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Former Loudoun Co. School Board member charged after bar fight; DeKenipp allegedly assaulted woman

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

A former Loudoun County School Board member has been charged in relation with an early-morning bar fight in Leesburg.Eric DeKenipp, 39, who formerly represented the Catoctin District on the School Board, is charged with one count of simple assault after the altercation Friday around 2 a.m. in the 500 block of East Market Street. DeKenipp assaulted an adult female who is known to him, according to a Leesburg Police Department news release.Joseph Smith, 32, of no fixed address, has been charged with one count of malicious wounding. Smith is alleged to have cut Dekenipp with a knife during the altercation.According to the Leesburg Police Department, officers were dispatched to a fight in the parking lot of a bar on East Market Street.“An investigation revealed that four adults had left the bar and an argument had ensued,” the Leesburg police release states. “Eric DeKenipp and another adult male got into a physical altercation in the parking lot. Joseph Smith subsequently joined in the ...

George Holani runs for 178 yards, 2 TDs in leading Boise State over Utah State 45-10

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — George Holani ran for 178 yards and two touchdowns as Boise State cruised to a 45-10 victory over Utah State on Saturday night. Holani broke loose on a career-long 75-yard touchdown run and added a 26-yarder, each in the second quarter, as the Broncos built a 31-10 halftime lead. Holani carried 10 times and had 158 yards rushing in the half. Taylen Green threw two touchdown passes for Boise State (6-5, 5-2 Mountain West Conference). Ashton Jeanty and Jambres Dubar combined for 142 yards rushing and two touchdowns for the Broncos. Cooper Legas completed 8 of 12 passes and threw a touchdown pass for Utah State (5-6, 3-4). Davon Booth ran 12 times for 125 yards. Each team plays Friday in regular-season finales. Boise State hosts Air Force and Utah State plays on the road against New Mexico. __Get alerts on the latest AP Top 25 poll throughout the season. Sign up here___AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/...

Rantanen scores tiebreaker as Avalanche erase 3-goal deficit in 6-3 win over Stars

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period, and the Colorado Avalanche erased a three-goal deficit in a 6-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Saturday night.Colorado’s Cale Makar became the fastest defenseman in NHL history to reach 200 career assists with three in his 254th game. His first two helpers came on second-period goals by Miles Wood and Ryan Johansen after Dallas had taken a 3-0 lead.Former Dallas player Valeri Nichushkin tied it on an unassisted goal early in the third before assisting along with Devon Toews when Rantanen put the Avalanche up 4-3. Another former Stars player, Andrew Cogliano, made it 5-3 just 11 seconds after Rantanen scored.Tyler Seguin scored twice, and Joe Pavelski added his seventh goal to tie for the Dallas lead before the Stars faded as a season-best four-game winning streak ended.Jake Oettinger allowed a season-high five goals for Dallas while making 32 saves. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 24 of 27 shots and was perfe...

Antetokounmpo scores 40 as Bucks top Mavericks 132-125

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 40 points and Damian Lillard added 27 for the Milwaukee Bucks, who extended their winning streak to four games with a 132-125 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night.Antetokounmpo was averaging 41.3 points in his last three games before being held to 16 Friday night in Charlotte. Against the Mavericks, he connected on 18 of 26 shots including a pair of 3-pointers and grabbed 14 rebounds to go along with seven assists.Kyrie Irving scored 39 while Luka Doncic added 35 for Dallas (9-4).Milwaukee trailed 109-99 with 9:04 left in the game before going on a 13-4 run, including seven from Antetokounmpo to get back within a point with 5:17 remaining.The Bucks caught a break when Donicic missed a pair of free throws that would have given Dallas some breathing room. Antetokounmpo followed by sinking a pair from the line that put Milwaukee up 114-113 while Lillard connected on all three of his free throw attempts after being fouled by I...

Scheierman and Alexander lead No. 8 Creighton in 82-50 win over Texas Southern

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Baylor Scheierman scored 23 points, Trey Alexander had 15 of his 20 in the first half, and eighth-ranked Creighton blew out Texas Southern 82-50 Saturday night.It took a while for the Bluejays to warm up against their opponent from the Southwestern Athletic Conference. When they did, it was game over.Ryan Kalkbrenner had 16 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks for Creighton, and Alexander had eight assists and seven rebounds.Creighton (4-0) had runs of 11-0, 14-5 and 11-2 while building a 47-27 halftime lead. The bulge grew to 39 points in the second half.Texas Southern (0-4), playing the fourth of nine straight road or neutral-site games to open the season, got 14 points from Zytarious Mortle. The Tigers were without SWAC preseason player or the year and leading scorer PJ Henry for an undisclosed reason.The Bluejays shot 46% overall and 35% on 3-pointers, making 14 of a program record-tying 40 attempts from distance.“We got a lot of good looks at the basket that w...

Maryland Democrats elect former Howard Co. executive as party chair, exposing political rift

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

Ken Ulman, a one-time rising political star in Maryland who more recently has been a key consultant and influencer in the state on economic development and construction projects, is returning to the political arena.Ulman was overwhelmingly elected the new state Democratic chair Saturday morning, easily dispatching a 22-year-old member of the Baltimore County Democratic Central Committee, Edward Crizer III, and Vontasha Simms, a Charles County Democratic Central Committee member who ran unsuccessfully for a state Senate seat last year. He replaces Yvette Lewis, a venerated figure among many party leaders who stepped down earlier this fall.Ulman received 160 raw votes, compared to 22 for Crizer and 10 for Simms. Under the state party’s convoluted weighted vote system, which takes population and vote performance into consideration, Ulman took 515.61 votes, to 87.25 for Crizer and 20.25 for Simms.Despite Ulman’s wide victory, the 2 1/2-hour meeting was lively and exposed sev...

California Senate candidates seek Democrats’ favor amid convention disrupted by cease-fire chants

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidates tried to out-progressive each other during the state party convention on Saturday in search of a formal endorsement ahead of the March primary.U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, as well as former tech executive Lexi Reese all pleaded for votes from hundreds of party delegates at the California Democratic Party’s endorsing convention. They are all vying for the seat now held by Sen. Laphonza Butler, who was appointed when longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein died in September. Butler is not running for the seat and will step down when her term expires in early 2025.The bar for a formal endorsement — 60% of the vote — is likely out of reach given the top three candidates are all sitting members of Congress with large bases of support. But the vote on Saturday night will offer a glimpse of how the party faithful views the top candidates, two of whom could meet in a head-to-head matchup in ...

Multiple suspects at large in deadly Northglenn shooting

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Northglenn Police Department said multiple suspects in a shooting were at large Saturday evening in a shooting that killed a man.Police told FOX31 it happened at the Vega Apartments, located at 11801 Washington Street. Police searching for at least one suspect in deadly Westminster shooting The call came in at 8:02 p.m. NPD said when officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot. He was taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.NPD said the incident was being investigated as a homicide, and officers were searching for multiple suspects but no one was in custody.Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact Detective Jacki Spresser at 303-450-8859 or [email protected].

Davie resident, 97, speaks out days after floodwaters caused by storm surrounded his home of 60 years

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

An elderly Broward County resident is speaking out days after a powerful storm that hit South Florida caused so much flooding that the water completely surrounded his home.Speaking with 7News on Saturday, 97-year-old Dick Postelwaite showed 7News just how high the floodwaters rose outside his home located in a neighborhood off Hiatus Road.“Came up to this corner right here, all the way up,” he said as he stood next to a hose.When asked if those were the highest water levels he’s ever seen outside his home, he replied. “Yeah.”Postelwaite has lived in the same house since 1963, adding his neighborhood used to be a fruit orchard.Back then, he said, the farmer had pumps to move the water out when it rained.But those pumps are long gone, so when it rains now, his street resembles a lake.“Ever since that time, we haven’t had any controlled water system. This is Mother Nature,” he said. “Mother Nature gets a little angry when it gets du...

Alan Tudyk brings voice talents to Disney’s ‘Wish’

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:05:25 GMT

Disney celebrates a century of culture-defining animation with its latest feature, Wednesday’s “Wish.”Here, the plucky heroine, 17-year-old Asha (voiced by Oscar winner Ariana DeBose), bonds with her three-week-old pet goat Valentino (Alan Tudyk). “He’s just a kid,” Tudyk noted with a laugh.Where, Tudyk, 52, was asked in a phone interview, did he get that name!  He’s certainly not an Italian goat (even though he will soon be in Walmart as a cuddly plush toy).“I think you need to ask Asha. She named him. He seems much more like a Rupert to me,” Tudyk answered.Set centuries ago in a small mythical kingdom, “Wish” finds the country’s founder King Magnifico (Chris Pine) to be a nasty, narcissistic wizard prone to the dark side. He holds captive the wishes of his people, which prompts Asha to wish so strongly, a mighty, tiny star named Star appears to help her in the fight against tyranny.But what, Tudyk was asked, is “Wish” really about?“It’s about the wishes inside of us. That wishes c...