RPI(A) seeks at least 10 seats
Republican Party of India (Athawale) chief and Union minister Ramdas Athawale has demanded at least 10 seats from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena alliance for his party in the Assembly elections. The total share for the splinter groups in the BJP-Sena alliance has been locked at 18. The RPI(A) demanding a bigger share could derail the talks further, according to BJP leaders.The Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment said his party will not contest elections on a BJP symbol, while reiterating that reservation of Dalits and OBCs will not be reduced because of the promises made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I do not think there is any need to review reservation. People who should get reservation will surely get it,” Mr. Athawale said in Mumbai. The RPI(A) had only contested eight seats in the State in 2014. The seats the party is demanding are to be picked from: Kej, Udgir, Deglur, Gangakhed (in Marathwada), Bhandara, Chandrapur, Umerkhed, Nagpur North, Pandharvada, Aarni, Mehekar, Badnera (in Vidarbha), Pimpri, Pune Cantonment, Malsish, Mohol, Phaltan (in western Maharashtra), Bhusawal, Chalisgaon, Devalal, Shrirampur (in north Maharashtra), Chembur, Mankhrud Shivajinagar, Dharavi, Kurla, Versova, Chandivili, Ambernath, Ulashnagar and Karjat Khalapur (in Mumbai-Konkan).In 2014, the RPI(A) had contested the Ambernath, Chembur, Pimpri, Deglur, Mehekar, Vikhroli, Shivaji Nagar and Deolali seats. Mr. Athawale said he was hopeful the elections will be a landslide for the alliance. “The current economic situation is challenging, but I am hopeful the measures taken by the Central government would see India progress in a short time,” he said.
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Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Two of the NCAA’s top players—Lyceum hotshot CJ Perez and Robert Bolick of San Beda—banner the squads that will square off in the NCAA All-Star Game on Friday, while San Beda marksman AC Soberano defends his Three-Point Shootout crown in the side events at Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan.ADVERTISEMENT Highlands pulls away in overall race Perez, who has been instrumental to the Pirates’ impressive 9-0 start to the season, will spearhead Team Heroes, whose players will also be composed of standouts from Arellano, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Jose Rizal U and Mapua.Team Saints, which features Bolick and San Beda teammates Jayvee Mocon and Davon Patts, will also be made up of stars from Letran, San Sebastian, St. Benilde and Perpetual Help.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutThe midseason showcase will also feature a skills challenge, the shooting stars event and a slam dunk contest, where PBA great Jimmy Alapag and Gilas cadet standout Ray Parks will be among the judges.Soberano will defend his title against the league’s top marksmen, including Sidney Onwubere of EAC. Also in the contest are Letran’s Jerrick Balanza, Wilson Baltazar of Lyceum, RK Ilagan of San Sebastian, Brylle Meca of Arellano, Matt Johnson of St. Benilde, MJ Dela Virgen of JRU, Almel Orquina of Mapua and Jack Hao of Perpetual Help. Typhoon Kammuri accelerates, gains strength en route to PH LOOK: Venues for 2019 SEA Games UPLB exempted from SEA Games class suspension
The rivalry between the world champion Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel has intensified and looks set to continue in the 2018 season.Vettel, who started 2017 with a bang, led his Mercedes rival Hamilton on the Drivers Championship in the first 12 races of the season. But Hamilton got back to winning ways in Belgium and led for the first time in the points tally after his victory in Italy. He has not looked back since.On Sunday, Hamilton won his fourth career Formula One championship with a ninth-place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix, his worst this season but good enough to make him the most successful British driver. With his fourth world title, Hamilton passed Sir Jackie Stewart for the most championships won by a British driver.Vettel had to finish in the top two to remain in hunt of his fifth title with two more races left in the season — at Brazil and Abu Dhabi — and even though he pushed hard for it, the German finished fourth. Vettel won last of his four titles in 2013 and it has been all about Mercedes and Hamilton since then.?? @ScuderiaFerrari! Because @F1 2017 would not have been the same without you… You made it SUPER tough, which makes it all the sweeter! pic.twitter.com/d1MlcghHB3- Mercedes-AMG F1 (@MercedesAMGF1) October 30, 2017After winning four F1 titles in a row, Vettel struggled in his Red Bull in 2014 winning only one race even as Hamilton dominated the year with 11 victories to bag his second title and first since 2008.advertisementHamilton has recorded nine wins to Vettel’s four this year and that has been the mantra to Brit’s success this year after he lost the title in 2016 to his teammate Nico Rosberg in a closely fought battle.Reuters PhotoThe 32-year-old also joined Vettel and Alain Prost as four-time world champions, with only Juan Miguel Fangio (five) and Michael Schumacher (seven) having won more championships. Hamilton also passed his idol, Aryton Senna, who won three titles before he was killed in a crash and is still considered one of the most skilled drivers in F1 history.Ferrari were competitive this season but not enough to deny Mercedes their fourth straight Constructors’ Championship.HOW THE RIVALRY STARTEDHamilton and Vettel were more on friendlier times until an incident in Baku, in June, turned them into arch-rivals. Hamilton accused Vettel of deliberately bumping into him and said the German had “disgraced himself”.”He was obviously sleeping and driving alongside and deliberately driving into a driver and coming away scot-free is a disgrace. He disgraced himself. If he wants to prove himself he is a man he should do it out of the car, face-to-face,” Hamilton had said.Hamilton was furious and why not! He was leading the race from pole position until the accident happened. Vettel was in total denial of Hamilton’s accusations.Reuters PhotoEven though Vettel apologised to Hamilton via a text message, he said his relationship with the Brit was not the same any more.”Actually it’s not the same, because I messed up,” Vettel had told The Times after Hamilton accepted his apology.HAMILTON ENJOYING RIVALRY WITH VETTELThe intense battle between the two will be on show next year and Hamilton, who is high on confidence, will look to maintain his dominant run in 2018 as well.”I am enjoying the fight with him. When l saw he had re-signed with Ferrari l was like ‘good luck, guys, because I am going to be here for that period of time to make your life a misery,'” Hamilton was quoted as saying by Sky Sports.In September, Hamilton had said that he wanted to retire from the sport but his battle with Vettel in the current season motivated him to continue.
India captain Virat Kohli heaped praise on KL Rahul after the Karnataka batsman came up with a classy hundred in India’s second and final warm-up match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 against Bangladesh in Cardiff on Tuesday.Kohli was more relieved than elated as Rahul seems to have solved India’s long-standing problem with the No. 4 role. The former champions had headed into the World Cup having earmarked all-rounder Vijay Shankar for the crucial spot in the batting order. However, an injury to Shankar gave Rahul an opportunity to bat at No. 4.While Rahul failed to deliver at No.4 in India’s 1st warm-up match against New Zealand on Saturday, he stepped up and shone in the audition against Bangladesh in Cardiff.”I think the biggest positive to come out was the way KL Rahul batted at four. He is such a class player. It is important that he gets runs and he is a sound player to get the scoreboard ticking. MS and Hardik were superb as well,” Virat Kohli said after India’s dominant win over Bangladesh.Kohli added: “We are glad we got what we wanted from the warm-ups. The last 15 overs were challenging, it can get pretty hectic in the field towards the end.”KL Rahul hit an excellent century from number four for India today, helping his team recover from 102/4 to eventually post a score of 359/7.Should he bat there during #CWC19? @sanjaymanjrekar had his say with @ZAbbasOfficial. pic.twitter.com/PYuU1kWYCXCricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) May 28, 2019Rahul walked in to bat after India had lost both their openers, Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, early in overcast conditions. He went on to smash 108, including 12 boundaries and 4 sixes, from just 99 balls as India posted a winning total of 359.advertisementRahul stitched a 33-run stand with Virat Kohli before putting on 164 with MS Dhoni who blasted 113 from just 78 balls.Kohli and the entire dressing room were up on their feet as Rahul raised his bat after scoring the hundred. After trying 12 different players over the last 2 years, India seem to have finally found their man at the No. 4 spot for the World Cup.Meanwhile, Kohli also lauded the bowling effort as India restricted Bangladesh to 264 in 49.3 overs.Much to the relief of the dressing room, Kuldeep Yadav who had been woefully out of form in Indian Premier League 2019 found his mojo and ran through the Bangladesh batting order with support from his wrist-spin partner Yuzvendra Chahal.Kuldeep and Chahal picked up 6 wickets between them, including that of half-centurions Litton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim. Jasprit Bumrah swung the momentum in favour of India early by striking twice in the 10th over.”We even bowled well, Bumrah got us the breakthrough and Chahal and Kuldeep got us six wickets,” Kohli said.”In the second half [in the coming matches], the ball might turn a little bit but initially the ball will swing and seam , which will be the most important phase for me and going into June the pitches will be getting flatter and flatter.”Also Read | MS Dhoni hits rapid hundred in warm-up against BangladeshAlso Read | Sourav Ganguly and John Wright reunite in commentary box, bond over banterAlso See:
Kalka (Haryana): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh here on Sunday said there would be no talks with Pakistan unless it acts against terrorists and stops supporting terror activities. He further said if talks were held with Pakistan in future, they would be only on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Singh said this while addressing a public rally ahead of the flagging off the BJP’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra for the October assembly polls in Haryana. On the scrapping of the provision granting a special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, Singh said the decisions had sent jitters to Pakistan and it became a cause of concern for them. Also Read – India gets first tranche of Swiss bank a/c details “Now it (Pakistan) is knocking every door and approaching various countries for help. Have we committed any crime? And they are trying to threaten us. However, America, perceived to be the most powerful country in the world by people, has snubbed Pakistan, telling them to initiate a dialogue with India,” he said. On what issue should we have talks and why, the defence minister asked in the presence of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Krishan Pal Gurjar and Rattan Lal Kataria besides a number of cabinet ministers and BJP MLAs from the state. Also Read – Tourists to be allowed in J&K from Thursday Rajnath Singh said people in Pakistan say there should be talks between India and Pakistan. “About what should we talk? What’s the issue on which there should be talks? Why there should be a talk? If there would be any talk with Pakistan, it would happen only when Pakistan stops supporting terror from its soil,” he asserted. Singh said for the present government, India’s respect, pride and prestige was above all and they were committed to this and it was not any election stunt. He also accused Pakistan of wanting to destabilise and weaken India through terrorism. “At times, Pakistan wants to break our country by using terrorism. But our Prime Minister has shown that he has a 56-inch chest. He took a decision to give a befitting reply after the Pulwama terror attack as our Air Force carried out the Balakot strike,” he said. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who remained in denial on Balakot strike, had recently said that India was planning a bigger strike than Balakot which meant he had admitted that the Balakot air strike took place and a large number of terrorists were eliminated, the defence minister said. Hitting out at the Congress Party over the purchase of Rafale jets, Singh said, “Had we got Rafale, our Air Force need not have gone to Balakot. We could have eliminated those terrorists from our land itself.” He said the government would purchase the Rafale jets soon. The defence minister also highlighted the development works undertaken by the government during its second term. “We have carried out a number of development works, but we have not left issues which concern nation’s pride. Whatever we had said in our election manifesto, we are committed to fulfil that, be that the revocation of Article 370,” Rajnath said. The Union minister further stressed that the Opposition used to say if anybody touched Article 370, the country would be divided and the BJP won’t be able to come to power. “I want to say it clearly that the BJP does not do politics for forming government. We do politics of nation building. Under no circumstances, we will allow the prestige of our country be tarnished,” he added. On the promises made in their election manifesto, Singh said, “Our Prime Minister keeps telling us to remain committed to the promises made in the manifesto. ‘Pran jaye par vachan na jaye’. We do not go back on what we have promised. We scrapped provisions of Article 370 and 35-A for J&K’s interests, keeping in view the future of its youth ,” he said. Rajnath also said their party did not indulge in the politics of dividing Hindu and Muslims. “Our thinking is that the two are brothers. Those who indulge in the vote-bank politics divide the communities in a bid to capture power,” the BJP leader said while addressing the rally in Kalka. Singh appealed to the people of Haryana to bring back the Manohar Lal Khattar-led government by helping the BJP realise its target of winning 75 seats in the 90-member state assembly.
Make-A-Wish recently announced the recipients of several awards the organization presented at their 35th Anniversary Global Conference last week in Anaheim, Calif.The wish-granting organization took time to celebrate some of their most passionate and devoted ambassadors as part of their Evening of Excellence awards reception.Make-A-Wish and Disney celebrated the 100,000th Disney-related wish during a special event emceed by Disney Channel “Girl Meets World” star Ben Savage, marking a momentous milestone in the organization’s 35-year relationship with Disney. Nearly 8,000 Disney wishes are granted globally every year – including experiences at Disney Parks, voyages on Disney Cruise Line, and visits to TV and movie sets. From the first wish 35 years ago to the 100,000th wish together, Disney and Make-A-Wish have brought comfort and smiles to wish kids and families when they need it most.Each year, some of the world’s most famous celebrities provide inspiration to thousands of wish kids — meeting them on sets, at concerts, in their hospital rooms and everywhere in between. Make-A-Wish honors four of these celebrities annually with the Chris Greicius Celebrity Award. These celebrities, despite their hectic schedules and never-ending demands, have been dedicated to creating meaningful, life-changing experiences for wish kids. The 2015 Chris Greicius Celebrity Award recipients are:• “Disney Channel”: For many wish kids, the characters they watched every day — passing the time in hospitals as they sit through treatments, recovering from surgery or waiting on test results — became their best friends, and the chance to meet them in person inspired them to keep fighting. • Bruno Mars: The internationally known singer, songwriter, record producer, voice actor and choreographer has been granting wishes since 2012 for children all over the world. Bruno has quietly but enthusiastically brought joy to the lives of more than 16 children. • Norman Reedus: Known most recently for his role in the mega hit, The Walking Dead, the long-time actor has granted 10 wishes, even flying out to meet a wish kid in the hospital with less than 24 hours’ notice. Norman also designated Make-A-Wish as the charity beneficiary of his OMAZE campaign. • Shaun White: Born with the same congenital heart condition as many of our wish children, the highly decorated American professional snowboarder and skateboarder’s drive and life achievements speak to wish children in knowing that they, too, can do whatever they put their heart into. Shaun has granted 17 wishes, starting in 2008, and continued to grant wishes every year since.Make-A-Wish also celebrated a historic milestone: the granting of 500 wishes by one individual. WWE Superstar John Cena started granting wishes in 2004, and this summer, granted his 500th wish. As his popularity as a WWE Superstar quickly soared, so did the number of wish requests. His motto, Never Give Up, serves as a rallying cry to hundreds of sick kids and a commitment that he’ll keeping fighting right alongside them.Make-A-Wish honored ESPN’s “My Wish” series with the Douglas Kiker Award for excellence in media. The award, accepted by ESPN commentator Chris Connelly, recognizes individuals and media organizations for their extraordinary efforts to extend Make-A-Wish stories to the public. Since 2005, ESPN has told 53 stories of wish children and the athlete heroes who made their wishes come true through the ESPN “My Wish” and “Mi Deseo” series.To cap off the festivities, Make-A-Wish presented The Walt Disney Company with the 100,000th Wish Award, which was accepted by Spencer Neumann, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts chief financial officer and executive vice president, Global Guest Experience, and Make-A-Wish America board member.“A wish-come-true helps wish kids feel better and in some cases get better,” said Make-A-Wish America president and chief executive officer David Williams. “Corporations like Disney and WWE, celebrities, like John Cena, Bruno Mars, Shaun White and Norman Reedus, can make a very real, lasting impact on wish kids’ ability to handle and overcome the medical challenges they face.”
NEW DELHI — An Indian court has declared tycoon Vijay Mallya a fugitive economic offender, a ruling that empowers authorities to confiscate his properties and assets.Judge M.S. Azmi’s decision on Saturday comes less than a month after a British Court ruled that Mallya should be extradited to India to face financial fraud allegations. Mallya remains free on bail in London and can appeal the ruling.Mallya, who left India in 2016, is accused of money laundering and cheating Indian banks out of hundreds of millions of dollars. He has denied wrongdoing.He was declared a fugitive economic offender under a new Indian law that applies to a person accused of financial fraud of over 1 billion rupees ($14.2 million) and who has fled India to avoid prosecution.The Associated Press
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – A local resident has been recently recognized on a national level for their backyard garden.Carla Demers, of Fort St. John, was the recent recipient for the grand prize of the Communities in Bloom 2019 Canada’s Backyard Contest.Demers says, back in July, she came across the contest on Facebook and, not having much of a horticultural background, decided to enter it on a whim with no thought of actually being a finalist or of even winning it. “I entered the contest on a whim one day, while I was drinking coffee in the morning, and actually I never thought much about it until I got the phone call saying that I was a finalist. I just thought “what the heck, I’ll give it a try” and never really thought about it again.”Demers had entered three photos into the contest and was up against about 400 other entrants from across Canada.As being a top winner, Demers received a $1,000 Home Hardware gift card, which she says will be put to good use for the next garden season.
New Delhi: Mid-sized IT firm Mindtree Wednesday said its consolidated net profit grew 8.9 per cent to Rs 198.4 crore for the March 2019 quarter, from Rs 182.2 crore in the year-ago period. The Bengaluru-based company’s revenue also increased by 25.6 per cent to Rs 1,839.4 crore in the said quarter, as compared to Rs 1,464 crore in the year-ago period, Mindtree said in a regulatory filing. Mindtree, which is facing a hostile takeover bid by infrastructure giant L&T, said its board has also declared an interim dividend of Rs 3 per equity share, and recommended a special dividend of 200 per cent (Rs 20 a share) to “celebrate the twin achievements of exceeding $1 billion annual revenue milestone and 20th anniversary of the company” subject to shareholders’ nod. “Mindtree has delivered exceptional performance for both the fourth quarter and the full fiscal year as we cross the historic $1 billion milestone. Over the course of two decades our strategy of being expertise-led and backed by a unique culture continues to help us attract world class people and create customer successes,” Mindtree CEO and Managing Director Rostow Ravanan said. He added that the company is “well-poised to continue delivering industry leading returns for all our stakeholders, the best is yet to come”. Mindtree’s FY’19 net profit grew 32.2 per cent to Rs 754.1 crore, while revenue was up 28.5 per cent to Rs 7,021.5 crore from the previous fiscal.
Mr Markley told the court he only learned later that Ms Cristea was alive when she was taken to hospital.The first aid trained licensed skipper said: “We don’t bring dead bodies aboard the boat.”Mr Patterson suggested Ms Cristea “immediately started breathing” when she was pulled from the water.He said: “Perhaps with hindsight you might have approached things differently and at the very least tried to raise her face to see whether she might start breathing?”Mr Markley replied: “With hindsight yes. I would have loved to have gone down into the water and done that. We did what we thought was appropriate.” 
Mr Patterson continued: “Mr Cooper, there was nothing stopping her being lifted by a matter of inches to see if she was alive, to lift her face out of the water?””I don’t know,” Mr Cooper replied.Mr Cooper told the inquest he had past experience of fishing unconscious people out of the water, but had no training on how to do it on the high-sided clipper. The inquest heard London Fire Brigade’s Fire Flash boat arrived on the scene and used a specialist piece of equipment to bring Ms Cristea on board. She died in hospital on April 6 last year.Giving evidence, Mr Markley denied making a “death gesture” with his hand to the fire boat as he was handing over Ms Cristea.He insisted there were “no signs of life” and he presumed she was dead. But as he got closer, he began to harbour doubts on seeing a “vast amount of blood swirling around the body”, he said.Jonathan Hough, QC, for the coroner, asked: “Was there any way you could have got the body onto the boat safely?” 
Andreea Cristea on Westminster Bridge moments before she was hit by Khalid Masood’s carCredit:PA/Metropolitan Police The captain said he thought lifting her one-and-a-half metres up the side of the boat risked causing “more damage”.He said he flipped a piece of paper out of the water, thinking it had come out of Ms Cristea’s backpack. Andreea Cristea pictured on CCTV just two minutes before the attackCredit:PA/Metropolitan Police Vital time was lost in the battle to save a victim of the Westminster terror attack who was left face down in the river for five minutes because a passing boat captain wrongly thought she was already dead, an inquest has heard.Andreea Cristea, 31, had plunged into the Thames after being hit by Khalid Masood’s car as she walked on Westminster Bridge with her boyfriend, Andrei Burnaz.Mr Burnaz was desperately searching for his partner as Michael Brown shouted and gestured to alert a passing tourist boat to her floating face down in the water.Despite an emergency distress signal, along with shouts from Mr Brown and passengers on the City Cruises tourist clipper, Skipper Danny Cooper initially thought Ms Cristea’s body was “garbage”.CCTV footage captured Captain Gordon Markley asking if it was a “wind-up” before heading outside with a boat hook.Mr Cooper said he and his colleague assumed the Romanian tourist had been in the water for hours or days and believed it was “impossible” to fish her out using the hook. Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings.
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram Four months after the end of the PanHellenic Games held in Melbourne in November last year, a significant number of winning athletes have yet to receive their medals. It is estimated that about 34 athletes who competed in the Games are still waiting for either gold, silver or bronze medals. One 15-year-old athlete from Queensland who won three gold medals in discus, shot putt and javelin respectively, two more athletes from Victoria and the rest from NSW have been put on hold. However, some confusion still exists as to what is the exact number of people who will finally receive the long belated medals.According to a spokesperson from SAE Oceania the medals fiasco was generated because some athletic events were scheduled last minute. “There were younger athletes under 16 who wanted to compete in additional sports from what they were scheduled and we couldn’t refuse them that prerogative,” the SAE spokesperson said to Neos Kosmos.It should be noted that this is the second consecutive Games after the one hel=d in Adelaide that the same problem of a shortage of medals has been experienced by the SAE organising committee. When asked why SAE had not anticipated such issues, and in response ordered extra medals the SAE spokesman said that they had arranged for 40 extra medals. He went on to defend SAE’s organisation, claiming that an added problem was created with the unanticipated number of team officials who were also awarded with a medal each.He added that the members of the winning water polo team, who also have not received their medals, “were more than what originally reported” causing a further medals shortage. When pressed by Neos Kosmos to say if SAE thought that an apology was due to the athletes who have yet to be awarded with their medals, he said “SAE is not denying them of what is theirs and the athletes will get their medals” so no apology was due. The SAE spokesperson did say that “the Games were a cultural event so the medals were not the core objective per se.” He did, however want to apologise for the “extended delay” now close to four months. When asked why such a delay occurred he claimed “problems with the supplier”, arguing that SAE placed the order for the extra medals shortly after the Games. He refused, however, to produce documents showing exactly when the order was placed. The SAE spokesperson did commit that the medal situation will be resolved at the latest by the end of next week.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Diego Association of Governments and Caltrans will begin three nights of overnight closures of northbound Interstate 5 Tuesday evening after completing overnight work along southbound I-5 ahead of schedule.Work crews will close northbound I-5 from state Route 52 to Genesee Avenue from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night though Thursday, according to SANDAG. The closures are necessary to remove wooden structures that supported the recently completed construction of a trolley overpass at Voigt DriveNeither agency expected to begin closures of northbound I-5 until later this month or early July due to similar work on a trolley overpass spanning southbound I-5 at Nobel Drive, which began June 9. Those closures were expected to last until June 28 but concluded early last Tuesday morning. SANDAG expects to conduct additional closures of northbound I-5 June 23-27.The closures are part of the $2.17 billion Mid-Coast Trolley Blue Line Extension, which includes a planned 11-mile extension of trolley service by San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System from Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego to University City. The extension will add trolley stops in Mission Bay Park, UC San Diego and Westfield UTC. SANDAG is receiving $1.04 billion in funding from the Federal Transit Administration to complete the project.The extension and related projects are intended to reduce traffic congestion as the county’s population increases. Construction on the extension began in 2016 and is scheduled to be completed in 2021. KUSI Newsroom KUSI Newsroom, Posted: June 18, 2019 SANDAG to Begin Three Nights of I-5 Closures at Voigt Drive June 18, 2019 Categories: Local San Diego News, Traffic & Accidents FacebookTwitter
CORAL GABLES, FLA. (WSVN) – Police said one suspect is in custody while a second is at large in connection to a break-in at a Coral Gables home, Monday afternoon.Streets were blocked off near Granada Boulevard and Mariana Avenue, as K-9 units and armed officers searched for the suspects.Related: Suspected home invader strikes homeowner, tries fleeing policeThe home was unoccupied at the time.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.Copyright 2019 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Press Play: Shawn James Shares Folksy Blues & Soul shawn-james-shares-his-folksy-southern-blues-soul-press-play Email NETWORK ERRORCannot Contact ServerRELOAD YOUR SCREEN OR TRY SELECTING A DIFFERENT VIDEO Dec 27, 2018 – 1:15 pm Shawn James Shares Folksy Blues & Soul: Press Play Twitter Facebook News The Chicago-born singer/songwriter performs his latest release, “Burn The Witch,” letting his aptly self-described sound of “ecstatic joy and painful anguish” take you on a journey on the latest episode of the Recording Academy’s video series, Press PlayAna YglesiasGRAMMYs Dec 27, 2018 – 1:15 pm Growing up in the South Side of Chicago and performing from a young age, starting with church choir, Shawn James has soulful music running through his veins. You can hear the influence in his sound today, in his sound which he describes as “ecstatic joy and painful anguish,” blending blues, folk and soul. James gives you a taste of this in the fourth episode of the Recording Academy’s latest video series, Press Play, which will let you discover, get to know and love artists you may not have heard of yet through original performances. Shawn James Shares His Folksy Southern Blues & Soul For Press Play PlayIn this episode James performs “Burn the Witch,” which he wrote and recently released as the lead single for his upcoming third full-length solo studio album, The Dark and The Light. The song is about discrimination and those who stand up against it. James offers powerful emotion with his guitar, whistling and stirring lyrics. With a powerful conviction he sings: “What they don’t understand, they condemn/ What they can’t comprehend, must meet its end/ But I won’t scream, won’t give them that satisfaction.”RewindMusic has always played a big part of the artist’s life, surrounded by soulful sounds growing up in Chicago, where, in addition to singing in his church’s choir, he studied orchestra and voice in high school. He initially moved to Nashville, Tenn. to pursue a career in music, then to Fayetteville, Ark., where he now resides, although he spends a lot of time on the road, playing over 200 shows a year.RecordIn addition to his solo recordings and shows, James also performs and records delta blues style rock with his band the Shapeshifters. His passion and talent for music hasn’t gone unnoticed, as he gained viral success with songs featured on numerous hit TV shows and video games, including in 2016 when his song “Through The Valley” was featured in the trailer for the Sony PlayStation game “The Last Of Us Part II.”James was also the first artist featured in the latest season of the Recording Academy’s ReImagined series, offering his take on Macy Gray’s GRAMMY-winning hit song from 2000, “I Try.”Fast-forwardJames’ upcoming solo album which features “Burn The Witch,” The Dark and The Light, is due out March 22. Stay tuned to find out which cities he will be visiting in 2019 in support of the new album. Given his love of performing and 200-plus annual show date record, he may very likely be visiting a city near you.Damien Escobar Showcases His Sultry Violin Sounds For Press PlayRead more