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Lawsuit alleges sexual assault during Virginia Military Institute overnight open house

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A prospective student claims in a lawsuit that a Virginia Military Institute cadet sexually assaulted her during a 2021 overnight open house.The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg on Thursday states that the woman, then a high school student interested in attending the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, was assigned a cadet host with whom she shared a room, The Roanoke Times reported.The woman identified as Jane Doe in court records attended a two-day open house, described on VMI’s website as the best way for high school students to “experience first-hand what it’s like being a cadet,” with her parents, who have strong ties to the school, according to the lawsuit. The assault allegedly happened early on Sept. 18, 2021, and later that day after leaving campus with her parents, the student “expressed in an extremely distressed manner” that she had been sexually assaulted, the lawsuit stated. The cadet was not identified by name or sex i...

Environment Canada extends hurricane watch to Halifax as ‘very large’ Lee approaches

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

HALIFAX — Boats were being pulled out of the water in Nova Scotia Friday as forecasters warned hurricane Lee could soon bring damaging winds, large waves, flooding and power outages.Jennifer Chandler, commodore at the Chester Yacht Club, said she and her team have been working for days to prepare for what she anticipates will be a “significant storm.” Chester is in Lunenburg County, which with neighbouring Halifax County was added Friday to the list of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick communities under a hurricane watch.“When we get a direct impact, it hits us pretty hard here,” Chandler said in an interview. “Over the last five days, most people have been taking their boats out if they can …. We’ll be lashing down a lot of the gear. We’ve already taken all the furniture off our deck.”Hurricane Lee is expected to move into western Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick on Saturday, bringing heavy rains, high winds, and powerful wave...

Are grocery stores greedy or a scapegoat? Group pushes back on feds’ ultimatum

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

A group representing grocery stores in Canada is pushing back against the federal government’s ultimatum on stabilizing food prices.The prime minister is demanding grocery chains across the country reduce costs for consumers or face consequences. CEOs will be at the table next week, as Justin Trudeau summons the heads of the top five grocery chains to a meeting next week.“They’re making record profits while Canadians are struggling to put food on the table,” Trudeau said.He wants companies to present a strategy by Thanksgiving to ease the financial pain of filling the fridge.Related articles: Majority of Canadians believe grocery prices will continue to rise: pollAre our governments siding with big grocers?Canadian shoppers turn to discount retailers to fight inflationHowever, the Retail Council of Canada says it feels grocery stores are being made to be scapegoats, as the discussion around cost of living continues.“At the end of the day, it’s rea...

UN calls for more fairness for developing nations at a G77 summit in Cuba

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

HAVANA (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general called Friday for nations to build a world that is more fair for developing countries, as he kicked off a summit in Cuba of the G77 group of emerging economies plus China. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that while many of the countries of the G77 have helped lift millions of people from poverty, they still face a lot of crises, including hunger, inflation, climate disasters and debt, and they haven’t gotten enough help.“The conclusion is clear: The world is failing developing countries,” Guterres said in Spanish.The summit of G77 group, which was founded in the 1960s, is taking place in Cuba just a few days ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “The voice of the G77 plus China will always be essential at the United Nations,” Guterres said. “And I count on your group, who have long been champions of multilateralism, to step up, to use your power, and fight: Champion a system rooted in equality; champion a system ...

Jeezy files for divorce from Jeannie Mai after 2 years of marriage

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Jeezy has filed for divorce from TV personality Jeannie Mai after two years of in marriage.The 45-year-old rapper, whose birth name is Jay Wayne Jenkins, filed to end his marriage on Thursday in Georgia’s Superior Court of Fulton County.The filling says “the marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken” and “there is no hope for reconciliation.”The pair welcomed their first child together, a daughter, in January 2022. Jeezy and Mai began dating in 2018 and were married in March 2021.Jeezy is seeking joint legal custody of their daughter, according to the divorce documents. The two had a prenuptial agreement that Jeezy expects will be enforced, according to the filing.Representatives for Jeezy and Jeannie Mai did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The Grammy Award-nominated rapper Jeezy exploded on the music scene in the mid-’00s and is widely considered a trailblazer of Atlanta trap. He has released 10 studio albums.Mai, 44, is a Calif...

One American, two Russians ride Russian capsule to the International Space Station

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — One American and two Russians made a quick trip Friday to the International Space aboard a Russian capsule.NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked at the station three hours later. O’Hara will spend six months there while Kononenko and Chub will spend a year.The trio was supposed to fly to the space station last spring, but their original capsule was needed as a replacement for another crew. That crew — also two Russians and an American — will ride it home later this month. Their stay was extended from six months to a year when their Soyuz capsule developed a coolant leak while parked at the station.It’s the first spaceflight for O’Hara and Chub, while mission commander Kononenko is on his fifth trip to the orbiting outpost.They join seven station residents from U.S., Russia, Denmark and Japan.By the end of his yearlong stay, Kononenko will set a new rec...

Bears will have a change in playcalling for Bucs' game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — There will be someone else calling the defensive plays for the Bears on Sunday in their second game of the 2023 season. On Friday, the team announced that coordinator Alan Williams will miss the game against the Buccaneers in Tampa due to personal reasons. Because of this, head coach Matt Eberflus will fill in for him and make the defensive calls for the team, doing so for the first time since he joined the Bears before the 2022 season. A bad Bears’ streak continues into 2023 "It's more about the operation of the game management side of it," said Eberflus of the added play calling duties this week. "When offense is up, it will be normal business, with throwing challenge flags and being right there with (offensive coordinator) Luke (Getsy) and the offense. When the defense is up, I'll be making the calls and when we're off the field to make the corrections pretty quick."The guys on the sideline are going to help me do that with the players and really, from ther...

Peso Pluma's Chicago concert postponed after singer reportedly threatened by cartel in Tijuana

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

CHICAGO — An upcoming show for singer Peso Pluma that was set to take place in Chicago has been rescheduled after he was reportedly threatened by members of the Jalisco cartel.The Rosemont Theater made the announcement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday afternoon. Aerosmith postpones Chicago stop on farewell tour According to the theater, the show, which was set to take place on Friday, Sept. 15, has been rescheduled to Oct. 29. Organizers say all of the tickets sold for the previous date will be honored.The announcement comes days after the Los Angeles Times and El Sol De Tijuana reported that three banners with threats written on them appeared in Tijuana on Tuesday, where the singer was set to make a stop on Oct. 14. Several other stops on the artist's tour have also been rescheduled following the reported threats. The return of ‘Riot Fest’ highlights ‘Dean’s Weekender’ Peso Pluma, who is currently on his “Doble P México Tour,” performed at the MTV Video...

Special counsel warned Trump could 'precipitate violence' if told of Twitter search warrant

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

Newly unsealed court records indicate special counsel Jack Smith’s team warned that former President Trump could "precipitate violence" unless the court shielded its efforts to obtain information on his Twitter account. The records show Smith's office obtained a total of 32 direct messages from Trump’s account as part of its investigation, with a copy of the warrant also unsealed Friday showing the breadth of the information prosecutors sought. The 71-page filing from prosecutors, submitted to the court in April but unsealed Friday, offers new details about why Smith’s team feared alerting Trump to the matter.The secret battle to obtain the records was revealed in an opinion unsealed in August, showing that Twitter, now known as X, was fined $350,000 for not complying with a court order to turn over the records.Earlier unsealed court records showed the special counsel was concerned that if Trump knew about the warrant to access his account he could disclose it to the public, so...

Roberto Clemente Day: Family and friends explain what made him so special

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:42 GMT

Pittsburgh, Pa. (WTAJ) - On Sept. 15, Americans remember Roberto Clemente as a selfless humanitarian and one of the greatest players to ever live, but to his son, he was simply "dad.""He was a lot of other things that people don't know. Dad spent a lot of time playing the harmonica, playing the organ, making ceramics. He was a poet," said Roberto Jr. in a recent interview with Nexstar's WTAJ. Clemente was born on Aug. 18, 1934, in Puerto Rico. Unable to afford a glove or bat, Roberto Jr. says that didn't stop his dad from playing ball. (Roberto Clemente Museum)(Roberto Clemente Museum)(Roberto Clemente Museum)"At the time you would get cardboard or anything to make a glove...tree branches for bats, cans for balls, so you used anything in your imagination to play the game. He truly believed that God put him on Earth to play baseball."Clemente's love and dedication to the game would get him signed to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1955. With unmatched talent, you'd think he'd be an immedia...