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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Motorcyclists rev up their engines to help raise awareness for veteran suicides
A pack of motorcycles rolled through Gwinnett County Tuesday as they're raising awareness for veteran suicide. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] In the parking lot of Frazier's Harley-Davidson in Buford, they're on the last leg of an important road trip. Angela White and her husband, Jason, a veteran himself, are founders of the nonprofit Riding 22 in 22. The nonprofit is a veteran suicide awareness group that's biking 22 states in 22 days. They're raising money to donate to a program that works with The Ohio State University. 'When you're out there on a back road by yourself, it's just you, the wind, and your thoughts,' said Jason White. And those bikers' thoughts are on some of our nation's veterans who need help. 'The average number of veterans who commit suicide a day is 22,' said Angela White. TRENDING STORIES: Raids uncover largest fentanyl pill operation in state history in Atlanta, Douglasville Teen thrown from home by tornado in Henry County moving to rehab facility 2 young children left in hot vehicle at Cumberland Mall, sheriff's office says; father arrested Motorcycle shops are primary stops along the way. The Whites meet new friends who help them spread the word to help those who served their country and now may need help themselves. 'I say check on a buddy. Call and say, 'Hey dude, what's up today? Been thinking about you.' Just contacting somebody can save a life sometimes,' Jason White said. Georgia is state No. 19 for the bike-riding couple. On Wednesday, the convoy heads to South Carolina. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Engadget
3 days ago
- Engadget
Sonos Ace headphones get long-awaited TrueCinema sound and more in big update
Sonos has announced a major software update for its flagship Sonos Ace headphones that brings some new features to the premium wireless cans. Chief among them is the long-awaited TrueCinema feature, which was first promised as upcoming when the headphones launched in 2024. TrueCinema uses a compatible Sonos soundbar to measure the acoustic dynamics of the room you're sitting in. It then uses that data to increase the accuracy of the spatial sound in your headphones, in the same fashion as Trueplay on Sonos speakers . The idea is for the audio the user hears to mimic that of a well-balanced surround sound system thats sits right in the room you're listening in. TV Audio Swap is also getting an update and will now support two sets of Sonos Ace headphones synced to the same compatible soundbar, where it previously supported just one set. This feature allows users to seamlessly transfer the audio from their soundbar to their headphones. The update also improves the headphones Active Noise Cancellation by leveraging on-board sensors to adapt to a user's hair, glasses or hats in real time. Using the sensors, the Sonos Ace will then compensate for sound leaks. Some improvements to call quality are also coming to Sonos Ace with the addition of SideTone, a feature that plays a user's voice back to them at low volume while on a call. The audio fidelity on phone calls has also received a bump through this update, though details on what bitrate or exactly how it was improved are not available. Jason White, head of software at Sonos, said the company's goal has been to share meaningful software updates that deliver new enhancements to existing products. 'Our goal has always been to create products that earn their place in people's lives for years, and this Sonos Ace update is a great example of that. It proves that your best tech investment doesn't need to be your newest, it just has to be built right,' White said. This update launches globally today and is available through the Sonos app. If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
With budget approved, Mississippi lawmakers look ahead to 2026 session
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi lawmakers passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2026 during a special session. Their eyes are now on the 2026 Legislative Session. During the special session, lawmakers passed more than 100 bills for the state's $7 billion budget. Before the session started, Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann (R-Miss.) said House and Senate leadership had an agreement with Gov. Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) about what needed to be done. 'The House didn't do that. You know, three of those bills were off the wall and kill one. They're supposed to pass. So it's just, it was difficult. And we had to get the governor back involved in all this, so we didn't have another special session,' said Hosemann. House Speaker Jason White (R-Miss.) said the House got close to completing their work in one day. Mississippi lawmakers pass $7 billion budget in special session 'We passed all the bills. We were done with them. We saw no reason not to go home. Our folks have been here and worked long and hard. I won't apologize, and I won't check with the Senate on what the House may or may not have permission to do,' White stated. Both chambers will turn their attention to the 2026 Legislative session. Some of the priorities will include school choice and revitalizing the capital city. 'Water and sewer for our capital city. We want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem or standing in the way, but be part of the solution. If there's a way that the state can play a role there, we want to be a willing partner. We're excited about new leadership for the City of Jackson,' said White. Another priority for the Senate will be teacher pay raises. 'You will see us propose a significant increase on our teacher pay. Well, how did it how did we get to where we are? We had great teachers teaching good people,' said Hosemann. The Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) of Mississippi is still on the table. White said one of the priorities for the House is dedicated funding for the system. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Telegraph
11-04-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
‘I was one of Man Utd fans tear-gassed at Lyon – police treated us like cattle'
Manchester United supporters claim they were 'tear-gassed' by French riot police after being refused access to the toilet in scenes branded 'completely unacceptable' by furious fans groups. Around 3,000 United fans were in France on Thursday night to watch their side's Europa League quarter-final first leg against Lyon at the Groupama Stadium. With supporters told they would be 'held back' for an hour after the final whistle on safety grounds, many sought to go to the toilet during the close stages of the game only to be blocked from doing so by riot police armed with batons and shields. Around 10 to 15 fans were said to have gained entry to the concourses in an effort to use the facilities but were then targeted with tear gas by police officers when one supporter tried to force his way into the toilets. James Young, 22, from Stretford, was one of the United fans at the game and condemned the actions of police. 'It was terrible,' he said. 'It's another example of treating football fans like cattle and it's not even the first time the French authorities have done this. 'We saw how Liverpool fans were treated before the Champions League final [in Paris in 2022]. The French authorities just seem to have a massive problem with football fans. They don't know how to police football fans at all. Even the United stewards were confused as to why the French police weren't co-operating. 'Most people affected were crying and rubbing their eyes and noses because of how strong it was. I was stood at the top of the away end and could taste it from where I was.' Denied access to the toilets, some fans were said to have been left with no choice but to urinate on walls in the stands. #MUFC Tear gas @ManUtd United fans. Unbelievable. 2025 and that is happening at a football game. @ISLO_MUST — Jason White (@jaydeblanc) April 10, 2025 Jason White, 50, a long-standing United season-ticket holder, videoed footage of the scenes on his phone. 'It's taking a sledgehammer to hammer a screw,' he said. 'It's disproportionate. Lots of innocent people have been affected.' United said they were in the process of 'gathering facts' in order to 'establish a clear picture of what happened'. Uefa officials said they were awaiting official reports from the game. 'Police escalation cannot be justified' Ronan Evain, executive director of Football Supporters Europe, hit out at the heavy-handed actions of police. 'It is completely unacceptable that the police would think it's OK to stop people from going to the toilets, and then the reaction to it is completely disproportionate,' Evain said. 'It is human nature that people will lose their temper if the police take away basic elements of human dignity like being allowed to go to the toilet. 'The police [are] responsible for creating this tension, for escalating and instead of taking the only logical decision in this situation, which is to permit people to go to the toilet, even if it's only small groups. That they're choosing to escalate this even further can't be justified.' Duncan Drasdo, the chief executive of the Manchester United Supporters Trust, was at the game and said it was his 'worst experience in terms of policing and restrictions on freedom in 34 years of European away travel'. MUST has sent out a feedback form for fans in order to gather further testimony regarding the events. Mr Drasdo said they would be working with the FSE and 'exploring potential for a legal challenge to the way the French authorities approach policing and security of away fans'. 'It's totally over the top,' Drasdo said. 'The host club should not be given licence to host matches if they cannot guarantee the safety of away supporters.' The problems were compounded by a series of logistical issues around the game that resulted in some fans arriving late for kick-off or missing the game entirely and many being left stranded after the match. Supporters were told they had to collect security wrist bands at the Eurexpo conference centre situated in a business park eight miles from Lyon city centre and from there board a shuttle to the game. However, a failure on the city's metro system left many fans stranded or forced to fork out on expensive taxi rides. After the customary one-hour 'hold back' at the end of the game, fans were then bussed back to the conference centre only to find most of the tram and metro services had stopped running by the time they arrived. Young said he did not get back to his hotel until 2am, having set off for the game at 5pm, and said he knows of fans who just abandoned watching the game altogether because of the travel and organisational chaos. MUST branded the arrangements 'draconian'. United were not responsible for the measures but apologised to fans for the 'significant inconvenience this will cause to some of your plans'. In a statement, the Rhone Prefecture, a government administration body for the department responsible for implementing public policies and ensuring order and security, defended the actions of police. They claimed United fans 'attempted to force their way through the security measures deployed by the national police'. 'Projectiles were also reported to be thrown at the police,' the statement read. 'The police therefore used moderate, proportionate and necessary force (tear gas) to restore calm. All the English supporters were then led to the buses to leave the stadium. It was a very brief moment and that the rest of the event went well overall.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cities may not receive funding for special projects from MS Legislature this year. See why
As the session draws closer to its scheduled end, as of Monday afternoon, legislative leadership had not yet come to an agreement to revive more than 100 bills dealing with the state's $7 billion budget or whether to fund a local projects bill. If no compromise is met on the budget, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves will have to call lawmakers back to Jackson prior to July 1, when the state's fiscal year starts, to draw up a budget and fund the government. In order to avoid it, both chambers would need to agree on suspending the in-house rules of the legislature to extend revenue bill deadlines and revive budget proposals. That is not likely to happen, according to members of leadership in both the House and Senate. "That would be my urged course of action… but it takes two," House Speaker Jason White, R-West, told reporters on Monday. "If they don't want to do the budget, that'll be their business. It won't be because we don't have time, and it won't be because we can't do it in an orderly fashion. (Senate leadership) is upset about other things that have happened this session." If it does come to a special session outside of the regular one, which ends on April 6, it would allow Gov. Tate Reeves to set an agenda and lawmakers would have to work within that confine. It would also cost the state tens of thousands of dollars per day. Lawmakers scuttle budget: Special session imminent as Mississippi lawmakers scuttle state budget proposals. Read why On Saturday, the legislature essentially came to full stop when House lawmakers did not show up to workout final proposals for the state budget. White said last week he did not want to just quickly pass a budget on a day when members would not have the chance to thoroughly vet the bill. Senate leaders including Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann told reporters they had tried since last Monday to begin budget negotiations with the House but were only met with on Thursday and Friday. Those meetings resulted in about 70 out of 105 handshake agreements on final budget figures, but it was never put on paper and signed by House members, killing the budget by a Saturday evening deadline. Partly as a result, several senators told the Clarion Ledger they would not support extending the session, including Senate Minority Leader Derrick Simmons, who said he would tell his fellow Democrats to vote against a suspension of the rules. Of 20 senators polled Saturday, most said they would vote against extending the session to has out the budget this week. Two said they would only vote to suspend the rules to consider a budget proposal but nothing else, and three said they could not know how they would vote until it proposed. "The constitution requires us to come here for 90 days to do the people's business, and Senate Democrats, we feel like we've done that, even though we have accepted our wins and our losses, more losses than wins this session," Simmons said. "We don't want to create a situation where people can pick and choose when they want to work." At the same time, because of some of the same political maneuvering that has killed the state's budget by a legislative deadline, so too does it appear to be stalling a bill the legislature passes every year, dubbed the Christmas tree bill. This legislation is typically used to funnel state dollars toward local projects. That funding amount usually falls between $100 and $400 million every year. Tax cut signing: Mississippi governor signs income tax elimination bill. How are you affected? Several senators last week told the Clarion Ledger they didn't want to pass a projects bill this year due to several factors. One of them was not wanting to negotiate with the House on items beyond the tax cut error, which saw the House run with blatant errors in a Senate tax cut plan that made it more akin with House leadership's goal of quickly eliminating the income tax. White in an interview with reporters on Monday chastised the Senate for no longer wanting to consider the projects bill, pegging it as a method to fund much-needed local projects around the state. This year, the City of Jackson also has tens of millions of dollars in local funding requests for projects to improve the local airport, parks and more. "Now they're going to kick (local municipalities) in the teeth without giving them any local projects for roads, other capital improvements throughout their cities and counties," White said. "I think it's short sighted, because you're upset over whatever issues around whether or not you really wanted to cut taxes and whether we cut them or not, and because of that, you're going to penalize local governments not do capital projects." Grant McLaughlin covers the Legislature and state government for the Clarion Ledger. He can be reached at gmclaughlin@ or 972-571-2335. This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: state budget and local project funding fall to wayside as session nears end
