bet777 slot NonePolice arrested a 26-year-old man on Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after they say a Pennsylvania McDonald's worker alerted authorities to a customer who resembled the suspected gunman. The suspect, identified by police as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, had a gun believed to be the one used in Wednesday’s attack on Brian Thompson , as well as writings expressing anger at corporate America, police said. Here are some of the latest developments in the ongoing investigation: Mangione was taken into custody at around 9:15 a.m. after police received a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 85 miles (137 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh, police said. Mangione was being held in Pennsylvania on gun charges and will eventually be extradited to New York to face charges in connection with Thompson’s death, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. In addition to a three-page, handwritten document that suggests he harbored “ill will toward corporate America,” Kenny said Mangione also had a ghost gun , a type of weapon that can be assembled at home and is difficult to trace. Officers questioned Mangione, who was acting suspiciously and carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a U.S. passport, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. Officers also found a suppressor, “consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” the commissioner said. He had clothing and a mask similar to those worn by the shooter and a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Tisch said. Kenny said Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, has ties to San Francisco and that his last known address is in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mangione, who was valedictorian of his Maryland prep school, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a university spokesman told The Associated Press on Monday. He learned to code in high school and helped start a club at Penn for people interested in gaming and game design, according to a 2018 story in Penn Today, a campus publication. His social media posts also suggest that he belonged to the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. They also show him taking part in a 2019 program at Stanford University, and in photos with family and friends at the Jersey Shore and in Hawaii, San Diego, Puerto Rico, and other destinations. The Gilman School, from which Mangione graduated in 2016, is one of Baltimore’s elite prep schools. Some of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent people, including Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., have had children attend the school. Its alumni include sportswriter Frank Deford and former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington. In his valedictory speech, Luigi Mangione described his classmates’ “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things,” according to a post on the school website. He praised their collective inventiveness and pioneering mindset. Mangione comes from a prominent Maryland family. His grandfather Nick Mangione, who died in 2008, was a successful real estate developer. One of his best-known projects was Turf Valley Resort, a sprawling luxury retreat and conference center outside Baltimore that he purchased in 1978. The father of 10 children, Nick Mangione prepared his five sons — including Luigi Mangione’s father, Louis Mangione — to help manage the family business, according to a 2003 Washington Post report. The Mangione family also purchased Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore in 1986. On Monday, Baltimore County police officers blocked off an entrance to the property, which public records link to Luigi Mangione’s parents. A swarm of reporters and photographers gathered outside the entrance. Luigi Mangione is one of 37 grandchildren of Nick Mangione, according to his obituary. Luigi Mangione's grandparents donated to charities through the Mangione Family Foundation, according to a statement from Loyola University commemorating Nick Mangione’s wife’s death in 2023. They donated to various causes ranging from Catholic organizations to colleges and the arts. One of Luigi Mangione’s cousins is Republican Maryland state legislator Nino Mangione. A spokesman for the lawmaker's office confirmed the relationship Monday. Police said the person who killed Thompson left a hostel on Manhattan's Upper West Side at 5:41 a.m. on Wednesday. Just 11 minutes later, he was seen on surveillance video walking back and forth in front of the New York Hilton Midtown, wearing a distinctive backpack. At 6:44 a.m., he shot Thompson at a side entrance to the hotel, fled on foot, then climbed aboard a bicycle and within four minutes had entered Central Park. Another security camera recorded the gunman leaving the park near the American Museum of Natural History at 6:56 a.m. still on the bicycle but without the backpack. After getting in a taxi, he headed north to a bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge, arriving at around 7:30 a.m. From there, the trail of video evidence runs cold. Police have not located video of the suspected shooter exiting the building, leading them to believe he likely took a bus out of town. Police said they are still investigating the path the suspect took to Pennsylvania. “This just happened this morning," Kenny said. "We’ll be working, backtracking his steps from New York to Altoona, Pennsylvania,” Kenny said. Associated Press reporters Lea Skene in Baltimore and Cedar Attanasio in New York contributed to this report. 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MILAN: Edoardo Bove is stable in hospital after his harrowing and sudden collapse which caused Fiorentina’s Serie A clash with champions Inter Milan to be suspended on Sunday, as Scott McTominay kept Napoli top in a 1-0 win at Torino. Fiorentina said that midfielder Bove, who suddenly fell to the turf with 16 minutes on the clock and the game still goalless, was under sedation in the intensive care unit at Florence’s Careggi hospital. “Initial cardiological and neurological tests have ruled out severe damage to his central nervous and the cardio-respiratory systems,” said Fiorentina in a joint statement with the hospital. Fiorentina added that the 22-year-old’s condition will be re-assessed “in the next 24 hours” while family and teammates, who had rushed to his aid and then sobbed as he was stretchered from the Stadio Artemio Franchi field, went to be by his side. The match will be rescheduled for “an as-yet undetermined date”, as happened when Evan Ndicka fell in a similar manner during Roma’s match at Udinese in April. Bove’s fall reminded fans of tragic former captain Davide Astori, who in March 2018 died suddenly in his sleep aged 31 in a hotel before a league match at Udinese. Goalkeeper David de Gea said “God please” on social media where a number of clubs, including Roma from where he was loaned to Fiorentina in August, showed support. “One of us, we’re all with you. Forza Edo!” Roma said. Napoli stay top Napoli are four points ahead of the chasing pack thanks to McTominay’s neat finish in the 31st minute, following a trademark dribble into the area from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. McTominay’s winner was his third Serie A goal since signing for Napoli in the summer and the Scotland midfielder is playing a key role in his new team’s bid for a fourth Italian league title. Napoli would have left Turin with a heftier goal haul had Torino goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic not pulled off a series of top class saves. The Serbia ‘keeper kept out a Romelu Lukaku backheel and Kvaratskhelia’s looping header before McTominay broke the deadlock, and he got down brilliantly to stop both Mathias Olivera’s close-range header in the 65th minute and Giovanni Simeone in stoppage time. “We attacked them with aggression, much more than usual and it was only Milinkovic-Savic’s performance that stopped us from scoring more,” Napoli coach Antonio Conte told DAZN. Atalanta can move back to within a point of Napoli with a win at Roma on Monday night. Lazio lost ground after a frustrating 3-1 defeat at Parma which was inflicted by an early Dennis Man finish, Anas Haj Mohamed’s first Serie A goal and a stoppage-time strike from Enrico Del Prato after Valentin Castellanos had halved the deficit for the away side. Juve pegged back Defeat at the Stadio Ennio Tardini snapped a five-match league winning streak and left Marco Baroni’s Lazio fifth, level on 28 points with Inter, Fiorentina and Atalanta, two points ahead of Juventus who were stunned late to draw 1-1 at lowly Lecce. Ante Rebic poked home Lecce’s leveler in the third minute of stoppage time to snatch a deserved draw from a frantic, largely low-quality clash in southern Italy and move his team two points above the relegation zone in 16th. Andrea Cambiaso looked to have won the points for unbeaten Juve with his speculative shot in the 68th minute, which was wildly deflected off Kialonda Gaspar and past Lecce goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone. Missing nine players through injury, Juve again failed to impress after recent goalless draws at AC Milan and Aston Villa, although Khephren Thuram and Francisco Conceicao both hit the post early on, with Thuram somehow striking the woodwork from the middle of an open goal in the fifth minute. “You could see in the second half that we were running out of steam... we just need to keep going and learn from our mistakes,” said Juve coach Thiago Motta. Patrick Vieira won his first match as Genoa coach with a 2-0 success at 10-man Udinese, which moved his new team three points away from the bottom three. — AFPJones accounts for 4 TDs, defense adds two TDs, NC Central swamps Delaware State 52-10

A legal challenge against two candidates’ candidacies to the Crescent Springs City Council, Carol McGowan and Chad Longbons, has failed on appeal. The decision was delivered by Appeals Judges Sara Combs, Kelly Easton and Jeff Taylor on Nov. 6 and stems from a legal challenge , which alleged that Longbons and McGowan had failed to adhere to laws regulating the process of registering as candidates for office and should, therefore, be disqualified from running in the general election. As LINK nky reported in August, the suit dates back to the end of June when city resident Robert Flaherty alleged that Longbons and McGowan had violated legal procedures around petitioning to run for office. Kentucky law requires people running for local office to gather at least two signatures from registered voters in the area where they’re running to be considered official candidates. Flaherty’s initial motion pointed to a section in Kentucky law that states, “if any person joins in nominating, by petition, more than one nominee for any office to be filed, he or she shall be counted as a petitioner for the candidate whose petition is filed first.” Longbon’s, McGowan’s and Patrick Hackett’s, another candidate who formerly sat on the council, petitions all contain signatures from Deborah Noe, yet another former council member and Hackett’s wife. Each petition holds only one other signature. Hackett’s petition contains McGowan’s, and both Longbon’s and McGowan’s contain Hackett’s. Court documents indicate that Hackett filed his paperwork before the other candidates, so Flaherty’s motion argued that Noe’s signature on the remaining petitions was invalid. As such, the suit contends that McGowan and Longbons failed to follow the prerequisite requirements for candidacy and that their names should not appear on the November ballot. In the legal battle that ensued, attorneys argued over whether language in the relevant part of Kentucky law fell into one of two legal categories: directory and mandatory requirements of a law. Mandatory requirements are essential to the legal process they relate to. If one breaks a mandatory requirement, it delegitimizes the entire process. A directory requirement is more like a guideline, so breaking it doesn’t necessarily undermine the legal process in question. Keep up with the latest NKY news with our daily newsletter Sign up Longbon’s and McGowan’s answer to Flaherty, which they filed on July 15, argued that the signature requirement is directory. They cite cases from throughout Kentucky’s history in an effort to rebut Flaherty’s claim. For instance, one case from 1936, Skaggs v. Fyffe, argues “if a statute simply provides that certain acts or things shall be done within a particular time or in a particular manner, but does not declare or indicate that their performance is essential to the validity of the election, they will be regarded as directory if they do not affect the actual merits of the election.” Other cases were cited as well, indicating that this is not the first time something like this has happened in Kentucky. Flaherty fired back on July 26, where he argued that the wording of the statute is too unambiguous to be considered directory, citing other Kentucky cases to make his argument. Pulling from one 2009 case, MPM Fin. Group, Inc. v. Morton, Flaherty’s attorney argues, “when the words of a statute are clear and unambiguous and express the legislative intent, there is no room for construction or interpretation and the statute must be given its effect as written.’” Moreover, the response states, “The words in the last sentence of [the law] are clear and unambiguous, and nothing in the context of that statute provides otherwise. Accordingly, the word ‘shall’ in the last sentence of [the law] must be interpreted as mandatory unless the legislative intent is that it should be interpreted as directory.” Judge Kathy Lape, who was assigned to the case, wasn’t convinced by Flaherty’s arguments. In a judgment order from Aug. 1, Lape writes that the intent of the law “is that candidates seeking election are to be nominated by a prescribed number of eligible voters from his/her jurisdiction” and that Kentucky law has generally favored allowing candidacies to continue whenever possible. Lape writes elsewhere in her judgment the relevant law “does not state a candidate will be disqualified if one of his/her petitioners nominates more than one candidate.” Flaherty did not accept this and filed a motion asking Lape to reconsider her judgment on Aug. 8. At a hearing on Monday, Aug. 12, which was attended only by the parties’ attorneys, Lape upheld her original judgment, overruling Flaherty’s motion. Flaherty appealed the decision a few days later, but the appeals judges agreed with the lower court’s decision that the statutory requirement was directory, rather than mandatory. “After careful review, we hold that the nominating petitioner ‘counting’ requirement of [the law] is directory in nature,” write the appeals judges. “We further hold that the Candidates substantially complied with the statute. Deborah Noe served as a petitioner on more than one candidate’s nominating petition, but it is undisputed that she is registered to vote and is an eligible voter in the general election for the office of Crescent Springs City Council.” Neither Longbons nor Hackett won their election bids earlier this month, but McGowan earned the third-highest number of votes from Crescent Springs residents. Flaherty in a phone call with LINK nky described the whole situation as “water under the bridge,” suggesting that he didn’t intend to escalate the case again. “The candidates that won the election, I’m pleased with,” Flaherty said. When LINK nky first wrote about this story in August, Flaherty was hesitant to talk about his motivations for bringing the suit, much to the chagrin of the defendants, who were unsure why he had spent so much time and money on legal proceedings over what they viewed as a technicality. This was also not the first time Flaherty had brought legal action against Crescent Springs or its candidates. In 2023, he filed a complaint with the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office alleging the city had failed to comply with open meetings laws for not releasing annual budget documents to him before they’d been presented to the city council. The Attorney General denied his complaint . When asked about his motivations again, Flaherty replied, “Their [the candidates] filing wasn’t very transparent.” Later in the conversation, Flaherty stated that “people need to know about the democratic process, the election process and transparency,” but declined to comment further. McGowan wasn’t buying it. “It’s not about transparency,” McGowan said. “He thinks he’s got to police council,” McGowan added, saying she believed Flaherty thought certain council members, including herself, had fallen under the (undue) influence of Hackett. “He comes to council almost every time, and he just stirs the pot,” McGowan said. “He’s an unhappy person.” McGowan believed that Flaherty had been funneling money to certain candidates, but this was not discernible from candidate financial declarations on the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance. Most candidates declared $0 in both expenditures and contributions to their campaigns. Bob Mueller, who won the most votes, did not file with the registry at all in 2024 (or, at the very least, his information for the 2024 election is not displayed on the registry’s website ). Longbons, who has not yet responded to LINK nky’s follow-up inquiries, called the whole ordeal a “150-page waste of time” and “a prime example of why good people don’t want to serve in public office” when he spoke with LINK in August. Before you go.... Can you help us make a difference? The reporters and editors at LINK nky are dedicated to covering Northern Kentucky and providing you with the information you need to be an informed citizen. If you value what you get from LINK nky, please join us with a tax-deductible donation so we can continue doing the local reporting that matters to you. Will you chip in to LINK nky today? YES, I'LL CHIP IN! SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS DONATEGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Matthew Downing threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to lead Elon to a 31-21 season-ending win over North Carolina A&T on Saturday. The game was tied at 7 in the second quarter when the Phoenix turned a fumble recovery into a field goal. 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