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Michigan's top health official abruptly resigns without explanation, deputy replaces him
LANSING, Mich. — Robert Gordon, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and a key, but controversial figure in the state's response to COVID-19, announced his resignation Friday from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration. Gordon gained the public spotlight after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Oct. 2 that Whitmer had violated her constitutional power by continuing to issue executive orders to combat COVID-19 without the approval of state lawmakers. The governor's administration quickly shifted to using epidemic orders issued by Gordon under the Public Health Code to ...
The Detroit News
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Pac-12 commissioner search: Key presidents describe the process: 'I’m going to look for somebody that … has a little bit of a Rolodex'
The Pac-12 intends to have a new commissioner in place when Larry Scott steps down at the end of June, according to Oregon president Michael Schill, chair of the conference’s CEO Group. “This is a plum job,” Schill told the Hotline on Thursday, one day after the announcement that Scott’s tenure would come to an end this summer. “We’re going to move expeditiously.” The first step is to hire an executive placement firm to assist with the search — preferably one with college sports experience. At that point, Schill said, the conference will craft the job description. Central to that process is de...
The Mercury News
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Movie fans who identify with villains share similar dark characteristics
It takes one to know one. Fiction fans who favor villainous characters appear to share a “Dark Triad” of characteristics with those shifty individuals. Citing a report from the journal Poetics, the Academic Times reports that those who identify with antagonists frequently share those characters’ sense of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, the latter of which Psychology Today describes as “a personality type that does not choose to be, but simply is, a master manipulator.” The study was based on a survey of more than 1,800 North Americans and asked participants to rank, on a scale of...
New York Daily News
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Chicago to Evanston shooting victims: A doorwoman, a college student, a shopper fatally shot were random targets of gunman who said he planned to ‘blow up the whole community’
CHICAGO — Bobbie Lawrie was talking with a longtime door woman and a 77-year-old neighbor moments before a gunman walked into her East Hyde Park condo building and shot the other two women, killing one. “We were just having a good time chitchatting on a Saturday afternoon, totally oblivious to what was to come,” said Lawrie, who lives in one of about 70 condos in the Barclay building in the 4900 block of South East End Avenue. “We were talking about Mesler (Kitchen), our favorite restaurant in the neighborhood. Miss Hinton was telling us about her trip to New Orleans where her brother is a che...
Chicago Tribune
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Scott Fowler: Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall headlines best underdog story in college football
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — College football has its royalty: The Clemsons and the Alabamas. The Notre Dames and the Ohio States. The 5-star recruits and the 80,000-seat stadiums packed to the gills in a non-COVID-19 year. But most of college football isn't like that. Most of college football is a lot more like Grayson McCall, who I believe in 2020 is the best underdog story on the best underdog team in the entire sport. McCall starts at quarterback at Coastal Carolina, which only moved up to college football's highest division in 2017 but now boasts a perfect 11-0 record and a No. 9 national ranking. T...
The Charlotte Observer
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'Armed intruder' apprehended at Kennesaw State
ATLANTA — An “armed intruder” was found and taken into custody at Kennesaw State University shortly after firing a gun inside a Cobb County restaurant, officials confirmed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Officers were first sent to the area of South Marietta Parkway and Cobb Parkway after the shooting was reported, according to Marietta police spokesman Chuck McPhilamy. The armed man fired a shot inside a Mexican restaurant and then ran away, McPhilamy said. The Marietta KSU campus was notified shortly after, and they alerted their students and faculty “as a precaution,” he said. Students...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Feds charge 13 in drug trafficking ring that sold to UT students in Austin, San Antonio
AUSTIN, Texas — Federal authorities on Friday display drugs and money that was confiscated during recent searches and arrests in connection with a local drug trafficking operation in Austin and San Antonio. At least 13 people, including former and current University of Texas students, have been charged in connection with a drug trafficking operation that authorities say sold counterfeit prescription drugs laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine to college students in Central Texas. Gregg Sofer, a U.S. attorney for the Justice Department, said the group sold what University of Texas students in...
Austin American-Statesman
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Runoff Tuesday determines who will fill final month of Rep. John Lewis' term
ATLANTA — The two men competing to fill the remainder of John Lewis’ congressional term already faced the prospect of a low-turnout runoff where the winner will serve for just one month.But it’s gotten even harder for Kwanza Hall, a former Atlanta city councilman, and Robert Franklin, president emeritus of Morehouse College, to get through to voters ahead of Tuesday’s election.The Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoffs that will determine the balance of power in Washington have siphoned resources and attention. Social media companies are enforcing a moratorium on political ads, taking away an inexpensive ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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George Floyd Foundation, Texas A&M University announce internship program for Black male students
The George Floyd Memorial Foundation is joining forces with Texas A&M University-Commerce to launch an internship program for Black male students.Set to launch in January, the Be His Legacy Internship Program is designed to promote social justice, combat police brutality and protect the civil rights of people of color.The program will be available to members of the African American Male Mentorship Program at the university, which “encourages Black male students to actively engage in the university experience, develop leadership skills, and successfully graduate and become future industry leade...
New York Daily News
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Steve Hummer: The Masters recognizes another important part of its past — Lee Elder
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The story goes that in 1975 when Lee Elder was about to cut his trail at the Masters, he first was faced with a thicket of racism outside the Augusta National gates, in the real world.There was this restaurant in Augusta. It did not wish to seat Elder and his party. The reason was as evident as the color of Elder’s skin.But such ugliness had a remedy. Elder found open arms and a bountiful table at nearby Paine College, a historically black institution four miles from the Masters front gate. When college president Julius Scott heard about the incident, he told Elder that all his ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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