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An investor in DMC Global Inc. (Nasdaq: BOOM) claims in a recently filed class-action lawsuit that key executives at the oilfield-services, construction-products and infrastructure firm intentionally withheld information about potential weakness in its largest business unit, a decision that hurt shareholders when DMC’s stock price plunged this fall after disclosures painted a less-than-rosy picture of DMC’s performance and outlook. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here.
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Avila also had seven rebounds for the Billikens (6-3). Gibson Jimerson added 18 points and seven rebounds. Kalu Anya had 14 points. The Cougars (0-11) were led in scoring by Noble Crawford, who finished with 18 points. Jalen Forrest added 13 points and seven rebounds. Troy McCoy finished with 11 points. Saint Louis took the lead with 13:38 remaining in the first half and never looked back. Avila led their team in scoring with 12 points in the first half to help put them up 41-33 at the break. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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One of Baltimore’s most prominent families was thrust into the spotlight this week, when a son of the clan, Luigi Mangione , was arrested by Pennsylvania police and charged in the Dec. 4 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . Locally active in philanthropy, both via individual donations and through the Mangione Family Foundation, the Mangiones gave millions to Baltimore’s various institutions and nonprofits, including more than $1 million to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and more to the American Citizens for Italian Matters, Baltimore Opera Company and others. Loyola University, which counts Mangione alumni among their ranks, has an aquatic center named after the family, and GBMC previously had a high-risk obstetrics unit, since closed, that bore their name. Their story is a uniquely American one: The Mangiones went from deep poverty to massive wealth in just three generations, with one cousin, Nino Mangione, now a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Despite an eventually deep portfolio of development properties and government contracting for 20 years, the family patriarch, Nicholas Mangione Sr. , said he still faced prejudice for his background when he attempted to buy land to build the Turf Valley Golf and Country Club, now the Turf Valley Resort, in Ellicott City. “Tongues started wagging,” Mangione told The Baltimore Sun in 1995. “People [were] wondering where an unknown Italian could get the money for a $5 million project. In those days, there were no Italians in real visible positions [in Howard County].” Mangione said the implication was that he must have backing from the mob, so he countered sharply. “People thought I needed money from the Mafia to buy this place. They asked me what family I belonged to,” he said. “I told them, ‘I belong to the Mangione family. The Mangione family of Baltimore County.’” The family is now defending its name again. On Monday, members released a statement on social media expressing dismay at Luigi Mangione’s arrest, saying they were stunned by the news. “We only know what we have read in the media. Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest. We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved,” the family wrote . “We are devastated by this news.” The family did not respond to a request for comment via a family attorney or their foundation. How they went from the Depression-era streets of the city’s Little Italy to its philanthropic elite is straight out of a Horatio Alger novel. Nicholas Sr. was born in Baltimore’s Little Italy, and spent his first eight years in a one-room apartment with an outdoor privy, according to a 2008 Sun article. He earlier told The Sun his Italian immigrant father, Louis, could neither read nor write, and worked in the city water department until he died of pneumonia. Today, the Mangione family is a sprawling one, with a business empire to match: Nicholas Sr., made the beginning of the family’s fortunes in the post-World War II years as a bricklayer and contractor . He built up his business holdings throughout the following decades, with his wife, Mary , growing their family to include five sons, five daughters, and 37 grandchildren, including Luigi. The family’s holdings range from construction to commercial real estate to local radio station WCBM-AM and a majority stake in Lorien Health Services, which operates multiple assisted living facilities in Maryland. Aside from the Turf Valley Resort, with its 10,000-square-foot ballroom, 220-room hotel, and 85-seat amphitheater, the Mangiones also own the Hayfields Country Club in Cockeysville and a slew of companies registered in Maryland . Its family foundation had net assets of $4.4M as of its 2022 tax filing , the most recent on record. The Mangione Family Foundation’s stated focus is supporting, “Organizations for any of the following purposes: religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition (as long as it doesn’t provide athletic facilities or equipment), or the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.” Politically, the Mangiones have been active across the aisle. Luigi Mangione’s parents, Louis and Kathleen Mangione donated $35,935 to state and local politicians from 2005 through 2023, according to data from the State Board of Elections. Half went to Nino Mangione ’s campaign account for his state delegate races from 2018 through 2023. Other donations went to Howard County executives Calvin Ball and Ken Ulman, both Democrats, and Allan Kittleman, a Republican, along with additional high-profile candidates of both parties, including former Govs. Martin O’Malley and Robert L. Ehrlich, and former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon. The immense number of Mangiones also was briefly confusing for Baltimoreans on Monday. Aside from Nicholas Sr. and Mary Mangione’s 10 children and 37 grandchildren, city counts at least two other Mangione families, who were briefly inundated with phone calls from the media and queries from former schoolmates and acquaintances. One of Luigi Mangione’s two sisters is a physician at the University of Texas Southwestern, according to her LinkedIn profile. Another sister is a visual artist. Neither sister responded to requests for comment. His mother, Kathleen, comes from a family that owns a funeral home, the Charles S. Zannino Funeral Home in Highlandtown, the Baltimore Fishbowl reported , and now runs a travel agency, KZM Boutique Travel, which had removed its website as of Tuesday evening. His father, Louis was groomed to help take over the family’s business empire, according to a 2003 Washington Post article . Have a news tip? Contact Riley Gutierrez McDermid at rmcdermid@baltsun.com or Frank Gluck at fgluck@baltsun.com.
Houston Texans wide receiver Nico Collins scored a touchdown against the Tennessee Titans in his most recent home game and tossed the ball to a child in the stands pleading for it. On Thursday, Collins told reporters the NFL did not approve and assessed him a fine of about $5,000. "It's for the kids," Collins said. "I seen he was screaming and was thinking, ‘Here you go, big dog. Here's the ball.'" Collins said he was not penalized last season on the handful of occasions he threw a ball into the stands, so he wasn't expecting a fine. But making a child's day was "definitely worth it." The 25-year-old said he plans to appeal the fine, but if it isn't overturned, he'll pay up. "The only thing that matters was making that kid happy," he said. "He ain't never going to forget that moment. So that's all that matters to me." Collins followed up a 92-yard, one-touchdown performance that day against Tennessee with eight receptions for 119 yards last week at Jacksonville. The fourth-year wideout is Houston's leading receiver despite missing five games due to a hamstring injury. He has caught 49 passes for 832 yards and four touchdowns in just eight appearances. --Field Level MediaAustralia needs reliable, affordable sources of low-emission electricity generation to power our economy and people through the 21st century and beyond. All three factors — reliability, affordability and sustainability — are essential. In 2024, no serious person doubts the existential need for the world to pivot away from fossil fuels towards more environmentally-friendly sources of electricity generation. That debate has been done. The climate wars are over, at least in the mainstream. Yet discussion of energy policy in Australia is still beholden to ideology. And there’s one word in this space which sets elements of the Left on edge more than any other. Nuclear. Mere mention of the word sends Labor members into hysterics. Since Peter Dutton announced the Coalition’s policy to transition seven existing coal-fired power stations around the country to nuclear power plants, they’ve lined up to pour scorn. Jake Dietsch “Fantasy”, a “scam”, “economic madness” or the “dumbest policy ever put forward by a major party” are among the invective. The Greens are even more hyperbolic. Leader Adam Bandt invoked Chernobyl and Fukushima as he declared nuclear a “threat to people’s safety” on X. On Friday, the Coalition released costings which they say show going nuclear would cost $260 billion less than Labor’s renewable-heavy energy road map. Anthony Albanese said that was a “fiction”, and that Australians would be lumped with far higher electricity bills under Mr Dutton’s “nuclear nightmare”. He and Energy Minister Chris Bowen are now framing their opposition to nuclear as chiefly economic. Mr Bowen said the assumptions underwriting the modelling contained “fatal errors” which ignored reality. The truth is Labor’s hardline anti-nuclear stance is based on ideology and feeling, not facts. Once upon a time, that fear of nuclear was justified. Now, technology has come a long way, but Labor’s attitudes remain rooted in the Seventies. The Coalition too is guilty of energy fanaticism, having fostered climate scepticism throughout much of the previous two decades. Jessica Page But while our politicians are energy zealots, Australians are largely agnostic about how they get their power — provided it fulfils those three essential factors. A Resolve poll conducted in June found 62 per cent of respondents were supportive of or open to nuclear power as part of Australia’s energy mix. That shows that the debate is there for the taking for whichever side can mount the most convincing argument. Labor’s case hasn’t been helped by early summer blackouts in NSW, which have made people mindful of the need for “always-on” sources of electricity generation, not dependent on the weather. Whether voters will accept the Coalition’s offering, which depends on economic modelling decades into the future — always sketchy at best — is unclear. But whichever way Australians land, they’ll expect decisions to be made on facts, not feelings.
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