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Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Yahoo
Eastaboga man killed Talladega County crash
TALLADEGA COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — An Eastoboga man was killed in a Talladega County crash Monday evening. 29-year-old Benjamin A. Ricks was traveling on Hwy 21 near mile marker 241 when he collided head-on with a tractor-trailer around 7:35 p.m. Ricks was pronounced dead at the scene, according to state troopers. Trump says he will reverse Fort Novosel name change Troopers with the highway patrol division continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Time of India
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Rick and Morty' season 8: Episode 3 highlight, and upcoming release schedule
The brand new episode of 'Rick and Morty' season 8, titled 'The Rick, The Mort, & The Ugly,' was released on Sunday, June 8 at 11 p.m. EST. The episode 3 explored the Citadel, where the clones returned - and it couldn't have offered a better ending. What happened in episode 3 of 'Rick and Morty' season 8? One of a kind plot, the episode hardly had any of the main characters in it. However, the fill the void, the clones offered a hilarious take being the villains. While the Mortys had their peaceful town full of refugees, the Rick clones tried to kidnap the Mortys to force them into rebuilding the Citadel, according to ScreenRant. In the post-credit scene, Hillbilly Rick and Doc Morty are honoured for their sacrifice after their death to save the Mortys and stop the Ricks. The emotional ending served right in the theme of the eighth season, only to be disrupted by the protagonists. The main Morty and Ricky accuse the Arcade Morty for killing Hillbilly Rick. However, before he could explain the misunderstanding, Morty found his fidget spinner and left with Rick in all positivity without knowing what exact disastrous events had happened before. The schedule Season 8 commenced on May 25, 2025, which is approximately one and a half years after the finale of the seventh season of 'Rick and Morty.' The schedule for the episode release of the eighth season of 'Rick and Morty' is episode 1, 'Summer of All Fears,' released on May 25; episode 2, 'Valkyrick,' released on June 1; episode 3, 'The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly,' released on June 8; episode 4, 'The Last Temptation of Jerry,' will release on June 15; episode 5, 'Cryo Mort a Rickver,' will release on June 22; episode 6, 'The Curicksous Case of Bethjamin Button,' will release on June 29; episode 7, 'Ricker Than Fiction,' will release on July 6; episode 8, 'Nomortland,' will release July 13; episode 9, 'Morty Daddy,' will release on July 20; and the last episode, 'Hot Rick,' will release on July 27. The cast The cast of 'Rick and Morty' season 8 includes, Ian Cardoni as Rick, Harry Belden as Morty, Chris Parnell as Jerry Smith, Spencer Grammer as Summer Smith, Sarah Chalke as Beth Smith, Ice-T as Magma-Q, Keith David as The President, and Peter Serafinowicz as Oxygen-S/Eight/Infinity. The episodes air on Adult Swim , and can be accessed later on HBO on September 1, all at once.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
As dust begins to settle on prison chaos, reformers hold somber hearing
ALBANY — 'I hate coming here,' Robert Ricks said. Ricks sat at the focal point of a hearing room in the New York state legislative office building. He'd traveled to Albany last Wednesday to testify for a second time about his son, Robert Brooks, whom prison guards beat to death in December at the Central New York prison where he was incarcerated. Video of the gruesome killing sparked nationwide outcry and calls to reform New York's state prison system. Prison reform was the topic of last week's all-day hearing, which took place as the state legislature approaches its final weeks of the annual legislative session. Amid emotional testimony, Ricks outlined the Robert Brooks Agenda for Justice, a suite of legislation to expand prison oversight and make it easier to hold abusive officers to account. If lawmakers don't pass the bills before the session ends in less than a month, they'll have to wait until next year to try again. Earlier in the hearing, the head of the state prison system had touted reforms he implemented after Brooks was killed. Ricks, seated next to two other loved ones of Black men who recently died after beatings by prison guards, expressed skepticism at the state's willingness to curb the violence. 'From the moment I step in this building, I want to cry,' he said. 'And I don't want to cry because my son is dead. I want to cry because there's an eerie feeling in the African American community that's often unspoken that nothing's going to change.' 'I come here feeling like I'm getting ready to fight the wind,' he said. During the nearly seven-hour hearing on Wednesday, advocates, union representatives, and family members of incarcerated people testified about conditions in New York's state prisons, particularly corrections officer violence. Despite the somber subject matter, the hearing kicked off with optimistic testimony from Daniel Martuscello, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's earnest commissioner. For an hour and a half, he fielded questions from lawmakers and advocates about how his prison system is handling its worst year in recent memory. Just weeks after Brooks's killing — and hours after a special prosecutor announced the impending arrest of the guards who killed him — corrections officers across DOCCS's 42 facilities launched a wildcat strike to protest what they called unsafe working conditions. The three-week strike resulted in 2,000 guards losing their jobs and saw the deployment of thousands of National Guard personnel to staff the prisons, many of which remain on partial lockdown. During the strike, corrections officers allegedly killed another incarcerated man — 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi, whose mentor also testified Wednesday — at a prison across the street from where guards beat Brooks to death. With the dust from the strike and killings still settling (3,000 National Guard troops remain in the prisons, Martuscello testified), the prison chief is fielding flak from all sides. He's juggling reformers' calls for accountability, demands from officers for new solitary confinement and staffing policies, and a massive hit to his prisons' already under-capacity staffing levels. At the hearing, legislators grilled him over progress on measures he's promised to curb abuse. Martuscello was confident about 'improving prison culture.' The agency is contracting with a law firm and two nonprofit organizations to evaluate every aspect of how staff and incarcerated people interact, he explained. The law firm will issue publicly available recommendations late in the summer. DOCCS can also change its culture through recruitment, Martuscello said. He touted a new state policy, passed earlier this month in the budget, that lowers the minimum age for corrections officers from 21 to 18, as well as an aggressive recruitment campaign DOCCS has launched to fill 4,500 guard positions. New personnel can bring a new attitude, he said: 'That's an opportunity you don't often get.' To address demands for more direct reform, Martuscello outlined a series of initiatives he launched with Governor Kathy Hochul in recent months. None will fundamentally alter DOCCS's structure or the way it conducts oversight, and they've left others who testified at the hearing unimpressed. DOCCS has embedded its internal accountability unit, the Office of Special Investigations, in every prison, Martuscello explained, and is getting over $7 million to expand the unit. Lawyers who represent incarcerated people are skeptical that that will improve accountability. At the hearing, they characterized the office as a black box and said that DOCCS's internal mechanisms for investigating abuse more often than not let guards off the hook. 'DOCCS's internal investigations through the Office of Special Investigations are opaque, slow, and default to weighing staff credibility over incarcerated voices, regardless of the facts,' said Antony Gemmell, supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project. Martuscello also touted whistleblower policies he revamped after Brooks's killing. DOCCS now has an anonymous tipline for staff to report their colleagues' malfeasance or abuse, he said. Representatives for DOCCS staff said they thought little of the effort. 'It's toilet paper,' Wayne Spence, president of the union that represents DOCCS civilian staff, like nurses, testified at the hearing. The efforts do little to discourage retaliation against whistleblowers, he said. There was one effort the commissioner highlighted that everyone who testified seemed to support: more body-worn cameras. DOCCS has long promised to equip all of its officers with body cameras, but the rollout has taken years. Spurred by the Brooks and Nantwi killings, the state fast-tracked the effort with $18 million in additional funding. All facilities should have body cameras by mid-summer, Martuscello said, and officers will be required to have them turned on when they're interacting with incarcerated people. Martuscello's reforms aren't enough to fix the embattled agency, according to its critics. Reform-minded lawmakers have this session introduced legislation — part of the Robert Brooks Agenda — to expand prison oversight and officer accountability, as well as to give incarcerated people opportunities to earn time off their sentences. One bill would expand the powers of the Correctional Association of New York, the 180-year-old nonprofit organization tasked by the legislature with overseeing prison conditions. Another would add commissioner slots to the State Commission of Correction, which has oversight power over all carceral facilities in New York state. SCOC rarely uses its full authority to hold jails and prisons accountable, as New York Focus has reported. It also dodges scrutiny: SCOC representatives declined to attend last week's hearing, legislators said. (When asked why, a spokesperson simply said that 'SCOC submitted written testimony for the hearing.') The SCOC bill would triple the number of commissioners and require that they come from diverse backgrounds, including criminal defense and public health. Yet another bill would allow the DOCCS commissioner to discipline officers for serious misconduct without having to go through mandatory arbitration. A 2023 Marshall Project investigation showed that, over a 12-year period, arbitrators reinstated three out of every four DOCCS corrections officers who were fired for abusing incarcerated people or covering up abuse. Whether any of these bills make it to the Assembly or Senate floors before the end of the legislative session is an open question — subject to a complex process largely controlled by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. Brooks's father, Ricks, isn't optimistic. Nor, it seems, are some of the legislators calling for reforms. 'Will they listen to us or will they continue to play politics with Black and brown men's lives?' Eddie Gibbs, the first formerly incarcerated person elected to the state Assembly, wondered at the hearing. He told the story of his own beatdown by guards at Midstate Correctional Facility, where Nantwi was allegedly murdered, in the late 1980s. 'They play politics with people's lives,' he said of legislators unwilling to support the reforms. 'Their reelection is more important than your sons' lives.'
Time of India
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Eagles star calls Ivanka Trump 'beautiful,' and she responds with a special locker room message
Ivanka Trump leaves a surprise note for young Eagles player who admired her beauty (Credit: Getty Images) What began as a casual, candid compliment online quickly blossomed into a charming and unexpected exchange between Ivanka Trump and Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Eli Ricks . The viral buzz around Ricks' admiration for the first daughter took an amusing and classy turn when Ivanka responded in person—well, almost. Ivanka Trump surprises Eagles locker room with special note for 23-year-old who called her "beautiful" During a visit to the Eagles' training facility with her children, Ivanka left behind a handwritten note for Ricks inside the team's locker room. 'Stopped by to say hi! Sorry to miss you! Go Birds!' she penned sweetly. The message was later shared on her official X account as a nod to Ricks' now-famous post from April 28, when he openly admired her during the Eagles' celebratory trip to the White House following their Super Bowl appearance. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Cost Of Amusement Park Equipment From Mexico Might Surprise You - See Tips Amusement Park Equipment | search ads Click Here Undo Ricks' original post had sparked a tidal wave of attention online. 'Donald trump daughter is beautiful damn,' he had written. 'After seeing her in person Ivanka is exactly my type.' The statement, raw and spontaneous, made headlines across both sports and entertainment circles. He even reposted several photos of Ivanka along with a selfie of himself sitting near a portrait depicting the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. Rather than shy away from the attention, Ivanka leaned into the moment with warmth and wit, showing she's no stranger to handling public spotlight with poise. Her surprise note didn't go unnoticed—Ricks responded with a playful repost on X, saying, 'My apologies, I owe you a glass of wine now xx!' A lighthearted remark that only added to the fun narrative unfolding between the high-profile businesswoman and the young NFL star. Ivanka, who has been married to Jared Kushner since 2009 and is a mother to three, also shared adorable clips and photos from the visit, including her son Theodore tossing a football around the Eagles' practice field with his flag football team. The visit was personal and joyful, yet it effortlessly stirred a media moment thanks to the earlier connection with Ricks. Ricks, a California native who played college ball at LSU and Alabama, signed with the Eagles in 2023 as an undrafted free agent. Though he primarily saw action on special teams in his rookie season, his online candor has unexpectedly added a spark of off-field popularity. Also Read: "We talking more about Jordon Hudson": Cam Newton blames Bill Belichick's downfall on alleged distraction from Jordon Hudson romance Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Newsweek
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Ivanka Trump's Locker Room Note to Philadelphia Eagles Player Goes Viral
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. An X post by Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, showing a note she left in the Philadelphia Eagles' locker room for cornerback Eli Ricks has gone viral, attracting more than 5.6 million views. Newsweek contacted the Philadelphia Eagles' for comment on Saturday via telephone and voicemail message outside of regular office hours. Why It Matters Ivanka Trump served as a senior advisor to her father Donald Trump during his first White House administration, but maintained a much lower profile during the 2024 presidential election campaign and his subsequent return to the presidency. The viral post shows the immense public interest around the Trump family, with ongoing speculation that one or more of the president's children could seek to launch their own political careers. What To Know On Friday, Ivanka Trump toured the Philadelphia Eagles' training base along with her son Theodore Kushner who played flag football on the team's practice field. The Philadelphia Eagles' squad visited the White House on April 28 to celebrate their Super Bowl LIX victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, with President Trump welcoming the team personally. Ivanka Trump looking on during the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup Draw at Telemundo Studios on December 05, 2024 in Miami, Florida (left) and Eli Ricks #23 of the Philadelphia Eagles playing against the Carolina... Ivanka Trump looking on during the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup Draw at Telemundo Studios on December 05, 2024 in Miami, Florida (left) and Eli Ricks #23 of the Philadelphia Eagles playing against the Carolina Panthers at Lincoln Financial Field on December 8, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (right). More Brennan Asplen/Mitchell Leff/GETTY Following the visit, cornerback Ricks posted "Donald trump daughter is beautiful d***" on X, followed by "After seeing her in person Ivanka is exactly my type." During her visit on Friday, Ivanka Trump left a handwritten note in the Eagles' locker room for Ricks, which said: "Stopped by to say hi! Sorry to miss you! Go Birds! Ivanka." She posted two photographs of this on X in response to Ricks' post describing her as "beautiful," receiving more than 18,000 likes and 5.6 million views on the social media platform. Ricks swiftly responded with an X post of his own, in which he said: "My apologies [woman facepalming emoji], I owe you a glass of wine now xx!" My apologies🤦♀️, I owe you a glass of wine now xx! 🍷 — Eli (@eliasricks) May 16, 2025 This post also went viral accumulating over 19,000 likes and 2.3 million views. Following his White House visit, Ricks also posted a photograph of him sitting in front of a painting depicting Trump's survival of an assassination attempt on July 13, 2024. In 2023, Ricks joined the Eagles as an undrafted free agent after playing college football at LSU and Alabama. Ivanka Trump has been married to business tycoon Jared Kushner since 2009 and the couple have three children together. What People Are Saying NFL insider Jordan Schultz shared screenshots of Ricks and Ivanka's messages adding: "Ivanka Trump... Elias Ricks. Yes, this is real. [Flushed face emoji, Loudly crying face emoji]." New Jersey-based David Nevil, a self-described "Philly Sports Watcher," commented: "Eli Ricks and Ivanka Trump are the power couple I never knew we needed."
