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The AP Interview: Olympics boss vows Paris Games will be safe, says no resignations planned in probe

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — What was shaping up as a regular workday turned out to be anything but for the organizers of France’s first summer Olympic Games in a century.French anti-corruption police raided their bustling Olympic headquarters on the outskirts of Paris, arriving unannounced and accompanied by a magistrate from a French financial crimes prosecution unit that has made a habit of going after sports’ rogues.This time, they were zeroing in on twenty or so of the many hundreds of business contracts that Olympic organizers have signed as they race to prepare the French capital for 10,500 athletes and millions of spectators next year. The investigators were hunting for documents and information as they dig into suspicions of favoritism, conflicts of interest, and misuse of some of the billions of euros (dollars) being sunk into the Paris Games that open July 26, 2024.Tony Estanguet, a former Olympic canoeing star with gold medals from the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Games, was at wor...

Retrial denied for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who says evidence proves he didn’t kill woman

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — An appeals court on Wednesday denied a new trial request from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, whose supporters say there is evidence to back his claims of innocence.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals accepted a 2021 recommendation from a lower court judge, who had ruled against several claims made by Reed, including that he’s not guilty.Despite the ruling, Reed’s execution is not expected anytime soon. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that he should have a chance to argue for testing of crime-scene evidence that he says will exonerate him. The following month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered that additional legal briefs be filed on whether Reed should be granted additional DNA testing.Reed was condemned for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors say he raped and strangled Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southe...

Police release body camera video of an officer killing the gunman who killed 8 at a Texas mall

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police released video footage on Wednesday of an officer killing a neo-Nazi gunman, quickly ending a mass shooting that left eight people dead and seven others wounded at a Dallas-area shopping mall.The edited five-and-a-half-minute video details the final moments of Mauricio Garcia, 33, after he unleashed a rain of bullets from an AR-15-style rifle at the Allen Premium Outlets on May 6.Those killed included three members of a Korean American family including a 3-year-old child, two young sisters, a security guard and an engineer from India. Police haven’t revealed a motive for the attack.The shooting came in a year that has seen an unprecedented pace of mass killings.The footage from a body camera worn by an Allen police officer starts off with the officer telling two children outside the mall to wear their seatbelts and be good.Moments later, the sound of rapid gunfire erupts from the mall. The children and a woman with them run away as the officer radios...

Indiana State Police trooper hit, killed by stolen car during pursuit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana State Police trooper has died after being hit by a suspect's car during a stolen vehicle pursuit on the city's west side.According to ISP officials on scene, the collision occurred around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 70 eastbound near 6 Points Road on the west side of Indianapolis.ISP Master Trooper Nick Klingkammer said that the incident began as a police chase after troopers with ISP's Indianapolis district spotted a stolen car on the city's southwest side. Troopers attempted to pull over the car, but ISP said a pursuit began. Troopers then chased the suspect vehicle to Ronald Reagan Parkway, where one trooper was attempting to deploy stop sticks to stop the car and terminate the pursuit. That trooper was then struck by the suspect vehicle and thrown into the air, according to ISP. The suspect vehicle, Klingkammer said, then crashed after hitting the trooper. Klingkammer said that the injured trooper was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in critical conditi...

Promising new approach finds cancer, delivers therapy all at once

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

New research is offering some hope in the fight against pancreatic cancer.The answer is nuclear medicine. And the power to find cancer and deliver therapy all at the same time. Theranostics, combining therapy and diagnostics, is a promising approach to cancer treatment.While some people fear the idea of using radioactive isotopes as a therapy in the body, Julie Sutcliffe PhD. knows the power for good.“You have a molecule, same molecule with a different piece of radioactivity on it, so one is for imaging for diagnostics, one is for therapy for treatment,” she said. “So theranostics combine the two words together.”After working as a researcher, a troubling scan of her own brought the UC Davis professor to her current life’s mission.“I was diagnosed in 2005 with breast cancer,” she said.Since she needed chemotherapy and radiation to kill her cancer, she knew the side effects.“My breast surgeon happened to be doing pancreatic cancer research,” she said. Fusing a foot bone: A look at t...

Butterball makes donation on behalf of dad's basketball team started after Highland Park shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — In the year since the shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade, a group of neighborhood das got together to talk about the tragedy and bond over basketball.In the morning after the worst day in Highland Park history, David Potocek, a 41-year-old father of five-year-old twins, was standing in his driveway. Chicago Bears gifts boy shot in Highland Park parade shooting special wheelchair "I think a lot of people in the neighborhood couldn't go back to work," Potocek said. "We just kind of took the day off and everybody was just kind of standing out in their yards and people were kind of congregating in my driveway."As the neighbors talked about what they had witnessed at the parade, they were searching for a way to move forward."Then as we were in my driveway, I think I had just gotten a basketball hoop in my driveway, I was like, 'We should start playing basketball," Potocek said.A driveway is both an end and a beginning. The last bit of road that ta...

Canadian fires at the very early stage of the fire season. Chicago dew points to surge; heat in the 90s ahead. "Ring of Fire" pattern to bring storm clusters

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

Insight into the meteorology behind Canada's record fire season—a huge and persistent WARM AIR DOME ALOFT over recent months has boosted temps and limited precip across much of CanadaTHE 30-DAY NORTH AMERICA UPPER AIR ANALYSIS shows the vast pool of abnormally warm air aloft which has lingered so persistently above Canada over the past month. That this is so certainly helps in understanding the meteorological environment which has contributed to Canada's record 2023 wildfire season.Warmer than normal temps aloft over the past 30 days are noted in the regions shaded yellow and red on the NOAA 500 mb. height departure analysis.The first analysis of this UPPER AIR WARMTH over Canada covers the most recent 30-day period. A Twitter post by University of Oklahoma PhD candidate Tomer Burg (https://twitter.com/burgwx) extends our view of warmth aloft over an even longer period of time—all the way from May 1 through June 25th. (It's the second analysis which appears below.)University of Okla...

As sporting director rumors swirl, Austin FC hopes to get better in upcoming transfer window

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With the summer transfer window opening July 5 in Major League Soccer, rumors are swirling about a potential permanent hire for Austin FC's sporting director. On Wednesday, head coach Josh Wolff downplayed them while also acknowledging that the club needs to get someone in there on a permanent basis. After Claudio Reyna stepped down from the role amid controversy over his son Gio's playing time in the 2022 World Cup with United States Men's National Team coach Gregg Berhalter, Sean Rubio was named the interim sporting director. Other duties have also been split up around the front office and coaching staff, including Wolff's interim chief soccer officer title.VERDE LIGHTS: Miss the latest show? Watch the replay on Austin FC's website, but remember to tune in for the next show at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays on The CW AustinItalian soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano reported Wednesday that Rodolfo Borrell, the current assistant manager for European treble winner Man...

Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August meet with Suni Lee

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

Related ArticlesSports | Buck Showalter gets ejected, Mets drop to 8 games under .500 after another loss to Brewers Sports | Future Gophers forward Oliver Moore picked 19th overall by Chicago Blackhawks  Sports | NBA, NBAPA complete and sign new CBA that will run through 2029-30 season Sports | Wild take Rosemount native Charlie Stramel in first round of 2023 NHL Draft Sports | Chicago White Sox’s Liam Hendriks to be honored at ESPYs with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event set for Aug. 5 at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates.Biles has taken most of the last two years off following her eventful stay in Japan in the summer of 2021, where her decision to remove herself from multiple events to focus on her mental health shifted the focus from the ga...

FBI joins manhunt for man accused of killing cousin in northwestern Minnesota

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:53 GMT

PINE POINT, Minn. — The FBI has joined the search for a Becker County murder suspect. Forty-year-old Michael Croud, of Ogema, has been charged with second-degree murder.According to the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, he shot and killed his first cousin, 35-year-old David Hanks, on Sunday night while Hanks sat in the back seat of a car parked outside a Pine Point home.Hanks is survived by a 12-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter.According to a woman who was sitting in the back seat with Hanks, he told her, “It’s Mike, get out of here,” as he saw Croud approaching the car.She said Croud opened the passenger door, reached into the back and shot Hanks several times.“That is something we are still trying to determine. Why this happened and what would be that bad that you would have to do that to someone else,” said Becker County Sheriff Todd Glander.A law enforcement source confirmed with WDAY-TV that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension deploye...