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Tyrese Hunter has season-best 23 points, No. 21 Texas routs UNC Greensboro 72-37

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tyrese Hunter had a season-high 23 points and added seven assists to help No. 21 Texas rout UNC Greensboro 72-37 on Friday night.Hunter has averaged 16.3 points in his last four games. On Friday, Hunter was 8 of 12 from the field, including 3 of 4 3-pointers. He committed just one turnover, grabbed six rebounds and spearheaded a defense that limited the Spartans to 29.8% from the field.Hunter said he watched game tape during a week-long holiday break.“Just seeing what I can do better, and it all starts on defense,” Hunter said. “If I go out there and have zero points and just play defense the whole time, whatever it takes to win the game, that’s what I’m going to do.”Kadin Shedrick scored 11 points for Texas (10-2), which shot 47.2% and made 10 of 23 3-pointers. Dillon Mitchell had four blocks, matching a career best for the 6-foot-8 sophomore.Mikeal Brown-Jones, the leading scorer and rebounder for UNC Greensboro (9-4) , missed his fourth straight g...

Police searching for Colorado mother suspected of killing her 2 children

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Police were still searching Friday for a Colorado woman suspected of killing her two young children and wounding a third after police initially responded to a report of a burglary in their home.Kimberlee Singler, 35, was cooperative at first with police investigating the Dec. 19 deaths but then went missing as the probe, which eventually determined the burglary report was unfounded, continued, according to Colorado Springs Police Department spokesperson Ira Cronin. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Police were able to present evidence to obtain a warrant for Singler's arrest on Tuesday but police believe she had already disappeared by then, Cronin said.Singler, who was not under surveillance, was last seen on Saturday in Colorado Springs, he said.“In the initial stages of the investigation, we were treating her as a victim of a burglary,” Cronin said.Kimberlee Singler is wanted on counts of murder in the killings of two of her childre...

Missing North Carolina teenager found in Kentucky man’s bedroom under trap door

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

STANFORD, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky found a missing 16-year-old North Carolina girl under a trap door in the bedroom of a 34-year-old man after the man’s mother called authorities to report a domestic dispute between the two, according to arrest reports.When deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the home on Christmas Day, Zachary Jones told them the girl had fled, but his mother disputed that and deputies began searching to check on her safety, the reports said. She was found “inside a bed room in a cut out door in the floor covered by a rug,” the report said.Deputies later determined that she had been reported missing from Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Dec. 6.The girl told deputies that Jones picked her up after making contact a few weeks earlier and that he originally told her he was 19. When they met and she questioned why he looked older, he told her he was 25, but she found out after getting to his home and meeting his family that...

122 anglers rescued from ice floe in northern Minnesota lake, no injuries reported

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

(CNN) — A total of 122 anglers were successfully rescued from an ice floe that detached from the main ice on a northern Minnesota lake Friday evening, and no injuries were reported.The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office said the fishermen were stranded when an ice floe broke loose from the main ice sheet on Upper Red Lake about 30 feet from shore and were unable to get back to dry land. Authorities were first called just before 5 p.m. CT.While waiting for emergency responders, some bystanders attempted to use a canoe to rescue some of the stranded individuals. During the attempt, four people fell into the water, but were quickly rescued, according to the sheriff’s office.The first four fishermen were then rescued around 6:40 p.m. CT and by 7:37 p.m. all fishermen had made it back to the mainland, the sheriff’s office reported in a Facebook post.“Our first responders have had a lot of practice this year, and it is quite impressive we evacuated 122 people in less than 3 hours ...

Driver arrested after allegedly hitting Lauderhill home on purpose

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

One man’s apparent rage hit home in a Lauderhill neighborhood, landing him behind bars.According to Lauderhill Police, Fabian Campbell drove his car into the front of a house on Northwest 14th Street, Thursday night.Detectives said the suspect, 40, wanted to talk to someone at the home but was not able to, so he returned and crashed into the place.The impact caused structural damage, so the home has been boarded up.Officers placed Campbell under arrest. He has been charged with criminal mischief and projecting a deadly missile into a home.

Crews put out fire at Tamarac apartment building; no injuries

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

Crews were able to put out a fire that ignited at an apartment building in Tamarac.Tamarac Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the blaze in the area of Northwest 64th Avenue and 62nd Street, late Friday afternoon.Firefighters arrived to find a first floor unit engulfed.Residents were able to evacuate safely, as crews worked to put the fire out.Fire officials said the unit above the one where the fire started is not livable, adding that an elderly person was living there.Fortunately, no one was hurt.Investigators are trying to determine what caused the fire.

Greszler: New OT regs could cost workers money, jobs

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

The Biden administration is trying to hike the threshold under which hourly wage work regulations apply by about $25,000 per year. The proposed overtime rule threatens to throw millions of workers out of their salaried jobs and into hourly work, leading to lost flexibility and autonomy, benefit and wage cuts, and job losses.The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that hourly employees be paid 1.5 times their usual rate for any hours worked over 40 in a given week. Employees who receive regular salaries regardless of the hours they work are exempt from overtime requirements so long as they pass a duties test and are paid a minimum salary level.If the rule is finalized, employers who have salaried employees earning between the current threshold of $684 per week ($35,568 per year) and the proposed threshold of $1,158 per week ($60,209 per year) will have to decide whether they will convert them to hourly workers, trade salary increases for benefit cuts or eliminate their jobs. According ...

‘Time Bomb Y2K’ recalls millennium angst

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

As a year ends, HBO’s eerily appropriate documentary “Time Bomb Y2K,” Saturday at 10 and streaming on MAX, looks back at the dawn of the 21st century when a potential technological disaster threatened humanity.“The Y2K computer bug as it was called (even though it wasn’t really a bug),” Marley McDonald explained in a phone interview with her co-director Brian Becker, “was the error coded into our computer programs. Most computers are date sensitive and in the ‘60s at the beginning of computers, they used things called Hollerith cards, which only had 80 digits of information.“To save space on these cards, they dropped the first two digits of the year date. So 1968 became 68. The fear was that when computers switched over from 99 to 00, the computers would think it was 1900 and that would of course throw all our date dependent systems into disarray.“The question was, What does happen? If computers just shut down, do nuclear missiles go off? That technical problem then translated...

Editorial: Don’t give into the gloom about Ukraine

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

Nearly two years ago, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine unified European nations, reinvigorated the trans-Atlantic alliance and forged a spirit of rare bipartisanship in Washington. Now that resolve is fraying.President Joe Biden’s administration and the European Union are struggling to deliver aid for Ukraine’s military and budget, with even some of the country’s staunchest supporters expressing doubts about its battlefield prospects and calling for negotiations to end the war.This frustration is perhaps understandable, but it’s misguided. It ignores the enormous sacrifices Ukraine’s people have made to defend their freedom and push back against Russian aggression — and underestimates the ability of Ukraine’s military to regain the advantage, if given sufficient weaponry. Abandoning the war effort now would wreck the West’s credibility and ultimately endanger the democracies supporting Ukraine’s defense as much as Ukraine itself.It’s true that Ukraine’s forces failed to ad...

Murray: Immigrant voting an affront to democracy

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:01:57 GMT

“The town of Boston,” a 1771 Massachusetts colonial governor complained to his predecessor, “is the source from whence all the other parts of the Province derive more or less troubled water.”The defiant stance of those early whigs, and their cussed purely American determination to create a new nation, could not have foreseen that their sacrifices would eventually produce a public servant such as outgoing Democratic Socialist Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara. Her home rule petition to give noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections seems to treat so much of what we hold sacred in this city of the Freedom Trail as passing fashions for old timers.  Progressives like Lara can’t see that the democratic traditions of Boston shine far brighter than a Revere bowl to the world.Voters are like jurors and their worth and truthfulness to their duty must be vetted. The nascent American republic and its urban centers matured, and found that the best way to govern ourselves was to allow...