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2023 NFL draft: Winners and Losers from first round

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

In the first round of the NFL draft, three quarterbacks were selected in the top five, while there were too many trades to keep track of. With that said, here are some winners and losers from an eventful Thursday in Kansas City.First Round winnersLamar Jackson: The Ravens quarterback has to be smiling. Thursday started with him reportedly signing a five-year extension worth $260 million with $185 million in guarantees. Jackson would later get another playmaker on offense when Baltimore drafted Boston College wideout Zay Flowers with the 22nd overall pick. Jackson will now go into the 2023 season with wide receivers Rashod Bateman, Flowers and Odell Beckham Jr. at his disposal. The future is bright in Baltimore.Related ArticlesDenver Broncos | NFL Draft look ahead: Who’s still available for Broncos to target on Day 2? Denver Broncos | 2023 NFL draft tracker: Picks, instant reaction and more live coverage Denver Broncos | George Paton, ...

Parents upset over fights breaking out across Riverside school campuses

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

Parents say fights on high school campuses across the Riverside School district are out of control and only getting worse.The concern from parents follows an incident at Ramona High School on Wednesday where an 18-year-old male student and his 14-year-old sister were arrested after a fight broke out.Police said the 18-year-old refused to comply with school officials during the incident. When the school officer attempted to detain him, he resisted and that’s when his sister allegedly attacked the officer, said Riverside police.Parents say incidents like this are becoming increasingly common within Riverside district campuses and it’s time for changes to be made.An open-session board meeting to address the issue took place on Thursday with parents and community members in attendance.A video from another fight breaking out at Martin Luther King High School during lunchtime on Monday shows two students getting violent as others watched nearby. LAPD officer’s finger bit off by homeless...

22-year-old pleads guilty to bringing 65,000 fentanyl pills into Syracuse

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- A 22-year-old suspect from California pled guilty on Thursday, April 27, to possessing over 65,000 fentanyl pills with the intent to distribute them in the Central New York area.Jose Orozco Acosta admitted as part of his plea that on April 4, 2022, he traveled from Bakersfield, CA to a storage unit in Syracuse, NY, and transferred the contents of his storage unit which included over 65,000 fentanyl pills, weighing approximately 7.2 kilograms, into a storage unit in the city of Syracuse. On the Lookout: Suspect involved in alleged stabbing in Auburn Kinney Drugs Acosta carried the pills in a black plastic tote and transferred them to the Syracuse storage unit with the intent to distribute them throughout the CNY area. The investigation was coordinated primarily by New York State Police Investigators in conjunction with DEA Special Agents in Bakersfield, CA, who revealed Acosta was transporting fentanyl and other narcotics from his home in Bakersfiel...

Oakland residents displaced for months after flooding

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- When heavy rain hit the Bay Area New Year’s Eve, more than 300 residents were displaced from their apartments at Coliseum Connections in Oakland.Nearly four months later, many of them are still living in hotels.KRON 4’s Rob Nesbitt reports on the resident’s frustrations.BART owns the land that Coliseum Connections apartments is on and they allowed public comment during their board of directors meeting today. Residents aired their frustrations and concerns.”This is what the inside of Coliseum Connections looked like on New Year's Day -- the flooded lobby, apartments and parking garage sent displaced residents to stay in hotels.Four months later, the hotel rooms that were supposed to be temporary are still a reality for residents like Dream Jasmine. Shooting at business near SF’s Westfield Mall sends person to hospital; suspect detained “It’s been 117 days, we don’t need you to listen anymore we need you to do something,” said one displaced resident. She jo...

Seahawks take Witherspoon at No. 5, Smith-Njigba at No. 20

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — When the first round ended, the Seattle Seahawks had nabbed the top-rated cornerback, the top-rated wide receiver, and didn’t do any wheeling and dealing of trades with either of their first-round picks. None of those three outcomes fits directions the Seahawks were expected to go on the first night of the NFL draft. Seattle held on to both of its first-rounders, selecting Illinois cornerback Devon Witherspoon at No. 5 overall and coming back to get Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Ngjiba at No. 20 on Thursday night. Both positions were expected to be addressed at some point by Seattle, but not necessarily in the spots the two players were selected. Most believed Seattle — holding the highest draft pick in the long tenure of general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll — would go with a defensive lineman or one of the quarterbacks. But with three QBs gone in the first four picks, the Seahawks’ leadership bypassed the likes of defensive tackle Jalen ...

Chiefs pick hometown star Felix Anudike-Uzomah of K-State

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs picked a hometown boy with the last selection in the first round of the hometown NFL draft.The Super Bowl champions bolstered their pass rush Thursday night when they chose Kansas State’s Felix Anudike-Uzomah with the 31st overall pick. He was born in Kansas City and became a prep star in the suburb of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, before helping the Wildcats to a Big 12 title last season, when he was voted the league’s defensive player of the year.“I got drafted by literally my favorite team growing up,” Anudike-Uzomah said. “It’s definitly a dream come true.”Anudike-Uzomah fills a big need for the Chiefs, who released Frank Clark not long ago to create some salary cap space.The Chiefs also used a first-round pick last year on defensive end George Karlaftis, and now they have two young players to anchor their pass rush for years to come. Karlaftis had six sacks while helping the Chiefs win the Super Bowl as a rookie.“...

2 US Army helicopters crash in Alaska, killing 3 soldiers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Two U.S. army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth.Two of the soldiers died at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks, the Army said in a statement. It said a fourth soldier was being treated at a hospital for injuries. The names of those killed were being withheld until relatives could be notified, the Army said.Each AH-64 Apache helicopter was carrying two people at the time of the crash, John Pennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Alaska, said earlier Thursday.The helicopters were from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright, based near Fairbanks.“This is an incredible loss for these soldiers’ families, their fellow soldiers, and for the division,” Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, commanding general of the 11th Airborne Division, said in the Army statement...

Summer Movies: Indy, Barbie, ‘Fast X’ zooming to theaters

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

The stakes are always high in the summer movie season.But even in a schedule that has heavyweights like Indiana Jones, Ariel, Ethan Hunt and Dominic Toretto vying for box office supremacy, the biggest, funniest showdown is happening on July 21. On that fateful Friday, cinephiles will be faced with a difficult choice: Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” or Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”?The “Barbieheimer” showdown is, naturally, a bit silly. First, it’s entirely possible to see two new movies in one weekend. Second, while opening weekends are important, they’re also not everything. In 2008, “The Dark Knight” debuted on the same weekend as “Mamma Mia!” and both went on to be major successes.But it has inspired the kind of feverish, half-serious, half-joking discourse online that no marketing can buy, with memes, jokes, bets and Highlander references galore every time either film drops a new advertisement. There were even a few hours in April when the internet panicked that the beach-off was ca...

Taiwán afirma que un dron militar chino circunnavegó Taiwán por primera vez

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

(CNN) — Un dron militar chino fue visto circunnavegando Taiwán, según un mapa de vuelo publicado por el ministerio de Defensa taiwanés este viernes.Es el primer incidente conocido de este tipo desde que el Ministerio de Defensa taiwanés comenzó a publicar regularmente las actividades de las fuerzas aéreas chinas en 2020.El dron militar fue identificado como un dron de reconocimiento TB-001. El mapa mostró que entró en la zona de identificación de defensa aérea (ADIZ) del suroeste de Taiwán, antes de volar a lo largo de la costa oriental de la isla y regresar a China continental en el norte. China ha declarado que no reconoce la ADIZ de Taiwán.ANÁLISIS | Una reserva de armas y una guerra asimétrica: cómo Taiwán podría frustrar una invasión de China, con la ayuda de Estados UnidosEl dron fue uno de los 19 aviones de guerra chinos que entraron en la ADIZ de Taiwán entre las 6 de la mañana del jueves y las 6 de la mañana de este viernes, según informó el Ministerio de Defensa taiw...

Cowboys get Michigan DT Mazi Smith 26th overall in NFL draft

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:05:02 GMT

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys targeted the leakiest part of their solid defense in the NFL draft, taking Michigan defensive tackle Mazi Smith with the 26th overall pick Thursday night.As much as the Cowboys would like to add offensive firepower for quarterback Dak Prescott, the run defense on a unit led by pass rushing star Micah Parsons needed some help, too.Dallas led the NFL in takeaways for the second consecutive year in 2022 — with the Cowboys reaching the playoffs both seasons — but the run defense dropped six spots to No. 22. The Cowboys were getting pushed around enough to trade for Johnathan Hankins during the season, and re-signed the player acquired from Las Vegas. The 6-foot-3, 323-pound Smith gives the Cowboys even more size on the interior of the defensive line. Parsons approved, tweeting “Man, let’s freaking work!!!!!!”“I’ve been strong my whole life,” Smith said. “My mom say I came out of the womb looking like I did pushups in there.”Asked what ...