By NewsPress Now WEEKEND OF DEC. 21-22 & HOLIDAY SERVICES FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — OLD BENNINGTON Sunday service at 11 a.m. at Vermont’s Colonial Shrine in Old Bennington. Visit the church’s website at www.oldfirstchurchbenn.org for more information and link for online viewing of the service. Rev. Kenneth Clarke minister. The church is open to the
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By Sportradar FG FT Reb MIAMI Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Highsmith 27:05 3-6 0-0 0-3 0 5 9 Jaquez Jr. 30:30 4-9 4-4 2-4 4 2 15 Adebayo 35:13 2-10 0-0 3-9 7 4 4 Herro 32:03 8-17 1-1 0-3 2 1 20 Robinson 17:52 0-3 0-0 0-2 1 2 0 Burks
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By DICK SCANLON – Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Herro hit a 19-foot jumper with 0.5 seconds left Thursday night to give the Miami Heat an 89-88 win over the Orlando Magic. Jalen Suggs, who scored 29 points for the Magic, missed a long jumper at the buzzer. Herro finished with 20 points
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel’s “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The move follows
Continue Reading By Sportradar FG FT Reb OKLAHOMA CITY Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Dort 34:32 5-13 0-0 3-7 0 3 13 Jal.Williams 35:30 8-22 2-2 0-4 5 2 20 Hartenstein 34:28 3-6 5-8 2-13 1 2 11 Gilgeous-Alexander 37:59 15-22 11-11 0-7 8 2 45 Wallace 29:52 1-5 0-0 0-2 1 3 2 Joe
Continue Reading By Sportradar OKLAHOMA CITY (120) Dort 5-13 0-0 13, Jal.Williams 8-22 2-2 20, Hartenstein 3-6 5-8 11, Gilgeous-Alexander 15-22 11-11 45, Wallace 1-5 0-0 2, Jay.Williams 1-3 0-0 3, Jones 0-1 1-2 1, K.Williams 4-6 0-0 9, Joe 2-8 0-0 5, Mitchell 4-5 0-1 9, Wiggins 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 44-95 19-24 120. INDIANA (114)
Continue Reading By Sportradar MIAMI (89) Highsmith 3-6 0-0 9, Jaquez Jr. 4-9 4-4 15, Adebayo 2-10 0-0 4, Herro 8-17 1-1 20, Robinson 0-3 0-0 0, Jovic 3-8 0-0 8, Ware 1-4 0-0 2, Burks 4-5 6-7 17, Christopher 0-0 0-0 0, Rozier 6-14 1-2 14. Totals 31-76 12-14 89. ORLANDO (88) Queen 4-8 0-0 8,
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By HUIZHONG WU – Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The order came from the top. China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again. He ordered local governments to prevent future “extreme cases.” The attacks, where drivers mow down people on foot or knife-wielding assailants
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB – Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in the fighting in Russia’s Kursk region and facing logistical difficulties as a result of Ukrainian attacks, Ukraine’s military intelligence said Thursday. The intelligence agency, known under its acronym GUR, said Ukrainian strikes near Novoivanovka inflicted heavy casualties
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By ROB MAADDI – AP Pro Football Writer Eagles coach Nick Sirianni and Commanders tight end Zach Ertz cleared the air after they exchanged words following Washington’s comeback win over Philadelphia on Sunday. Videos show Ertz gave Sirianni a high-five as they were headed in opposite directions. Sirianni turned to say something to Ertz, who
Continue Reading By The Associated Press BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Governors Challenge= Spring Mills 84, Walt Whitman, Md. 53 Some high school basketball scores provided by Scorestream.com, https://scorestream.com/
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By ROB GILLIES – Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Two top Canadian Cabinet ministers are visiting Palm Beach to talk border security and trade with the incoming Donald Trump administration as Trump threatens tariffs on all Canadian products. New Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will be in Palm Beach, Florida on
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER – Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman who says she was raped by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in her lawsuit against the rap moguls, a judge ruled Thursday. In her written order, Judge Analisa Torres also chastised the lawyer
Continue ReadingBy JEFF REINITZ – Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa (TNS) WATERLOO — Authorities are asking the public’s help in locating a woman who fled from a residential facility where she was serving time for firing a gun in 2020. D’Iona Asia Marie Wilson-Bass, 21, failed to report back to the Waterloo Women’s Center for Change on
Continue ReadingBy JEFF REINITZ – Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa (TNS) CEDAR FALLS — A Denver caregiver has been arrested for allegedly using her Cedar Falls clients’ credit cards for personal expenses. Cedar Falls police arrested Rachael Lynn Nicklaus, 38, on Dec. 20 for three counts of felony dependent adult abuse, two counts each of identity theft
Continue ReadingBy Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa (TNS) WATERLOO — Waterloo Community Schools has named Charletta Sudduth director of equity, inclusion and belonging effective July 1. She will succeed Gina Weekley, who is relocating out of state with her family. Weekley will hold the position through June. Sudduth currently serves as the district’s pre-K administrator. That role
Continue ReadingBy MARIA KUIPER – Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa (TNS) TRIPOLI — A natural sanctuary now looks like a graveyard after bird flu has spread through its waterfowl. Sweet Marsh bird flu 02 Dead trumpeter swans litter the ice of Sweet Marsh in Bremer County. Sweet Marsh, a wetland northeast of Tripoli, welcomes Canada geese, trumpeter
Continue ReadingBy Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa (TNS) Each December, Courier reporters look back at their favorite stories of the past year. We ask them to pick their favorites: not necessarily the biggest stories of the year, just the ones they found most interesting. Here are some of Andy Milone’s favorite Cedar Valley stories of 2024. Some
Continue Reading By The Associated Press GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL= Some high school basketball scores provided by Scorestream.com, https://scorestream.com/
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Continue Reading By The Associated Press BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Keene 52, St. Thomas Aquinas 44 Winnacunnet 57, Spaulding 46 Some high school basketball scores provided by Scorestream.com, https://scorestream.com/
Continue ReadingBy NewsPress Now New York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage ALBANY, N.Y. | Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law requires companies responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to
Continue ReadingBy Eduardo Castillo – The Wichita Eagle (TNS) Dec. 26—A man and a cat were killed Christmas night when a duplex in Derby caught on fire. Officials have not yet released the identity of the man, who was in his 70s. He lived in the duplex with one other person, who wasn’t home at the
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Eldridge – The Wichita Eagle (TNS) Dec. 26—The Wichita State men’s basketball team is the best in the country at something it seemingly has no control over. No team can boast a better free-throw defense through Christmas than the Shockers, who rank No. 1 nationally with opponents shooting just 58.2% at the foul
Continue ReadingBy St. Joseph News-Press, Mo. (TNS) Dec. 26—The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that two individuals are injured and one is dead after a two-vehicle crash in Doniphan County, Kansas, on Christmas day. According to the KHP report at approximately 8:41 a.m. on Dec. 25, one vehicle was driving north on Kansas Highway Seven while the
Continue Reading By Sportradar Pittsburgh 2 10 11 7 7 3 2 2 2 0 — 46 Toledo 6 14 0 10 7 3 2 2 2 2 — 48 First Quarter TOL_Torres 2 pass from Gleason (Cunanan kick), 11:42. Second Quarter PITT_Reid 3 run (Sauls kick), 14:56. PITT_FG Sauls 57, 11:12. TOL_Vandeross 67 pass from Gleason
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By Associated Press Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street Thursday, as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell less than 0.1% after spending the day wavering between small gains and losses. The tiny loss ended the benchmark index’s three-day winning streak.
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By The Associated Press Americans still dreaming of a really big Christmas present can keep that dream alive during Friday’s Mega Millions drawing for a jackpot worth an estimated $1.15 billion. Friday’s jackpot will potentially be the fifth largest in the game’s history. Mega Millions tickets are $2 a piece. But the odds of winning
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By Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering rings could be around 4.5 billion years old just like Saturn, a Japanese-led team
Continue ReadingBy Associated Press BANGKOK — China’s economy grew a bit more in 2023 than earlier thought, but the revision has not affected forecasts for “about 5%” growth in the GDP this year, the government said Thursday. The estimate for total economic activity, or GDP, in 2023 for the world’s second largest economy was increased by
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