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Oscar Piastri future; showdown with Alpine, Daniel Ricciardo McLaren, Lewis Hamilton turned down role in Top Gun

Oscar Piastri future; showdown with Alpine, Daniel Ricciardo McLaren, Lewis Hamilton turned down role in Top Gun

Alpine is reportedly set for a legal showdown with Oscar Piastri amid reports the Australian driver will join McLaren next season.

The 21-year-old was announced last week as Fernando Alonso’s replacement at Alpine only for Piastri to take to social media to declare he would not be driving for the team.

It came amid reports that McLaren had told Daniel Ricciardo he would not have a seat in 2023.

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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer said they could seek compensation, expected to be in the millions.

“Going to the High Court is over 90 per cent certain that’s what we’ll do,” he told Reuters.

“If the [board] says ‘your license is only valid at Alpine’ and then he [Piastri] says ‘that’s great but I’m never driving for them, I’ll just sit out a year,’ then you’ve got to go to the High Court for compensation.”

Szafnauer said Alpine would assess how much money they have invested in Piastri’s development.

This figure would include the costs associated with independent tests as well as thousands of kilometers in the team’s 2021 car.

According to Reuters, one power unit costs as much as $2.55 million (AUD)

“We haven’t sat down with the accountants to figure out everything we’ve spent,” said Szafnauer.

“We will have to do that if we go to the High Court.”

According to TheRace.com, the fact Alpine believe the matter will head to the court implies that the team is resigned to losing Piastri to McLaren with their focus now on compensation rather than holding onto its rising star.

Oscar Piastri has said he will not drive for Alpine in 2023.
Oscar Piastri has said he will not drive for Alpine in 2023.Source: Getty Images

HAMILTON’S REVEALS BIG HOLLYWOOD BLOW

Lewis Hamilton has sensationally revealed he had to turn down a role as a fighter pilot in Top Gun: Maverick, describing it as “the most upsetting call” he’s ever made.

The seven-time world champion counts himself as a good friend of actor Tom Cruise, who played the lead role in the 1986 original and the recent Hollywood blockbuster that has grossed a whopping $AUD1.8 billion.

Hamilton recalls being invited to the set of one of Cruise’s movies as the starting point of their friendship.

“One of the nicest people you’ll ever meet,” Hamilton told Vanity Fair.

“He invited me to his set years ago when he was doing Edge of Tomorrow, and then we just built a friendship over time.”

Once Hamilton caught wind a Top Gun sequel was in the works, he was desperate to be involved given his love of the film as a child.

“So when I heard the second one was coming out, I was like, ‘Oh my god, I have to ask him,’” Hamilton said.

Tom Cruise bumps fists with Lewis Hamilton before the British GP at Silverstone. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images

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“I said, ‘I don’t care what role it is. I’ll even sweep something, be a cleaner in the back.’”

Cruise obliged, but he wasn’t going to give Hamilton a cameo appearance.

Instead, the megastar wanted the Mercedes driver to be one of the fighter pilots.

There was just one catch: filming was set to take place during the back-end of the 2021 F1 season when Hamilton was locked in a tense battle with Max Verstappen for the world championship.

Knowing he had to turn down the chance of a lifetime, Hamilton was devastated when he made the call.

“I’m a perfectionist,” Hamilton said.

“The most upsetting call that I think I’ve ever had.”

F1 TRACK SET TO MAKE APPEARANCE IN … CALL OF DUTY?

Christmas has come early for the cross section of F1 and Call of Duty fans.

Infinity Ward, the developers of the video game, released a trailer that confirmed the Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore will be a playable map in the latest edition of the famous franchise.

In an official statement, Infinity Ward confirmed the map would be playable in the Modern Warfare II Beta for fans to get a taste of what’s to come.

“The Modern Warfare II Beta is set to feature a robust multiplayer experience going beyond the Core 6v6 experience with a variety of meticulously designed maps of various sizes, and an equally impressive set of Modes, Progression experiences, and other aspects that will be more thoroughly revealed at Call of Duty: Next,” the statement read.

“In addition, we revealed a fly-through of Marina Bay Grand Prix, where combat occurs within the main infield of an urban race circuit, one of the 6v6 Multiplayer maps confirmed for the Beta.”

The pit lane in Singapore will look a little different in this year’s Call of Duty. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images

There does not look to be any official F1 branding or names of the drivers, suggesting it is not an official partnership between them and Call of Duty.

Funnily enough, the worlds of F1 and Call of Duty have intertwined previously, as Lewis Hamilton was a non-playable character in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, released in 2016.

LONG LIVE VEGAS! F1’S FIRST DATE IN SIN CITY LEAKED

What happens in Vegas might very well have great implications in the title race as the date for the Las Vegas GP has been leaked.

A Letter of Intent for the race between Liberty Media and the Convention Bureau was posted on Twitter and eagle-eyed fans noted the date.

The Las Vegas GP is slated to take place on November 18 and it would remain on that date until 2027 when the contract expires.

Based on the current F1 calendar, it would mean the race in Sin City would be the penultimate race of the season as the Abu Dhabi GP will take place on November 20 this year.

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Trump Received Subpoena Ahead of FBI Search

Trump Received Subpoena Ahead of FBI Search

Former President Donald J. Trump received a subpoena this spring in search of documents that federal investigators believed he had failed to turn over earlier in the year, when he returned boxes of material he had improperly taken with him upon moving out of the White House, three people familiar with the matter said.

The existence of the subpoena helps to flesh out the sequence of events that led to the search of Mr. Trump’s Florida home on Monday by FBI agents seeking classified material they believed might still be there, even after efforts by the National Archives and the Justice Department to ensure that it had been returned.

The subpoena suggests that the Justice Department tried short methods of a search warrant to account for the material before taking the politically explosive step of sending FBI agents unannounced to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and members-only club.

Two people briefed on the classified documents that investigators believed remained at Mar-a-Lago indicated that they were so sensitive in nature, and related to national security, that the Justice Department had to act.

The subpoena was first disclosed by John Solomon, a conservative journalist who has also been designated by Mr. Trump as one of his representatives to the National Archives.

The existence of the subpoena is being used by allies of Mr. Trump to make a case that the former president and his team were cooperating with the Justice Department in identifying and returning the documents in question and that the search was unjustified.

The Justice Department declined to comment. Christina Bobb, a lawyer working for Mr. Trump, did not respond to messages. It is not clear what precise materials the subpoena sought or what documents the former president might have provided in response.

The subpoena factored into a visit that Jay Bratt, the Justice Department’s top counterintelligence official, made with a small group of other federal officials to Mar-a-Lago weeks later, in early June, one of the people said.

The officials met with Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran. Mr. Trump, who likes to play host and has a long history of trying to charm officials inquiring about his practices, also made an appearance. During the visit, the officials examined a basement storage area where the former president had stored material that had come with him from the White House.

A few days after the visit, Mr. Bratt emailed Mr. Corcoran and told him to further secure the remaining documents, which were kept in the storage area with a stronger padlock, one of the people said. The email was reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.

Then, they subpoenaed surveillance footage from the club, which could have given officials a glimpse of who was coming in and out of the storage area, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. They received footage specifically from areas of the club where they believed the documents might have been stored, the person said.

During the same period, investigators were in contact with a number of Mr. Trump’s aides who had some visibility into how he stored and moved documents around the White House and who still worked for him, three people familiar with the events said.

Among those whom investigators reached out to was Molly Michael, Mr. Trump’s assistant in the outer Oval Office who also went to work for him at Mar-a-Lago, three people familiar with the outreach said.


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Investigators have also reached out to Derek Lyons, the former White House staff secretary, whose last day was Dec. 18, 2020, and no longer works for Mr. Trump, with questions about the process for handling documents, according to a person familiar with the outreach.

Federal officials came to believe that Mr. Trump had not relinquished all the material that left the White House with him at the end of his term, according to three people familiar with the investigation.

Less than two months later, about two dozen FBI agents, intentionally not wearing the blue wind breakers emblazoned with the agency’s logo usually worn during searches, appeared at Mar-a-Lago with a warrant.

The club was closed; Mr. Trump was in the New York area; the FBI started a crew fixing a large fountain, a maid who was dusting and a handful of Secret Service agents who guarded the complex.

The search warrant was broad, allowing the agents to investigate all areas of the club where classified materials might have been stored. They went through the basement, Mr. Trump’s office and at least part of his residence at the club.

After hours of searching, they left with several boxes that were not filled to the brim and in some cases simply contained sealed envelopes of material that the agents took and were otherwise empty, one person familiar with the search said.

The person said that the FBI left behind a two-page manifest of what was taken.

Mr. Trump’s team has declined to disclose the contents of the search warrant. A number of organizations, including The New York Times, are seeking in federal court to have it unsealed.

Some senior Republicans have been warned by allies of Mr. Trump not to continue to be aggressive in criticizing the Justice Department and the FBI over the matter because it is possible that more damaging information related to the search will become public.

When Mr. Trump left the White House after refusing to concede that he had lost the 2020 election and frankly seeking to stay in power, a number of boxes of material made their way from the West Wing to Florida.

In the boxes was a mash of papers, along with items like a raincoat and golf balls, according to people briefed on the contents. The National Archives tried for months after Mr. Trump left office to retrieve the material, engaging in lengthy discussions with his representatives to acquire what should have been properly stored by the archives under the Presidential Records Act.

When archivists recovered 15 boxes this year, they discovered several pages of classified material and referred the matter to the Justice Department. But officials later came to believe that additional classified material remained at Mar-a-Lago.

Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers have maintained that they were trying all along to cooperate with federal officials and had kept an open line of communication.

But others familiar with federal officials’ efforts to recover the documents have said that Mr. Trump resisted returning property that belonged to the government, despite being told that he needed to.

Some of Mr. Trump’s informal advisers outside his direct employ have insisted to him that he can claim the documents are personal items and keep them.

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Jason Horne-Francis dropped for North Melbourne clash with Adelaide Crows, strange call

Jason Horne-Francis dropped for North Melbourne clash with Adelaide Crows, strange call

AFL pundits have been left surprised by North Melbourne’s decision to drop No. 1 pick Jason Horne Francis for Saturday’s clash against the Crows in Adelaide.

The Kangaroos have named three inclusions for the match against Adelaide, with star veteran Ben Cunnington to make his highly-anticipated AFL return after beating cancer. Cunnington is joined on the side by key defender Ben McKay and father-son draftee Jackson Archer.

But the Roos also made a statement with their exclusions, dropping Horne-Francis, recruit Hugh Greenwood and key defender Josh Walker, while Flynn Perez was the club’s unused medical sub against Sydney last Sunday.

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Horne-Francis also wasn’t named in the emergencies, which is made up of Walker, Greenwood Atu Bosenavulagi and Josh Goater.

The 2021 No. 1 draft pick played in 12 of North’s first 13 games this season before copping a two-match suspension and returning via the VFL. But in his past four AFL games, Horne-Francis has kicked one goal and averaged 14.3 disposals.

Speaking on Fox Footy’s AFL 360 Plus on Thursday night, St Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt thought the call to drop Horne-Francis was “strange”.

“There’s two games to go in the year, I would think you’re trying to get games into these guys to expose them as much as you possibly can, give a potential coach like Alastair Clarkson a look at the young players and the game’s in Adelaide – that’s where all his family and friends (are). He was desperate to get back there earlier in the year, which created some issue,” Riewoldt told Fox Footy.

Dual premiership Kangaroo David King was also surprised by the decision.

“Why would you drop Horne-Francis? He’s going back to Adelaide to play in front of family and friends, why wouldn’t you give him that opportunity? I don’t understand that,” King told SEN.

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“Just put him there in front of his friends and family because he’ll want to perform.”

Brownlow Medalist Gerard Healy told 3AW’s sports day that Horne-Francis’ non-selection for the Crows game was “a bookend to a pretty disappointing season”.

As well as reports Horne-Francis flew home to South Australia without the club’s awareness earlier this season, he also copped criticism for liking a ‘fake trade’ post on social media that involved him heading to Port Adelaide, while an on-field interaction with club great Todd Goldstein was also picked apart by footy commentators.

Jason Horne-Francis of the Kangaroos. Picture: Michael WillsonSource: Getty Images

There’s also been speculation around Horne-Francis’ future and talk he could return to South Australia after putting off contract talks with the Kangaroos on a new deal beyond 2023.

While dual All-Australian Leigh Montagna thought it was an “unusual” selection move, he told AFL 360 Plus “tough love can hold you in better stead in the long term”.

“I think that’s the general consensus, ‘why not just play them’, but we’ve seen with Jamarra Ugle-Hagan sometimes some tough love in the short-term can actually hold players in better stead in the long-term,” Montagna told Fox Footy.

“Maybe there are still elements in his game that we don’t know about that he’s working on or he’s not buying into some goals that they want.”

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Perth Children’s Hospital chief Aresh Anwar resigns amid overhaul after death of Aishwarya Aswath

Perth Children's Hospital chief Aresh Anwar resigns amid overhaul after death of Aishwarya Aswath

The head of Perth Children’s Hospital has resigned amid an overhaul following the death of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath.

Western Australia’s health department on Thursday confirmed the departure of Child and Adolescent Health Service chief executive Aresh Anwar.

Dr Anwar, who had served in the role since 2018, will finish up on Friday.

He was at the helm when Aishwarya died of sepsis in April last year, after presenting to the hospital’s emergency department with a fever.

An internal review into her death found staff had missed opportunities to escalate her care despite her parents pleading for help.

Dr Aresh Anwar, who had served in the role since 2018, will finish up on Friday.
Camera IconDr Aresh Anwar, who had served in the role since 2018, will finish up on Friday. Credit: daniel wilkins/The West Australian
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Camera IconThe Perth Children’s Hospital. Credit: AAP

The government has since replaced several of the health service’s board members and recently appointed a new executive director to address “cultural challenges” at the hospital.

Chair Rosanna Capolingua said in a statement that she was confident the health service had the “right team in place”.

“The community can be assured that staff at the Child and Adolescent Health Service will continue to give their utmost to providing quality care for Western Australia’s children and young people and support them to lead healthier lives,” she said.

Health director-general David Russell-Weisz said Dr Anwar had brought dedication and integrity to the role.

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Her daughter was declared dead. Despite hospital objections, she believes she was alive.

Her daughter was declared dead. Despite hospital objections, she believes she was alive.

An Indianapolis woman whose 17-year-old daughter suffered a severe allergy and asthma attack at work and was pronounced brain dead days later was faced with a harrowing predicament: block the hospital from removing her daughter from life support and find another facility willing to take her before then.

“God can work a miracle, but I know it’s down to the wire,” Angela Kosarue said Thursday morning, hours before a temporary restraining order was set to expire that prevented doctors at Riley Hospital for Children in downtown Indianapolis from withdrawing her daughter, Treasure Perry, from life support.

A court last Friday initially gave her daughter more time on a ventilator, writing that “the injury suffered by the Plaintiff will be irreparable, in that if life-sustaining measures are terminated, the Plaintiff will likely be deceased.”

But a judge on Wednesday declined to extend a deadline, and Treasure’s family said the hospital took her off the ventilator on Thursday afternoon.

“She was an amazing niece, sister, aunt, daughter and granddaughter,” Skylee Kosarue, an aunt of Treasure, said. “We never gave up on her de ella — the doctors failed her de ella and us.”

Image: Angela Kosarue and her daughter, Treasure Perry.
Angela Kosarue and her daughter, Treasure Perry.Angela Kosarue via Facebook

Angela Kosarue said she had been scrambling to persuade another hospital to take her daughter, but there was a sticking point, according to her lawyers: Hospitals say they won’t receive the teen because she hasn’t had a tracheotomy, a procedure in which a hole is made in the windpipe to help with breathing. However, Riley Hospital won’t perform a tracheotomy because Treasure is considered clinically dead.

Under Indiana law, a person is considered dead when they’ve sustained an “irreversible cessation” of circulatory and respiratory functions or of all brain functions.

According to Kosarue, her daughter was working at her job at a restaurant on July 23 when she suffered an allergic reaction to shellfish that triggered her asthma. No one at the restaurant could help her, Kosarue said, and she was rushed to the hospital. Doctors declared her brain de ella dead on Aug. 2, about a week and a half after she was hospitalized.

Kosarue, however, wouldn’t give up hope that her daughter’s condition could improve and still considered her alive. She said that Treasure made movements in recent days, including squeezing her hand “like a quick couple of seconds,” and that her pupils were reactive to light.

With drawing her daughter from life support “goes against my beliefs,” Kosarue said. “I believe when your heart stops beating and your body shuts down is when you’re dead.”

A spokeswoman said Thursday that Riley Hospital had no information to share in the case and didn’t provide further comment.

Medical ethics experts say it can be challenging and difficult for some people to accept brain death — when someone can only be kept alive on life support — as permanent.

“Although death by neurologic criteria has been accepted as death medically for over 40 years, legal variance exists throughout the states, especially regarding religious accommodations and in pregnancy,” according to a 2020 paper, “Controversies in Brain Death Declaration: Legal and Ethical Implications in the ICU,” written by two Oregon Health & Science University doctors.

Such cases have drawn intense debate over the years.

In 2013, a 13-year-old named Jahi McMath was declared dead after she suffered irreversible brain damage while having her tonsils removed during a procedure in California. Her mother de ella, however, citing her religious beliefs de ella, said her daughter de ella was still alive and went to court to keep her on life support. In 2018, McMath’s family accepted that she was dead after she had excessive bleeding and liver failure following surgery to treat an intestinal issue.

In writing about the case in 2013, Dr. Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the division of medical ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, said that “brain death is not a coma.”

“People wake up from comas — they still have brain activity. Brain death is not a vegetative state,” Caplan wrote. “People in a vegetative state still have some, minimal brain activity. Those who are brain dead have lost all brain activity except the random firing of a few cells. They will not come back.”

But Kosarue insisted that her daughter wouldn’t want her to give up on her.

Treasure Perry
Treasure Perry.Angela Kosarue via Facebook

Treasure, a middle child with seven siblings, was working to save money for a car before entering her senior year of high school this fall. Kosarue said her daughter de ella “is so loving and full of life” — the first to text back in groups chats and tell her that she loves her at night.

Her asthma would keep her from fully participating in basketball at school, but that didn’t stop her from harboring dreams of playing hoops in college.

Kosarue said her daughter had always been strong-willed.

“I don’t want to give up. I still don’t,” Kosarue said earlier Thursday. “I’ve exhausted all my options from her, but I’m going to keep fighting for her to the every end.”

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Kane Cornes says Fremantle Dockers should chase Josh Kennedy for their pursuit of a maiden premiership

Kane Cornes says Fremantle Dockers should chase Josh Kennedy for their pursuit of a maiden premiership

Fremantle should make a play for retired West Coast Eagles great Josh Kennedy to fill a whole in their forward-line as they chase a maiden premiership, according to Kane Cornes.

The former Port Adelaide player and media commentator wrote in his exclusive column for The West Australian that the Dockers should sound out the legendary Eagle in a bid to lure him across town.

The Dockers are finals-bound for the first time since 2015 this year, but are preparing for the widely tipped departure of talisman Rory Lobb to the Western Bulldogs.

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The durability of fellow key forward Matt Taberner has also come under question in recent weeks as the Dockers put the tall on ice until finals.

Cornes said Fremantle should plead with Kennedy to back-flip on his recent retirement decision on a set of generous terms which would see him not train before Christmas and be rested for a number of games, particularly away from home.

Kennedy kicked 723 goals across a 17-year career at Carlton and West Coast, eight of which came during a moving farewell to Eagles fans against Adelaide on Sunday.

West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows. Optus Stadium, Perth. Josh Kennedy's final game.
Camera IconKennedy kicked eight goals in his final game for West Coast on Sunday.
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“West Coast’s all-time greatest goal-kickers still has plenty of petrol in his tank,” Cornes wrote.

“His stunning eight-goal display against Adelaide in his final game on Sunday proved it.

“Fremantle needs Kennedy. The Dockers must pitch him an offer he cannot refuse so that he ignores the option of retirement to become a critical part of Fremantle’s premiership push.

Cornes ruled the Dockers out of premiership contention, despite them circling a top-four finish, but said they could put themselves well and truly in the mix next season with the recruitment of a big key forward.

“Unfortunately, Fremantle is not good enough to win this year’s flag,” he wrote.

“However, the Dockers are capable of saluting next season if they address the big, critical need to find a match-winning forward.

“Lobb will not be at Fremantle next season. He is joining the Western Bulldogs.”

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Eleni Petinos concerns relayed to ICAC peripheral to sacking, Dominic Perrottet says

Eleni Petinos concerns relayed to ICAC peripheral to sacking, Dominic Perrottet says

“As advised to you I received a call from the Minister’s Office shortly after a draft order was issued on Coronation’s Merrylands Development,” the letter said.

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Shortly after speaking to Petinos’ office he said he received a message from Barilaro, “who I was advised had recently joined the Coronation Board. This contact came to me as a message on my personal phone requesting a meeting with me.”

Chandler said he copied the message to Hogan, and later met Barilaro to answer his questions. “A separate record of that meeting exists,” he wrote.

His letter pointed to the challenges that the NSW residential apartment industry faced when he entered the job in 2019 as “frankly horrific”.

“Turning around the brand of the NSW residential apartment market is now at a stage where demonstrable public confidence has lifted,” the letter said.

The building commissioner also described the difference in his engagement with the minister’s office after a reshuffle last year resulted in Petinos taking over the portfolio from now-Hospitality Minister Kevin Anderson.

Alas, the same level of engagement has not been experienced since. My personal experience has been one where engagement with the minister’s office has been problematic,” he wrote.

“Given where all the above matters now rest, I believe my continued role as NSW building commissioner is no longer viable.”

The NSW opposition used upper house orders to compel the government to release the letter after disclosures in her former ministerial diary revealed Petinos met representatives from Coronation.

Both Petinos and Barilaro have issued statements saying that Barilaro was not in attendance at a June 2 meeting between Petinos and Coronation Property. A second meeting with Coronation on June 21 was disclosed in her diary out of “an abundance of caution”, Petinos has said.

In question time on Thursday the premier conceded he was told about Chandler’s concerns in a phone call with Hogan on July 31, the same day he sacked Petinos, but said the issues were “not relevant at all to the decision that I made”.

“I had a discussion with the department secretary and the main purpose of that discussion was in relation to staff matters,” he said in question time.

Perrottet has said he was only told the letter had been referred to the ICAC on Tuesday night.

Opposition spokeswoman for better regulation and innovation Courtney Houssos said the premier was yet to explain why he sacked Petinos, adding that Chandler’s letter raised more questions.

Houssos said it “does not pass the believability test” Hogan would brief the premier on July 31 about concerns in Petinos’ office and not raise her intention to send Chandler’s letter to the ICAC the next day.

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Sewer emergency forces immediate shutdown of Provincetown restaurants, adds restrictions for residents

Sewer emergency forces immediate shutdown of Provincetown restaurants, adds restrictions for residents

Provincetown declared a sewer emergency Thursday that calls for the immediate closure of restaurants in part of the town and places water restrictions on some residents.”We are declaring a sewer emergency for properties on the vacuum sewer system. This includes properties on Commercial Street from Snow Street to Point Street, and properties on the sewer system on Bradford Street between Conwell Street and Prince Street,” town officials said in a statement. Any restaurant or food service business in the service area must ease operations immediately. “This is necessary to prevent a further public health emergency caused by sewer overflows, and we need to drastically reduce flow to allow the critical repair work in order to get the town back to full capacity,” the town said.Any residential property on this system must reduce water use, including dishwashing, laundry, showering, and only flush when necessary. The emergency does not apply to sewer customers on the town’s gravity system, nor does it apply to properties with on-site septic systems. The town estimates that officials need up to 48 hours to make repairs and get the system back to normal. All public restrooms are closed Thursday and Friday, and 18 port-a-potties will be on Ryder Street next to Town Hall.Anyone with questions is asked to call DPW Deputy Director Sherry Prada during business hours at 508-487-7060. The emergency comes just days before the town is set to welcome tens of thousands of visitors for Carnival Week, which features several events and a parade down Commercial Street.

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Provincetown declared a sewer emergency Thursday that calls for the immediate closure of restaurants in part of the town and places water restrictions on some residents.

“We are declaring a sewer emergency for properties on the vacuum sewer system. This includes properties on Commercial Street from Snow Street to Point Street, and properties on the sewer system on Bradford Street between Conwell Street and Prince Street,” town officials said in a statement.

Any restaurant or food service business in the service area must ease operations immediately.

“This is necessary to prevent a further public health emergency caused by sewer overflows, and we need to drastically reduce flow to allow the critical repair work in order to get the town back to full capacity,” the town said.

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Sewer emergency declared in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Any residential property on this system must reduce water use, including dishwashing, laundry, showering, and only flush when necessary.

The emergency does not apply to sewer customers on the town’s gravity system, nor does it apply to properties with on-site septic systems.

The town estimates that officials need up to 48 hours to make repairs and get the system back to normal.

All public restrooms are closed Thursday and Friday, and 18 port-a-potties will be on Ryder Street next to Town Hall.

Anyone with questions is asked to call DPW Deputy Director Sherry Prada during business hours at 508-487-7060.

The emergency comes just days before the town is set to welcome tens of thousands of visitors for Carnival Week, which features several events and a parade down Commercial Street.

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Missing NH girl believed to be murdered

Missing NH girl believed to be murdered

The search for missing Manchester girl Harmony Montgomery is now a homicide investigation, law enforcement officials said Thursday.Attorney General John Formella said investigators now believe that Harmony was killed in early December 2019. He said the investigation is now a homicide investigation.>> News conference videos: NH AG Formella | Manchester Chief Aldenberg”We understand that this is truly devastating news for Harmony’s family, friends and loved ones,” Formella said. “Our hearts go out to them.”It was believed that Harmony went missing between Nov. 28 and Dec. 10, 2019, when she was 5 years old, but police did not learn of her disappearance for more than two years.>> Timeline in the disappearance of 8-year-old Harmony Montgomery Formella said Harmony’s remains have not been located, but recently confirmed biological evidence and multiple sources of information have led investigators to the conclusion that she was killed. He did not provide any information about the evidence. An emotional Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said he was saddened that it has transformed into a homicide investigation.” As I stated from the beginning of this investigation and throughout, every effort has been made to bring Harmony home to her family,” he said. “Our commitment to bringing Harmony home has not wavered, nor will it.” Officials did not take any questions at the news conference announcing the homicide investigation.” Our greatest fears were confirmed today, and now our efforts shift to ensuring justice for Harmony, “Gov. Chris Sununu said. “I commend the tireless dedication of the law enforcement community for their unwavering efforts and commitment to transparency, and recognize they have much work ahead of them. We have come to know Harmony through her bright smiles in her photos and she will not be soon to be forgotten by her fellow Granite Staters.”A 24-hour tip line is open for anyone who has information about Harmony. Anyone with any information can call or text 603-203-6060. Watch a timeline of the investigation in the player below.–

The search for missing Manchester girl Harmony Montgomery is now a homicide investigation, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Attorney General John Formella said investigators now believe that Harmony was killed in early December 2019. He said the investigation is now a homicide investigation.

>> News conference videos: NH AG Formella | Manchester Chief Aldenberg

“We understand that this is truly devastating news for Harmony’s family, friends and loved ones,” Formella said. “Our hearts go out to them.”

It was believed that Harmony went missing between Nov. 28 and Dec. 10, 2019, when she was 5 years old, but police did not learn of her disappearance for more than two years.

>> Timeline in the disappearance of 8-year-old Harmony Montgomery

Formella said Harmony’s remains have not been located, but recently confirmed biological evidence and multiple sources of information have led investigators to the conclusion that she was killed. He did not provide any information about the evidence.

An emotional Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said he was saddened that it has transformed into a homicide investigation.

“As I stated from the beginning of this investigation and throughout, every effort has been made to bring Harmony home to her family,” he said. “Our commitment to bringing Harmony home has not wavered, nor will it.”

Officials did not take any questions at the news conference announcing the homicide investigation.

“Our greatest fears were confirmed today, and now our efforts shift to ensuring justice for Harmony,” Gov. Chris Sununu said. “I commend the tireless dedication of the law enforcement community for their unwavering efforts and commitment to transparency, and recognize they have much work ahead of them. We have come to know Harmony through her bright smiles in her photos and she will not be soon to be forgotten by her fellow Granite Staters.”

A 24-hour tip line is open to anyone who has information about Harmony. Anyone with any information can call or text 603-203-6060.

Watch a timeline of the investigation in the player below.

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Attorney General Garland to make statement after Trump raid by FBI

Attorney General Garland to make statement after Trump raid by FBI

Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled to make a statement Thursday afternoon, three days after FBI agents raided the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump.

The Justice Department, which Garland heads, has faced pressure since that raid to provide a public explanation for the search of the Trump home at his Mar-a-Lago club.

Trump, who is a Republican, and his allies have said the search was politically motivated and pointed the finger at the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democratic, in condemning the probe.

FBI seized about a dozen boxes from the residence Monday, according to Trump’s lawyer Christina Bobb.

She had said agents left a copy of the search warrant, which indicated they are investigating possible violations of laws related to the Presidential Records Act and the handling of classified material.

A senior White House official told NBC News on Thursday that they were unaware of what Garland would say.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks to the press at the Justice Department after all three defendants were found guilty of federal hate crimes for the murder of a young Black man, Ahmaud Arbrey in Washington, DC, US, February 22, 2022.

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“We have had no notice that he was giving remarks and no briefing on the content of them,” the official said.

The Justice Department, and Garland, have a longstanding policy about not commenting on criminal investigations before charges are filed.

This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.

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