AUDUBON – After 3-1/2 decades in the Western Iowa Conference, Audubon will be leaving to join the Rolling Valley Conference.
AUDUBON – After 3-1/2 decades in the Western Iowa Conference, Audubon will be leaving to join the Rolling Valley Conference.
LEWIS — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will relax the fishing regulations at Cold Springs Lake starting June 15 to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish.
AUDUBON – After 3-1/2 decades in the Western Iowa Conference, Audubon will be leaving to join the Rolling Valley Conference.
AUDUBON – After 3-1/2 decades in the Western Iowa Conference, Audubon will be leaving to join the Rolling Valley Conference.
LEWIS — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will relax the fishing regulations at Cold Springs Lake starting June 15 to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish.
HARLAN – It turned out to be a beautiful night for racing at SCS after dodging rain showers in the area most of the day.
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Plans for the cameras to roll at North Carolina for the first-ever college season of "Hard Knocks" were called off over worries about the involvement of coach Bill Belichick's girlfriend. That is according to The Athletic, which reported Wednesday that 24-year-old Jordon Hudson wanted to be heavily involved in the production. Backed by documents, The Athletic said NFL Films was set to start taping March 1 on campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., to document Belichick's first season with his team. However, two days later, North Carolina's lawyers received an email from Jessica Boddy, the NFL's vice president for commercial operations and business affairs that the project was off. "The conversation took a turn we were not comfortable with," Boddy wrote in the email, according to The Athletic. She also is an executive producer of "Hard Knocks." The university said it was not a decision by its staff to nix "Hard Knocks" and added it was more appropriate for the production company to comment. The NFL, which oversees the show, declined to comment, and Boddy and Hudson did not respond to messages left, per The Athletic. Hudson and Belichick, 73, reportedly have been in a relationship since early 2023, People reported. But it is the question of how they met that put Hudson squarely in the spotlight this week. In an interview that aired Sunday on "CBS Sunday Morning," Belichick discussed his new book and more. But when CBS' Tony Dokoupil, who described Hudson as a "constant presence" during the interview, asked how the couple met, she balked. "We're not talking about this," Hudson said. CBS News on Wednesday said there were no limitations to the interview. "When we agreed to speak with Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview," CBS News said in the statement. "There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed repeatedly with his publisher before the interview took place and after it was completed." Hudson apparently has moved right in as first lady of Tar Heels football. Reporting over the past few weeks said she is being copied on emails and other communications to Belichick from UNC staff, and she has appeared on the practice field. She lists herself on emails as chief operating officer of Belichick Productions, though The Athletic said it couldn't find any registered business in that name. The Athletic reported that Belichick himself wanted the "Hard Knocks" gig, and North Carolina stood to be paid $200,000 in fees for the five-part series to run on HBO. The show was supposed to be announced during the NFL Scouting Combine. Players who were coached by Belichick during his career as a six-time Super Bowl winner with the New England Patriots are taking sides in the saga. Speaking on their "Dudes on Dudes" podcast, retired Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman and tight end Rob Gronkowski defended Belichick and his partnership with Hudson. "People are giving an unfair reality of what's going on," Edelman said, contending Hudson was serving as Belichick's "representative" during the CBS interview and that she interrupted the conversation "just like any PR person would jump in when there's an unnecessary question that probably [they] didn't go over in the pre-production meeting." Retired linebacker Ted Johnson, who played for New England from 1995 to 2004, had a much different take when he spoke to Boston radio station WEEI on Tuesday. He said Hudson was a source of embarrassment to Belichick and suggested her presence had cost him a chance at an NFL coaching job after he and the Patriots split after the 2023 season. "I hold college coaches to a higher standard than I do NFL coaches when it comes to morally, they are supposed to leaders of men, set a good example that kind of thing," Johnson said, according to transcription of his comments by the New York Post. "I'm surprised UNC never called Atlanta on why they passed on hiring Bill Belichick. My feeling is that the Atlanta Falcons are kinda looking at the UNC and going, ‘You should have called us.' "I say all that to say this: I think the ... Tar Heels should consider firing Bill Belichick. They should consider letting him go at this point. It's a lot of money and they're deep into, obviously, their preparation for next year, but I look at Bill Belichick and I wonder if he's fit to coach an NFL team, let alone fit to coach a college team which, again, I put more onus on the character and personality and just overall character, if you will, of a college coach than I do a pro coach. I'm worried that Bill Belichick just isn't fit to coach college kids and UNC should consider cutting ties with Bill Belichick." In January, Belichick signed a five-year contract with North Carolina. Only the first three years are guaranteed with $10 million per year in salary and $3.5 million in bonuses possible. --Field Level Media
The Green Bay Packers are exercising their fifth-year option on defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt, their 2022 first-round pick, Fox Sports reported Wednesday. Wyatt, 27, will earn a fully guaranteed $13.922 million in 2026 barring a long-term deal with the team before then. Wyatt has 12 sacks, 23 quarterback hits and 74 tackles in 47 career games (five starts) since being selected No. 28 overall in 2022. Wyatt will play the 2025 season on a base salary of $2.458 million with a cap hit of $4.092 million. --Field Level Media
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A man attends the funeral of his two daughters, his wife and another relative who were killed in an Iranian missile strike on a building in northern Israel on Tuesday. (AP video: Mahmoud Illean).
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Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces on Tuesday killed more than 50 Palestinians near an aid centre in the territory's south, the latest such incident amid severe shortages after more than 20 months of war.
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Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Tuesday, the fifth day of strikes in their most intense confrontation in history, fuelling fears of a drawn-out conflict that could engulf the Middle East.
Israel and Iran have traded more missile attacks despite international calls for a halt to the fighting, with neither country showing signs of backing down as the conflict between the regional foes raged for a third day. Iran on Sunday said Israel struck its oil refineries, killed the intelligence chief of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and two other generals and hit population centers in intensive aerial attacks that raised the death toll in the country since Israel launched its major campaign on Friday to 224 people. Israel, which has aimed its missiles at Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program and military leadership, said that that Iran has fired over 270 missiles since Friday, wreaking havoc on sleepy residential suburbs and killing 14 people.
Actor and comedian Russell Brand has pleaded not guilty in a London court to rape and sexual assault charges involving four women dating back more than 25 years. Brand, who turns 50 next week, denied two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. His trial was scheduled for June 3, 2026. Prosecutors said the offenses took place between 1999 and 2005 — one in the English seaside town of Bournemouth and the other three in London. Brand did not speak to reporters as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court wearing dark sunglasses.
A Paris court has found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the 2016 robbery of Kim Kardashian. The court on Friday acquitted two of the 10 defendants. The chief judge said that the defendants’ ages — six are in their 60s and 70s — and their health issues weighed on the court’s decision to impose sentences that he said “aren’t very severe.” The 69-year-old ringleader Aomar Aït Khedache got the stiffest sentence. He was given eight years imprisonment but five of those are suspended. With time already served in pretrial detention, none of those found guilty will go to prison and all walked out free.
As a 2023 law restricting schools from curriculum and instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation for kindergarten through sixth grade remains challenged in court, state lawmakers on Wednesday discussed expanding this restriction to all grades.
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