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1 week ago | 
localmemphis.com | Kevin McNamara
SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — The family of the woman whom MSCS board member Towanna Murphy threatened with deportation last week is speaking out as the school board addresses Murphy's actions. On the week of April 8, Andrea Avalos, a US citizen and 2023 MSCS graduate, sent Murphy a message telling her to resign. She called her an embarrassment and insulted her appearance.
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4 weeks ago | 
oddsdigger.com | Kevin McNamara
Test batsmen Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne both failed as Queensland made a horror start to the Sheffield Shield final against a South Australian side inspired by the feats of former Bulls paceman Brendan Doggett. Sent into bat by SA skipper Nathan McSweeney at Karen Rolton Oval, the Bulls were bowled out on Wednesday for just 95 early in the second session, with Doggett the chief destroyer, taking 6-31 off 11.5 overs.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Kevin McNamara
SMITHFIELD, R.I. – As the final minute melted off the clock at Bryant University’s Chace Center last Saturday, the America East championship firmly in check, the tears started flowing for the Martelli family. Michigan Associate Head Coach Phil Martelli Sr. cheers from the sideline during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Wisconsin, Jan. 12, 2021, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Kevin McNamara
PROVIDENCE – The long faces worn by Mike Martin and his Brown University basketball players after their loss to Yale last weekend did not speak to the excitement of March Madness. In the Ivy League, there is also plenty of March Sadness. The Ivies welcome their seventh version of basketball Madness to Brown’s Pizzitola Sports Center this Friday through Sunday, but unlike every other conference in the country, the anticipation is non-existent at half of the league’s eight schools.
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2 months ago | 
localmemphis.com | Kevin McNamara
SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — A state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools remains a possibility as lawmakers continue to put together legislation to oversee the embattled district. Not everyone in the Mid-South is on board, however. A community group has sprung up to fight the move and will be meeting regularly to find ways to improve district learning without the arm of the state.
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2 months ago | 
delawarevalleyjournal.com | Kevin McNamara
Reasonably well-informed persons know that increasing the minimum wage throws low-wage earners out of work, thereby derailing their dreams and robbing them of opportunity. Not for the first time, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that in response to increases in the minimum wage in many states, Dave’s Hot Chicken, a national restaurant chain, will soon get rid of its employee dishwashers by switching to automated systems.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Kevin McNamara
It’s halfway through a Providence College basketball practice way back in 1986, a Rick Pitino workout that really had no end time. Jacek Duda is a senior center and he’s getting worn down like a tired dog. So are Billy Donovan, Dave Kipfer, Delray Brooks and the rest of the Friars. Pitino and his all-star group of assistant coaches are pushing, prodding, demanding. “And then when you saw the team managers leave and go order pizza, you knew practice wasn’t ending,” Duda said with a laugh this week.
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2 months ago | 
localmemphis.com | Kevin McNamara
SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — More information is coming out on Monday’s ICE raid at a Cordova food truck. Officers showed up in plainclothes, some in masks, to take away three employees of Taco-n-Ganas. At no point in the released video are the men seen or heard identifying themselves as federal agents. Mauricio Calvo, President and CEO of Latino Memphis, said those men have been taken to an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana, and getting in contact with them has been tough.
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2 months ago | 
tntribune.com | Kevin McNamara
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s been a tough few weeks for the lifeblood of the Bluff City – the tourism industry. COGIC announced its annual event is leaving Memphis. Beale Street Music Fest is no more once again, and the Southern Heritage Classic is up in the air. Memphis Mayor Paul Young said on Friday that he’s not worried, expressing hope and optimism that new events will come to fill the void. “I think the market’s just changing, and we have opportunities to fill the void,” Young said.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Kevin McNamara
PROVIDENCE — Ed Cooley is assuming time heals all wounds. He’s about to find out. If anyone knows the deal in this hard-scrabble city of his youth, it’s the current Georgetown head basketball coach. He knows his decision to leave Providence College for a Big East rival will never sit well back home. This is the place where he built a winning culture and helped to regularly pack the Amica Mutual Pavilion with his “Us, We, Together, Family, Friars” mantra.
