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How maybe British army people are moving to Virginia.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has issued a disaster proclamation for the city to assist residents recovering from the storms and flooding that swept the Chicago area earlier this month. A round of weekend storms followed by another wave of heavy rains affected thousands across Chicago and the suburbs between Aug. 16 and 19. A disaster proclamation allows the city to pursue “all available resources” to assist communities and residents in their recovery efforts, the Office of Emergency Management & Communications (OEMC) said in a news release Tuesday evening.

If you believe the Chicago Bears won the offseason — a competition loosely run between January and June — anticipation for how they will fare when things really matter should be peaking with the regular season nearly here. The club completed moves to establish an initial 53-man roster on Tuesday, and now attention turns to the Sept. 8 season opener against the Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field. If the Bears are going to climb their way out of the NFC North cellar and eventually challenge in the division on a year-in and year-out basis, Caleb Williams will have to blossom as the quarterback the organization envisions him becoming. First, the Bears will have to be much better on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Their play last season — when they allowed a league-high 68 sacks, ranked 28th in run defense and had a pass rush that ranked 16th with 40 sacks but never seemed consistent — should have been an affront to personnel men who believe in building a roster from the inside out.

Following a dramatic confrontation with a state trooper, a man who works for the City of Boston as a graffiti remover was arrested on gun charges, according to court records. During a traffic stop, the trooper dove headfirst into the man’s car when he tried to drive away, and the pair shocked each other with a Taser during the conflict, records show. The incident played out on Old Colony Avenue and Preble Street in South Boston on July 30 and was recorded on Trooper Matthew Hickey’s body-worn camera and the camera installed on his cruiser, according to court records. The confrontation ended with the arrest of Nasiru T. Ibrahim, 25, of Norwood, on 12 charges, including illegal possession of a machine gun, based on the alleged recovery of a Glock 9mm pistol outfitted with a switch, turning the weapon into a fully automatic machine gun. In the car, wrapped in a sweatshirt, Hickey found the Glock loaded with 13 bullets and the switch, according to court records. Ibrahim did not have a license to carry the handgun, Hickey wrote.

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There are so many injuries in the preseason.

Two running backs participated in practice: D’Andre Swift and Brittain Brown — and there is no certainty that Brown will make the team. Injuries have ravaged the group. Roschon Johnson (foot), Travis Homer (calf) and Kyle Monangai (unknown) all missed the preseason finale in Kansas City as well as Monday’s practice.

Issue - Can there be a community property home loan?
Rule - I guess the home owner can live in the house but part of the house is communally owned.
Analysis - Maybe that is a psychological burden.
Conclusion - It's an illegal bank lending scheme.

Issue - Is the contract too complicated to understand?
Rule - If it's too hard then the lender gets out of the contract.
Analysis - I wonder what will happen with these home loans.
Conclusion - The contracts are too hard to read.

After a nearly five-year legal battle, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled that BlueHub Capital, a Roxbury nonprofit, violated predatory lending statutes and other lending laws in its mission to help distressed homeowners stay in their homes. In a statement, BlueHub wrote it “strongly disagrees with the Court’s ruling” the nonprofit violated the law, and that it “plans to appeal on those issues at the appropriate time.” The ruling resolved central arguments in the case, but left the resolution of relief and damages, among other questions, for a trial at a yet-to-be-determined date. The 58-page ruling, filed in Suffolk Superior Court Friday, presents a difficult political question for Governor Maura Healey, who has defended BlueHub and her friend and donor chief executive Elyse Cherry. In 2024, Healey signed a bill that exempts BlueHub from the state’s consumer protection laws — legislation that Chief Justice of the Superior Court Michael D. Ricciuti also ruled was not retroactive and did not apply to this case. A spokesperson for Healey did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The legal fight centers on a program under which BlueHub buys properties from banks that are foreclosing on the homeowners, then resells them to the original owners. As part of the deal under the program known as BlueHub SUN, the homeowners take on what is known as a shared appreciation mortgage — a relatively rare type of real estate loan that entitles BlueHub to a portion of any increase in the home’s value when the homeowner sells or refinances the property. A group of Massachusetts homeowners sued BlueHub Capital in 2020, alleging the nonprofit engaged in “predatory lending.”

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They wanted Volpe to play well because of the rivalry.

With Anthony Volpe now nearing the end of his third big league season, the only thing consistent about his game is the length the Yankees will go to defend it. After going 0-for-3 with a strikeout in Friday’s 1-0 loss to Boston, Volpe — prone to short-lived highs and prolonged lows — is now 7-for-his-last-56 (.125). He is hitting .209 with a .679 OPS and an 87 wRC+ on the season, while his career numbers were .211, .667 and 86 entering prior to Friday’s game.

Previously, players that teams wished to start the season on IR with a chance to return had to be carried on the initial 53-man roster before they could be moved to IR. Defensive end Austin Booker, who led the league with four sacks in preseason, is another possibility.

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Каждый день я говорю по-русски.
Every day I speak Russian.

В Балтиморе есть люди из Минска.
In Baltimore there are people from Minsk.

Вероятно, они преступники.
Likely they are criminals.

TAMPA, Fla. — Shilo Sanders was ejected from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason game against the Buffalo Bills for throwing a punch at Zach Davidson in the second quarter Saturday night. Sanders, the son of Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders, is battling for a roster spot after going undrafted out of Colorado, where he played for his father. He also was penalized for pass interference earlier in the game.

An NYPD officer driving a squad car fatally struck a man who was lying in the roadway on Saturday near the USTA National Tennis Center in Queens. The officer, who was driving a marked NYPD police car, was traveling just 10 mph heading west on United Nations Ave. South when she collided with the unidentified man, who was lying on the ground around 4:39 p.m. inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Flushing, cops said. EMS transported the victim to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital where he died. The officer who was driving the NYPD squad car stayed at the scene. The NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the incident. The accident scene was about one-third of a mile from the U.S. Open, which starts Sunday.

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How could they have not seen the detective?

An NYPD detective was shot and wounded by another officer as he tried to stop a repeat felon on a carjacking spree in Queens Friday morning, police said. Detective Corey Fisher, a Queens South narcotics cop, was shot in the leg and arm during the clash on 21st Road near the Whitestone Expressway Service Road in Whitestone around 8:50 a.m., after the crook with a long rap sheet had stolen a Toyota Highlander from an Uber driver. During the heated moments that followed, three cops from the 109th Precinct opened fire on Dubuisson, officials said. Bullets missed the carjacker, but hit the detective, who was with his fellow narcotics officers in front of the Highlander. “It was a crossfire incident,” Kenny said. It was not immediately disclosed how many rounds were fired. No firearm was found at the scene, officials said.

I think he's wanting to sell the files.

WASHINGTON — The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security advisor John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said. Bolton, who emerged as an outspoken critic of President Trump after being fired in 2019 and fought with the first Trump administration over a scathing book he wrote documenting his time in the White House, was not in custody Friday and has not been charged with any crimes, said the person who was not authorized to discuss the investigation by name and spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

I wonder if Caleb Williams shouldn't play in the NFL.

Things got off to an ominous start. Williams fumbled an exchange with receiver Olamide Zaccheaus on his first play from scrimmage. A false start on the next snap sent the offense back even farther before the Bears eventually punted. The second possession didn’t go much better, although the Bears did pick up one first down.

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Out west small businesses can have high quality because the land is cheap to build on.
Here the land is so expensive to build on that small businesses struggle with quality.

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If someone is maybe underperforming, can they just be let go and then can they dispassionately find a new job.

Northwestern has reached a settlement with former football coach Pat Fitzgerald nearly two years after he sued the university for $130 million following his firing amid a team hazing scandal. Fitzgerald announced the settlement Thursday through a statement via his attorneys, saying he had resolved his claims of breach of contract, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress with the university to his satisfaction. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. “Though I maintain Northwestern had no legal basis to terminate my employment for cause under the terms of my employment agreement, in the interest of resolving this matter and, in particular, to relieve my family from the stress of ongoing litigation, Northwestern and I have agreed to a settlement,” Fitzgerald said. Northwestern fired Fitzgerald on July 10, 2023, saying at the time that 11 current or former football players had acknowledged hazing that included “forced participation, nudity and sexualized acts of a degrading nature.”

The Chicago Plan Commission approved on Thursday a plan by a veteran developer to plant a 26-story hotel several blocks south of the Obama Presidential Center, now under construction in Woodlawn. The $100 million tower at 6402 S. Stony Island Ave. will fill in vacant lots, provide badly needed jobs to Woodlawn residents, and help ensure some of the money spent by the Obama center’s thousands of annual visitors stays in the community, said Allison Davis, the lawyer and developer who has owned the property for years. “They’ve got to stay somewhere, because they will come from all over the country and the world to see this magnificent addition to the South Side,” Davis told commission members. “What I’m trying to do is go places other people don’t go and make the neighborhood better, and this is certainly an example of that.” Construction crews broke ground on the 19-acre Obama center campus in Jackson Park on the 6000 block of Stony Island Avenue in 2021, and will complete the work by next spring. Davis was senior partner and co-founder of the law firm today known as Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where Barack Obama began his legal career.

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I think she should lose her law license.

PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Peter Neronha has not made a decision on whether to fire a prosecutor who told a police officer “you’re going to regret this” as he arrested her in Newport last week, his office said Wednesday. In a radio interview Tuesday, Neronha said he was still weighing his decision, which would include a “strong, strong sanction” for Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who was arrested for trespass on Aug. 14. Through a spokesperson, Neronha declined an interview with the Globe Wednesday.

Two construction workers who contracted Legionnaires’ disease while on the job in Harlem are suing over what attorney and civil rights activist Ben Crump called a “preventable outbreak” that has already killed five people and sickened more than 100 others. The pair of lawsuits filed on Wednesday specifically take aim at Rising Sun Construction and Skanska USA Building, two companies that allegedly managed construction projects at and near Harlem Hospital. Nuncio Quinto — a Long Island resident and union electrician for a subcontractor working under Skanska — alleged in his suit that the company had been aware the threat of an outbreak loomed over their worksites.

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Три человека. Женщина, ресторан, полиция.
Three people. A woman, the restaurant, the police.

Ресторан — это преступник.
The restaurant is the criminal.

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PROVIDENCE – Just before she was arrested outside a Newport restaurant last week, a Rhode Island special assistant attorney general repeatedly informed officers about her job as a state prosecutor, and told them to shut off a body-worn camera. “I want you to turn your body cam off,” Devon Flanagan tells an officer during the confrontation on Thursday, video recorded by the camera and obtained by the Globe shows.

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, 34, was arrested in Newport on Thursday for trespassing, according to the attorney general's office. Police responded to a call from a restaurant late that night "to investigate the report of an unwanted party," according to the arrest report.
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In January 2024, Chávez was arrested in Los Angeles on charges of felony gun possession charges after police said they found him in possession of two AR-style ghost rifles, according to ESPN and the Los Angeles Times. He pleaded not guilty to the gun possession charges and agreed to enter a residential treatment program, according to those reports.

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Issue - (1) Can the arresting officers switch between English and Spanish?
Rule - I guess here they asked Julio if he had contraband in his shoes.
Analysis - What if the cops somehow mistranslate what he says?
Conclusion - I wish the cops would stay with one language.

Issue - (2) If someone in earnest does not expect to be arrested.
Rule - Maybe they didn't inform Julio that he was in the country illegally.
Analysis - He was here at least that week because of the fight with Jake Paul.
Conclusion - Julio was in the country legally when they arrested him.

Also, (3) maybe ghost guns should be better regulated in terms of online sales. (4) That's hard to prove if he's a member of the cartel.

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I guess student athletes as USC.

When they chose to continue their college careers, both USC offensive lineman DJ Wingfield and UCLA wide receiver Kaedin Robinson thought the courts and NCAA had cleared the way for them to play a fifth season of football. USC had told Wingfield as much, offering him $210,000 in NIL to join the Trojans’ offensive line. UCLA, meanwhile, offered Robinson $450,000 to be one of the Bruins’ top wideouts. But after first seeing their waivers rejected in the spring, then suing the NCAA this summer, a U.S. District Court judge has now shut the door on either Wingfield or Robinson suiting up this fall.

And the federal police contracts in New England.

R.I. prosecutor repeatedly tells police to turn off body cameras as she is arrested, saying ‘You’re going to regret this’ A Rhode Island special assistant attorney general who was arrested and charged with trespassing in Newport last week can be seen in body-worn camera video of the incident telling officers she is a prosecutor and asking them to turn off their cameras.

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island special assistant attorney general who was arrested and charged with trespassing in Newport last week can be seen in body-worn camera video of the incident telling officers she is a prosecutor and asking them to turn off their body-worn cameras. Footage of the Aug. 14 encounter obtained by the Globe on Monday also shows Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan telling an officer, “You’re going to regret this,” as she is placed inside a cruiser. Officers arrived around 9:51 p.m. at 24 Bannister’s Wharf – the Clarke Cooke House restaurant – after receiving a report of an intoxicated woman – later identified as Veronica Hannan – refusing to leave, Newport police wrote in a report. A man Hannan was with was also allegedly arguing with staff, police wrote.

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Мне зовут Дона Уелз.
My name is Donna Welles.

В раньше я жила в Санки Петербурге.
In the past I lived in Saint Petersburg.

Сейчас я живу в Вашингтоне.
Now I live in Washington, DC.

Здесь две Украинцы Женщины и мы с ними были в гимназии.
Here there are two Ukrainian women and we were all at the gym.

Они хотели сделать иога урок на улице.
They wanted to do the yoga class outside.

Я думала что нельзя потому что все день я на автобусе и пешком.
I thought oh no! Because all day I'm on the bus and walking around.

Вчера я была в Эрмитаже и Гостиный Дверь.
Yesterday I was at the Hermitage and Gostini Door.
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Мне зовут Дона Уелз. В раньше я жила в Санки Петербурге. Сейчас я живу в Вашингтоне.Здесь две Украинцы Женщины и мы с ними были в гимназии. Они хотели сделать иога урок на улице. Я думала что нельзя потому что все день я на автобусе и пешком. Вчера я была в Эрмитаже и Гостиный Дверь.

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The modeling and pageant worlds are mourning Russian Miss Universe 2017 contestant Kseniya Alexandrova, who has died weeks after an elk crashed through her car’s windshield. The Miss Russia 2017 first runner-up was 30. Alexandrova was also a television host and held a financial degree from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, according to Us Weekly. In 2022 she earned a psychology degree at Moscow Pedagogical State University and began practicing as a psychodrama therapist. The stunning encounter occurred on July 5, as Alexandrova and her husband of four months drove through Tver Oblast, a region about 200 miles northwest of Moscow, Russian news outlet Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported. They were traveling home from the village of Rzhev in their Porsche Panamera — Alexandrova in the passenger seat and her husband at the wheel — when the massive animal leaped directly in front of them on the M-9 highway.

Он ехал на машине далеко от города.
He was driving a car far from the city.

Ksenia is a popular name in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland.

The Battles of Rzhev were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II.

The families had each been so optimistic about the small private school housed in an Oak Park mansion with a castle-like design reminiscent of Hogwarts. The Language and Music School advertised “a year round ‘homeschool in school’ style of education” where children could learn at their own pace, using a curriculum tailored to their needs and interests — a Spanish-immersive alternative to the perceived rigidness of the public school system. Finding it, said one mother, felt like “magic.” Soon, though, five of these families started to ask themselves whether they’d made a mistake. Some parents said their kids had described being left unsupervised or in the care of older students who exposed them to video games the parents felt were too mature.

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An American website lists the players information and you can copy and paste it into a website.

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As you add ingredients what you eat makes you fat.

An electrical worker was badly injured after being electrocuted while working on power lines from a cherry picker in Queens on Friday. The worker, an employee of E-J Electric, was severely electrocuted while in the elevated box of a cherry picker working on power lines at 117th St. and Ninth Ave. in College Point around 11:30 a.m., sustaining burns to the chest and neck, FDNY officials said.

The Indiana State Police is looking for the public’s help to solve an 1984 unsolved murder in Marshall County. Darlene Hulse, then 28, a stay-at-home mom of three girls, was killed in her Argos home on Aug. 17, 1984, by a man who posed as a delivery driver. He forced his way inside just after 9 a.m. Hulse was born in Gary and was a Portage High School graduate, according to newspaper archives.

In a makeshift classroom in a Roseland low-income housing complex, nine women watched nutrition educator Denetria Adams saute a glistening mix of carrots, celery and onion. Tammy Spivey, 60, raised her hand from the back row. “What’s worse, cooking oil or lard?” “Lard,” Adams answered, stirring the steaming mirepoix with practiced ease. “It clogs your arteries.” Across the room, fellow educator Christine Davis jumped in. “We always want to make sure we’re being cognizant of the type of fat that we’re putting into our bodies.” She rattled off a list of healthier alternatives.

Struggling to pay your rent? Need to get paid for rent you are owed? There’s a solution for those issues again after a two-month hiatus: Illinois’ court-based rental assistance program reopened July 31. While the program saw a third of its funds wiped away for the 2026 fiscal year that began July 1, $50 million in state funds are available.

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How Caleb Williams doesn't have an impressive season goal.

Rome Odunze's parents are Necia Bunnell and James Odunze. His father, James, is of Nigerian descent and is a history buff who named Rome after the Roman Empire.

Amen Ogbongbemiga is a Nigerian professional American football linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.

It will be interesting and perhaps revealing whom the Bears run out at left tackle with the starting unit Sunday night. I think early on we were probably 55 (percent). It’s gotten better as camp has gone on, but we haven’t hit that threshold as often as we would like.” Johnson stated the 70% goal at the outset of training camp, noting that if Williams wants to be a top-five quarterback in the NFL he has to reach that mark. It’s worth keeping in mind, as Johnson said himself in late July, that’s “a lofty goal.”

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Jeździ ciężarówką.
He drives a truck.

A contractor is an individual or company that agrees to perform work or provide services according to the terms of a contract.

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A 47-year-old pharmaceutical executive from New Jersey has been charged with aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide and assault by auto in connection with a high-speed, wrong-way crash that killed a former Olympic swimmer. Brick Township resident Brian Baldari is accused of causing the death of 66-year-old Edwin Borja following a multi-vehicle collision in Lakewood in the early hours of March 7. According to Ocean County prosecutors, Baldari was driving more than 100 mph in the wrong direction for roughly 2 miles when the crash occurred on Route 70 shortly before 6 a.m.

In an effort to improve its U.S. News ranking, GW inflated the class ranks of the students it admitted. Late last month, GW found itself at the center of yet another scandal — this one involving a misrepresentation of its admissions process as being “need-blind”, when, it is actually “need-aware”.

George Washington University faced backlash from students and alumni this week as the campus newspaper reported that applicants had been led to believe admissions at the private institution were need-blind. Administration officials acknowledged that some students who had asked for financial aid were put on wait lists merely because they could not afford the total cost of $61,918 to attend the private school.

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Мы хотимся ФДИ в Камден Тоуне?
Do we want foreign direct investment in Camden Town?

Foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a significant, long-term investment made by an entity (individual, company, or government) from one country into a business or enterprise located in another country.

Pharmaceutical company AbbVie announced Tuesday that it will construct a new $195 million facility near its headquarters in North Chicago. AbbVie is one of the largest biomedical companies in the world, ranking just below Pfizer in revenue. The company is known for its production of Humira, a treatment for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s, and Botox. The new facility will be used for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients, the part of a medication that creates the intended effects. That’s in contrast to inactive ingredients, which are ingredients such as dyes or binding agents that do not contribute to the health effects of the medication.

The Bears say they would pay $2 billion, a huge private investment, plus $300 million requested from the NFL. The rest of the $3.2 billion cost of the stadium alone would be paid with $900 million from the state. The team said another $325 million would be needed for infrastructure, including improved road access and utilities as part of up to $1.5 billion for full build-out with extras like a hotel. The public money would be borrowed through bonds issued by the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, or ISFA, which previously financed construction of Guaranteed Rate Field, where the White Sox play, and the 2003 renovation of Soldier Field. The bonds are to be repaid over 40 years by the city’s 2% hotel tax.

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1) The statute of limitations is such that the trials are weird
2) Had I been on the jury I would have voted to acquit
3) The sentence is too long

This other one, there is a teenager filing a lawsuit.

A Cook County judge on Tuesday sentenced a former Chicago Public Schools dean to 22 years in prison for sexually abusing a student while she attended the Little Village high school where he oversaw disciplinary matters. Last month, a jury convicted Brian Crowder, 43, of multiple felony counts after the former student, now a 26-year-old woman, took the stand for hours and testified that he coerced her into a relationship years earlier. After deliberating for around three hours, the panel also acquitted him of three of the seven felony sex charges he faced. The sentencing resolves the criminal case even as attorneys handling a pending lawsuit against Crowder and the school district lambasted CPS officials and employees for allowing the abuse to continue and even, they said, defending Crowder as part of the sentencing hearing.

A Chicago Public Schools student accused the Board of Education in a lawsuit filed Tuesday of failing to run a “thorough” background check on a security guard who had been arrested several times and was later charged with sexually assaulting the girl. The then 43-year-old security guard, Romel Campoverde, was arrested in 2023 and charged with criminal sexual assault of the 15-year-old student at Farragut Career Academy High School in the Little Village neighborhood.

L.A. County prosecutors filed two additional corruption charges this week against City Councilman Curren Price, who already is facing multiple counts of grand theft and perjury, allegedly for voting in favor of projects in which his wife had a financial interest, authorities said Tuesday.

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He agreed to (1) be a spokesman, (2) buy one of the houses, and (3) spend time there in the off season.

The suit accuses Ohtani and Balelo of tortious interference and unjust enrichment. Hayes, a developer with 40 years of experience, and Matsumoto, who was to be the listing agent for the houses averaging $17.3 million each, say that Ohtani and Balelo also tried to undermine their interests in a second, neighboring venture. A spokesman for Balelo’s agency, CAA Baseball, declined comment. Attempts to reach Kingsbarn officials for comment were not immediately successful.

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How Ohtani is under contract with Major League Baseball.

“The tape doesn’t lie,” he said. “It will become clearer and clearer as time goes on that one of those guys is going to separate themselves in the eyes of the decision makers, of Ben, of our front office, of the O-line coaches, of myself. But (it’s an) incomplete evaluation thus far. We still have a lot of football left to play.” Although much of the team didn’t practice, it was notable that offensive tackle Kiran Amegadjie (leg) and interior offensive lineman Bill Murray (ankle) were back on the practice field.

A Hawaii real estate investor and broker are suing Shohei Ohtani, claiming the Dodgers star and his agent got them fired from a $240 million luxury housing development on the Big Island’s coveted Hapuna Coast that they brought him in to endorse. According to the lawsuit filed in Hawaii Circuit Court on Friday, Ohtani’s agent, Nez Balelo, increasingly demanded concessions from developer Kevin J. Hayes Sr. and real estate broker Tomoko Matsumoto before demanding that their business partner, Kingsbarn Realty Capital, drop them from the deal. “Ohtani will act as the celebrity spokesperson for the project and has committed to purchasing one of the 14 residences within the project,” the brochure says. “He also intends to spend significant time at The Vista in the offseason and will construct a small hitting and pitching facility for preseason training.” The suit says the developers spent 11 years working on the deal and “as part of a bold marketing strategy” signed an endorsement deal in 2023 with Ohtani, “one of the most high-profile endorsements imaginable.” “This partnership with Ohtani will elevate the demand and create buzz within the Japanese luxury vacation home market, which is a primary target audience for the project,” the investment brochure said.

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The Chicago people should try to spend less.

Pritzker also during the Sunday morning program defended Illinois’ heavily gerrymandered congressional map, which gave Democrats a 14-3 advantage in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Pritzker noted that the map was done as part of the typical, post-federal census cycle of remapping rather than what Texas Republicans are attempting to do, which is redraw that state’s congressional map in the middle of the decade. Pritzker also said the Illinois map met federal voting rights requirements.

Lake County Councilman Randy Niemeyer wants to launch the Lake County Efficiency Committee ahead of the upcoming budget cycle and the state’s new property tax law. The committee would work toward finding areas for cost reduction, waste elimination and resource optimization, according to the proposal. Its main goal, Niemeyer said, is for the committee to reduce the county’s budget by 20% by June 2026 to be implemented in the 2027 budget cycle.

The Niners finished eleven and six.

Sunday’s game also mattered to Tyson Bagent, who took all of 13 snaps and threw only two passes during the 2024 regular season but was given the opportunity to play the entire first half in the preseason game. “I really just did my job,” he said. “The O-line had great blocking. Tyson threw a great pass. And I made a play when the play was presented. I was just playing football, something I’ve been doing since I was 4 years old. Just trusting my instincts.”

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Ей было 42 года.
She was 42 years old.

Maternal age is a significant factor influencing the likelihood of Down syndrome in a child. The risk of Down syndrome increases with the mother's age, particularly after age 35, according to the Florida Department of Health (.gov).

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If I was on the jury I would vote guilty.

Mens rea, Latin for "guilty mind," refers to the mental state a person must have when committing a crime to be held criminally liable. It's a core concept in criminal law, signifying that a person's actions alone are not enough to be found guilty; there must also be a corresponding guilty mental state.

The couple moved to Arizona so Brady Kiser could pursue work in solar sales, according to a YouTube video Emilie posted in March 2024.

An investigation into the tragic death found Kiser placed a $25 bet with popular sports betting platform DraftKings at 5:14 p.m., 75 minutes before Trigg was spotted outside by a security camera, according to Kiser’s phone data. The wager was for Celtics star Jayson Tatum scoring over 40 points in the game against the Knicks. Kiser was paid out $102.50 after Tatum scored 42 points in the 121-113 loss. Surveillance cameras captured the toddler playing on an inflatable chair around the pool before tripping and falling in the water at 6:32 p.m. Kiser didn’t discover his son unresponsive in the pool until 6:39 p.m. Trigg was pulled out of the water by his father, who called 911 to report the drowning at 6:41 p.m., according to the report.

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Maybe the local cops in Arizona are corrupt. In New York City it seems like the same crime.

The husband of influencer Emilie Kiser allegedly left their 3-year-old son unsupervised for much longer than he claimed as he watched the NBA playoffs, leading to the boy’s drowning in their Arizona backyard pool. According to the Chandler Police Department’s redacted report released Friday, video evidence shows that Emilie’s husband, Brady Kiser, left little Trigg “in the backyard unsupervised for more than 9 minutes” on the evening of May 12. The report states that Trigg — who would have turned 4 in July — was “in the water for about 7 of those minutes.” Brady previously told police that Trigg was only out of his sight for mere moments.

The heartbroken mother and grandmother of 2-year-old Montrell Williams, who drowned after his father allegedly threw him into the East River from a highway overpass, are filing a claim for $60 million against the city and the NYPD for dragging their feet in finding the toddler after his mother reported him missing, they announced at a press conference. Little Montrell’s body was finally recovered from the East River on June 11. Arius Williams has been charged with murder and is being held without bail awaiting trial.

The heat out there.

A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain is facing felony charges following allegations that he faked a work injury and forged doctors’ notes to fraudulently claim thousands of dollars in disability payments, authorities said. Thomas Merryman, 45, allegedly received more than $25,000 in insurance payments for a work injury that could not have taken place because he was not at work, according to the L.A. County district attorney’s office. He allegedly submitted fake paperwork under the name of another fire captain and a physician to Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, allowing him to claim long-term disability payments, prosecutors said.

KNIGHTS LANDING — Though it was not yet noon, the temperature was already inching toward triple digits, and it felt even hotter for the scores of farmworkers hunched in the rows of watermelon plants in this field tucked by a bend in the Sacramento River north of California’s capital. They were clad in long-sleeved shirts, pants, and face coverings to protect their skin from the sun and the tiny spikes on the watermelon vines, and they were stooping and standing over and over again, painstakingly plucking flowers off each plant. Their boss, Jose Chavez, said he tries to be vigilant about the danger of
heat illness, making sure there is plenty of drinking water in the fields and that workers can take breaks in the shade and knock off early on blistering days. It’s a lesson he said he learned the hard way, after having to summon ambulances to the fields in past summers because workers were hobbled by heat stroke.

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