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Former NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott running out of time to make playoffs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Chase Elliott is running out of time.The 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion, whose year was stunted by a snowboarding accident and hindered by a suspension, needs to win one of the next three races to earn a spot in the playoffs.“It’s the only option,” he acknowledged.On a short week, the series shifts to the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Verizon 200 on Sunday before the regular season closes with races at Watkins Glen and Daytona.Elliott lasted just 34 laps in the FireKeepers 400 at Michigan, where Chris Buescher won his second straight race on Monday, because a tire failure sent his car into the wall.“Add it to the list,” he said.The Hendrick Motorsports star had a setback March when he had surgery on his left leg after a snowboarding accident in Colorado, knocking him out of the Pennzoil 400 in Las Vegas days later and the next five races. After coming back, NASCAR suspended him for one race after it determined he deliberately wrecke...

Jets’ defense ready to face a new QB in Carolina after learning sessions in camp with Aaron Rodgers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was calling out signals during a recent walkthrough practice when C.J. Mosley spotted exactly what the New York Jets’ offense was lining up to do.It’s an on-field chess match between the New York Jets middle linebacker and quarterback — and Mosley cracked the code in that moment.“He looked at me and said, ‘What did you say?’ and changed the play,” a smiling Mosley said Tuesday, adding it has been one of the “coolest things” he has seen in training camp this summer. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, that’s different right there.’ Just little stuff like that.”But that has actually been the big stuff Rodgers has brought to the Jets since being acquired from Green Bay in April. The 39-year-old Rodgers is building a rapport with the offense and looking to turn one of the NFL’s worst units the past few seasons into one of its best. He’s also helping the defense improve by keeping that side of the ball on its toes. Rodgers rout...

Chelsea forward Nkunku to miss ‘extended period’ because of knee surgery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Chelsea forward Christopher Nkunku had knee surgery and will be sidelined for “an extended period,” the Premier League club said Tuesday.The 25-year-old France international joined Chelsea this summer from Leipzig for a reported transfer fee of $66 million.Nkunku sustained the injury during Chelsea’s preseason match against Borussia Dortmund in Chicago.Chelsea, which spent heavily last season with disappointing results, issued a brief statement that Nkunku had undergone an operation “and will now begin a rehabilitation program with the club’s medical department.”Nkunku has made 10 appearances for France and played for Paris Saint-Germain before joining Leipzig in 2019.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

UNC is appealing to the NCAA for immediate eligibility for transfer WR Devontez Walker

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

North Carolina coach Mack Brown said Tuesday the school is appealing to the NCAA for immediate eligibility for transfer Devontez Walker, the Tar Heels’ presumed No. 1 receiver whose status is in question weeks before the opener.The NCAA denied the waiver for Walker to play immediately after his transfer from Kent State, where he played two seasons. NCAA rules generally allow players to transfer freely once, but Brown said Walker had enrolled at UNC in January just days before the NCAA revised rules to limit waivers for two-time transfers for evaluation on a case-by-case basis.“He’s just down, he’s wondering, he’s anxious, and it’s really, really hard to focus in practice,” Brown told reporters after Tuesday’s practice in Chapel Hill. “And I feel tough for him.”Walker is an instate product from Charlotte and had transferred to be closer to family, notably an ailing grandmother who had played a large role in raising him but has been unable to travel...

Colorado hit hardest by restaurant inflation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- It's become more expensive to dine out around the country, overall, but Colorado has increased more than any other state, according to Blueprint via USA Today.Blueprint used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to determine that spending on restaurant food has increased nationwide by 10% in the last six months. That equates to an average of $222 that people are spending on dining out, take out or delivery every month. While fewer people have been dining out in the last six months, the cost of restaurant food has shot up 6% since the beginning of the year, the Blueprint study said. That is why spending on food prepared by others has increased. Mega Millions: How much of the $1.58 billion will you actually take home? But in the Centennial State, it has gone up the most at 24% from $91.45 in November 2022 to $112.95 in June 2023. Arizona was just a percentage point behind. While Coloradans and visitors to the state are spending an average of $21.50 more per person indulg...

Bulls gets out of Utah County Fair rodeo arena, injuring family members of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

(TMX) – A bull that escaped the Utah County Fair and charged the mother and brother of the state’s lieutenant governor, injuring them.A video shared by Chris Henson shows the Texas longhorn bull entering the rodeo ring at the fairgrounds in Spanish Fork Thursday night. After immediately throwing a rider and quickly goring a scarecrow, rodeo cowboys attempt to gain control of the animal.One of the horses crashes into a gate, knocking over a worker and pushing it open. The bull immediately follows and runs free.Out in a parking area, the rampaging bull set its sights on the family of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson.“Despite being chased, knocked down & stepped on (bro’s foot) they miraculously escaped w/minor injuries. They’re pretty shaken (and I’m pretty pissed),” Henderson tweeted the following day.On Saturday, she posted a video of the event, noting it would “probably trigger” her mother. “Imagine unexpectedly facing this animal in a dark parking lot.”Per reports, Henderson’s ...

Shakespeare and penguin book get caught in Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare’s plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides developed, in part, to take into consideration the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” laws.The changes to the Hillsborough County Public Schools’ curriculum guides were made with Florida’s new laws prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in mind. Other reasons included revised state standards and an effort to get students to read a wide variety of books for new state exams, the school district said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.Several Shakespeare plays use suggestive puns and innuendo, and it is implied that the protagonists have had premarital sex in “Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare’s books will be available for checkout at media centers at schools, said the district, which covers the Tampa area.“First and foremost, we have not exc...

Viral TikTok video captures wheelchair-bound woman’s rescue in Fort Lauderdale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

A woman confined to a wheelchair is expressing her gratitude to the Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue team for their heroic efforts in carrying her up several flights of stairs to her downtown condominium when elevator services abruptly stopped.Haleigh Rosa, 34, a former television reporter in North Dakota, sustained a life-altering injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down. She has since dedicated her time to advocating for the rights of the disabled community. “I was injured in a car accident eight and a half years ago so I’m paralyzed from the waist down and I use a wheelchair,” said Rosa. On Monday, a flood within her downtown Fort Lauderdale condo resulted in the suspension of elevator operations, leaving Rosa stranded on the 31st floor of her building.“Apparently there was a pipe that had burst and created a flood in some units, I believe, in the hallway and the elevators flooded as well or had water damage so they were out of use,” said Rosa. ...

Weight loss drug sends Eli Lilly soaring

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS — Eli Lilly’s diabetes treatment Mounjaro, which is widely used for weight loss, raked in nearly $1 billion in second-quarter sales, or more than $200 million above what Wall Street had expected.Shares of the drugmaker soared to an all-time-high Tuesday, closing up more than 14% at $521.60 after Lilly said Mounjaro sales swelled more than 70% since the first quarter to $980 million.  Almost all of that came from the U.S., and the company said significant demand was leading to delays in filling orders for some doses.Analysts expected the drug to bring in about $740 million during the quarter, according to FactSet.Executives said they expect tight supplies will lead to some spot shortages of Mounjaro through year’s end. Lilly is building a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina and expanding at another location there.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Mounjaro at the end of last year’s second quarter to treat type 2 diabetes, but analysts ...

Massachusetts spending $45M a month on programs for migrants, displaced families, Healey says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:54 GMT

Massachusetts is spending more than $45 million a month on programs and emergency shelter for newly-arrived migrant and displaced families, Gov. Maura Healey said in a Tuesday letter to federal officials.The cost — which adds up to roughly $540 million a year — is the first clear sign of the total toll an influx of migrants has had on taxpayers in Massachusetts. The Healey administration has contracted with hotels and motels around the state and shelter management firms in a bid to open up more beds.Healey used the cost to emphasize the need for federal assistance in a message to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that also declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts.“Although Massachusetts is adding shelter units every week, without extraordinary measures, we fear we will be unable to add capacity fast enough to place all eligible families into shelter,” Healey wrote in a letter sent Tuesday. “Even though we are currently spending more than $45 milli...