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Cloudy. Periods of rain this morning. Thunder possible. High 46F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90%..
Thunderstorms early, then cloudy after midnight with periods of snow. Low 34F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precip 90%.
Updated: January 19, 2023 @ 10:04 am
DETROIT (AP) — A man who told police that he placed a teenager’s body in a trash bin, a disclosure that led to an extraordinary but unsuccessful search of a suburban Detroit landfill, has been released from prison after less than a year.
“I’m livid. I’m absolutely livid,” said Cierra Milton, the mother of Zion Foster of Eastpointe, who was 17 when she disappeared a year ago.
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Bayern Munich has signed Switzerland goalkeeper Yann Sommer from Bundesliga rival Borussia Mönchengladbach to make up for the injured Manuel Neuer’s absence. The 34-year-old Sommer has signed through June 2025. Bayern was left scrambling for cover after Neuer broke his leg in a skiing accident last month. Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann said last week he wanted a new goalkeeper before the Bundesliga resumes on Friday. Bayern is reportedly paying 8 million euros for Gladbach to let its No. 1 goalkeeper leave in the middle of the season.
Today in Sports History, Jan. 20-2016 — Kathryn Smith is promoted by the Buffalo Bills to take over as special teams quality control coach, making her the first full-time female coach in the NFL.
Today in Sports History, Week Ahead-Jan. 20-Jan. 26-Two Takes
Today in Sports History-Week Ahead, Jan. 20-Jan. 26, Two Takes
France’s Macron vows to press ahead with pension reforms that will raise the retirement age, despite massive protests.
Nominees for the 2023 British Academy Film Awards have been announced in London, with war movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” picking up 14 nominations. “The Banshees of Inisherin,“ “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Elvis” are also strong contenders. Best actor nominees include Austin Butler for “Elvis,” Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of Inisherin” and Brendan Fraser for “The Whale.” The leading actress category includes Cate Blanchett for “Tár,” Viola Davis for “The Woman King” and Danielle Deadwyler for “Till.” Winners will be announced Feb. 19 at a ceremony in London.
Longtime NFL defensive back Patrick Surtain Sr. has landed his first college assistant coaching job. He will be the defensive backs coach at Florida State. The school announced the hire Wednesday. Surtain is a two-time All-Pro player who was in the NFL for 11 seasons with the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs. He spent six years as the head football coach at Plantation American Heritage High School in Florida, where he won three state championships. In 2022, Surtain helped the Miami Dolphins as a defensive assistant. He replaces Marcus Woodson, who left FSU to take on a similar role on Arkansas’ coaching staff.
LOS ANGELES — As California emerges from a two-week bout of deadly atmospheric rivers, a number of climate researchers say the recent storms appear to be typical of the intense, periodic rains the state has experienced throughout its history and not the result of global warming.
Bestselling authors Leigh Bardugo, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell are contributing forewords to new editions of three famed Marvel Comics series. Penguin Classics is teaming with Marvel on Penguin Classics Marvel Collection, which already includes “Black Panther,” “Captain America” and “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Three new books will be out Sept. 12: “The Avengers,” with a foreword by Bardugo; “Fantastic Four,” with a foreword by Craft; and “X-Men,” with a foreword by Rowell. Series editor Ben Saunders said in a statement that “these volumes provide unique, single-volume introductions to the first decade of The Avengers, the original X-Men, and the Fantastic Four.”
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A court in Bosnia has sentenced a former Bosnian Serb military commander to 15 years in prison for taking part in a 1993 atrocity in which 20 people were hauled off a train and killed during Bosnia’s interethnic war. The court ruled Thursday that Boban Indjic was among Bosnian Serb soldiers and paramilitaries who ambushed the train and abducted 20 non-Serb civilians in the small Bosnian town of Strpci, near the Serbian border. The victims were led away to be tortured and killed before their bodies were dumped in the Drina River.
Second-seeded Ons Jabeur has become the latest top player to exit the Australian Open in the second round. She was beaten by Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 5-7, 6-1 in a match that ended a little past 1 a.m. Jabeur had complained of a knee problem after her opening victory at Melbourne Park and seemed out of sorts for much of the loss to Vondrousova. Jabeur was the runner-up at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2022. The left-handed Vondrousova reached the final of the French Open as a teenager in 2019 but has never made it past the fourth round in 17 other appearances at Grand Slam tournaments. She is ranked 86th.
In a rare move for philanthropy, Adam Holofcener and his family emptied their foundation’s coffers and gave $1 million — nearly all the money it had left to give — to support Lisa Snowden-McCray’s dream: a free newspaper staffed by Black editors and writers in Baltimore to provide news primarily for the city’s Black residents. For Holofcener, the bold move was both an attempt to directly respond to the calls for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd by police in 2020 and to purge the family of gains it had made at the expense of Baltimore’s Black residents.
Amazon is ending a charity donation program it ran for a decade in its latest cost-cutting move. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said the program, called AmazonSmile, will shut down by February 20. The program allowed Amazon to donate a small percentage of eligible purchases to a charity selected by shoppers. The retailer says it’s shutting it down because the program had “not grown to create the impact” it had hoped during the past 10 years. The decision also comes as the Seattle-based company is laying off workers and axing different areas of its business in an effort to trim costs.
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Artificial intelligence systems are training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images that can be conjured in seconds from a smartphone app. But some living artists and photographers are starting to fight back against the AI software companies creating images derived from their works. Two new lawsuits take aim at popular image-generating services such as Stable Diffusion for allegedly copying and processing millions of copyright-protected images without a license. The lawsuits mark the beginning of a backlash against a new generation of tools — some of them introduced just last year — that can generate new images or readable text on command.
The archbishop of Austria has confirmed that it was he who wrote a letter to the future Pope Benedict XVI urging him to accept election as pontiff in 2005 if the votes went his way. Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn issued a statement Wednesday confirming a revelation in a new book by Benedict’s personal secretary that was published the week after Benedict died Dec. 31 at age 95. But he criticized the book saying “Nothing But the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI” was an ”unseemly indiscretion.” The book has generated controversy because it revealed confidential communications and exposed the tensions that simmered during the decade in which Benedict lived as an emeritus pope alongside Pope Francis.
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Strong investor demand for properties and continued in-migration should bolster the state’s commercial real estate market even if there is a recession, a longtime Texas economist predicts.
Europe captain Luke Donald has upstaged many players who will be in his team at the Ryder Cup by shooting 8-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the Abu Dhabi Championship. Donald closed with four straight birdies and had nine in total on his card at the start of one of the top events on the European tour schedule. The 45-year-old Englishman’s last title was in 2012. That was when he was the world’s top-ranked golfer and a regular winner on both sides of the Atlantic. After years out of the limelight his profile has been raised by getting the Ryder Cup captaincy.
The idea of Arsenal and Manchester United going head-to-head for the Premier League title feels like a throwback to a bygone era many younger fans will never have known. The same goes for some players. Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka was only 2 years old when Arsene Wenger’s “Invincibles” won the London club’s last title in 2004. He was 11 when United last won in 2013. The teams face each other this weekend knowing victory would be a significant boost to their respective title ambitions at the expense of the other.
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Dance, theater and geometry have merged in the installment of Paris menswear week. All eyes looked toward Louis Vuitton’s fall winter spectacle to be held later Thursday. A writhing dancing troupe at Issey Miyake performed on the runway against a backdrop of optically striped lighting which moved organically. It was more than just spectacle and introduced a geometric theme this season of how simple shapes can be folded to create more complex ones. It’s something that the Japanese house explored in several distinct sections using its signature techno-pleating techniques throughout.
Serbia’s state RTS television says emergency teams are searching for two people after they were swept away by a swollen river in a southwestern town. Heavy rainfall this week across the Balkans has caused rivers to rise dangerously in Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro, flooding some areas and threatening flood defenses elsewhere. In the southwestern Serbian town of Novi Pazar, authorities declared emergency measures to cope with the overflowing Raska river. RTS television said Thursday that two men were carried away by the river while trying to protect their houses with wooden planks and plastic sheeting.
Russia and China will conduct naval drills off the coast of South Africa next month in another indication of their strengthening relationships with Africa’s most developed country amid the war in Ukraine and global financial uncertainty. The South African armed forces say they, Russia and China will engage in “a multinational maritime exercise” from Feb. 17-27 in the Indian Ocean off South Africa’s east coast. The drills will happen around the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. South Africa is a leading voice on its continent and the drills will bring more focus on its refusal to side with Western partners and condemn Russia over Ukraine.
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MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania — A crush of names clogs a computer screen in an office where sick and hurting people shuffle in one by one, bundled against the winter cold.
Once seen as the death knell for single-family neighborhoods in California, a new law meant to create more duplexes has instead done little to encourage construction in some of the largest cities in the state, according to a new report published Wednesday.
PHILADELPHIA — It was in the days after George Floyd’s murder, and longtime Temple professor Molefi Kete Asante wrote a blistering five-page letter to then-university president Richard M. Englert. He called on the school to do more to support the Africology and African American studies depar…
DALLAS — Nurses on Parkland Memorial Hospital’s life-saving front line against COVID-19 have turned a corner on the most grueling medical calamity of the century.
Fiercely original films, female-focused stories and theatrical-first releases had the clear edge in The Associated Press’s inaugural Top 25 Movies list. The ranking was released Thursday and topped by Searchlight Pictures’ “The Banshees of Inisherin.” In a cinematic landscape where it often seems only franchise films have a shot at traditional box office success, the top five films on the AP’s list were all original. Most did find robust audiences in theaters, despite the fact that moviegoing has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. All told, 176 unique movies received votes from 26 panelists.
POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Squinting out the windowed wheelhouse of the ship he’s helmed for two decades, Captain Skip Green spots something several hundred yards in the distance.
Henrik Stenson says he has been made to feel welcome at his first appearance on the European tour since being removed as Ryder Cup captain for joining the Saudi-run breakaway league. Stenson opened the Abu Dhabi Championship with a 4-under 68 and says “it’s been good fun to catch up with some long-time friends that I haven’t seen for a long time.” Stenson says he had a bad night’s sleep before the first round but that was more to do with jet lag and the fact his clubs didn’t turn up until late. It is Stenson’s first non-LIV Golf event in six months.
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