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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the seconds of Haywood Highmith’s Heat life

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

At a point of the season when every minute counts, Haywood Highsmith has found himself at a juncture where every seconds counts, with that essentially how his playing time has come to be measured.Injected into the Miami Heat mix when backup center Cody Zeller was sidelined with a broken nose and when Omer Yurtseven was unable to gain the confidence of coach Erik Spoelstra as the backup to Bam Adebayo, Highsmith emerged as the ultimate short-timer.In Saturday night’s home loss to the Brooklyn Nets, there was 1:52 in the first quarter, and that was it for the half.In last Wednesday’s victory over the visiting New York Knicks, there was 1:46 in the first quarter, nothing else the rest of the half. Then, in the second half, a single stint of 2:19.And the game before that, a road victory over the Detroit Pistons, there was a single 1:28 stint in the third quarter on the night, 88 total seconds of action.“No, never ever did anything like this,” Highsmith said with ...

What we know about the Nashville Christian school shooting

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

NASHVILLE — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building containing about 200 students, police said.Police received a call about an active shooter at The Covenant School — a Presbyterian school — around 10:15 a.m. Authorities said that about 15 minutes after that call to police, the shooter was dead. The remaining students were ferried to a safe location to be reunited with their parents.Here’s what we know and don’t know about the shooting:HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED?Nashville police said six people, including three students, were killed. The victims were identified as Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; Mike Hill, 61; and Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9. Police officers also killed the shooter.The website of The Covenant School, founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the sch...

Trooper dragged from traffic stop in Fall River

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

A Massachusetts State Trooper was dragged 100 feet on the road after a female driver fled a traffic stop in Fall River, state police said.The trooper was treated at the hospital and returned to his shift early this morning, according to state police.The incident began at 12:30 a.m. on Pleasant street in Fall River. The trooper pulled the woman over for a motor vehicle violation.As the trooper was speaking with the diver, she pulled away from the stop, dragging the trooper 100 feet before he was able to get loose from the car.  The woman fled the scene, according to state police.The trooper was treated at St. Luke’s Hospital and later returned to his shift to continue the investigation, state police said.The investigation is ongoing.

French court refuses to extradite Italian former militants

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court ruled Tuesday against extraditing 10 former far-left militants who were convicted of attacks in Italy carried out in the 1970s and 1980s.The two women and eight men fled Italy after their convictions and before they could be sent to prison. Now ranging in age from 62 to 79, they have lived freely in France for decades.The crimes of which they were convicted include the killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary general and the kidnapping of a judge, both in 1980.A Paris court also had ruled against their extraditions, and the decision was appealed last year. But Tuesday’s decision by the Court of Cassation is the final French legal ruling on the decades-long affair.Resistance by French authorities to incarcerating the Italians has long been a thorny issue between Paris and Rome.Over the years, Italy has sought the extradition of around 200 convicted former militants believed to be in France.Under a 1980s policy known as the “Mitterrand doctrine,” named...

What we know about the Covenant school shooting in Nashville

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

NASHVILLE (AP) — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building containing about 200 students, police said.Police received a call about an active shooter at The Covenant School — a Presbyterian school — around 10:15 a.m. Authorities said that about 15 minutes after that call to police, the shooter was dead. The remaining students were ferried to a safe location to be reunited with their parents.Here’s what we know and don’t know about the shooting:HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED?Nashville police said six people, including three students, were killed. The victims were identified as Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; Mike Hill, 61; and Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9. Police officers also killed the shooter.The website of The Covenant School, founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says sh...

Mexico: Migrants set mattresses on fire at detention center

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fire inside a Mexican immigration facility at the U.S. border that left 39 migrants dead was started by migrants who set mattresses alight in protest after learning they would be deported, Mexico’s president said Tuesday. Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the incident unfortunate and said the director of country’s immigration agency was on the scene.“They never imagined that this would cause this terrible misfortune,” López Obrador said.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U.S. border left more than three dozen migrants dead, a government agency said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country.Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point...

Indonesia’s turn as world soccer host in peril over Israel

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia could lose its chance to host a global youth soccer tournament, and its chance to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, after refusing to welcome a team from Israel.FIFA canceled an important preparatory step after regional governors and protesters demanded Israel’s team be excluded, and the tournament, planned for May 20-June 11, appears to be on hold.The official draw for group assignments in the Under-20 World Cup, was supposed to take place in Bali Friday, but FIFA canceled the event after the island’s governor, Wayan Koster, called for a ban on the Israeli team playing there.The Israeli team, which will participate in the Under-20 world tournament for the first time, had been expected to be based in Bali, home to one of the six stadiums scheduled to be used for the tournament.The Israel-Palestinian conflict is an emotional issue in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, whose 277 million people broadly support the Palestinian...

Stocks tick lower as some calm remains on Wall Street

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are holding relatively steady as Wall Street regains some cool at the tail end of tumultuous month. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% in early trading Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%. There was relative calm even in the bond market, which has been home to some of Wall Street’s wildest moves since fears flared about the banking system earlier this month. Yields were holding relatively steady following historic-sized moves in prior weeks. The yield on the two-year Treasury was little changed at 4%.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.U.S. futures are flat in light trading Tuesday as anxiety over the strength of the global banking sector, triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, eased. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 shifted between small gains and losses before the bell.Markets have been in turmoil following Silicon Valley Bank’s co...

Ukrainian president extends tour of war’s front-line areas

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

OKHTYRKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president visited the Sumy region in northern Ukraine on Tuesday, continuing his tour over recent days of areas of the country that have felt the brunt of Russia’s full-scale invasion and as the stage increasingly looks set for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with officials and local people in two cities in the region, which borders Russia. It was partially occupied by Russian forces after the war started more than a year ago. The Russians withdrew from the region by early April.The Associated Press was granted exclusive access as Zelenskyy visited the Sumy region cities of Okhtyrka, which saw fierce battles last year but was never occupied, and Trostianets, which was held by the Russians for a month after the invasion but retaken by Ukrainian forces on March 26, 2022.Zelenskyy’s trip followed his visits over the past seven days to the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, parts of which were retaken last year from the Kremlin...

New sports wagering code bans college betting partnerships

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:01:57 GMT

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. gambling industry is adopting a new responsible marketing code that will ban sports books from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering, bar payments to college and amateur athletes for using their name, image or likeness, and end the use of the terms “free” or “risk-free” to describe promotional bets.The American Gaming Association told The Associated Press on Tuesday the changes are necessary to keep up with developments in the fast-growing legal sports betting industry, which currently operates in 33 states plus Washington, D.C. The group is the national trade association for the commercial gambling industry.But they also follow criticism of the gambling industry from regulators and those who treat gambling addiction; several states are outlawing the kind of betting partnerships covered by the code, and others are taking a renewed look at overall sports betting advertising.One New York congressman has introduced legislation that woul...