Spending time in Anacostia? Get to know this Washington neighborhood by browsing its most popular local businesses, from a Thai restaurant to a nail salon. Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top places to visit in Anacostia, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of neighborhood businesses. Read on for the results. 1. Turning Natural Topping the list is vegetarian spot Turning Natural , which offers salads, smoothies and more. Located at 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, it's the highest-rated business in the neighborhood, boasting 4.5 stars out of 99 reviews on Yelp. On the menu you'll find items like spinach patties, black bean burgers and acai bowls. 2. Thai Orchid's Kitchen Next up is Thai spot Thai Orchid's Kitchen , situated at 2314 Pennsylvania Ave. SE (between South Fairlawn Avenue and South Prout Street). With four stars out of 294 reviews on Yelp, it's proved to be a local favorite. Check out the classic Thai dishes like drunken noodles, pineapple fried rice and pad thai on the menu. 3. MLK Deli MLK Deli , which offers sandwiches and more, is another top choice. Yelpers give the business, located at 3113 Martin Luther King Jr Ave. SE, 4.5 stars out of 79 reviews. Menu items include wings, salads and fried chicken, and Yelpers rave about the crab cake sandwich. 4. Pimento Grill Pimento Grill , a Caribbean and breakfast and brunch spot, is another neighborhood go-to, with four stars out of 228 Yelp reviews. Head over to 4405 Bowen Road SE (between South 45th Place and South Ridge Road) to see for yourself. On the menu you'll find breakfast sandwiches, jerk tilapia salad and fried sweet plantains. 5. Nailbed & Bar Check out Nailbed & Bar , which has earned 4.5 stars out of 37 reviews on Yelp. You can find the nail salon at 2922 Minnesota Ave. SE (between South 30th and South M streets). Services include manicures and pedicures, as well as callus removal and foot massages. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


PIEDMONT   A proposed $200 million residential development in Piedmont stands to be the biggest economic investment in this former textile community in a generation, but it is so big   at 870 homes   that a local councilman worries the area's infrastructure won't be able to handle it. Developer Randy Brewer of Greenville submitted plans last week to Greenville County planners for the 870-home subdivision off Bessie Road near U.S. 25 in southern Greenville County. The site is less than a mile from the proposed Southern Greenville Enterprise Park and is within the Piedmont public service district. "This is the biggest one we've ever attempted," said Brewer, an experienced developer in the area. Brewer is also behind Tanglewood Townes and Edgewood Estates, subdivisions he proposed in March near the old Donaldson Center. A county subdivision advisory committee will take a look at the 870-home proposal June 17 to see what the project would need in order to gain county staff approval, and it will get further perusal at the Greenville County Planning Commission's regular meeting July 24. The area is not zoned, which means Greenville County Council will not have a say in its approval. The project is welcome news to Tracy Wallace, who runs the Piedmont community's fire department, as it promises at full build-out to bring potentially thousands of new residents into the area and hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional property tax revenue. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? Support stories like this by supporting local journalism. Please consider becoming a subscriber. Here's our special offer . Greenville County Councilman Lynn Ballard, however, struck a more cautious tone, pointing out potential congestion and risk on two-lane roads in the area. "I think that's way too many houses," Ballard said this week. From Hollingsworth hunting land to Garden Oaks The proposed subdivision, dubbed "Garden Oaks," is comprised of two lots totaling 335 acres off Bessie and Old Pelzer roads. The larger of the two lots is 293 acres of undeveloped, wooded land that belongs to the Hollingsworth Funds charity of Greenville. A sign at the entrance of the property on Old Pelzer Road declares it a "quality deer management area." Nearby, residents live in modest slab-built and modular homes. Empty fast-food wrappers and beer bottles co-mingle with a thick carpet of dead leaves in ditches lining the two-lane state road. A preliminary traffic study submitted with the subdivision application said the first phase of construction at Garden Oaks would create about 470 homes in five years. That, the study said, would generate 4,300 additional daily trips on Bessie and Old Pelzer roads. At full build-out in perhaps 10 years, the roads in that area would likely need to carry an additional 7,750 cars per day. The preliminary plan shows one entrance into the subdivision on Old Pelzer Road and another on Bessie Road. A second Bessie Road entrance leads into a cul-de-sac. Inside the subdivision, a single road leads to hundreds of homes at the southern end. In addition to potential bottlenecks in peak traffic hours, emergency vehicles, Ballard said, could have trouble getting in and out. "My personal feeling right now, but this preliminary plan doesn't have a snowball's chance of getting approved the way it's presented, just from a safety point of view," Ballard said. Any size subdivision in the county undergoes the scrutiny of multiple agencies, from the sewer provider   MetroConnects in this case   and county planners to the fire department   Piedmont in this case   and the state transportation department, which together look at all available infrastructure in the area, whether services are available and compatibility with what's already there, Wallace said. "They won't let anything slip through that might be dangerous," Wallace said. Thousands of new homes on the horizon Ballard said Garden Oaks is the biggest subdivision he's ever seen proposed in his southern Greenville County district since he came onto County Council in 2014. It's also easily the biggest proposal so far in 2019. The next biggest is the 224-home Woodland Pointe subdivision that Mark III Properties out of Spartanburg proposed in March on Standing Springs Road. (Mark III also bought the nearby Bonnie Brae golf course from the Willimon family on May 15). Countywide, developers have proposed 22 new residential subdivisions so far in 2019   a total of 2,684 single-family homes and townhouses. "We can't stop development," Wallace said. "That's one thing people have got to understand. We are growing." Piedmont , a community bifurcated by the Saluda River   half in Anderson County and the other half in Greenville   was dealt a heavy blow in the 1980s when the J.P. Stevens textile manufacturing company shut down the community's two large mills, Wallace said. Piedmont is a town in all but name, having never incorporated, but the public service district that runs its fire department, recreation and street lights remains, a vestige of the days when textile barons built all of it in the first place. Wallace said a surge of new residents along Old Pelzer Road would help everyone in the Piedmont district. "It's a good thing for this community," Wallace said. "Everything will start looking up   more employment and better and better services." Right place, right time Ballard said when he spoke to the project engineer, he was told homes would sell for between $200,000 and $300,000. Brewer was not that specific and said prices would vary within the development. The median price of homes on the market right now across Greenville County is $272,945, according to zillow.com , an online real-estate database company. "There's a lot of activity going out that way, Brewer said, "so we want to provide home sites for them." Currently classified as agricultural land, the nearly 300 acres of Hollingsworth property's tax bill last year was less than $600, according to county records. By contrast, taxes on each of the proposed 870 homes for the site stands to be two or three times that amount. "We just happened to be at the right place at the right time," Brewer said of working with the Hollingsworth people on the project. "We saw which way the direction of development was going and started sniffing around and got a contract on it." If approved, the project would likely use at least four builders, each building houses in a quadrant of the property at roughly the same time, Brewer said. Calls to Hollingsworth Funds were not returned. Public records show the property was purchased by Paramount Developers, a company associated with the late John Hollingsworth, in 1979. It is among the larger Hollingsworth Funds tracts, which owns 1,925 acres in Greenville County. Hollingsworth, a textile machinery entrepreneur, died in 2000, leaving behind a bequest with net assets currently standing at $375 million, according to the organization's most recent federal filing . Hollingsworth gave away about $7.7 million last year, primarily to Furman University and the YMCA of Greenville. Related ► Is Piedmont the next Travelers Rest? Bridge and waterfall could be the key ► John Hollingsworth donated his massive estate to local charities ► Greenville County official's family owns 149 acres where new business park off U.S. 25 planned This article originally appeared on The Greenville News: Developer pitches $200 million, 870-home subdivision near Piedmont


French officials have launched a manhunt for an individual suspected of leaving an explosive on a busy street in the French city of Lyon that injured 13 people and blew out the windows of a nearby bakery. Because the blast happened in broad daylight and in a public space, it was being investigated as an assassination attempt linked to a terrorist enterprise, prosecutor Remy Heinz said at a press conference in Paris on Saturday The man was caught on surveillance cameras arriving on scene on foot at 5:25 p.m., local time, on Friday afternoon, and setting a paper bag on the ground. The explosion happened less than two minutes after the man is seen walking away -- at 5:28 p.m. and 39 seconds, according to Heinz. Investigators were able to track the suspect as he made his way from the Rhone River waterfront area, and then walked away from the scene along the same route. He made part of the journey on a bicycle. officials said. "It was scary," Gisele Sanchez, a local business owner, told the Associated Press. At the scene on Victor Hugo Street, investigators found screws, LR6 batteries, metal balls and a bomb triggering mechanism that allowed for remote triggering, Heinz said. (MORE: No more Mr Europe: Macron forced to curb EU ambitions) No group has claimed credit for the attack. Of the 13 people wounded, 11 were taken to the hospital and several had to undergo operations to remove fragments from the blast from their bodies, Heinz said. (MORE: Manhunt continues for shooter in suspected terrorist attack in France) Late on Friday evening, police put out a call seeking witnesses, and since then, they have taken several dozen statements, officials said. France has been on alert since a series of attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more. Last December, a gunman killed several people and injured a dozen more at a Christmas Market in Strasbourg, in eastern France. (MORE: US Women's soccer stars hope 2019 World Cup inspires girls to 'believe in themselves') Lyon, in central France, is the country's third largest city, and it is due to host the finals of the Women's World Cup soccer tournament on July 7. In January, a science building at the University of Lyon in France caught fire after three gas cylinders on the roof of the building exploded, injuring three students -- though officials said at the time that the incident was not tied to terrorism.


Kawhi Leonard is one of the most dominant defenders in the NBA today. According to a story by Jayson Jenks at The Athletic, Leonard's early dominance in college lead to some interesting conversations between him and his teammates and coaches. When trying to establish team defense, Leonard would ask why everyone couldn't just guard their own man. The answer was that not everyone on the team was Kawhi Leonard. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Kawhi Leonard is known for his quiet demeanor and his dominant play on the court. Leonard shot to superstardom early in his career as he won NBA Finals MVP with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014, and this year has the Toronto Raptors on the cusp of their first title in franchise history. Leonard's work ethic is known throughout the league, and according to an oral history from The Athletic's Jayson Jenks , dates back to his college days at San Diego State. According to Jenks, Leonard was mostly the same person we see today during his time playing for the Aztecs - always in the gym, impossible to guard, and an unstoppable force on defense. But while Leonard was a supremely talented individual player, his teammates and coaches say he expressed some frustrations with team defense. "We would talk about rotations and how to help," assistant coach Justin Hutson told Jenks. "I would get him on it about. He was respectful, but he would be very frustrated and say, 'Why can't everybody just guard their own man?' Those were exactly his words. "Why can't everybody just guard their own man?'" Forward Tim Shelton told Jenks the same thing: "Guys coming from high school have trouble with help-side defense. Kawhi made a comment to coach Hutson, who was the defensive coach at the time, and he was like, 'I don't get it, coach. Why can't they just stay in front of their man like I do? Like, why do I have to play help side?' That was his only comment I ever heard him make about defense: 'They should just be able to stay in front of their man like I do.'" It's easy to imagine Leonard's frustration - if the team was made up of five Kawhi Leonard's on defense, no one would ever have to get beat and wind up in need of help. Eventually, Leonard became as solid a help-defender as he is one-on-one, as is evident from his play today in the NBA, but Leonard's frustrations in college also helped his teammates push themselves further in their own game. "In practice, he would tell us, 'Don't help, I don't need help, I got it, I don't need help.'" said DJ Gay, another San Diego State teammate. "That's just how he was. That was his mentality. 'I don't need help; why do you need help?' But then it made us better because it challenged us: If Kawhi doesn't need help, I don't need help, either." You can read Jenks' entire piece on Leonard's college days here . Read more from Tyler Lauletta: Obama took a small jab at Kobe Bryant while talking about Michael Jordan and the NBA Finals Newly crowned heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. really wants Snickers to sponsor him Jimmy Kimmel has Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, and other NBA stars read mean tweets about themselves All Elite Wrestling made a clear statement with its first official event - and it should put WWE on notice Related slideshow: Best of the NBA Finals (Provided by imagn)


Before he hung up the phone following an interview with the Observer, Central Michigan head coach Jim McElwain had a request regarding his former player, Jordan Scarlett   who McElwain suspended twice while both were at the University of Florida. "If you do get a chance to talk to him, tell him I'm rooting for him, man," McElwain said. "I hope he does well." The NFL is known for its willingness to give second chances. Whether some of its recipients deserve one is subjective; but the people who know Jordan Scarlett say he deserves his. The Panthers rookie wasn't the best-known name selected during the 2019 NFL Draft, when Carolina made him the 154th overall pick. His tape showed a running back with a rare blend of speed (4.47-second 40-yard dash) and strength (465-pound max bench press) that the league generally drools over. But his 1,846 yards and 12 touchdowns over three seasons weren't as flashy as some of the other backs taken before him. He slipped into the fifth round, however, partly due to his yearlong suspension as a junior at Florida in 2017 for theft by credit card fraud. Scarlett opted for a pre-trial diversion program to expunge the felony charge from his record and was welcomed back to the team by new head coach Dan Mullen for the 2018 season. Still, it was the second disciplinary suspension of Scarlett's collegiate career   the first stemming from misdemeanor marijuana charges as a freshman   and interested teams had reasonable doubt about Scarlett's character. Panthers general manager Marty Hurney did his homework on Scarlett during the pre-draft process. He liked what he saw on tape but says he needed assurance before adding Scarlett to his team's running backs room. Hurney says he came away impressed   enough so to give Scarlett a call on day three of the draft. "The biggest thing is, he was very remorseful. He admitted he made a mistake when he was a freshman," Hurney said after the draft. "He was the one guy that stayed (after his suspension) and worked his way back to make up for it. I think that's really what impressed us the most. "You talk to anybody down there, they love this kid." No freedom of consequence Scarlett added $1,940 to his girlfriend's UF bookstore account in 2017, using stolen credit card information. Per the Gainesville Sun, he admitted to investigators that h e used the information to buy computer equipment "because he thought he could get away with it." He didn't. McElwain, then the Florida coach, suspended Scarlett, along with eight other players, for what amounted to the entire 2017 season. Rather than remove him from the team outright, McElwain gave the running back an opportunity to earn his redemption. "He just wanted to see if I was going to be one of those guys that quit or if I was going to continue to work," Scarlett said. "I always stayed working out and kept my head in that gameplan. "I stuck around because I felt like I had something to prove. I had to clean up my name, for one, and two, I had to prove to Gator fans that I really cared about the program. It was more of a thing for me to show everybody and show myself." McElwain said he never believed Scarlett wasn't a good fit to remain with the team, or wasn't a good person. But he said his responsibility as a coach and molder of young men meant implementing one of his programs' core philosophies. "We all have freedom of choice   we don't have freedom of consequence," McElwain said. "It's really what we learn from our choices. In this case, he didn't pout, he didn't come in and try to hide it. That's what I love about Jordan and a couple of other guys that were involved, they owned up to it. That, to me, tells me a lot about a person. "He understood what it was, took care of it immediately and worked his tail off. With that, I think sometimes those bumps in the road that happen to us along the way help us become stronger." While three of the nine suspended players, transferred from Florida and one, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Antonio Calloway, declared for the NFL Draft, Scarlett began the difficult process of clearing his name. Prior to 2017, he'd never suffered a major injury or took another sort of leave of absence; his year away from football was the longest he'd spent off the field. "It was definitely challenging, one of the toughest times of my life," Scarlett said. "It was something that made me the man who I am today. It made me reflect on how much football meant to me and how I really needed to start taking it more seriously." 'I don't know you and I don't care about your past' McElwain left Florida prior to the 2018 season, meaning if Scarlett were to return to the Gators, it'd be at the decision of a coach who didn't recruit him to the program. But two months after the university hired Mullen, Scarlett and three teammates were re-instated to the team. "Coach Mullen came up to me like a man and told me we're starting off with a clean slate," Scarlett said. "(Mullen said) 'I don't know you, I don't care about your past.' He was never trying to judge me and I was thankful for that. "He gave me the opportunity and I took advantage of it." Mullen could not be reached for comment. Scarlett split time in the Gators' backfield with Lamical Perine, finishing the season second on the team in rushing yards and attempts. It was enough to convince the Panthers to bring him to Charlotte as a backup to Christian McCaffrey. He joins a carefully curated Carolina locker room that lost longtime veteran leaders Thomas Davis and Ryan Kalil, but retained enough veteran leadership to keep the rookie's redemption tour on the right path. Of course, it's not solely on the Panthers vets to keep Scarlett out of trouble   he's responsible for his own behavior. That's what he's proved to those who know him over the past two years. "Every one of us has messed up at some point. The key is learning from any mistake and any failure that we do and move forward," McElwain said. "He never used it as a 'woe is me' kind of deal. He kept working "What makes me more proud than anything is to see guys that fight through when things aren't perfect."     ©2019 The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) Visit The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) at www.charlotteobserver.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Related slideshow: 10 rookie sleepers that could surprise in 2019 (Provided by Larry Brown Sports)


The Iowa and Iowa State football teams found rare, uncommon ground this weekend. Both teams, for some reason, had their Twitter accounts suspended. Fans from both schools were unable to pull up the accounts of either the Cyclones or Hawkeyes football teams on Saturday. A message reading, "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter rules" appeared while trying to call up the accounts. So, what's up? Iowa spokesperson Steve Roe said in an email to The Des Moines Register on Saturday that the Hawkeyes had two accounts suspended: football and women's gymnastics. "Two University of Iowa Athletics Department official twitter accounts have been suspended due to music copyright infringement in a limited number of posts in 2018," Roe wrote. "We are in the process of working with Twitter to resolve the issues and to ensure future posts are in compliance, and as a result, one of the accounts has been reactivated. We appreciate everyone's patience and support of the UI Athletics Department social media accounts." Iowa State spokesperson Mike Green said the school was "currently looking into the matter with Twitter." BEST OF WEEK 1: The 10 best matchups from Week 1 of the 2019 college football season EARLY HEISMAN WATCH: The top 10 Heisman Trophy candidates after spring practice Now this is strange. Both Iowa and Iowa State's official football Twitter accounts ( @HawkeyeFootball and @CycloneFB ) have been suspended. No other Big Ten or Big 12 schools affected. pic.twitter.com/YyUBLruu6d   Mitch Fick (@MCFick) May 18, 2019 This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Iowa and Iowa State football team Twitter accounts suspended Related slideshow: Early Top 25 college football teams for 2019 (Provided by USA Today Sports)


Citywide San Francisco-based business intelligence company Collective Health has secured $205 million in Series E funding, according to company database Crunchbase , topping the city's recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced June 17 and led by SoftBank. According to its Crunchbase profile, "Collective Health gives companies a smarter alternative to traditional health insurance. Through a cloud-based, integrated health benefits platform, the company enables self-insured employers to get more out of their healthcare investment while taking better care of their people. Collective Health has seen exponential traction in the $1.2 trillion employer-sponsored insurance market   its membership has grown by 500x in just three sales cycles." The six-year-old company has raised four previous funding rounds, including a $110 million Series D round in 2018. The round brings total funding raised by San Francisco companies in information technology over the past month to $414 million, an increase of $99 million from the month before. The local information technology industry has produced 283 funding rounds over the past year, securing a total of $5.7 billion in venture funding. In other local funding news, aquaculture company Aquabyte announced a $10 million Series A funding round on June 11, led by Costanoa Ventures. According to Crunchbase, "Aquabyte builds machine learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms. Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. Our diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact." The company also raised a $3.5 million seed round in 2018. Meanwhile, quality assurance company Testim raised $10 million in Series B funding, announced on June 12. The round's investors were led by SignalFire. From the company's Crunchbase profile, "Testim makes it easy for developers and testers to become automation experts, making quality an organization-wide initiative and powering developers to own code quality." TESTIM last raised $5.6 million in Series A funding in 2017. Also of note, smart cities company Swiftly raised $10 million in Series A funding, announced on June 7 and led by Aster. From Crunchbase, "Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility. Built by transportation experts for transportation professionals, the Swiftly platform harnesses billions of data points and sophisticated algorithms to improve transit system performance, service reliability and real-time passenger information. Swiftly's technology platform is installed in over 50 cities from coast to coast, improving transportation services for millions of riders each day." The company previously raised $1 million in seed funding in 2018. Rounding out the city's recent top local funding events, fitness company Future raised $8.5 million in Series A funding, announced on May 23 and led by Kleiner Perkins. From Crunchbase, "Future pairs you with one of the best coaches on Earth. They have trained pro athletes, Hollywood celebs and thousands of working professionals." The company previously raised $3 million in seed funding in 2018. This story was created automatically using local investment data, then reviewed by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


BALTIMORE   Late in the game with the outcome still not quite decided, the New York Yankees played up to their reputation. At the same time, the Baltimore Orioles put all their youth and inexperience on full display. Gary Sanchez hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to cap a New York rally fueled by Baltimore gaffes, and the Yankees pulled out a 10-7 victory Monday night. BOX SCORE: YANKEES 10, ORIOLES 7 Gleyber Torres homered twice for New York, which trailed 6-1 after four innings and 7-3 after six. "We are Yankees. We have a history, you know what I mean?" Torres said. "We want to go to the championship, the World Series, for sure. So we just prepare mentally right now and try to win and be positive." The rebuilding Orioles looked pretty good for six innings. Then, they fulfilled their stature as the team with the worst record in the AL. They threw to the wrong base, missed popups and were outscored 7-0 over the final three innings. New York scored in the seventh on an overthrow by left fielder Dwight Smith Jr., who fell for a fake tag-up on third base. In the ninth, right fielder Joey Rickard threw to the wrong base on a single, Smith heaved the ball past the plate on Aaron Hicks' tying sacrifice fly as Cameron Maybin took third, catcher Pedro Severino misjudged a foul pop that preceded a two-out walk to Luke Voit and Sanchez connected off Mychal Givens (0-1). "We just did some things the last couple innings that allowed extra base runners, allowed runners to move up," manager Brandon Hyde said. Zach Britton (2-0) worked the eighth and Aroldis Chapman got three outs for his 12th save, ending by striking out Jonathan Villar with a 101 mph fastball. New York's third straight comeback win, sandwiched around a defeat on Saturday, was led by Torres. The shortstop is 17 for 35 against the Orioles with three multihomer games, and eight of his 10 home runs have come against Baltimore. Sanchez hit seven of his 13 versus the Orioles, who have allowed a major league-leading 97. Hanser Alberto and Renato Nunez homered for the Orioles. Subbing in the leadoff spot for the slumping Villar, Alberto moved within a triple of hitting for the cycle by the fourth inning. He doubled in the first, added his third home run in the third and added an RBI single in the fourth. After hitting a fly ball in the sixth, Alberto got his career-high fourth hit before Villar entered as pinch runner. It was all for naught. "There was a good vibe, you know, even though obviously it wasn't going our way early and we were down big," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "It was kind that theme in the dugout, just chip away at this." Orioles starter Andrew Cashner allowed three runs over six gritty innings, and ended up watching Baltimore absorb another defeat and fall to 15-32. "To me this is the toughest one of the season for sure," he said. Not all the mistakes were made by Baltimore. Voit aided the Orioles when he allowed Trey Mancini's foul pop to drop near first in the sixth inning and Mancini followed with a sacrifice fly. Yankees starter J.A. Happ allowed six runs and a pair of solo homers in 3 2/3 innings, but New York's comeback got him a no-decision. In four starts against Baltimore this season, the lefty has a 7.79 ERA. He has given up 13 homers in 10 starts. ROAD TRIP Mechanical issues with the Yankees' plane to Baltimore following a home weekend series against Tampa Bay forced the club to call an audible, with most of the team making the trip down the I-95 corridor Sunday by bus. "Myself and a few coaches ended up taking a train down," Boone said. "I think the bus ride was another one of those of those bonding experiences that guys have as players." TRAINER'S ROOM Yankees: SS Didi Gregorius played five innings at extended spring training in his first game action since Tommy John surgery on Oct. 17. . 3B Miguel Andujar underwent season-ending surgery to repair a right labrum tear. ... RHP Dellin Betances (right shoulder) continued his throwing program Monday, extending his throwing to 105 feet from flat ground. . OF Giancarlo Stanton (left shoulder) began his rehab assignment by hitting a solo home run for Class A Tampa on Monday night, his first game action since March 31. . SS Troy Tulowitzki (left calf), sidelined since April 3, resumed on-field batting practice Monday and continued taking grounders at shortstop and third base. . Boone said there is will be no timetable for RF Aaron Judge's return (left oblique) until he begins swinging a bat. So far he's only been running and playing catch. Orioles: RHP Nate Karns (right forearm strain) was moved to the 60-day IL to make room on the 40-man roster for RHP Josh Lucas, whose contract was selected from Triple-A Norfolk. This is Lucas' second stint this season with Baltimore. UP NEXT Yankees: RHP Domingo German (8-1, 2.50 ERA) seeks to win his sixth consecutive start on Tuesday night in the second game of the series. He could join Tommy John (1979), Herb Pennock (1926) and Jack Chesbro (1904) as the only Yankees to earn nine wins by the end of May. Orioles: Rookie David Hess (1-5, 5.58) has gone seven straight starts without a victory, losing twice to the Yankees during that span. ___ More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports Related slideshow: The 2019 MLB season (Provided by imagn)


Senate Democrats are requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) open an investigation into the costs of President Trump's July 4th celebration, including if it complied with legal restrictions on political activity. Democratic Sens. Tom Udall (N.M.), Patrick Leahy (Vt.) and Chris Van Hollen (Md.) said in a letter to Gene Dodaro, GAO's comptroller general, that they are "concerned by the impacts and the precedent of diverting limited Federal resources " for the July 4th events. "Further, we are troubled by reports that preferential access to the National Mall was organized by political entities such as the Republican National Committee, which furthers the appearance that taxpayer funds were used to accomplish political objectives," they added. The letter comes after Udall accused the Department of Interior last week of refusing to answer an inquiry from lawmakers about Trump's Independence Day plans, including how the additional cost of the plans will be covered. Related video: Planes fly over Washington during Trump's speech The Washington Post reported last week that the National Park Service (NPS) had redirected $2.5 million from its overall budget to help pay for the "Salute to America" event. Trump, flanked by supporters and Pentagon officials, spoke for roughly 45 minutes, focusing largely on the U.S. military. As part of the GAO investigation, the senators are asking the watchdog agency to turn over cost estimates for the events, including separating out the costs for the national Independence Day parade, Trump's Salute to America event, the Capitol Fourth concert event and the annual public viewing of the National Park Service fireworks display. They also want cost estimates related to July 4th events on the mall for the last three years, and information on if any activities or programs were delayed, deferred or cancelled to pay for the additional cost this year. They also want to know whether spending complied with restrictions on political actives, including the Hatch Act.


Manchester United appear to have dipped their toes into the summer transfer market by snapping up teenage sensation Dillon Hoogewerf from Ajax. The 16-year-old announced the move in a post on his Instagram feed, after turning down the opportunity to sign a professional contract at the Amsterdam Arena. The teenager, who has already represented Netherlands at Under-19 level, has not yet been officially announced as a new signing by United - but it posts show a transition from Hoogewerf wearing an Ajax kit, before it morphs into the Red Devils home shirt. A product of the Dutch club's famed academy, Hoogewarf has proven pedigree at youth level after scoring ten goals and grabbing six assists while playing for the Eredivisie champions Under-17 side. Diminutive in stature, Hoogewerf is a tricky, pacy winger who stands just 5'4" tall - which, in years gone by, would have most likely seen him turn down by leading clubs around the world because of his lack of physicality. But the success of Napoli winger Lorenzo Insigne, who is exactly the same height, shows that Hoogewerf has every chance of succeeding at the highest level, and his experiences at a club who have nurtured future stars Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt over the past few years can only stand him in good stead. He is likely to be joined at Old Trafford by Swansea winger Daniel James, whose £15m from Championship side Swansea is expected to be finalised in the coming week. Hoogewerf, meanwhile, is unlikely to report for first team duty at Old Trafford, instead settling into the club's Under-18 setup.


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Liverpool, boosted by the return of a number of key players, ended their pre-season on a high as they comfortably ran out 3-1 winners against Lyon in Geneva.  The game started in the worst possible way for Liverpool, with Alisson Becker uncharacteristically flapping at a Memphis Depay cross before hauling down Moussa Dembele to concede a second minute penalty - Depay scoring the resulting spot-kick. Liverpool eventually grew into the game and Roberto Firmino levelled in the 17th minute, a fierce low drive into the bottom corner. Only four minutes later, they took the lead courtesy of a spectacular own-goal from Joachim Andersen - following a dangerous Ki-Jana Hoever cross. There was a fantastic tempo, and Liverpool began to dominate the game with chances for Mohamed Salah and Harry Wilson. The Reds greater intent was rewarded with a third less than ten minutes into the second half, as Wilson rifled home a venomous drive from 25 yards out - on the same day he was linked with a £25m move to Bournemouth. From there on, it was plain sailing as Liverpool took control - here's 90min's full review of the game. LIVERPOOL Key Talking Point They're back. Liverpool welcomed back star men Alisson, Mohamed Salah and Firmino - and it was clear to see their importance to the side. The other boost for Reds fans is that Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri returned to the starting line-up following injury lay-offs. Firmino and Shaqiri only lasted 30 minutes, but that's all they needed to make a significant contribution. Of course, the Reds were much, much improved with their star performers back on the field, but perhaps the most relieving thing for Reds fans was the strength of the midfield. A strong performance to end pre-season  Next up, we head to Wembley    Liverpool FC (@LFC) July 31, 2019 Keita was clearly keen to put in a strong performance, and he did exactly that on his return. Most notably however, Adam Lallana was outstanding in dictating the tempo of the game - leaving Jurgen Klopp with a big decision ahead of Sunday's Community Shield clash with Manchester City. The surprising reoccurring issue in pre-season for the Reds is their shaky defence - and it was once again on show in this performance. Lyon started the game brightly but faded drastically as the game wore on, yet they were still able to carve open a rusty defence. But seriously, what's happened to the solidity we came to know all season last season? Really worried now.   chege ndegwa (@chegendegwa) July 31, 2019 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain impressed after coming on, but it was 16-year-old Harvey Elliott who stood out in his cameo role, picking up some intelligent positions in-between the opposition's midfield and defence. Player Ratings Starting XI: Alisson (4); Hoever (7), Gomez (5), Lovren (5), Larouci (6); Keita (6), Shaqiri (7), Lallana (7); Wilson (8), Salah (6), Firmino (7) Substitutes: Milner (6), Brewster (6), Lewis (5), Van den Berg (5), Duncan (6), Mignolet (6), Van Dijk (7), Matip (6), Alexander-Arnold (6), Robertson (6), Elliot (7), Origi (6), Henderson (6), Oxlade-Chamberlain (7), Fabinho (6) STAR MAN - There was a whole host of top performances in a much improved Liverpool showing, with Hoever, Firmino, Elliott and Shaqiri all impressing. But, it was Harry Wilson who stole the show with a simply outrageous goal. Another BOSS finish from @harrywilson_  pic.twitter.com/IosRegCVue   Liverpool FC (@LFC) July 31, 2019 He was clearly keen to showcase his worth to the side. Despite the Reds starting slowly, Wilson started strongly with an early attempt hitting the post. The Welshman grew into the game and picked up some dangerous positions, linking up well with the Reds' returning stars. His technique for his goal was superb, receiving the ball from distance but striking a crisp, clean effort into the top corner. Don't you dare loan out/sell Harry Wilson this season. Guy has a top left foot. @LFC   Mario Flores (@MarioFloresR) July 31, 2019 @LFC don't sell @harrywilson_ please!!!!   Gil K. Elias (@iam_GilKay) July 31, 2019 LYON Player Ratings Starting XI: Lopes (6); Dubois (5), Anderson (4), Denayer (6), Marca (5)l; Thiago Mendes (6), Aouar (6), Jean Lucas (5); Traore (6), Dembele (5), Memphis (6) Substitutes: Rafael (5), Marcelo (5), Tatarusanu (6), Cheikh (5), Tousart (5), Caqueret (5), Kitala (5), Tete (5), Solet (5), Gouiri (5), Forfana (N/A), Looking Ahead Liverpool next take on Manchester City in the FA Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday, with the Reds hoping to start the new season on the front foot. They put in a solid showing in their final pre-season game, but they will be looking to push on as they aim to dethrone the Citizens from atop of the Premier League during the upcoming campaign.


Zdeno Chara gave fans a positive sign when he was on the ice with the Boston Bruins for their morning skate on Thursday, but the team remains uncertain if he will be able to play in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. Chara, who was wearing a mask to protect his injured jaw, skated for a while and took part in some drills. Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy told reporters the 42-year-old is a game-time decision, and whether or not he plays will be up to him if doctors clear him. Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said Zdeno Chara and Matt Grzelcyk will be game-time decisions. Doctors have to clear Chara first. If that happens, it will be his decision if he plays pic.twitter.com/7uSKTgrP1e   Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) June 6, 2019 If Chara gets clearance, it would be shocking if he chose not to play. Brad Marchand said the captain wanted to return to Game 4 after taking a puck to the face in the second period , but doctors wouldn't allow it. That may have had more to do with concussion concerns, but Cassidy says Chara passed those tests. Cassidy said the initial concern was a concussion for Chara. He doesn't have that.   Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) June 6, 2019 The Bruins could end up without two key defensemen in Game 5 Thursday night, as Matt Grzelcyk is also still questionable after he sustained a concussion on an illegal check in Game 2 . With the series tied 2-2, both players will likely do everything they can to get cleared. Related slideshow: Scenes from the Stanley Cup Final (Provided by imagn)


Takaaki Nakagami has revealed he is pushing Honda for a promotion to a current-spec bike for the 2020 MotoGP season. The Japanese rider said on the eve of this weekend's Czech Grand Prix at Brno that contract negotiations with Honda were at a stalemate because he has only been offered the chance to remain at LCR with a year-old bike. . "Still we are not in agreement with Honda," said Nakagami. "I am pushing for, not a complete factory bike, but at least to have the same situation as Cal. "Still there is time. Let's see, maybe a couple of weeks. But very soon I think [there will be a decision]. For sure I will fight until the last moment. "Most of the riders [in MotoGP] have factory bikes. I don't say that the previous bike is bad, but most of the bikes are growing up and improving a lot. "Now you can see only one second [splits] 15 or 16 riders, so one tenth or two tenths [can be worth] five or six positions. I understand HRC, but I am pushing my opinion." Asked by Motorsport.com if he felt he'd earned a promotion to a current-spec bike with his results this year, Nakagami replied: "Half-and-half. Not 100 percent. Some races good, maybe some races we could have improved a little bit. "My feeling is 50/50. These two races, here [Brno] and the Red Bull Ring, will be very important for the championship and for my future." Nakagami, who lies 12th in the points currently, also said he felt that being the sole Japanese rider in MotoGP gives him some negotiating power in his talks with Honda. "There are many young [Japanese] talents in Moto3, but in Moto2 only Tetsu [Nagashima], and MotoGP it's only me," he said. "It's difficult for marketing in Japan. "If we need to grow up and get good results, we need a good bike. This is my opinion. Let's see what Honda thinks." Takaaki Nakagami, Team LCR Honda Photo by: Gold and Goose / LAT Images


Missed the the most recent top news in Houston? Read on for everything you need to know. 18-year-old driver killed, little brother hospitalized in I-10 crash that split car in two Police were the first to find the wreckage early Monday morning. Read the full story on KHOU 11 News . Nearly 100 charged in immigration marriage scam An investigation by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations Houston, and U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Houston, has resulted in a 206-count indictment criminally charging 96 people in a large-scale marriage fraud scheme. Read the full story on FOX26 . Woman dies in fiery crash in north Houston overnight Two tow truck drivers passing by rushed to help put out the flames as Houston firefighters arrived at the scene. Read the full story on KHOU 11 News . Man arrested after firing shots outside Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in NE Houston, police say The man pulled up to the middle of the parking lot, grabbed a gun and started shooting into the air at the hospital in NE Houston, authorities say. Read the full story on ABC13 Houston . Cleanup efforts continue in Houston Ship Channel as products being recovered from crash The cleanup continues in the Houston Ship Channel after a ship crashed into two barges on Friday. Read the full story on KPRC2 / Click2Houston . This story was created automatically using data about news stories on social media from CrowdTangle , then reviewed by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


The health benefits of healthy fats include everything from heart health to preventing diabetes. Here are some of the biggest benefits. Surprising Reasons You Should Eat More Fat If you were around to witness the dieting trends of past decades , you might have heard the many warnings against eating too much fat. But if you follow modern trends, you've probably heard of the high-fat, low-carb diets of today such as paleo and keto . While these trendy diets do have their own hidden dangers , they do get something right: Fats are good for you. Dietary fat   the kind you get from nuts, seeds, cheese, egg yolks and many other foods   is a much different beast than the fat that shows up beneath your skin. Fats in food play a number of important roles in the functioning of your body every single day. Diets applauded as generally successful and health-promoting, such as the Mediterranean diet , have fats as a central staple. There are a few different types of fat to consider: unsaturated fats, saturated fats and trans fats. Only one of these fats should be avoided entirely : trans fats. Foods with trans fats typically include pre-packaged and processed sweets, fried foods and margarine. Trans fats have been linked to a number of adverse health effects including cancer and have even inspired some legal action to ban these fats from public consumption. Click through the slideshow above for some of the biggest health benefits of eating more fats. Fats could make you smarter Do you ever feel like your brain is foggy , or like you just can't concentrate? You might not be eating enough fat. Your brain relies on fat to function. One of the biggest tips from neurologists on how to improve brain health is to eat healthy fats, including omega-3s and omega-6s. So if you're about to take an exam or want to boost your memory, eat some nuts or avocado for a snack . You need fats to breathe It sounds dramatic, but it's true. Your lungs are coated with a substance made of saturated fat   the kind found in full-fat dairy, butter and coconut. If you don't eat enough saturated fat, your lung health could suffer. Studies have begun to look into links between fat consumption and asthma and have discovered some connections. Fats help your body stay warm This isn't referring to the fat on your body, though that also helps keep you warm. No matter how much fat is on your physical body, eating dietary fats is important for your body to perceive warmth. Ever wonder what your body is trying to tell you with the weird symptom of feeling cold all the time, even when your surroundings are warm? Turns out, it's a telltale sign of dietary fat deprivation. Fats help keep your reproductive system healthy Fat intake is crucial for keeping your hormones balanced   which, in turn, helps keep your reproductive system healthy. Both men and women use dietary fat to manufacture sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone. In some extreme cases, studies suggest that restriction of dietary fat can result in infertility. Fat helps you absorb nutrients Certain vitamins are fat-soluble, meaning dietary fat is necessary in order to fully absorb them through digestion. Without the fat, you're missing out on vitamins , too, which is why adding some form of fat to every nutritious meal is probably a good idea. Fats can help lower cholesterol Dietary fat and cholesterol have a long and complicated history, but most modern recommendations say that eating a small amount of saturated fats and a larger amount of unsaturated fats can help improve your cholesterol levels. The Heart Foundation says that these healthy fats increase the amount of "good" cholesterol and lower the amount of "bad" cholesterol in your blood. Studies suggest that even some nutrient-rich foods that have saturated fats, such as eggs, could be helpful for improving cholesterol when eaten in moderation. Fats help lower your blood pressure While sodium-heavy foods such as bacon and cheese could send your blood pressure through the roof if you eat them too often, fatty foods in general are a good idea to keep in your diet. Studies show that increasing fat intake (especially monounsaturated fats) may help to lower blood pressure. Olive oil in particular is one of the healthiest foods for your blood pressure , according to a growing body of research. Fats can help prevent cancer Cancer-causing habits involve more than just diet; genetics, environment and pure chance all play a large role as well. But eating foods that could help prevent cancer is never a bad idea for lowering your risk. Studies have shown that higher intake of dietary fats could prevent prostate cancer in men. Research also suggests that for women, increasing fat intake can help to stave off breast cancer. Fats can improve your skin The best diet for healthy, glowing skin involves eating dietary fats. So if you want healthy-looking skin year-round, make sure you eat enough fats   and not just from avocados. While unsaturated fats, such as those from avocados and olive oil, are important for preventing wrinkles and keeping your skin bright, saturated fats are necessary, too. Both types of fats are used by the body to generate new skin cells to replace those that are worn out or dead. Fats can make your hair shinier In order for your hair to grow faster and end up feeling stronger, your body needs the proper nutrients to create healthy cells. Healthy fats help your body absorb vitamins and minerals that nourish your scalp from the inside, giving you shinier, healthier-looking locks . Fats help to stave off depression There are many factors that determine whether or not a person becomes clinically depressed; so if your loved one struggles with depression , it's probably not due to their diet. However, food and nutrition does play a role. Dietary fat can actually ward off depression, according to some studies . Fats can help with the production of chemicals like serotonin and dopamine, both of which alter the brain chemistry of a person with depression. Fats can help prevent diabetes Nutritionists often recommend eating carbohydrates alongside other nutrients such as protein and fats, and with good reason. One of the things you may not know about diabetes and diet ? Eating a diet that incorporates healthy fats can help improve insulin sensitivity, according to some studies . Other research showed that eating dietary fats helped maintain better blood sugar control. Both of these factors (insulin sensitivity and blood sugar control) are key components in diabetes prevention. Fats can reduce inflammation Inflammation is the body's reaction to stressors, which can include anything from pollution to high-intensity exercise. Over the short term, inflammation is benign, but if it becomes chronic, inflammation can lead to serious and sometimes deadly diseases such as cancer. Poor diet can cause inflammation; it's wise to avoid eating the most inflammatory foods on a regular basis. However, some foods can actually be anti -inflammatory, meaning that they help combat this caustic reaction. Studies show that those who eat a diet high in unsaturated fats have lower levels of inflammatory markers in their blood. Fats help you live longer Longevity is a complicated subject, and it seems like some of the world's longest-lived people have some of the oddest, un healthiest habits . But those are the outliers. Studies show that, on the whole, those who eat dietary fat actually live longer than those who eat low-fat diets. Fats help keep your metabolism working One of the hidden side effects of popular diets such as a low-fat diet is that they can really mess with your metabolism. A study published in JAMA showed that of all diets tested, low-fat diets caused the greatest decrease in metabolic rate. To keep your metabolism going, make sure to avoid unhealthy habits that may slow it down , such as binge drinking, eating a diet low in important nutrients and failing to get enough sleep . Oh, and eat your healthy fats! They're good for you. Fats make food taste better Facts are facts: Cooking food in fat such as butter or oil just makes it taste way better. And the taste of your food really does matter when it comes to your health. Studies show that your body absorbs more nutrients from food when you enjoy eating it. Plus, enjoying food is good for your mental health and can help you eat more mindfully to stay in tune with your hunger cues. Fats are good for your heart Sure, some fatty foods like burgers and french fries aren't great for your ticker , but a moderate and sufficient amount of dietary fat is crucial for maintaining heart health. In fact, diets focused on moderate fat consumption such as the Mediterranean diet have been shown in some studies to reduce the likelihood of cardiac arrest and other cardiovascular incidents. Of course, some of this is dependent on the types of fats consumed. Trans fats, for instance, have been shown to negatively affect risk factors for heart disease. Cardiologists recommend eating a larger amount of unsaturated fats, such as those from olive oil and avocado, than saturated fats, such as those from butter and animal products. There's a reason almonds, avocados and olive oil are among the best foods you can eat for your heart . 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SURPRISE, Ariz. - In an ideal world, when the Royals broke camp on Wednesday afternoon bound for a two-game exhibition series in Houston, manager Ned Yost could determine the final 25-man roster for his defending American League champions. But Yost does not live in an ideal world. He awoke for the final day at the team's complex with a sore throat. He gulped some Red Bull to brighten his senses. Then he returned to the waiting game, as the Royals wait for various roster machinations to finish up before they can finalize their team on Sunday afternoon. "I wish we could do it earlier," Yost said before Yordano Ventura faced Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers on Wednesday at Surprise Stadium. "But it's just going to go down to the wire." The prime issue appears to be the fate of veteran reliever Ryan Madson, who has pitched a strong camp in his first evidence of health since Tommy John surgery in 2012. He can opt out of his minor-league contract if another organization offers him a major-league deal. Yost and others with the Royals would prefer Madson spends more time building arm strength in the minors. Madson seeks a major-league opportunity. The Royals must decide whether to risk losing Madson, the former Phillies closer, if they carry the usual number of bench players. The team is still debating among Paulo Orlando, Moises Sierra or Whit Merrifield for that final spot. Yost appears to prefer that route, rather than carrying Madson. "You would like to take him on your club," Yost said. "But I still feel like he needs to be protected a little bit. So in order to protect, you probably have to go with an eight-man bullpen, which makes it more difficult. Because you lose a bench player who can help you win a game. "So you have to try to decide what wins more games for you, 13 pitchers or the extra bench player. Then you make your decision and go." The need for an extra outfielder stems from the organization's zeal to rest Lorenzo Cain and Alex Gordon early in the season. Cain has a history of leg issues, and Jarrod Dyson figures to spell him on occasion. Yost also would like an outfielder around if Gordon requires a day off to rest his surgically-repaired right wrist. If Yost he stocks an eight-man bullpen, that forces Dyson into action more often and limits Yost's flexibility for using a player like Orlando as a pinch runner for slower players such as Kendrys Morales and Mike Moustakas. The seventh spot in the bullpen comes down to Louis Coleman and Brian Flynn. Flynn has outpitched Coleman this spring. Coleman is out of options. The team could remove him from the 40-man roster and hope he clears waivers. Madson, 34, pitched in nine games and finished with a 3.00 ERA in the Cactus League. The team stayed conservative with his usage, as they did with Luke Hochevar, who will begin the season on the disabled list. "He hasn't pitched in three years," Yost said. "So you really don't know. It's all a guess. I mean, when you look at it in a positive light, yeah, can he be that guy? Yeah. But there's still a lot to be seen." So Yost must wait. The Royals have to gauge if other clubs are willing to grant Madson a major-league contract. If an offer appears, the team must decide if they want to hamstring their bench to retain him. "They're all tough decisions," Yost said. "I would love to keep them all. I would love to. But you can't. You've got to get it down." To reach Andy McCullough, call 816-234-4730 or send email to rmccullough@kcstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @McCulloughStar. Download True Blue, The Star's free Royals app, here.


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This will only serve to make you more appreciative for what Matt Bryant accomplished. Hint: It's not the guy in the photo, either. It wouldn't be Falcons trivia if we didn't roll out some of the most hideous seasons and moments from this team's wretched early history, and that's what we'll do today. This trivia question comes to you courtesy of yours truly, and is this: Who had the worst full season kicking performance in team history? To be clear about what I mean by this, I'm talking about the percentage of field goals made (and to a lesser extent extra points) over the course of an entire 14 or 16 game season. The player in question is buried pretty far back in the team's history, as you'd expect, and he managed to kick a full season and convert well under 50% of his field goal tries and under 90% of his extra point tries. It is not a slight exaggeration to say that this kicker's clangs wound up costing the team multiple games that year, and suffice to say he did not enjoy a long career in the NFL. In fairness to this man, there's a certain longer-tenured Falcons kicker who has one season that is very nearly as bad and two other seasons under 50%. It was a different league and a different position then, as guys like Giorgio Tavecchio find themselves on the street for not hitting 80% of their kicks. This one's a tough one, so no one will blame you if you ultimately resort to cheating or talking to a battle-scarred older Falcons fan who was around to see this in real-time.


Sergio Ramos' future at Real Madrid has been thrown up in the air with the defender considering his next move after a tricky season at the club. Ramos made 42 appearances for Madrid this season, notching 11 goals and two assists, but his leadership has been brought into question at times. He was suspended for key games in the campaign - the second leg against Ajax in the Champions League and the March Clasico with Barcelona (both of which they lost) - and has missed the last chunk of the season with a hamstring injury. Marca now claim they have 'confirmed' that the centre back has begun to consider his future at the Santiago Bernabeu, with both Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain among his potential next destinations. I wonder if Sergio Ramos is going to do a Griezmann and turn his documentary into a 'La Decisión' reveal. Questioning his future at the club, whether he wants one last challenge, makes sense. Not heard much from him, el capitán, after a season to forget at Real Madrid.   Andrew Gaffney (@GaffneyVLC) May 24, 2019 An argument in the dressing room following that Champions League last 16 defeat to the Dutch side is understood to have cooled relations between Ramos and members of the team, as well as the staff - though these have been somewhat repaired with time. Indeed, United and PSG have been sniffing around the Spaniard for some time, with the response from both player and club always coming back as negative. However, recent developments at the club have pushed the centre back to reconsider their advances. As it stands, Real have not heard this directly from Ramos , or even his representatives, which include his brother, and are thus content to wait until they understand the picture more clearly. Was quite strange that Ramos didn't get back fit before end of the season. He's in Spain squad, so due to report for them on June 2. A space to be watched for sure.   Dermot Corrigan (@dermotmcorrigan) May 24, 2019 However, they are aware of the rumours and are understood to have tentatively collated some potential replacements for the 33-year-old should he up and leave. Madrid's other big football daily AS suggests Liverpool, Juventus and a Chinese Super League club as possible destinations, claiming that the Italian giants are possibly the most likely. Their report also notes that Ramos still has two years to run on his €12m-a-season contract in Madrid, which has a buyout clause of €800m.


One night last week, Margaret and Ted Werstler sat on their back porch in West Chester, watching a thunderstorm roll in and trying to reconcile the questions that lingered over the death of their only child. On the May 2014 night that she turned 20, Jenny Werstler overdosed on the floor of a KFC bathroom in a West Philadelphia neighborhood, miles from her suburban home. The two friends who had used heroin with her there   19-year-old Emma Semler and her 17-year-old sister, Sarah   panicked and left her. Five years later, a judge sentenced Emma to 21 years in prison for supplying the drugs that killed the Werstlers' daughter. But there was more blame to go around, Ted Werstler said as the storm rolled in. The pharmaceutical companies that flooded communities like his with opioid pain pills, which Jenny first tried as a teenager. A system that forced their daughter to come back from a Florida halfway house for a court date before she was solid in her recovery. She died one day after that court appearance. The Werstlers said they don't believe Emma Semler intended for their daughter to overdose. But thinking of Jenny's last moments was unbearable. Emma "didn't want Jenny to die. But how could you leave another person in that bathroom?" her father said. More than 4,500 other people have lost their lives to heroin overdoses in Philadelphia since Jenny Werstler. Behind them all are tales of destroyed families, rippling grief, and confounding questions. The case that began with Jenny's death and ended with Emma's sentencing offers a window into how the addiction crisis topples lives, rips families apart, and leads frustrated law enforcement officials to reach for drastic measures they hope   but cannot be certain   will prevent more deaths. Pieced together through interviews and hundreds of pages of court records and transcripts, their story demonstrates that in the opioid crisis, the line between death and life, victim and perpetrator, can be thin. "This was a sad and tragic loss of life," one of Semler's lawyers, Lynanne Wescott, said of Jenny's death at the trial. "But is every tragedy a crime?" Asking for an extra hit The three young women who entered the KFC on 61st Street and Lancaster Avenue made a beeline to the bathroom with one shared goal   their next high. Inside, Emma passed the packets of heroin she had just bought from a drug dealer to Sarah and Jenny, and handed them needles. Just home from Florida, Jenny asked for an extra hit. It was her birthday. Minutes later, Jenny's head dipped low and her breathing slowed. The Semler sisters recognized the signs; both had overdosed in the past. They splashed Jenny's face with water, but she didn't respond. Terrified, the young women packed up their remaining drugs and left. Moments later, an employee found the young woman on the floor and called an ambulance. Within 30 minutes, Jenny was dead. 'I tried to open her eyes' Just having Jenny back home from Florida had Ted and Margaret Werstler on edge. For more than a year, they had endured the crushing cycle familiar to so many parents of addicted teens: Rehab, relapse, then repeat. Margaret Werstler, a native of Gdansk, Poland, struggled to understand how her daughter   the once-bubbly girl she called her "Polish Princess"   had fallen into addiction. At age 7, the vivacious, thrill-seeking girl flew on her own to visit her maternal grandparents in Eastern Europe. By her teen years, she was fluent in English and Polish and spoke of one day opening her own business, like her father. But her addiction, which her parents discovered when she was around 14, became her singular focus. At first, her parents believed Jenny was only smoking pot. In 2013, a psychiatrist told Margaret Werstler her daughter had admitted to using heroin. During her second rehab stint later that year at the Malvern Institute in Delaware County, Jenny met Emma Semler. Growing up in Montgomery County as the daughter of two Merck employees, Semler had been a high school cheerleader. She loved art and music and talked about becoming a nurse. Her parents' contentious divorce roiled her family. She began smoking pot at 12, encouraged, she would later tell court officials, by her father, who gave his daughters alcohol and marijuana along with advice to "experience everything in life at least once." At 13 she was prescribed pain pills after a back surgery. The next year, she moved on to crack cocaine, and, by 15, heroin. She was using 10 to 12 bags a day by the time she met Jenny. By the spring of 2014, Jenny's parents sent her to Florida, hoping to remove her from her circle of drug-using friends. It seemed to work for two months   until Jenny had to return home for a May 8 hearing in a marijuana possession case in Chester County drug court. Her parents begged for a postponement, to no avail. "I was furious," Margaret Werstler would later recall. "I was afraid of Jenny coming back for the court. I was afraid that something would trigger her, being back in the neighborhood." Still, when the call came from Lankenau Medical Center around 9:30 p.m. on May 9, her first thought was that Jenny had been in a car accident. "I thought, I'm going to go to the hospital, pick her up, and bring her home," she recalled. At Lankenau, the doctors broke the news: Jenny had died of an overdose. Her mother passed out. When she woke, officials took her to identify the body. "I tried to open her eyes; they were closed," Werstler recalled. "I was opening and opening. … I couldn't believe. How could this be my only child, who is dead?" A search for answers Within a day Emma learned her friend was dead. She immediately injected heroin from the same batch that killed Jenny. Meanwhile, the Werstlers started looking for answers. They drove to the Overbrook KFC, hoping to piece together their daughter's last hours, and spoke to the fast-food worker who found Jenny on the bathroom floor. They learned that the ambulance that arrived to treat her had no Narcan, the lifesaving overdose reversal drug that had not yet become as widely available as it is today. With help from a friend of her daughter's, Margaret Werstler obsessively pored through Jenny's phone and Facebook page. She found messages Emma and Jenny had traded just hours before her daughter's death. Jenny was short on cash and had asked Emma to front her $10 for a bag of heroin. Emma replied that she would and that she knew a dealer where they could score. Convinced the messages were evidence of a crime, the Werstlers turned them over to Collegeville police and Chester County detectives. Weeks passed. Spiraling in grief and rage, Jenny's mom kept compulsively checking her daughter's final text messages and Facebook conversations. She sent scathing messages to Emma through Jenny's Facebook account. Sometimes, she called Emma's cell phone from her daughter's phone, only to sit in silence, listening to Emma's voice on the recorded message. "I was torturing myself," Margaret recalled. "Emma is alive, she is breathing the air, seeing the sun and moon, and my daughter is dead." Nearly a year after Jenny's death, federal agents showed up at the Werstlers' door. A 'strong hammer' For years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had been investigating a West Philadelphia group that controlled much of the heroin and crack flowing through Overbrook. With Jenny's death, agents saw an opportunity   both to provide justice to the Werstlers and to recruit Emma to help them dismantle the traffickers' operations. They began building a case against the teen, using a federal statute passed at the height of the 1980s crack-cocaine epidemic . It dictated a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence for drug distribution cases involving a death or serious injury. Emma may not have been a drug-corner slinger, but prosecutors reasoned that by fronting Jenny the money, making the buy and passing out the heroin, Emma was just as responsible for her death. Courts had upheld similar arguments before. Though the statute initially was used to target large-scale traffickers or kingpins, the legal definition of a "drug distributor" has been more broadly applied in the three decades since, used to charge drug users who share narcotics or buy a small amount for friends. The expansion has raised concern among public health advocates, who worry the stiff mandatory punishments in the federal law   and 20 similar state laws   are pushing users into riskier behaviors, such as using drugs alone or running away when a friend overdoses. "It cuts at cross-purposes with public health interventions," said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health science at Northeastern University in Boston. "What is going to be accomplished by spending [money] prosecuting these people, and spending [more] to keep them in federal prison for decades?" Prosecutors maintain they need the option as a tool to stem opioid-related deaths in their communities. In Pennsylvania courts, the number of cases ballooned from fewer than 15 in 2013 to more than 200 in 2017, the last year for which statistics were available. At the federal level, Pennsylvania's three U.S. Attorney's Offices have also reported a rise   with prosecutors in Pittsburgh alone pursuing 48 such cases in the last six years. "There's really no difference between shooting a person with a gun and giving them heroin and killing them," David Hickton, that city's ex-U.S. attorney and former cochairman of the White House's National Heroin Task Force, said in an interview last year . !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var e in a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.getElementById("datawrapper-chart-"+e)5/85/8 document.querySelector("iframe[src*='"+e+"']");t&&(t.style.height=a.data["datawrapper-height"][e]+"px")3/43/4)3/4(); William M. McSwain, the top federal prosecutor in Philadelphia, also praised the law as a "strong hammer" to encourage cooperation in cases like Emma Semler's. One way a defendant can avoid the 20-year minimum sentence is to deliver agents "substantial assistance" in an ongoing investigation. Prosecutors offered Sarah Semler an even better deal   immunity in exchange for testifying against her sister. She accepted, though the decision wracked her with guilt, family members said. Hours before she was to appear before a grand jury hearing evidence in the case, Sarah overdosed on heroin and was revived. Prosecutors put her on the stand anyway, over the objections of her lawyer. Emma, too, was offered multiple chances to plead guilty and help agents build a case against others. She chose to take her chances in court. A hard road to recovery By the time her trial began in December, Emma Semler was far from the girl who passed out heroin packets in that KFC restroom. Drug-free for three years, the 23-year-old had landed a job at a New Jersey rehab clinic, became active in Narcotics Anonymous, and at one point was sponsoring 10 people in recovery. It had been a hard road, and like Jenny's recovery attempts before her death, it had come in fits and starts. When she finally stopped using in 2015, Emma had been through at least half a dozen stints in rehab, numerous relapses, and several overdoses. "She was tired of feeling the way she did," said her aunt, Susan Layton. "And tired of losing friends to drugs." Still, no matter how much she had changed, her actions on that 2014 night were damning as prosecutors laid them out in court, especially the decision to leave Jenny behind on the bathroom floor. Asked to explain that choice to jurors, Sarah testified that their mother had just bailed her and her sister out of jail that morning after they were caught buying drugs in Kensington. They worried what would happen if they were arrested again. "I was scared," Sarah said. "Young. High. We left." A path of darkness Emma faced a similar question about her decisions at her sentencing last week. Her face streaked with tears, she pleaded with the judge to understand that her choices that night were driven by addiction. "The disease turns us into people we never thought we would be. It leads us down a path of darkness," she said. "If I could go back and change anything, I would." The next day, she emailed her aunt from prison: "I'm totally numb." "She often would say, 'Why wasn't it me and not [Jenny]?' " Susan Layton said. "Emma was present that day. But we all lost something. Emma lost, and Jenny lost." At least five other drug-induced homicide cases, many tied to the same larger investigation in West Philadelphia, are moving their way through the federal courts. Three others have reached sentencing in the last six years   all involving pill-peddling doctors responsible for feeding addictions of dozens of patients . One of those defendants got a slightly lighter sentence than Emma: the mandatory minimum of 20 years. "Emma Semler brought this on herself with some strong conduct," McSwain, the U.S. attorney, said in March. "We did everything we could to get her to plead guilty, and she rolled the dice. When you roll the dice against the federal government, you almost always lose." Margaret and Ted Werstler said Emma's sentence was harsh but not as harsh as their grief. The framed portrait they had taken to the courtroom for her sentencing is back in its place of honor in the living room. And they have kept Jenny's bedroom exactly as it was on the day she died. The clothing she wore to the KFC that night, ripped by the medics who tried to save her life, hangs on the closet door. Four Cases Under Federal Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Since 2011, four defendants in Philadelphia have been sentenced in federal court for overdose death convictions. Each faced a mandatory minimum of 20 years. NORMAN WERTHER Sentence: 20 years Werther, a doctor in Willow Grove, was convicted in 2013 of more than 300 felony counts centered around his overprescribing pain medication to dozens of patients. His reputation for giving away drugs in exchange for a $150 patient visit fee prompted street level drug dealers to organize visits to his office for addicted drug users. One of those patients died. JEFFREY BADO Sentence: 25 years Bado, a former physician, was convicted in 2016 of 308 felony counts, including 269 counts of drug distribution, 33 counts of health care fraud, two counts of lying to federal agents and one count of drug distribution involving death for running his Roxborough and Bryn Mawr offices like a pill mill. WILLIAM J. O'BRIEN Sentence: 30 years O'Brien, convicted of 135 felony counts in 2016, turned his pain-management practice in Bucks County into a drug market and let drug dealers with the Pagans motorcycle gang have full run of his office while trading prescriptions for oral sex. In all, a jury concluded he raked in more than $5 million over three years, feeding addictions for dozens of patients, one of whom died. EMMA SEMLER Sentence: 21 years Convicted in 2017 of two felony counts surrounding the 2014 death of her friend Jenny Werstler. Werstler overdosed as the two women were sharing heroin in a KFC bathroom in Overbrook. Semler and her sister left her there without calling police. NORMAN WERTHER Sentence: 20 years Werther, a doctor in Willow Grove, was convicted in 2013 of more than 300 felony counts centered around his overprescribing pain medication to dozens of patients. His reputation for giving away drugs in exchange for a $150 patient visit fee prompted street level drug dealers to organize visits to his office for addicted drug users. One of those patients died. JEFFREY BADO Sentence: 25 years Bado, a former physician, was convicted in 2016 of 308 felony counts, including 269 counts of drug distribution, 33 counts of health care fraud, two counts of lying to federal agents and one count of drug distribution involving death for running his Roxborough and Bryn Mawr offices like a pill mill. WILLIAM J. O'BRIEN Sentence: 30 years O'Brien, convicted of 135 felony counts in 2016, turned his pain-management practice in Bucks County into a drug market and let drug dealers with the Pagans motorcycle gang have full run of his office while trading prescriptions for oral sex. In all, a jury concluded he raked in more than $5 million over three years, feeding addictions for dozens of patients, one of whom died. 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Olivier Giroud 's meaty French forehead will remain in the Premier League for at least another season. Giroud, 32, was set to be out of contract this summer but he has signed a new deal at Chelsea which is a big relief given their FIFA transfer ban for the next two transfer windows. Reacting to his contract extension, the 2018 World Cup winner was delighted to remain at Stamford Bridge. "I am very happy to sign a new contract. I really wanted to stay at least one more year   I have felt a part of the team, the family, since the beginning and hopefully there will be more trophies to come," Giroud said. 'I am very happy and looking forward to the next year!'   @_OlivierGiroud_ 😄 pic.twitter.com/9upc88ffUW   Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) May 21, 2019 This is a good deal for everyone involved. Giroud had options from across Europe and the Premier League for next season, and he will still have those next summer, but it feels like he has been underused so far during his time at Chelsea as Alvaro Morata was their main man in 2017-18 despite his struggles up front. Giroud has proven himself as a reliable striker at Chelsea following his move from Arsenal   where he scored 105 goals in 253 appearances and won three FA Cups across six seasons   in January 2018 and helped the Blues win the FA Cup in 2017-18. He has mainly been used in the Europa League and cup competitions during the 2018-19 season and has scored 10 times in Chelsea's run to the Europa League final (he is the leading scorer in the competition) against Arsenal next Wednesday. Giroud has scored 17 times in 62 appearances since making the move across London, which is a decent return considering he has mostly been used as a substitute. Gonzalo Higuain will likely not be returning for a second spell on loan at Chelsea from Juventus, so Giroud will get more minutes in the 2019-20 campaign and he's shown he can slot into this Maurizio Sarri side seamlessly. His intelligent hold-up play has seen him develop a telepathic understanding with Eden Hazard and even if Hazard leaves, as expected, this summer, you can see Giroud striking up a similar rapport with Christian Pulisic next season. Giroud is probably one of the most underrated strikers in the world game, as he is third all-time leading goalscorer for France, behind only Thierry Henry and Michel Platini. If you whip a dangerous cross into the box, he will get on the end of it and often finish it. Follow @JPW_NBCSports


Hungry? A new neighborhood Asian fusion spot has you covered. The newcomer to Midtown, called Ponko Chicken , is located at 915 W. Peachtree St., Suite 6. Ponko in Midtown emerged from the culinary melting pot of Chamblee, home of its sister location, which opened last year. The creation of two third-generation Japanese-American sisters, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Ponko applies the Tokyo-born tonkatsu technique for crispy-fried pork cutlets to chicken tenders (and tofu for those who prefer it). With a motto of "Where eats meets West," it also serves up gourmet, all-beef hot dogs, tacos, salads, slaw, fries, green beans and other delectables, as well as craft cocktails. Ponko Chicken has garnered rave reviews thus far, with a 4.5-star rating out of 36 reviews on Yelp. Margaret H., who was among the first Yelpers to review the new spot on May 30, wrote, "This place exceeded every expectation! ... The chicken is fried, but lightly and has so much flavor." Yelper Marissa G. added , "Delicious food, great service!" Intrigued? Stop in to try it for yourself. Ponko is open from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. Want to keep your finger on the pulse of new businesses in Atlanta? Here's what else opened recently near you . This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


The Blues have given goalie Jordan Binnington exactly what he deserves   a contract extension. St. Louis announced Saturday, it had avoided arbitration with the Calder Trophy finalist by signing him to a two-year deal worth $8.8 million. BREAKING NEWS: Jordan Binnington has agreed to a two-year contract with an annual average value of $4.4 million. #stlblues DETAILS: https://t.co/hIDZIzONwz pic.twitter.com/0FPVZKu7sb   St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) July 14, 2019 Binnington was called up to the big club in the middle of the season and took over the starting job in January when St. Louis had the worst record in the NHL. He proceeded to go 24-5-1 and won 16 games in the playoffs to lead the Blues to the first Stanley Cup title in franchise history. This was a no-brainer. "I'm happy to get this deal done with the St. Louis Blues," Binnington told stlouisblues.com . "To the city of St. Louis, thank you for welcoming me in and trusting me to do me. I'm excited and motivated to keep doing my job and keep bringing success to the St. Louis Blues organization." Binnington, 26, finished second in the Calder Trophy voting to Canucks forward Elias Pettersson and was in contention to win the Conn Smythe Trophy, which is awarded to the best player in the postseason. MORE : Stanley Cup Final 2019: Three takeaways from Blues' Game 5 win over Bruins | Stanley Cup Final 2019: Three takeaways from Bruins' Game 3 win over Blues | Stanley Cup Final 2019: Blues' Jordan Binnington benched for first time in playoffs He went 16-10 in the playoffs with a .914 save percentage and a 2.46 goals against average. He was removed from just one game and came back to start the next one and won that as well in the Stanley Cup Final against the Bruins. "We are pleased to have Jordan signed for two more years," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. "His play was outstanding and we look forward to seeing him continue to be a major contributor for our team."


After the surprise release of veteran linebacker Mason Foster on Tuesday, the Washington Redskins may have opened up some salary-cap space in order to fill ulterior motives. With the move, the Redskins saved $4 million against the cap, which leaves them with just over $11.5 million in cap space ahead of the 2019 season, according to Over The Cap . Washington currently has 89 players on the roster ahead of camp, which is just one shy of the max. The newly freed up money after Foster's release could mean something else is in the works. One idea points to the offensive line, where the Redskins could use more bodies in the wake of Trent Williams' likely holdout - or it could mean they need the guaranteed money for a Williams extension. There is nothing to say that the Redskins won't hold on to some of their cap space for the regular season, as they will need some pocket change to spend in case one of their players goes down with an injury, which is a sight that is all-too-familiar in Washington. MORE: Mike Trout's perfect 98.6 MPH throw to home plate had everyone in awe What might Kostas Antetokounmpo bring to the Lakers on offense? Why Mike Daniels should be on every potential playoff team's radar Packers training camp: 1 player to watch from each position group Sean Payton brushes off concerns about Drew Brees' decline


Genetic testing gets most of the attention when it comes to matching cancer patients to specific treatments. But the vast majority of diagnostic information used in selecting a cancer treatment today comes not from those tests, but from under the microscope of the pathologist, who examines tissue biopsies taken during surgery. Stanley Robboy, vice-chair for diagnostic pathology at the Duke University Cancer Center, spoke with Newsweek 's David H. Freedman about how artificial intelligence (AI) is improving diagnoses and why some doctors are reluctant to embrace it. Is precision medicine changing what pathologists do? Precision medicine has been advancing for a long time. My father was a medical student when penicillin was discovered in the 1920s. For many years that was a single treatment given for infection, regardless of what the infectious organism was. By the time I was in medical school in the 1960s, we had specific antibiotics for specific organisms. For many decades, different cancers were treated with the same drugs. Now we can look at the individual genetic pathways of a patient's tumor, and in the lab we can measure the different unique features of a cancer, so that we can often specify drugs that target that cancer's individual mechanisms. Twenty-five years from now we'll be at a whole new, deeper level of diagnostics that goes beyond genetics with new pathology tests that point to new types of drugs we can't imagine yet. How is AI helping? Typically in a cancer case I'll have to look at 30 to 40 lymph nodes to tell if the cancer has spread. Finding one or two cells can make a real difference in a patient's prognosis. A single lymph node has about 300,000 cells and I have go through each slide trying to figure out if a single cancerous cell is hiding in there. It's like looking for the one gray stone among 300,000 white stones on a beach. AI can be terrific at finding that one stone by going through the image in a methodical way, which means the patient is more likely to get the right diagnosis. Do some pathologists resist AI? The issue of trust is a difficult one with AI. It's true, there have been a lot of naysayers, and people who worry that AI will replace them. I don't ever see turning over the final diagnosis and decision-making to a system. These breakthrough tools will help me, not replace me. They'll relieve me of some of the most tedious, time-consuming work, freeing me up to focus on the more complex tasks. They'll look at more of the slide in more detail than I can. And they can give me a second opinion, maybe saving me from making a catastrophic mistake. But they'll never replace my thinking. You can give an airline pilot great auto-pilot technology that will make the pilot's job much easier, but there will always be a need for a Sully [retired American Airlines pilot Chesley Sullenberger] who can use judgment to take over from the system and land a plane on the Hudson. There's no AI system that can replace that judgment. What about the impact of AI on the research side? In my father's day, an individual physician would do the work that helped determine whether or not a drug worked for certain patients. Ten years ago, three of us would team up to do that work. Today there might be 20 or even 40 people working together on a problem like that. In the future, an AI system will be a critical member of that team, too.


MILWAUKEE   Milwaukee police are investigating two separate shooting incidents that happened Tuesday night, July 2. Two people were injured as a result of the shootings. According to police, the first shooting happened around 6:20 p.m. near 24th and Brown. The victim, a 21-year-old man, suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg. His injury is non-life threatening. One of the suspects from the shooting has been identified and police are searching for him. The shooting was the result of a drug deal dispute. The second shooting happened around 10:45 p.m near 25th and Clybourn. Shooting near 25th and Clybourn in Milwaukee The victim, a 52-year-old man, suffered a gunshot wound to his mouth. His injury is non-life threatening. The suspect from the shooting has been identified and taken into custody. The shooting was the result of an argument.     ©2019 WITI-TV, Milwaukee Visit WITI-TV, Milwaukee at www.fox6now.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


Last May, Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins compared Kyle Rudolph to a mattress . Come September, the connection was, relatively speaking, comatose. This year, things could be different. "I've done a better job this camp . . . of just trusting him more and throwing it to him even when he's covered," Cousins told reporters on Wednesday. "I think today there were probably two or three examples of him catching the ball with the defender draped over him or pretty close to him. He is just such a trustworthy target, so little things like that, building a chemistry with him, you would've loved to say I did that last year, but I don't think I did enough." So what has changed? "He just continues to show that when you throw it to him in those moments, he makes you right," Cousins said. "He catches it. The play he made in the back of the end zone today was just really impressive. He kind of ran out of real estate and stopped, and just had to kind of post-up, just did a great job of walling the defender without committing a pass interference and then making a strong catch. He did a similar thing in a corner route in the front corner of the end zone at the end of practice and he had a couple others through 7-on-7s and other periods in previous days, so the more you do it the more you see it, the more you realize that's a strength of his. I guess look back and regret a little bit not doing that more with him last year and then look forward to this year and giving him more opportunities to make it right. When really everything in you is telling you, 'Hey, he's really not open, but let's give him a shot.'" Cousins attributed the different not to trust but to reps. "When you really think about it, it was, I think, 13 practices last spring and then you have training camp and then from there you really go back to scout team," Cousins said. "It is hard to build that because the scout team guys aren't really covering you, they are just kind of shadowing you. The number of full-speed practices you have to build that repertoire of understanding your players is not as much as you'd like to have. I think the more years together tends to develop that." That's what the Vikings are hoping will happen this year, but it's another example of why the expectations for the Vikings got out of whack in 2018. This year, the Vikings seem to be in far better position to contend for the playoffs; last year, they got close. This year, maybe they'll pull it off.


Ravens rookie wide receiver and first-round draft pick Marquise Brown may not be ready for the start of training camp, Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic reports. Last month we learned that training camp was the target for Brown, who is recovering from a Lisfranc injury, but now that appears to be in doubt. As with most first-round picks, the hope is Brown will be able to contribute immediately, and he is especially important to Baltimore's offense this season. Prior to the NFL Draft, the only established wideout on the Ravens roster was slot receiver Willie Snead . While the Ravens will rely heavily on the ground game and its talented tight end group, Brown and third-round draft pick Miles Boykin will be key in the development of second-year QB Lamar Jackson . Brown, out of Oklahoma, is explosive, and his strong route-running and sure hands complement his breathtaking speed. However, the Lisfranc foot ailment and his thin frame (5-foot-9, 168 pounds) are cause for concern, especially since his debut keeps getting pushed back (before the draft, it was believed he would be ready for minicamp). The good news is that Brown has not had any setbacks, according to head coach John Harbaugh. But until he gets on the field and is showing no ill-effects from his injury, Ravens fans will be antsy.


As training camp approaches, there are still a number of roster spots that will invite some fierce competition this summer. This offseason will be another one for the Patriots where they will be forced to cut some high-quality players due to the depth across the roster. Outside of the new draft class and a handful of free agent signings, there are a number of players from last year's team that need to make a second-year leap in order to prove their worth to the team. 4. WR Braxton Berrios Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports Berrios made some waves for himself following minicamp earlier this month after offering very little last offseason due to injury. Looking at the receiver depth chart, there are a lot of opportunities for hungry players to assert themselves as mainstays in the offense this season. With Julian Edelman and rookie N'Keal Harry solidified as key cogs at the position, Berrios has a great opportunity to step in and fill the slot receiver role. Highly touted for his intelligence and gritty demeanor, if Berrios can stay healthy and build a strong rapport with Tom Brady, he can flourish this season. 3. DB Obi Melifonwu (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) After joining the Patriots midway through the season last year, Melifonwu finds himself at an interesting position this offseason. There is no read on how exactly the team feels about him but training camp will give ample opportunity to prove himself. Devin McCourty, Duron Harmon and Patrick Chung are still the leaders of the position group but McCourty and Chung are on the wrong side of 30 with no clear replacement on the roster. This is why it is imperative that Melifonwu makes a case for the team to keep him around. He features impressive size and athleticism which is tailor-made for the current NFL. If Melifonwu can prove worthy of a roster spot, he could easily replace one of the Patriots veterans somewhere down the road. 2. CB Keion Crossen Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports As one of the only healthy rookies to make the 2018 roster, Crossen returns with some valuable experience under his belt. Although he did not play much on the starting defense, he did provide a dependable boost to the special teams unit last year. Crossen has also been pegged as a potential Matthew Slater replacement, so it is clear the team values his contributions there. The hurdle this summer for Crossen is depth in the secondary, as well as the special teams unit. The Patriots drafted cornerback Ken Webster in the seventh round of the draft this year and he could directly compete with Crossen for a roster spot. The team also signed Terrence Brooks in free agency, who is a lock to make the team and figures to be a strong contributor on special teams. Add Brooks to the trove of special teams studs that Bill Belichick already employs and there may not be room for Crossen. However, if Crossen can continue to grow and add more snaps on defense to his resume it would be hard to see the team let him go. 1. CB Duke Dawson Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images Dawson finds himself in an odd spot a year after being drafted in the second round. He missed the majority of his rookie season with hamstring issues and even when he did return, he was a healthy scratch. Some of that could be due to the depth and health at the position last season, but regardless, Dawson enters this summer needing to prove his worth for a roster spot. Again, the depth at the cornerback position is an obstacle for Dawson, particularly with Jonathan Jones likely holding down the slot cornerback position. Now, there is no such thing as too many cornerbacks in Belichick's eyes, so the competition this summer will be great to watch. Dawson needs to make the leap and cement himself as a piece of the secondary moving forward. MORE: UFC fighter Ben Askren had an excellent response to getting knocked out in 5 seconds Expected starting lineup for Lakers with LeBron James at point guard Honor thy father: Quinn Cook signed with Lakers for good reason Three Potential Trade Destinations for Russell Westbrook Former Steeler DeAngelo Williams throws shade at WR Ryan Switzer