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☆ Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou: Briton delivers devastating blow as he brutally knocks out UFC star in second round
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —It was over before it really began in Saudi Arabia as Anthony Joshua pummeled his way past Francis Ngannou with a devastating knockout blow in the second round. Richard Pelham/Getty ImagesFrom the opening bell, Joshua looked to assert himself on the sport’s newcomer. “I should be the WBC heavyweight champion of the world,” a defiant Joshua told reporters after the fight. He did what Tyson Fury couldn’t do,” Ngannou told reporters. “Everyone knows he knocks out Tyson Fury, I’ve always believed it now it’s not even questionable,” Hearn told Sky Sports after the fight.

Persons: Anthony Joshua pummeled, Francis Ngannou, Joshua, Tyson Fury, Ngannou, Richard Pelham, Fayez Nureldine, “, ” Ngannou, Eddie Hearn, who’ll, I’ve, ” Hearn Organizations: CNN, Briton, UFC, WBC, Getty, Sky Sports Locations: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi, AFP

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted of opening fire inside a New Hampshire church during a wedding, wounding a bishop and the bride, was sentenced Monday to 40 years to life in prison. The shooting happened nearly two weeks after Holloway’s stepfather, a pastor at the church, was killed by the son of the groom. The jury acquitted Holloway of an attempted murder charge in the shooting of McMullen. Authorities said Castiglione is the father of a man convicted of killing Holloway’s stepfather. Brandon Castiglione was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 42 years in prison earlier this year for fatally shooting Holloway’s stepfather, Luis Garcia, inside his home.

Persons: Dale Holloway, “, Seth Dobieski, Dobieski, Holloway, Stanley Choate, Claire McMullen, McMullen, ”, Choate, I’ve, I’m, Mark Castiglione, Castiglione, Holloway’s, Brandon Castiglione, Luis Garcia Organizations: New England Pentecostal Ministries, Authorities Locations: NASHUA, N.H, New Hampshire, Pelham, McMullen

☆ Man Who Shot Bride and Bishop at Wedding Gets 50 Years to Life in Prison
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | More About Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A gunman who opened fire in a New Hampshire church during a wedding, wounding the bride and bishop, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 50 years to life in prison. The man, Dale Holloway, 41, barged into the New England Pentecostal Ministries church in Pelham, N.H., on Oct. 12, 2019, on an apparent revenge mission, shooting Bishop Stanley Choate in the chest and the bride, Claire McMullen, in the arm, according to court documents. At the end of the wedding ceremony, Mr. Holloway stood up and moved toward the altar, at which point Bishop Choate stretched his arms out and pleaded, “Son, no, no, no, no,” prosecutors said. Mr. Holloway then shot the bishop and the bride. Mr. Holloway also struck Mr. Castiglione in the head before churchgoers tackled him to the ground, prosecutors said.

Persons: Dale Holloway, Bishop Stanley Choate, Claire McMullen, Holloway, Luis Garcia, McMullen, Mark Castiglione, Brandon Castiglione, Mr, Garcia, Bishop Choate, “, Castiglione, churchgoers Organizations: New England Pentecostal Ministries Locations: New Hampshire, Pelham, N.H

☆ Think Your City Mouse Has an Attitude? These Scientists Want to Find Out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Brittany Loggins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anna Colliton has lived in her apartment in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx for five years, but she suspects the mice have been there far longer. They also seem to have an unusual favorite food: the spare packets of ketchup she keeps alongside takeout menus in a kitchen drawer. Mice are commonly used in medical research because of their physiological and genetic similarities to humans. But their evolutionary changes can also be observed over a relatively short period, making them an ideal subject for research into how wild animals adapt to, say, urbanization. The Drexel researchers are studying the effects of urban environments on the evolution of house mice in New York, Philadelphia and Richmond, Va.: relatively old cities, where time and development may have caused differences to accumulate between the mice in each city and those in surrounding areas.

Persons: Anna Colliton, ”, Colliton Organizations: Drexel University, Drexel Locations: Pelham, Bronx, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Va

Stores are starting their busiest time of year as customers look for help with colds and the flu. Some drugstores have addressed their challenges by adding employees at busy hours. Chris Adkins said he left his job as a pharmacist with a major drugstore chain a couple years ago because of the stress. Labor strife and staffing shortages in health care are not isolated to drugstores, as the recent Kaiser Permanente strike shows. All told, CVS touts in a pharmacy counter brochure that the company can offer more than 15 vaccines to customers.

Persons: haven’t, Chris Adkins, Adkins, ”, “, drugstores, Richard Dang, Dang, John Staed, Rosalind Brewer, Brewer, Jonathan Marquess, Marquess, Jen Cocohoba, ” Cocohoba, Josh Funk Organizations: University of Southern, California Pharmacists Association, Customers, CVS, Walgreens, Labor, Permanente, National Community Pharmacists Association, University of California San, AP, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group Locations: University of Southern California, Pelham , Alabama, Georgia, University of California San Francisco

☆ Ben Glickman — Reporting Intern at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Ben Glickman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ben GlickmanBen Glickman is a reporting intern and part of the summer 2023 newsroom intern class at The Wall Street Journal. Ben is a recent graduate of Brown University, where he studied political science and data science. He previously interned at the Financial Times and served as editor in chief of his college newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald. He also has written for various local newspapers, including on Cape Cod and in Pelham, N.Y.

Persons: Ben Glickman Ben Glickman, Ben Organizations: Wall Street, Brown University, Financial Times, Brown Daily Herald Locations: Cape Cod, Pelham, N.Y

☆ Bronx D.A. Candidates Debate Crime, Rikers and Incarceration
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Darcel Clark, the Bronx district attorney, made her way through the crowd at a Juneteenth celebration on Monday afternoon, it was clear she was in friendly territory. The June 27 primary offers Democratic voters in the Bronx something they have not had in recent years: a choice in the race for district attorney. Ms. Clark, 61, a former state appellate court judge, was the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in New York. She grew up in the Bronx and was raised in public housing and went to public schools. She was nominated by Bronx Democratic leaders in 2015 and faced no primary opponent that year or in her re-election bid in 2019.

Persons: Darcel Clark, ”, Clark, Tess Cohen, Cohen Organizations: Democratic, Bronx Democratic Locations: Bronx, Pelham, New York

☆ Seven Underappreciated Birding Spots in New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Dodai Stewart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Birding in New York City is easier than you might think. “The best place to bird in New York is exactly where you are right at that moment,” said Martha Harbison, a writer and vice president of the Feminist Bird Club. “I’ve observed 20 species from my own window. But there are plenty of underappreciated birding locations in New York City, and many are accessible by public transportation. Bryant Park, Manhattan

Persons: ”, Martha Harbison, “ I’ve Organizations: Feminist Bird Locations: New York City, New York, Brooklyn, ”, Manhattan, Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, Pelham, Bryant Park

☆ Stream These 9 Shows and Movies Before They Leave Netflix in June
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

(Chappelle notoriously walked off the show during production of its third season, with only enough material for three episodes in the can.) ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ (June 30)There may have been better early-2000s romantic comedies, but this 2003 hit from Donald Petrie may be the most early-2000s romantic comedy. Scott’s frequent leading man Denzel Washington brings tormented complexity to the grizzled hero, whose shift at M.T.A. dispatch is disrupted by a madman (John Travolta) whose crew takes over a subway car and holds its passengers hostage. And James Gandolfini is wonderful (and miles from Tony Soprano) as the city’s mayor.

Persons: ‘, Dave Chappelle’s, Chappelle, Rick James, Lil ’ Jon, —, Donald Petrie, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, McConaughey, Petrie, ‘ Jerry Maguire ’, Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Crowe, ’, Antonio Banderas, ”, Salma Hayek, Guillermo del Toro, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Sedaris, Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Scott’s, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Tony Soprano Organizations: Dave Chappelle’s Comedy, verve, Hudson, Fun Locations: Pelham, York City

☆ American Lawyer Pleads Guilty Over Work for Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Dylan Tokar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg was blacklisted by the U.S. in 2018. Photo: Sergei Bobylev/Zuma PressA New York lawyer has pleaded guilty to criminal charges stemming from payments he made for Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg , the latest in a crackdown on the white-collar professionals who federal prosecutors say are key enablers of the Kremlin’s sanctions-evasion efforts. The lawyer, Robert Wise , helped Mr. Vekselberg make about $3.8 million in payments to maintain six properties in New York and Florida owned by the Russian billionaire, prosecutors say. The Pelham, N.Y., resident pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to one count of conspiring to commit international money laundering and agreed to pay $210,000.

☆ Jan. 6 Defendant Opens Fire on Deputies Before Surrender to the F.B.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That prompted an investigation that was meant to culminate during the day on Monday with his surrender to the F.B.I., according to federal prosecutors in Texas. But that same evening, one of Mr. Pelham’s relatives called the sheriff’s office in Hunt County, Texas, and alerted deputies that Mr. Pelham was brandishing a gun. When the deputies arrived to check on Mr. Pelham around 8:30 p.m., his daughter fled the house and shortly after, gunfire erupted inside, prosecutors said. About an hour later, Mr. Pelham walked out onto his porch and fired several shots at the deputies. Mr. Pelham is not the first person who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to go after law enforcement officers or charged with trying to do so.

The 66-year-old Toyoda on Thursday announced he would step aside as leader of the company his grandfather founded from April 1 to take the role of chairman. He will hand over to Koji Sato, the 53-year-old head of Toyota's luxury Lexus brand. "It's likely that he'll remain active as chairman for a long time and continue to put his mark on Toyota." "Toyota is a public company that likes to pretend it's a family company," said John Shook, a former Toyota manager who now consults on the lean management techniques pioneered by the automaker. "Choosing someone who is much younger and with Sato's background indicates Akio recognised the time for change had come."

TOKYO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) chief Akio Toyoda is set to remain a dominant force inside the world's largest automaker for years to come, and will continue to influence the agenda after stepping down in April, experts and people familiar with the firm said. The 66-year-old Toyoda on Thursday announced he would step aside as leader of the company his grandfather founded from April 1 to take the role of chairman. "It's likely that he'll remain active as chairman for a long time and continue to put his mark on Toyota." "Toyota is a public company that likes to pretend it's a family company," said John Shook, a former Toyota manager who now consults on the lean management techniques pioneered by the automaker. "Choosing someone who is much younger and with Sato's background indicates Akio recognised the time for change had come."

☆ Nissan Grapples With Currency Volatility, Even as Weak Yen Boosts Earnings
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Nina Trentmann | Nissan Chief Financial Officer Stephen Ma | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

For Nissan Motor Co. finance chief Stephen Ma, the weak yen has been both a boon and a bane. “The current weakness of the yen has given us short-term benefits, which is good,” Mr. Ma said. Mr. Ma said he is working to repay debt and increase the auto maker’s profitability while managing issues such as currency volatility, semiconductor shortages and pricing. “We have some stickiness in terms of pricing power,” Mr. Ma said. Nissan has had “common sense, commercial-based” discussions with Renault, according to Mr. Ma.

☆ Nick Bollettieri, coach who worked with some of tennis' biggest stars, dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Nick Bollettieri, the Hall of Fame tennis coach who worked with some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Andre Agassi and Monica Seles, and founded an academy that revolutionized the development of young athletes, has died. But it takes crazy people to do things that other people say cannot be done.”The Bollettieri Tennis Academy opened in 1978 in Bradenton, Florida, and was purchased by IMG in 1987. The IMG Academy now spans more than 600 acres and offers programs in more than a half-dozen sports in addition to tennis. For spending money, Bollettieri began teaching tennis for $1.50 an hour, according to the Hall of Fame. After a few months, he dropped out of law school to concentrate on coaching.

☆ Nick Bollettieri, famed tennis coach, dies aged 91
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Nick Bollettieri, the famed tennis coach who taught the likes of the Williams sisters, Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova, has died aged 91. Bollettieri’s death was confirmed by the IMG Academy, which Bollettieri is the founder of, in a statement sent to CNN. In 1977, he founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy – now the IMG Academy – after borrowing $1 million from a friend to build a live-in tennis academy for his students. During over 30 years as a coach, Bollettieri became one of the most sought-after teachers in world tennis due to the success players had under him. Bollettieri outside his tennis academy.

☆ More questions than answers surround the deaths of four friends found dead in an Oklahoma river
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Mark Chastain, 32, and Billy Chastain, 30, were the “definition of brothers and were always together,” their grandmother, Milissia Smith, said in a verified online fundraiser. Billy Chastain — who went by BJ — was a handyman with four children, two girls and two boys ages 2 to 12, Gordon said. Megan GordonGordon said the last time she spoke to Billy Chastain was the day before he vanished. An affidavit filed for the grand theft charge states that Kennedy told the arresting officer that the truck's owner told him he could borrow the vehicle whenever he wanted. Kennedy told the officer he took the truck last week and drove to Florida for a weekend vacation, the document says.

☆ Supreme Court Clears Way for an Execution in Alabama
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Alan Miller was sent to death row for the 1999 workplace murders of three co-workers at two locations in Pelham, Ala.WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court voted 5-4 late Thursday to let Alabama execute an inmate by lethal injection, setting aside lower-court decisions finding prison officials likely violated the condemned killer’s right under state law to choose death by nitrogen hypoxia instead. The Alabama attorney general’s office said the execution would proceed Thursday, before the death warrant expired at midnight.

☆ She pays $1,000 per month for a 1-bedroom apartment in New York City — take a look inside
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-02 | by ( Cory Stieg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

She pays $1,000 per month for the apartment, where she's lived for nine years. The median asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx is $1,750, compared to $3,000 in Manhattan, according to StreetEasy data. In addition to her rent, Mooney pays about $200 per month for her internet, phone and cable, plus $45 per month for electricity. "I just love arts and crafts, I love TV, I love projects… it's all just one huge conglomeration of all the things that I love to do." In the living room, Mooney displays TV memorabilia and souvenirs like fleece blankets, stuffed animals, action figures and framed posters.

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