Paul Orndorff, Hall of Fame wrestler known as Mr. Wonderful, dead a...

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2021

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Paul Orndorff, Hall of Fame wrestler known as Mr. Wonderful, dead at 71

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By Jesus Jiménez, The New York Times Troy Warren for CNT Died Monday in Fayetteville, Georgia; other wrestling legends pay tribute on social media Paul Orndorff, the WWE Hall of Famer known to fans as Mr. Wonderful, who fought against Hulk Hogan in the first WrestleMania, died Monday in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 71. Orndorff’s death was announced by his son Travis Orndorff on Instagram. No cause was given. “Most of you will remember him for his physique,” his son said in the Instagram post. “Many will remember his intensity. But if I could only get you to understand and see…

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13

2021

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Los Angeles rapper shot to death while filming self on Instagram Live

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT Indian Red Boy dead at 21; police say he was ‘a gang member’ Los Angeles rapper Indian Red Boy was killed last week in a brazen shooting that was broadcast live on Instagram, according to several confirmed reports. Red Boy, whose real name is Zerail Dijon Rivera, was 21 years old. The shooting was an apparent ambush that happened shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday near the 14100 block of Chadron Avenue in the Hawthorne district of Los Angeles, where Rivera was sitting in his car and talking to a friend online,…

Jul

12

2021

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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson returns after reaching space

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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Swashbuckling entrepreneur Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship Sunday in his boldest adventure yet, beating out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos. The nearly 71-year-old Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space tourism company reached an altitude of about 53 miles over the New Mexico desert — enough to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth — and then safely glided back home to a runway landing. “Seventeen years of hard…

Jul

11

2021

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Cannes: Sean Penn Says Donald Trump’s COVID Response Felt Like “Someone Gunning Down People” From White House

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BY ALEX RITMAN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Penn also discussed directing his daughter Dylan Penn for the first time in 'Flag Day' Sean Penn took aim at the Donald Trump administration and its response to the COVID-19 crisis in Cannes on Sunday. Speaking at the press conference for his latest directorial feature, Flag Dag, which had its world premiere on Saturday night, Penn was asked about his own work setting up testing sites during the pandemic via his disaster relief organization CORE and the efforts of the Trump government, which he described as a “obscene administration.” Seeing the news during the pandemic, he said it…

Jul

11

2021

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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson flying own rocket to space

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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — After a lifetime of yearning to fly in space, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson was poised to blast off aboard his own rocket ship Sunday in his boldest, grandest adventure yet. The thrill-seeking billionaire joined five company employees also assigned to the test flight to the edge of space high above the southern desert of New Mexico. The trip originally was scheduled for 9 a.m. ET Sunday, but it was pushed back to 10:30 a.m. because overnight weather delayed the start of flight preparations,…

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11

2021

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Carters celebrated at 75th wedding anniversary bash in Plains

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By Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT PLAINS — Before walking into the old Plains High School to honor his longtime friends Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on their 75th wedding anniversary, Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford reminded everyone of how the couple was so adept at treating the most powerful and the least powerful with the same sense of humility. All of that was evident on Saturday when hundreds of the Carters’ neighbors from tiny Plains, Georgia, came out to celebrate them, along with the likes of former President Bill Clinton, former U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton,…

Jul

10

2021

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Charlottesville set to remove Lee statue that sparked rally

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By SARAH RANKIN, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became a rallying point for white supremacists and helped inspire their infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville will be hoisted off its pedestal this weekend and sent to storage, officials announced Friday. The Lee statue and another Confederate tribute nearby are scheduled to be removed Saturday, nearly four years after violence erupted at the “Unite the Right” rally. The chaos left 32-year-old protester Heather Heyer dead and sparked a national debate over racial equity, further inflamed by former President Donald Trump’s insistence that…

Jul

09

2021

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Spelling bee champ Zaila Avant-garde makes history with flair

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By Ben Nuckols, The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin roots. Zaila knew she would be the first African American winner of the bee. She knew Black kids around the country were watching Thursday night’s ESPN2 telecast, waiting to be inspired and hoping to follow in the footsteps of someone who looked like them. She even thought of MacNolia Cox, who in 1936 became the first…

Jul

08

2021

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$1 billion+ in marijuana seized in ‘historic’ LA County drug bust

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By Tim Darnell, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT Police in Los Angeles County say they seized more than $1 billion in marijuana plants last month in what Sheriff Alex Villanueva described as a “historic” drug bust. Over a 10-day period in June, 131 people were arrested; 65 vehicles were seized; about $28,000 was seized; more than 33,000 pounds of harvested marijuana were seized; 30 locations were demolished; 33 firearms were seized; and 180 animals were rescued. The total estimated street value of the plants destroyed is $1.193 billion, Villanueva said. Villanueva said the Marijuana Eradication Operation began June 8 in…

Jul

07

2021

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Idea of 4-day workweek gains steam after ‘overwhelming success’ in Iceland

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT Iceland tested a four-day workweek for several years that proved to be an “overwhelming success” as thousands of workers improved productivity while spending fewer hours on the job, according to results of the study published Sunday. The large-scale study, conducted between 2015 and 2019 in the Nordic island nation off the coast of Greenland in the Norwegian Sea, found “groundbreaking evidence for the efficacy of working time reduction.” About 2,500 workers were permitted to shorten their work week by a day and moved from a 40-hour week to a 35- or 36-hour week while…

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