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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
Opelousas police seize drugs, guns after receiving tip
OPELOUSAS, La. () — A tip sent by the public led to the arrest of two men, one being a convicted felon who was out on bond. Opelousas police arrested Devolon Chevis and Devonte Poullard after an investigation revealed they were in possession of a firearm and illegal drugs. According to authorities, a narcotics investigation was conducted in the Park Avenue area in Opelousas. Officials said they were acting on information provided by a confidential informant that claimed Chevis, who is a convicted felon that was out on bond, was allegedly in possession of a firearm. Officials located the vehicle Chevis was operating and attempted to initiate a traffic stop. Officials said Chevis refused to stop, driving into the backyard of a residence. Police observed two individuals fleeing the vehicle into a nearby wooded area. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now With the help of a K-9 unit, police successfully located Chevis and the second suspect, Poullard hiding in the wooded area. Both individuals were taken into custody. During the search of the vehicle, police recovered: A Glock 9mm pistol An AR-15 rifle Approximately 22 bags labeled with 'Mighty Mouse,' containing THC-infused gummies Roughly one pound of hydroponic marijuana Approximately half a pound of synthetic marijuana Anyone with additional information about illegal activities is encouraged to contact the . Homebuying season: 4 things to know about the 2025 housing market Opelousas police seize drugs, guns after receiving tip Cajuns and Chants to face off in SBC Softball Semifinals REVIEW: 'Clown in a Cornfield' is campy, bloody fun NBA Hall-of-Famer Paul Pierce says he walked 20 miles in robe to pay off on-air bet Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
‘The Wrestling World Has Taken A Hit Today'
Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Wrestlers stick together. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) super prospect Bo Nickal suffered his first professional loss when Reinier de Ridder delivered a devastating knee to the liver in the co-main event of UFC Des Moines last night (Sat., May 3, 2025) from inside Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa (watch highlights). Advertisement While some fans mocked Nickal's 'humbling' setback, former UFC two-division champion and fellow elite wrestler Henry Cejudo offered words of encouragement to the three-time NCAA Division I national champion from Penn State University via social media. 'The wrestling world has taken a hit today,' Cejudo wrote. 'Keep your head up @NoBickal, this is not the end. I got finished by Demetrious Johnson with a similar body shot, and I went on to avenge that loss and become champion. You are capable of doing the same. Get back on your horse, brother.' Indeed, Cejudo's own journey mirrors Nickal's setback. At UFC 197, 'Mighty Mouse' destroyed him with knees in his first title shot (watch it); however, Cejudo rebounded to become the fourth simultaneous two-divisional champion. The difference is that Cejudo had 11 fights under his belt when he faced his first loss, bringing more experience than Nickal, who is still raw and early in his mixed martial arts (MMA) career. Advertisement As 'Triple C' emphasized, Nickal's journey is far from over. He is a phenomenal athlete with untapped potential in mixed martial arts and has the tools to rebound stronger. To accelerate his growth, Nickal should aim to compete more frequently than his current pace of two fights per year, gaining the experience needed to sharpen his skills. Maybe he should fight 'cans' again? For complete UFC Des Moines results, coverage, and highlights click HERE. More from
The Guardian
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Don't be afraid of what you don't know': the inimitable genius of Andy Kaufman
The stereotype of comedians is that they're compulsively 'on', finding it difficult to revert to normal off-stage behavior when so much of their life revolves around getting laughs from a crowd. That makes Andy Kaufman particularly unusual, even this many years later: he is a comedian who worked so hard to raise questions about whether or not he was 'on' that those questions lingered well after his death. The creator of characters such as Foreign Man, who would unexpectedly break into a spot-on Elvis impression; Latka Gravas, the sitcom version of that character he did for the beloved show Taxi; the grotesquely abusive lounge singer never-was Tony Clifton; and the misogynist woman-wrestling showboat named, uh, Andy Kaufman constructed so many clever hoaxes to house his work that many assumed he must not actually have died young at the age of 35. (Some of his collaborators insisted on perpetuating that illusion, though his death certificate is widely viewable.) The new documentary Thank You Very Much isn't strictly necessary to recount Kaufman's legendary antics. He appears as a major figure in plenty of books and films, whether directly about his own life (including Man on the Moon, for which Jim Carrey inhabited Kaufman so deeply that he had his own Netflix documentary about his process) or chronicling the institutions he touched along the way (like just about any book covering the history of Saturday Night Live). Just last fall, Nicholas Braun joined Carrey in playing Kaufman on the big screen; he recreated the comedian's famous Mighty Mouse bit, where Kaufman timidly puts on a recording of the Mighty Mouse theme song and gathers the nerve to lip-sync along with a single line, as it appeared on the premiere episode of SNL. What Alex Braverman's film tackles is the comprehensiveness of the Kaufman project, placing it in a proper and personal context. Kaufman, a longtime practitioner of transcendental meditation, seemed to find a form of spiritual enlightenment in his commitment as a comedian, and clearly put a lot of thought into this aspect of his work. (There's even footage of a young Kaufman asking Maharishi Mahesh Yogi whether achieving a kind of inner peace would eliminate the need for entertainment and entertainers.) Perhaps more so than the entertaining but somewhat conventional Carrey-starring biopic, Thank You Very Much is also upfront about how alienating Kaufman could be – to audience members, to casual observers, even to co-workers – while at the same time never framing his work as pure endurance tests. There's an evident glee in his blurring the lines between reality and fiction, even when he does his best to hide it under voices or makeup. Thank You Very Much doesn't depend on the same old clips, and watching all of this Kaufman footage emphasizes how inimitable the man was. Eventually, his performance-art take on comedy does start to reveal some descendants, if somewhat superficial ones. Kaufman's Foreign Man shtick feels like it might have influenced early Adam Sandler, when his bizarre little voices and bursts of nonsense might have made audiences wonder if this is a near-amateur or a polished professional having a laugh (and in a way, it was both, though even early on, Sandler would give himself away with endearing little breaks in the facade). The later work of Tim Heidecker, where he plays 'himself' in the ongoing (and weirdly intricate) On Cinema series and in a standup special that spoofs hacky comics by convincingly performing a certain type of familiar routine, has a clear Kaufman influence as well; it similarly requires more than passive consumption in order to fully appreciate the joke. What's more difficult to replicate is Kaufman's dedication to his strangest whims. (When Tim Heidecker passes away, it will probably not kick off a 30-year ambiguity over whether he's genuinely dead.) The closest we have to that is something weirder and scarier, a kind of inverse to Kaufman's thoughtful deception. In place of comedians who prompt the audience to wonder whether or not to take him at face value, it is far more common to see comedians who prod their audience to question the very nature of reality around them, but with comedians as their truth-telling, regular folks, and essentially trustworthy guides. The most obvious example, of course, is Joe Rogan, who 'admits' to not being an expert while using his approachability to steer his audience in the direction of rejecting medical science or promoting baseless conspiracy theories. But the flipping of Kaufman's brilliant gambits, where uncertainty about reality remains but the comedian is your trusted guide through that uncertainty, could apply to any number of comedians who cultivate parasocial relationships with their loyal listeners. It's like a lazy man's version of Kaufman: all the questioning, none of the performance. This allows the comedian to risk little while amassing followers; Kaufman repeatedly risked his reputation – as well as whatever following he had gathered from Taxi or SNL. It's wild to consider that in 1982, Kaufman participated in a bit on SNL that had audience members calling in to decide whether he would continue to pop up on the show. He lost the vote, appeared once more, never again – despite the fact that some of his colleagues in the doc claim that he was double-crossed by producer Dick Ebersol, who had grown tired of his antics. You'd never know either away from Kaufman himself. Today, it's far more common for comedians to simply court a persecution complex. There's a lovely clip showcased in Thank You Very Much where Kaufman offers a rare reassurance to his audience: 'Don't be afraid of what you don't know.' Today, that kind of mantra might have an entirely different meaning, used to promote a false sense of expertise from entertainers: don't hesitate to speak up about topics you know less than nothing about! Given that, the way Kaufman was able to use the unknown as the existential engine of his entire career now seems all the more miraculous. Thank You Very Much is out in US cinemas on 28 March with a UK date to be announced
