and a subcommittee on Housing Finance. Across the two-year session, Bernstine sponsored 154 bills and resolutions. He was the prime sponsor of two bills. One sought to allow state licensure for nurses educated at a school with national accreditation in addition to the current requirement that institutions hold regional accreditation. The other was a reintroduction of a bill from a prior session, “Markie’s Law,” that seeks to delay parole for state inmates convicted of certain offenses while incarcerated — 12 months for escape attempts, smuggling contraband or retaliation or intimidation of a witness; 24 months for a violent offense. Neither bill gained traction at the committee level. Bernstine is among the members of the conservative Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus. One bill that he announced but ultimately didn’t introduce would have sought to reclassify drag performances as “adult-oriented business” — a bill unlikely to advance given the current dynamics of the General Assembly. He voted against both budgets in the 2023-24 session, criticizing Gov. Josh Shapiro for submitting a “liberal wish list.” “His plan is a copy-paste version of the Bidenomics that are destroying our economy. From Philadelphia mass transit bailouts to doubling the minimum wage, Gov. Shapiro wants Pennsylvania to be just like California, which is where his campaign donations originate,” Bernstine said after the governor made his 2024 budget proposal. Bernstine attempted to trim more than 1% from this year’s $47.6 billion budget through a floor amendment, and he tried the same to enact school choice. He attended President-elect Donald Trump’s rally in Butler where an assassination attempt was made, and he stood up for local police and first responders amid criticism of event security and the immediate response after a bullet grazed Trump’s ear. Marla Brown — 9th Legislative District The 2025-26 session will be the second in the Pennsylvania House for Republican Rep. Marla Brown. She was re-elected to represent the 9th Legislative District, which covers a portion of Lawrence County, after running unopposed in both the primary and general elections. Brown’s first session saw appointments to four committees — Aging & Older Adult Services, Commerce, Finance and Health. She also chaired subcommittees on Care & Services and Local Business. She sponsored 83 bills and resolutions. On 14 bills and three resolutions, she was the primary sponsor, however, none made it into law. In fact, as a member of the House’s political minority, just one received committee consideration. Brown introduced one of at least three proposals to open primary elections to all voters, allowing those not registered with a recognized party, namely Democrat or Republican, to choose which ticket they’d vote on. Pennsylvania is one of nine states with closed primaries and is home to more than 1.46 million independent voters, nearly 16% of its entire electorate. Brown believed the change would help elevate moderate candidates across the political spectrum and improve governance in an era of hyper-partisanship. Open primary proposals aren’t novel but in a rarity, they actually garnered enough support to advance out of the House State Government Committee but were ignored before receiving consideration on the chamber floor. “This is a bipartisan issue, in my opinion, on which we should easily meet in the middle of the road. We’ve got to find common ground in the House if we’re going to be able to represent this state in the best way,” Brown said after introducing her bill. Brown’s other bill proposals ranged from mandating that social media companies report suspected drug sales to the creation of a targeted grant program for nurses to repay student loans amid workforce struggles. Brown sought to require felony charges for threats made against schools and mandate a prison sentence for the conviction of delivering fentanyl. She also pursued operator-friendly reforms within Pennsylvania’s cosmetology law. Brown voted against both budgets enacted during her tenure, so far, and she opposed cost of living adjustments for former state employees who retired before 2001. She hosted policy hearings in her district on drug addiction and transportation issues, supported a package of bills to provide tax relief to working families, and joined other legislators in calling on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association to revise its maligned broadcast policy. She did not, however, vote in favor of a study authorized by the House to look into PIAA’s finances, broadcast agreements and more. Michele Brooks — 50th Senatorial District The start of the 2025-26 Legislative Session marks the midway point of Republican Sen. Michele Brooks’ third term in office. Her district, the 50th, includes Crawford, Mercer and most of Lawrence counties. Her current four-year term expires in 2026. In 2023-24, Brooks served as majority chair of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee and vice chair of the Finance Committee. Her other committee assignments were Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Communications & Technology, Education, Rules & Executive Nominations and Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness. She sponsored 248 bills and resolutions last session including 60 bills and eight resolutions as a prime sponsor. The focus of the bills she introduced included eliminating inheritance taxes on siblings and other relatives, enacting consumer protections, the creation of a lost dog registry, extending the statute of limitations for the crime of drug delivery resulting in death, including sales taxes in advertised retail prices, addressing Lyme disease and expansive efforts to serve firefighters and EMS providers. Among the bevy of bills of which she was a prime sponsor, six became law and four others advanced to the House. The rest remained in the Senate. Motorcycles will be included in Pennsylvania’s Automobile Lemon Law after a Brooks bill became Act No. 151 of 2024, extending protections for manufacturer defects to a new class of vehicle. Senate Bill 500 , a bipartisan bill known as Owen’s Law, became Act 32 of 2023. It allows for medical prescriptions through Medicaid of donor milk for children younger than 12 months. Brooks was successful in expanding Pennsylvania’s Safe Haven Law. Act 134 of 2024 adds urgent care centers to designated locations where parents may safely surrender newborns if they feel unfit to care for the child. She also secured an amendment to Pennsylvania’s Public School Code through Act 55 of 2024 which will allow professionals in skilled occupations to more easily receive state certification to teach at career and technical schools. Her bill was amended as part of budget negotiations to include numerous negotiated updates to the code beyond her original intent. Act 66 of 2023, born out of Brooks’ Senate Bill 941, eases eligibility and qualifications to become a drug treatment counselor and increases counselors’ patient caseload capacity during an opioid epidemic, defined as 1,000-plus opioid overdose deaths in three consecutive years. Pennsylvania schools must notify parents and guardians in writing whenever ticks are removed from students under Act 120 of 2024. Schools must provide information on the symptoms of Lyme disease, and must preserve the tick for parents or guardians to either send into a state lab for analysis or allow the school to do so. Results are confidential. Elder Vogel — 47th Senatorial District Republican Sen. Elder Vogel returns to the Pennsylvania Senate for the 2025-26 Legislative Session after being re-elected to represent the 47th Senatorial District. Vogel defeated Democrat Kate Lennen in the general election, garnering nearly 64% of the vote and earning a fifth four-year term. He ran unopposed in the primary. The 47th Senatorial District consists of most of Beaver County and parts of Lawrence and Butler counties. In the 2023-24 session, Vogel served as majority chair of the Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee and vice chair of the Appropriations Committee. He also was appointed to the Banking & Insurance, Environmental Resources & Energy and Transportation committees. He sponsored 286 bills and resolutions last session, including nine bills as a prime sponsor. Three of the bills became law while the other six didn’t pass out of the Senate. Vogel worked for eight years to advance a bill guaranteeing insurance coverage for telemedicine services. After watching his proposals defeated through the years — be it through inaction, lack of House support, a veto by former Gov. Tom Wolf — Vogel’s Telemedicine Act was adopted in 2024 and signed into law by Gov. Josh Shapiro. Act 42 of 2024 assures patients that any medically necessary service they’d receive in person that’s covered by their insurance plan would also be covered if administered remotely through telemedicine. That coverage includes Medicaid and CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. His proposal to establish the Sexual Assault Emergency Services Act became Act 59 of 2023. It expands Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs at hospitals, using telehealth through the existing Penn State University SAFE-T Program to connect victims with specialized nurses to ensure through and timely care in cases of sexual assault. Another bill from Vogel became Act 18 of 2023, authorizing the first increases in dog license fees in nearly 30 years and for kennel fees, 60 years. The modest increases are intended to help improve dog law enforcement in the commonwealth. Vogel was a prime co-sponsor of two bipartisan proposals with Sen. Judith Schwank, D-Berks, that were developed to aid dairy farmers. One bill sought to help Pennsylvania dairy farmers enroll in the federal dairy margin coverage program while the other would allow the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board to collect and distribute over-order premiums collected on Class I fluid milk in Pennsylvania. Each bill was voted out of committee but gained no further momentum. He co-sponsored another bill with Sen. Wayne Langerholc, R-Cambria/Clearfield/Centre, that would mandate a prison term of 20 to 40 years for anyone convicted of providing fentanyl or related synthetic opioids to minors. The measure received no consideration in the Senate. Vogel’s other proposals last session sought to create a statewide stroke registry, boost funding for the Pennsylvania Housing and Rehabilitation Enhancement Fund that aids senior citizens, low- and moderate-income families and persons with disabilities, and create licensing for professional music therapists. He also was active in promoting on-farm conservation efforts, raising awareness of food insecurity and promoting food drives as well as advocating for legislation to mitigate crop damage by deer, enhance trespass penalties related to hunting and add a seat to the Pennsylvania Game Commission Board.
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Loobie 3-9 3-4 9, Richards 3-7 1-3 7, Chung 4-10 2-4 11, Sonnier 6-11 0-0 12, Tucker 1-9 2-2 4, Brice 0-3 0-0 0, Oliva Fernandez 2-2 0-0 4, Wright 2-4 3-6 7, Jones-Brown 1-4 0-0 2, Reynoso 0-3 0-0 0, Totals 22-62 11-19 56 Hobbs 5-10 2-2 12, Holloway 2-7 5-6 9, Kampschroeder 1-4 2-2 4, Olson 10-15 1-2 23, Swords 6-15 3-3 18, Dunbar 0-0 2-2 2, VanTimmeren 2-2 2-3 6, Grabovskaia 5-7 3-3 13, Brown 2-4 0-0 4, Delfosse 4-8 0-0 10, Q. Daniels 5-7 0-4 10, Totals 42-79 20-27 111 3-Point Goals_Long Beach St. 1-22 (Loobie 0-4, Richards 0-1, Chung 1-5, Sonnier 0-3, Tucker 0-4, Jones-Brown 0-2, Reynoso 0-3), Michigan 7-25 (Hobbs 0-3, Holloway 0-1, Kampschroeder 0-3, Olson 2-6, Swords 3-7, Brown 0-2, Delfosse 2-3). Assists_Long Beach St. 11 (Chung 3), Michigan 25 (Hobbs 5, Swords 5). Fouled Out_Long Beach St. Richards. Rebounds_Long Beach St. 29 (Chung 6), Michigan 51 (Hobbs 8, Swords 8). Total Fouls_Long Beach St. 25, Michigan 20. Technical Fouls_None. A_2,753.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Aaron Cooley's 17 points helped Brown defeat Stony Brook 77-54 on Wednesday. Cooley also contributed five rebounds for the Bears (4-3). AJ Lesburt Jr. scored 16 points, going 6 of 10 (4 for 8 from 3-point range). Landon Lewis shot 5 of 8 from the field to finish with 12 points, while adding eight rebounds. Joseph Octave finished with 24 points, seven rebounds and two steals for the Seawolves (2-5). Stony Brook also got 17 points and three steals from Ben Wight. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Fine Gael won 35 seats in the 2020 election, but 18 of those TDs did not seek re-election in Friday’s poll. An exit poll puts the party’s support at 21%, a fraction of a percentage behind the main opposition party Sinn Fein. Mr Harris, the outgoing Taoiseach, was elected with 16,869 first preference votes, well above the quota. He celebrated with his wife Caoimhe, his parents Bart and Mary, his sister Gemma and his political team at the count centre in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Ahead of his re-election, Mr Harris told reporters he was “cautiously optimistic” about the election result and said it was “clear that my party will gain seats”. “It’s also clear that Fine Gael will top the poll in at least 10 constituencies, many more than we did the last time, that we will gain seats in constituencies where we haven’t had seats in many years, like Tipperary South and Waterford, and that we will add second seats in other constituencies as well,” he said. “I think the people of Ireland have now spoken. We now have to work out exactly what they have said, and that is going to take a little bit of time.” In one of the five consecutive broadcast media rounds he did from the Greystones count centre, he said there were a lot of areas where there were “straight shoot-outs” between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael for final seats. He described the Sinn Fein vote as “pretty significantly down”, the Fianna Fail vote as “marginally down” and the Fine Gael vote as “static” compared with its 2020 vote. He said it was “a very close, a very competitive election” and that “we haven’t seen a Sinn Fein surge or anything like it”. He said: “It was predicted by many that I would become the Taoiseach for a brief period of time, take over from Leo Varadkar, and then have to rebuild my party from the opposition benches as Sinn Fein led a government. “We don’t know what’s going to happen on government formation yet, but that is now looking less likely than it was.” He acknowledged that it was “a very difficult day” for the Green Party and paid tribute to their work in the coalition government, alongside his party and Fianna Fail. “Definitely, politics in Ireland has gotten much more fragmented,” he said. Fine Gael minister Helen McEntee said that her party’s campaign had been “positive”. “The feeling on the doors was very much that people were relatively happy with the government,” she said on RTE Radio. “It will come down to the last seats and it will come down to transfers,” she said of the final result, adding that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were performing better than the exit poll estimated.
It shows that support for the Fianna Fail party is at 21% ahead of polling day, only slightly ahead of their coalition partners Fine Gael and the largest opposition party Sinn Fein, who were neck-and-neck at 20%. The Red C-Business Post poll showed support for Fianna Fail unchanged, while Fine Gael had a slide of two percentage points and Sinn Fein gained two. The near dead-locked poll results came on Wednesday as fears over future economic threats took centre stage in the final stretch of the campaign. Taoiseach Simon Harris said he is taking a “project truth” approach to calling out Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as election results on the other side of the Atlantic put Ireland’s economic model into sharp relief. Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in the US has brought heightened concern around what his proposals for corporation tax and tariffs could mean for Ireland. Mr Harris, leader of Fine Gael, has argued Ireland and other EU countries need to prepare for the possibility of trade shocks as he criticised the scale of Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as well as their saving plans. He said: “I think that is irresponsible, I think it is dangerous and I think it is reckless.” He accused Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald of not being able to say what her party was prepared to do in the event of an economic crash, adding that Fine Gael would borrow and stop putting money towards a rainy-day fund. Asked if the party was engaging in “project fear” to dissuade voters against Sinn Fein, Mr Harris said: “I call it ‘project truth’. It’s telling people what’s being discussed right across European capitals.” Ms McDonald told an RTE interview on Wednesday morning that a Sinn Fein government would also be prepared to start borrowing in the event of an economic downturn. Both Mr Harris and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, who were partners in the last coalition government in Ireland, have made clear they will not countenance Sinn Fein as a potential partner in the next administration in Dublin. One day after the only three-way debate featuring the leaders of the main parties, Mr Martin accused Sinn Fein of being “dishonest” about how they will fund their manifesto plans. Speaking in Dublin on Wednesday, he said he is anxious to get clarity on the issue. “I think Sinn Fein have been very dishonest, frankly, in terms of the funds, because if you go through their figures, and this is a matter of fact, not opinion, they’re predicting a surplus of a billion in 2026, a billion in 2027. “Even in 2025, they’re talking about a mini budget, which would mean reducing the surplus that we’re anticipating in 2025. “There’s a legislative obligation now on any new government to put 0.8% of GDP to one side, and into the funds. There’s no way you can do that with a surplus of a billion in 2026 or 2027, and we would argue they would not have enough funds next year either to put into the funds.” He added: “It means they have no room to manoeuvre if things go wrong, if there’s headwinds come externally, or there are shocks internationally, Sinn Fein is not allowing any headroom at all in terms of room to respond or to move it.” Ms McDonald accused the other two parties of conspiring to keep Sinn Fein out of government and prevent change in Ireland. She said the two men were now “indistinguishable” from each other as she claimed they were suffering “acute amnesia” in regard to their records in government. On a visit to Naas fire station in Co Kildare, she said: “To listen to them, you’d imagine they had just arrived on the scene and that they were going to come up with all of these solutions. “They have had ample chances, ample opportunity, to make things better, and they have failed, and in between the two of them I make the case that now we ask for our chance, with our plans, with our team, to demonstrate how change can happen, how your community, your family, yourself, can be supported when the government is actually on your side.” Mr Martin’s and Mr Harris’ coalition partner Roderic O’Gorman, the leader of the Greens, issued a warning to the public over a future government without his party. On Wednesday, he said it is looking likely that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will be returned to government – but cautioned they may not want the Greens to continue “fighting hard” on policies. He told reporters: “My sense is certainly the mood music from Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is that they’d like an easier life in the next government – and my concern is they use these small populist parties and right-wing independents.” Mr O’Gorman argued that the Greens could continue to provide stability to government at a time when economic shocks may be around the corner. As the Green leader suggested that relying on independents would be unstable, Mr Martin has also argued that “too much fragmentation would lead to incoherence in government”. Reflecting on Tuesday night’s debate, the Fianna Fail leader said the race remained “too close to call” while Mr Harris said it is “all to play for”. The leaders of Ireland’s three main political parties clashed on housing, healthcare and financial management in the last televised debate before Friday’s General Election. The tetchy debate, which was marked by several interruptions, saw the parties set out their stalls in a broadcast that commentators said did little to move the dial before polling day. After the 2020 general election delivered an inconclusive result, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, two parties forged from opposing sides of Ireland’s Civil War of the 1920s, agreed to set aside almost a century of animosity and share power – with the Greens as a junior partner. From 2016 to 2020, Fianna Fail had supported Fine Gael in power through a confidence-and-supply arrangement from the Opposition benches in the Dail parliament. Sinn Fein won the popular vote in 2020 but a failure to run enough candidates meant it did not secure sufficient seats in the Dail to give it a realistic chance of forming a government.A University of Arizona defensive assistant is going to wake up with a splitting headache Sunday ... 'cause he headbutted a player wearing a helmet out of excitement -- and cut his forehead wide-open. Chuck Cecil -- a senior defensive assistant with the Wildcats -- was hyping up one of his guys pregame ... grabbing cornerback Owen Goss ' helmet and slamming his head hard into the player's. Goss was wearing a helmet ... but Cecil wasn't -- and, after smashing his head into the player's three times, he was clearly bleeding. Arizona Sr. Defensive assistant Chuck Cecil head-butted a player with a helmet on and starting bleeding from his forehead 😱 pic.twitter.com/lYLqXy3VUC Seems he didn't have time to wash up ... 'cause cut to later and in the game, and Cecil was obviously still bleeding from underneath the bill of his cap. Unfortunately, it appears Cecil's attempt to inspire the players didn't work ... 'cause Arizona State University is crushing U of A right now -- up 42-7 in the fourth quarter at the time of publishing. The Wildcats were 4-7 coming into today ... so, they're not going to a bowl game regarless -- so this is really injury added to insult. Can't blame a guy for trying ... but, hopefully the medical staff is getting him some ice and a bandage.Premier League action returned on Boxing Day as the English top flight continued through its difficult festive period. Manchester City looked to arrest its poor run of form in the early kickoff against visiting Everton, while Chelsea hoped to keep pressure on Liverpool in the title race in a home tie against visiting Fulham in a London Derby. Elsewhere, Aston Villa and Newcastle locked horns at Villa Park as both looked to pressure the top-four, in form Nottingham Forest looked to pounce on a struggling Tottenham while remaining in the Champions League places, and bottom-sitting Southampton looked to end their slide against West Ham on the South Coast. Bournemouth's unexpected push for the European places would see them welcome Crystal Palace to Vitality Stadium to round out the fixtures before two critical evening clashes. Manchester United traveled to a Wolves outfit benefitting from a new manager bump, and Liverpool hosted Leicester City at Anfield to continue their push for a debut season title under Arne Slot. Here's how it all went down across the country. What happened? 📝 Pep Guardiola's Man City could not find three points at the Etihad against recent draw specialists Everton, extending their winless run in the Premier League to four after a frustrating 1-1 scoreline at full time. Chelsea slipped up in their pursuit of a Premier League title after going 1-0 up at home against Fulham, only to see the Cottagers storm back with a 2-1 win thanks to an equalizer from Harry Wilson, and late Rodrigo Muniz winner in stoppage-time. 82 - Chelsea have lost a Premier League game they were leading as late as the 82nd minute for the first time since October 1999, when they were ahead until the 83rd minute against Arsenal but lost 3-2 with Kanu scoring a hat-trick. Memories. — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) Newcastle put ten-man Aston Villa to the sword at St. James' Park in a resounding 3-0 win on Tyneside, with Anthony Gordon, Alexander Isak, and Joelinton all finding the back of the net. A dream season continues after Nottingham Forest piled on the misery for Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou, with Forest banking a 1-0 win at home against a Spurs side who ended the day with ten men after a red card in stoppage time. The horror on the South Coast has yet to be arrested after Southampton were bested 1-0 at St. Mary's by visiting West Ham United, with Jarrod Bowen finding the lone goal in the tie. Bournemouth and Crystal Palace played out a nil-nil draw, with the Cherries guaranteed to end matchday 18 in the top six. Vítor Pereira is already making waves after a 2-0 win over ten-man Manchester United, becoming the first Wolves manager since 1977 to secure wins in his first two top-flight fixtures. Goals from Matheus Cunha and Hwang Hee-chan sealed the points after Bruno Fernandes was sent off just after the break. 5 - Since Rúben Amorim's first game in charge of Manchester United in November, only Southampton (6) have lost more games among Premier League sides in all competitions than their five. Teething. — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) Liverpool once again produced their title credentials to close out Boxing Day with a 3-1 comeback win over visiting Leicester City. André Ayew had set the Foxes off early with a goal in the 6th minute, but strikes just on either side of the interval from Cody Gakpo and Curtis Jones sealed all three points for the Reds before Mohamed Salah put the final touches on proceedings. Player of the Day 🔥 Former Arsenal starlet Alex Iwobi may have gifted a late present to his former employers after a sensational display from the Nigerian international aided in Fulham's 2-1 upset win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Alex Iwobi for Fulham vs. Chelsea: ◉ Most passes in final third (23) ◉ Most duels won (8) ◉ Most successful take-ons (4) ◉ Most chances created (4) ◉ Most fouls won (3) — Squawka Live (@Squawka_Live) Playing arguably the best football of his career since his move to Craven Cottage, Iwobi produced an all-action display in the London Derby to give the Blues a moment of pause on their potential title march, leaving the door open for the Gunners to climb up to second in the table should the win against Ipswich tomorrow. Stat of the Day 📊 Football is a funny old game, and sometimes, the gods set out to teach you a lesson in humility. For Manchester City star Erling Haaland, that lesson has been a rather harsh one surrounding the club's massive slump in form under Pep Guardiola as the season trods on. Since the club's 1-1 draw against Arsenal earlier this campaign, the Norwegian goalscoring machine has broken down in front of goal, while missing 11 clear-cut chances along the way. Since Manchester City's 2-2 draw with Arsenal, Erling Haaland has missed more clear-cut goalscoring opportunities (11) than any other Premier League player. 🫠 Stay humble, eh? — WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) If City are to get back to their best at least guarantee Champions League football next season, Haaland may have to humble himself just enough to re-fire himself in the new year. What this means Liverpool head into Sunday with a seven-point clear over Chelsea as things stand, with Arsenal now capable of jumping up to second depending on their result tomorrow. How does that look, Liverpool fans? 🔝 — Premier League (@premierleague) Nottingham Forest temporarily sits third after their win over Tottenham, Newcastle United moves up to fifth while level on points with Bournemouth in sixth, both of whom now sit ahead of Manchester City in seventh. Fulham are up to eighth after leapfrogging Aston Villa (9th), while Spurs, West Ham, Manchester United, and Crystal Palace all remain in the bottom half of the table. Wolves are officially out of the bottom three thanks to their win, while all three promoted clubs now find themselves in the relegation places. What they said 🗣 Manchester City manager remained in a defiant mood despite the frustrating result against the Toffees, claiming "The team played really good. I don't know how many shots we had on goal. They scored a goal at the end." "We were very patient. We make crosses and crosses. I think we were very patient." PEP 💬 The team played really good. I don't know how many shots we had on goal. They score a goal at the end. We were very patient. We make crosses and crosses. I think we were patient. That’s the momentum of the season and run we are in. It takes more time to make it work. — Manchester City (@ManCity) was far from happy with VAR after seeing Jhon Durán questionably sent off during Villa's 3-0 defeat at Newcastle, stating "I can accept maybe the other team asking for a red card, okay. But VAR please, and confirm it because the punishment now is three matches." took to his media duties after Chelsea's late defeat against Fulham and offered a pointed answer regarding the unexpected absence of Noni Madueke, stating only that it was a "technical decision" that saw the England winger completely out of the squad. Manchester United boss looked for the positives after the Red Devils fell to a 2-0 defeat at Wolves. "I think the good thing is we were near the goal, even with 10 men. That is a good thing, but we lost. It’s so tough to win games in this league with 11 men. With 10 men, it’s more difficult. We have to focus on that.” What's next? 👀 A mid-table clash between Brighton and Brentford could prove to be entertaining as Fabian Hürzeler locks horns with Thomas Frank at the Amex before Arsenal hopes to climb into second place as Mikel Arteta's Gunners look to secure all three points against visiting Ipswich. 📸 PAUL ELLIS - AFP or licensors
Akola: Five persons suffered minor injuries after a private bus carrying 49 persons fell off a bridge into a dry riverbed in Akola district of Maharashtra on Thursday evening, police said. The incident occurred around 7 pm on the bridge over Bhikund river in Balapur taluka, they said. “The private bus was going from Bhusawal (in Jalgaon district) to Washim when it fell off the bridge. A total of 49 passengers were travelling in it and five of them suffered minor injuries. Fortunately, there was no loss of life in the incident,” a police official said. The driver lost control and the vehicle fell into the dry riverbed due to the absence of a guardrail on the bridge. Soon after being alerted, local citizens rushed to the spot. The police and other authorities carried out a rescue operation with their help, he said. The injured passengers were later admitted to a government hospital in the district, the official said.WASHINGTON , Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) CEO David Goeckeler has been elected Chair of the SIA Board of Directors . SIA represents 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry by revenue and nearly two-thirds of non-U.S. chip firms. " We are thrilled to welcome our new chair for 2025, David Goeckeler of Western Digital," said SIA President and CEO John Neuffer . "David possesses years of experience in the technology and semiconductor industries, and is an outstanding advocate for our work. He will be a fantastic leader of the SIA Board of Directors in 2025." Over more than four decades, Goeckeler has focused on innovating and growing industries ranging from semiconductors to global networking to enterprise software. As CEO of Western Digital, Goeckeler has led the company's transformation as a leading data storage producer in the industry. Prior to this, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Networking and Security Business, after starting his career at Bell Laboratories. Goeckeler was recently appointed Chairman of the U.S. Chamber's U.S.-Japan Business Council (USJBC). "Semiconductor innovation is the transformative backbone of everything from the smartphone in your pocket to hyperscale cloud infrastructure to artificial intelligence that uplift society and improve our quality of life," said Goeckeler . "As we grow our industry, the role of effective government policies is more crucial now than ever to accelerate innovation and expansion in this sector. Through partnership with my colleagues on the SIA Board, I look forward to strengthening our shared industry priorities in Washington and around the world." Media Contact Dan Rosso Semiconductor Industry Association 240-305-4738 drosso@semiconductors.org About SIA The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is the voice of the semiconductor industry, one of America's top export industries and a key driver of America's economic strength, national security, and global competitiveness. SIA represents 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry by revenue and nearly two-thirds of non-U.S. chip firms. Through this coalition, SIA seeks to strengthen leadership of semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research by working with Congress, the Administration, and key industry stakeholders around the world to encourage policies that fuel innovation, propel business, and drive international competition. Learn more at www.semiconductors.org . View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/western-digital-ceo-david-goeckeler-elected-chair-of-semiconductor-industry-association-302313650.html SOURCE Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo was available for the Milwaukee Bucks against the Washington Wizards Saturday night after missing one game with swelling in his left knee. Antetokounmpo sat out the Bucks' 106-103 NBA Cup victory at Miami on Tuesday. The two-time MVP had been listed as probable with tendinopathy in his right patellar tendon. “He's good,” Bucks coach Doc Rivers said before the game. Antetokounmpo entered Saturday as the league's leading scorer at 32.4 points per game. He ranked fifth in rebounds (11.9) and 20th in assists (6.4). ___ AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba The Associated Press
Advisors Asset Management Inc. cut its stake in shares of Lyft, Inc. ( NASDAQ:LYFT – Free Report ) by 12.4% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 8,302 shares of the ride-sharing company’s stock after selling 1,180 shares during the period. Advisors Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Lyft were worth $106,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Primecap Management Co. CA lifted its holdings in Lyft by 1.5% in the second quarter. Primecap Management Co. CA now owns 6,256,080 shares of the ride-sharing company’s stock valued at $88,211,000 after acquiring an additional 94,710 shares during the period. Bank of New York Mellon Corp raised its position in Lyft by 39.5% in the second quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 2,870,599 shares of the ride-sharing company’s stock worth $40,475,000 after acquiring an additional 812,926 shares during the period. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board raised its holdings in Lyft by 11.7% in the 2nd quarter. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board now owns 1,601,400 shares of the ride-sharing company’s stock worth $22,580,000 after purchasing an additional 167,400 shares during the period. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD grew its holdings in Lyft by 592.3% during the first quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 1,424,349 shares of the ride-sharing company’s stock valued at $27,562,000 after purchasing an additional 1,218,620 shares during the period. Finally, National Bank of Canada FI increased its position in Lyft by 27,739.2% in the second quarter. National Bank of Canada FI now owns 1,192,910 shares of the ride-sharing company’s stock worth $16,665,000 after buying an additional 1,188,625 shares in the last quarter. 83.07% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of research analysts recently issued reports on LYFT shares. UBS Group boosted their price objective on Lyft from $13.00 to $18.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Truist Financial upped their price target on shares of Lyft from $13.00 to $20.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. TD Cowen raised their price objective on shares of Lyft from $16.00 to $18.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Roth Mkm upped their target price on shares of Lyft from $13.00 to $16.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group raised their price target on Lyft from $18.00 to $22.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Twenty-eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nine have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $17.55. Lyft Trading Up 1.0 % LYFT stock opened at $17.36 on Friday. Lyft, Inc. has a twelve month low of $8.93 and a twelve month high of $20.82. The stock has a market capitalization of $7.20 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -108.50, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.98 and a beta of 2.04. The company has a quick ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.88. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $14.70 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $13.61. Lyft ( NASDAQ:LYFT – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 6th. The ride-sharing company reported $0.29 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.09. Lyft had a negative net margin of 1.19% and a negative return on equity of 1.58%. The company had revenue of $1.52 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.44 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted ($0.02) EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 31.6% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts anticipate that Lyft, Inc. will post 0.08 earnings per share for the current year. Insider Activity In other news, insider Lindsay Catherine Llewellyn sold 4,242 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, November 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.76, for a total transaction of $75,337.92. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 755,847 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $13,423,842.72. The trade was a 0.56 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link . Also, CAO Lisa Blackwood-Kapral sold 9,081 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $18.02, for a total transaction of $163,639.62. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 332,243 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,987,018.86. The trade was a 2.66 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 19,990 shares of company stock valued at $317,333. 3.07% of the stock is currently owned by insiders. Lyft Company Profile ( Free Report ) Lyft, Inc operates a peer-to-peer marketplace for on-demand ridesharing in the United States and Canada. It operates multimodal transportation networks that offer access to various transportation options through the Lyft platform and mobile-based applications. The company's platform provides a ridesharing marketplace, which connects drivers with riders; Express Drive, a car rental program for drivers; and a network of shared bikes and scooters in various cities to address the needs of riders for short trips. 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Ohio State police said in a statement “multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray.” Ohio State police will investigate the fight, according to the statement. After the Ohio State players confronted their bitter rivals at midfield, defensive end Jack Sawyer grabbed the top of the Wolverines' flag and ripped it off the pole as the brawl moved toward the Michigan bench. Eventually, police officers rushed into the ugly scene. Ohio State coach Ryan Day said he understood the actions of his players. “There are some prideful guys on our team who weren't going to sit back and let that happen,” Day said. The two Ohio State players made available after the game brushed off questions about it. Michigan running back Kalel Mullings, who rushed for 116 yards and a touchdown, didn't like how the Buckeyes players involved themselves in the Wolverines' postgame celebration. He called it “classless.” “For such a great game, you hate to see stuff like that after the game," he said in an on-field interview with Fox Sports. “It’s just bad for the sport, bad for college football. But at the end of the day, you know some people got to — they got to learn how to lose, man. ... We had 60 minutes, we had four quarters, to do all that fighting.” Michigan coach Sherrone Moore said everybody needs to do better. “So much emotions on both sides," he said. "Rivalry games get heated, especially this one. It’s the biggest one in the country, so we got to handle that better.” ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballNone
NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Chris Mubiru had 13 points to lead Northwestern State to a 71-58 victory over North Alabama on Sunday. Mubiru finished 5 of 6 from the field for the Demons (3-4). Jerald Colonel scored 12 points and added six rebounds. Landyn Jumawan had 12 points with two 3-pointers. Jacari Lane finished with 14 points to lead the Lions (4-3). Will Soucie added 13 points and Canin Jefferson scored nine. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
Fine Gael won 35 seats in the 2020 election, but 18 of those TDs did not seek re-election in Friday’s poll. An exit poll puts the party’s support at 21%, a fraction of a percentage behind the main opposition party Sinn Fein. Mr Harris, the outgoing Taoiseach, was elected with 16,869 first preference votes, well above the quota. He celebrated with his wife Caoimhe, his parents Bart and Mary, his sister Gemma and his political team at the count centre in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Ahead of his re-election, Mr Harris told reporters he was “cautiously optimistic” about the election result and said it was “clear that my party will gain seats”. “It’s also clear that Fine Gael will top the poll in at least 10 constituencies, many more than we did the last time, that we will gain seats in constituencies where we haven’t had seats in many years, like Tipperary South and Waterford, and that we will add second seats in other constituencies as well,” he said. “I think the people of Ireland have now spoken. We now have to work out exactly what they have said, and that is going to take a little bit of time.” In one of the five consecutive broadcast media rounds he did from the Greystones count centre, he said there were a lot of areas where there were “straight shoot-outs” between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael for final seats. He described the Sinn Fein vote as “pretty significantly down”, the Fianna Fail vote as “marginally down” and the Fine Gael vote as “static” compared with its 2020 vote. He said it was “a very close, a very competitive election” and that “we haven’t seen a Sinn Fein surge or anything like it”. He said: “It was predicted by many that I would become the Taoiseach for a brief period of time, take over from Leo Varadkar, and then have to rebuild my party from the opposition benches as Sinn Fein led a government. “We don’t know what’s going to happen on government formation yet, but that is now looking less likely than it was.” He acknowledged that it was “a very difficult day” for the Green Party and paid tribute to their work in the coalition government, alongside his party and Fianna Fail. “Definitely, politics in Ireland has gotten much more fragmented,” he said. Fine Gael minister Helen McEntee said that her party’s campaign had been “positive”. “The feeling on the doors was very much that people were relatively happy with the government,” she said on RTE Radio. “It will come down to the last seats and it will come down to transfers,” she said of the final result, adding that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were performing better than the exit poll estimated.