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3 dead in California plane crash. The people on the plane had been in Southern California for a cheerleading competition at Disneyland, and were heading back to San Jose, he said. "It's horrible, coupled together that they were going to a cheer competition," Moore said. "This is supposedly a happy time and then just to have a tragic incident like this, and into one of these Riverside residences, it's really a sad case for us."

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A Dallas teacher was arrested after he reportedly threatened to kill the staff if he didn't get a raise, police said.

Omar Alanis, 29, was a world history teacher at Seagoville High School and reportedly used his school email account to message the principal and other administrators that they should pay him and another teacher the "Master Teacher Salary" and back-pay them from August of last year, Fox 4 News reported.

He told them that they should make sure they were paid unless they "don't want to burn alive."
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Police documents show Alanis has been employed with the school district since August.

Police said Alanis sent a second email adding that those who don't comply with his demands would be "put down immediately by Dallas PD. He attached an image of officers with weapons.

According to Fox 4 News, Alanis went missing for a week after the threats came to light, but returned a week later. He spoke to police on Saturday and admitted several times to sending the threatening emails.

Alanis told police that he was standing up to the administration to bring change in regards to pay.
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Alanis was charged with making terroristic threats and has been put on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. He was released from jail after posting a $1,500 bond, Fox 4 News reported.

His family said he is receiving mental help and that he wasn't in his right mind when he sent those emails.

"You know, there's a back story to that," Arlene Alanis told Fox 4 News. "As far as we're concerned, he's not mentally stable at this point. He had some sort of mental breakdown."

She added: "He was very unlike himself when I saw him. I was just like 'that's not my brother.' We're getting our brother the help he needs. He's not a terrorist. There's no need for anyone to be afraid of him."
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A Dallas teacher was arrested after he reportedly threatened to kill the staff if he didn't get a raise, police said. Omar Alanis, 29, was a world history teacher at Seagoville High School and reportedly used his school email account to message the principal and other administrators that they should pay him and another teacher the "Master Teacher Salary" and back-pay them from August of last year, Fox 4 News reported.

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CLEVELAND (AP) Carmelo Anthony was still a member of the New York Knicks when he awoke from his afternoon nap Thursday.

Once the game started, the Cleveland Cavaliers made sure the Knicks' nightmarish season continued.

LeBron James recorded his 48th career triple-double and Kyrie Irving scored 23 points, leading the Cavaliers to a 119-104 victory over the Knicks, who hung on to Anthony and Derrick Rose at the trade deadline.

James scored 18 points and had 13 rebounds with 15 assists for his sixth triple-double of the season.

Anthony, the subject of trade rumors because of a strained relationship with Knicks President of Basketball Operations Phil Jackson, scored 20 points, going 9 of 25 from the field.

"I'm at peace," Anthony said. "I've been at peace. I'm happy I won't be talking about trades or any of this stuff the rest of the season."

Anthony anticipated he would remain with the Knicks.

"Nobody likes to be in limbo, especially when it's involving you, but that's not the way it is in this sport," he said. "Obviously, we all knew kind of what was going on out there, but nothing happened."

Kyle Korver scored 20 points for Cleveland, which is 8-1 in February and has beaten New York 10 straight times. The defending NBA champions were 7-8 in January.

"We got back to playing our type of basketball," James said. "I've always felt good about our team, but it was just about the way we were playing. I feel really good about the way we're playing right now."

Courtney Lee had 25 points for New York, which has lost six of seven and is 12th in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis, the team's second-leading scorer, left the game with a sprained right ankle in the second quarter and didn't return. He left the arena in a walking boot and will be re-examined Friday.

New York took an early lead in the first game since the All-Star break for both teams, but the Cavaliers closed the first half on a 25-8 run. Cleveland built the lead to 72-51, but Anthony scored eight points in the third quarter and kept New York in the game.

The Knicks trailed 87-79 entering the fourth, but the Cavaliers quickly regained control. James scored on two layups while Korver and Channing Frye each hit two 3-pointers, pushing the lead to 110-91.

"The rest paid dividends for us," James said. "A couple of possessions guys got a little tired because we hadn't played in a week, but it was a good start for us after the break."

James, who had eight assists in the fourth, also turned in two outstanding defensive plays. He swatted Rose's layup attempt into the courtside seats in the second quarter and pinned Lee's breakaway drive against the backboard in the fourth.

Rose, another subject of trade rumors as the deadline approached, scored 13 points.

TIP-INS

Knicks: C Joakim Noah (sore left hamstring) traveled with the team to Cleveland, but coach Jeff Hornacek said no timetable has been set for his return to action. ... Lee has been battling an illness, but has stayed in the lineup despite not being fully healthy.

Cavaliers: James' missed layup earlier in the quarter fooled the arena PA announcer, who began calling the four-time MVP's name as the ball spun out. .... Irving missed a free throw in the second quarter, snapping a streak of 29 made foul shots in a row.

OAKLEY RETURNS

Former Knicks forward Charles Oakley watched his former team in his hometown. Oakley sat next to Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert in a front row seat adjacent to Cleveland's bench.

Oakley attended his first Knicks game since being arrested after getting into an altercation with security guards at Madison Square Garden earlier this month.

"It's always great to see him," James said. "He's like an uncle of mine."

MOVES UPCOMING

The Cavaliers were quiet at the deadline, but general manager David Griffin is expected to add at least one player soon. Veteran point guard Deron Williams is available after being waived by Dallas on Thursday.

UP NEXT

Knicks: Host Philadelphia on Saturday night.

Cavaliers: Host Chicago on Saturday night.

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With the exception of Heath Ledger's posthumous Oscar in 2009 for playing an anti-establishment, grittier version of the Joker, the superhero genre - which is dominating the movie landscape at the box office - has been mostly shut out of the Academy Awards.

When you add the rebirth of the " Star Wars" franchise, "Harry Potter" movies and Marvel's dominance over the past decade with its cinematic universe, moviegoers are being compelled to the box office by content they already know and love. In short, the rich have become richer, and the poor (indie films), well, they get nominated for Oscars.

More of the same

The academy expanded the best picture category in 2010 from five nominees to as many as 10 after it received backlash for snubbing Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" in the best picture category. Ledger won for best supporting actor for the movie, but its other seven nominations all came in technical categories such as sound editing and visual effects.

Nominations for the main categories continue to go to independent films. This year, the academy nominated nine films, leaving one slot open, which could have gone to the plucky R-rated "Deadpool," a film many critics thought was a real creative deviation from the superhero norm.

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers feels it was a mistake that "Deadpool" didn't land any nod whatsoever. The film was very much representative of the zeitgeist, he said.

In a column this week, Travers wrote, "Reynolds' performance as a cancer patient turned scar-faced mutant in superhero drag is a full-out pleasure. The film's R rating allows the actor to let it rip, breaking the fourth wall and talking s--- like there's no tomorrow ... But he also gives us something underneath, the sense of a man trying to hold on to what makes him human."

He expressed similar sentiments of disappointment to ABC News.

"The academy opened the best picture category after 'The Dark Knight,' and even with that, they still didn't nominate 'Deadpool' this year," Travers said. "The only glaring exception in the last two decades is ' Lord of the Rings' [and Ledger]."

Even the top-grossing film of 2016 - "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," which took in $528 million domestically - secured nominations only for sound mixing and visual effects.

There has never been "a greater divide" between what the public wants and what the academy seeks out when it nominates films, according to Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter's senior awards analyst.

Of the highest-grossing movies last year, six were based on superheroes or fantasy: "Rogue One," "Captain America: Civil War," "Deadpool," " Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," Suicide Squad" and "Doctor Strange."

"La La Land," the 20th-highest-grossing film in 2016, landed 14 nominations.

"There's just a sense among academy members that they are the last wall of resistance against these things, popcorn movies taking up the whole year," Feinberg told ABC News. "They are afraid to show a crack in their armor. It's just not their thing, the same way arthouse movies aren't a thing of the general public."

He added, "The stuff the academy has gravitated towards is rarer and rarer at theaters."

What movies will the academy nominate? Could a "Logan," which hits theaters next month and has already been widely hailed by critics, make the cut? Or maybe a movie down the road?

"There's always exceptions to every rule, and one day there will be a comic book movie to get a best picture nomination," Feinberg said. "With the passing of time, there will be more people who grew up around 'The Dark Knight' and feel that these movies are not inherently bad. But with that, these films need to pull their weight too."

Superheroes and cowboys

A lot has been said about the superhero genre one day going the way of the western.

"Westerns were the big thing decades ago and made loads of money before losing favor with the audience," Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight's pop culture guru, told ABC News. "You can have bad westerns, and you can have 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' You can have bad comic book movies, and you can have 'The Dark Knight' or potentially 'Logan' coming up."

Ironically, if audiences stop caring about comic book movie franchises, Feinberg thinks, "Deadpool" might be partly to blame.

"In a way, 'Deadpool' might be the beginning of the end of superhero movies because that was one that essentially mocked them and all of their overused conventions," he said. (Somewhere, the film's snarky protagonist, Wade Wilson, is loving this.)

Hickey couldn't agree more and believes the era of the superhero genre has already ended. In an analysis piece published last year, he pointed out that after 2008 and "The Dark Knight," audiences and critics alike won't settle for just a classic superhero film. Instead, they want a real story that just happens to have superheroes as the main characters.

"Make boxing movies or horror movies or heist movies that happen to feature superpowered people in tights," Hickey wrote after the highly anticipated "Dawn of Justice" was panned by critics.

A solid comparison can be made looking at two similar movies made a decade apart. If you look at "Spider-Man 2," which came out in 2004, the plot focuses on Peter Parker's dealing with the troubles that come from saving the world as a hero while pining over a normal love life with the girl of his dreams. It's widely regarded as one of the best in the genre's history.

Now, take "Iron Man 3," which came out in 2013 and also tells the story of a hero's burden. Roger Ebert gave "Spider-Man 2" a four-star review, then gave "Iron Man 3" just two and a half stars. Something had shifted.

"Logan" - the final run for Hugh Jackman as the famed Wolverine - very much looks to be more than just a comic book flick. In fact, Deadline's Pete Hammond titled his review "The Marvel comic book movie for people who hate Marvel comic book movies."

"I had little hope that the best was yet to come. But indeed it has come in the form of 'Logan,' a smart, exciting, bittersweet kick--- of a way to send off the Wolverine movies with a final chapter that works on every level," he wrote.

If the writers behind these future films focus on original storytelling, maybe there's hope after all.

The chicken and the egg

While superhero movies certainly need to adapt to stay relevant, especially in the academy's eyes, indie films depend on people hitting the theaters for survival, Feinberg said.

With movie studios accountable to parent corporations and boards, taking a risk on an untold story that might not be a slam dunk at theaters (For example, "Moonlight" has grossed a relatively paltry $21 million thus far) is becoming a rare thing. Instead, you see established intellectual properties surfacing time and again.

"The reason 'Jurassic World' happened was that's one of the most successful franchises in history and bringing it back made a ton of sense," Hickey said. "You know it. People go to see - you are willing to drag your family out there and spend the money for a known property. How much money are you prepared to spend on a bet [on an indie film]?"

But every now and then, there's that rare film that may be a long shot at first but then hits on all cylinders: financial success, acclaim and, eventually, awards.

"This is why people are responding so much to 'La La Land.' You don't see movies like this," Feinberg said. "They just don't get a green light. Even this one was turned down for six, seven years." (The musical has earned $135 million domestically and $341 million globally).

"When all audiences are fed are remakes or adaptations of stuff they already know, that's what they are going to spend money on," he added.

The academy, it appears, may be the main factor keeping indie pictures alive.

"The underlying issue is it costs a lot of money to educate the public about something they don't already know. That's why you don't see Oscar movies throughout the entire year," Feinberg said. "It's the lure of free marketing through nominations. If the Oscars went away, you wouldn't see a company like A 24 making 'Moonlight.' There's just no financial incentive to do that."

Hickey said, "The reason the Oscars are very cool in this regard is that added buzz for the smaller films. You have this organization that has the 89 years of credibility, and if it comes out and says this is a movie you need to see, you'll get people to see them, though maybe not at the theater."

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South Carolina father of 5 dies when car plows into his house

South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Gary Miller says 19-year-old Austin Burdette's SUV went off the road and hit a sign, a hydrant and went up an embankment before hitting the home.

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Curry scores 35 points to bring the GSW back to beat the Clippers 123-113.

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President Trump electrifies CPAC crowd, bashing media and vowing aggressive agenda

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President Trump made a historic return Friday to the Conservative Political Action Conference, telling the crowd, 'You finally have a president,' and delivering a wide-ranging speech in which he took aim at ISIS, pushed his plans to combat illegal immigration and vowed to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

He started with a familiar attack on the news media and went so far as to say reporters "shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name."

"Let them say it to my face. Let there be no more sources," Trump said, though some of his administration officials recently have held briefings where they insisted no names be used.

"You finally have a president. It took you a long time. It's patriots like you that made it happen."

- President Trump

"I'm not against the media," Trump said. "I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources."

Trump moved on to defend his agenda and vow major action ahead. On immigration, Trump touted plans for a southern border wall with Mexico and said it was "way, way, way ahead of schedule."

The speech came as Republicans control Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade. Conservatives have been optimistic about the opportunity to enact big policy changes and looked to Trump to spell out his agenda.

"You finally have a president," he told the packed room at the 44 th annual conference, held this year at National Harbor, Md. "It took you a long time. It's patriots like you that made it happen."

In addition to media bashing, Trump's characteristically muscular speech included a defense of his crackdown on illegal immigration.

"We're getting the bad ones out," he said, explaining that the Department of Homeland Security is prioritizing deportation of illegal immigrant criminals.

He repeated his pledge to repeal and replace ObamaCare, an effort that seems stalled in Congress, and touted his effort to get key oil pipelines back on track.

"We're checking off the promises we made to the people of the United States," Trump thundered.

Trump drew raucous applause when he vowed to rebuild the U.S. military and spoke of putting America first, a familiar theme from his campaign.

"I'm not representing the globe," Trump said. "I'm representing your country."

The speech ended with the campaign theme song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want," the Rolling Stones early 1970s hit played at Trump rallies.

The president's speech at CPAC also served as a prelude to his first State of the Union-style speech to Congress Tuesday night.

On Thursday night, Vice President Mike Pence as well as key White House advisers spoke at the annual gathering.

"We conservatives have an opportunity to that only comes around every few generations," Pence told a pumped-up crowd. "My friends, this is our time."

White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus shared the CPAC stage in the afternoon. The two top White House aides praised one another, bashed the press and laid the groundwork for Trump's Friday speech.

Also making a CPAC appearance was White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway who teased Trump's appearance: "Tomorrow it will be TPAC when (Trump's) here."

The conference, which is hosted by the American Conservative Union, began in 1974 and has since grown into a four-day- event. A closely watched straw poll will be conducted Saturday, the last day.

Trump's appearance Friday marks the fourth visit by a sitting president.

Trump made his first speech at CPAC in 2011. At the time, he floated the possibility of a 2012 presidential run - a nomination that was won by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

He returned in 2015 and was booed after telling the crowd he wanted to use U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS.

Last year, Trump was scheduled to speak at the conservative confab but cancelled at the last minute, saying he would campaign in Kansas and Florida instead.

At the time, the American Conservative Union criticized the move and said his decision sent "a clear message to grassroots conservatives."

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In Kim Jong-nam’s Death, North Korea Lets Loose a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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6 women. Three nursing homes. And the man accused of rape and abuse.

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Jcpenny closed 140 store

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Jai Bullock  The FBI has joined an investigation to determine whether a a a shooting that killed one man injured two others at a crowded bar in kansas city

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In Kim Jong-nam’s Death, North Korea Lets Loose a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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AMD is making a comeback at the market with their new Ryzen 7 CPUs, forcing Intel to lower their prices. The Ryzen 7s are already Amazon's best-selling CPUs.

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Earlier today, AMD took the wraps off their Ryzen 7 line of CPUs, giving us specifications, pricing, and a sneak peek at performance. All of the benchmarks are running on similarly equipped PCs, with AMD pitting Ryzen 1800X against Intel's Core i7-6900K, the 1700X going up against the i7-6800K, and the 1700 taking on the i7-7700K. AMD wins on pricing in all of these matchups, but what about performance? I've got five (rather shaky at times-sorry!) videos showing live benchmarks (or at least performance comparisons) of the two competitors.

Before we get to the videos, keep in mind that this is an AMD staged event. They picked the CPUs, graphics cards, software, and settings for each test. I have no reason to suspect they're intentionally handicapping Intel, but that doesn't mean the tests used unbiased software. Obviously AMD wants to win any benchmarks being shown right now, and the official launch date (and embargo time for independent benchmarks) is March 2. Pre-orders are available for Ryzen already, and it definitely shows promise, but you'll want to wait for the full review and analysis before taking the plunge. And with that out of the way, here are the videos.

Starting off with a bang is Battlefield 1, running at 4K with dual Titan X (Pascal) cards in SLI. This is a monstrously powerful graphics setup, and even though 4K might push the bottleneck more toward the GPU, there's still a minor difference in performance. AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X takes on Intel's i7-6800K in this test. That's a bit odd as most of the time AMD was putting the 1800X against the 6900K, suggesting perhaps they're fudging things a bit.

Intel's part is a 6-core chip that costs $440 or so, going up against the future $499 Ryzen part, which of course has two additional cores and slightly higher clocks. The net result is that, at least in the scenario shown, AMD's Ryzen is able to keep up with Intel's entry level Broadwell-E, and even surpass it slightly.

Next is Sniper Elite 4, this time with RX 480 cards in CrossFire. The CPUs are AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X against Intel's i7-6900K. AMD's drivers do tend to have more overhead in CrossFire configurations, though dual RX 480s can outperform a single GTX 1080, so these are definitely potent gaming rigs. As before, Ryzen comes out ahead of Intel, in this ad-hoc benchmark.

One of the questions that we definitely need to ask is why the benchmarks are running at 4K. For CPU testing purposes, 4K is a bad choice because it pushes the bottleneck to the GPUs more than the CPU. That AMD is competitive in these two gaming tests is good news, but are they actually faster in a larger selection of games? We'll find out come March 2. Practically speaking, I don't expect most games to scale particularly well going from 4-core to 8-core, but DX12 titles do tend to be make better use of multi-core than DX11 games.

The final gaming benchmarks pits the 'entry level' Ryzen 7 1700 against Intel's i7-7700K Kaby Lake part. Most people will say that i7-7700K is more than sufficient for any gaming scenarios, including streaming, but here AMD is using OBS broadcasting to Twitch, with Dota 2 running in the background. The OBS encoding is set to use the CPU, with the x264 codec and a 3500kbps bitrate-a common setting for popular streamers, according to AMD, as the CPU tends to have higher quality at lower bitrates compared to fixed function encoding like Intel's Quick Sync, Nvidia's NVENC, or AMD's VCE.

The video is a bit shaky (sorry!), but in person it was very obvious that frames were being dropped on the Intel system while the AMD system performed as expected-the laptops in front of each system are showing the resulting Twitch stream, and in the lower-right corner of each you can clearly see some choppiness on the Intel side.

Is this a fair comparison? Perhaps not, as I think many streamers are fine with using GPU encoding, but if you want maximum quality then using the CPU with the x264 codec is the better solution. Many professional streamers will even have a second system doing the stream encoding, just to keep framerates smooth, but a 6-core/12-thread processor (or 8-core/16-thread) is generally able to handle all the game logic and calculations along with the video encoding without dropping frames.

Moving away from gaming tests, the next video has AMD's Ryzen 7 1700X going against the i7-6800K in a 'mega-tasking' benchmark. There are three CPU-heavy workloads running concurrently. First is Blender, doing the same 3D rendering of the Ryzen CPU that we've seen in the past. Next is HandBrake, doing a video encode-I didn't catch the exact settings, but it's another test AMD has used before. Finally, the Optane 2.0 benchmark is running in Google's Chrome browser. Don't get distracted by the Optane score that eventually shows up near the end of the benchmark, as it's only one element of the test. The real purpose is to show the overall time to completion, with the understanding that certain professional workloads could take multiple hours to run. Here, AMD's 1700X (I mistakenly quote the price as $499, but it's actually $399) completes all three tasks in 92.0 seconds while the i7-6800K takes 112.3 seconds.

Last we have an Excel benchmark. There's sometimes a feeling that Excel and office workloads don't really need a faster CPU, but for complex spreadsheets that's not at all true. This test uses a macro script to generate a whole bunch of different charts, timing the entire process, and AMD has their entry-level Ryzen 7 1700 against Intel's i7-7700K. If the test doesn't scale well with CPU cores, Intel would have a distinct clockspeed advantage, but then AMD wouldn't be using this benchmark if that were the case. The result is that the 1700 finishes in 23 seconds, compared to 27 seconds on the 7700K.

Not surprisingly, then, AMD had five different benchmarks to show Ryzen performance, and in all five cases their CPU outperforms the Intel 'equivalent'-often at a lower price. That's great news, but remember that these are all AMD curated benchmarks, so we still need independent testing to confirm the results. I suspect there will be cases where AMD doesn't win the performance battle, but compared to their previous APUs and the Vishera line of FX-series processors, Ryzen is a huge jump in performance.

AMD set a target for Ryzen of improving IPC (Instructions Per Clock) by 40 percent. According to AMD, it beat that mark with average IPC improvements of 52 percent (and sometimes more). Even if Ryzen can't win every round of fighting with Intel, at least there are many widely used benchmarks that show AMD delivering competitive performance, both at lower prices and lower power use. That's something we haven't heard from AMD in a long time. Check back on March 2 for the full review of AMD's new Ryzen parts.

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On Wednesday, Larry Mahoney of the Bangor Daily News reported five University of Maine men's basketball players were recently suspended following a Feb. 14 altercation in the locker room that saw guard Wes Myers break forward Marko Pirovic's jaw with a punch.

Mahoney cited a police report.

Pirovic, who is a senior, will have his jaw wired shut for six to eight weeks following his surgery, per Mahoney.

Mahoney noted the fight started when Pirovic didn't turn off music when Myers asked him to. Following the injury, Jaquan McKennon, Ilija Stojiljkovic and Dusan Majstorovic all told trainer Ryan Taylor that Pirovic slipped in the shower, which led to their suspensions.

All are now back with the team, but Myers is still indefinitely out even though he eventually told head coach Bob Walsh the truth about the incident, revealing the shower story was a coverup.

Aaron Jackson of 92.9 The Ticket in Bangor, Maine, also reported the story and provided a statement from the University of Maine regarding the suspensions:

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"At this point, I want this all to be over with and I'm not looking to pursue this case in any way," Pirovic said in a statement to police.

Myers leads the team in scoring with 16.9 points per game, and Maine is 0-2 without him following the punch, losing by a combined 31 points.

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Maine Basketball Player Wes Myers Breaks Teammate's Jaw in Locker Room Fight

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JCPenney plans to shutter as many as 140 stores in the coming months, the latest traditional retailer to announce closings.

The department store chain did not disclose how many jobs would be cut, but it said it is also offering early retirement to 6,000 full-time employees.

Because it will hire to fill those buyout positions, the company said it expects a net increase in hiring, even counting the job cuts from closed stores.

The closings should take place by the end of June. The locations will be revealed by mid-March. JCPenney will also close two distribution centers. It had 105,000 employees manning 1,021 stores as of a year ago.

Related: Here's why Amazon might buy a big retailer

JCPenney joins a list of traditional retailers scaling back brick-and-mortar stores. Sears Holdings, which includes the Sears and Kmart brands, announced plans to close 150 stores last month, and Macy's is closing 68 stores and cutting 10,000 jobs.

The Limited closed its remaining stores last month, and American Apparel, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time last year, is expected to close all its stores. Sports Authority went out of business following a bankruptcy filing last year.

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By contrast, Amazon expects to hire 100,000 U.S. workers this year as it continues to expand.

JCPenney will take a $225 million hit to its earnings from the cost of closing the stores. But it expects to save $200 million a year in payroll and other costs. It said the stores to be closed had weaker sales or would have needed expensive upgrades.

CNNMoney (New York) First published February 24, 2017: 8:51 AM ET

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The department store chain did not disclose how many jobs would be cut, but it said it is also offering early retirement to 6,000 full-time employees. Because it will hire to fill those buyout positions, the company said it expects a net increase in hiring, even counting the job cuts from closed stores.

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Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, was killed by a highly toxic nerve agent, says Malaysia.

Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him briefly in a check-in hall at a Kuala Lumpur airport.

Malaysian toxicology reports indicate he was attacked using VX nerve agent, which is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

There is widespread suspicion that North Korea was responsible for the attack, which it fiercely denies.

It responded furiously to Malaysia's insistence on conducting a post-mortem examination and has accused Malaysia of having "sinister" purposes.

What does the toxicology report say?

Malaysia's police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Friday that the presence of the nerve agent had been detected in swabs taken from Mr Kim's eyes and face.

One of the women Mr Kim interacted with at the airport on 13 February had also fallen ill with vomiting afterwards, he added.

Mr Khalid said other exhibits were still under analysis and that police were investigating how the banned substance might have entered Malaysia.

"If the amount of the chemical brought in was small, it would be difficult for us to detect," he said.

What is the deadly VX nerve agent?

The most potent of the known chemical warfare agents, it is a clear, amber-coloured, oily liquid which is tasteless and odourless

Works by penetrating the skin and disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses - a drop on the skin can kill in minutes. Lower doses can cause eye pain, blurred vision, drowsiness and vomiting

It can be disseminated in a spray or vapour when used as a chemical weapon, or used to contaminate water, food, and agricultural products

VX can be absorbed into the body by inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, or eye contact

Clothing can carry VX for about 30 minutes after contact with the vapour, which can expose other people

Banned by the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

Read more about VX Who could be behind the attack?
How could it have killed Mr Kim?

Bruce Bennett, a weapons expert at the research institute the Rand Corporation, told the BBC it would have taken only a tiny amount of the substance to kill Mr Kim.

He suggests a small quantity of VX - just a drop - was likely to have been put on cloths used by the attackers to touch his face. A separate spray may have been used as a diversion.

Mr Khalid has previously said the fact the woman who accosted Mr Kim immediately went to wash her hands showed she was "very aware" that she had been handling a toxin.

It would have begun affecting his nervous system immediately, causing first shaking and then death within minutes.
More from expert Bruce Bennett
Is Kuala Lumpur airport safe?

The authorities say they intend to decontaminate the airport and areas the suspects are known to have visited.

VX is a v-type nerve agent, which means the substance can remain lethal for a long period of time.

"It's as persistent as motor oil. It's going to stay there for a long time... which means anyone coming in contact with this could be intoxicated from it," forensic toxicologist John Trestrail told the Associated Press news agency.

No passengers, airport workers or medical staff who treated Mr Kim were reported to have become ill in the aftermath of the incident, the news agency adds.

Tens of thousands of passengers are believed to have passed through the airport since the attack more than 10 days ago.

Who was Kim Jong-nam?

The well-travelled and multilingual oldest son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, he was once considered a potential future leader. He has lived abroad for years and was bypassed in favour of his half-brother, Kim Jong-un.

He had been travelling on a passport under the name Kim Chol. North Korea has yet to confirm that the deceased was actually Kim Jong-nam.

For many years, it was believed Kim Jong-nam was being groomed to succeed his father as the next leader.

But that appears to have come to an end in 2001 when Kim was caught sneaking into Japan on a fake passport.

He later became one of the regime's most high-profile critics, openly questioning the Stalinist policies and dynastic succession his grandfather Kim Il-sung began crafting in 1948.
Kim Jong-nam: North Korea's critic in exile
How did he die?

A woman was seen in CCTV footage approaching Mr Kim and wiping something across his face. He sought medical help at the airport, saying someone had splashed or sprayed him with liquid.

He had a seizure and died on the way to hospital.

His body remains in the hospital's mortuary, amid a diplomatic dispute over who should claim it.
Main players in mysterious killing
Who did it?

Malaysia says it was clearly an attack by North Korean agents. Four people are in custody, including one North Korean and the two women he interacted with at the airport. Seven North Koreans are being sought, including a diplomat.

There are a number of North Korean organisations capable of directing such an attack, including the exclusive Guard Command.

The North hit back at Malaysia on Thursday, saying it was responsible for the death of one of its citizens.

In response, Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman warned North Korean envoy Kang Chol on Friday that he would be expelled unless he stopped "spewing lies" about the attack.
Who in North Korea could organise a VX murder? North Korea's history of foreign assassinations
Does North Korea have VX?

North Korea is one of just six countries not to have signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) arms control treaty banning the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.

According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative project, however, North Korea is thought to have the third largest stockpile of chemical weapons, after the US and Russia.

South Korea's defence ministry estimated in 2014 that the North has somewhere between 2,500 and 5,000 tonnes of nerve agents in stock, with VX identified as among them.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- People are telling the shooters who shook up their south Kansas City neighborhood to take the violence somewhere else. More than a dozen shots left damage and deep concern Thursday for the people who live on the quiet street.

Residents near 96th and Booth said their neighborhood is usually a peaceful one, but that at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, it "sounded like the O.K. Corral."

Richard Johnson and his wife were watching TV together. Johnson said, "She jumped up and said, 'Get down, get down! What are you doing?', because I was sitting right in front of the window."

What they heard was multiple gunshots ringing shaking up their street. Police say nine houses and four vehicles were hit.

"It doesn't make any sense. Innocent people can be hit by these bullets and it's just crazy," Johnson said.

Officers say bullets also struck a gas meter. The gas company stopped the leak, but witnesses said you could smell it.

"They were using like an automatic gun, like maybe an AK-47 or M16. It's not like a pistol or something," Fahid Al-Fakhouri said.

As much as the shooting rattled these neighbors, their message to the shooters is strong. "Put your guns down. It's crazy. There's no need for that in this area. Take that back to where you came from, we don't need it here."

Police say no people were hurt, but one man told us his neighbor's dog was shot.

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A basketball player breaks the jaw of one of his team members because he wouldn't turn his music off in the locker room.

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On Wednesday, Larry Mahoney of the Bangor Daily News reported five University of Maine men's basketball players were recently suspended following a Feb. 14 altercation in the locker room that saw guard Wes Myers break forward Marko Pirovic's jaw with a punch.

Mahoney cited a police report.

Pirovic, who is a senior, will have his jaw wired shut for six to eight weeks following his surgery, per Mahoney.

Mahoney noted the fight started when Pirovic didn't turn off music when Myers asked him to. Following the injury, Jaquan McKennon, Ilija Stojiljkovic and Dusan Majstorovic all told trainer Ryan Taylor that Pirovic slipped in the shower, which led to their suspensions.

All are now back with the team, but Myers is still indefinitely out even though he eventually told head coach Bob Walsh the truth about the incident, revealing the shower story was a coverup.

Aaron Jackson of 92.9 The Ticket in Bangor, Maine, also reported the story and provided a statement from the University of Maine regarding the suspensions:

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"At this point, I want this all to be over with and I'm not looking to pursue this case in any way," Pirovic said in a statement to police.

Myers leads the team in scoring with 16.9 points per game, and Maine is 0-2 without him following the punch, losing by a combined 31 points.

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Maine Basketball Player Wes Myers Breaks Teammate's Jaw in Locker Room Fight

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Maine Basketball Scott Polacek Brett Carlsen/Getty Images @@ScottPolacek Twitter Logo Featured Columnist On Wednesday, Larry Mahoney of the Bangor Daily News reported five University of Maine men's basketball players were recently suspended following a Feb. 14 altercation in the locker room that saw guard Wes Myers break forward Marko Pirovic's jaw with a punch.

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Mr. Kohl - “La La Land”…as in the musical, where they tap dance and kinda sing their way through an ode to old Hollywood. It picked up 14 noms.

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Brassy love ballads, Technicolor dialogue, and a smattering of soft-shoe- La La Land had all the makings of a blockbuster, in the 1940s at least. Today, the mass market of moviegoers prefer action to romance, aliens to artists, and above all else the blossoming genre of superhero bros in tights.

It's no surprise that La La Land was a hit with critics and remains the heavy favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Picture on Feb. 26. What's improbable, however, is how widely the film has won favor. Of late, the most critically praised films tended to have little clout with consumers: The Hurt Locker, which won Academy bragging rights in 2009, managed just $17 million in domestic theaters, for example. But La La Land is packing them in like an esoteric jazz club that suddenly becomes the "it" spot. Life, it seems, is following the script.

"We all thought it was going to be something very special," Erik Feig, co-president of the motion picture group at Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., said in an interview. "But if you asked any of us if we were going to be approaching $400 million, we would have told you to wake up."

With a win on Sunday and a corresponding bump from Oscar buzz, La La Land will likely become the top-grossing Best Picture since Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in 2003. Going into this weekend, the paean to the city of angels had garnered $135 million in domestic theaters and an additional $206 million abroad.

And there are a few weeks left in its theater run-possibly more if it wins. On top of that, the film has only been showing in China, the world's No. 2 movie market, since Feb. 14.

This dreamy run, however, is no happy accident. It's the product of a string of savvy, somewhat counter-intuitive decisions. In Hollywood, Lions Gate is best known as a bit of a value investor. It generally backs small- to mid-sized films that have "breakout potential." It also spreads the risk by bringing in financing partners and lowers its costs by occasionally giving major talent a cut of the profits.

Instead of the Marvel comic book catalog, it snapped up the Hunger Games series. Rather than Star Wars, it has Power Rangers. To be sure, Lions Gate has had its flops. Its Divergent series has managed only a shadow of the success of Hunger Games. But over time, Feig said, the company has improved its decision-making to the point that 70 percent of its films are profitable.

In terms of investing, Lions Gate has a few simple rules-rules that apply to any business looking to stand out in a crowd. Work with talented people, protect their vision, and don't try to please everyone.

"Most of our films, in some ways, are contrarian bets," Feig said. "We're programmatically oriented to embrace the fact that something is different because we want to give the audience the pleasure of discovering something new."

As a general proposition, he explained, consumers often have no idea what they really want.

The company's La La Land courtship began at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, when Damien Chazelle premiered Whiplash, his breakout hit about a drumming phenom clashing with a mercurial conductor. Lions Gate tried to buy the distribution rights but lost out to Sony. It did hit it off with Chazelle, however. "We asked him what he wanted to do next and he said, kind of sheepishly 'a musical,'" Feig recalled. "We were like, 'Great!' And he was like, 'Really?'" A musical these days is a seemingly foolish bet, but it does fall squarely in the camp of not trying to please everybody.

Early in production, Lions Gate made a second illogical move: It encouraged Chazelle, the writer and director, to spend more money than he had originally planned-about $30 million. With it, they were able to afford more expensive lead actors in Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, as well as blowing out a few scenes, namely the intro montage, which involved closing a Los Angeles interstate in the middle of the day. "We thought there was a chance we could get a rebate from the city for that, which I should note we didn't," Feig said.

Photographer: Dale Robinette/Lionsgate

The scene did, however, secure financing from Black Label Media. "We just loved what we saw," said Joseph Cohen, whose American Entertainment Investors consulted on the deal. "We figured it could have big commercial appeal, though a musical with a budget over $30 million was not a slam dunk."

Spending big where it matters is another thing Lions Gate has fine-tuned over the years. "You pick your moments," said Basil Iwanyk, whose Thunder Road Pictures produced both John Wick films, Sicario, and a string of other movies distributed by Lions Gate. "When you spend your resources in those certain spots and really deliver, the movie is going to feel a lot bigger than the budget is," he said. 1

Finally, Lions Gate was realistic about its audience. When judging a project's potential, the company tries to picture two consumers: the most likely fan-in this case, Broadway junkies-and a second, wider demographic that might get sucked in. For La La Land, the company was hoping for couples and older women. The film, it turns out, over-performed on all fronts.

Some 36 percent of La La Land viewers are male, according to survey data from comScore and Screen Engine LLC, and the audience is almost perfectly balanced by age, with about a quarter of viewers under 25 and a quarter over 55. Abroad, La La Land has garnered almost twice as much ticket revenue as the next-closest nominee, Hacksaw Ridge. The French, in particular, are gaga over it.

In short, the return on investment on a singing Gosling has been surprisingly good and is getting better by the day. Iwanyk said films that cost from $30 million to $50 million are becoming a sweet spot for the industry. The biggest studios-squarely focused on potential blockbusters-aren't bothering. Yet, as the industry launches one breakout after the next, investors have come clamoring. "Honestly, it's a seller's market," he said. "The upside is ginormous and the downside is relatively light."

Cohen, a former investment banker, agreed. There's more money and more potential buyers in the independent film market than he's ever seen before. "It's the opposite of just doing the next giant shark movie," he said. "Because, at some point, the next shark movie won't work."

For Hollywood, La La Land represents a new script for success, and its legacy will be that precious currency: optimism. Studio executives who spend their days modeling projected cash flows the way junior investment bankers do long into the night will be slightly more inclined to go all gauzy-eyed and think: "Maybe, just maybe, I can make it."

"The only risk you can take these days is not taking a risk," Feig said.

Of course, it doesn't always equal reward, as that old saw can be misleading. But sometimes, if the stars align, it can be commensurate-and then some.

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Brassy love ballads, Technicolor dialogue, and a smattering of soft-shoe- La La Land had all the makings of a blockbuster, in the 1940s at least. Today, the mass market of moviegoers prefer action to romance, aliens to artists, and above all else the blossoming genre of superhero bros in tights.