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Musicians gather for Academy of Country Music Honors awards show

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

Get your country boots on and gear up for Academy of Country Music Honors.We got a preview of the happenings, from honorees to performances. Let’s take a look.Carly Pearce is all smiles as host of the 16th Annual Academy of Country Music Honors.Carly Pearce: “I get to exercise, for lack of a better word, another part of my passion, which is hosting. I think third times the charm. We’ll see.”“The War and Treaty” singing duo knows how to make a guy feel special.Their performance honors Chris Stapleton as the triple crown award winner.Lady a, Dennis Quaid, Trisha Vearwood are also hopping on stage.Breland is lifting his voice with Keith Urban. The youngin’ is getting the Lift Every Voice award.Breland: “This is one of the most special moments in my career for a lot of reasons, and to be able to share the stage with Keith, is the guy that honestly brought me out to Nashville that made me feel like, I can move here, I’ve got allies, I...

“Rainfall” ahead of fall

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

Rain and storm chances remain high this week ahead of the fall season (which begins Saturday). The wet weather is due to a front that’s set to stall across Florida. Heavy rain and storms will arrive in rounds. Hopefully, there will be sufficient dry time between downpours, so areas won’t be as vulnerable for street flooding. Of course, going back to last week, many areas have been extra-wet. That would include locations around Miami International Airport, where we had a record rain over the weekend! There’s an abundance of lingering moisture that’s fueling this activity. As a slow-moving front settles into the region (and becomes stationary) we’ll have the ingredients for wet and unsettled weather. This pattern should last through Thursday, at least. After that, we may get some “help” from the Atlantic. A late-week low pressure disturbance is forecast to form (east of Florida and well north of the Bahamas). That low would lift nor...

Trump to skip second Republican debate for Detroit prime-time speech

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

(CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will skip the second Republican presidential primary debate in California next week and instead will travel to Detroit to deliver a speech to an audience that will include current and former union members, according to a source familiar with his plans.His prime-time remarks will serve as counterprogramming to the September 27 debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.The revelation comes as the United Auto Workers’ strike has entered its fourth day.“The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump,” the former president told NBC News in an interview last week.Details of Trump’s Detroit trip were first reported by The New York Times.Trump, who has maintained a large lead in national and early-state primary polls, also skipped the first GOP primary debate in Milwaukee last month. The third debate is scheduled to...

Military officials find debris field belonging to F-35 fighter jet that went missing in South Carolina after ‘mishap’ forced pilot to eject

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

(CNN) — A debris field has been found and identified as the remains of an F-35 fighter jet that went missing Sunday near Charleston, South Carolina, after its pilot ejected, according to the Marine Corps and a defense official with knowledge of the search.The debris field is approximately two hours northeast of Joint Base Charleston. JB Charleston, which led the search, “is transferring incident command to the USMC this evening, as they begin the recovery process,” the Marine Corps said in a news release.Members of the community have been cautioned to avoid the area so the recovery team can secure the debris field and begin the recovery process.On Sunday, the pilot ejected safely after a “mishap” involving the jet and was taken to a local medical facility in stable condition, Joint Base Charleston had said in a Facebook post.“The mishap is currently under investigation, and we are unable to provide additional details to preserve the integrity of the investigative proc...

Robbins: GOP bows to Trump in Biden impeachment query

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

A political gaffe, journalist Michael Kinsley once said, is what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Republican Congressman Ken Buck is no doubt drawing fire from his Republican colleagues in the House for his Washington Post op ed last week deriding his party’s newly-launched “impeachment inquiry” into President Joe Biden for “relying on an imagined history.”  But what else is new?In the case of Congressional Republicans, it isn’t: imagined history, imagined facts, imagined rigged elections, imagined declassification of documents – this sort of thing has been the Republicans’ staple since Trump took his famous escalator ride down Trump Tower in 2015.The inquiry was ordered up by former President Trump, who is keen to divert attention from the 91 separate criminal charges pending against him in four separate jurisdictions, for everything from falsifying records to hide his hush money payments to a porn star, to trying to block the counting of electoral votes in o...

Officials find debris from F-35 fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina after pilot ejected

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities found a debris field Monday from a Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina after the pilot ejected and parachuted to safety. The debris field was located in rural Williamsburg County, according to the Marine Corps’ Joint Base Charleston. The field is about two hours northeast of the base, and residents were being asked to avoid the area while the recovery team worked to secure it.Authorities had been searching for the jet since the pilot, whose name hasn’t been released, parachuted to safety into a North Charleston neighborhood about 2 p.m. Sunday. He was taken to a hospital, where he was in stable condition, Marines Maj. Melanie Salinas said.The Marine Corps announced Monday it was pausing operations for two days after the fighter jet’s crash — the third costly accident in recent weeks.Gen. Eric Smith, the acting commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the stand-down while authoriti...

‘We need the public’s help:’ Investigation into 5-victim shooting continues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

In the wake of a Dorchester shooting that left three adults and a 14-year-old seriously injured and an 11-year-old in critical condition Sunday night, officials are continuing to seek any public assistance.“We’re doing everything we can, but this is yet another incident that cries out where we need the community’s help,” DA Kevin Hayden said in a press conference Sunday night. “There are people that are in this area, and we hope that someone will step forward and provide us with helpful information.”Police were alerted to multiple gunshots in the area Ames Street at what may have been some type of family gathering in Dorchester via ShotSpotter activation around 8:36 p.m. Sunday night, Police Commissioner Michael Cox said Sunday.Five people, including an 11-year-old and 14-year-old, in total were shot and taken to a hospital, officials reported. The 11-year-old sustained life threatening injuries.As of around 5 p.m. Monday, all victims’ condi...

Flaherty slams Boston City Council for rejecting police intel funds amid latest shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

Hours after the latest mass shooting in Boston, City Councilor Michael Flaherty took another swipe at his colleagues, who voted down $2.5 million in state grants for the investigative arm of the city’s police department.Mayor Michelle Wu has refiled the three $850,000 grants, for fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023, that were rejected by the City Council, via a 7-5 vote, last Wednesday, and filed an additional $850,000 grant from FY20.Although the state continues to earmark this grant funding for the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, to improve technology aimed at fighting crime, gangs and terrorism, the council continues to vote in opposition, leaving the police department unable to access the funds.“My hope is that the Boston City Council can back up their thoughts and prayers with giving you guys the resources and to foster that partnership,” Flaherty told police leaders at a Monday morning hearing on gun trafficking, referencing the sentiments several councilors shared about th...

Mac Jones clarifies postgame comments on Patriots teammates’ dedication

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

After Sunday night’s loss to the Dolphins, Patriots quarterback Mac Jones made a comment that was deciphered by local sports radio talk show hosts as calling out his teammates.Jones said after the 24-17 loss, “Definitely got to play better and learn from it and be here early and leave late and do it together. I think that’s the biggest thing. If a couple guys are doing it, it’s not good enough, clearly.”Jones was asked about those comments on one of those shows that were reading between the lines, WEEI’s “Jones and Mego with Arcand.” Host Adam Jones asked Jones if he was implying that there’s a lack of effort on the Patriots.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | DA investigates death of Patriots fan at Gillette Stadium New England Patriots | Sources: Patriots waive QB Matt Corral, release another QB from practice squad New England Patriots | Patriots awaiting updates on two injured key ...

Utah private prison company returns $5M to Mississippi after understaffing is found at facilities

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:12 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Utah-based private prison company has returned $5.1 million to the Mississippi Department of Corrections after an investigation found it failed to provide enough workers at prisons it was operating, state Auditor Shad White said Monday.Management & Training Corporation sent the money to the department last week, he said.“Every penny must be accounted for,” White said in a news release.The auditor’s office started investigating MTC — based in Centerville, Utah — in 2021 when allegations arose that the company was not providing the correct amount of prison staff required under contracts with the state. The auditor’s office ultimately found MTC failed to provide enough workers to ensure the safety of inmates and prison employees, but the company was still paid by the state as if it had.MTC communications director Emily Lawhead said in a statement Monday that the $5.1 million MTC sent to Mississippi last week resulted from the company’s internal a...