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Fox News
08-08-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Cincinnati mayor candidate blasts city's lax bail policies amid viral brawl
Mayoral candidate Cory Bowman weighs in on city policies following the viral brawl that left six injured in downtown Cincinnati. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Choose Your Fighter! TVLine Editors Pit the Toughest of the Tough Against One Another — But You Select the Winner
Ever wonder which TV toughie you'd be happiest to have your back in a knock-down, drag-out brawl? Well, your friends here at TVLine sure have. As a matter of fact, we've not only gotten around to considering the characters that we'd choose to throw down with us, we've debated the matter — admirably, without fisticuffs — and decided in the end to let you have the final say. First, though, we invite you to peruse the below Who's Who of fictional folks who could kick not only our ass, but virtually anyone's. The list comprises the nominees for our entirely unofficial but still enviable title of TV's Most Reliable Bruiser. More from TVLine Casting News: Reacher Season 4 Recast, Leo Woodall Is Vladimir and More Does Jensen Ackles' Countdown Hero Have BDE - Big Dean (Winchester) Energy? 'There Are Familiar Aspects,' Says Supernatural Vet Reacher Season 4: Sydelle Noel, Jay Baruchel and 6 Others Cast in Gone Tomorrow Adaptation Going in, you should be aware that supernatural beings of any sort have not been included. If a character heals up as fast as, say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Nope! Eliminated. Mechanized characters have also been left on the cutting-room floor. With apologies to the Six Million Dollar Man, who, let's be real, sounds like a bargain today. The fighters whose praises we'll sing below are entirely flesh and blood — although, given their knack for standing up when the chips are down, we don't necessarily ever get to see a whole lot of their blood shed. Ready to dive in and choose your fighter? Keep going, you're already on a scroll. The most effective fighters are often the ones you don't see coming. Just ask Gemma, who severely underestimated the brute strength of all-caps Abbi at the annual Soulstice Games. Basically, if you put a pugil stick in this girl's hands — or challenge her to a full-contact game of Red Rover — she becomes an unstoppable killing machine. Not only would you win the fight with Abbi by your side, but she would also take an unhinged amount of pleasure rubbing your win in the loser's bloody face. — Andy Swift Not only would Jack screaming in my enemy's face be intimidating af, but Bauer knows how to take a few licks and keep on ticking. In his nine seasons (plus TV movie!), CTU's secret weapon never stopped fighting for his country, friends and family. The guy didn't even back down from a few rounds of Russian roulette behind bars! He's a total badass whose resumé speaks for itself, dammit. — Nick Caruso 'Don't Call Me Lady' Brienne isn't the most physically powerful on this list (though she's no slouch), but what she lacks in brute strength, she makes up for in absolute conviction of purpose. Ser Brienne's strongest armor is her loyalty and honor, which helps her come out on top when situations look bleak (the Battle of Winterfell) and/or absolutely unwinnable (she fought a freaking bear, for the love of the Seven!). And hey, let's not forget: She did beat The Hound… — Kimberly Roots Is it unfair to pick a pair of fighters here? I don't think so, since the Cousins always worked as a team — a terrifying team. The killing exploits of these fearsome cartel hitmen (played by real-life brothers Luis and Daniel Moncada) were the stuff of legend, as they effortlessly mowed down every opponent with a ruthless precision that was nearly supernatural. And to those who might point out that Hank managed to take them both out? I say: He got lucky. — Dave Nemetz Back against the wall? Not to worry. This post-apocalyptic badass wouldn't just show you the way forward, she'd clear it of walkers and anything else that obstructed your progress with her handy-dandy katana. Rick Grimes' better half has not only survived Whisperers, Saviors and Wolves (oh my), she forced a new point of view on Woodbury's nefarious Governor by stabbing out one of his eyes. And did I mention that she has a katana? It bears repeating. — Charlie Mason We all know what Lindsay looks like when she's activated: red in the face and yelling about how many times you've made her a sandwich. The woman is ruthless when it comes to proving she's right. In Season 9, she went as far as to stage a 'Freedom Dinner' to celebrate her broken engagement — with her ex in attendance! With Lindsay by your side, you'll always be on the attack when it comes to psychological warfare. — Claire Franken Weighing in at 235 lbs. and standing 6-foot-3 in height, Alan Ritchson's Reacher is a veritable mountain of a man. And while his sheer strength allows him to, say, punch through car windows with impunity, it's his powers of observation, honed as an elite investigator for the military police, that often give him a tactical edge. — Matt Webb Mitovich For the purposes of this list, I'm going to ignore the asinine conclusion to Yvonne Strahovski's arc, wherein Sarah's memory bank was wiped clean. Instead, I'm choosing to remember the onetime CIA agent as the kick-ass operative who protected Chuck Bartowski — aka The Intersect — and (mostly) kept him out of danger the same way I'd like to think she would me. — Ryan Schwartz Yeah, yeah, I know Dean was ultimately felled by an ordinary rusty nail in Supernatural's series finale. I'm ignoring that! Assuming he were an alive-and-well real person, Dean would be my ideal fighting companion: If simple punches and kicks won't do the trick, this Winchester brother knows how to handle everything from knives to rock-salt-filled shotguns. And if he can bring a little levity to the proceedings with a well-timed one-liner? All the better! Someone cue up the Zeppelin for our fight scene, please. — Rebecca Luther OK, turn. Which fighter would you want by your side when the chips are down and the dukes are up? Cast your vote below. Best of TVLine 90+ TV Shows That Switched Networks — And How Long They Ran After They Relocated TV's 30+ Best Cliffhangers of All Time From Buffy, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Twin Peaks, Severance, Soap and More 20+ Age-Defying Parent-Child Castings From Blue Bloods, ER, Ginny & Georgia, Golden Girls, Supernatural and More
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'BBQ Brawl''s Season 6 Has a New Twist — Why Bobby Flay Likes the Change (Exclusive)
The sixth season of BBQ Brawl premiered on Food Network on Sunday, June 1 Flay tells PEOPLE new captains Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso give the show "renewed energy" Season 6 also features a new rule in which the winner of the first challenge gets to pick their captainBBQ Brawl's sixth season premiered earlier this week with a new twist: The winner of the first challenge gets to pick their captain. Bobby Flay, who faces off with fellow captains Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso, says the shakeup from previous seasons, in which captains picked their entire teams, changes the dynamic — in a good way. 'We always want to be that person because everybody has an ego,' Flay tells PEOPLE. 'And so it kind of got turned around on us for a second, which I actually liked.' The first episode, which aired Sunday, June 1, saw chef Aarthi Sampath choose to be on Lofaso's team. Flay says the new season has 'serious renewed energy,' thanks to the addition of Lofaso and Chauhan. 'When I asked them to do this, they prepared themselves so incredibly well for so long prior to shooting this,' he recalls. 'I mean, they did tons of research. They were practicing, cooking, all this sort of live-fire cooking, and they really brought their own sort of energy and attitude and obviously flavors to it. And I will say that they kept me on my toes the entire time.' The culinary star adds that Lofaso is 'all about impactful flavors.' 'She's so intense in her mentoring in the best way,' he explains. 'She's very dedicated to her team. She wants them to do really well. She's almost kind of like a proud mom to them.' Chauhan, he observes, is 'a master with Indian flavors and ingredients.' 'It was really interesting watching those ingredients come to life in this sort of very classic American function of barbecue,' he notes. The new season, set at Star Hill Ranch in Austin, Texas, sees 12 new brawlers face off in teams led by Flay, Chauhan and Lofaso, aiming to win over returning judges Carson Kressley, Brooke Williamson (whom Flay began dating earlier this year) and Rodney Scott. Flay says the series' contestants tend to be 'students of the show.' 'They pay very close attention,' he says. 'Obviously, I've been on every season, so they kind of know what I like and what I don't like, what my style's going to be, how I'm going to mentor them, and those kinds of things.' 'They don't know who the other two mentors are going to be until they get there, but I think that every season, they seem to be better,' he continues. 'And I think it's not that everybody's better than the prior seasons, but they're just more schooled. So they know, they kind of drill down on what they need to do to win.' When it comes to fan reactions to the long-running series, which premiered in 2019, Flay says 'everybody has an opinion' on barbecue. 'And so we get a lot of feedback of, 'I wouldn't have done it that way and my grandfather would've never thought that was good.' And then people are like, 'I can't believe I have all these new ideas about barbecue. I never thought about it that way.' So it kind of goes both ways. But the one thing about it is people are watching it and they're interested in it and I love when people have opinions about stuff. I think if it was all just good or all just not good, there's no reason to watch. But when there's a conversation about it, which there is tons of conversation about BBQ Brawl, it works.' Read the original article on People
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
State Senate passes bill to prohibit ranked choice voting
Mar. 4—dbeard @ MORGANTOWN — The state Senate passed on Tuesday its version of a bill to prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in local, state or federal elections, and sent it to the House of Delegates. The House has its own, slightly different version that will be on second reading — the amendment stage — on Wednesday. The Senate bill is SB 490. It defines ranked choice voting — generally abbreviated as RCV — as occurring in rounds where losers are eliminated until one candidate scores a clear majority. As previously reported, RCV is used statewide in Alaska, Hawaii and Maine. RCV is prohibited in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It was noted on the Senate floor that eight other states are considering banning RCV. Sen. Mike Oliverio, R-Monongalia, a bill co-sponsor, stood in support of it. He cited the hypothetical example of WVU meeting Pitt in the Backyard Brawl, where Pitt outscores WVU in the first three quarters, but WVU makes a fourth-quarter comeback and seemingly wins by a point. But, Oliverio said, the referee decides that Pitt won three quarters compared to WVU's one, and gives the game to Pitt. "We live in a society where we have winners and losers and this bill just restates that, " he said. "We have in West Virginia an incredible electoral system. We get it right in West Virginia, " he said. "I think it's important that we pass this bill ; we get rid of this silliness that has taken place in other states, and we continue to have the finest elections in the country." His 13th District colleague, Sen. Joey Garcia, D-Marion, rose in good-natured opposition to the bill, noting that the Brawl features just two opponents, while RCV typically applies to elections with multiple candidates, especially primaries. Primary winners often score only 30 % of the vote, he said. RCV can lend some moderation and if a city or county wanted to try it, he'd be interested in seeing what happens. "I do think we're rushing in the other direction a little too quickly." Tuesday was Marshall University Day at the Capitol, and Judiciary chair Mike Stuart, R-Kanawha, prompted chuckles across the room by saying, "Other than a bad analogy using a non-football school like Pitt, rather than Marshall University to play WVU, I've got nothing." The vote was 31-2, with the only other Democrat, Majority Leader Mike Woelfel, D-Cabell, joining Garcia. The House bill is HB 2683. It contains a shorter definition of RCV and different phrasing of the prohibition. The most significant difference is a sentence saying the prohibition doesn't apply to internal political party processes. Municipal elections bill On Monday, the Senate unanimously passed SB 50, to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and general elections. It sets a compliance date of July 1, 2032, for municipalities with charters that have to be amended by the voters, and for municipalities without charters that can do it simply by ordinance. SB 50 also heads to the House.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
State Senate passes bill to prohibit ranked choice voting
Mar. 4—dbeard @ MORGANTOWN — The state Senate passed on Tuesday its version of a bill to prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in local, state or federal elections, and sent it to the House of Delegates. The House has its own, slightly different version that will be on second reading — the amendment stage — on Wednesday. The Senate bill is SB 490. It defines ranked choice voting — generally abbreviated as RCV — as occurring in rounds where losers are eliminated until one candidate scores a clear majority. As previously reported, RCV is used statewide in Alaska, Hawaii and Maine. RCV is prohibited in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It was noted on the Senate floor that eight other states are considering banning RCV. Sen. Mike Oliverio, R-Monongalia, a bill co-sponsor, stood in support of it. He cited the hypothetical example of WVU meeting Pitt in the Backyard Brawl, where Pitt outscores WVU in the first three quarters, but WVU makes a fourth-quarter comeback and seemingly wins by a point. But, Oliverio said, the referee decides that Pitt won three quarters compared to WVU's one, and gives the game to Pitt. "We live in a society where we have winners and losers and this bill just restates that, " he said. "We have in West Virginia an incredible electoral system. We get it right in West Virginia, " he said. "I think it's important that we pass this bill ; we get rid of this silliness that has taken place in other states, and we continue to have the finest elections in the country." His 13th District colleague, Sen. Joey Garcia, D-Marion, rose in good-natured opposition to the bill, noting that the Brawl features just two opponents, while RCV typically applies to elections with multiple candidates, especially primaries. Primary winners often score only 30 % of the vote, he said. RCV can lend some moderation and if a city or county wanted to try it, he'd be interested in seeing what happens. "I do think we're rushing in the other direction a little too quickly." Tuesday was Marshall University Day at the Capitol, and Judiciary chair Mike Stuart, R-Kanawha, prompted chuckles across the room by saying, "Other than a bad analogy using a non-football school like Pitt, rather than Marshall University to play WVU, I've got nothing." The vote was 31-2, with the only other Democrat, Majority Leader Mike Woelfel, D-Cabell, joining Garcia. The House bill is HB 2683. It contains a shorter definition of RCV and different phrasing of the prohibition. The most significant difference is a sentence saying the prohibition doesn't apply to internal political party processes. Municipal elections bill On Monday, the Senate unanimously passed SB 50, to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and general elections. It sets a compliance date of July 1, 2032, for municipalities with charters that have to be amended by the voters, and for municipalities without charters that can do it simply by ordinance. SB 50 also heads to the House.
