Yahoo Movies News bulletin 2023/05/15 12:13
News bulletin 2023/05/15 12:13
News bulletin 2023/05/15 12:13
The play was not as crisp as it should be come April, but there was an intensity on the court that we have never before seen in December, and for that the league wins.
The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics played out Tuesday in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies facing criminal charges. Seven individuals are also facing charges from Tokyo district prosecutors in the cases, including Koji Henmi, who oversaw the sports division at Dentsu at the time. Executives or management-level officials at each of the accused companies, and Tokyo Olympic organizing committee official Yasuo Mori, have been charged with violating anti-monopoly laws.
A large explosion occurred in Arlington, Virginia on Monday, December 4, after a suspect “discharged several rounds” of a flare gun inside their home, police said.According to the Arlington County Police Department, “officers were attempting to execute a search warrant at the residence, the suspect discharged several rounds inside the home. Subsequently, an explosion occurred at the residence and officers continue to investigate the circumstances of the explosion.”In later updates, police reported minor injuries at the scene.Later in the evening, the Arlington Fire Department said the fire was “under control.”This footage, filmed from a distance by X user @CoralCough, shows flames and smoke escaping traveling through the sky. Credit: @CoralCough via Storyful
Brenntag is the latest in a series of old and famous German companies, such as Bayer and Thyssenkrupp, that have been targeted by activist investors to divest part of their business to improve profitability. It said the "operational and legal disentanglement" of the specialities and essentials divisions would create optionality and make Brenntag ready for next strategic steps by 2026.
Casper the Great Pyrenees was recently nominated the People's Choice Pup as part of the Farm Bureau's Farm Dog of the Year awards. Casper was horrifically injured defending his owner and sheep from a pack of 8 coyotes last year, but thanks to donations has fully recovered.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pavel Buchnevich scored 38 seconds into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Monday night. Alexey Toropchenko scored in regulation for the Blues and Jordan Binnington made 33 saves. The Blues improved to 12-0-0 when scoring the first goal of the game, and are 3-0-1 in their last four straight trips to Vegas. “We feel real good when we score first, that’s for sure,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “We haven’t done a great job when we haven’t scored
Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist. The 33-year-old civil engineer gets nervous laughs whenever he breaks a de facto rule of Chinese comedy: Don’t say anything that makes China look bad. To most comedians, that means no jokes about censorship, no mentioning the president's name, and no discussion of China’s extraordinarily strict COVID lockdowns or social topics like domestic violence.
Asian stocks slipped to three-week lows and Hong Kong's unloved Hang Seng index slumped to a one-year trough on Tuesday while bonds and the dollar steadied as investors tempered expectations for cuts to U.S. interest rates and waited on U.S. jobs data. The Australian dollar fell 0.6% after the central bank left interest rates on hold, as expected, and emphasised that the future direction rates would depend on data. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 1% in late afternoon trade, with Hong Kong doing most of the dragging with a 1.6% fall.
Home Secretary will meet his counterpart to sign the treaty and discuss next steps during his first overseas visit in the job
United Way California Capital Region is seeking community support in providing holiday gifts and other needed items for foster youth and their families in the San Juan Unified School District. Gifts and items will be distributed at the upcoming San JUANderful Holiday Party.
Sacramento police believe DUI and speeding led to a crash in the Pocket neighborhood that killed a woman and hurt two children. Alethea Lee, 26, is facing charges related to driving under the influence and causing great bodily injury, the police department said. Officers also plan to charge Lee additionally with gross vehicular manslaughter. The crash happened around 6:05 p.m. on Friday along Pocket Road near Greenhaven Drive, police said. A driver had reportedly lost control before they hit three pedestrians, a woman and two children.
A man died Monday evening after a medical emergency during the Sacramento Kings' game with the New Orleans Pelicans, officials said. The Kings told KCRA 3 that a fan had the emergency during the first quarter of the game. Emergency medical services tried CPR on the person, but the man died. "The organization offers its deepest condolences to the guest's family and loved ones," the Kings said.
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Prosecutors say Jerrid Joseph Powell targeted homeless people in their sleep, carrying out four murders in four days
A man is facing murder charges after Woodland police said he rammed another man with his vehicle and then shot him. David Manuel Sanchez-Gallardo, 33, is the person accused of the crash and shooting, the Woodland Police Department said. This all started, police said, when a 36-year-old man went outside a business in the 100 block of West Main Street near Cottonwood Street and started making threats. Sometime later, another man, later identified as Sanchez-Gallardo, drove his vehicle into the business and hit the 36-year-old.
The case against the department is expected to conclude on Thursday with a decision at a later date
His attorneys are making another attempt to block a judge’s order against his attacks