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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Yahoo
One dead in multi-vehicle crash on Missouri Route 6
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A 49-year-old woman is dead following a four-vehicle crash Monday on Missouri Route 6, near Bessie Ellison Elementary. The multi-vehicle crash around occurred around 3:30 p.m. as a 49-year-old Clarksdale, Missouri, woman was traveling east on State Route 6 in a 2017 Lincoln MKZ and crossed the center line, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Her vehicle struck the rear driver's side of a 2021 Nissan Rouge occupied by a 63-year-old St. Joseph woman and a 9-year-old girl, of St. Joseph. The Nissan went off the roadway and hit a concrete barrier. The 63-year-old and 9-year-old sustained minor injuries. The driver of the Lincoln then went off the roadway, struck a concrete barrier, returned to the highway, crossed the center line and clipped the rear driver's side of a 2016 Ford F150. The Ford was driven by a 44-year-old St. Joseph man who was not injured. After hitting the Ford, the 49-year-old driver struck the front of a 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe driver by a 37-year-old St. Joseph woman. A 9-year-old boy, who sustained moderate injuries, and 12-year-old girl, who had minor injuries, were passengers in the Tahoe. The 49-year-old Clarksdale woman was pronounced dead at Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph, according to the crash report. All occupants and drivers in the crash were wearing seat belts, except the 37-year-old St. Joseph woman. The Missouri Department of Transportation and law enforcement closed down State Route 6 from Route W to Hurlingen Road for several hours Monday night.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Yahoo
Illinois man killed Wednesday night in Cobb County near Busbee, Barrett parkways
The Brief Cobb County police responded to a fatal pedestrian collision Wednesday night near George Busbee Parkway and Ernest Barrett Parkway. The incident occurred around 8:51 p.m., prompting the department's STEP Unit to take over the investigation. Authorities say an Illinois man was attempting to run across the parkway when he fell in front of a vehicle, killing him in the crash. COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Cobb County police are investigating a fatal pedestrian collision that occurred Wednesday night near the intersection of George Busbee Parkway and Ernest Barrett Parkway. What we know Officers were dispatched to the scene around 8:51 p.m. following reports of a person struck by a vehicle. When they arrived, they confirmed that the incident had resulted in a fatality. The department's Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) Unit responded to the scene to lead the investigation. According to officials, 67-year-old Illinois resident Reginald Williams was running across the parkway outside the crosswalk when he stumbled and fell in front of a Nissan Rouge that was traveling southbound. The driver was not able to stop the vehicle in time, leading to a crash. Williams was pronounced dead at the scene. What you can do The crash remains under investigation. If you have any information about the crash, call the Cobb County Police Department at (770) 499-3987.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Yahoo
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office asks for help finding missing man
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office are concerned for the safety of a man they say is missing. Michael Woodard, 37, is missing according to a JCSO Facebook post from Wednesday afternoon. He is approximately 5'8″ and 200 pounds with red/auburn hair and hazel eyes. Man killed, driver charged after crash on North Broadway He has a tattoo of 'Christian' on one arm, a tattoo of 'Alexander' on the other and a tattoo of a Pitbull on his outer calf. JCSO described him as having facial hair and glasses. He may be driving a silver Nissan Rouge with the tag 1UF516. JCSO asked people with information to call 865-471- 6000 extension 1105. This is a developing story. or for updates. Authorities say nearly 400 people go missing in Tennessee each year. That's five people for every 100,000. Check this list of people missing from East Tennessee to see if you can help locate someone. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Yahoo
Two arrested in ‘high risk' New Orleans drug busts
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Two men have been arrested following two 'high risk' drug busts that occurred in the Bayou St. John neighborhood of New Orleans and the Little Woods neighborhood of New Orleans East. According to the New Orleans Police Department, investigators with multiple law enforcement agencies executed high-risk search warrants on homes in the 3200 block of St. Peter Street and the 7500 block of Means Avenue on April 8. 10-year-old boy killed in Terrytown crash As a result of these searches, 44-year-old Keenan Robinson and 43-year-old Alphonse Smith were arrested. They're wanted on the following charges: Schedule I possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Schedule I possession with intent to distribute ecstasy. Possession with intent to distribute heroin. Schedule II possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Schedule II possession with intent to distribute powder cocaine. Schedule II possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Schedule II possession with intent to distribute tapentadol. Schedule II possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. Schedule IV possession with intent to distribute carisoprodol. Relative to illegal carrying of a firearm while unlawfully in the possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Relative to drug paraphernalia. Relative to illegal possession of stolen firearms. Relative to illegal possession of things (vehicle.) Schedule III possession with intent to distribute buprenorphine. Additionally, investigators allegedly found the following contraband during the searches: Six firearms, one being stolen, $3,476, marijuana (5 pounds,) heroin (90 grams,) crystal meth (1.45 pounds,) 2,908 tapentadol pills, fentanyl powder (100 grams,) ecstasy/suspected fentanyl pills (1.85 pounds,) naloxone (170 grams,) 100 carisoprodol tablets, crack/powder cocaine (101 grams,) methamphetamine (30 grams) and a stolen black Nissan Rouge. Anyone with additional information that could help in this case is asked to call NOPD First District detectives at schoolers touring FSU when shooting broke out, principal says First 2025 measles case reported in New Orleans Autism community sounds alarms over 'harmful' RFK Jr. comments What Are the Best Places to Get an Oil Change? Two arrested in 'high risk' New Orleans drug busts Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
03-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
How Duke's Kon Knueppel Emerged From A Basketball-Crazed Family Into A Top NBA Prospect
As they prepared to watch their oldest son, Kon, compete for Duke in the NCAA tournament East Regional final last Saturday night in Newark, N.J., Chari and Kon Knueppel were busy searching the internet for flights. Their youngest boys had just won in the quarterfinals of the Lutheran middle school basketball nationals in Fort Wayne, Ind., advancing to the semifinals taking place at 11:20 a.m. local time Sunday. The Knueppels and their other two boys, both high schoolers, didn't want to miss the game. The only problem? It would cost $9,000 for the four of them to fly to Fort Wayne. The Knueppels then decided to rent a Nissan Rouge for $150. At midnight, shortly after watching Kon score a game-high 21 points and lead Duke to a victory over Alabama, the Knueppel parents and their two sons, Kager and Kinston, started driving in the SUV. Ten hours later, they arrived in Fort Wayne, exhausted but in their happy place, watching basketball. The youngest boys, Kash and Kidman, ended up winning the middle school championship, continuing a streak that began a week earlier when Kager and Kinston helped Wisconsin Lutheran High School win a state championship. This weekend in San Antonio, it is Kon's turn to go for a title. The 6-foot-7 freshman guard will be in Duke's starting lineup Saturday night when the Blue Devils face Houston in the Final Four. If they win, they will face Auburn or Florida in the championship game Monday night. 'Our March mantra has been, 'Just keep winning,' and the boys keep doing it,' Chari said. Chari has attended each of Kon's 38 games at Duke this season, spanning 11 states and thousands of miles. Kon, a school counselor, has been at nearly 20 Duke games when he can get time off work. They have seen their son, whom they refer to as Kon II (his middle name is actually II), emerge as a projected lottery pick in June's NBA draft. They understand all the work he has put in to get to that position. 'I still get chills every time he takes his warm-up off to get in that starting lineup,' Chari said. Both of Knueppel's parents were stars themselves. Chari grew up in a small town in southwestern Minnesota, 10 miles from South Dakota, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she played from 1995 to 1999. She is still the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,964 points and 16.8 points per game. She then played professionally in Greece for a year. Her brother, Jeff Nordgaard, also starred at UW-Green Bay, where he is third with 1,911 career points. The Milwaukee Bucks selected Nordgaard in the second round of the 1996 NBA draft. Nordgaard appeared in just 13 NBA games, but he spent 13 years playing professionally overseas. Meanwhile, Kon scored 2,064 points (second all-time) at Wisconsin Lutheran College, a Division III school in Milwaukee where his father, Paul, served in numerous roles over the years, including basketball and softball coach, athletics director and vice president of student affairs. After graduating in 1998, Kon and his three older brothers dominated in the prestigious Gus Macker half-court, 3-on-3 tournaments throughout the Midwest. They became known as the 'Flying Knueppel Brothers' and were inducted into the Gus Macker Hall of Fame. They had more than 40 plays, set numerous screens on every possession, shared the ball and primarily shot from the 3-point line. A grainy YouTube video shows the brothers winning a Gus Macker game in 2003 in Belding, Mich. The announcer noted that Kon, known as Konnie among his family, had recently become engaged. In August 2005, Chari gave birth to Kon II. She and her husband signed their son up for basketball in kindergarten. It didn't go well. Knueppel didn't score in any of the 10 games. 'He actually ducked a number of times when the ball was passed to him and then had the gall to tell us he didn't like sports,' Chari said. The next year, Kon took his son to a camp run by Wisconsin Lutheran High School coach Ryan Walz, his old high school teammate. 'He was like, 'Here he is. I don't know what you can do with him. He hasn't gotten into basketball yet, but he likes to read books,'' Walz said. '(Knueppel) was OK, but you could tell he didn't love basketball yet.' By second grade, Knueppel began to enjoy the sport, partly because he had played the NBA 2K video game and wanted to emulate the players. Starting in sixth grade, Chari and Kon rented a small gymnasium in Milwaukee so Knueppel could shoot every day. By then, the family had four other boys, who would tag along to the workouts. The routine continues to this day, with the boys and their parents shooting hundreds of shots each night. When Knueppel entered Wisconsin Lutheran High School, which is six blocks from the family's house, he immediately played on the varsity team. That April, he received his first scholarship offer from the University of Toledo, whose head coach, Tod Kowalczyk, is married to Chari's sister. The next month, he secured an offer from Marquette, a Big East Conference school that's five miles from home. 'When they called him and offered him, he got off the phone and he said, 'Holy smokes, I've got to get a whole lot better at basketball,'' Chari said. 'I don't want to say the pressure was on, but he realized, 'Wow, there's some great opportunities out there that are going to be coming, and I just want to make sure that I'm prepared for it.'' Over the next couple of years, Knueppel kept improving and had numerous other Division 1 college offers. Still, unlike many other stars who transfer and move away from home to play against better competition, Knueppel never considered leaving Wisconsin Lutheran. His grandparents on both sides of the family live in Milwaukee, as do his father's three brothers and sister and his mother's sister. He has about 20 cousins in the area, too. Knueppel also had a chance to play in Closed Gyms, a full-court, 5-on-5 basketball league that his father started more than 20 years ago primarily for former college players in the area. Kon, who turns 50 in October, is the oldest player in the league and still a lights-out shooter, while his sons are the youngest in the league and learn from playing against veterans. 'We wanted him to be like a normal high school kid,' his father said. 'We wanted to have those experiences with all four years with his buddies and doing homecoming and prom and all that stuff. Going somewhere else to prep school, we didn't want him to start that too early in his life. We knew that would happen with college.' Duke started showing serious interest in Knueppel in the summer after his junior season in high school. Blue Devils coach Jon Scheyer planned on watching him play at a Nike EYBL grassroots event in Atlanta in June 2023, but Knueppel had food poisoning and couldn't compete. Later that month, Scheyer saw Knueppel perform at the National Basketball Players Association Top 100 camp in Orlando, Fla. On July 2, Duke offered Knueppel a scholarship. Knueppel committed to the Blue Devils in September 2023, choosing them over four other finalists: Marquette, Wisconsin, Virginia and Alabama. While Knueppel was known for his shooting and led the EYBL regular season in scoring, the coaches from those colleges all saw him as a more versatile player and someone who could dribble, pass and defend, skills that were apparent on the grassroots circuit. 'He had an incredible feel for the game, incredible skill set and obviously his ability to shoot separates him,' said David Rebibo, a coach with the Team WhyNot grassroots program in southern California who coached against Knueppel. 'But I think what people undervalued was his athleticism. He is deceptively quick, has a really good first step and can get off the ground in a hurry, which I think shocks people at times.' Said Walz: 'Is he a fast twitch guy like some of these super, super long, athletic guys? No, that's not him. But at the same time, the coordination he has, the stop and start strength that he has, there's a lot of different ways to measure those metrics with athleticism." As a senior last year, Knueppel moved from shooting guard to point guard, averaged 25.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game and led Wisconsin Lutheran to a 30-0 record and the state title. He was named the state's top player but wasn't selected for the prestigious McDonald's high school All-American game despite being the No. 19 recruit in the Class of 2024, per the 247Sports Composite. Knueppel did compete in the Jordan Brand Classic, where he met and played with Cooper Flagg, the nation's top recruit and Duke commit. Flagg and Knueppel are now roommates and Duke's two leading scorers. Flagg, a 6-foot-9 forward and shoo-in for the top pick in June's NBA draft, was named a unanimous first team Associated Press All-American and the Atlantic Coast Conference's Player of the Year. Knueppel, meanwhile, was a second team All-ACC selection. He is second on the team with 14.4 points per game and is shooting 47.7% from the field, including 40.1% on 3-pointers. When Flagg missed two-plus games in the ACC tournament with an ankle injury, Knueppel was named the event's Most Outstanding Player, averaging 21 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists in three games. This past weekend at the NCAA tournament's East Regional, Knueppel averaged 20.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4 assists per game. Duke ran more plays for Knueppel in last Saturday's game, and he took advantage. 'I don't know if that was the plan going in or if I just got a hot hand early,' Knueppel said. 'I just tried to step up in whatever role I need to do for the team. It's not necessarily something I've thought about across the year, but just whenever I had the ball, make the right play and go from there.' Said Scheyer: 'With Kon, his versatility is huge for us, and his size. He's able to pass. He's able to finish. You feel he's always going to get off a good look because he has great pivots in the paint and great patience.' On Saturday, Knueppel will play on the biggest stage of his career when Duke (35-3) plays Houston (34-4), which has a 17-game winning streak, tops in the nation and two more than Duke. The teams are No. 1 and No. 2 in the AP poll and the top two teams in analyst Ken Pomeroy's adjusted efficiency margin metric. Duke is seeking its sixth national title and first since 2015 when the Blue Devils defeated Wisconsin in the championship game. Ten years later, the loss still stings in Knueppel's home state. 'There are a lot of people who aren't real big fans of Duke in Wisconsin,' Walz said. 'But Kon has a lot of followers here.' Walz won't be able to make it to the Final Four because his son has a game, but Knueppel's parents and two younger brothers will be there. His two brothers in high school plan on playing in an AAU tournament this weekend, so they'll miss Saturday's game. They'll attend Monday's national title game if Duke advances, though. Knueppel's four brothers are showing promise in the sport, although Walz said it's too early to project where they'll end up. For now, they can look up to Kon, who is excelling at Duke and could be among the top 10 picks in June's draft, two months before his 20th birthday. However this season ends, the family will be back in the gym on a daily basis, as always, shooting and working out and doing what they love. 'We're there instructing them, but they're doing the hard work,' Chari Knueppel said. 'We're super proud of the hard work they put in that results in all this winning we've been doing.'
