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COLUMBIA, S.C. --- Susan Smith, the young mom who shocked the nation 30 years ago when she rolled her car into a lake with her two sons inside and watched them drown, was denied parole Wednesday. Susan Smith is led from the Union County Courthouse after the first day of testimony in the penalty phase of her trial. Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma via Getty Images fileFrom behind bars, Smith continued to claim she was a good mother. He then read a passage that Smith wrote explaining why she allowed her sons to die. “I knew Jesus would take better care of them than I could,” Smith wrote, according to Thomas.

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☆ Susan Smith killed her 2 young children by pushing her car into a lake. 30 years later, she’s up for parole
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Chris Boyette | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Susan Smith arrives at Union County Courthouse as the penalty phase of her trial moves into closing arguments in 1995. On Wednesday, Smith will have her chance to make her argument before the parole board, according to the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. Inmates in South Carolina are allowed to receive and send letters but cannot legally communicate with journalists in person or on the phone. Smith and the filmmaker discussed shooting the documentary after the parole hearing and how she would be paid for her participation, according to an incident report. Pope is against Smith’s parole and said he will be speaking before the parole board at the hearing Wednesday.

Persons: Susan Smith, Smith, Michael, Alex, “, –, John D, ’, Susan Smith's, Tommy A, Thomas, haven’t, David Smith, Money, David Smith fastens, John Kuntz, ” Tommy Pope, Pope, “ Susan, Susan, ”, ” Pope, Larry King, ” David Smith Organizations: CNN, Courthouse, Reuters, South Carolina Department of Probation, Services, South Carolina Department of Corrections, Judicial Locations: Union , South Carolina, Long, Union, South Carolina

☆ Edwin Moses: For 9 years, 9 months and 9 days he was unbeaten: A new film documents the journey of Olympic icon
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Sabrina Clay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Edwin Moses always loved the sport of track and field. For nine years, nine months and nine days Moses was unbeaten in races, winning 122 in a row. Moses’ journey on and off the field is chronicled in the new documentary, “Moses – 13 Steps,” produced by Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman. Danny Harris (right) crosses the finish line first to beat Moses (left) in the 400m hurdle race in 1987 to end Moses' 122-race winning run. If I’d have gone to name the school and name the track program with all the best coaches and everything, there would have never been no Edwin Moses.

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☆ Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained by the torment of having multiple personalities, died on April 18 at his home in Greenport, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island. In the 1ate 1980s, Dr. Oxnam was president of the Asia Society, a television commentator and an accomplished sailor. In his 2005 book, “A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple Personality Disorder,” Dr. Oxnam recalled the session when Tommy first spoke to Dr. Smith. All that Dr. Oxnam could remember from the 50-minute session, he wrote, was telling the psychiatrist that he didn’t think the therapy was working for him. But Dr. Smith told him that he had been speaking to Tommy all that time.

Persons: Robert B, Vishakha Desai, Oxnam, Jeffery Smith, Bobby, Tommy, Smith Organizations: Asia Society Locations: China, Greenport, Long

☆ Jordan Spieth’s disqualification reignites ‘dumbest rule in all of sports’ debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Under Rule 3.3b (3) of the USGA Rules of Golf, the world No. “Rules are rules,” he added in his post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Spieth’s fellow pro Michael S. Kim labeled the rule “stupid,” even with “many safeguards,” while PGA Tour caddie Kip Henley lamented “another benchmark in the dumbest rule in all of sports.”“Seriously, why even have scorecards on the PGA Tour?” Henley asked in another post. USGA rules do not disqualify players for returning a score higher than their actual score, only those returned that are lower. The PGA Tour, in accordance with USGA guidelines, follows a multi-step process to check the scorecards of fields peaking at 156-strong.

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“She was beloved by many,” Chief Stacey Graves of the Kansas City Police Department said at a news conference on Thursday. Image Elizabeth Galvan was killed in the shooting in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday. Credit... KKFIMs. Galvan, who was also known as Lisa Lopez-Galvan, was well-known in the Kansas City area. She was a host of the radio show “Taste of Tejano,” broadcast on KKFI, a local radio station. Lisa Lopez, a friend of Ms. Lopez-Galvan, said in an interview that Ms. Lopez-Galvan was known for inviting her close friends to her garage to watch football games.

Persons: Stacey Graves, Elizabeth Galvan, Ms, Galvan, Lisa Lopez, Marc, KKFI, Lopez, Tommy Andrade, Monica Frias Organizations: Kansas City Police Department, ., Chiefs Locations: Kansas City, Mo

☆ Indonesian K-Pop Fans Rally for Presidential Candidate Anies
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Tommy Ardiansyah and Ajeng Dinar UlfianaJAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian presidential candidate Anies Baswedan's young supporters are borrowing elements from their favourite music genre K-pop to boost his popularity, swapping photocards and light sticks decorated with his face before the Feb. 14 poll. "It all started with a TikTok live that Anies did one day," said Hera Putri Haris, a 22-year-old Anies supporter who was carrying plastic cups and fans plastered with his image. K-pop inspired political rallies have become more common as the South Korean music genre sweeps the globe. K-pop fans rallied in Thailand's anti-government movement in 2020, while K-pop fans in the United States raised funds for the Black Lives Matter movement. Anies' campaign team did not respond to a request for comment but event organiser Muhammad Rasyid Al Kautsar said he believes the cultural phenomenon can help rally supporters.

Persons: Tommy Ardiansyah, Anies, Prabowo Subianto, Ganjar Pranowo, Hera Putri Haris, Muhammad Rasyid Al Kautsar, Stanley Widianto, Kanupriya Kapoor, Miral Organizations: Ulfiana, Defence, Central Java Locations: Ulfiana JAKARTA, Korean, Thailand's, United States

☆ Opinion: ‘Self Reliance’ takes on American individualism at its most absurd
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Hollywood films of diverse genres have one point in common — they’re all about the most important person in the universe. That most important person could be an amnesiac assassin fighting a mysterious government conspiracy, or some guy (or girl) seeking true love. They are the main character; everyone else is secondary. The goal of life is success and self-actualization as the main character of your own dream. He’s the most important person in a whole range of familiar narratives, all crammed haphazardly into a 90-minute run time.

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Tim Ferriss, Marianne Williamson, Jake Johnson’s, you’d, Tommy Walcott, Johnson, Natalie Morales, Andy Samberg, John Wick, baddies, Tommy, isn’t, Maddy, Anna Kendrick, —, he’s, squinty, “, ”, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tommy isn’t, what’s, Barbie ”, “ Oppenheimer, we’d, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Hollywood, Truman Locations: Chicago

12 Arizona at its famously hostile arena on Friday night — the kind of marquee matchup that's getting trickier for coaches to schedule with lengthy conference slates, NCAA Tournament bids and even coaches' job security on the line. “I know you always hear people, fans of college basketball saying, ‘We need this.’ It's hard, it's really hard. It's become big business.”The game at Cameron Indoor Stadium opens a home-and-home series, with the Blue Devils visiting Tucson in 2024. By the time Duke returns the trip next year, Arizona will have left the Pac-12 for the Big 12. He won an NCAA title as a Duke player in 2010 and an assistant in 2015 and worked under Coach K for nine seasons.

Persons: — Jon Scheyer, Tommy Lloyd, Lloyd, ” Lloyd, “, Duke, there's, Scheyer, “ Tommy, It'll, it'll, ”, —, ” Scheyer, of Famer Mike Krzyzewski, Mark Few’s, John Marshall, ___ Organizations: Duke, Cameron, Blue Devils, CBS, North, UCLA, Ohio State, Atlantic Coast Conference, Michigan State, ACC, SEC, of Famer, Arizona, NCAA Locations: DURHAM, N.C, Arizona, Tucson, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Hill, Lexington, that's, Arkansas

☆ Lucas Glover: How a former Navy SEAL helped golfer overcome 10 years of yips and become the sport’s most in-form player
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jack Bantock | Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In 2009, Glover was crowned US Open champion and became the world’s 15th best-ranked golfer. It was time to call in help, and that support arrived in the shape of former Navy SEAL Jason Kuhn. Keyur Khamar/PGA TOUR/Getty ImagesHaving first met with Kuhn in May, Glover began to work with the ex-Navy SEAL shortly after. Glover has a perfect record at the Presidents Cup, triumphing in 2007 and 2009, with Johnson his teammate at both tournaments. The Presidents Cup is a biennial competition between Americans and an international team open to players outside the United States and Europe.

Persons: Lucas Glover, Scotsman Tommy Armour, Ernie Els, Danielle Kang, Bernhard Langer, Glover, ” Glover, CNN Sport’s Don Riddell, “, Mike Segar, Jason Kuhn, Kuhn, Tyler Matzek, Keyur Khamar, –, It’s, he’s, that’d, ”, …, ” Ryder, – Zach Johnson, Ryder, Johnson, I’ve, – I’ve, Robert Galbraith, Reuters Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Brian Harman, Brooks Koepka, Max Homa – Organizations: CNN, Scotsman, Bethpage, Reuters, NCAA Division, Major League Baseball, NCAA, MLB, Navy, Atlanta Braves, ex, Wyndham Championship, FedEx St, Jude, BMW, US Ryder, Rome, US Team, Harding, Golf Club, PGA of America, Team USA, triumphing Locations: Georgia, New York, Illinois, San Francisco , California, Italy, Frisco , Texas, United States, Europe

☆ Opinion | Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +58 min

It’s like there’s no point in asking who started this because it’s a really, really old antagonism. I think that’s probably what’s most critical right now is that all of our entertainment, our news media, it’s all made in cities. And he’s really pretty horrible, and he doesn’t feed them enough, and that’s really sad. You’re going to have a flat tire, and the guy that pulls up to help you is going to tell your dad within minutes. It’s not like most books you’re going to see.

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☆ The Christian Pop Star Bringing Latino Evangelicals to the Pews
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Marcela Valdes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

They have fantastic sound systems, and rival Latino churches tend to view them as neutral ground. Even in Kansas, several pastors told their congregants not to attend A.O.A. “Stop trying to correct how your brother does his ministry,” he told the pastors that morning. “You already have your own.” Jesus, he reminded them, said you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins; the old leather breaks, and the new wine spills. Maridelis Morales Rosado is a documentary photographer and photo editor, born in Puerto Rico and based in New York City.

Persons: Witt, Tommy, Janeth Torres, ” Tommy, ”, “, Jesus, Gen, Witt chuckled, Charlotte, “ I’m, Miguel Cassina, Maridelis Morales Organizations: City Center Church, City Center Locations: Kansas, Puerto Rico, New York City

☆ Indonesia pushes tourism to boost mangrove restoration
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JAKARTA, June 2 (Reuters) - Tourists in Indonesia are discovering the benefits of mangroves as the archipelago pushes to replant or conserve carbon-rich coastal areas that have been decimated by human activity. Last year alone, the country lost 700,000 hectares of mangroves, according to Indonesia's Mangrove and Peatlands Restoration Agency (BRGM). "A lot of people and businesses have these mangrove forests levelled down and then build a tourist spot above it by piling sand to make artificial beaches. That contradicts nature preservation," said Muhammad Saleh Alatas, owner of The Mangrove Paddling Centre, which organises tours in the mangroves of Jakarta. Reporting by Tommy Ardiansyah, Johan Purnomo, Zahra Matarani; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor and Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Connie Sihombing, I've, Muhammad Saleh Alatas, Muhammad Ilman, Tommy Ardiansyah, Johan Purnomo, Zahra Matarani, Kanupriya Kapoor, Emelia Organizations: Restoration Agency, Nusantara Nature Conservation Agency, Thomson Locations: JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jakarta

☆ Take a look inside Tommy Hilfiger's $46 million superyacht that you can charter from $444,000 a week
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Luxury real-estate YouTuber Enes Yilmazer and his team spent four days on Tommy Hilfiger's yacht. The vessel's called Flag and is on sale with Burgess for $46 million. Enes YilmazerThe group toured the yacht and interviewed Tommy and Dee Hilfiger while on the trip in the Bahamas last month. The yacht is 62 meters (203 feet) long and 10 meters wide. It was built in 2000 by Feadship and has 7 state bedrooms, 6 state guest rooms, and an owner's suite.

☆ Top Wall Street analysts expect these five stocks to fetch attractive returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Meta PlatformsWeakness in digital ad spending due to macro pressures has hit social media giant Meta Platforms (META) over the recent quarters. SoFi TechnologiesNext on our list is fintech firm SoFi Technologies (SOFI), which offers digital financial services to over 5.2 million members. The acquisition is expected to drive SoFi's mortgage growth and operational efficiencies and broaden its mortgage product offerings. (See SoFi Insider Trading Activity on TipRanks)PVHApparel company PVH (PVH), which owns popular brands like Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, delivered better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. The analyst sees "an attractive risk reward profile" in PVH stock based on the company's earnings growth potential and current valuation.

☆ At This Mexican Restaurant, Everyone is Family
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Adrian Martinez Chavez | Melissa Guerrero | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Ivy Berubes, 22, orders a Shirley Temple at the Sarapes Mexican Restaurant bar, they make it for her even though it’s not on the menu. The menu also doesn’t list “The Tommy Bowl” — a deconstructed burrito — but Tommy Agramonte, 20, gets to order it; after all, it is named after him. Located in Enfield, a quiet Connecticut suburb near the border of Massachusetts, Sarapes is owned and operated by the Chavez Mellado family, who immigrated from Mexico in the 1980s. “It’s one of the reasons why we’ve been able to maintain ourselves in this country,” said Adrian Martinez Chavez, the photographer for this story, whose grandparents Eduardo Chavez Solano and Cutberta Mellado de Chavez started the restaurant. When they come home to Sarapes, they can return to where they started.

☆ United States win gold in team parallel at world championships
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Team Parallel - Meribel, France - February 14, 2023 Gold medallist team United States celebrate on the podium after winning the Team Parallel final REUTERS/Denis BalibouseMERIBEL, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The United States beat Norway to claim gold in the team parallel event at the Alpine skiing world championships on Tuesday. "It was really special," said Radamus, who was part of the U.S. team that finished fourth in the event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. "I love these team events because it's something we don't get to do all the time; compete as a team. American Mikaela Shiffrin, who took her 12th career world championship medal with silver in the super-G last week, did not compete in the event. Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru Editing by Christian Radnedge and Pritha SarkarOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Parafin, launched in 2020, works with so-called platform partners, or companies that other small businesses sell their products through. All the cofounders knew was that they wanted to build technology that would help small businesses. And they may not get their first contract payment from the government for as long as 120 days," Reed, the startup's CEO, told Insider. Helping small businesses manage their taxesComplYant's founder Shiloh Jackson wants to help people be present in their bookkeeping. HoneyBookWhile countless small businesses have been harmed by the pandemic, self-employment and entrepreneurship have found ways to blossom as Americans started new ventures.

The 45-year-old had spent hours walking to the district of Cugenang where his relatives lived until disaster struck on Monday. The death toll from the quake in Indonesia's most populous province of West Java was 252 and expected to rise, officials said. Everything was buried," Aris said, gesturing at a huge mound of brown earth where his brother's home had stood. The shallow quake that struck in a mountainous area early on Monday afternoon triggered a landslide that authorities say has buried at least one village. Indonesia rescue members carry a victims body from the site of a landslide caused by the earthquake in Cugenang, Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 22, 2022.

☆ Indonesian rescue workers race to find victims trapped by deadly quake
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Medical workers treat a victim outside the district hospital after earthquake hit in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 21, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake was close to the town of Cianjur in a mountainous area of Indonesia's most populous province. Authorities were operating "under the assumption that the number of injured and death will rise with time", he said. The national disaster agency (BNPB) said it had confirmed the deaths of 62 people, but had not verified 100 additional victims. On Tuesday, officials were working to reach the area of Cugenang, which had been blocked off by a landslide.

CIANJUR, Indonesia, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake killed more than 160 people in Indonesia's West Java province on Monday, with rescuers searching for survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks. The epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude quake was near the town of Cianjur in mountainous West Java, about 75 km (45 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta. West Java governor Ridwan Kamil said on Instagram that 162 people had been killed and 326 were injured. [1/5] Medical workers treat the victims outside the district hospital after earthquake hit in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 21, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off Sumatra island in northern Indonesia triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, killing 226,000 people along the Indian Ocean coastline, more than half of them in Indonesia.

☆ 'Barney & Friends' documentary tries to tie bashing the kids' show to larger cultural tides
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“All that success came at a price,” says Andrew Olsen, a devotee of “Barney” history and its memorabilia. It’s a reasonable point at first, but one the documentary overplays, especially when there’s so much odd, specific stuff about the show to mine here. “I Love You, You Hate Me” has already generated media attention for Peacock, so score it as a win by that measure. But while the project captures a very specific moment in time, it runs out of insight before its time is up. “I Love You, You Hate Me” premieres October 12 on Peacock.

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