• Oscar Promises Verbal Fight Week Beatdown of Canelo

    LAS VEGAS – In a recent interview, Golden Boy Promotions founder Oscar De La Hoya said Canelo Alvarez “didn’t want to deal with me” in negotiations because “he doesn’t like the attention taken away from him.” De La Hoya, who promoted Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) from 2010 until their contractual split following victories in four weight classes, said he’s anticipating something beyond the thrill of watching the De La Hoya-promoted Jaime Munguia upset Alvarez in their Saturday night bout for the...

  • WATCH: Gardening With Brendan Week 6: Benefits of growing your own

    Here’s five benefits you can expect when you decide to get your hands a little dirty in your own backyard. Lifting your mood The winters here in Ireland are long and dark and usually cold and windy. It’s just bleak and come the spring you really notice the mood lifting as more people are able to shed the winter wardrobe and enjoy going out and about. During the winter, boredom can set in and we know from the experts that the less hours of sunlight during the winter affects your mood. One way to...

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    Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter's staggering net worth

    The once iconic performer amassed a huge fortune from being one of the biggest rock stars in the 70s. He earned millions before he eventually faced punishment for abusing girls

  • Editorial: Benefits of police body cameras well worth the expense

    In the nationwide atmosphere of heightened scrutiny on the performance of police officers, the Lowell Police Department launched a body-camera pilot program last April that equipped 30 officers – 10 on each shift – with those devices. As part of this initial introduction, then-interim Police Superintendent Barry Golner said the plan was to rotate the […]

  • Clear conditions will stay with us into the end of the work week

    AVERAGE HIGH FOR APRIL 25th: 63° AVERAGE LOW FOR APRIL 25th: 37° THURSDAY'S SUNRISE: 6:11 AM THURSDAY’S SUNSET: 8:01 PM Elmira, N.Y. (WETM) - Clear conditions will stay with us into the end of the work week. After that, showers will return for the weekend and into the new work week. More details below: TONIGHT: Clear and calm conditions []

  • Media Note: Mitch Wertlieb Named Host of 'Vermont This Week'

    Mitch Wertlieb, host and producer of Vermont Public’s daily news podcast “The Frequency,” has been named permanent host of “Vermont This Week.” The show is the flagship televised news program for Vermont Public, the entity created nearly three years ago when Vermont Public Radio and Vermont PBS merged. "I’m really grateful for this opportunity,” Wertlieb told Seven Days on Wednesday. “I’ve gotten to know some of the folks on the PBS crew and am blown away by what they do.” Wertlieb’s...

  • Houston’s Salvadoran janitors fight to increase pay, benefits

    In Houston, more than 5,000 janitors are immigrants from El Salvador, which is roughly 10% of the janitorial workforce. Yet they are less than 3% of working people in the city.

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    Are Countertop Composters Worth It? I Calculated My Food Waste for a Week to See

    You have no idea how much organic waste you're tossing out until you weigh a week's worth of it.

  • Week of tragedy on Cornwall's roads as three dead and others fighting for lives

    It's been a period of unspeakable tragedy amid a flurry of serious crashes including on the A30, A390 and A38

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    Louisiana Supreme Court clears Broadmoor teacher who was both acquitted and convicted at trial

    BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously cleared a former Broadmoor Elementary School teacher whose conviction on an aggravated assault charge was initially pronounced as an acquittal because of a disconnect between the trial judge and the jury hearing the case.Judge Eboni Johnson Rose committed a "blatant violation" of judicial guidelines that "shocks the conscience," Justice Scott Crichton wrote. Louisiana's chief justice, however, found this to be a teachable...

  • Missouri Southern’s Cole Gayman Named MIAA Pitcher of the Week

    KANSAS CITY, MO — The MIAA announced their baseball players of the week and after a shutout performance on last Friday night, Missouri Southern Junior Pitcher, Cole Gayman has been named this week's MIAA Pitcher of the Week. He earns the Pitcher of the Week honors for the 5th time this season. In Friday's game, []

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    New video games worth playing for the week of 4/22/24

    Check out what’s new in the world of video games this week.