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Time of India
2 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
Corey Adams to Alex Foster: Rising US college stars killed in senseless shootings
From Corey Adams to Alex Foster , a heartbreaking trend is emerging - rising US college athletes losing their lives to senseless gun violence. Adams, a promising Ole Miss football freshman, was fatally shot in Tennessee, while Foster, a standout defensive lineman, also fell victim to a shooting incident. They were full of life, talent, and hope, admired by teammates, coaches, and communities who believed in them. Now, instead of celebrating their rise, we're mourning their loss. Explore courses from Top Institutes in Select a Course Category Healthcare Cybersecurity Data Science Data Analytics MBA PGDM Artificial Intelligence Finance Project Management CXO MCA Product Management Management Operations Management Design Thinking Data Science Technology Degree Others Public Policy Digital Marketing Leadership healthcare others Skills you'll gain: Financial Analysis in Healthcare Financial Management & Investing Strategic Management in Healthcare Process Design & Analysis Duration: 12 Weeks Indian School of Business Certificate Program in Healthcare Management Starts on Jun 13, 2024 Get Details As their loved ones struggle to make sense of the pain, these tragedies serve as a stark reminder that urgent measures must be taken to curb gun violence and prevent more promising lives from being lost. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Play War Thunder now for free War Thunder Play Now Undo Corey Adams Corey Adams was tragically shot and killed in Cordova, Tennessee, near Memphis. The 18-year-old New Orleans native was found with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle late Saturday night (July 19) and was pronounced dead at the scene despite life-saving efforts. Four other men sustained non-life-threatening injuries and transported themselves to local hospitals. Authorities are treating the case as a homicide, with no suspects yet identified. Adams, a highly regarded defensive line recruit, had recently joined the University of Mississippi football team and was considered a rising star in the sport. Live Events Mycheal Edwards-Wallace Mycheal Edwards-Wallace, an incoming freshman football player at Division II Newberry College , was tragically killed, in the first week of July, in a shooting in Kingstree, South Carolina. He was one of four victims; one other person died, and two others were injured. Edwards-Wallace was remembered by head coach Todd Knight as a talented athlete, strong student, and young man with a bright future. 'He will always be part of our Newberry family,' Knight said. The college expressed deep condolences to his loved ones, calling the loss heartbreaking. His death comes just two months before Newberry's season opener against UVA Wise on September 6. Jamarion Brown Jamarion Brown, a 23-year-old college basketball star guard for Henderson State University , was tragically shot and killed at a pool party in Camp County, Texas. Brown, popularly known as 'JoJo', was found in serious condition after being shot in the head and later died at the hospital. A 17-year-old suspect, Onterrian Jamour Newton, was arrested and charged with murder. Two others were also injured - one shot in the leg and the other in the hip - but their injuries were not life-threatening. Henderson State Athletics issued a heartfelt tribute to Brown, remembering him as a beloved member of the team. Newton remains in jail without bond. Nathaniel Bernard Jennings Star college football player Nathaniel Bernard Jennings, 19, was fatally shot over Mother's Day weekend in his Florida hometown following an argument outside a downtown Melbourne bar. Jennings, a standout freshman defensive lineman at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul, was found unresponsive and later died at a hospital. The alleged shooter, 24-year-old former college basketball player Stephan Dieujuste, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. The incident, captured on surveillance cameras, remains under investigation. Jennings had just completed an impressive freshman season and was praised by his coach for his talent and character. He is survived by his mother and brother. Alex Foster Baylor University is mourning the tragic loss of 18-year-old defensive lineman Alex Foster, who was fatally shot in Greenville, Mississippi, in late May. Police responded to a report of gunfire and found Foster with multiple gunshot wounds inside a vehicle; he later died at Delta Health Center. Foster, a 6-foot-5, 292-pound athlete, had redshirted his freshman season in 2024 and recently participated in spring workouts. Baylor coach Dave Aranda and AD Mack Rhoades expressed heartbreak over the loss, calling rising football star Foster a cherished part of the Baylor family.
Los Angeles Times
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Beach volleyball in the Intuit Dome? AVP players embrace their new digs
Devon Newberry is closing in on two years in the professional beach volleyball circuit. Yet for all 731 days, 'professional' has felt like an elusive label. The former UCLA standout is accustomed to hauling her equipment on the beach, tugging her bag across the uneven sand while weaving through sunbathers and surfboards. The provisional bleachers creak under sunscreen-slathered fans while music might buzz through a nearby portable speaker. There's charm in that chaos. But it's nothing like the entrance Newberry made Friday at the Intuit Dome. Above her, the sweeping halo scoreboard glowed, flashing beneath the thump of blasting pop anthems. Around her, where NBA chants once echoed, beach volleyball fans cheered. And strangest of all, tons of sand created a faux indoor shoreline. After two years chasing it, Newberry found her label. 'I walked into the Intuit Dome today and I was like, 'I feel like a professional athlete walking in,'' Newberry said. 'I haven't felt like that as a beach player. There's very rare moments when you're like, 'Wow, I am really a professional athlete.' And when I was going underground here and looking all around me, I was like, 'I really am a professional athlete.' And that's because we're playing at the Intuit Dome.' In what began as a head-scratcher for the players themselves, 300 tons of sand were poured into the Intuit Dome, turning the Clippers' arena into a pop-up beach — where the L.A. Launch kept their perfect run afloat for the start of AVP League Week 5. The Launch struck first and last — with Megan Kraft and Terese Cannon opening with a win, and Hagen Smith and Logan Weber closing it out — both pairs dismantling the San Diego Smash. Sandwiched between those victories, Palm Beach Passion's men's and women's teams both made quick work of the Miami Mayhem. The moment Newberry described — descending into an NBA-caliber arena re-imagined as a sand-strewn battleground — was the AVP's moonshot: to re-imagine the sport in lights, not solely sunlight. 'Playing in such an amazing place, brand new building, with everything going on, with the new building around here, it's really cool,' said 2016 Olympian Chaim Schalk. 'To get to play at such an iconic arena is an honor.' Beach volleyball rarely has ventured beyond its coastal roots. But at the Intuit Dome, the sport embraced a new direction. 'This shows that beach volleyball is growing and it's trying to adapt to the world we live in, finding a new way for fans to interact with the players, and new ways for the sport to be exciting,' said Chase Budinger, a former NBA player who became a beach volleyball player. 'This will get more people in the stands because it's so new and so different.' In place of sun-worshiping fans camped out on makeshift bleachers, parents lounged on cushioned seats as kids nestled beside them balancing chicken wings and pizzas on their laps. The sport welcomed a combination of newcomers hunting for Friday night entertainment and AVP devotees. 'There's so many people who love beach volleyball, and so many people who would love beach volleyball if they were just given the opportunity to go watch,' Newberry said. 'And not everybody can make it out.' Change comes with tradeoffs. With no wind, the court became something of a power chamber — the compact sand lending itself to higher and cleaner jumps, the still air enabling blistering serves and monstrous spikes that might have drifted wide on the beach. Rallies became quicker and tighter. The margin for error shrank, tightening the grip on the crowd. 'For a lot of people watching beach volleyball for the first time, it's really hard to conceptualize how wind, how deep the sand is, might affect play,' Newberry said. 'So it feels like more of an even playing field which allows everybody to watch really entertaining volleyball.' By re-imagining the boundaries of where its sport can potentially thrive, the AVP might have sketched out a novel blueprint for other sports. 'I wouldn't be surprised if other sports follow and start expanding their ideas of where they could play,' said Olympic silver medalist Brandie Wilkerson. 'I'm excited to see where this is going to go and see other sports try to catch up.'
Chicago Tribune
19-06-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
‘Winging It' exhibit at Newberry Library shows humanity's relationship to birds — dead and alive
Although the state bird of Illinois is the northern cardinal, in the 1800s it might have been the greater prairie chicken. The grouse or boomer, as it was known back then, was once the most numerous and notable species in the state. The birds — which were the size of a chicken, with tan- and white-flecked plumage and an inflatable orange throat pouch on the males — once roamed tallgrass prairies by the millions and were known for the unique booming sound they make as part of their elaborate mating dance. Hunters killed the birds for meat, shooting or even clubbing the docile birds to death. With the prairie getting plowed under and replaced almost completely by farmland, the prairie chicken lost its habitat, and is nearly extinct in Illinois. But the prairie chicken is being featured Friday through Sept. 27 at the Newberry Library in Chicago. A documentary on the bird will play as part of a new exhibit, 'Winging It: A Brief History of Humanity's Relationship with Birds.' The prairie chicken is a classic example of the rise and fall of some species, and how birds have persisted nevertheless, inspiring artwork and science, and playing a crucial role in the local ecosystem. The Newberry, founded in 1887, is a library, not a museum, so it has manuscripts and artwork rather than objects, but exhibit curator Bob Dolgan culled some unique items to reflect the ways people interacted with birds in North America and Europe over the past several centuries. The exhibit includes woodblocks of English artist and naturalist Thomas Bewick showing birds in a naturalistic style. Artist Mark Catesby, who is sometimes compared to famed ornithologist and artist John James Audubon, predated Audubon by nearly a century, and pioneered documenting wildlife in the Americas. Rather than shooting and killing his subjects like Audubon, Catesby painted the birds alive in their natural habitats. This exhibit will display a rare first edition of Catesby's landmark work 'Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.' The show also includes The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide, an 1879 guide to hunting and fishing in eastern North America written by Charles Hallock, founder of what is now Field and Stream magazine. The library also will team up with the Field Museum to offer professional development for educators called 'Winging It: The Art and Science of Birds' on July 16 and 17. A public class that will look at the evolution of conservation in the United States as a response to multiple extinctions will be held Aug. 6-27. There will also be a screening of 'The World of Monty and Rose,' Dolgan's documentary about the famous pair of endangered piping plovers who found love at Chicago's Montrose Beach. As for the prairie chicken, the Prairie Ridge State Natural Area maintains a habitat of fewer than 200 boomers downstate, and the birds have survived in greater numbers in states farther north and west. Dolgan hopes 'Winging It' will show visitors how the library's collection lends itself to exploration, and how inspiring and resilient birds can be. He also hopes to show some of the common interest conservationists share with hunters and fishers to restore lost habitat. 'We're the Prairie State, yet we have less than .01% of our prairie remaining,' he said. 'There's a huge opportunity to create more prairie that used to hold dozens of species.'
Boston Globe
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
R.I. House passes ‘Freedom to Read Act' aimed at library ‘censorship'
Advertisement Morales said the legislation is needed because Rhode Island has had 25 attempts to censor books since 2021. The targeted books often involve matters of race and the LGBTQ+ community, he said, citing examples such as ' Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Enter Email Sign Up But Representative Brian C. Newberry, a North Smithfield Republican, contended that there are no 'banned' books in Rhode Island. 'Books being banned means they are illegal and you can't find them,' he said. 'Let's drop the conceit that because a particular town or a particular librarian or school district doesn't want it, a book is banned. It's absolute nonsense.' Newberry said the original version of the bill was " terrible," but he said, 'You guys did a great job of basically gutting it, making it essentially pointless.' He said passage of the bill would 'take this issue off the table' and make advocates happy, but he said it would achieve nothing. Advertisement Newberry introduced an amendment to 'remove the stupid the title of the bill.' He said 'Freedom to Read Act' name 'makes no sense' and 'is designed to gin up fear.' He proposed calling it the 'Collection Policy Act.' Representative Tina L. Spears, a Charlestown Democrat, called for 'decorum,' saying Newberry shouldn't be throwing around words like 'stupid" in discussing the bill. Morales objected to Newberry's amendment, and said, 'This legislation encompasses a lot more than just establishing of collection policy.' He said it would set up a process for reviewing challenges to books by people with 'a vested interest' in the community, as well as an appeals process. Also, he noted it would allow an author whose library materials have been subjected to censorship to bring a court action against any government body that enforces censorship of library materials in violation of policies established under the bill. 'The freedom to read affirms our fundamental rights to access knowledge, stories, and ideas without the fear of censorship or discrimination,' Morales said. 'Unfortunately this freedom is under attack.' Newberry's amendment failed by a vote of 11 to 63. Representative Sherry Roberts, a West Greenwich Republican, said parents are opposed to books such as ' 'I'd like to just say that, on behalf of the parents, that the passage of this bill would be helping to promote perversion and shameful and degenerate behavior,' she said. Advertisement Representative Charlene M. Lima, a Cranston Democrat, said she had concerns about the bill. But she said Morales 'reassured me that these children would not be exposed to pornographic material. It would be age appropriate, and if there's something more questionable that the parents would have a way to refute the material and a process that they could go through.' Representative Karen Alzate, a Pawtucket Democrat, backed the bill, and said it 'promotes learning about the world and cultures.' 'Go into the library and pick out a book that's going to teach me about your culture and my culture,' she said. 'It's going to teach you about all the oceans in the world, the rivers, and the mountains in other countries, I have strong support because reading takes us to places that are beyond our minds.' Edward Fitzpatrick can be reached at
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Yahoo
Greenwood man arrested child sexual abuse material charges
GREENWOOD, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A Greenwood man has been arrested on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) related charges. Joel Newberry, 28, was arrested on Tuesday, April 17, by the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office on charges of distribution, possession and viewing of material depicting sexually explicit conduct involving minors. Newberry's bond was set at $100,000, and he remains on the Sebastian County inmate roster as of April 17. On Dec. 16, 2024, the Arkansas State Police (ASP) received a report from NCMEC indicating that Kik had flagged nineteen images suspected to be CSAM, uploaded between Dec. 5 and Dec. 11, 2024, according to a probable cause affidavit. The cyber tip included the email address associated with the offending Kik account, newberry606@ and the username 'llamaboy67.' According to court documents, two videos uploaded from this account on Dec. 5 depicted prepubescent girls being sexually abused by adult males. A third video, uploaded on Dec. 8, showed a girl, another prepubescent, being assaulted by two men. Memphis man sentenced to 20 years in Arkansas for fentanyl-related charges An administrative subpoena linked an IP address to a Wave Rural internet account registered to a Greenwood, Arkansas, resident. The email on the account matched one used on a Kik account involved in the uploads. Based on this evidence, police obtained a search warrant and searched the residence on March 14, 2025, seizing an iPhone 14 belonging to Joel Newberry. Forensic analysis showed the phone's number matched the Wave Rural account and confirmed it was at the residence during the Dec. 8 upload. Investigators also found a Kik account on the phone using the same username as the one that uploaded the content, along with a Gmail address tied to the case. According to court documents, Newberry admitted the email and internet account were his but denied responsibility for the uploads. Newberry's court appearance is set for April 23. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
