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THE DALLES — At this time of the year, every team feels confident and has a good outlook about the upcoming basketball season. For The Dalles High Riverhawks girls squad, they’re hoping for one of their best seasons in the past 10 years. The Riverhawks, guided by fourth-year Coach Darcy Hodges, have an experienced squad led by seniors Sydney Newby, Laci Hoylman and Yadhira Cruz Torres. Hodges said: “We have everyone returning from last year, so hopefully that helps us out a little bit and provides us with a stronger team with lots of experience, and we also have some younger kids who can step up and help more as well.” Last season, Newby (first team) and Hoylman (second team) earned 4A Tri-Valley Conference (TVC) all- league awards. Juniors Hailey Johnston and Jackie Begay both earned honorable mention awards. The Riverhawks have all 10 of their varsity players returning from last year’s 9-14 squad, 6-4 in the six-team TVC standings. “The girls have put a lot of work in during the offseason to become physically stronger,” said Hodges. “We have a lot of talent on the team, and it will be interesting to see how things play out. It’s nice to not have to rebuild, and so we get to continue what we started last year.” In the last two years, the Riverhawks qualified for an Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) play-in round road matchup, losing a season ago, 47-36, at Stayton. The Riverhawks are focusing on advancing to the state playoffs for the first time since 2015. To do so, they’ll have to contend with defending champion Madras, which lost seven seniors from its 2023-24 team. Crook County was second in the TVC, and it lost three seniors to graduation. The Riverhawks and Molalla are the only two TVC teams not to lose any seniors. The Riverhawks started practice Nov. 18 in preparation for their 24-game schedule, which begins with a 7 p.m. Dec. 4 nonleague road game at Scappoose (10-13 last year). The Riverhawks play their first home game Dec. 10 against North Marion. “I’m not sure who will be the top team this year, but Crook County is always tough,” said Hodges, a 1999 The Dalles High graduate. “I’m not sure what Madras will do after losing a multiple number of kids, but they’re usually one of the top teams. I’m just hoping that we will battle for first place in the league. I’m hopeful that we will continue to grow and build off of what we have achieved over the last three years.” The Riverhawk roster also includes junior Makaila Collins; sophomores Morgan Donivan, Kestly Hodges and Evelyn Rogers; and frosh Bryce Newby and Willow Ziegenhagen. The Riverhawks’ lineup will have three players (Sydney Newby, Hoylman and Rogers) who are six-foot or taller.How Dana Holgorsen adjusted Nebraska football's playbook to deliver instant results

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It’s a daunting reality for Democrats: Republican Donald Trump's support has grown broadly since he last sought the presidency. In his defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris , Trump won a bigger percentage of the vote in each one of the 50 states, and Washington, D.C., than he did four years ago. He won more actual votes than in 2020 in 40 states, according to an Associated Press analysis. Certainly, Harris’ more than 7 million vote decline from President Joe Biden’s 2020 total was a factor in her loss, especially in swing-state metropolitan areas that have been the party’s winning electoral strongholds. But, despite national turnout that was lower than in the high-enthusiasm 2020 election, Trump received 2.5 million more votes than he did four years ago. He swept the seven most competitive states to win a convincing Electoral College victory, becoming the first Republican nominee in 20 years to win a majority of the popular vote. Trump cut into places where Harris needed to overperform to win a close election. Now Democrats are weighing how to regain traction ahead of the midterm elections in two years, when control of Congress will again be up for grabs and dozens of governors elected. There were some notable pieces to how Trump's victory came together: Though Trump improved across the map, his gains were particularly noteworthy in urban counties home to the cities of Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, electoral engines that stalled for Harris in industrial swing states Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Harris fell more than 50,000 votes — and 5 percentage points — short of Biden's total in Wayne County, Michigan, which makes up the lion's share of the Detroit metro area. She was almost 36,000 votes off Biden's mark in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and about 1,000 short in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It wasn't only Harris' shortfall that helped Trump carry the states, a trio that Democrats had collectively carried in six of the seven previous elections before Nov. 5. Trump added to his 2020 totals in all three metro counties, netting more than 24,000 votes in Wayne County, more than 11,000 in Philadelphia County and almost 4,000 in Milwaukee County. It’s not yet possible to determine whether Harris fell short of Biden’s performance because Biden voters stayed home or switched their vote to Trump — or how some combination of the two produced the rightward drift evident in each of these states. Harris advertised heavily and campaigned regularly in each, and made Milwaukee County her first stop as a candidate with a rally in July. These swings alone were not the difference in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but her weaker performance than Biden across the three metros helped Trump, who held on to big 2020 margins in the three states' broad rural areas and improved or held steady in populous suburbs. Trump's team and outside groups supporting him knew from their data that he was making inroads with Black voters, particularly Black men younger than 50, more concentrated in these urban areas that have been key to Democratic victories. When James Blair, Trump's political director, saw results coming in from Philadelphia on election night, he knew Trump had cut into the more predominantly Black precincts, a gain that would echo in Wayne and Milwaukee counties. “The data made clear there was an opportunity there,” Blair said. AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 120,000 voters, found Trump won a larger share of Black and Latino voters than he did in 2020, and most notably among men under age 45. Democrats won Senate races in Michigan and Wisconsin but lost in Pennsylvania. In 2026, they will be defending governorships in all three states and a Senate seat in Michigan. Despite the burst of enthusiasm Harris' candidacy created among the Democratic base when she entered the race in July, she ended up receiving fewer votes than Biden in three of the seven states where she campaigned almost exclusively. In Arizona, she received about 90,000 fewer votes than Biden. She received about 67,000 fewer in Michigan and 39,000 fewer in Pennsylvania. In four others — Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin — Harris won more votes than Biden did. But Trump's support grew by more — in some states, significantly more. That dynamic is glaring in Georgia, where Harris received almost 73,000 more votes than Biden did when he very narrowly carried the state. But Trump added more than 200,000 to his 2020 total, en route to winning Georgia by roughly 2 percentage points. In Wisconsin, Trump's team reacted to slippage it saw in GOP-leaning counties in suburban Milwaukee by targeting once-Democratic-leaning, working-class areas, where Trump made notable gains. In the three largest suburban Milwaukee counties — Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha — which have formed the backbone of GOP victories for decades, Harris performed better than Biden did in 2020. She also gained more votes than Trump gained over 2020, though he still won the counties. That made Trump's focus on Rock County, a blue-collar area in south central Wisconsin, critical. Trump received 3,084 more votes in Rock County, home of the former automotive manufacturing city of Janesville, than he did in 2020, while Harris underperformed Biden's 2020 total by seven votes. That helped Trump offset Harris' improvement in Milwaukee's suburbs. The focus speaks to the strength Trump has had and continued to grow with middle-income, non-college educated voters, the Trump campaign's senior data analyst Tim Saler said. “If you're going to have to lean into working-class voters, they are particularly strong in Wisconsin,” Saler said. “We saw huge shifts from 2020 to 2024 in our favor.” Of the seven most competitive states, Arizona saw the smallest increase in the number of votes cast in the presidential contest — slightly more than 4,000 votes, in a state with more than 3.3 million ballots cast. That was despite nearly 30 campaign visits to Arizona by Trump, Harris and their running mates and more than $432 million spent on advertising by the campaigns and allied outside groups, according to the ad-monitoring firm AdImpact. Arizona, alone of the seven swing states, saw Harris fall short of Biden across small, midsize and large counties. In the other six states, she was able to hold on in at least one of these categories. Even more telling, it is also the only swing state where Trump improved his margin in every single county. While turnout in Maricopa County, Arizona's most populous as the home to Phoenix, dipped slightly from 2020 — by 14,199 votes, a tiny change in a county where more than 2 million people voted — Trump gained almost 56,000 more votes than four years ago. Meanwhile, Harris fell more than 60,000 votes short of Biden's total, contributing to a shift significant enough to swing the county and state to Trump, who lost Arizona by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2020. The biggest leaps to the right weren't taking place exclusively among Republican-leaning counties, but also among the most Democratic-leaning counties in the states. Michigan's Wayne County swung 9 points toward Trump, tying the more Republican-leaning Antrim County for the largest movement in the state. AP VoteCast found that voters were most likely to say the economy was the most important issue facing the country in 2024, followed by immigration. Trump supporters were more motivated by economic issues and immigration than Harris', the survey showed. “It’s still all about the economy," said North Carolina Democratic strategist Morgan Jackson, a senior adviser to Democrat Josh Stein, who won North Carolina’s governorship on Nov. 5 as Trump also carried the state. “Democrats have to embrace an economic message that actually works for real people and talk about it in the kind of terms that people get, rather than giving them a dissertation of economic policy,” he said. Governor’s elections in 2026 give Democrats a chance to test their understanding and messaging on the issue, said Democratic pollster Margie Omero, whose firm has advised Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in the past and winning Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego this year. “So there’s an opportunity to really make sure people, who governors have a connection to, are feeling some specificity and clarity with the Democratic economic message,” Omero said. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Hyderabad : A man and his gang of 11 men were arrested by the Hyderabad city police on Sunday, December 22, for dacoity and robbing gold worth Rs 1.2 crore from a gold merchant’s house in Hyderabad’s Domalguda region. The arrests were made based on a complaint lodged by Ranjeet Ghorai, a native of West Bengal, who works as a gold merchant in the city. The police recovered gold ornaments weighing 1.228 kg, silver ornaments weighing 616 grams brass weighing 2kg, Rs 2 lakh 90 thousand cash, one watch, a car, 13 mobile phones, and weapons including a lighter gun, a broad curve axe, 2 medium size axes, 2 knives, 6 big sickles from the arrested. The arrested are identified as Indrajit Ghorai, 43, brother of the complainant Ranjeet, who is the main accused and the mastermind behind the dacoity. the other accused include Altaf Mohammed Khan, 23, Syed Irfan Ahmed, 44, Mohammed Noor Ullah, 40, Habeeb Hussain, 35, Shaik Shabbir, 46, Mohd Arbaaz, 25, Shoaib Khan, 22, Gulam Maqdum, 29, Shaik Osman, 24, Shaik Allauddin, 29, all residents of Hyderabad. Three accused in the case, identified as Shahabaaz, Nazeerand and Zaheer remain at large, and police efforts to arrest them are underway. According to the police, the complainant Ranjeet Ghorai and the main accused Indrajit Ghorai moved to Hyderabad a few years ago and have been doing gold business. While Ranjeet became prosperous with his business, Indrajit suffered losses and was in financial distress. This led to Indrajit growing a grudge and deciding to rob his brother, Ranjit, said the police in a statement. Upon deciding to rob gold from his brother, Indrajit consulted his friends and associates in Hyderabad, Altaf Mohammed Khan and Syed Irfan Ahmed, who brought in more associates to conduct the dacoity. Syed Irfan Ahmed brought in Habeeb Hussain, and even an advocate Norr Ullah for conspiring the crime without being caught. While the advocate agreed to provide legal advice, Syed Irfan Khan brought in a real estate agent in the city, Shaik Shabbir, who brought in Mohammed Arbaz, a man with a criminal record, and his associates Shoaib Khan, Gulam Maqdum, Shaik Osman, Shaik Allauddin, Shahabaaz, Nazeer, and Zaheer too joined the dacoity gang. They sourced weapons and a car for the transit during the crime, days ahead and got the number plates removed not to get detected by the police cameras. During the night hours of December 12, the team headed by Arbaz and his henchmen left for Ranjit Ghorai’s residence, while Habeeb Hussain drove the car and Altaf waited near Aramghar Flyover to collect the stolen objects after the decoity. Upon reaching Ranjit’s residence, the armed assailants headed by Arbaz were helped by Inidrajit to break in. The gang held Ranjit and his family hostage, threatened violently and caused injuries, and robbed the gold and other valuables stored in the house, before fleeing the scene in the car. Domalguda Police, upon receiving the complaint from Ranjit, started the investigation by forming special teams, and on Sunday, 22 December, the Domalguda police, with the help of the commissioner’s task force arrested 12 accused and recovered the valuables. The total value of the recovered items was estimated at Rs 1.2 crore. The arrested are charged under section 310(2) (Whoever commits dacoity shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).Hyderabad: Suspended ACP faces action over press meet on Allu Arjun

Gastronomic Day dedicated to the white prawn While it may seem strange to some, these festivities were actually to celebrate the centenary of the Fishermen’s Guild with the inaugural Gastronomic Day dedicated to the White Prawn. This significant event is a collaborative effort organised by the Brotherhood of Fishermen and the Town Council, aimed at showcasing and honouring this prized seafood that is integral to the region’s culinary heritage. Gastronomic Day featured the official launch of the ‘Gamba Blanca de Calpe’ The day featured the official launch of the new brand “Gamba Blanca de Calpe,” a strategic initiative designed to promote and elevate this iconic product of Calpe’s gastronomy. The campaign aimed to place the white prawn in the spotlight, underlining its unique contributions to the local dining scene and enhancing its recognition beyond the municipality Most Read on Euro Weekly News The Gastronomic Day took place in Calpe’s Plaza Mayor, commencing at 12 noon. Attendees were afforded the opportunity to sample white prawns prepared using various traditional methods, including boiled, fried, and served with rice. This culinary experience highlighted the versatility and exquisite flavour of the local catch. In addition to the seafood tastings, there was a vibrant lineup of activities designed to entertain all ages. Furthermore, 50 per cent of the bar service proceeds were donated to support those affected by the recent DANA floods in Valencia. Bons Consum Javea This year, the campaign is set to amount to an impressive total of €634,000, which will provide residents with the opportunity to transform €50 euros into €100 to spend at participating local shops. The initiative is made possible thanks to a substantial grant of €317,000 from the Alicante Provincial Council. As a result, every registered resident of who is over 18 years of age will have the chance to purchase a voucher worth €100 by only paying €50. Bons Consum Javea aims to reach 6,340 residents This year’s campaign aims to reach a staggering 6,340 residents, effectively doubling the number of beneficiaries compared to previous editions. This significant increase enables a broader segment of the Javea community to take advantage of the initiative, thereby promoting purchases across a diverse selection of 106 local establishments that span various sectors. Vouchers can be purchased online through the official website, bonsconsum.xabia.es. The shopping period will extend until December 15, allowing residents ample time to take advantage of this valuable opportunity. For those aged 65 and over who prefer a physical card and do not utilise the mobile application, the procedure will require purchasing the voucher online first. After payment, individuals can schedule an appointment to collect their physical card. Urban Area Improvements The first phase of this project has already started and is focused on the redevelopment of Pau, Mayor, and Bufo streets. Central to this transformation is a design that fosters a more tranquil lifestyle, prioritising pedestrian access and safety. The redevelopment will integrate these streets into a unified platform, removing architectural barriers to ensure smooth accessibility for all residents. This redesign will also include the addition of rest areas featuring benches and landscaped gardens, allowing for a more pleasant experience throughout the area. Improvements include transforming the market One of the most eagerly anticipated projects is the rehabilitation of the Municipal Market, set to commence in December. This renovation aims to transform the market into an open and versatile space that accommodates a wide range of activities. Finally, a new park-and-ride facility is planned, featuring 73 car parking spaces—three of which will be designated for individuals with reduced mobility—and 12 motorcycle parking spaces. Strategically situated at the municipality’s entrance along the Xabia road, this facility will provide easy access and panoramic views of the Tossal Gros and Montgo mountains. New helipad to speed up response times This site marks the first of its kind in the public domain within the region, and its establishment has earned it a place within the broader Regional Emergency Plan. These enhancements to emergency response infrastructure will significantly improve the efficiency of medical and rescue operations in the region. By facilitating quicker access for ambulances and rescue helicopters, response times can be dramatically reduced, ensuring that those in need of urgent assistance receive the care they require as swiftly as possible. The new helipad has been conveniently located for maximum efficiency Strategically situated, this new helipad is conveniently located halfway between La Cala, the historic town centre, and the mountainous Puig Campana area. The municipal plot spans 3,000 square meters and is positioned between Carrer Moraira and Carrer Oliva, in the Balcon de Finestrat neighbourhood. This prime location facilitates the simultaneous landing of two helicopters during emergencies: one designated for rescue operations, which brings the person in danger, and a second medical helicopter, which is available for more critical cases requiring immediate transportation to hospitals. For less urgent situations, ambulances also have direct road access to this site, allowing for the swift transfer of patients to nearby medical facilities, including the Regional Hospital of Villajoyosa. Improved Lighting in rural roads This ambitious project has a considerable budget of €201,381.62, as detailed in a proposal presented by the Councillor for Public Space, Francis Muñoz. This project is necessary because deficiencies in the existing lighting along various segments of the rural road network in Benidorm have been identified. According to Muñoz, these roads are crucial for ensuring connectivity and mobility for local residents. The current inadequacies pose significant safety risks not only for pedestrians but also for cyclists and drivers, thus potentially impacting the overall perception of safety among both residents and visitors. Improved lighting to reduce the risk of accidents and potential crime activities To address these concerns, the project aims to enhance road and pedestrian safety across rural areas, in an effort to mitigate the risks associated with accidents and potential criminal activities. The councillor emphasised that the initiative is not just about upgrading existing infrastructures but also about integrating sustainable technology to promote energy efficiency. The design of this project includes a thorough assessment of areas needing urgent lighting improvements. It will focus on incorporating energy-efficient LED lighting and establishing new lines within the public lighting network. This approach will ensure minimal energy consumption and contribute positively to reducing the municipality’s carbon footprint. This project represents a significant step forward in ensuring safer travel and improved living conditions for all residents in these areas. Families at risk to receive subsidy This funding is specifically designed to assist families and individuals who are experiencing various forms of vulnerability and risk. The announcement was made by the mayor of the area, Anna Lanuza, who highlighted the importance of this support in the current socio-economic climate. According to the municipal head of Social Welfare, this type of financial assistance is crucial for vulnerable families, ensuring that they can adequately address their essential needs. Moreover, the subsidy extends its support to refugees from Ukraine, who have sought safety and stability in since the onset of the conflict. While the number of aid applications from these refugees has decreased in 2024 compared to previous years, the need for support remains. Subsidy will cover a wide range of requirements including essentials Assistance will cover a wide range of basic requirements, including but not limited to the purchase of essential items such as food, clothing, cleaning products, and personal hygiene supplies. Additionally, the subsidy assists with medical expenses, such as medications, as well as necessary school supplies for children. Another critical aspect of this aid is its support for housing stability, which includes the payment of rent and essential utilities like water, electricity, gas, and other forms of fuel. In this way, it aims to safeguard the well-being of struggling households.

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