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Toronto Sun
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
Is Mitch Marner a good fit for the Vegas Golden Knights?
Newly acquired Golden Knights forward Mitch Marner, left, poses for a photo with his jersey alongside Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon at City National Arena on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. Photo by Chase Stevens / Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of Off The Post, Toronto SUN Sports Columnist Steve Simmons, Postmedia Hockey Columnist Bruce Garrioch, The Province and Vancouver Sun Canucks reporter Patrick Johnston and Postmedia's Rob Wong discuss the biggest storylines on day 1 of NHL free agency, how former Toronto Maple Leaf Mitch Marner will fit into the Vegas Golden Knights lineup, why the Vancouver Canucks were able to re-sign Brock Boeser, what's next for the Ottawa Senators and the impressive work done by Montreal Canadiens GM Kent Hughes. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Ontario Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Maple Leafs Ontario Celebrity
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
World Series of Poker investigating after winner and runner-up at event accused of 'chip dumping'
Attendees pass by signage for the World Series of Poker on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at Paris Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto The World Series of Poker is investigating after the winner and runner-up of a Millionaire Maker event have been accused of collusion. The announcement came after the completion of a $1,500 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas, which finished on Wednesday night. At the final table of the event, which began on June 21, James Carroll held a 9-to-1 chip lead over Jesse Yaginuma. But Yaginuma pulled off a comeback to win the event, earning the first-place prize of $1.26 million. Carroll earned $1 million as the runner-up. Advertisement However, in the wake of the matchup, Yaginuma and Carroll have been accused of engaging in "chip dumping," with viewers speculating that Carroll was intentionally losing hands to increase Yaginuma's stack as part of a prearranged agreement. Throughout the comeback, Yaginuma often won hands by raising or re-raising without Carroll contesting, per ESPN. On Thursday, WSOP released a statement saying that it had opened an investigation. "Last night, we were made aware of a potential breach of the official WSOP Tournament Rules during heads up play in Event 53," the organization wrote. "At this time, 1st and 2nd place have not been confirmed and neither the prize money nor the bracelet have been officially awarded." In other poker tournaments, side deals between players are allowed. But WSOP official rules state that chip-dumping is a form of "collusion," and is considered an "illegal or unethical act." Under WSOP, collusion can result in forfeiture of prize money, ejection from an event, and exclusion from future WSOP events. Advertisement Chip-dumping is usually done with the intention of splitting prize money. Though the difference between Yaginuma and Carroll's prize money was less significant, there was an additional $1 million on the line as a result of an independent promotion run by online poker service ClubWPT Gold. Yaginuma was eligible for the promotion as a result of a previous win; Carroll was not. Yaginuma, speaking with denied that he and Carroll had colluded. If WSOP upholds the win, Yaginuma will be the second person to cash in on the ClubWPT Gold promotion, after Michael Lavin won a similar contest earlier in June. While WSOP has scrubbed posts congratulating Yaginuma's win on social media, ClubWPT Gold's congratulatory post is still up.


Axios
23-06-2025
- Climate
- Axios
Northwest Arkansas' summer night temps creep higher
Power couple Olivia Newton John and John Travolta likely weren't thinking of climate change when they sang about " Summer Nights" in the '70s. But those evenings have been getting warmer across Northwest Arkansas and much of the U.S. for 50 years amid climate change, a new analysis shows. Why it matters: Higher overnight temperatures can have health consequences for vulnerable groups, as well as increased demand for air conditioning. That, in turn, can strain electrical grids and increase energy demand, fueling a vicious cycle with more greenhouse gas emissions. Driving the news: Average summer nighttime temperatures increased between 1970 and 2024 in 96% of 241 locations analyzed in a new report from Climate Central, a research and communications group. Among cities with an increase, temperatures rose by 3.1°F on average. Zoom in: Northwest Arkansas' minimum temperature rose 2°F on average. It's 3.2°F in Little Rock and 1.8°F in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Zoom out: Reno, Nevada (+17.7°F), Las Vegas (+10°F), El Paso, Texas (+8.9°F) and Salt Lake City (+8.2°F) saw the biggest increases. What they're saying:"There's a lot of work ahead of us, and we don't have all the answers," Brian Beffort, sustainability manager for Reno's Washoe County, recently told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "I'm focused on trees because they check the most number of boxes: They clean the air. They prevent stormwater. They cool things off ... There's a lot of planning that we need to do. But that's not the only intervention that we need." Between the lines: Hundreds of U.S. cities are experiencing more frequent warmer-than-average summer nights "with a strong climate change fingerprint," Climate Central says. That's based on the group's "Climate Shift Index" — a method for measuring the impact of climate change on local daily temperatures — and the 1991-2020 climate normals.

Miami Herald
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
How Nevada's elections will change with new 2025 laws
LAS VEGAS — New laws from the 2025 legislative session aim to increase accessibility to Nevada's elections and improve voters' experiences. Election reform was a major focus in Carson City, though bills that sought to drastically change Nevada's elections were blocked by the governor, including legislation to implement voter ID requirements and to allow nonpartisan voters to participate in primaries. Other bills seeking changes were successful, from requiring that sample ballots be sent before official mail ballots to disclosing campaign advertisements made with artificial intelligence. 'Everything we tried to do this session has been focused on the voter experience and the voter perspective,' said Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar. The major highlights Aguilar said the biggest highlight from the legislative session for him was the continued investment into modernizing the state's voter registration system. Nevada appropriated over $27 million to go toward merging Clark County with the other 16 counties into one Voter Registration Election Management Solution system, known as VREMS. Last August, the state launched its top-down voter registration and election management system, which collects and stores voter registration information from all counties. Clark County implemented the system in 2023, and the 16 other counties joined the program in 2024. Now, the two will merge together, Aguilar said. Aguilar said putting all the counties on one system will allow the state to do a better job with voter rolls and build transparency by providing real-time information about the elections process. 'There's consistency from county to county,' he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 'There's consistency in polling location to polling location. The security and safety of the election is stronger because everybody's operating off of one unified system that has strong cybersecurity.' The secretary of state's office was also provided $1.5 million for voter education and outreach through Senate Bill 488. That money will allow counties to send text messages to voters about upcoming elections or if their ballot signatures need curing. Other new laws aim to improve voters' experience, Aguilar said. For instance, sample ballots now must be mailed before mail ballots, thanks to a new law put forward by Republican Assemblymember Gregory Hafen and Democratic Speaker Steve Yeager. In 2024, voters expressed confusion when they received their official mail ballots before their sample ballots, which provide voter information about what will appear on the official ballot and includes pros and cons for each ballot question. County or city clerks must also recruit election board officers for polling places on tribal reservations and provide them with training on the reservation, unless a tribe opts to not participate, thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 421, which aims to increase voter participation in Nevada's Indigenous communities. The new law expands on a bill passed in the 2023 Legislature requiring clerks to establish polling places and ballot drop boxes on tribal lands. There were staffing shortages in several locations, including the Shoshone Paiute Tribe of Duck Valley, which had to raise more than $5,000 to staff their polling place, according to Jennifer Willett, the Nevada senior campaign manager for All Voting is Local. 'It's a minor shift, but it'll impact a lot of people,' Willett said. 'Over time, people will know that they can go there, and they'll be able to vote in their community confidently at a staffed polling place.' Another new law, AB 367, aims to improve accessibility to non-English speaking voters. The law creates a language access coordinator in the secretary of state's office and requires the office to make sure voting materials and other election information are available in at least seven of the most commonly spoken languages in Nevada. It also requires the secretary of state to establish a toll-free telephone number voters can use to receive language interpretation assistance for an election. A voter who may be deaf or hard of hearing can also use a mobile device to access interpretive services including American Sign Language. Aguilar said his office was doing that work already, but the bill codifies those practices into law. Nevada is the third most diverse state in the nation, with one in three Nevadans speaking a language other than English at home and nearly 4 percent of Nevadans having a hearing difficulty, Willett said. 'We think that dismantling any barriers for people that don't speak English as their first language, or aren't comfortable speaking English, should be able to register to vote, learn about voting and candidates and cast their ballot using any options that they want,' Willett said. Chuck Muth, a conservative blogger who has long fought to clean up the state's voter rolls, said overall he thinks session was a 'wash' when it came to election reform. Lombardo vetoed bills that Muth said would have harmed Nevada, but not much was done to enhance election security, he said. Muth would have liked to see changes to the mail ballot deadline so that they could not arrive after Election Day, though less than 1 percent of ballots arrive after Election Day, according to Aguilar. Campaigning changes Nevadans can expect to see some changes to campaigning ahead of future elections. Any AI-generated campaign communication — such as a campaign advertisement supporting or opposing a candidate — must disclose that it was made with artificial intelligence after the passage of AB 73. The new law addresses the rising use of AI-generated materials as a cost-effective alternative to traditional ways of creating content, and it comes on the heels of experts expressing concern about the role artificial intelligence will play in elections. Aguilar said the goal of the law is to give voters the context and the source of the information that they're seeing and relying on when deciding how to vote. Muth said he discloses when he uses AI in his newsletter, but he thinks that should be voluntary. 'I just think it's probably problematic whenever the government gets involved,' Muth said. Another new law to reduce intimidation and violence in campaigns. AB 123 prohibits a person from making statements that threaten or intimidate a candidate for public office. The law was sponsored by Democratic Assemblymember Hanadi Nadeem, the first Muslim woman elected to the Legislature. She put forward the bill after experiencing death threats while running for Assembly. 'It was truly a horrific experience I do not wish upon anyone, whether it be a fellow candidate, voter or Nevadan,' Nadeem said during the bill's hearing. 'No one should have to fear for their life or to be discouraged from running for office because of the actions of another.' Aguilar said that bill goes back to overall safety and security of elections, and it also encourages participation. 'We want people to run for office because the more diverse perspective we get, the stronger the state we're going to be,' Aguilar said. 'And if people aren't running because they're fearful, that's the problem.' Another new law, AB 491, requires elected officers to be registered to vote in the state, district, county or township where the officer is required to reside. 'That's the intent, I think, and hopefully it acts as an encouragement to say, if you're going to run for office, that you actually live in the community you're voted to represent,' Aguilar said. ___ Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Yahoo
After Finding a Tampon, She Killed Her Boyfriend — Then Stunned the Court with 5 Words
Julie Bush was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years behind bars In March, Bush pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Richard Penardo In court, Bush apologized for Penardo's death and said she loved "him very much" A Nevada woman was sentenced to at least a dozen years in prison after she pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend, whom she confronted after finding another woman's tampon in his trash. Nevada court records indicate that Julie Bush, 31, entered a guilty plea in March after she had been charged with voluntary manslaughter and driving under the influence in May 2024. KLAS and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing court documents and Las Vegas police, reported that Bush confronted her boyfriend, Richard Penardo Jr., 51, after finding the tampons in his trash can. The outlets reported that Bush claimed she got in her car while Penardo swung a steel chain and struck the windows, breaking them. Bush then reportedly accelerated the vehicle, hitting Penardo, who was thrown into a brick wall, KLAS reported, citing prosecutors. Penardo died a day later, the outlets reported. On Tuesday, June 17, a judge sentenced Bush to 12 to 35 years in prison, according to both spoke to the court and expressed regret to the judge before she handed down her sentence. 'I love him very much,' Bush said, according to KLAS. 'I'm sorry that he passed away and I wish I could change it, but I can't, and I know there's not a sentence in the world that's going to make anybody satisfied.' The outlet reported that Bush's public defender said her client was the mother of a 5-year-old child. If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages. Read the original article on People