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Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Warrants to Employees in GenmabRebecca Sneed , wife of convicted killer Lyle Menendez, is speaking out to confront shocking allegations of his alleged affair with a 21-year-old British woman. In a message on Lyle's Facebook page, Sneed announced their separation but emphasized they remain friends and will always be family, vowing never to stop fighting for him. "Guys! This is NOT a cheating scandal. Lyle and I have been separated for a while now but remain best friends and family," Sneed wrote to the page. "I continue to run his Facebook pages, with input from him, and I am forever committed to the enduring fight for Lyle and Erik's freedom, as has been so evident over the years." On August 20, 1989, Lyle and his brother Erik Menendez gunned down their parents, José and Kitty Menendez with 14 shots as the couple sat watching TV in the den of their home. Lyle, who was then 21, and Erik, then 18, admitted they shot-gunned their entertainment executive father and their mother, but said they feared their parents were about to kill them to prevent the disclosure of the father's long-term sexual molestation of Erik. Lyle, 56, and Erik, 53, have spent three decades behind bars. The alleged affair stems from a report in The Daily Mail , which details a "clandestine fling" between Lyle and Milly Bucksey, a University of Manchester student. Ironically, the romance began this year when Lyle spotted Milly in the same Facebook group managed by his wife. He allegedly approached her using an alias before revealing his true identity, according to the outlet. Bucksey endured a 5,300-mile journey from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility to visit Lyle, who is 35 years her senior. While it is unclear whether Erik's stepdaughter, Talia, was also addressing the affair rumors, she posted on her Instagram story on Thursday, "I want to make it clear that Erik and Lyle are two separate individuals. The decisions of one brother shouldn't overshadow the truth about the other one." Talia is the daughter of Chuck Saccoman and Tammi Menendez , who is married to Erik. Tammi was married to Chuck and lived with him when she began following the brothers' trial on TV in 1993. Feeling sympathy for Erik, she wrote him a letter in prison, not expecting a reply. To her surprise, she received one. Her then-husband, Chuck, died in June 1996, just a month before Lyle and Erik were sentenced to life in prison without parole. According to People , Tammi and Chuck had a nine-month-old daughter, Talia, when he died. Tammi continued visiting Erik for the next six months and in 1998 he proposed. Although she felt it was a little soon, she was grateful for the proposal as she couldn't imagine her life without him. The two got married on June 12, 1999, in Folsom State Prison. Lyle Menendez's Marriage Status Lyle married twice. His first wife, Anna Eriksson, like Tammi, saw Lyle on TV during his initial trial and decided to write him a letter. Lyle responded to her letter, and their exchange soon developed into a relationship, according to The Sun . The outlet reported in 1994 that Eriksson moved to Los Angeles to be closer to Lyle, taking a job as a contract administrator for a record company. After meeting in person, they fell in love and married in 1996 on July 2, 1996—the day of Lyle and Erik's sentencing. Their relationship flourished until 2001 when Eriksson discovered Lyle had been unfaithful with another pen pal. They divorced soon after. In 2003, two years later, Lyle married Sneed. The couple exchanged vows in a ceremony at Mule Creek State Prison near Sacramento, after nearly a decade of knowing each other, a spokesperson told the Associated Press. "Our interaction tends to be very free of distractions and we probably have more intimate conversations than most married spouses do, who are distracted by life's events," Lyle told People in 2017. "We try and talk on the phone every day, sometimes several times a day. I have a very steady, involved marriage and that helps sustain me and brings a lot of peace and joy. It's a counter to the unpredictable, very stressful environment here." Lyle Menendez's Facebook Page Although Lyle doesn't manage his own Facebook page due to his lack of social media access in prison, Sneed oversees it. The page aims to raise awareness and support individuals who have experienced abuse. Lyle, however, personally wrote to articulate the purpose and message he hopes the page conveys. His message reads: "I thank my family for helping me with this page. I don't have internet access so this site depends on them. I have been told that setting up this page will open me up to ridicule and criticism. That's probably true, but it's something I'm already used to. It is very hard to accept that sexual assault can be the punchline of jokes or the subject of ridicule, but it has occurred—to me—and to many others. If I am mocked for this page, the shame of that belongs on the mocker and not on me or anyone who shares their story here. There is, quite simply, nothing funny about child rape or other abuse. "The purpose is to provide a safe place for people to talk about their similar experiences and find comfort in others who have suffered in silence in the same way. Those of us who have suffered abuse understand the healing power of sharing our experiences. This page's platform is to oppose all forms of child abuse: physical, sexual and emotional abuse perpetrated by anyone, including but not limited to parents, a teacher, a coach, a priest and the government. We also oppose all forms of domestic violence and sexual assault." Do you have a story Newsweek should be covering? Do you have any questions about this story or the Menendez Brothers? Contact LiveNews@newsweek.com
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bill Belichick spent time after his NFL exit talking with college coaches wanting his thoughts on managing new wrinkles at their level that looked a lot like the pros. The two-minute timeout. The transfer portal as de facto free agency. Collectives generating name, image and likeness (NIL) money for athletes becoming like a payroll. The impending arrival of revenue sharing. It didn't take long for Belichick to envision how a college program should look based on his own NFL experience. "I do think there are a lot of parallels," Belichick said. And that's at least partly why the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach is now taking over at North Carolina. Years of rapid change at the have only increased the professionalization of college football across the country, with schools adjusting staffing to handle growing duties once seemingly more fitting for a pro team. People are also reading... UNC just happens to be making the most audacious of those bets, bringing in a 72-year-old who has never coached in college and asking him to build what amounts to a mini-NFL front office. But plenty could follow. "I really think there's going to be some of those guys that maybe don't have a job in the NFL anymore," Kansas State general manager Clint Brown said, "and now that this is going to be structured in a way where there is a cap that that's going to be something they're interested in." A changing college course The rapid changes in college athletics have fueled that, notably with players able to transfer and play right away without sitting out a year and be paid through NIL endorsement opportunities in the past five years. Recruiting is now just as much about bringing in veteran talent through the portal as signing recruits out of high school, mirroring the NFL with free agency and the draft, respectively. And a bigger change looms with revenue sharing, the result of a $2.78 billion legal settlement to antitrust lawsuits. Specifically, that model will allow the biggest schools to establish a pool of about $21.5 million for athletes in the first year, with a final hearing in that case set for April 2025. It will be up to schools to determine how to distribute that money and in which sports, though football's role as the revenue driver in college sports likely means a prominent cut everywhere as a direct parallel to a professional team's salary cap. Throw all that together, and it's why coaches are adjusting their staffs like Florida's Billy Napier interviewing candidates to be the Gators' general manager. "We're built to do it now," Napier said. "The big thing here is that we're getting ready to be in a business model. We have a cap. We have contracts. We have negotiation. We have strategy about how we distribute those funds, and it's a major math puzzle. "We're going to build out a front office here in the next couple of months, and it's primarily to help us manage that huge math problem," Napier added. "There'll be a ton of strategy around that. I'm looking forward to it." Still, that also explains why Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule, the former head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, said: "This job as a head coach is a juggernaut. There's way more to do here than I had to do in the NFL." The value of a hire And it explains why the Tar Heels are betting on Belichick to be the right fit for today's changing climate. "If I was 16 of 17 years old, a coach who came at you and won how many Super Bowls? And he said, 'Come play for me,'" said New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, now in his third year out of UNC. "I mean, that's pretty hard to turn down now, especially in this day and age, he's telling you to come play for him and he's offering you some money, too. I mean, you can't go wrong with that choice." The timing worked for UNC with Belichick, who was bypassed for some NFL openings after leaving the New England Patriots last year and instead spent months taking a closer look at the college game. Those conversations with coaches — some in the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, he said Thursday — made him understand how the changes in college aligned with his pro experience. "College kind of came to me this year," Belichick said. "I didn't necessarily go and seek it out." And his mere presence in Chapel Hill makes a difference, with athletic director Bubba Cunningham saying his "visibility" would likely allow the team to raise prices for advertising such as sponsorships and signage. Belichick is also hiring Michael Lombardi, a former NFL general manager and executive, as the Tar Heels' general manager. Cunningham also said the plan is for Belichick to continue his appearances on former NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning's "Manningcast" broadcasts during Monday Night Football as well as ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" — all giving the coach the chance to promote himself and the program. Investing in football Yet these steps to reshape football at North Carolina comes with a rising price. Belichick will make $10 million per year in base and supplemental pay, with the first three years of the five-year deal guaranteed, according to a term sheet released by UNC on Thursday. That's roughly double of former coach Mack Brown, whose contract outlined about $4.2 million in base and supplemental salary before bonuses and other add-ons. Additionally, Belichick's deal includes $10 million for a salary pool for assistant coaches and $5.3 million for support staff. That's up from roughly $8.1 million for assistants and $4.8 million for support staff for the 2022 season, according to football financial data for UNC obtained by The Associated Press. And those figures from 2022 under Brown were already up significantly from Larry Fedora's tenure with the 2017 season ($4 million for assistant coaches, $2.3 million for support staff). There is at least one area where the Tar Heels are set for Belichick's arrival: facilities. UNC spent more than $40 million on its football practice complex with an indoor facility (2018) as the biggest project, while other projects include $3 million in upgrades to the locker room and weight room (2019), $14.5 million on renovations to the Kenan Football Center (2022), even $225,000 on Brown's former office (2021). Now it's up to Belichick to rethink the approach to football here for the changing times. "We're taking a risk," Cunningham said. "We're investing more in football with the hope and ambition that the return is going to significantly outweigh the investment." AP Sports Writers Tom Canavan in New Jersey; Mark Long in Florida; and Eric Olson in Nebraska; contributed to this report. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!
Brian Kelly, LSU had a feeling Garrett Nussmeier would return: 'There was always this sense.'CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bill Belichick spent time after his NFL exit talking with college coaches wanting his thoughts on managing new wrinkles at their level that looked a lot like the pros. The two-minute timeout. The transfer portal as de facto free agency. Collectives generating name, image and likeness (NIL) money for athletes becoming like a payroll. The impending arrival of revenue sharing. It didn't take long for Belichick to envision how a college program should look based on his own NFL experience. "I do think there are a lot of parallels," Belichick said. And that's at least partly why the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach is now taking over at North Carolina. Years of rapid change at the have only increased the professionalization of college football across the country, with schools adjusting staffing to handle growing duties once seemingly more fitting for a pro team. UNC just happens to be making the most audacious of those bets, bringing in a 72-year-old who has never coached in college and asking him to build what amounts to a mini-NFL front office. But plenty could follow. "I really think there's going to be some of those guys that maybe don't have a job in the NFL anymore," Kansas State general manager Clint Brown said, "and now that this is going to be structured in a way where there is a cap that that's going to be something they're interested in." The rapid changes in college athletics have fueled that, notably with players able to transfer and play right away without sitting out a year and be paid through NIL endorsement opportunities in the past five years. Recruiting is now just as much about bringing in veteran talent through the portal as signing recruits out of high school, mirroring the NFL with free agency and the draft, respectively. And a bigger change looms with revenue sharing, the result of a $2.78 billion legal settlement to antitrust lawsuits. Specifically, that model will allow the biggest schools to establish a pool of about $21.5 million for athletes in the first year, with a final hearing in that case set for April 2025. It will be up to schools to determine how to distribute that money and in which sports, though football's role as the revenue driver in college sports likely means a prominent cut everywhere as a direct parallel to a professional team's salary cap. Throw all that together, and it's why coaches are adjusting their staffs like Florida's Billy Napier interviewing candidates to be the Gators' general manager. "We're built to do it now," Napier said. "The big thing here is that we're getting ready to be in a business model. We have a cap. We have contracts. We have negotiation. We have strategy about how we distribute those funds, and it's a major math puzzle. "We're going to build out a front office here in the next couple of months, and it's primarily to help us manage that huge math problem," Napier added. "There'll be a ton of strategy around that. I'm looking forward to it." Still, that also explains why Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule, the former head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, said: "This job as a head coach is a juggernaut. There's way more to do here than I had to do in the NFL." And it explains why the Tar Heels are betting on Belichick to be the right fit for today's changing climate. "If I was 16 of 17 years old, a coach who came at you and won how many Super Bowls? And he said, 'Come play for me,'" said New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, now in his third year out of UNC. "I mean, that's pretty hard to turn down now, especially in this day and age, he's telling you to come play for him and he's offering you some money, too. I mean, you can't go wrong with that choice." The timing worked for UNC with Belichick, who was bypassed for some NFL openings after leaving the New England Patriots last year and instead spent months taking a closer look at the college game. Those conversations with coaches — some in the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, he said Thursday — made him understand how the changes in college aligned with his pro experience. "College kind of came to me this year," Belichick said. "I didn't necessarily go and seek it out." And his mere presence in Chapel Hill makes a difference, with athletic director Bubba Cunningham saying his "visibility" would likely allow the team to raise prices for advertising such as sponsorships and signage. Belichick is also hiring Michael Lombardi, a former NFL general manager and executive, as the Tar Heels' general manager. Cunningham also said the plan is for Belichick to continue his appearances on former NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning's "Manningcast" broadcasts during Monday Night Football as well as ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" — all giving the coach the chance to promote himself and the program. Yet these steps to reshape football at North Carolina comes with a rising price. Belichick will make $10 million per year in base and supplemental pay, with the first three years of the five-year deal guaranteed, according to a term sheet released by UNC on Thursday. That's roughly double of former coach Mack Brown, whose contract outlined about $4.2 million in base and supplemental salary before bonuses and other add-ons. Additionally, Belichick's deal includes $10 million for a salary pool for assistant coaches and $5.3 million for support staff. That's up from roughly $8.1 million for assistants and $4.8 million for support staff for the 2022 season, according to football financial data for UNC obtained by The Associated Press. And those figures from 2022 under Brown were already up significantly from Larry Fedora's tenure with the 2017 season ($4 million for assistant coaches, $2.3 million for support staff). There is at least one area where the Tar Heels are set for Belichick's arrival: facilities. UNC spent more than $40 million on its football practice complex with an indoor facility (2018) as the biggest project, while other projects include $3 million in upgrades to the locker room and weight room (2019), $14.5 million on renovations to the Kenan Football Center (2022), even $225,000 on Brown's former office (2021). Now it's up to Belichick to rethink the approach to football here for the changing times. "We're taking a risk," Cunningham said. "We're investing more in football with the hope and ambition that the return is going to significantly outweigh the investment." AP Sports Writers Tom Canavan in New Jersey; Mark Long in Florida; and Eric Olson in Nebraska; contributed to this report. Get local news delivered to your inbox!2025: Issues carried forward
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Published 5:08 pm Friday, December 27, 2024 By Daily Herald When we first made the decision to reduce our publication dates to twice a week, one of the questions we often heard was how it might affect the timing of our coverage in regards to when stories might hit the public. As a daily through the years, readers were used to reading about events in the next issue of the Herald the following day, however, the most obvious repercussion of not printing daily was that publishing a story the next day wasn’t a viable option. Print wise, people would have to wait a couple days before they could read about it in the paper, unless they had online access to the Herald’s website. This is a burgeoning era for newspapers as many are having to shift their focus to more of a digital footprint. Obviously, we want to get news to you as soon as possible, and the web provides an almost real-time option to get stories to the public fast. It also gives us the option to provide a narrative flow, depending on the importance of the story, that starts with a brief two or three sentence alert or breaking news, that can be followed up on and updated as time moves forward. This holds through with follow-up stories if required. Still, while online publishing allows for a certain fluidity in terms of timely news coverage, we can’t forget about the print edition and the many readers we still have faithfully turning our pages. So what contributes to the timing of publishing a story? Broadly speaking, the story itself often is the determining factor. Breaking news finds publication online as soon as we can get it there. These can include subjects such as weather-related events, emergencies, political news, milestone moments and major announcements just to name a few. Take the flooding that occurred this past June. Due to the direct impact on the area, we were reporting on this event as soon as we could and updating when there was something new. This was not an event that could wait until a printed edition. At the same time, those stories that normally can wait until a printed edition to come out tend to lie more on the feature side of things. A larger story that we’ve worked on throughout the week — and that normally holds down our main story slot on the front — is an example of a story that can wait. While there is plenty of news throughout the week that makes it online first, these types of stories give readers something fresh to look forward to. Another key determining factor of when a story goes online vs. in print is the timeliness. This really applies to upcoming events and sports stories. A basketball, football or volleyball game story will get posted immediately online afterwards because it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to hold onto a game story for three, four days, especially as there are games in between when it happens and when it runs. Likewise, the digital format works well for upcoming events. The general rule of thumb is try to print a story about a week out from the event so as to keep it fresh in people’s minds, but sometimes that doesn’t work out in the paper, so being able to get it online is a remedy to that. Also, it gets the story a little extra boost because it’s effectively pushing through in two different areas and oftentimes reaching two different segments of the population. Having to go down to two days a week would have been very different 20 years ago, but because we have the digital option we have currently — whether that’s our website, Facebook or Twitter — it allows us to control and adapt to situations dependent on when we publicize the story.Mahayuti's Remarkable Turnaround: From Lok Sabha Losses to Assembly Triumph
