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Man receives 40 years for 2019 murder, second conviction in case

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A second man was convicted in connection to a May 2019 murder Wednesday, according to Travis County court documents.Records said 27-year-old Jerome Yancey was sentenced by a judge to serve 40 years in state prison.According to past KXAN reports, Yancey faced the first-degree felony murder charge for the May 2019 death of 28-year-old Jannerra Williams. Williams was shot and killed at a hotel in the 7900 block of Gessner Drive. RELATED: Third suspect identified in connection with north Austin hotel fatal shooting According to documents, Yancey pleaded not guilty to the murder charge March 27. Court records showed Yancey was convicted by the court March 28 after a trial lasting two days.Documents said Yancey would receive a jail credit of 1,081 days, almost three years.Two other men were also arrested in connection to the fatal shooting — 21-year-old Roosevelt Haynes III and 26-year-old Timothy Bowie.On December 19, 2022, Haynes was sentenced to 15 years in priso...

Mayo Clinic AI program could be part of post-kidney transplant care

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

Roughly 300 patients receive kidney transplants at Mayo Clinic in Rochester annually, part of nearly 1,000 kidney recipients annually among all Mayo Clinic hospitals.Caring for those patients is a team of physicians, nurses and pathologists all working together before, during and after surgery. Artificial intelligence might join that transplant care team in the near future.In October 2022, Mayo Clinic researchers published a paper in Clinical Research detailing how an artificial intelligence program can find inflammation in biopsies from transplanted kidneys.Rochester-based Mayo clinicians already perform routine biopsies on kidney transplant recipients in the months and years after they receive their new organ, even if the patients feel fine and don’t have any symptoms of organ rejection, said senior research technologist Walter Park.“It really gives us an opportunity in the research realm to really understand the patients a lot better because we’re looking at alm...

Southbound lanes of I-5 at Grapevine closed overnight for repairs

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

Southbound lanes of the 5 Freeway at the Grapevine will be closed Sunday night through early Monday morning while Caltrans makes repairs to the roadway, authorities announced.  The closure, which was also in effect Saturday night, comes as Caltrans repairs portions of the roadway battered by recent storms. Crews will be drilling through the pavement and “lowering steel beams down 50 ft. to bedrock to protect I-5 against further landslide damage,” officials said. The southbound lanes closure begins tonight at 10 p.m. between Vista Del Lago Road and Templin Highway and lasts until 5 a.m. Monday.  Caltrans posted a detour map suggesting southbound travelers head east on State Route 138 and then south on State Route 14 to get around the scheduled closure. Detour map of southbound I-5 closure at Grapevine provided by Caltrans April 2, 2023. Northbound lanes of the 5 Freeway will remain open during the repairs.  

Donte DiVincenzo ‘glad’ he joined Warriors before new CBA goes into effect

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

DENVER — Donte DiVincenzo felt there was no better place to re-establish himself after an injury last season than with the Warriors.Golden State had to use part of the Taxpayer Mid-Level exception to get the deal done this summer, and DiVincenzo has established himself as a key rotational piece for the team.But a new clause in the NBA’s pending collective bargaining agreement would’ve prevented the Warriors from getting DiVincenzo last offseason.The NBA and National Basketball Players Association agreed late Friday night to a tentative six-year collective bargaining deal that is expected to go into effect next season. Several key issues, such as limiting the payout of high-spending teams, including the Warriors, and load management, among others, were addressed in the new deal.ESPN reported that the teams will lose the Taxpayer Mid-Level exception when they go over the second luxury tax apron, which is reportedly $17.5 million.This will impact the Warriors, who are...

Marin City roots for native Darrion Trammell's SDSU Aztecs in Final Four

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) -- Marin City may be hundreds of miles from San Diego, but they're rooting for San Diego State to win the Division I men's basketball championship. Starting guard Darrion Trammell grew up in Marin County. Marin native hits game-winning free throw to send SDSU to Final Four His friends and family have been gathering to cheer him on in Houston for the Final Four. A watch party Saturday afternoon was held as the Aztecs beat Florida Atlantic University to advance to Monday's national championship.The room erupted in cheers after Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beater to send the Aztecs to the NCAA national championship game. Watch the reaction from the watch party below. Everyone at the watch party says the whole community is so happy and proud of Trammell no matter what. When SDSU won its Final Four matchup, the energy was electric.It's the first time SDSU will be in the big game, and one of its starting guards is from Marin County.Trammell is from M...

Trae Young lifts Hawks past Mavericks in OT, 132-130

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Trae Young made two free throws with 1.8 seconds remaining in overtime to give Atlanta the lead and the Hawks beat the Dallas Mavericks 132-130 on Sunday night to keep pace in the Eastern Conference play-in race.Young was fouled by Kyrie Irving, who scored 41 points, with the game tied at 130 on what Young said was “kind of a lucky play for us and unlucky for them.”Young said he accidently stepped on the foot of Mavericks guard Josh Green before crashing into Irving. “I just got in Kyrie’s way,” Young said.Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said “it was a wild ending” and added “it was just unfortunate we got a foul there that could have gone either way.” Following Young’s free throws, Luke Doncic, who scored 22 points, missed a last-second 3-pointer.“I thought Luke got a great look there at the end,” Kidd said. “He’s the one who can make it.”The Hawks (39-39) moved back into eighth place in the play-in race. Toronto and Chicago put pressure on the Hawks wit...

Knicks clinch playoff berth with 118-109 win over Wizards

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson and Quentin Grimes each scored 27 points, and the New York Knicks clinched a playoff berth with a 118-109 victory over the Washington Wizards on Sunday night.Immanuel Quickley added 22 points and Obi Toppin had 21 for the Knicks, who won their fourth in a row and will be in the postseason for the second time in three years. They had missed the playoffs the previous seven seasons. “Making the playoffs is a great accomplishment, but it’s one of several,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “It’s the next step along the way. Just keep checking the boxes.”Mitchell Robinson contributed eight points and 11 rebounds for the Knicks, who have won both games since losing All-Star forward Julius Randle to a sprained left ankle. “Every time someone goes out it’s a chance for someone else to get in and get the job done,” Thibodeau added. “That gives your team a lot of confidence. It gives us quality depth and makes us a tough team.” Corey Kispert led Washington with a ...

Yin tops LA Open to become LPGA’s second Chinese winner

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Ruoning Yin became the second Chinese winner in LPGA Tour history Sunday, holding off Georgia Hall in the DIO Implant LA Open.The 20-year-old Yin closed with an eventful 1-under 70 for a one-stroke victory over Hall, the English player whose 5-foot birdie try on the 18th to force a playoff slid by the right side. Recently retired Shanshan Feng is the other only other Chinese champion, winning 10 times on the LPGA Tour.“That means a lot, not just for me, also for China,” Yin said. “Shanshan is always my goal here, and I think she got 10 tour win here, and, yeah, it’s just my first one. She’s definitely the person I look up to.”Yin finished at 15-under 269 at Palos Verdes Golf Club, making six birdies and five bogeys in the final round in her 20th tour start.She had a nine-hole stretch without a par, making a birdie on No. 2, three straight bogeys, four straight birdies and a bogey on No. 10. After dropping a stroke on 13, she birdied 14 and parred ...

LSU’s Reese unapologetic over gestures to Iowa star Clark

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — LSU’s Angel Reese waved her hand in front of her face while staring down Caitlin Clark, then pointed toward her finger as if to say a ring was coming while walking toward the Iowa star.The gestures late in the Tigers’ 102-85 victory in the NCAA championship game Sunday lit up social media, with comments supporting the “Bayou Barbie” for trash talk that’s just part of the game and condemning her for lacking grace in victory.The bubbly junior from Baltimore, who transferred from Maryland to join flamboyant LSU coach Kim Mulkey, was unapologetic in the postgame news conference.“All year, I was critiqued about who I was,” Reese said. “I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you.”Clark, the scoring sensation who was the first with consecutive 40-point gam...

Magic hand Pistons 20th loss in 21 games with 128-102 win

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:43 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr. had 14 points and nine rebounds each before sitting out the fourth quarter Sunday night in the Orlando Magic’s 128-102 rout of the Detroit Pistons.Jalen Suggs led eight Orlando players in double figures with 18 points, and Cole Anthony added 17 points and six rebounds for the Magic, who shot 57.3% and won for the fifth time in six games.Franz Wagner finished with 16 points and eight assists and a plus-minus of plus-33.Killian Hayes scored 20 points and Eugene Omoruyi added 19 for the Pistons, who lost for the 20th time in 21 games. Jaden Ivey finished with 14 points and six assists.Anthony and Suggs scored five points each on a 23-4 spurt that opened the second quarter and gave the Magic a 24-point lead. The Pistons, who had eight turnovers in the quarter, never threatened again and fell behind by as many as 30 points in the fourth quarter.Suggs made 4 of 6 three pointers and finished the game with four steals and two ...