At least 7 shot, all under age 17, in mass shooting near Indianapolis mall
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Updated Sun, March 31, 2024 at 6:18 PM CDT·2 min read



At least 7 shot, all under age 17, in mass shooting near Indianapolis mall
Seven children were injured in a shooting outside a mall in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday night, police said.

Indianapolis police officers were on patrol when they heard gunshots just after 11:30 p.m. and arrived on a block outside Circle Centre Mall. According to police, officers saw six people injured with gunshot wounds.

All of the victims were ages 12 to 17, police said.

Emergency medical services took the children to hospitals, and a seventh person, also under 18, arrived at a hospital on their own. One victim was in critical condition, and the six others were stable.

Tanya Terry, the police department's deputy chief of operations, described the shooting as "deeply concerning."

"Once again, we have a situation where young people are resolving conflict with firearms, and it has to stop," Terry said.

Terry told reporters that officers have noticed a pattern of young people leaving the mall after it closes at 7 p.m. and circulating in the nearby downtown area for hours. She said that if parents don't know where their 12-year-olds are at 11:30 p.m. before Easter, that should "be a priority."

"I think everybody sees the messages in the evening at 10 o'clock, 'Parents, do you know where your children are?'" Terry said, referring to an old public service announcement. "And we would ask for our parents to get involved in what their children are out doing, especially at these hours of the evening."

Police have made no arrests and provided no information about a potential suspect. Detectives have begun an aggravated assault investigation, police said.

It is the third shooting in three weekends in Indianapolis, according to NBC affiliate WTHR.

Last Sunday, five people, including an officer, were killed in a shooting in the east side of the city, the station reported. An officer shot and killed the suspect in that case.

And one person was killed and five other people were injured in a shooting at a bar on March 16, according to The Indianapolis Star. A suspect was arrested and charged after police were able to identify a suspect using security video from inside the bar, the newspaper reported.

Stand for the national anthem if you are “willing” - complete BS.

Ratings for the women’s NCAA tournament continued to soar with Sunday’s championship game.

The matchup between Iowa and South Carolina brought in 18.7 million viewers across ABC and ESPN, according to Nielsen fast national data, becoming the second most-watched non-Olympic women’s sporting event ever on U.S. television, behind only the 2015 Women’s World Cup Final.

“With a record-setting audience of 18.7 million viewers, Sunday’s Iowa-South Carolina title game was a fitting finale to the most-viewed ever NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament,” ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said. “These exceptional athletes, coaches and teams captured our attention in unprecedented ways and it’s incumbent on all of us to keep the incredible momentum going. I’m also very proud of our talented and committed employees for how they presented this historic event.”

Well, I've screwed us all. Highs in the 60s here in KC. I drained the oil, ran all the gas out, washed off the salt, pulled the wheels and lubed the axle, lubed the gear box, changed the scraper blade, and adjusted the skid shoes of my snow blower. This all points to the worst snow the Midwest's history in about 2-3 weeks.

The question was not if the showdown between Iowa and South Carolina in the national championship game on Sunday would set a new TV viewership record for women's basketball, but rather how big the viewership numbers would be. The answer? Very, very, very big.

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The game smashed existing viewership record, with a currently reported total of 18.7 million viewers (the number is likely to tick up as final ratings information comes in). The game peaked with an astonishing 24 million viewers.

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Not so many years ago this gal was hopping trains and singing for chump change on the streets of New Orleans and Asheville. Now she’s played the Grand Ole Opry and is selling out everywhere she goes. People always complain that they don’t make country n western music like they used to, well here she is.

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Trump's net worth surges to $6.4 BILLION to make him one of the world's 500 richest people for the first time after he completed his social media company's.​

• e value of his stake in Digital World Acquisition has jumped
• 'I have a lot of cash,' Trump told reporters Monday

Donald Trump's net worth is shooting up even as he is forced to assemble piles of cash to pay court judgments – now climbing onto at least one coveted billionaire's list.

The former president's net worth has climbed to $6.4 billion following last week's announcement that Digital World Acquisition shareholders voted the special purpose acquisition company to merge with the Trump firm that owns his Truth Social platform.

After a jump in its stock price, Trump's net worth jumped by an astonishing $4 billion – which comes on top of his golf, real estate, and branding empire.

The timing couldn't be better for Trump, says he has almost $500 million in cash and has 10 days to come up with $175 million after a New York appeals court slashed a $454 court judgment against him.

Trump already has an empire that includes golf properties in Florida and Scotland, plus buildings including Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street, where Trump on Monday held a wild press conference where he said he would use cash, securities, or a bond to pay the $175 million amount.

Even with that outlay, Bloomberg added Trump to its list of the world's 500 richest people.

The main driver was the stock price of the merged company, which will be publicly traded on the NASDAQ starting Tuesday.

Shares in DWAC were trading at nearly $50 a share Monday, a jump of 190 per cent since the year began, which put Trump's 58 per cent stake at about $3.9 billion.

Unless he gets a waiver from a board stacked with Trump loyalists, Trump would be prohibited from selling his shares until the end of a six-month period, so he can't rely on the funds to pay his court judgment.

Trump has long vied to get on and stay on the Forbes 400 list, and his New York fraud trial featured testimony that he inflated valuations to get preferable treatment.

Forbes on Monday put Trump's net worth of $2.6 billion, relying on a September 2023 estimate of his social media and branding business at $160 million.

'I have a lot of cash,' Trump told reporters Monday. 'You know I do because you have looked at my statement.'

It was fun to watch, now that the one program we have that produces consistent excitement is gone it's back to cashing in those tickets for punt overs.

Long one from Cleveland, but this is the matchup jumping out at me — especially after Stuelke went toe-to-toe with Edwards.

Thanks as always for the support that lets us be at games like this. It’s an incredible privilege and we hope we’re doing your fandom justice.

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NCAA Championship

Win or lose today I want personally thank Bluder and team for this amazing ride we’ve got to enjoy. This group of ladies are a special bunch, on and off the court. Iowans everywhere are so proud to them representing our awesome state.

I don’t know how but they pull off one more surprise for us hawk fan winning 81-77

Let’s have a day!! 🏆

And no, I don’t follow Ian Miles, I just saw this link posted on another message board.
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Did you believe the scientists with their math and facts about today's eclipse? We knew when and where it would impact for decades. You can chart the path of the next great eclipse over the CONUS, and it's 20 years away. Did you folks wake up this morning wondering if there would really be an eclipse, or why it happened?
I'm curious as to why science is real at certain times for you, but not at other times?

Democrats may miss a deadline to get President Biden on the general election ballot in Ohio, according to the state’s election management office.
In a letter seen by The Washington Post, the Ohio secretary of state’s office told Ohio Democratic Party Chair Liz Walters that the Democratic National Committee’s nominating convention is scheduled too late for Biden to make the Ohio ballot because a state law requires nominees to be certified at least 90 days before the general election.


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The letter, citing Ohio’s presidential ballot laws, said the deadline to certify a presidential candidate in Ohio is 90 days before the general election. The election is Nov. 5 this year, putting the Ohio deadline at Aug. 7 — but the Democratic National Convention, which is expected to nominate Biden for a rematch against Donald Trump, isn’t scheduled to convene until Aug. 19.



The letter from Paul Disantis, chief legal counsel for Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R), asked Democratic state legislative leaders for clarification to assure the party’s “timely compliance with Ohio law.”

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Ben Kindel, a spokesperson for LaRose, shared the letter with The Post but declined to comment further.
Members of the Ohio Democratic Party who were copied in the letter — Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo and Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio — did not respond to The Post’s request for comment Sunday morning, but the Biden campaign said the president would appear on the ballot.
“We’re monitoring the situation in Ohio and we’re confident that Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states,” Josh Marcus-Blank, a Biden-Harris 2024 campaign spokesperson, told The Post in an email.



LaRose’s office suggested that either the Democratic National Committee move up its nominating convention to meet the Aug. 7 deadline or that the Ohio General Assembly create an exception to the law for the Democrats’ nominee.
Ohio voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020.
David Niven, a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati, said he expects the Republican nominee to win Ohio again this fall, even if Biden is on the ballot. But if Biden were omitted, Niven said, fewer Democrats would vote, hindering the party’s candidates for Senate and House seats.
“If this were to actually occur and President Biden were held off the ballot, it would be devastating to the general sort of faith in democracy,” Niven said.

This isn’t the first time Ohio’s law has created scheduling conflicts. In 2020, the Democratic and Republican parties scheduled their conventions for after Ohio’s deadline. Knowing this, state lawmakers made a one-time change to reduce the deadline from 90 days before the election to 60, Niven said.


But Niven said that decision benefited both parties. In Ohio, where the Republican Party controls both legislative chambers and the governor’s mansion, Niven said he’s unsure whether Republicans will want to implement another exception.
If the legislature doesn’t make an exception, he said, the Democratic Party may have to name Biden its nominee before the convention or list Biden on the ballot as a third-party candidate.

“My assumption is that, at least in this moment, democracy will win out,” Niven said. “But because this is Ohio, it won’t be easy.”
It would be surprising for a Democratic or Republican nominee not to appear on the general election ballot of all 50 states, but in this year’s Democratic primaries, Biden was not on the ballot in New Hampshire.
Democrats revamped their primary schedule for 2024 to make South Carolina the first contest, but New Hampshire — where a state law requires that its primaries are the first in the nation — did not push its Democratic primary in response. The national party urged candidates not to participate, and Biden opted not to put his name on the ballot, but he won as a write-in candidate anyway.



In 2016, Trump almost missed appearing on the general election ballot in Minnesota because of a miscue from that state’s Republican Party. In December, Colorado disqualified Trump from the state’s primary ballots, but the Supreme Court unanimously overruled that decision.
Both major candidates have visited Ohio, which has 17 electoral votes, this year.
Biden visited East Palestine, Ohio, in February, more than a year after a train derailment there caused environmental issues and political disputes.
Last month, Trump held a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, where he said that some immigrants accused of crimes are “not people” and that there would be a “bloodbath for the country” if he is not elected.

Show on Peacock- sold as “the real duttons” or Yellowstone people.

Had it on today- what a disaster this is.

Do you midwesterners know anything about these yahoos?

A mild earthquake struck New York and parts of the Northeast on Friday. The most notable thing about the tremor was the rarity of any sort of perceivable seismic activity in the tri-state area. Marjorie Taylor Greene had an explanation, writing on X (formerly Twitter) that the quake was evidence of God's displeasure with America.

"God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens," the Republican from Georgia warned.


Greene also referenced the total solar eclipse that will be visible in some parts of the United States on Monday. While eclipses are natural phenomena that scientists can predict with precision, certain far-right figures have been pushing bizarre conspiracies around the event. Masonic rituals, satanic rights, and even the arrival of the New World Order have all been floated as possible happenings during the brief darkening of the sky. Greene seems to at least agree that the moon blocking the sun is more than just another machination of the cosmos.




Earthquakes are also well-documented natural phenomena, of course, explained not by a deity's feelings about the people in a certain area but by the shifting of the tectonic plates that comprise Earth's crust. While we're sure Greene, like most Americans, learned this in an elementary school science class, her read on the earthquake that hit New York City on Friday seems to be informed more by her long history of conspiratorial thinking.

Who could forget when the congresswoman blamed 2018's California wildfires on Jewish space lasers? Or when she suggested that Democrats were intentionally setting fires to food processing plants? Or the various times she's suggested mass shootings were intentionally orchestrated false flags? Or when she said flooding at the 2023 Burning Man festival was God's "way of making sure everyone knows who God is."




Monday's eclipse is unlikely to usher in the biblical apocalypse, but if you do decide to view one of the most spectacular astronomical events observable from our planet, make sure to wear safety glasses, lest you find yourself repenting the severe eye damage.

Lynette Woodard played at Kansas and has the AIAW career WBB scoring record of 3,649 career points. The AIAW was pre-NCAA; the NCAA took over the administration of women's basketball starting with the 1981-82 season (the year after Lynette was done at Kansas). The NCAA, unfortunately, has treated the AIAW, the first era of organized collegiate women's basketball, as if it never happened.

Well, Lynette and her 3,649 points did happen. In 4 years and 139 games played at Kansas, from 1978-1981, Lynette was a 4 time All-American and averaged 26.3 points per game. IMO, she should be considered the current all time D1 scoring leader.

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Two 2024 signees will visit for the first time since signing in December this weekend and into next, including quarterback James Resar, who will meet Tim Lester in person for the first time.

Story:

So, my ER and hospital stay odyssey is (hopefully) finally over - at least the first stage of it all. Back home, feeling somewhat better - that being loosely defined I guess. But now I'm in recovery mode, and I really hate that because I generally keep myself busy at all times - I usually always have something to do.

Right now, all I have to do it heal - along with processing how to move forward while organizing all I got on my plate.

There's just so much to unpack about it all. I know from the 2+ decades here that others now gone and still here have gone through much worse than I did, so I didn't do the prior thread (or for that matter this one) as something along the lines of "look at me" or "woah is me". I've done them because it was something different than the usual stuff that goes on around these parts.

The initial purpose was what I thought were going to be my observations about people during the visit. And human beings are indeed a curious bunch - seeing them under somewhat uncomfortable situations (such as at a hospital ER) I thought might expose me (therefore, us here) to people at their best and worst. And also the staff I'd come across - they are after all "people too". Just seeing this mish mash all thrown together might be - something different...and I thought I'd chronicle it all just for shits and giggles.

Call it...a message board distraction from the same old same olds.

Here's the rub - I NEVER thought that it'd morph into what it did - that I really was pretty messed up. And that caused the original thread to morph from "what I see" into "holy shit, bags...this escalated quickly, and you better get your proverbial shit together on this, and do that pronto".


If there's one lesson to (re)learn from my ordeal, that is for all of you to learn how to listen to what your body is telling you when it's messed up. I firmly believe us human beings have blind spots - things they simply aren't good at seeing even when they're front and center.

I damn near killed myself in the late 2010's with stress (and as it turned out, cancer) because life's layered zaniness just sort of blinded me to major clues my body was giving out that I was messed up then, too.

I vowed then...pay attention, you idiot. Yet, somehow once again - things got past me. Not going to go into too much detail there - just know that lesson - PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY. Because, someday - you may not get a second (or third, etc) chance.

Does anyone know when and what time the women’s team will arrive back in Iowa City?

with her Great Dane.
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I want to start out this post by saying I am an absolutely huge Rick Heller fan. Coming from someone that has been following the program since 2003 and always attended a lot of games I will say the level that he has got the Iowa baseball program is nothing short of a miracle. If you would have told me when Rick was Hired in 2014 ten years from now Iowa will have won a big ten tournament, had two other seasons where we were a regional team through an at large bid, never missed the big ten tournament or have a losing season and have 2 or 3 other seasons where we were an NCAA tournament bubble team late in the year I would have laughed in your face. I would have said I don’t care who you hire? How good of a coach they are or how well they are able to run and build a program that is not realistic at Iowa even if we are now the only D1 program remaining in the state. I also think Rick may have saved the program from extinction with the success he has had because from what I heard around town the search process was an absolute joke in 2014 like Iowa didn’t even care about baseball and Barta was fortunate it was Heller’s dream job and Rick fell in his lap. It would not have surprised me one bit if Rick was unable to have any success after he was hired the university would have simply given up the program due to title nine and cut costs like Iowa State and UNI did.

With all that being said, I think Rick needs to seriously reflect on everything and all things when it comes to pitching inside his program. Coming from Someone that watches nearly every game on BTN plus I pretty much notice every year that Iowa’s lack of pitching depth is pretty much the sole reason we don’t win more games. Every season prior to this I have pretty much ignored it and just said look how many games Iowa is winning? Look how far heller has taken this program and just kind of ignore it. However seeing it for like the 5th or 6th year in a row this year makes me seriously think Iowa is doing something wrong in the pitching department. I realize we just lost Coach Lund who was big in analytics and under him we had two straight big ten pitchers of the year in Trent Wallace and Adam Mazur and that Lund helped Mazur a lot. Even those teams thought the depth of the pitching staff was atrocious and almost all of our pitchers every season have consistently struggled to throw strikes. I realize we are a northern school and there’s many college baseball teams with little pitching depth but it seems Iowas pitchers always struggle to throw strikes and consistently walk more guys than just about any team in the country.

I think Heller needs to evaluate the pitching and try to figure out what the problem is. Is it the way they train the pitchers? The pitches they call? The situations Heller uses and puts them in? Because it is rather obvious what the weakness of the Iowa team is every single season and it’s always our pitching depth and how many free bases we give up.

In my opinion two things that I have noticed watching all the games is that we throw a lot of off speed pitches in hitters counts and Rick isn’t exactly the best at managing the bullpen and making the correct move on which pitcher to bring in in a lot of situations.

I am not affiliated with the Iowa Baseball program and I am just a fan. I have no idea why we always seem to have such little pitching depth and such few guys that can consistently throw strikes. I think Rick needs to evaluate it though because while the players have to perform and throw strikes seeing the same thing year after year makes me think it’s not a coincidence and there’s something wrong from a coaching aspect.

Like I said I’m a huge Rick heller fan and I hope we can turn this season around. What are everyone else’s thoughts?