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By West Hawaii Today staff Konawaena High School graduates Abram Ikaika Mahalo Utrera and Slayde RK Thompson join Joselyn Conae of Hawaii Technology Academy as the three recipients of 2025 scholarships from Keauhou Canoe Club (KCC). These graduating seniors recently received their $2,000 scholarships during a KCC potluck celebration. Receiving the James F. Rodgers Academic Achievement Scholarship is Abram Utrera who plans to attend UH-Manoa to study kinesiology.

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By Chuck Schilken Los Angeles Times A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former NFL superstar Antonio Brown stemming from an altercation outside a celebrity kickboxing event last month in Miami. Brown is charged with the first-degree felony of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm. A judge from the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County signed the warrant Wednesday.

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By Mike Vorkunov The Athletic INDIANAPOLIS — Chet Holmgren sat on the bench with a little more than seven minutes remaining in a tight game, checking on the state of his left ankle. He had endured a rough stretch minutes earlier. At the end of one possession, Jalen Williams landed on it, and Holmgren hobbled up the court. Then Aaron Nesmith leveled Holmgren with a shot to the right shin that sent him to the floor.

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By Sabreena Merchant The Athletic The unpredictability of the WNBA hit Aari McDonald hard during the offseason. Coming off her first season with the Los Angeles Sparks, a successful campaign when she started a career-best 10 games, McDonald went into free agency as one of the better pure point guards on the market. But when this season began, she wasn’t on a roster for the first time in her WNBA career. “I was very anxious,” McDonald said.

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By Field Level Media Eugenio Suarez hit his third grand slam of the season, Pavin Smith also homered in a five-run sixth, and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners with a 5-2 victory on Wednesday in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks, who trailed 2-0 entering the sixth, became the first team in major league history to have eight grand slams in their first 68 games.