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Billionaire explorer and a prominent Pakistani father and son duo are on board the missing sub

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

(CNN) — A billionaire father and son duo, a wealthy explorer and a diver with decades of experience exploring the Titanic are among the five people on board the submersible that has disappeared en route to view the world’s most famous shipwreck.Authorities said the small vessel – roughly the size of a minivan – was carrying five people when its mothership lost contact with it on Sunday morning, about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its descent to explore the Titanic wreckage.While the names of those on board have not been released by the authorities, British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood, and French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet have been confirmed to be on board the craft.The fifth person on board has been identified only as the vessel’s pilot.Harding, who has an impressive list of extreme expeditions under his belt, is based in the United Arab Emirates and is a trained jet pilot. He is the chairman of...

John Goodman shows off major weight loss

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

(CNN) — John Goodman is looking decidedly more svelte these days.“The Righteous Gemstones” star, who turns 71 on Tuesday, appeared at the 62nd Monte-Carlo TV festival Sunday in top form.Goodman reportedly started working on his health back in 2007, when he stopped drinking.He told People magazine in 2010 that he had lost 100 pounds after cutting out the booze, hiring health coach Mackie Shilstone, giving up sugar and working out six days a week.“It takes a lot of creative energy to sit on your ass and figure out what you’re going to eat next … I wanted to live life better,” Goodman said at the time.Six years later, he told critic Peter Travers, “I just stopped eating all the time.”“I’d have a handful of food and it’d go to my mouth. I was just eating all the time. I was just eating alcoholically. In the old days, I would take three months out, lose 60 or 70 pounds, and then reward myself with a 6-pack of Bud or whatever and just go back to my old habits,” Goodman...

New Hampshire Republican state senator charged with assaulting an employee at his restaurant

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A Republican state senator in New Hampshire has been charged with assault after an employee at a restaurant he owns said he slapped and spit on him during an argument.Sen. Keith Murphy, of Manchester, turned himself in Monday and was charged with two counts of simple assault and one count of criminal threatening. The employee told police in April that the argument happened at Murphy’s Taproom. According to a Manchester police news release, surveillance video also shows Murphy picking up a chair “in an aggressive manner.”Murphy, who was released on personal recognizance bail, said Tuesday he is innocent of the charges and looks forward to his day in court.“When the facts are known it will be clear that the police have charged the victim in this case,” he said in an email. “I will be defending my name, reputation, and business through the legal process.”Murphy opened the Manchester restaurant in 2007 and another in Bedford in 2017. He is serving his first...

Rescuers race against time to find missing submersible bound for Titanic site

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

By BEN FINLEY and HOLLY RAMER (Associated Press)Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean raced against time Tuesday to find a missing submersible before the oxygen supply runs out for five people who were on a mission to document the wreckage of the Titanic.Authorities reported the carbon-fiber vessel overdue Sunday night, setting off an international rescue effort in waters about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Aboard were a pilot, a renowned British adventurer, two members of an iconic Pakistani business family and a Titanic expert.Named the Titan, the submersible had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it put to sea at roughly 6 a.m. Sunday, according to David Concannon, an adviser to OceanGate Expeditions, which oversaw the mission.That means the oxygen supply could run out Thursday morning.CBS News journalist David Pogue, who traveled to Titanic aboard the Titan last year, said the vehicle uses two communication systems: text messages that go...

Warrant reveals violent new details in death of Harmony Montgomery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

An New Hampshire arrest warrant unsealed Tuesday alleges that Adam Montgomery killed his daughter Harmony, 5, by striking in the head repeatedly “with a closed fist” when she had bathroom accidents while the family was living in a Chrysler Sebring they’d park outside a Manchester apartment building.According to the arrest warrant, based on an interview with Kayla Montgomery, Adam Montgomery turned from the driver’s seat, striking his daughter Harmony “with sets of three to four blows with a closed fist to Harmony’s head/face on three separate occasions over the course of a few minutes.”The date of the alleged assault inside the car was December 7, 2019, according to the arrest warrant.After the third flurry of blows, Kayla Montgomery told police that Adam Montgomery told her, “I think I really hurt her this time. I think I did something,” according to the document.Harmony moaned slightly for about 5 minutes after the alleged assault and then fell silent, according to the warrant.The...

Yankees know Oakland A’s fans are hurting as Las Vegas move brings back memories of the Expos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

Brad Wilkerson remembers feeling “pretty emotional” on Sept. 29, 2004.That day, Major League Baseball announced that the former outfielder and first baseman’s Expos were moving to Washington, D.C. after years of dysfunction. That same night, Wilkerson and teammates played their final game in Montreal in front of 31,395 devastated fans.The Expos, who became the Nationals in 2005, went out with a whimper that evening, losing to the Marlins, 9-1. But the real goodbyes came after the game, when Wilkerson and his peers stayed at Olympic Stadium an extra two hours so that they could thank and interact with the people their franchise was leaving behind.“I think the people in Montreal, they respected me for that,” Wilkerson, now an assistant Yankees hitting coach, told the Daily News. “But it was tough, going around and seeing everybody [and them saying], ‘We wish you could stay,’ that kind of stuff. It was a tough last day.”It appears t...

Waukegan casino hopes to open sportsbook by start of NFL season; ‘It will bring added excitement, especially on game days’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

As Circa Sports hones its online gaming platform for Illinois, it hopes to complete its licensing requirements and open its sportsbook at the Temporary by American Place casino in Waukegan by the start of the NFL football season.Jeff Benson, Circa’s director of operations, said in an email he intends to open the sportsbook in Waukegan by late August or early September.Both American Place owner Full House Resorts and Circa received the necessary approvals from the Illinois Gaming Board Thursday in Chicago to open the sportsbook at the Waukegan casino, adding a new feature to the four-month old gaming facility.Along with the necessary approvals to add the sportsbook, Alex Stolyar, Full House’s senior vice president and chief development officer, said the casino now has additional table games and the staffing to serve them as it completes its fourth month of operation.The gaming board authorized Full House to operate its temporary facility for three years while it builds it...

Search for missing submersible near Titanic wreck site a race against time

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

HALIFAX — An air and sea search continued Tuesday across hundreds of kilometres of ocean south of Newfoundland for a submersible carrying five people that went missing during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic.The search, in an area about 700 kilometres south of St. John’s, N.L., is a race against time because the 6.4-metre vessel had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it submerged on Sunday morning, according to an adviser for owner OceanGate Expeditions.The surface launch ship Polar Prince reportedly lost contact with the submersible named the Titan about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.In a tweet, the U.S. Coast Guard said the Polar Prince was continuing surface searches today along with a second vessel, the Bahamas-flagged cable layer Deep Energy, while a Canadian military Aurora patrol aircraft was conducting sonar searches. U.S. search officials said two Hercules aircraft flights were completed overnight from the coast guard station in Elizabeth City, N.C.As of Tuesday morni...

Book Review: Lorrie Moore brings her maximalist wordplay to a macabre exploration of love and death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

“I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home,” by Lorrie Moore (Alfred A. Knopf)Lorrie Moore has loss on her mind. Her latest work, “I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home,” is a slender, surreal, beautifully written novel that explores the long afterlife of love, death and domestic devotion.It begins in the Deep South on the Tennessee-Kentucky line several years after the Civil War. A woman named Elizabeth, who runs a boarding house, writes a letter to her deceased sister about a mysterious lodger who may be presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.Then it cuts to a second thread set in the 21st century on the eve of the 2016 election. A history teacher named Finn goes to see his dying brother, Max, at a hospice in the Bronx. At his bedside, they banter amusingly about the World Series, Finn’s suicidal ex-girlfriend, Lily, and his cranky view that the progressive left needs to “reclaim the term conspiracy theory” from the “barbarians” on the right.Soon, Finn is summoned home to Illinois beca...

Wisconsin governor signs bipartisan bill designed to prevent Milwaukee bankruptcy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:53:20 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called it a “historic day” before he signed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that sends more money to Milwaukee and gives both the city and county the ability to raise the local sales tax in an effort to avoid bankruptcy.The measure also sends 36% more money overall to every other smaller city, town, village and county in Wisconsin, part of a deal Evers struck with Republican legislative leaders to also increase funding for K-12 public schools and send more money to private schools that accept voucher students.Evers signed the bill surrounded by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers, Milwaukee leaders and local officials in Wausau. Local governments have been clamoring for more state aid following years of cuts or stagnant funding that have forced cuts to essential services like police and fire protection.“For far too long, our local communities have been forced to do more with less,” Evers said. “And we’ve seen the conse...