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Sunrise Anchor & Reporter Team USA announces Olympic mountain bike team in Bentonville Updated: June 10, 2024 8:21 PM CDT They can’t afford it. Brett from Fort Smith brings you 40/29 news. “For some, the road to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris starts in Bentonville!” 40/29’s Phil Reed has more details on the big announcement that will be made there tomorrow. Tomorrow, USA Cycling will announce the men’s and women’s Olympic mountain bike teams. It will be at 10 a.m. at the Leisure in Bentonville. The city has partnered with USA Cycling in 2022 to designate Bentonville as the…

After the Oklahoma Press Association, staff from The Trend gathered together to present their many award-winning works. trend For the first time, the newspaper won eight awards in the Oklahoma Press Association’s (OPA) annual Better Newspaper contest. OPA is an organization that supports and advocates for Oklahoma’s 180 newspapers. The annual awards ceremony took place on Saturday, June 8, and brought together journalists from across the state to talk about the world of journalism. The event featured an awards ceremony to recognize journalists who have made significant contributions to the field. The evening began with a networking reception. trendstaff engaged…

Daytona Beach, Fla., June 10, 2024 – The LPGA Foundation is pleased to announce that it has received the Best Engagement for Good award in the Impact category at the prestigious Hashtag Sports Awards. The award was presented to the LPGA Foundation’s LPGA*USGA Women’s Golf “One Million MORE Girls” campaign, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at expanding access and opportunity for young female golfers. The Hashtag Sports Awards are hosted by the Engagement Academy of Sports Entertainment and celebrate excellence in engagement within the sports, media and entertainment industries. The LPGA’s win highlights the organization’s commitment to inspire and empower the…

Four lecturers from Cornell University in Iowa were injured in a “serious accident” at a park in China, the university said Monday.The instructors were teaching in China as part of a partnership program with a local university and were wounded during a daytime visit to the park, university president Jonathan Brand said in a statement. The instructors were accompanying faculty from the university’s partner school in China at the time of the attack, Brand added. No students at the small liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, were participating in the program at the time. A State Department spokesman told…

Is this really a spiteful, in-your-face disregard?Was leaving Caitlin Clark off the U.S. team one of the most egregious mistakes the Olympic selection committee has made? Is Clark clearly more deserving than the 12 women who supposedly made the team before her?Caitlin Clark herself doesn’t seem to think so.”I’m really rooting for the girls that are on the team,” Clarke told reporters on Sunday, acknowledging reports that she had been left off the team. “I know it’s the most competitive team in the world and I know it could have gone either way with or without me on the team.…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, already facing criticism for flying politically charged flags in his home, came under new scrutiny Monday after he was apparently secretly recorded discussing America’s political divisions in an unusual sting operation.A liberal documentary filmmaker posted on X (formerly Twitter) an audio recording he purportedly filmed of Justice Alito posing as a religious conservative at the Supreme Court Historical Association’s annual dinner held at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 3rd.After some prompting, she caught Alito appeared to back her up, saying of the country’s polarized politics, “one side is going to win.”…

IDEA Bank at Troy University has partnered with the Pike County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Troy to launch a seven-part Small Business Summer Workshop series to provide local business owners with the tools they need to succeed. “Workshops were the most requested resource in a recent survey we conducted with our business community, with over 200 responses, so we quickly added seven more to our summer schedule,” said IDEA Bank Director Lynn Firmin George. “When local businesses thrive, the entire city and county benefit, and supporting those business owners is a key part of the mission of…

“You do not know what you are witnessing. This is World War III.”I was told this as I sat down for my first cricket match. It was India vs. Pakistan, and the fan sitting next to me was explaining the meaning of the rivalry. Rushabh, who traveled from Chicago to New York to support India, said beating Pakistan would be just as amazing as winning the tournament. The tournament in question was the Men’s T20 World Cup, hosted by the United States in partnership with the West Indies. It was the first time a cricket event of this magnitude had…

Mortgage lock-in transaction volume increased about 7% in May as borrowers addressed the following issues: Continuing interest rate fluctuations. Mortgage locks in May rose sharply to 6.78% from 1.87% in April, according to secondary market services provider Mortgage Capital Trading Ltd. On a year-on-year basis, the amount of mortgages locked last month also increased by 19.84%.By loan type, interest rate and term refinances increased 18.21% month-on-month, cash-outs increased 4.99%, and purchase-fixed increased 6.54%. Mortgage borrowers continue to face unpredictable interest rate fluctuations, with rates trending higher again this spring. The end of 2023 forecast offered a ray of hope to…

A judge on Monday sentenced Rebecca Grossman to 15 years to life in prison for speeding through a Westlake Village crosswalk and hitting and killing two brothers four years ago, calling her actions “reckless and unquestionably negligent.”Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Brandolino sentenced the philanthropist to an additional three years in prison, to run concurrently for fleeing the scene of the fatal accident, after listening to an angry cry from Nancy Iskander, the mother of 11-year-old Mark Iskander and 8-year-old Jacob Iskander, who demanded a punishment commensurate with the deaths of her two sons.”She’s a coward,” Iskander said…