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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Golf analyst: Rory McIlroy's Quail Hollow domination makes him PGA Championship favorite
Rory McIlroy finally got that gorilla off his back, winning his first Masters last month to complete golf's career grand slam. Now, with the PGA Championship taking place at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina this week, one top golf analyst believes McIlroy will take home back-to-back majors. In an interview with Sportsnaut's Evan Groat, managing editor Ryan Herrington predicts that McIlroy will capture his third PGA Championship. And it's all because of how he has performed at Quail Hollow. Advertisement 'He now comes to a Quail Hollow golf course that he's won four times on in PGA Tour events and dominated in those events. Three of the four were by four or more strokes,' notes Herrington. 'So you've got to think he has a great chance this week, just his familiarity with the golf course and his comfortability level with playing at this place.' Herrington believes McIlroy has a 'real advantage' over his competition this week, including Scottie Scheffler, defending champion Xander Schauffele and Bryson DeChambeau, adding that the Masters champion set the course record at Quail Hollow in 2015 when he shot a 61. 'I just think McIlroy plays so well at this golf course. And I do think that's going to be a real advantage for him this week where he knows mentally that he can bounce back from a couple bad holes and still play well and pull off a good score,' said Herrington. He continued, 'So I just think that's a tremendous advantage for him. And if he wasn't playing so well this year, it might not be that big a deal. But when you combine the two factors, it just seems to me that he's a very logical chalk pick.' Advertisement Herrington also wouldn't be surprised if McIlroy is in contention for both the U.S. Open and British Open later this year. 'Oakmont, a very good golf course set up for him for the U.S. Open, and then Portrush at the Open Championship,' explains Herrington. 'Let's not get too carried away right yet, but at the same time, going into this week, you've got to think he's the favorite.' McIlroy tees off at 8:22 a.m. ET Thursday in the first round of the PGA Championship, alongside Scheffler and Schauffele.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
Limestone County judge denies ‘MAGA Lumberjack' bond again in rape case
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A Madison man accused of rape was denied bond a second time. Dillon Herrington, 33, is charged with rape from a 2023 incident. According to court documents, in Jan. 2024, Herrington was indicted by a grand jury for raping a woman who was incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated. Limestone County Circuit Judge Chadwick Wise denied him bond on Thursday afternoon. He was given the name 'MAGA Lumberjack' when he was accused of throwing a 4-by-4 piece of lumber at police and hurling a police barricade as part of charges that allege he impeded and intimidated law enforcement during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Herrington was granted a Certificate of Pardon regarding these federal charges on or about Feb. 25. During an Aniah's Law hearing on Jan. 5, 2024, Wise ordered Herrington be held without bond pending further court action. Court records obtained by News 19 show that on March 4, Herrington's attorneys filed a motion to set a reasonable bond. The attorneys said bond was not considered in the Jan. 2024 hearing because of a pending federal matter against him, which was later pardoned. During Thursday's hearing, Herrington's attorney said his client had been in the Limestone County Jail for 17 months, and during that time, he has had difficulty meeting with Herrington. The attorney argued Herrington is not a danger to anyone, saying no weapon was used in this case. According to Herrington's attorney, he has family ties in Madison. If granted bond, he said Herrington would be kept on the right path by his mother. The prosecutor argued that, though Herrington has received a pardon for his actions on Jan. 6, he still has a history of violence. She said he brought weapons with him to the capital and threatened law enforcement officers. The prosecutor said Herrington used violence in this case, arguing that the woman who was raped had injuries on her body. Wise ultimately ruled that Aniah's Law still applied in this instance, even with the pardon of his January 6 assault charges. In January 2025, documents show his jury trial date was scheduled for June 23. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Community stepping in to help Terry Parker High School replace stolen athletic equipment
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is investigating after athletic equipment was stolen from a local high school. Mike Holloway, the head football coach at Terry Parker High School, posted to social media and said thieves broke into their fieldhouse and softball rooms and took more than $1,000 of items. In the videos Holloway posted, it shows locks on some of the doors were busted. Holloway said some of the items that were taken included cleats that the Jacksonville Jaguars donated to the team, helmets, headsets, push sleds, and even deflated footballs. 'It's just sad that there is people out there that would steal from children,' Kim Herrington, a Terry Parker High School alum said. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] Herrington said it was disheartening to learn there was a theft incident at the school. And it happened right before the start of spring football. 'I know to some people it's just equipment, but to these boys, it means a lot because they can play with pride,' Herrington said. [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] Despite the incident, players said it's not going to keep them down. 'We are able to still push through it, still work through it,' sophomore Micah Moss said. 'TP is strong.' If you would like to help out the football team, you can do so at You'll have to create an account and then search Terry Parker. Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
Times
26-04-2025
- General
- Times
Kissinger said my Saigon chopper story broke his heart
In his sunlit living room in California, Colonel Stuart Herrington's eyes wander over the mementos of a war that won't leave him. Medals, commendations and pictures with the former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger hang on the wall. But what really makes him pause is the oil painting he bought just before the fall of Saigon, when he was 34 years old, from a young Vietnamese artist who was flogging his life's work in a hotel lobby to departing American soldiers. The painting is a self-portrait. It shows the young artist against a black background, staring at the viewer, a garnet-red scarf wound tight around his neck like it's strangling him. 'We were in way over our heads. But the country that won World War II can't possibly be over its head, right?' Herrington tells me, remembering the sentiment of the time. He is 83 now, his walking tentative, recent memories slipping. But the battles of half a century ago are set in stone. The sticky heat of the jungle in Vietnam, the boom of the Viet Cong mortars, the rattle of the helicopter as it took off from the embassy roof. The assurances he told the waiting crowds in Vietnamese: hay giu im lang — stay quiet; se khong co ai bi bo roi — no one's going to be left behind; toi se di phia sau cung — I'll go last; dung so — don't be afraid. Words that still bring him deep shame for those they abandoned that day. It's been 50 years since he followed the order to evacuate, since he watched Saigon disappear below him, along with the faces of the hundreds who had gathered there in the belief that the Americans would rescue them. And nine years since a remarkable encounter finally brought some closure. In the spring of 1970, it was all very different. The war was raging and then-Captain Herrington, raised in Pittsburgh and working as a military intelligence officer in West Berlin, had just been rather reluctantly sent to Vietnam. On arrival, he was told that two of his predecessors had been killed in an ambush. 'It had a reputation for being a very nasty place,' he recalls. His job was to gather intelligence to thwart Viet Cong activity. Using his knowledge from West Berlin, he developed a system of treating captives well, developing rapport — rather than just beating them up. 'Over time, they came around, and they talked,' he says. With that intelligence, and with Herrington's fast-developing Vietnamese language skills, they were soon hitting target after target. 'I loved it,' he says. 'It was just as exciting a thing as ever, and it was something you could really believe in.' After 20 months, the army dragged him, 'kicking and screaming, out of there'. Back in the United States, he was miserable, and schemed to get back to Vietnam. By July 1973, he had made it. When he arrived, the news was not good. Intelligence assessments, dismissed as alarmist in the US, warned that while the North Vietnamese had been stymied in the 1972 Easter offensive, they would push again. The assessments grew darker, and the US began making plans for an evacuation. One day, Herrington was walking through the lobby of the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon when he saw the oil painting that hangs in his living room today. The artist, Do Quang Em, was standing next to it. He told him he'd been drafted into the South Vietnamese army, and that he'd sell him the painting for £170. 'He said, 'any Vietnamese will tell you that this is a losing cause',' Herrington told me. He was right. By the end of April 1975, North Vietnamese forces were streaming towards Saigon. On April 29, around midday, Herrington learnt that the US was evacuating. He rushed to the embassy, which was besieged by thousands of Vietnamese trying to get out: GIs' girlfriends, southern officials and anyone who had worked with the Americans and feared retribution. 'They were climbing over the walls, they were banging at the gates, screaming and yelling,' he recalls. 'It was a panic situation.' The Americans had already spirited thousands of their allies out of the country. But they hadn't expected so many more to cram themselves into the embassy, begging to be taken away. Abandoned evacuees watch a helicopter fly away from the embassy NIK WHEELER/CORBIS Herrington used a loudhailer to assure the crowds, in Vietnamese, that there would be no one left behind. As the night wore on they began to get them out, corralling them into waiting helicopters. 'You had to be the enforcer,' he says. 'When somebody was holding up the show and trying to drag a heavy suitcase into the helicopter, you had to go up and pry their hands away from their suitcase. It was really ugly.' The sun had set when they got the message that still haunts Herrington today. Only four more lifts would be permitted. Command back in the US had grown mistrustful of the crowd estimates, believing (incorrectly) that the US ambassador Graham Martin was 'trying to evacuate all of Vietnam through the embassy', and decided to cut them off. The colonel in command told Herrington and the other soldiers. When they started to protest, the colonel said he agreed, but that they had to follow orders. 'He said 'we don't have any choice'.' They were devastated. All of them, he says, were invested in the 'words and the promises' they had made. Yet when the time came, around 5.30am, Herrington told the waiting crowd that he was going to the lavatory, and slipped up to the roof with a handful of other Americans, climbing aboard an empty helicopter and flying into the Saigon night. 'It was pretty awful,' Herrington tells me. 'And I have a hard time with it, even 50 years later. It's just difficult to think that it had to come to that, after all that effort… It was just a terrible mental, physical, moral conundrum that we were caught in.' Four hundred and twenty people were left behind, as well as a small detachment of US marines, who would be the very last to leave a few hours later. Between 4,000 and 5,000 Vietnamese and 1,000 Americans had been lifted from the US embassy in Saigon over those two days at the end of April 1975. The work of Herrington and his colleagues, taming the crowds, ensured the landing zone wasn't smothered. In 1997, Herrington told the story of the betrayal on a television show. The next morning, he received a phone call from Henry Kissinger, who had been secretary of state during the withdrawal, asking him to lunch. Hearing the story of the 420 people left behind, seemingly at his command, Kissinger said, had deeply affected him. 'He said, 'I must tell you, you broke my heart',' says Herrington. In the White House situation room, Kissinger said, they had thought they'd got everyone out. 'He told me, 'If I'd known that there were only 420 people left … I'd have surely ordered three or four more helicopters'.' The guilt continued to gnaw at Herrington. Then, in 2016, he got a call from a reporter at CBS. They'd found one of the people who was left behind. His name was Bien Pho, he was in the US and he was ready to meet Herrington. After he had been left at the embassy, Pho had, like many others, been taken to 're-education camp' by the communists for a year. He made it to the US in 1979, married and settled down. He bore no ill will towards the Americans who had abandoned him. 'He was the sweetest guy in the whole world,' Herrington says. 'His whole attitude was, that's past, that's done, not a biggie. I was choking back tears at the thought of his graciousness.' After so many years, the old soldier has found something approaching closure. As he goes about his routine with his wife, Lan, and his black labrador, Winston, Herrington thinks about how the US failed to understand Vietnamese language, history and culture, resulting in a 'terrible, horrific waste of money, lives, families, fortunes'. Again and again, he says, he sees the same mistakes being made, from Iraq to Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. 'We say we're here to help you, we go, we reach out. The president makes it a cornerstone of his foreign policy for his whole time in office, assures [them] they're with them all the way. And another president comes in, and you know the rest of that story,' Herrington says. He leans back in his chair and looks out of the window, across the shimmering California suburbs. 'I think, 'Here we go again'.'
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Yahoo
‘MAGA Lumberjack' granted bond reduction hearing for 2023 Limestone Co. rape charges
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A Madison man, given the name 'MAGA Lumberjack' from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, has a hearing to reduce his bond for rape charges out of Limestone County in 2023. Dillon Herrington, 33, is charged with rape in 2023. According to court documents, in Jan. 2024, Herrington was indicted by a grand jury for raping a woman who was incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated. In January 2025, documents show his jury trial date was scheduled for June 23. During an Aniah's Law hearing on Jan. 5, 2024, Limestone County Circuit Judge Chadwick Wise ordered Herrington to be held without bond pending further court action. Court records obtained by News 19 show that on March 4, Herrington's attorneys filed a motion to set a reasonable bond. They say bond was not considered in the Jan. 2024 hearing because of a pending a federal matter against him. However, Herrington was granted a Certificate of Pardon regarding his federal case on or about Feb. 25. He has since served 431 days in the Limestone County Detention Center. If bail were set, Herrington's attorneys say he could make bail in the amount of $10,000. The attorneys ask the court to set Herrington's bond to this amount or some other amount they determine reasonable, and that Herrington be 'released from custody upon satisfaction of said bail.' On April 8, Limestone County Circuit Court Judge Chadwick Wise granted the motion and Herrington is to appear in front of the court for a bond reduction hearing on May 8. Herrington's time in court started in 2021 when he was accused of throwing a 4-by-4 piece of lumber at police and hurling a police barricade as part of charges that allege he impeded and intimidated law enforcement during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This prompted his nickname online as the 'MAGA Lumberjack.' His federal charges were dropped in Jan. 2023 'without prejudice.' Following a request by federal prosecutors, Herrington entered a guilty plea as part of the agreement. Following his plea, Herrington was sentenced to 37 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
