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Auburn lands ex-Michigan State QB Payton Thorne

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Former Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne is headed to Auburn.Auburn announced the signing of the two-year starter on Friday, giving new coach Hugh Freeze an experienced quarterback to boost a passing game that ranked among the nation’s worst last season.Thorne went 16-10 as a starter for the Spartans. He has thrown for 6,494 yards with 49 touchdowns against 24 interceptions.Spartans coach Mel Tucker had said this spring that the two-time team captain was part of an open competition to take the first snap next season.Thorne ranks fourth in career touchdown passes at Michigan State, fifth in completion percentage (61) and sixth in passing yards.He started all 12 games last season, passing for 2,679 yards with 19 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The fifth-year senior, who has two years of eligibility remaining, led Michigan State to a Peach Bowl victory.Auburn returns Robby Ashford, who started much of last season after transferring from Oregon, and red...

US fullback Joe Scally growing up fast in German league

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Joe Scally arrived in Germany just after his 18th birthday in the depths of a pandemic lockdown and soon became a regular starter in the German soccer league. The next step is to become a regular with the U.S. national team. After breaking into the team at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Scally was included in the U.S. squad for the World Cup in Qatar last year but did not play a single minute. He’s already looking ahead to the 2026 World Cup that will be co-hosted by the U.S., when Scally is determined to have a much bigger role.“Not being able to play one minute (in Qatar) definitely affected me immensely just because, playing every single game in the Bundesliga then to not even get a minute, I don’t understand that,” the 20-year-old Scally said in a recent call with reporters. “I definitely have that next World Cup, you know, circled on my calendar to be playing. When you see the guys out there walking out on the national anthem, it is, I’m sure, no be...

How many COVID cases are in Colorado now that the public health emergency is ending?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The nation's declaration of a public health emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic will end on May 11, and Colorado's with it. The public health emergency has been in place since January 31, 2020, having been renewed 13 times since then. Aspiring Colorado model falls to her death from hotel roof, boyfriend arrested As the declaration ends, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will continue tracking case, death, hospitalization rates and additional surveillance data on a new website, which will be updated with less frequency. In Colorado, the COVID-19 virus is still present but at its lowest-ever levels. As of May 2, 2023, there were an average of 153 cases per day throughout the state. This matches the lowest levels of Colorado COVID contagion in the summer of 2020 following the first period of economic and personal movement restrictions. It is worth noting that in that first summer after the pandemic started testing was still limited in Colorado and...

Student arrested for creating school shooting threat that went viral on social media

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

A South Florida teenager has been arrested after, police said, they were responsible for creating and sharing a school shooting threat on social media which ended up going viral. According to Coral Springs Police, 18-year-old Catrina Petit made the threats and spread them around pretending to be another student in an effort to get that student in trouble. https://twitter.com/CoralSpringsPD/status/1654583129212952579The threat was shared among students and parents in Miami-Dade, and Broward County. Detectives said Petit, a senior at JP Taravella High School, confessed to creating the threat. She is now facing multiple felony charges. The shooting threat was first discovered Thursday afternoon, prompting local police departments to issue statements regarding the matter. Authorities determined that the threat was not credible, but they were anxious to get to the bottom of it, which resulted in the student’s arrest. According to a post on the Pinecrest Police Department’s...

Mother of son killed in Parkland shooting creates children’s book detailing the horrors of gun violence

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

At first glance it looks like a children’s book but the story is from a fairy tale. It tells the tragic story of Joaquin Oliver.Now, his mother is taking a stand against gun violence while sending a message to lawmakers. “My name is Patricia Oliver, I’m Joaquin’s mom,” said Oliver, who lost her son during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Mother’s Day is less than two weeks away.For Oliver, it’s been six Mother’s Day without her son.Joaquin was one of the 17 victims killed inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018.Since that day, she and her husband, Manuel Oliver, have been fighting for gun reform using different platforms and strategies in an attempt to persuade lawmakers to create change.“Every time you go and visit one of them, it’s the same rhetoric, it’s the same conversation,” Oliver said. “You’re asking for the same issues, and you don’t ...

Pembroke Elementary School staffer on leave for bringing marijuana edible to school, student rushed to hospital

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

A Pembroke school staffer was placed on leave Friday after school officials said the employee brought a marijuana edible to school. A 9-year-old student got his hands on the edible and was rushed to a hospital, officials said. The student had been released from the hospital as of around 4 p.m. and is okay. As an investigation gets underway, though, 7NEWS spoke with the child’s father, who said this should not have happened.“We’re not a club,” the father said. “It’s a school. My son is only nine-years-old. He shouldn’t know about this stuff at nine-years-old.”The incident happened Friday morning at Hobomock Elementary School after schools superintendent Erin Obey said a paraprofessional took a backpack containing a cannabis product into a classroom. Somehow, the student got a hold of the edible. “That bar had 20 pieces,  they said,” the student’s father said. “One piece was missing. That made it 19.”“He didn’t feel good, he’s tired. I see his eyes are glossy,” the...

Healey: Tax Relief Remains “Absolutely Essential”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

Gov. Maura Healey doubled down on her tax relief plan on Friday, insisting that a shortfall in state revenue that has plunged this year’s state budget into the red was predicted and accounted for in her fiscal 2024 budget.“We put together our budget and our tax relief package — we did so knowing that there was likely to be some drop in revenue. We’ve seen a drop. And you know, I just want folks to know we’ve accounted for that. And it remains the case that our tax relief package that we propose we stand by, we think it’s really important,” she told four reporters who were able to ask her a few questions after a State House event Friday afternoon.Massachusetts collected $4.782 billion in taxes in April, a drop of $2.163 billion or 31.2 percent from the same month a year earlier and $1.435 billion or 23.1 percent below the most recent monthly benchmark projection, the Department of Revenue announced Wednesday.Despite collecting $703 milli...

A surprising number of drifting sea creatures found living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

(CNN) — Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.Ocean surface currents have shaped the enormous garbage pile for decades, funneling human-made debris into a region that extends for hundreds of thousands of square miles in the North Pacific, spanning waters between Hawaii and California.But that’s not all the currents are transporting. A surprising number of delicate, floating invertebrates, called neustons, are making the Great Pacific Garbage Patch home, according to data from a new study.In particular, there are violet sea snails in the Janthina genus and bright-blue jellyfish relatives known as sea rafts (Velella genus) and blue sea buttons (Porpita genus).They’re part of a community of creatures thriving in the 620,000 square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) of plastic debris — an area roughly the size...

Jalen Brunson ‘ready to go’ for Game 3 in Miami after extra rest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

While the NBA playoffs continued for teams that made it into the second rounds, the Heat and Knicks enjoyed three days of rest between Games 2 and 3.The time off provided valuable rest for Julius Randle and Jalen Brunson to recover from their ankle injuries, but the point guard acknowledged that the team waiting in Miami benefitted from the time off as well.“Honestly I think it helps both sides,” Brunson said at Friday’s practice. “Them and us obviously, you’re well rested. We’re itching to play, they’re probably itching to play. I’m just ready to go now.”When asked about the status of his ankle, Brunson replied “I would say I’m ready to go.”On Miami’s side, the extra time off helps Jimmy Butler’s sprained ankle, which caused him to miss the Knicks’ Game 2 win at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday. Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said his star forward worked on Friday and is planning to play Game ...

Jets rookie DE Will McDonald will wear franchise sack leader Mark Gastineau’s No. 99

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:02:31 GMT

Will McDonald said he only got 45 minutes of sleep from the time he was drafted by the Jets at No. 15 to the time he entered the team facility.McDonald says he has been able to rest a bit in the seven days since.“I’ve been getting the right amount of sleep,” McDonald said at the start of the Jets’ rookie minicamp on Friday afternoon. “I usually try to get to bed before 10.“Eating the right foods, waking up, doing what I got to do to keep my body healthy.”Many were surprised the Jets selected McDonald with their first-round pick, considering the current logjam at defensive end. But with all of the first-round-rated offensive tackles off the board at that point, Gang Green decided to take the best available player and a pass rusher who could potentially wreak havoc at the line of scrimmage.During Friday’s practice at Florham Park, McDonald and the rest of the rookies participated in positional drills. He will wear No. 99, his first numbe...