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– Coach Kyle Flood kicked five players—three of them projected starters—off the Rutgers University football team minutes before its season opener today, the AP reports. This week, players Nadir Barnwell, Razohnn Gross, Ruhann Peele, and Delon Stephenson were charged with assault stemming from a fight in April that left a 19-year-old student with a broken jaw, according to NJ.com. The fifth player, Dre Boggs, was charged with home-invasion robbery in connection with two incidents in April and May, reports USA Today. All five players were suspended by Rutgers following their arrests earlier this week. Police say Barnwell, Gross, Peele, and Stephenson—along with two former Rutgers players and a number of others—surrounded a group of four people and attacked them without provocation following a scrimmage in April, reports NJ.com. According to the site, police recently learned that fight was caught on video and seized cellphones belonging to a number of Rutgers players late last month.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers has dismissed five players from its football team following their arrests earlier this week.

 Coach Kyle Flood announced the dismissals about 10 minutes before the Scarlet Knights' season opener against Norfolk State.

 Kicked off the team were defensive backs Nadir Barnwell, Dre Boggs, Ruhann Peele, Delon Stephenson and fullback Razohnn Gross. Barnwell, Boggs and Stephenson were slated to be starters.

 Barnwell also is at the center of an investigation into whether Flood broke school and NCAA rules by contacting a teacher about a grade he received.

 On Thursday, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office announced Barnwell, Peele, Gross and Stephenson were charged with aggravated assault, riot and conspiracy to commit a riot for a fight in April that left a man with a broken jaw.

 The county prosecutor's office also said Boggs was charged in two home-invasion robberies in April and May.

 Shortly after the announcement of the arrests on Thursday, athletic director Julie Hermann announced the players were suspended. ||||| NEW BRUNSWICK — The alleged April 25 assault that left one Rutgers University student with a broken jaw and prompted charges against six former and current Rutgers football players earlier this week was captured on video, NJ Advance Media has learned.

 According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, investigators with the New Brunswick Police Department were recently provided information as to the existence of video footage of the alleged attack. The source's details were confirmed by a second person with knowledge of the events.

 Investigators arrived at the Hale Center Football Training Facility on Aug. 28 where, according to the source, they confiscated cellular phones from an unknown number of team members. According to the source, investigators obtained a court-approved order to seize the phones prior to arriving at the facility. None of the players was questioned at the time, the sources said.

 An unknown number of coaches was present at the Hale Center as the phones were being confiscated, one of the sources said. It was not clear if head football coach Kyle Flood was among them, the sources added.

 A spokesman for Rutgers athletics director Julie Hermann said the investigation is part of an ongoing legal matter and the university would have no comment for this story.

 Citing the ongoing police investigation into the assaults, a university spokeswoman on Saturday declined to comment on whether Rutgers officials were made aware of the phone seizures.

 MORE: Rutgers coach Kyle Flood: Arrests of 5 players 'rips you apart inside'

 Reached Friday, a spokesman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey declined to comment on the police investigation into the assault.

 Earlier this week, Carey's office announced charges against four then current players — cornerback Ruhann Peele, fullback Razohnn Gross, cornerback Nadir Barnwell and defensive back Delon Stephenson — in connection to the alleged attack.

 Three of the players were team starters prior to the filing of charges. Peele, Gross, Barnwell, Stephenson and cornerback Dre Boggs were all dismissed from the football program Saturday.

 Authorities allege that former players Tejay Johnson and Daryl Stephenson also participated in the assault.

 All now face a range of charges stemming from the attack, including aggravated assault, riot, and conspiracy to commit a riot.

 Authorities allege that the players surrounded a group of at least four other individuals and assaulted them during the "unprovoked" street attack one day after the team concluded spring camp with the Scarlet-White scrimmage. In the aftermath, a 19-year-old male student was left with a broken jaw, authorities said.

 The revelation of the video's existence is just the latest wrinkle in a scandal that rocked the Rutgers University football program earlier this week.

 Authorities announced an investigation that led to a total of 10 suspects, 7 of whom were students, being charged in a variety of crimes related to the assault, home-invasion robberies, including one at gunpoint and an attempted robbery at a Livingston College dorm.

 A phone call to Nadir Barnwell, the player at the center of the university's investigation into Flood for a possible compliance violation, was unsuccessful.

 Reached by phone, Harvey Barnwell, the father of Nadir Barnwell, said, "Not now, sir, not now,'' and hung up.

 Rutgers officials placed the seven students, including the five football players, on interim suspension from the university on Friday.

 Vernal Coleman can be reached at vcoleman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @vernalcoleman. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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 PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers has dismissed the five football players who were suspended earlier this week following their arrests. One was charged in two home invasions and four others were charged with assaulting a group of people in New Brunswick in April.

 All five— Nadir Barnwell, Dre Boggs, Razohnn Gross, Ruhann Peele and Delon Stephenson — are no longer part of the football program, the school announced just before kickoff against Norfolk State on Saturday.

 The dismissals cap a turbulent preseason for the Scarlet Knights and coach Kyle Flood, who was also previously involved in an academic impropriety investigation involving Barnwell.

 On Thursday, prosecutors said Peele, Barnwell, Gross and Stephenson were charged with aggravated assault, riot and conspiracy to commit a riot for a fight that left a man with a broken jaw. They said Boggs was charged in two home-invasion robberies in April and May.

 The dismissals will leave Rutgers' secondary very thin, as three of the five were defensive backs expected to be key contributors this season.

 Contributing: Associated Press |||||


– The latest retelling of Snow White (before June's Snow White and the Huntsman) is a lot like its vain queen: visually stunning, but kind of shallow. Critics aren't particularly impressed with Mirror Mirror: Though director Tarsem Singh "knows how to make performers and sets look good, he has trouble putting them into vibrant, kinetic, meaningful play," notes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. That "effectively means that he’s a better window dresser than a movie director." In the Toronto Star, Linda Barnard agrees. "Everything about Mirror Mirror echoes old-school animation and the entire thing is gorgeous," she notes. It's "a pretty, spun-sugar confection, airy as a plate of Easter egg-colored macarons and similarly devoid of substance." The script doesn't hold up to the visuals, writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. "The dialogue is rather flat, the movie sort of boring," he notes. It's "a listless tale that moves at a stately pace through settings that could have supported fireworks." In the Los Angeles Times, however, Sheri Linden sees a lot to like. "The fable zings along on the sharp comic timing of the cast, led by a royally wicked Julia Roberts" as the queen. It's "a fractured fairy tale that occupies the divide between Disney and Grimm."

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Mirror, Mirror

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 Starring Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer and Nathan Lane. Directed by Tarsem Singh. 106 minutes. Opens March 30 at major theatres. PG

 The first volley in the froth-vs.-goth wars between two film versions of the Snow White fairytale has been fired with Mirror, Mirror.

 It opens Friday, two months ahead of the June 1 bow for the more sinister-looking Snow White and the Huntsman.

 Mirror, Mirror takes itself less seriously, presenting a pink confection of slapstick laughs and swashbuckling heroics that references the classic Disney cartoon liberally, with sly winks to the genre — right down to cliché teeth twinkles.

 The story gets a 2012 girl-power update: no more waiting for a prince to save the day. Women don’t escape the fairytale slap-down entirely, however; the villain is still a vain old gal who can’t deal with all of her stepdaughter’s fabulousness. But this Snow White will see to her own destiny.

 Director Tarsem Singh certainly knows his way around fantasy filmmaking (Immortals, The Fall) but can he also bring a light touch to the dramatics? It’s a legitimate question in the face of the horribly overwrought Immortals. Turns out he can, although don’t look for much more than that. This rambling version of Snow White’s tale is a pretty, spun-sugar confection, airy as a plate of Easter egg-coloured macarons and similarly devoid of substance.

 Everything about Mirror, Mirror echoes old-school animation and the entire thing is gorgeous, from the high-concept snow-covered forest to a human form of a game of Battleship, where three-masted vessels nestle atop players’ heads like fanciful hats.

 This is the last film for Oscar-winning (Dracula) Japanese costume designer Eiko Ishioka, who died in January. She and Singh teamed earlier on Immortals, The Fall and The Cell, and it’s fitting that the film is dedicated to her, given the lift her work gives Mirror, Mirror. The elaborate costumes are stunning, especially the fanciful animal-themed masked ball outfits with over-the-top headdresses.

 Julia Roberts stars as The Queen, nasty stepmother to Snow White (Lily Collins and her massive eyebrows), sliding from America’s sweetheart to icily evil beauty with ease. Easily bored and self-absorbed, the years are piling up and Queenie is hardly happy about it, using a magical mirror with a surprising inhabitant to keep herself looking fresh.

 The Queen’s devoted servant Brighton (Nathan Lane doing a fantastic Nathan Lane) simpers and cowers as he reluctantly does all her bidding. There’s no retirement plan for toadies in this kingdom.

 Snow spends most of her time locked up in her bedroom, missing her father, the King, who disappeared in the woods where he was likely devoured by the beast who lives there. Now 18, she’d like to get out of her room occasionally, but The Queen has other plans for her.

 The arrival of a handsome prince (Armie Hammer as Prince Alcott) stirs the pot. He’s buff and a bit of a buffoon, but the Queen sees a chance to help the kingdom she’s bankrupted with her party excesses by marrying him. Too bad he only has eyes for Show White, a wrinkle the Queen deals with by ordering Brighton to drop her rival off in the dark woods to be part of the beast’s buffet.

 Jason Keller, whose last screenplay was for the ham-fisted Machine Gun Preacher, delivers whimsy by the bucket here, teaming the abandoned Snow up with seven rebel forest dwellers who don’t take well to being called dwarves. Onetime model citizens and business owners banished to the woods by the Queen for looking “different,” they’ve found amusing means to measure up and prefer to make money the Robin Hood way rather than by toiling in a mine.

 Among them, we meet Grub (Joe Gnoffo), who loves food, perpetually lovesick Half Pint (Mark Povinelli) and writer Grimm (Danny Woodburn). London, Ont., actor Jordan Prentice plays Napoleon, the de facto leader of the group without a short man syndrome.

 Collins, daughter of musician Phil, does well in her first big leading role as a lively Snow, showing a good comic sensibility. But those Groucho Marx eyebrows are a constant distraction.

 From the CGI-created castle to the Bollywood-inspired final dance number, Mirror, Mirror is aimed straight at the eyeballs. But it bypasses the heart in the process. ||||| Who’s the Most Self-Absorbed of Them All? ‘Mirror Mirror,’ Tarsem Singh’s Snow White Story

 Is it possible for filmmakers to still peddle the old “once upon a time” in the age of Katniss Everdeen, the ferocious teenage warrior from “The Hunger Games”? The answer, from the evidence of Tarsem Singh’s “Mirror Mirror,” a would-be comic and cheeky redo of Snow White, is yes, but not persuasively. The princess (Lily Collins) here smiles obligingly while flouncing about in a gown, but she also helps write her own happily ever after with a sword. Whether that makes her a feminist heroine or just another self-actualized Disneyesque waif may depend on your idea of empowerment. (In June the fairy tale gets another makeover in “Snow White and the Huntsman.” )

 Written by, among others, the Brothers Grimm and waggishly retrofitted for “Mirror Mirror” by Marc Klein and Jason Keller, the essential story is as you probably remember it, only with jokes: a widower King remarries, giving the realm a new Queen (Julia Roberts, seemingly very self-amused), and his only child, Snow White, a mother. But when the King disappears, a turn that’s represented in the film by a striking animated sequence, Snow White falls into the grasping hands of the Queen, who turns out to be a pathological narcissist suffering from possible delusions. (She talks to her mirror.) You know the rest — seven dwarfs, a prince, a girl’s youth, a woman’s vanity — all familiar pieces that are both this movie’s strength and its gravest flaws.

 Mr. Singh started out directing music videos. The short form suits him. “Mirror Mirror” runs a long 95 minutes, but it’s a virtual breeze when compared with his previous movie, “Immortals,” a camp farrago set in ancient Greece (by way of a Vegas floor show), that runs an enervating 110 minutes. Critics like to take note of Mr. Singh’s eye-catching visuals, and there’s no doubt he knows how to swank up performers and sets or rather hire talented professionals to do the job for him. The costumes in “Mirror Mirror” — by turns ethereal as a dream and as ponderous as sculptured marble — were created by Mr. Singh’s regular collaborator, the Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka. (Ms. Ishioka, who also designed the costumes for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula,” died in January.)

 Yet while Mr. Singh knows how to make performers and sets look good, he has trouble putting them into vibrant, kinetic, meaningful play, which effectively means that he’s a better window dresser than a movie director. “Mirror Mirror” is consistently watchable, even when it drifts into dullness because Mr. Singh always gives you something to look at, whether it’s the Queen’s blood-red gown, the sailing clouds decorating her bedroom or the dwarfs’ woodland home. Everything looks as if it has been meticulously selected for this or that spot, including the performers. Ms. Roberts, Ms. Collins and Armie Hammer, as Prince Alcott, look as pretty as fairy-book illustrations, but their performances are similarly one dimensional, as if they had been art directed into place instead of cut loose.

 The only lead performer to wiggle free of Mr. Singh’s heavy hand is Nathan Lane, who plays the Queen’s henchman, Brighton, and whose amusingly tremulous, cagey performance owes much to Bob Hope. Mr. Lane is the only performer who sounds comfortable delivering Mr. Klein and Mr. Keller’s often intentionally anachronistic dialogue, which, with its forced lightness and scattershot jokes, makes an awkward fit with Mr. Singh’s lugubriousness. All of the scripted yuks register as an attempt to modernize the movie, as does affording Snow the chance to play a role in her own rescue, mostly by giving her a sword and putting her in palazzo pants. That’s nice, even if in the end it comes down to the same old story of love, glory and the devastating cost of female wrinkles.

 “Mirror Mirror” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). Slapstick violence.

 Mirror Mirror

 Opens on Friday nationwide.

 Directed by Tarsem Singh; written by Marc Klein and Jason Keller, based on a story by Melisa Wallack; director of photography, Brendan Galvin; edited by Robert Duffy and Nick Moore; music by Alan Menken; choreography by Paul Becker; production design by Tom Foden; costumes by Eiko Ishioka; produced by Bernie Goldmann, Ryan Kavanaugh and Brett Ratner; released by Relativity Media. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes.

 WITH: Julia Roberts (the Queen), Lily Collins (Snow White), Armie Hammer (Prince Alcott), Nathan Lane (Brighton) and Sean Bean (the King). ||||| Encased in a coffin, waiting to be brought back to life: That's how Snow White spends a good portion of the folk story that bears her name. There's no such downtime for the princess in the snappy retelling "Mirror Mirror," a fractured fairy tale that occupies the divide between Disney and Grimm.A booster shot of testosterone lends kinetic kick to director Tarsem Singh 's visually inventive interpretation, without shortchanging the requisite froufrou or sugarcoating the story's dark Oedipal heart. The mash-up can be choppy, but the fable zings along on the sharp comic timing of the cast, led by a royally wicked Julia Roberts The screenplay by Marc Klein and Jason Keller (a screen story credit goes to Melisa Wallack) pointedly rewrites the fairy-tale convention that finds every damsel helplessly imperiled until a prince delivers her from danger. This Snow White ( Lily Collins ) can get gussied up with the best of them, but she also holds her own in a fencing duel. And — hello, switcheroo — she rescues a prince in distress.When in exile, Snow (it's a first-name-informal kingdom) receives martial-arts instruction from the dwarfs. Like the famous septet from Disney's 1937 classic, this woods-dwelling crew provides collective-sidekick slapstick, and each has a character-defining shtick — most memorably the love-struck Half Pint (Mark Povinelli). But they've also been restored to their folk tale roots as bandits and outcasts. They're action antiheroes with hearts of gold.Transforming Snow White to an action hero in her own right doesn't lessen the archetypal power of the stepmother-daughter, age-beauty conflict. Collins ( "The Blind Side" ) is a convincing foil for Roberts' jealous Queen, personifying intelligence, innate goodness and fairest-of-them-all femininity. If a movie-star self-regard has crept into Roberts' work over the years, here she uses it to winning effect, savoring the tension and silliness, and making an exceptionally entertaining evil monarch.Advised and chided by the alter ego who resides on the other side of her magic mirror — one of the film's more striking elements — the Queen sets her sights on an imperial merger with Prince Alcott ( Armie Hammer ), whose province's resources would save her from the brink of bankruptcy.Hammer, who brought an air of wounded regality to the Winklevoss twins in "The Social Network" and Clyde Tolson in "J. Edgar," gets to shake off the aggrievement and let his princely flag fly, often without a shirt.Singh (a.k.a. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar or simply Tarsem) is a fantasist whose singular knack for spectacle can also be his weakness, set-piece razzle-dazzle not infrequently overwhelming the characters in his previous films: "The Cell," "The Fall" and "Immortals." That weakness reveals itself in "Mirror Mirror" when he stops the story cold to indulge in a puppet sequence.But mostly the built-in structure of a well-known tale helps to rein him in, as does the propulsive rhythm of one-liners — some of the best are delivered with panache by Nathan Lane and Robert Emms, as mouthy servants. For most of its running time, the film strikes the right balance of make-believe enchantment and snark-infused lampoon, playing to older kids and adults alike.Crucial to the movie's magic are Tom Foden's lush and witty production design and the splendid costumes by Eiko Ishioka, the renowned designer's final screen work before her death in January. The finery and regalia of their contributions are integral to Singh's vision, giving this mostly conventional princess story its fair share of romantic froth and more than a little moxie. ||||| Mirror Mirror

 March 28, 2012

 Cast & Credits The Queen Julia Roberts

 Snow White Lily Collins

 Prince Alcott Armie Hammer

 Brighton Nathan Lane

 Napoleon Jordan Prentice

 Half Pint Mark Povinelli

 Grub Joe Gnoffo

 Grimm Danny Woodburn

 Wolf Sebastian Saraceno

 Butcher Martin Klebba

 Chuckles Ronald Lee Clark

 Charles Renbock Robert Emms

 Baker Margaret Mare Winningham

 Baron Michael Lerner

 King Sean Bean

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 "Mirror Mirror" is a sumptuous fantasy for the eyes and a pinball game for the mind, as story elements collide and roll around bumping into each other. This is not a faithful retelling of the versions by the Brothers Grimm or Walt Disney, but neither is it a satire, nor much of a story in its own right. But it's great to look at. If there's a major difference from the earlier versions, it's how this one has beefed-up roles for the seven dwarves, who here seem to be a merry band in search of Robin Hood. Nor do I recall earlier battles with a giant winged griffin.

 The look of the film owes everything to the director, Tarsem Singh, an India-born former TV commercial maker, famous for two of the best-looking movies I've ever seen, "The Cell" (2000) and "The Fall" (2006). He's in love with spectacular landscapes and architecture, and in all of his films (including the underwhelming "The Immortals" in 2011) the costumes of the late Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka dominate every scene they're in and every character they're worn by.

 Julia Roberts seems particularly well-suited to wear them, and when first seen is wearing a magnificent orange gown and seated on a seashell throne which acts as a frame and a continuation of the costume. Roberts plays the Queen in a kingdom we're introduced to by her opening narration -- which uses animated dolls figures to fill us in on her early life, during which she was married to a King (Sean Bean) who promptly set off into the forest and was not seen again. That left her as the autocratic ruler of a kingdom with painfully high taxes, and the stepmother of Snow White (Lily Collins), who is a captive in the castle until she's 18.

 There is a financial crisis. Brighton (Nathan Lane), her aide and accountant, tells her she's broke. That comes at an inconvenient time, because Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer) has wandered into the kingdom, and the Queen knows if she marries him, he can solve her finances. Problem is, she can't even afford the royal ball at which she plans for them to fall in love.

 The Prince has already met Snow White; they were both wandering in the woods when they encountered the seven dwarfs, jolly bandits with good hearts. It is Snow White and not the Prince in this version who bestows a life-changing kiss. It's almost uncanny in some scenes here, how Lily Collins (daughter of Phil Collins) looks like Audrey Hepburn.

 She's all sweet, all innocent, but Julia Roberts steals the show with her imperious and autocratic Queen. She consults her own image in a mirror, located as only Tarsem would place it in a weird structure in the middle of a lake. She never asks who is the fairest of them all, and thus never has to hear the inevitable answer, but the Queen's vanity and fear of aging give Roberts some plum scenes. Consider the one where she's having a spa-style beauty makeover before the ball. Her lips become bee-stung with the help of real bees, she gets a manicure from disgusting wormy creatures, and her skin is refreshed with a preparation made up from parrot droppings. Yes, parrot droppings, and we see the parrots dropping them.

 All of this is in place and looks great, but the dialogue is rather flat, the movie sort of boring, and there's not much energy in the two places it should really be felt: Between the Queen and Snow White, and between Snow and the Prince. The story is a listless tale that moves at a stately pace through settings that could have supported fireworks. Indeed, the characters who seem to care the most about each other are the dwarfs. |||||


Detroit Tigers slugger Delmon Young went on a drunken, anti-Semetic rampage outside a posh Manhattan hotel early this morning — shouting “F-ing Jews” to a group of tourists before throwing one to the ground, sources said.

 The $6.5 million outfielder was so drunk that he had to be hospitalized after his arrest.

 Young directed his rage on four men who were in town for a bachelor party when he saw them talking to a yarmulke-and-Star of David-wearing pan handler outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue at 2:40 a.m.

 He allegedly shouted “You bunch of F-ing Jews!” and pushed the first member of the group that he could get his hands on — Jason Shank, a business man from Schaumburg Ill, sources said.

 The 6-3, 240-pound Young allegedly shoved the much smaller Shank, 32, into a hotel wall, and then tackled him before the scuffle was broken up, sources said.

 Shank and his pals quickly escaped into the Hilton. Young gave chase but was stopped by a guard, who made him prove he was a hotel guest, sources said.

 Someone in Shanks group called 911 — and the Tigers terror was arrested on charges of aggravated harassment in the second degree, a misdemeanor with a hate-crime element.

 Shank only suffered scratches and bleeding to his arm.

 Young was taken to Roosevelt Hospital to dry out before he could be processed.

 He was later taken to Midtown North Precinct, where he slept off the rest of his stupor.

 Young, who missed tonight’s game against the Yankees, was arraigned around 7 p.m. and freed on $5,000 bail.

 Young’s lawyer, Dan Ollen, called the bail “silly” and “ridiculous.”

 “He’s a world famous baseball player” who has every reason to come back to court, he said.

 “He has no criminal record,” and “the chance of jail in this case is extremely unlikely.”

 Ollen added that a videotape of the incident shows Shanks groups were the instigators.

 “Someone in the other party says something that causes him to react,” Ollen said. He refused to elaborate after court, and said there’s no audio on the tape.

 Young earlier said in a statement:

 “I sincerely regret what happened. I take this matter very seriously and assure everyone that I will do everything I can to improve myself as a person and player.”

 Tigers brass said: “We need to allow the legal process to take its course.

 This is just the latest trouble for the hot-tempered Young, an outfielder who was suspended for 50 games in 2006 in the minors for chucking a bat at an umpire.

 A former Twin, Young joined the Tigers last last season and homered in his first playoff at bat for the team in last year’s ALDS against the Yankees.

 This year the team signed him to a one-year $6, 725,000 contract.

 — Additional reporting by Dareh Gregorian, Kevin Fasick and Todd Venezia ||||| As his teammates prepared tonight for their series opener at Yankee Stadium, Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom, accused of a hate crime. Police said he used an anti-Semitic slur against four men and tackled one of them.

 Young, 26, was intoxicated during an early morning physical confrontation with the men outside the Hilton New York along Sixth Avenue, Detective Joseph Cavitolo, a New York police spokesman, told the Free Press.

 The misdemeanor charge — aggravated harassment — is punishable by up to a year in jail. The charge was submitted as a hate crime “because of a belief and perception regarding … religion (and) religious practice,” according to the court document filed tonight.

 Just before he was released on a $5,000 bond, Young issued a statement apologizing and saying he wants to “improve myself as a person and player.”

 “I sincerely regret what happened last night,” Young’s statement read, which was released through his attorney, Daniel Ollen, and a New York-based public relations firm.

 “I apologize to everyone I affected, the Ilitch family, the Detroit Tigers’ organization, my teammates, my family and the great Tigers fans that have supported me since Day One,” the statement continued. “I take this matter very seriously, and assure everyone that I will do everything I can to improve myself as a person and player.”

 Young’s statement did not specifically address the allegations.

 Ollen, his attorney, also released a statement, saying, “There are many false allegations” in the case.

 “I am confident that the legal process will separate fact from fiction and discredit these reports,” it read.

 According to police, the confrontation began about 2:30 a.m. after a group of four men spoke with a panhandler wearing a yarmulke outside the hotel.

 “They have a discussion, and the panhandler leaves,” Cavitolo told the Free Press.

 • Jewish leader reacts

 According to court documents and police, the anti-Semitic slur and the physical exchange came next:

 • Words were exchanged between Young and the men, at which point Young allegedly said, “You bunch of (expletive) Jews.”

 • Young, listed at 6 feet 3 and 240 pounds, pushed and shoved one of the men, then tackled him to the ground, causing minor injuries to the man’s elbow.

 • Young then followed the man, 32, into the hotel’s lobby.

 It was not immediately clear whether the man, who refused medical attention, is Jewish, Cavitolo said.

 Called to the scene, police interviewed witnesses and the victim.

 A short time later, police said Young was sent to a nearby hospital because he was intoxicated. He was returned to police for fingerprinting and paper work. He was escorted into a police car from the building — amid a knot of reporters — about 11 a.m.

 As details of the allegations developed during the day, the Tigers officially said little, citing club policy not to comment on pending legal matters.

 At Yankee Stadium, manager Jim Leyland deferred all questions about Young to Dave Dombrowski, the Tigers’ president and general manager, who was expected to talk before the game but didn’t.

 Asked how the incident might affect his lineup, Leyland wouldn’t address the question, simply stating that his lineup was already posted outside the clubhouse.

 He had inserted Don Kelly into leftfield — Young’s position — and he used newcomer Brad Eldred as his designated hitter.

 Because of the pending legal situation and alleged involvement of alcohol, none of Young’s teammates would address the matter, either. For those same reasons, Major League Baseball is unlikely to suspend Young or take any other disciplinary action — at least until the legal issues are resolved.

 Baseball precedent, however, suggests that Young likely will go through professional evaluation in the sport’s Employee Assistance Program. This probably will be similar to what baseball had Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera do after his drunken driving arrest in spring training last year.

 “We are looking into the situation, but because it is a police matter, we cannot comment further,” said Pat Courtney, spokesman for Major League Baseball.

 • Other recent alcohol-related incidents for the Tigers

 On Thursday night, the Tigers traveled to New York after a 1-6 home stand. They are staying at the Hilton New York on Sixth Avenue — also known as the Avenue of the Americas. The hotel is a favorite spot for professional sports teams.

 Only five blocks north of Times Square, the hotel is one of the city’s largest. By day, it bustles with tourists and the business activity of Midtown. By night, it is home to dozens of sidewalk food vendors, many of them selling chicken kabobs and halal food.

 One vendor, who wanted to remain nameless, said that, on most nights, say between 2:30 and 3 a.m., especially from Thursday to Saturday, patrons spill from nearby bars and pubs and queue up at the trucks, looking for something hot and spicy.

 The food vendors set up on both sides of Sixth Avenue at 52nd Street, just across from the hotel entrance.

 The Tigers acquired Young from Minnesota on Aug. 15 in their push to win the American League Central. The deal sent minor leaguer Cole Nelson and a player to be named (another minor leaguer, Lester Oliveros) to the Twins. Young played leftfield for the Tigers, homered in his first at-bat and helped boost the offense down the stretch as the Tigers won their first division title since 1987. In 40 games, he drove in 32 runs and hit eight home runs. In the playoffs, he added five more homers.

 In the off-season, the Tigers signed Young to a one-year contract worth $6.75 million. He will be a free agent after this season.

 Dombrowski said after the 2011 season: “It’s not a priority” to try to sign Young to a multi-year deal during the off-season. “We want him to be with us (longer) and get a feel for him. He only joined us for a short time. We would rather have him be with us and go from there.”

 Young drove in 112 runs for the Twins in 2010, with 21 homers and a .298 average, but he had only 32 RBIs in 84 games in 2011 before he was traded to the Tigers.

 So far this season, Young has batted fifth, behind superstars Cabrera and Prince Fielder. Like most of his teammates, Young has struggled at the plate in recent weeks. He is hitting .242 with only one homer and five RBIs in 18 games. He went a combined 0-for-10 with two walks in his last three games, all losses to the Seattle Mariners.

 Young, a right-handed hitter born in Montgomery, Ala., was the No. 1 pick in the 2003 draft, selected by Tampa Bay. He received notoriety for an April 2006 incident in the minor leagues. After a called third strike, he whipped his bat and hit the umpire on the arm. He was suspended 50 games.

 Young’s older brother, Dmitri, played five seasons for the Tigers. The club let him go less than a month before it made the playoffs in 2006.

 Contact Robin Erb: 313-222-2708 or rerb@freepress.com. Sports writer John Lowe contributed to this report. |||||
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– An outfielder for the Detroit Tigers was arrested in New York City early this morning and could be charged with a misdemeanor hate crime. Delmon Young, 26, was involved in the incident outside his hotel around 2:30am. The New York Post reports that a panhandler wearing a yarmulke was asking a group of people for change when Young, who was standing nearby, started yelling, "F--king Jews! F--king Jews!" Another group of friends reportedly confronted Young and a fight ensued. Young allegedly scratched one of the men in the face and shoved him to the ground during the scuffle, which spilled into the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in midtown. The man then called 911. The Post's sources described Young, who has a one-year contract with the Tigers for $6.75 million, as "highly intoxicated." He faces a charge for an “aggravated harassment hate crime,” said a detective, reports the Detroit Free Press. “Basically, there was an incident at the hotel (and) some anti-Semitic remarks."


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Pieces of flint tools dropped more than 4,300 years ago on the floor of a house as old as Stonehenge have been laid bare on the edge of Marden Henge, a giant ditch and bank enclosure so buried in rich Wiltshire farmland that it has almost vanished from view.

 “We’ve over-fetishised Stonehenge for far too long, because those giant trilithons are just so damn impressive,” said Dr Jim Leary, director of this summer’s excavation with the Reading University archaeology summer school, in the lush Vale of Pewsey. “It could well be that this was really where it was at in the Neolithic.”

 The rectangular building will welcome visitors next weekend for an open day which is part of the national festival of archaeology. The house, believed to be one of the best preserved from the period ever found in the UK, and made to look smarter with tonnes of white chalk brought from miles away and stamped into a kind of plaster, is as neatly levelled and regular as the nearby postwar bungalows built on top of part of the henge bank.

 The house and other parts of the huge site have already produced finds including beautifully worked flint arrowheads and blades, decorated pottery including some pieces with the residue of the last meals cooked in them, shale and copper bracelets and a beautiful little Roman brooch – and the tiny jawbone of a vole. Analysis of the mass of seeds and charred grains recovered will reveal what the people were growing and eating.

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 Pig bones – probably the remains of at least 13 animals, food for hundreds of people – and scorch marks from a charcoal firepit suggest the house was never a permanent residence but connected with great gatherings for feasts. When it was abandoned the entire site, pig bones and all, was cleaned and neatly covered with earth, so it would never be used again.

 The structure originally stood on a terrace overlooking a mound, within a small earth-banked circle, in turn part of the enormous Marden Henge.

 Leary, joined by archaeology students, professionals and amateurs from all over the world, who will continue working on the site for years to come, is peeling back the layers of a monument that was once one of the biggest and most impressive in Britain. Ramparts three metres high enclosed a vast space of 15 hectares, far larger than the Avebury or Stonehenge circles, and too large for any imaginable practical use.

 Leary believes the purpose must have been status, showing off wealth and power in the ability to mobilise a massive workforce. “Avebury had the huge ditches, Stonehenge upped the ante with the massive trilothons, Marden had this enormous enclosure.”

 The site is so vast that it takes Leary and fellow director Amanda Clarke 40 minutes to walk from the team working on the house to the diggers who have uncovered a previously unrecorded Roman complex including the foundations of an impressive barn.

 Like the Durrington Walls henge a few miles downstream, and Stonehenge itself, Marden was linked to the river Avon by a navigable flow, now a sedge- and nettle-choked stream, which forms one side of the henge.

 “Avebury in one direction and Stonehenge in the other have been excavated and studied for centuries because the preservation of the monuments on chalk is so much better. Not nearly enough attention has been paid to the archaeology of the fertile valleys because the land is so good the monuments have often been ploughed out above ground – but it is a key part of understanding the story.”

 Marden’s banks, cut through by later roads or lying under modern farm buildings, grazing cows and ripening crops in many places, once stood three metres tall, towering over an equally deep ditch. The outer ring enclosed a complex of smaller monuments, including the Hatfield Barrow, which was once 15 metres tall, and now survives only as a 15cm ripple in the field. It was excavated in 1807 and, after a collapse caused by the shaft, later completely levelled by the farmer.

 The site welcomes visitors every day, but the open day will have finds on display, tours and activities. It will be among more than 1,000 events across the country over the last fortnight of July, including lectures, site tours and visits to archaeology stores and structures normally closed to the public. ||||| Image copyright Reading University Image caption The body, which is about 1.5m in length and wearing an amber necklace, was found lying in a foetal position

 A 4,000-year-old Bronze Age skeleton, believed to be that of a child, has been unearthed by archaeologists at a dig in Wiltshire.

 The team from the University of Reading made the discovery while excavating Wilsford henge in the Vale of Pewsey.

 The body was found lying in a foetal position and wearing an amber necklace.

 Reading University archaeologist Dr Jim Leary described the skeleton as a "wonderful discovery".

 He said: "Scientific analysis will provide information on the gender of the child, diet, pathologies and date of burial.

 "It may also shed light on where this young individual had lived."

 The three-year Vale of Pewsey dig is a partnership between the University of Reading, Historic England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Wiltshire Museum.

 The aim is to gain a better understanding of the people who lived in the areas surrounding Stonehenge.

 Findings to date include flint arrowheads and blades, decorated pottery, shale and copper bracelets and a Roman brooch.

 Image copyright Reading University Image caption Scientific analysis will provide information on the gender of the child, its diet and date of burial

 During the last six weeks the team has focused on Marden henge and Wilsford henge.

 Dr Leary said: "Finds from the first five weeks of the dig were exciting - but as so often during excavations the best is revealed last."

 Built in 2,400 BC, Marden henge is the largest prehistoric monument of its kind in the country.

 Duncan Wilson, of Historic England, said: "Bigger than Avebury, 10 times the size of Stonehenge and halfway between the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Sites, comparatively little is known about this fascinating and ancient landscape.

 "The work will help Historic England focus on identifying sites for protection and improved management, as well as adding a new dimension to our understanding of this important archaeological environment." |||||

– You think Stonehenge is impressive? Archaeologists in Britain are excavating a monument ten times larger than the iconic structure, though it appears to the naked eye to be little more than farmland. A henge is a circular earthwork, and the one in question is Marden Henge, which sits a few miles north of Stonehenge in Wiltshire. National Geographic reports that roughly 4,500 years ago it featured 10-foot-tall earthen berms that encompassed some 40 acres. The Guardian writes that the henge was "far larger than the Avebury or Stonehenge circles, and too large for any imaginable practical use." But over the ages Marden Henge's berms have "slumped" and farmers have worked the land, and archaeologists have gravitated to the more breathtaking Stonehenge. Until now. Jim Leary of the University of Reading has just kicked off a three-year study of the site; his excavations (he worked at the site in 2010, too) are the only ones to have occurred there in nearly 50 years. He hopes the berms will help explain the "insane, utterly unsustainable" construction boom that led to Marden Henge and four other nearby Neolithic monuments, including Stonehenge. "Not nearly enough attention has been paid to the archaeology of the fertile valley in between these places," says Leary. So far he's found the remains of a 4,000-year-old teen wearing an amber necklace just outside Marden Henge, per the BBC; fancy arrowheads; and a stone building within the henge containing the bones of at least 13 pigs, suggesting a huge feast was held there. "For all the attention that has been lavished on Stonehenge over the years, we may well find out that Marden was where it was really at during the Neolithic," he says. (There's a giant "super henge" under Stonehenge.)


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 Previsualizar ||||| Execs at “Wheel of Fortune” are scrambling to explain why a puzzle with the answer “The Fast and The Furious” aired on about 200 local stations on Monday night.

 In messages sent out on Twitter, the show called the incident an “unfortunate coincidence,” explaining that the show had been taped weeks prior, before star Paul Walker died in a fiery car crash.

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 “The hearts of everyone at Wheel of Fortune go out to the family, friends & fans of Paul Walker,” read one message from the verified “Wheel of Fortune” Twitter account.

 Host Pat Sajack felt the need to chime in as well to explain the puzzle, which turned up just days after Walker was killed in California.

 “Feel terrible about timing of "Fast & Furious" puzzle tonight. Taped long ago & went out to 200 local stations days ago,” the veteran TV host wrote to his followers.

 Walker, 40, was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT being driven by fellow fast-car enthusiast Roger Rodas when it crashed into a light pole and a tree before bursting into flames. Both men were killed in the crash.

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– Wheel of Fortune accidentally stepped in it Monday night, when one of the answers to a puzzle on the show was "The Fast and the Furious" ... just two days after the death of The Fast and the Furious star Paul Walker. The show is now scrambling to explain, Fox News reports. It was just an "unfortunate coincidence," according to the show's official Twitter account, with that particular episode having been recorded weeks before Walker's death. It had been sent out "days ago" to the 200 local stations that aired it, explained host Pat Sajak.


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Mike Evans is staying true to his word to "help a lot of people" after signing an extension with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier this year.

 On Saturday, he donated $11,000 to the family of Gregory Hill, who was shot and killed by a St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office deputy in 2014.

 Hill's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, and after a two-week trial in May, a jury ruled in favor of the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, saying Hill was 99 percent responsible for his death and the department 1 percent responsible. The jury awarded the family $4, $1 for each of Hill's three children and $1 for funeral expenses. The family, however, received just 4 cents (1 percent of the $4 award).

 Evans asked how he could help the family in a tweet Saturday and was directed to a GoFundMe page that was created after the verdict. Evans' donation helped push the total raised to nearly $100,000.

 When the 24-year-old wide receiver signed his five-year, $82 million extension in March, Evans said of his charity plans, "It's hard to put into words. With my actions you'll see it." Last year, Evans and his wife, Ashli, also founded the Mike Evans Family Foundation, which gives scholarships to high school graduates coming from low-income situations and provides help to women and their families who are victims of domestic violence.

 Gregory Hill was 30 when he was shot and killed by an officer responding to a complaint about loud music in 2014. After officers knocked on his garage and front doors, Hill opened his garage door. He was shot when he lowered the garage door and police alleged that Hill pointed a gun at the deputies. An unloaded gun was found in his pocket and tests revealed that his blood alcohol content was 0.40. ||||| CLOSE The family of Gregory Hill Jr., who was killed by a St. Lucie County deputy in January 2014, has filed a lawsuit. PTCN

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 FORT PIERCE — A federal court jury found the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office partially liable in the January 2014 fatal shooting of Gregory Hill Jr. in the garage of his home, but damages awarded to Hill’s family amount to 4 cents.

 After four days of testimony, evidence and attorneys’ arguments, the jury deliberated about 10 hours before finding on Thursday that St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara, in his official capacity, was negligent but was only 1 percent liable.

 More: Gregory Hill Jr. case: Jury confused by instructions in 4-cent award to family

 The jury found that Hill, who was 30, “was under the influence of alcoholic beverages to the extent that his normal faculties were impaired and that as a result of the influence of such alcoholic beverage,” he was 99 percent liable for the “incident and his resulting injuries,” according to the verdict form.

 Deputy Christopher Newman was found not liable.

 More:Trial to start in case against St. Lucie deputy

 The jury awarded $4 in damages — $1 to Hill’s mother, Viola Bryant, for funeral expenses and $1 to each of Hill’s three children for loss of parental companionship, instruction, guidance, mental pain and suffering.

 Because the jury decided the sheriff was 1 percent liable, the portion of the award the Sheriff’s Office must pay is reduced to 4 cents.

 The lawsuit filed by Hill’s mother in 2016 on the second anniversary of Hill’s death, alleged negligence and municipal liability against Mascara.

 More:Family files lawsuit 2 years after deputy kills man

 The suit also alleged that Newman, who already had been cleared by a grand jury, violated her son's Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force resulting in a wrongful death under Florida law.

 Bryant’s attorney, John Phillips, argued that the deputy and Sheriff’s Office used “unreasonable, negligent and excessive” tactics, but the jury did not agree.

 Mascara issued a statement through the Sheriff’s Office that said, “We are pleased to see this difficult and tragic incident come to a conclusion.

 “Deputy Newman was placed in a very difficult situation, and like so many fellow law enforcement officers must do every day, he made the best decision he could for the safety of his partner, himself, and the public given the circumstances he faced.

 “We appreciate the jury’s time and understanding and wish everyone involved in this case the best as they move forward.”

 More: Crime down 10 percent in St. Lucie County in 2017 despite population rise

 Phillips did not make himself available for comment other than to say through his assistant in his Jacksonville office that he wanted to spend some time with his family this weekend and will review the trial and verdict before making any statements.

 Newman shot Hill, who worked at a Coca-Cola warehouse, while he and his partner, Deputy Edward Lopez, were investigating a complaint about loud, obscene music at Hill’s home as students at Frances K. Sweet Magnet School, which is across the street, were being let out.

 Attorney John Phillips points to bullet holes in the garage door of the Hill home on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. Gregory Hill Jr. was killed in January 2014 after a confrontation with St. Lucie County deputies at his home in the 1500 block of Avenue Q in Fort Pierce. Hill's family announced Wednesday they are filing a lawsuit against the deputy and the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. (Photo: WILL GREENLEE/TCPALM)

 The deputies knocked on the garage door.

 When no one responded, Newman knocked on the front door. He heard the music get louder and turned to see the garage door opening. Hill stood facing out of the garage with his left hand on the door and his right hand down.

 Newman drew his gun, and as the garage door started to go down, fired four times toward Hill, tracking upward.

 When a SWAT team arrived soon after and went inside the garage, it confirmed that Hill was dead and found a gun in his back pocket.

 He had been shot three times: twice in the abdomen and once in the head.

 Toxicology reports from Hill’s autopsy showed his blood-alcohol level was nearly 0.40 percent, almost five times the legal limit of 0.08 percent to drive, sheriff’s officials said.

 Investigators identified his weapon as a 9mm handgun, which was later found to be unloaded.

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 On May 26, 2018, a jury trial was held in Federal Court in St. Lucie County, Florida. The jury awarded Hill's Estate $4 ($1 for each child's pain and suffering and $1 for funeral expenses) and found him 99% at fault, reducing the total verdict to 4 cents. It will be appealed.This gofundme is designed to pick up where the jury left off and provide for Hill's children, repair of the home and serve to make sure justice can be obtained.On January 14, 2014, a St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office deputy shot and killed Gregory Hill through his closed garage door after responding to a loud music complaint. Gregory Hill was in his garage listening to Drake's song 'All Me' when police responded. Police spent 60 seconds on Hill's property, banged violently on his garage door with an asp, leaving dents on it, and then claimed Hill was an aggressor when he simply opened (and then quickly closed) his garage door. Police shot 4 times, striking Hill 3 times.Police claimed Hill had a gun in his hand as the garage door went up and down. Hill's own daughter attended school across the street and watched as her father was shot and killed. She and several school witnesses saw no gun in his hand. An unloaded gun was found in Hill's back pocket. That gun was free of any blood or brain splatter or material DNA. The location of Hill's wounds discredit any theory of holding a gun where it was identified. Forensic testimony also revealed Hill was incapable of putting that gun back in his pocket after being shot in the head.The shooting officer claimed he screamed, "Sheriff's Office. Gun, gun, put down the gun," three to four times before firing. Tests revealed this would have taken well in excess of 9 to 10 seconds, far more than the 3 seconds one officer testified was the total time the door went up and down. Further, neither officer heard the other yell a single word except, "hey." Witnesses across the street heard the officers banging on the door, but never heard a single command.Despite these facts, the jury deliberated for 10 hours. After once saying they couldn't reach a verdict, they reached a verdict. They awarded $1 to each of Hill's three children and $1 for funeral expenses. They found Hill 99% responsible for his own death. As such, the total verdict was $.04 cents, which was reduced to $0.Gregory Hill was raised in the same house where he was shot and killed. And he was raising his children in the same family home. The home was also destroyed as police shoot chemical agent through nearly every window of the home, falsely claiming Hill was alive and "barricaded" inside. Memories were destroyed, toys were contaminated and even some of the keepsakes for his upcoming wedding were poisoned by police attempting to poison a man they had already killed.The family attorney, John Phillips, will place any and all funds in an account, reserved for the children of Greg Hill and ensure that the funds are protected, that the family home is repaired or restored and that the children's needs are taken care of. Should they be necessary, some funds may be reserved for the court costs in this matter. A full accounting will be provided to the family and the family and legal team are working together to have a full plan for the best distribution of all funds.Please help this family. Tell this story. Pray for peace and justice. |||||

– A wide receiver who just scored an $82 million contract extension is helping a family that was recently awarded 4 cents, ESPN reports. Mike Evans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers donated $11,000 Saturday to the family of a man who was shot dead by a Florida sheriff's deputy in 2014. The family of Gregory Hill filed a wrongful death suit, and a jury ruled in May that Hill was 99% responsible for his death and the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office only 1%—so the family received 1% of a $4 reward, TCPalm reported at the time. Evans vowed when signing his March contract renewal to help people out. "It's hard to put into words," he said. "With my actions you'll see it." Evans' donation pushed the Hill family's GoFundMe page to nearly $100,000.


Most passengers and some motorists suffered minor to major injuries, and several remain in critical condition. The three who died — all of them train buffs — have now been identified. Jim Hamre, 61, and his friend Zack Willhoite, 35, both from the Tacoma area, were riding together. They were members of All Aboard Washington, a rail enthusiasts group. Their volunteer efforts helped establish the new, faster route they died on. The third victim, Benjamin Gran, 40, of nearby Auburn, was described by a relative as "an Amtrak fan to the max." ||||| Seconds before an Amtrak train flew off the tracks in Washington, the engineer told the crew they were traveling too fast, according to an early National Transportation Safety Board review of the crash that killed three people.

 More than 70 people were injured in the Monday morning derailment, in which several train cars fell from a bridge and onto a highway in the city of DuPont, about 20 miles south of Tacoma, authorities said. The train was making the inaugural run of a new route aimed at cutting travel times and improving safety south of Tacoma.

 Investigators begin analysis at the scene where an Amtrak passenger train derailed on a bridge over interstate highway I-5 in DuPont, Washington, on Dec. 18, 2017. Steve Dipaola / Reuters file

 The results of the preliminary review, released on Friday, come from details gathered from an "event data recorder" and cameras mounted on the lead locomotive. The devices captured the crew's actions, their conversations and other information, the NTSB said.

 The recordings included comments by the engineer about six seconds before the derailment about "an over speed condition," the NTSB said in a statement. Officials said earlier this week that the engineer was in a cab with a conductor and that the train's brakes were engaged automatically, not by the engineer.

 The recording ended with the locomotive tilting and the crew bracing for impact, the statement said.

 Related: Amtrak derailment: Train was traveling at 80 mph in 30-mph zone

 The final recorded speed of the locomotive was 78 mph, which is within the limits for the approach to the crash location, but not the location itself, which followed a curve with a posted 30 mph speed limit, according to the NTSB. There's a sign noting the speed limit about two miles before the curve, the NTSB said.

 The train was not equipped with positive train control, which can prevent derailments caused by excessive speed, officials have said.

 Related: ‘Positive Train Control’ ordered by Congress, but not yet in place

 The footage collected by the NTSB showed none of the crew using any personal electronic devices such as cellphones, the agency said.

 The NTSB's full investigation of the crash is expected to take up to two years. |||||

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– The engineer apparently knew the Amtrak train that derailed Monday in Washington state, killing three people and injuring more than 70, was going too fast. He just didn't know it in time. In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board states the engineer, who was in the cab with the conductor, commented on "an over speed condition" just six seconds before the crash, NBC News reports. It remains unclear why the train, the first run on a new route, was going nearly 80mph as it entered a 30mph zone. The NTSB review also found neither the conductor nor other crew were using cellphones or other personal electronic devices, as had been the case in previous crashes, according to the Los Angeles Times.


– From #OscarsSoWhite to #OscarsLessWhite: The 2017 Academy Awards nominations included seven actors of color plus diverse nominees in other categories, CNN reports. That's not to say there weren't any snubs, as rounded up by People, Deadline, and USA Today. Some of the big ones: Taraji P. Henson: Hidden Figures was nominated for Best Picture, but lead actress Henson failed to snag a nomination. Janelle Monáe wasn't nominated either; Octavia Spencer was. Pharrell Williams: His Hidden Figures score was nominated for a Golden Globe, but not an Oscar. The Birth of a Nation: Nate Parker's movie about the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner debuted with Oscar dreams, and Academy Award nominations looked likely at first. But, likely thanks in part to sexual assault allegations against Parker that resurfaced, it was shut out by the Oscars. Denzel Washington. He got an acting nod for Fences, but not a directing one. Amy Adams: The Arrival actress didn't make it into the Best Actress race. Hugh Grant: He received SAG, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations for his role in Florence Foster Jenkins, but wasn't able to score his first Oscar nomination. Finding Dory: Despite a massive box office haul and positive reviews, the Pixar flick didn't make it into the Best Animated Feature Film category. Sully: Another movie with a huge box office take and great reviews, the Clint Eastwood flick failed to snag a Best Picture nod. One surprise nominee? Mel Gibson.

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CLOSE On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its 2017 nominees. And, that means there were some snubs! Time

 Director/writer Martin Scorsese and Andrew Garfield on the set of 'Silence.' (Photo: Kerry Brown)

 La La Land and diversity were major winners in Tuesday's Oscar nominations, but not everyone woke up to an avalanche of excited texts. Among the most surprising omissions from this year's crop:

 Silence. Despite its muted box office ($5.2 million since late December) and shutout at the Golden Globes, we still figured Martin Scorsese’s passion project might have a shot with the Academy, given the director’s prodigious 12 Oscar nods (and one win) to date. But the religious epic ultimately fell on deaf ears, eking out just one nomination for best cinematography.

 Amy Adams. Once considered an on-the-bubble contender, the five-time Oscar nominee gained momentum in the past month thanks to Arrival's strong showing with industry and critics' groups. But the overdue actress' understated performance as a linguistics expert may not have been flashy enough for voters, who otherwise greeted the sci-fi drama with eight nominations including best picture.

 Finding Dory. Stellar reviews and more than $1 billion at the global box office couldn't help the Disney/Pixar blockbuster swim to a nomination for best animated feature — a category its predecessor, Finding Nemo, dominated in 2004.

 Denzel Washington. The dynamic Fences star earned his seventh acting Oscar nod for his acclaimed August Wilson adaptation with Viola Davis, but was edged out of best director by comeback kid Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) and first-time nominee Denis Villeneuve (Arrival).

 Annette Bening. Not only is she a four-time Oscar nominee, but the 20th Century Women star is also a member of the Academy's Board of Governors as a representative for the Actors Branch. So how did she miss out on Nomination No. 5? Blame it on a crowded field of other well-respected actresses including Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) and French icon Isabelle Huppert (Elle), both of whom have showier roles than Bening's '70s matriarch.

 Deadpool. For a second there, it looked like the Merc with a Mouth might actually score a nomination for best picture, given the underdog's surprising inclusion in Golden Globes and guild nominations. But even with the boost of Ryan Reynolds' delightfully unconventional awards campaign, the R-rated superhero couldn't go the distance.

 Aaron Taylor-Johnson. After picking up best supporting actor at the Golden Globes, Johnson was passed over for his creepy Nocturnal Animals turn in favor of his wry co-star, Michael Shannon. Tom Ford's stylish second feature was otherwise missing from the nominations, despite recent love from the BAFTA Awards and the Writers Guild of America.

 Taraji P. Henson. Arriving at the tail end of awards season, Hidden Figures blasted off at the box office with $83.7 million (and counting) since late December and four nominations including best picture and best supporting actress (Octavia Spencer). But the Empire star couldn't manage a best-actress nod for her powerful turn as NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, nor could her other well-reviewed co-stars Janelle Monáe and Kevin Costner in supporting categories.

 Sully. Clint Eastwood's workmanlike take on the Miracle on the Hudson hasn't been a major awards player in months, despite its inclusion on the National Board of Review's top 10 films of the year list. Still, its shutout in major categories is surprising given its stellar box office ($125.1 million) and likable star in Tom Hanks, who was once again overlooked for best actor after recent high-profile snubs for Bridge of Spies and Captain Phillips.

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 While movies like La La Land and Manchester by the Sea are up for awards in several categories, as expected, this year’s Academy Award nominations were full of many notable snubs and surprises. While actors Taraji P. Henson, Amy Adams and Hugh Grant were overlooked, Viggo Mortensen managed to snag a spot in the Best Actor category. And at yet another awards show, Finding Dory couldn’t make it despite its pledge to “just keep swimming.”

 Keep reading for a breakdown of the biggest shocks from this morning’s announcement leading up to the biggest night in films.

 Snub: Taraji P. Henson

 The math just doesn’t add up.

 Despite Hidden Figures receiving such positive reviews, lead actress Henson failed to score a nomination for her portrayal of Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who helped send the first American astronauts into space.

 Janelle Monáe was also sidelined despite a solid performance.

 The musician and producer was nominated for a Golden Globe for best original score for Hidden Figures. However, his work was overlooked in the Oscars’ Original Score and Best Original Song categories.

 The awards show wasn’t a total miss for Hidden Figures, though: After Henson’s snub, the film — which nabbed a nomination for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at for Screen Actors Guild Awards — pulled through with a spot in the Best Picture category.

 In addition, Octavia Spencer received a mention in the Best Supporting Actress category.

 Snub: Amy Adams

 Despite a critically acclaimed performance in Arrival, the five-time Oscar nominee won’t have another shot at taking home the statue this year. In a tight Best Actress category that included Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman and Emma Stone, Adams failed to make an appearance.

 Emily Blunt, who received recognition for the SAG Awards, also didn’t make the cut — although that would have been a bigger shock.

 Snub: Annette Bening

 The four-time Oscar nominee was another overlooked contender in the packed Best Actress division. Her acclaimed film 20th Century Women also came up short across the board, failing to secure any Oscar nods.

 It’s been 21 years since Gibson, who welcomed his ninth child last week, won Best Picture and Best Director for Braveheart. Despite a series of controversies in the early 2000s, nominations for Best Director and Best Picture for Hacksaw Ridge (Gibson’s first directorial effort since 2006’s Apocalypto) have solidified his comeback to Hollywood.

 “What could be more exciting than listening to the nominations being announced while holding my newborn son! This is a truly wonderful honor,” Gibson said in a statement.

 Snub: Hugh Grant

 The Florence Foster Jenkins actor will have to wait a bit longer for his first Oscar nomination.

 Despite SAG and BAFTA nominations for best supporting actor and a Golden Globes lead actor spot, Grant failed to secure a slot. Instead, Michael Shannon snagged the final opening in the best Best Supporting Actor category for his role in Nocturnal Animals. (Shannon’s costar in that film, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, won the category at the Golden Globes but did not make the cut for the Academy Awards.)

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 Surprise: Viggo Mortensen

 Mortensen said it best himself: “It’s the little movie that could.”

 After the Captain Fantastic actor scored a Golden Globe nomination for his role as the patriarch of a family who is forced to reintegrate into society after living in isolation for a decade, the Screen Actors Guild also honored Mortensen with a nod for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for the summer comedy. Mortensen can now add “Oscar nominee” to his resume.

 Snub: Finding Dory

 The Pixar sequel fans waited 13 years for the sequel, but it just couldn’t swim its way into awards season. The forgetful yet lovable fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres scored with reviewers and at the box office (it’s earned over $1 billion worldwide), but was edged out in a year full of strong contenders in the best animated feature film category, including Disney’s Moana and Zootopia.

 Awards season gave no love for Sully.

 After being left out of both the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards, fans hoped that the Miracle on the Hudson movie would be able to nab a couple nominations at the Oscars, but there was no such luck. Neither director (and Academy golden boy) Clint Eastwood nor Hanks, a two-time Best Actor winner, were recognized. ||||| Story highlights There was more diversity this year

 #OscarsLessWhite became a popular hashtag

 (CNN) Is it time for a new hashtag?

 This year's Oscar nominations have thrust the conversation about diversity back into the limelight, but this time in a more positive context.

 Seven actors of color were nominated Tuesday -- Denzel Washington and Viola Davis for "Fences," Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris for "Moonlight," Ruth Negga for "Loving," Dev Patel for "Lion" and Octavia Spencer for "Hidden Figures."

 Davis is now a three-time Oscar nominee, a first for an African American woman. ||||| Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced this morning in L.A., and if you are La La Land, Moonlight‘s Mahershala Ali or Elle‘s Isabelle Huppert, you’re probably feeling a mountain high — just like most of the Hollywood film industry now attending the Sundance Film Festival. However, for others including Silence director Martin Scorsese, Hidden Figures star Taraji P. Henson and Arrival‘s Amy Adams, their Oscars hopes just got buried.

 Here are some of the most significant people and projects snubbed this year for the Oscars, which will be held February 26 on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Tell us who you think we might have missed.

 Martin Scorsese – Denied a Golden Globe nomination and a DGA Awards nom, the silence is deafening on the Silence director this morning. Has the faith been lost?

 Sully – The heroic story of pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways flight on the Hudson River, and everyone on board escaping safely, was borderline miraculous. The fact that star and multiple Oscar winner Tom Hanks, director and multiple Oscar winner Clint Eastwood, and the film’s box office success were overlooked in the major categories is nothing short of a sin.

 Michael Keaton – The past nominee deserved a break today for his performance as McDonald’s mogul Ray Kroc in The Founder. But no Happy Meal there.

 Taraji P. Henson – The math just didn’t add up with Academy members for the Empire star’s performance as NASA human computer Katherine Johnson. Her Hidden Figures character helped get John Glenn into space and back home safely and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, but not even a chance at a reward for past nominee Henson. Congrats to co-star and previous Oscar winner Octavia Spencer on her Best Supporting Actress nom though.

 The King’s Choice – Norway’s big Oscar hope for Best Foreign Language Film tells the true tale of the monarch who resisted Hitler and the Nazis in some of the darkest days of WWII. History should never forget King Haakon VII, but Oscar voters sure did.

 Amy Adams – Strangely there won’t be an Academy arrival this year for the Arrival actress even though the Denis Villeneuve-helmed movie picked up Best Picture and Best Director noms among six others.

 Matthew McConaughey – The actor radically transformed himself for Gold, but this past Best Actor winner did not find Oscar paydirt today.

 Annette Bening – The previous Best Supporting Actress nominee didn’t see any 21st century appreciation this year for 20th Century Women.

 Kevin Costner – The Dances With Wolves winner was the hidden weapon of Hidden Figures but didn’t take flight for his role in the NASA civil rights pic.

 Trolls – Academy members really know just how to stop the Animated Feature feeling, don’t they? And don’t tell me that Original Song nomination was all this DreamWorks Animation flick deserved.

 Adam Driver – The Star Wars alum put on a forceful campaign for his poetic New Jersey bus driver lead in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, but Oscar wasn’t along for the ride.

 Tom Ford – The Nocturnal Animals helmer saw his well-appointed film win the Grand Jury Prize at Venice and score Golden Globe nominations (including for Ford himself) and nine BAFTA noms. But the designer and director won’t be wearing Oscar gold.

 Eye In The Sky – Maybe it’s because the last film appearance of Alan Rickman was released in March, or maybe it was the topic of drone warfare, but the Helen Mirren-starring pic didn’t fly with voters.

 Hugh Grant – The Florence Foster Jenkins star landed SAG and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globes Lead Actor nom, but it was an Oscar funeral for Grant today.

 “I See A Victory” – The Hidden Figures tune from 2014 nominee Pharrell Williams is a foot tapper and a musical window into the film’s subject of equality. Still, no one ever accused Oscar voters of having too much introspection or swing at the same time, and they proved it again with this snub.

 Deadpool – Yes, he comes out of the superheroes of the Marvel Universe, but you know in your heart that the merc with a mouth deserved to see the genre barrier broken with a Best Picture nomination. Almost never made, the witty and unconventional Fox pic was a real Hollywood success story for star Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller. Blockbusters are movies too, AMPAS members.

 Aaron Taylor Johnson – A Golden Globes win for the Nocturnal Animals actor and a BAFTA nomination, but nothing from Oscar.

 The Birth Of A Nation – Just one day short of a year ago, the pic starring and directed by Nate Parker about the 1831 Nat Turner-led slave rebellion debuted at Sundance and was garlanded with Oscar hopes. A record-breaking pickup by Fox Searchlight followed and then Audience and Grand Jury Sundance awards, and it looked like TBOAN was a contender. Then a 1999 sexual assault allegation against Parker resurfaced, plus box office disappointment. And even with a first-time feature directing nom from the DGA, Birth was ignored by Academy members. |||||


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A 911 call reporting a shooting at an Upstate college brought out law enforcement in full force Tuesday morning and now an employee is charged, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.

 The call shortly after 10 a.m. reported shots fired at Virginia College on Warren H. Aber nathy Boulevard in west Spartanburg.

 Click here to listen to the 911 call

 The Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene with multiple patrol cars and deputies, and they quickly determined that the 911 call was an April Fool's joke.

 Sheriff Chuck Wright said that 15 to 20 of his deputies had responded at "breakneck speed" because they were picturing something "like another Columbine."

 "There's like 20 something cops all the sudden. We were just like, 'Holy cow. What's going on?'"' said Stacy Hirsch, who was in the grocery store parking lot next door. "They were just jumping right out of the cars and running straight in.

 According to an incident report, Angela Timmons sent a text message to her daughter about hearing shots fired in the school.

 When the daughter's followup text didn't get a response, she called 911 to report the shooting.

 "She was calling to make sure that mama is not being slaughtered, pretty much," said Wright. "If my mom called and said there's a shooter inside the school that I'm at, I'd call 911."

 While on the phone with a dispatcher, Timmons' daughter got a text from her mother telling her it was all an April Fool's joke.

 "I'm not very happy about this. I don't mind letting you know about it. I'm not happy at all. That is not a good April Fool's joke," Wright said. "We got deputies that drove very quickly to get over here, without regard for their own life. They go into that school expecting the worst. It just wasn't funny."

 Timmons is facing four charges, disturbing school, aggravated breach of peace, and two counts of unlawful use of telephone. She was released from jail Tuesday night on a personal recognizance bond.

 "It was just a simple joke between my daughters and I, something we do every April Fool's Day," Timmons told WYFF News4's Mike McCormick on Wednesday. "Obviously, if I thought anybody, any harm would come to anyone, or anything would happen where my place of work would be involved I wouldn't have done it. It was a one second prank."

 A student told WYFF News4 that Timmons works in the college's financial aid office.

 “We are very, very disappointed regarding the poor judgment displayed," said Diane Worthington, vice president of marketing for Virginia College. “We apologize to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, first responders, students and staff. We take student safety very seriously, and we are cooperating with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.”

 Worthington would not comment on Timmons' current employment status.

 "I take full responsibility, let me say that. What happened, it was a simple, if you can imagine, a simple prank. I chose in bad judgment, not thinking, I chose the wrong prank given today's times," said Timmons. "I am so apologetic and sorry to my coworkers at Virginia College who were impacted by that pressure or that stress of the moment, but I had no intentions of doing that."

 Timmons said attorneys have been showing up at her home and she does have plans to hire one.

 "I felt like I spent the day being treated like an intense character," said Timmons. "Not taking lightly what happened and what occurred and how they used their resources to rush out, I feel that I could've been treated differently."

 When asked if she was hiring an attorney just to represent her or to take legal action for the way she was treated, Timmons said she couldn't comment.

  ||||| Spartanburg (WHNS) -- Spartanburg County deputies said a woman will be charged after she sent a text message about a shooting at a local college as an April Fools' joke.

 Lt. Tony Ivey with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said they received a call from the woman's daughter after receiving a text message Tuesday morning about a possible shooting at Virginia College.

 According to Ivey, the message said the woman was hiding in a bathroom and heard gunshots.

 He said the daughter called 911 and deputies swarmed the college. Sheriff Chuck Wright said as he was headed to the scene he was prepared to find a serious situation.

 "I'm thinking Columbine High School, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech," he said.

 But as deputies responded, the daughter called back after getting another message from her mom, who said it was an April Fools' joke, according to Ivey.

 Wright said he was thankful it was a joke but was very disappointed at the woman's bad choice. He said no one would think it was a funny joke.

 "Text someone and tell them their tire's flat, that's funny," Wright said. "We're talking about death. It's real. The people of Sandy Hook, when they see this online they're not going to think it's very funny. I don't think it's very funny."

 Wright said his deputies responded to the scene very fast, prepared for anything, prepared to give their lives for someone else only to learn it was a joke.

 He also said the joke was not fair to the college, saying the employee made a bad choice that does not reflect the institution.

 The woman was identified by Wright on Facebook as 54-year-old Angela Timmons of Spartanburg.

 Wright said Timmons has been arrested and will be charged with disturbing schools. |||||

– Police in Spartanburg, Va., aren't laughing off a woman's April Fool's "joke" about a shooting in the college where she worked. Police say 54-year-old Angela Timmons sent her daughter a text message to say she was hiding in a bathroom at Virginia College after hearing shots fired; the daughter called 911 after failing to receive a response to a follow-up text and police raced to the scene. "There's like 20-something cops all of the sudden," a witness tells WYFF. "They were just jumping right out of the cars and running straight in." Officers quickly determined there was no threat. The local sheriff says officers responded at "breakneck speed," fearing they would arrive at the scene of another Columbine or Sandy Hook massacre. He says he was glad it turned out to be a joke—though not a funny one. "Text someone and tell them their tire's flat, that's funny," he tells WPTV. "We're talking about death. It's real. The people of Sandy Hook, when they see this online they're not going to think it's very funny. I don't think it's very funny." Timmons faces multiple charges including disturbing schools. She worked in the college's financial aid office, though it's not clear whether she still has a job.


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UPDATE: (CROSSVILLE) The 7-year-old boy accidentally shot in the head Monday by one of his siblings has died, according to Crossville police.

 The outlook for the unidentified child had been serious from the start, according to authorities.

 Police confirmed his death about 8:45 p.m. Monday. He was taken to a Knoxville area hospital.

 A University of Tennessee Medical Center spokeswoman said she could not confirm if the child had been taken there.

 The shooting happened Monday afternoon as four children sat in a vehicle outside a Verizon store in Crossville.

 The mother and stepfather had gone inside to pay a bill. One of the children found a loaded gun in the mother's purse.

 Police said the child tried to unload the gun. The weapon went off and hit the boy in the head.

 The Cumberland County District Attorney General"s Office and the Department of Children’s Services were investigating.

 A Verizon spokesperson declined to comment.

 PREVIOUS STORY: A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the head by one of his siblings after their parents left them unattended in a car Monday afternoon, according to the Crossville Police Department.

 According to a news release, four children had been left in a vehicle while their mother and step-father went inside a business to pay a bill.

 During that time, investigators discovered that one of the children found a loaded semi-automatic pistol inside their mother's purse. When the child tried to remove the magazine, the firearm discharged and struck the 7-year-old male victim.

 Emergency responders arrived and found the victim was bleeding from the head.

 The victim was flown to a Knoxville area trauma hospital for treatment.

 The Cumberland County District Attorney General's Office and the Department of Children's Services have been notified and are involved in the investigation.

 Crossville Police described the incident as a "tragic accidental shooting." ||||| SHARE

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 A 7-year-old boy was flown to a Knoxville hospital Monday after being shot in the head by another child in what Crossville, Tenn. authorities say appears to have been an accident.

 The shooting was reported shortly before 3 p.m. when four children were left unattended in a car while their mother and stepfather were paying a bill at a business on U.S. Highway 127 North, according to the Crossville Police Department.

 One of the children found a semi-automatic pistol in the mother's purse, which was left in the vehicle. When the child apparently tried to remove the magazine from the gun, it fired, striking the boy, police said.

 The family was visiting Crossville from White County. The ages of the other children were not released.

 The boy, whose name was not released, was flown by helicopter to the University of Tennessee Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available.

 The Cumberland County District Attorney General's Office and the Tennessee Department of Children's Services are involved in the investigation.

 More details as they develop online and in Tuesday's News Sentinel. |||||

– A 7-year-old boy is dead after being shot in the head by a sibling when their parents left them alone in the car Monday afternoon in Tennessee, WBIR reports. According to NBC News, four children were waiting in the car outside a Verizon store while their mother and stepfather paid a cellphone bill when one found a loaded handgun in their mother's purse. Police say the child was attempting to unload the gun when it went off in a "tragic accidental shooting." The bullet struck the 7-year-old in the head, and he died hours later at the hospital, WBIR reports. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, authorities are not releasing the ages of the other children in the car or any of their names. The Department of Children's Services is investigating the incident, WBIR reports.