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An Idaho woman convicted of killing two of her children and another woman is appealing the case

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in prison in the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival says she will appeal her conviction to the Idaho Supreme Court. Attorneys for Lori Vallow Daybell filed a notice of appeal last week. She will ask the Idaho Supreme Court to consider several issues, including whether the judge in her case wrongly found her competent to stand trial. The judge had ordered Vallow Daybell to undergo mental health treatment. She spent roughly 10 months in a mental hospital before he declared her competent. She’ll also argue that her right to a speedy trial was violated and that there were problems with jury selection, evidence and other procedural issues, the documents show. The criminal case against Vallow Daybell, 50, was complex and included claims that she called her son and daughter zombies and believed she was a goddess tasked with ushering in an apocalypse. A jury found Vallow Daybell guilty in May of ki...

Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

Tenor Stephen Gould, 61, says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer.Gould withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, where he was to have sung the title roles in “Tannhäuser” and “Tristan und Isolde” and Siegfried in “Götterdämmerung.”Gould said in a statement Wednesday that he has bile duct cancer with complications. He said it is fatal with “an outlook of several months to 10 months,” he wrote. “There is no cure.”Gould said he made the announcement after the Bayreuth Festival ended last week because “I did not wish anything to cloud this years achievements.”Gould was born in Virginia and has sung in many of the world’s major opera houses.According to the Mayo Clinic, biliary tract cancer often doesn’t cause any symptoms in the early stages. It’s often discovered by accident — for example, through routine blood tests or imaging done for an unrelated reason.Source

Phreesia: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Phreesia Inc. (PHR) on Wednesday reported a loss of $36.8 million in its fiscal second quarter.The Wilmington, Delaware-based company said it had a loss of 68 cents per share.The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 75 cents per share.The developer of health care software posted revenue of $85.8 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $84.8 million.Phreesia expects full-year revenue in the range of $353 million to $356 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PHR at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PHRSource

Pennsylvania murderer escaped by scaling a wall topped with razor wire, prison official says

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP) This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP) WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A murderer on the loose in suburban Philadelphia...

Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white.It is fitting that the film, in theaters Friday and on Netflix Sept. 15, is being released around the 50-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 1973 coup which brought Pinochet to power for almost 17 years. Pinochet’s regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism, but for some in Chile the legacy is now remembered as not all bad.Evil ideas, Larraín cautions, have a tendency to live on, to mutate and to infect societies again and again even many years after they’re supposedly dispelled and destroyed. Kind of like vampires living in stark, hellish exile as greedy heirs circulate to try to claim what’s theirs and keep the money flowing.Larraín, the 47-year-old filmmaker behind “...

Flooding in southern Brazil leaves at least 31 dead and 2,300 homeless

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

MUCUM, Brazil (AP) — Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing at least 31 people and leaving 2,300 homeless, authorities said Wednesday. More than 60 cities have been battered since Monday night by the storm, which has been Rio Grande do Sul state’s deadliest, Gov. Eduardo Leite said.“The fly-over we just did, shows the dimension of an absolutely out of the ordinary event,” Leite said in a video posted on the state’s social media accounts. “It wasn’t just riverside communities that were hit, but entire cities that were completely compromised.”Videos shot by rescue teams Tuesday and published by the online news site G1 had shown some families on the top of their houses pleading for help as rivers overflowed their banks. Some areas were entirely cut off after wide avenues turned into fast-moving rivers.Leite said Wednesday that the death toll had reached 31, and state emergen...

Messi and Bonmati lead Ballon d’Or nominee lists, Ronaldo misses cut

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi is back in contention for the prestigious award a year being omitted from the nomination list, which this time doesn’t include longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo.Messi, who led Argentina to the World Cup title in December, was named on Wednesday to the 30-man list of nominees along with Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé for the prestigious award.Ronaldo, a five-time winner who now plays for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, didn’t make the cut for the first time since 2003.The winner will be announced in Paris on Oct. 30.France Football magazine has given out the award to men every year since 1956 and to women each year since 2018 — when Ada Hegerberg became the first female winner — though both were canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic.Aitana Bonmati, who last week was named the UEFA women’s player of the year, is one of six female nominees from Spain, most of whom played for the team that won the Women’s World Cup.“Grate...

Pro Picks: Mahomes, Chiefs up for a tough task vs. Lions

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

The Kansas City Chiefs will have Patrick Mahomes under center after they raise their championship banner and embark on a quest to become the first team to repeat in nearly two decades.Travis Kelce and Chris Jones may not be on the field.Kelce, the All-Pro tight end, is dealing with a knee injury. Jones, the All-Pro edge rusher, has been holding out for a new contract.Mahomes should be enough to squeak past the upstart Detroit Lions.Jared Goff is coming off a Pro Bowl season with the Lions, who have plenty of playmakers around him on offense. Stopping opponents from scoring was Detroit’s problem last season and a revamped defense has to deal with Mahomes right away.The Chiefs are 5 1/2 point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. That’s too many points considering the uncertainty surrounding Kelce and Jones. Goff is 6-0 against the spread (ATS) in Week 1 with the Rams and Lions.CHIEFS, 30-26Houston (plus 10) at BaltimoreTexans QB C.J. Stroud faces a difficult defense in his NFL ...

Lawsuit contends 'insurrection' clause bars Trump from running for president

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

DENVER (AP) — A liberal group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, arguing he is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an “insurrection.”The lawsuit, citing the 14th Amendment, is likely the initial step in a legal challenge that seems destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. The complaint was filed on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Tiny home builder who owes $6M spent lavishly before bankruptcy, federal report says It will jolt an already unsettled 2024 primary campaign that features the leading Republican candidate facing four separate criminal cases.Liberal groups have demanded that states’ top election officials bar Trump under the clause that prohibits those who “engaged in an insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution...

Tiny home builder who owes $6M spent lavishly before bankruptcy: report

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:51:09 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- An Englewood man who owes 189 home buyers $6 million for tiny homes they never received spent money in some very curious ways, according to a trustee assigned by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver.Matthew Sowash, the man behind Holy Ground Tiny Homes and Revelations in Christ Ministries, filed bankruptcy on Oct. 7, 2022. From October: Tiny home builder under criminal investigation, declares bankruptcy Numerous customers told the Problem Solvers they paid for tiny homes they never received.An 81-page report filed Friday found the nonprofit spent more than $400,000 to purchase and repair race cars and other vehicles, plus more than $35,000 on real estate in Colorado and Alaska and $32,000 on meals.The purchases happened between October 2020 and August 2022, the same time the company was collecting deposits from tiny home buyers for homes that often were never delivered.In the first half of 2022, Holy Ground spent $55,000 on "extraordinary travel-related expenses" t...