Founding member of ‘90s grunge band with Western Mass. ties dies at 53 A founding member of the band Staind, drummer Jon Wysocki, died May 18, at age 53. Wysocki’s band, Lydia’s Castle, confirmed his death over the weekend, in an Instagram post, stating he died Saturday ... 05/21/2024 - 4:21 am | View Link
Yonder Mountain String Band Discusses Mental Health, EP With the Late Jeff Austin "We're finding positivity and wonderful moments by bringing back some of Jeff's songs," says bassist Ben Kauffman. 05/21/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Drummer Jon Wysocki, founding member of rock band Staind, dead at 53 Drummer Jon Wysocki, a founding member of the rock band Staind who played on the group’s biggest hits, including its 2001 top-five hit “It’s Been Awhile,” died Saturday. He was 53. 05/20/2024 - 5:01 pm | View Link
Upstate community rallies around beloved band director battling cancer An upstate community is coming together for band director Bryan Bone, who has dedicated thirty years to shaping students’ lives through music. Now, they’re rallying around him as he faces a tough ... 05/17/2024 - 4:28 pm | View Link
Community supporting band director with cancer The crash involved a single vehicle that rolled over and sent two people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the Anderson County coroner said. Kendrick Beanard Makins, 18, of Greenwood ... 05/17/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
Smartmatic accuses Newsmax of destroying evidence in the voting machine company's lawsuit against the "news" channel over their claims that Smartmatic helped “rig" the 2020 election, according to new court documents. Via NBC News:
Lawyers for Florida-based Smartmatic allege that Newsmax engaged in a “cover-up” by destroying texts and emails of key executives that would demonstrate the network’s knowledge that voting fraud claims being pushed by former President Donald Trump and his allies were untrue.
Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked about the report last week that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had flown a “Stop the Steal” solidarity flag at his house during the period in which the court was considering 2020 election cases. Let’s be clear: Alito was not flying a pro-Trump flag but an anti-democracy, pro-insurrection flag.
Diane Ravitch's Blog - just who is trashing public education?
Homeless on the High Desert - the stable genius;
Strangely Blogged - playing footsie with fascism;
The Rectification of Names - my "Unified Reich" t-shirt is raising many questions;
The Smirking Chimp - giving liberals the finger.
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I PROMISE you that you're rarely--if ever--seen anything as funny in politics as what Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Jamie Raskin do to known purveyor or Russian propaganda, James "Gomer Pyle.
In classic GOP fashion, Comer held a hearing on a ridiculous, waste-of-time poltical stunt, holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt (I might do it myself, tbh, for the fact insurrectionists like MTG and Jim Jordan still sit in hearings participating, un-indictedbut I digress).
COMMERCE CITY — Evergreen girls soccer was a No. 14 seed entering the state tournament and had not won a championship in 27 years.
But the Cougars clearly didn’t care about either of those factors, running the table to the 2024 Class 4A title that finished with a 2-0 victory over Lutheran on Tuesday night at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
“Early in the year we had a lot of difficult, testing games that showed us what we weren’t good enough at,” Evergreen head coach Peter Jeans said.
By PHILIP MARCELO (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Tuesday in his hush money trial after calling just two witnesses and opting not to have the former president take the stand in his own defense.
But despite what Hollywood courtroom dramas might suggest, that isn’t all that unusual, according to criminal defense lawyers and former prosecutors.
The reason is simple: Prosecutors need to prove their case, while the defense only has to show there’s reasonable doubt their client committed a crime.