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Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Sport
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LSC and defender Lucas Stauffer part ways
LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — Lexington Sporting Club announced on Thursday that it has mutually parted ways with Kentucky native and defender Lucas Stauffer. Stauffer joined the club ahead of the 2025 season. Both sides mutually agreed upon the decision after discussions between Stauffer and the club. LSC and defender Lucas Stauffer part ways Alijah Arenas, son of NBA star Gilbert Arenas and USC commit, in coma after crash Smarty Jones captured hearts on the 2004 Triple Crown trail. He's been elected to the Hall of Fame 'We care deeply about our players and their futures, both on and off the pitch,' said Head Coach Terry Boss. 'Lucas is a top professional, and we want what's best for him as he continues his journey. He'll always be part of the Lexington SC family, and we wish him all the success in the world moving forward.' Read more of the latest Kentucky news LSC ended its press release thanking Stauffer for all of his efforts and time with the club. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Health
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Buddy Check 3: Jeff Stauffer
BLUFFTON, S.C. (WSAV) — 1% of men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. In April's Buddy Check 3 report, an email to WSAV's Tina Tyus-Shaw from a Bluffton man led to a face to face meeting about being in that 1%. After 30 years in health care, Jeff Stauffer and his wife Linda retired and decided to make Bluffton their home. The move was something they had been looking forward to, but not long after they settled into their home he discovered he had breast cancer when he was on the mend from a shoulder injury. 'My arm was in a sling with that little cushion behind it,' said Stauffer. 'When I was finally able to take it off, get in the shower I noticed a lump in my armpit, and I also noticed one right next to my sternum.' Having a background in health care, he knew all about breast cancer. In addition, his own mother had the disease. What he didn't realize is that he was one of only 1% of men who get it. 'I didn't have any pain because all of the nerves were cut,' Stauffer said. 'I had a total mastectomy. I didn't have to get radiation or the more traditional intravenous chemo, just take hormone therapy tamoxifen. They said you're lucky, you're on a pill for 5 years.' As he navigates the after effects of his treatment, he continues to take medication to help keep him in remission. Now, this Air Force Veteran is living a full, happy life. On this particular day, he reflected on the life of his father, a World War II Veteran. 'Don't ignore any unusual sensations if you just happen to touch your chest or anything,' Stauffer said. 'You're not going to feel it just sitting in the chair. You've got to go in and find it. Even if you go to the doctor and it's a false alarm, better going to the doctor than ignoring something.' Stauffer says he's most thankful for his treatment at Beaufort Memorial Hospital. 'My primary care Dr. Wallace, and my surgeon Dr. Deanna Mansker up at Beaufort Memorial. They've all been great. Once a year, I have a mammogram. She does the breast exam on the other side to make sure nothing is coming up there.' Cancer nurse navigators there said that national guidelines indicate that breast cancer usually occurs in men between the ages of 60 and 70 years old and make up less than 1% of all cases of breast cancer. In addition, they suggest all men should look for lumps that can be felt or discharge from the nipple. If you have those, visit your doctor to get checked out. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Politics
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Teachers confront lawmakers at 3rd House
ELKHART — Educators are confronting legislators over public school funding and the threat of seeing the U.S. Department of Education gutted. The Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce hosted its March Third House session on Friday. Reps. Joanna King, Doug Miller and Timothy Wesco along with Sens. Blake Doriot and Linda Rogers spoke about bills that are in the works and heard questions from the audience. Many attendees wanted to know if lawmakers had thought about the consequences of allowing the Department of Education to be dismantled, as President Donald Trump is poised to do. It's something Republicans have been eager to see since the moment the department was created under President Jimmy Carter in 1980, with Ronald Reagan campaigning the same year on destroying the department along with scrapping bilingual education. Beth Kallimani, a retired teacher of 40 years, said as many as half of her students in Baugo Community Schools received free and reduced lunch. She said she sees it as a moral imperative to meet the needs of disadvantaged students. 'That means that they don't have a lot of money that they can use to spend on vouchers and private schools. Do we ignore them? That's what I'm talking about. Those are the kids that need us,' she said. 'My brother and I became public school teachers because, as followers of Christ, we have to take care of those less fortunate, and those were our kids. ... My question is, how do you meet their needs?' The legislators did not respond. Laura Stauffer, an Elkhart High School teacher, warned that demolishing the Department of Education opens the door for the re-segregation of schools. She pointed to the day federal marshals escorted 6-year-old Ruby Bridges past a crowd of protestors screaming racial slurs and into a whites-only New Orleans elementary school in 1960. White parents pulled their children out of the school and only one teacher remained behind to teach Bridges. 'Abolishing the Department of Education is detrimental to our students across the country,' Stauffer said. 'When we look at ... Ruby Bridges, who had to be escorted into her school by armed guards because the local school board did not want her there, that is what we are facing if we lose the Department of Education.' The Department of Education investigates complaints of discrimination based on race, immigration status, sex, disability or religion through its Office for Civil Rights. Stauffer said the department is needed to ensure that all schools are held to the same standard. 'We love our Elkhart school board. But not everyone who sits on a school board understands how to teach and how our children learn. If we allow only our school board to decide what and how our students learn, our students are not going to learn,' she said. 'We need the Department of Education to regulate and make sure that all students across Indiana and across the country are being held to the same expectations.' She asked audience members to raise their hands if they had worked for or attended a public school, or had children who attended, and many of them did. There was also applause after she asked why funding doesn't match the share of the population who go to public school. 'As we know, 90 percent of students attend public schools. Why do we not get 90 percent of the funding? Until we hold private and charter schools to the same expectations as our public schools, our public schools need to be receiving the funding. So please tell me why we think that some of our students are more important than others.' Wesco responded by pointing out that the Department of Education was formed 20 years after 'the Ruby Bridges situation.' 'These issues can be resolved without the Department of Education,' he said. 'Although I'm not a federal lawmaker, so you can take that up with federal lawmakers. But I wanted to point that out.' King said she sent her own children to public school but recognizes that it's not a good fit for everyone. She said she believes public schools do receive the share of funding that Stauffer was asking. 'It's important to allow parents to make those decisions,' King said. 'We are all better when we work together for the common good of what the next generation can bring.' Wesco added that he was homeschooled and felt that children like him were being left out of the conversation. 'I didn't decide not to attend public school, my parents made the decision. Am I not important? Am I not worthy of the same level of support as anyone else? So thank you very much, but we're spending on average of $12,000 a year for educating public school students, and for homeschool students like me they're still getting zero,' he said. 'We're happy with that, but please don't act like we don't exist, we're not important, we don't matter.'
