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Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Yahoo
Fatal shooting at Milwaukee gas station, employee remembers coworker
The Brief A 47-year-old was shot and killed at a Milwaukee gas station on Saturday night, March 29, 2025. The victim was working at Gig's Petro Pantry at 23rd and Fond du Lac. The co-worker said it started when a group of young people stared taking things off the shelves, and then shot the victim as he was picking things up. MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Police are searching for whoever shot and killed a gas station worker this weekend. His co-worker says a group of young people are connected to the city's latest homicide. What they're saying "I don't get it. I don't get it," said Joseph Appiah. FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android The bullet-proof glass Joseph Appiah stands behind Sunday morning can't block the sadness felt throughout the store. "I'm so sad. So so sad. Because this guy was so cool, calm," Appiah added. What we know Someone shot and killed his co-worker at Gig's Petro Pantry on Saturday night, March 29, 2025. Milwaukee Police responded to the shooting at 23rd and Fond du Lac around 7:40 p.m. Police say the 47-year-old victim died at the scene. "To take somebody's life. It's a bad thing. You don't have to just shoot randomly for nothing," Appiah said. He says the chaos began when a group of young people came in and took things off the shelves. He says they ran and dropped items by the front door. His co-worker went to pick everything up. "And then they shot him…they shot him," said Appiah. He says there was no argument and no confrontation before the deadly gunfire. By the numbers On Sunday morning, March 30, 2025, new Milwaukee police data showed 23 homicides this year. That's tied compared to this time last year, and down from this time two years ago. What they're saying "I'm here every day. I really know the man. For him to just get his life taken away for something so stupid…candy or whatever. It's really sad," said Robert Jackson. Neighbors like Jackson are fed up with the senseless shootings. SIGN UP TODAY: Get daily headlines, breaking news emails from FOX6 News "I want the community and the younger versions of us to pay attention and grow up. Be smart," Jackson added. Appiah says the shooting victim was a husband and father of four. He only worked there part-time. "I don't get it. I don't get it. We have to learn how to be tolerant with one another. You don't just pull a gun and kill," said Appiah. FOX6 reached out to Milwaukee police to get descriptions of all involved. Workers want the shooter arrested, so this doesn't happen again. The Source FOX6 spoke to the victim's coworker at Gig's Petro Pantry. Initial shooting information and crime data were provided by the Milwaukee Police Department.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Gwinnett Co. senior returns to school after suffering ‘traumatic brain injury' during football game
Gwinnett Co. senior returns to school after suffering 'traumatic brain injury' during football game An Archer High School senior returned to school on Wednesday for the first time since suffering a 'traumatic brain injury' during a football game in November. OJ Appiah was greeted in the hallways by classmates and staff, who posed for photos with him. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Appiah, a linebacker, was injured during the game on Nov. 15. His family told Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson that the teen collapsed just minutes after the game ended. Advertisement His sister says he told his coach he felt dizzy before collapsing. 'He sustained a really bad hit during the game, and it just manifested minutes later,' Joanna Paradiso told Johnson. Appiah spent time in the Intensive Care Unit, at Shepherd Rehab Center, and then underwent cranioplasty surgery on Jan. 9. His sister says he was under close observation for weeks before being released back home later that month. A GoFundMe campaign started by his sister raised over $21,000. 'We are deeply grateful for this incredible community and your steadfast support,' she wrote. 'Thank you Tigers for keeping OJ and his family in your thoughts and prayers.' TRENDING STORIES: [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
The National
21-03-2025
- Sport
- The National
James Kwesi Appiah on managing Sudan amid horrors of civil war
Each new day is a positive day for the footballers of Sudan – if there has been no ominous call from home. Those sorts of days are too scarce. 'The majority of times, we will receive a message that someone in the group has lost a relative, sometimes a parent,' reports James Kwesi Appiah, the manager of Sudan, a man at once overseeing a remarkable sporting story and knowing he can never fully cocoon that story from the realities of war. 'Really, those messages happen almost every time we have been together in the camp,' he adds. There is no growing accustomed to news of a death in the family. Nor any pretence that fighting that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the last two years and displaced an estimated 12.5 million does not shape the everyday experience of his group. 'There are so many people being affected by this war,' Appiah tells The National. His job is to locate brief islands of peace, calm and hope. At its best sport can achieve that. And what he and the so-called Jediane Falcons, the national men's team, have done over the past year is truly uplifting. On Saturday, they meet Senegal in Benghazi, Libya, with the prospect of consolidating their lead in a fiercely competitive World Cup qualifying group. If Sudan can hardly claim 'home' advantage in the fixture – they play none of their matches in Sudan because of the war – they are propelled by an extraordinary momentum. Four matches into the group, Sudan are unbeaten. DR Congo, semi-finalists at the last Africa Cup of Nations, have been defeated; Senegal, Afcon champions in 2022, are already playing catch-up. Top spot means a place at the finals in North America next summer. Finish second and there is a crack at achieving that via the play-offs. Never, neither in peace time nor in war, have Sudan reached a World Cup. In the last half a century, they have made only sporadic visits to an Afcon finals, usually exiting before the knockouts. Yet Appiah's squad will be on the starting grid for the next Cup of Nations, beginning later this year in Morocco; Ghana, the four times African champions, will not be there because Sudan emphatically eliminated them in qualifying. Senegal be warned. So too Algeria, whom Sudan face in Rabat in Afcon's opening round in late December. Heavyweight status is no guarantor against Appiah's bravehearts. The coach, a 64-year-old who measures his words carefully, highlights the self-belief, the sense of mission that has helped drive Sudan, a group of footballers including no globally recognised stars but one full of motivation and purpose. 'The thing we can do,' says Appiah, 'is make the people of Sudan happy.' More than that, the stirring victories, the rugged draws in difficult venues have genuinely produced their brief peace dividends, he notes. 'We do know that when we are playing, guns get put down, maybe even for a week or two.' The war has made nomads of Appiah and his players. The Sudanese league, where most of the national squad have always played their club football, has been suspended since the April 2023 outbreak of conflict. Since then the workplace for most has oscillated between Saudi Arabia, where the Jediane Falcons have been offered a temporary headquarters to practice and stay, and, via a more unusual regional outreach scheme, Mauritania. Last year, Sudan's two dominant clubs, Al Hilal and Al Merrikh, were allowed to join the Mauritanian top division, assigned a full fixture list but without being candidates to win the title should either of them finish top of the table. There was always a high chance of that. Sudan's best clubs are competitive in pan-African competitions to a degree that Mauritania's are not. Appiah notes the different standards but appreciates that for a significant number of his players, the regular club fixtures in West Africa 'helps keep them active'. For the Al Hilal men, there is also the sharper competition of the African Champions League, where they will contest a quarter-final with Cairo's Al Ahly next month. Advancing that far is its own against-the-odds achievement, given the circumstances. Appiah always believed in the strength of Sudanese football. He took the national head coach's job a few months after the war began. He knew the Sudanese league, having coached at AC Khartoum just under a decade ago. He has pioneering World Cup credentials, having guided Ghana to the 2014 finals in Brazil, the first coach from sub-Saharan Africa to have led his native country to a World Cup. And he can certainly meet a challenge. Ghana's expedition to Brazil, dogged by disputes over alleged unpaid bonuses to players, was fraught. He handled it with dignity. Also fraught, way back on Appiah's long and distinguished CV, was the 1982 Afcon in Libya, when he was a respected Ghana player. In spite of distracting issues at home – such as the aftermath of a military coup – Ghana went on to win that event. Now, 42 years on, Appiah finds himself the architect of Ghana's demise, Sudan's 2-0 victory over his countrymen last autumn, following up a goalless draw between the countries in Accra, pushed the Falcons into the 2025 Afcon at Ghana's expense. It felt poignant. He'd ideally have liked both teams to have progressed, but 'at the end of the day, you have to be professional'. His commitment to Sudan was uncompromised. He had been obliged to give up a senior role with the Ghana FA to avoid any suggestions of a conflict of interest. In recent weeks, Appiah has found himself taking a firm position with the Sudan FA, too, over delayed payments to his staff, a potential complication in the soaring progress of the national team, but one he hopes has been solved and will not prove disruptive ahead of Sunday and the confrontation with a star-studded Senegal. Glance at the teamsheets, and the Senegalese can only look daunting: Sadio Mane up front, Kalidou Koulibaly at the centre of defence, the Monaco prodigy Lamine Camara in midfield. But on paper, so did Ghana's Black Stars last October, the likes of Mohamed Kudus, Jordan Ayew and Inaki Williams, household names in the English Premier League and Spain's La Liga. Appiah's players inhabit a different club environment. His forte has been to remind that need be no indicator of skill, or worldliness. 'I always realised there are good players in Sudan, but not many have travelled away to play for clubs abroad,' he says. 'It's about the right mentality. I say to them, 'Don't belittle yourselves. You're strong and athletic. You're high quality players. See yourself as the best'.' That belief, and what Appiah calls 'a very core' of experienced men such as striker Mohamed Abdulrahman, midfielder Abuaagla Abdallah and defender Ramadan Agab, has lately proved a magnet to some new faces. Talent has been grafted into the squad from the large Sudanese diaspora. 'There are Sudanese all over the world,' notes Appiah. 'And we've been getting calls from players based in Europe, North America, Australia.' His standards are high, and his is not an easy squad to break into. But players such as defender Abdelrahman Kuku, born to Sudanese parents in Cairo, brought up from the age of six near Sydney, Australia, and ushered into a professional career via a university football scholarship in the US, have strengthened the talent pool. In turn, Kuku's club career has been shaped by Sudan's unexpected sporting fairy-tale. He now plays for Al Ittihad in Libya, where the domestic league lifted some of its restrictions on the number of non-Libyans allowed to register at local clubs specifically to give opportunities for Sudanese players. The temporary base in Saudi Arabia has been hugely beneficial, too. 'The facilities, the hotel, the nutrition and the pitches are top class,' says Appiah. Having a Gulf foothold to call 'home' for preparation means the Jediane Falcons have been able to organise useful friendlies such as last week's draw with Oman. It gives them somewhere to bond. It is their sanctuary, a deluxe one for a group of sportsmen acutely sensitive to the fact they represent a frightened constituency spread far and wide. 'We hear from people following our matches from everywhere, from the [refugee] camps in Chad, from South Sudan,' says Appiah. 'And of course in the country itself. What we can do is put a smile on their faces.'
CBC
05-03-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Bobsledder Cynthia Appiah takes on the Over-Under challenge
Canadian bobsledder Cynthia Appiah joins CBC Sports to play rounds in a game of over-under. Watch as Appiah showcases her quick thinking when answering these Olympic-themed questions.
CBC
20-02-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Doing it 'the Canadian way': Cynthia Appiah revels in World Cup bobsleigh silver
Fresh off a World Cup silver medal in monobob, Canada's Cynthia Appiah is feeling a deep sense of national pride after making it onto the podium. "I think a lot of people are digging their heels into what it means to be a Canadian," Appiah told CBC Sports. "For me, that moment, I did it my way, which is the Canadian way: be fair, be nice, be a good compatriot with your fellow teammates, but also be a good competitor." The second-place performance came after Appiah posted a two-run combined time of one minute, 48.66 seconds down the 16-corner track on Saturday in Lillehammer. In March, the 34-year-old from Toronto will compete at the world championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. "The ultimate goal is to be world champion. For the first time in my career, I fully believe that I have what it takes to be a world champion," Appiah said. "To finish on that podium in second place by the thinnest of margins … it's coming at the right time." WATCH l Appiah joins CBC Sports to discuss what's next after World Cup silver: Canadian bobsledder Cynthia Appiah reflects on World Cup silver and the season ahead 6 hours ago Duration 14:29 A win to fuel Olympic goals With less than a year out from the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, the bobsledder has big goals to fuel her training. In her Olympic debut at Beijing 2022, Appiah took eighth place in both the monobob and the two-woman events — a Games in which she says rookie mistakes led to her underwhelming results. Gearing up for her second Olympics, Appiah says she will be a more "calm, cool and collected" version of herself. "I thought I had the confidence because I had such a great World Cup season leading into the [2022] Games, but then I second guessed myself," she said. "Now, I'm at a point in my career where I've literally hit rock bottom … I'm not worried that if things aren't going well during a World Cup season … because at the end of the day what we're really working towards is the Olympic Games." For Milan-Cortina 2026, 90 per cent of the venues are being reused. However, for bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton, the host city is reconstructing the Eugenio Monti track where the events will take place. While the $120 million US project is under a tight deadline to be completed, Appiah says that having a new track will level out the playing field for all competitors, giving no teams an advantage. WATCH l Appiah reflects on reaching the World Cup podium in Lillehammer: 'It was like jubilation inside': Bobsledder Cynthia Appiah on recent 2nd-place finish and representing Canada 2 hours ago Duration 0:59 Two-time Olympian on how proud she is to represent Canada. Italy aims to have the track ready for March 2025 to meet the homologation test deadline set by the International Olympic Committee, which is when a select group of athletes will test the track to ensure safety and usability. "We're hearing some positive and encouraging news that the track will be ready for our test event in October and that it will be more than ready for the Games in February, " Appiah said. "We're being given hope that by the summer everything will be done." Funding issues persist While the fight to receive more funding for Canadian athletes continues, some sports have a significantly larger price tag to compete in than others. In the sport of bobsleigh, logistics costs often land on the athletes who need to transport heavy equipment to-and-from competitions around the globe. Appiah says this year alone has cost her nearly $40,000. "It's crazy how much I spent this year just to be able to show my pride and love for this country on an international stage through sport," Appiah said. "This season has been very frustrating. It's very tough. Our organization lost more funding than I think at any point in time in our sport's history." 'I love the Altenberg track': Appiah slides to World Cup monobob bronze in Germany At the World Cup this past weekend, Appiah used a loaner sled which she says is typically used for lower circuit races. "Equipment is a huge thing in our sport. It's like driving in a race car race and you're in a Honda Civic and everyone's in a Lamborghini," Appiah said. Next month at world championships, she plans to race in her own bobsled, which will provide her with even more confidence on the track. "The world really is my oyster going into these world championships." Championing diversity, making history Canadian bobsledders Cyrus Gray and Shaq Murray-Lawrence are also making waves in the sport. Last week, the duo made history as the first Black pilot-brakeman duo to compete in a World Cup two-man bobsleigh race. Appiah calls her teammate's milestone a step toward what Canadian sport should look like. "This is inching closer and closer to what sport in Canada should be, where we're championing the diversity within Canada," she said. "Canada has always prided itself on its multiculturalism, on its diversity, and now we're seeing a Black male pilot take a stab at the World Cup circuit. While Murray-Lawrence attended the Beijing 2022 Olympics as an alternate fourth man for the bobsled team, Milan-Cortina 2026 would be the pair's first Games together if they qualify. "My challenge to Canadians watching bobsleigh is to remember these names because they're going to be the stars of tomorrow," Appiah said.
