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IOWA CITY – With the retirement Monday of Iowa women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder, the Hawkeye athletic department didn't have to look too far to find her successor.
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IOWA CITY – With the retirement Monday of Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder, the Hawkeye athletic department didn’t have to look too far to find her successor.
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IOWA CITY – With the retirement Monday of Iowa women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder, the Hawkeye athletic department didn't have to look too far to find her successor.
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IOWA CITY – With the retirement Monday of Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder, the Hawkeye athletic department didn’t have to look too far to find her successor.
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HARLAN – After two weeks of rain outs, Shelby County Speedway finally got in the season’s points night kicked off.
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The Greely Tip Tops 4-H Club met at Twin Construction and conducted a short business meeting on April 14. Following the meeting, the club broke into five groups to create flower planters. First, the groups used drills to drill screws into wood to make the frame of the flower planter. Secondl…
The Audubon County Community Foundation awarded $143,342 to Audubon County nonprofit organizations and community projects during its Spring 2024 Grant Cycle.
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The San Francisco 49ers added depth to their offensive line by signing tackle Chris Hubbard to a one-year, $1.375 million contract, NFL Network reported Tuesday morning. Hubbard, 33, started all nine games in which he played with the Tennessee Titans last season. He has played in 94 career games (58 starts) with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns and Titans. The 49ers feature 11-time Pro Bowl selection Trent Williams, 35, at left tackle and Colton McKivitz, 27, at right tackle. --Field Level Media
Bills sign WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling to 1-year contract
Former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills on Tuesday morning. Financial terms were not disclosed by the Bills, however multiple media outlets reported the deal is worth up to $4.5 million. The Chiefs released Valdes-Scantling in February as a means to free up $12 million of salary cap. The Bills are attempting to retool their wide receiver room after trading star Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans and seeing Gabe Davis sign with the Jacksonville Jaguars in free agency. Buffalo selected Florida State wide receiver Keon Coleman with the first pick of the second round in April's NFL draft and added free-agent acquisitions Curtis Samuel, Mack Hollins and Quintez Cephus. A two-time Super Bowl champion, Valdes-Scantling caught a touchdown pass in the Chiefs' 25-22 overtime win against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII. Valdes-Scantling, 29, had 63 receptions for 1,002 yards and three touchdowns in 33 regular season games (21 starts) with Kansas City from 2022-23. The 2018 fifth-round pick played his first four seasons with the Green Bay Packers, hauling in 123 catches for 2,153 yards and 13 scores in 59 games (39 starts). --Field Level Media
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — World Cup-winning French striker Olivier Giroud is signing with Los Angeles FC.
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The Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association are proud to announce the 15th Annual Iowa’s Best Burger Contest. Nominations will be taken from Monday, February 12 to Tuesday, March 12.
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The name calling has begun. Ryan Reynolds keeps up the playful rivalry between him and co-star Hugh Jackman while talking about how he got Jackman to reprise his role in “Deadpool & Wolverine."
A New York appeals court has upheld a gag order that bars Donald Trump from making statements against certain people connected to his criminal hush money trial. The court found Tuesday that Judge Juan M. Merchan properly determined that Trump’s public statements posed a significant threat to the integrity of the testimony. The order bars him from commenting publicly about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case. Those include the judge’s family and prosecutors other than District Attorney Alvin Bragg. A message seeking comment was left with a lawyer for Trump.
A New York appeals court on Tuesday upheld the gag order in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, finding that Judge Juan M. Merchan “properly determined” that Trump’s public statements “posed a significant threat to the integrity of the testimony of witnesses and potential witnesses in this case as well.” Trump had asked the state’s intermediate appeals court to lift or modify the gag order, which bars him from commenting publicly about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case, including the judge’s family and prosecutors other than District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In its ruling, a five-judge appeals panel noted that Trump wasn’t claiming that the gag order had infringed on his right to a fair trial.
The Florida Highway Patrol says a bus carrying farmworkers in central Florida has overturned, killing eight people and injuring another 40 passengers. Authorities say the bus was transporting 53 farmworkers early Tuesday morning when it collided with a truck and swerved off a road in Marion County, north of Orlando. The bus crashed through a fence and ended up on its side in a field. The workers were being transported to Cannon Farms in Dunellon, which has been harvesting watermelons. Cannon Farms describes itself as a family owned commercial farming operation that has farmed its land for more than 100 years,
The United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza. Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling supplies to Palestinians facing catastrophic levels of hunger in makeshift tent camps. Meanwhile, Israelis celebrated Independence Day on Tuesday with barbecues in parks across the country. The normally raucous parties were smaller and quieter this year because of the war in Gaza. Health officials in Gaza say Israel's war against Hamas has killed 35,000 people, most of them women and children.
Diego Maradona’s heirs want to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded after the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina. It had been missing for decades and recently resurfaced. Their lawyer told The Associated Press he will launch an urgent request to have the Golden Ball withdrawn from the sale next month in Paris. He told the AP he will also request a judicial sequestration of the trophy and file a complaint for theft and concealed theft. Maradona died in 2020 at age 60. He captained Argentina in its 3-2 win over West Germany in the 1986 final in Mexico City. Maradona’s heirs say the trophy was stolen and claim the current owner cannot be entitled to sell it.
The Cannes Film Festival opens Tuesday with the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury and the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep, as the French Riviera spectacular kicks off a potentially volatile 77th edition. A 10-day stream of stars will begin flowing down Cannes’ famous red carpet beginning with the opening night film, “The Second Act,” a French comedy starring Lea Seydoux and Vincent Lindon. Cannes will also premiere George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed “Megalopolis” and anticipated new movies from Paolo Sorrentino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Kevin Costner.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that American military aid on its way to Ukraine will make a “real difference” on the battlefield. The remarks Tuesday came as the top diplomat made an unannounced visit to reassure an ally facing a fierce new Russian offensive. According to open-source monitoring analysts, Moscow’s troops have captured around 100 to 125 square kilometers in the Kharkiv region that includes at least seven villages in recent days. Though most of those villages were already depopulated, thousands of civilians in the area have fled the fighting. Analysts have called this moment one of the most dangerous for Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for more air defense systems to protect civilians in the northeast.
The Chinese Foreign Ministery says Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week. Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit starting on Thurday, it said. The Kremlin said Putin was going on Xi's invitation. China has backed Russia politically in the conflict in Ukraine and has continued to export machine tools and other items seen as contributing to the Russian war effort, without actually exporting weaponry. China is also a major export market for energy supplies that keep the Kremlin’s coffers full. China’s Foreign Ministry said Xi would discuss with Putin “cooperation in various fields of bilateral relations ... as well as international and regional issues of common concern.”
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Who’d have thought that a week after the NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament ended, that the spotlight would still be on the Iowa Hawkeyes?
