Four people were killed and two others seriously injured in Texas when an alleged drunk driver blew a stop sign and caused a collision, cops said.
The two adults and two kids were traveling in a golf cart in Galveston when Miguel Espinoza, 45, allegedly flew through a stop sign and hit both the cart and a pickup truck at around 11:30 pm Saturday, according to Galveston police.
The golf cart driver was pronounced dead at the scene, while a woman and two juvenile passengers were rushed to an area hospital, where all three died.
The two remaining passengers, an adult and a juvenile, remain hospitalized in critical condition Sunday, police said.
Espinoza, of Rosenberg, TX, and his passenger suffered minor injuries and were treated in the hospital and released.
Espinoza was subsequently charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter. He is being held in Galveston County jail on a $400,000 bond, police said.
The occupants of the pickup truck were unharmed.
The victims’ names and ages have not yet been released. Galveston police said they are members of two different families who had rented the golf cart, which they were legally driving on the city street.
Golf carts have become a popular transportation mode in the resort area roughly 50 miles southeast of Houston and city officials have created ordinances aimed at making them safer.
Arc System Works has released the results of a certain survey regarding Guilty Gear Strive. Fans of the series were asked which playable characters they’d like to play in Guilty Gear Strive in the future. Those who were able to fill out the survey were able to select up to three choices.
This question was asked of the five regions — North America, South America, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Needless to say, a top 10 list for each region was created as a result.
It seems that the overall winners across all five regions were Slayer and Johnny. Slayer ended up placing in first place in the North American and European regions. He also made second, fourth, and seventh in the South American, Korean, and Japanese regions respectively.
Fans had the option to suggest that a guest character join Guilty Gear Strive’s roster. Although this idea made the top 10 for the North American, South American, and European regions, this concept didn’t break the top 10 for the Japanese and Korean regions.
It seems that both the Japanese and Korean regions would rather see Order Sol rejoining the fight than to have a guest character get added. Outside of these two regions, Order Sol only made tenth place in the South American region.
Despite having a major role in the Guilty Gear storyline, Asuka only made the top 10 in the European, Japanese, and Korean regions. Even then, it’s worth noting that Asuka placed ninth and tenth in the European and Korean regions respectively.
As it was revealed recently with the Guilty Gear Strive Season 2 roadmap, the first Season 2 DLC fighter coming to Guilty Gear Strive will be available before the end of Summer 2022, which should be relatively soon.
After the sixth DLC fighter is released in Summer 2022, we have the seventh character joining in Fall 2022. Following that, we’ll have to wait until 2023 for the eighth and ninth characters.
At least some of the DLC characters that have yet to be announced are likely to be popular choices from the survey. If Arc System Works is going purely by this survey, then we should probably expect Slayer and Johnny to join at some point.
Check out the recently released survey results below:
There are fresh fears for the Queen’s health after she was forced to cancel an annual event in the royal calendar.
Her Majesty, 96, spends her summers at Balmoral in Scotland and traditionally holds a welcome ceremony outside the castle in Aberdeenshire.
But the event was on Sunday canceled and replaced with a smaller gathering, which saw her inspect troops with no TV cameras present.
It is the first time the Queen has skipped the event, with the exception of during the Covid pandemic.
“The traditional welcome to Balmoral is normally cemented in the Queen’s calendar and something Her Majesty really enjoys, being able to greet locals who travel to see her,” a source told the Daily Mirror.
“It’s a bitter disappointment the ceremony will not take place in its traditional form.”
Another insider grimly warned the Queen’s absence was “very much a sign of things to come”.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen’s schedule was being adjusted for her comfort.
At some recent royal engagements, Her Majesty has been seen using a cane to help her get around.
She usually stays at Balmoral until October, but it is understood that she will make a brief return to London – either at Buckingham Palace or at Windsor – on September 6 when Boris Johnson hands in his resignation as Prime Minister of the UK.
Her Majesty will then welcome the winner of the Conservative Party’s leadership contest, which will be either Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
She is then expected to return to Scotland.
Queen was forced to pull out of Royal Ascot – one of her favorite events in the royal calendar, earlier this year.
She had attended every meet since ascending to the throne in 1952.
The monarch was replaced by Prince Charles, Camilla and Peter Phillips.
Her Majesty was also absent from the Epsom Derby and a service at St Pauls’s Cathedral during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, but appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony for a fly-past.
Before that, she attended the Chelsea Flower Show with the help of a mobility scooter.
The Queen’s health issues appeared to start last year, when she was forced to miss the Remembrance Day service with a sprained back.
She later came down with Covid, but continued to hold meetings via videolink.
Eliesa Katoa felt he had better playing opportunities away from the Warriors next season.
Eliesa Katoa will be given a release from his Warriors contract at the end of the year to join the Melbourne Storm.
The 22-year-old back rower asked the Warriors recently if he could talk to other clubs, even though he is under contract until the end of the 2024 season.
That permission was granted and Stuff understands that the Storm and Dolphins were the clubs most willing to pick him up.
Katoa chose the Storm feeling there were better opportunities for him in Melbourne, so Wayne Bennett’s Dolphins missed out on yet another player they wanted to sign.
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Katoa’s NRL career started with a bang in 2020, having a sensational first year at the Warriors.
During that season the Warriors gave him an upgraded contract, which at the time ran for longer than any other player at the club.
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Eliesa Katoa’s career started with a bang at the Warriors in 2020.
But the past two seasons he’s failed to kick on as he continues to learn more about league, having come from a rugby union background in Tonga.
He has been in and out of the Warriors team this year and recently has often been named as the 18th man. Last weekend against the Rabbitohs he missed out altogether.
It’s been said that Katoa was a victim of the Warriors being stuck in Australia for three years and that without the club having its own reserve grade team and needing to travel with 22 players each week, he wasn’t able to develop naturally and had to do it in first-grade footy.
The Warriors have recruited a number of back rowers over the last couple of years and next season have Marata Niukore joining from the Eels, Dylan Walker coming from the Sea Eagles and the Knights’ Mitch Barnett also switching to the Warriors.
Those arrivals would have put Katoa further down the pecking order of incoming coach Andrew Webster, while it frees up a spot in the roster for the club to strengthen in another position.
Webster won’t start with the Warriors until he has finished his commitments with the Panthers this year and it’s the same for incoming general manager of recruitment Andrew McFadden from the Raiders.
The person who’s currently doing McFadden’s job, Craig Hodges, is leaving the Warriors at the end of the season and even though he’s departing, Warriors CEO Cameron George says work is still continuing on next year’s roster.
“Craig is still working with the Warriors and hasn’t got a contract with any other club for 2023,” George said.
“There is contact with Andrew Webster and Andrew McFadden from time to time when it’s applicable, to discuss personnel.
“When you look at what we’ve got next year, at this stage we’ve only got one spot, so there isn’t a great deal to be done there.”
Meanwhile, halfback Ronald Volkman won’t play again this season because of a shoulder injury, which requires an operation.
“Ronald has had some minor shoulder instability episodes over his career, the most recent being late in the game against Wests Tigers,” Warriors head of performance Balin Cupples said.
“For his age and at this stage of his NRL career we need to act on these to give him the best long-term outcomes.”
ST. PETERSURG, Fla. — A Florida prosecutor vowed Sunday to fight his suspension from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis over his promise of him not to enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban and support for gender transition treatments for minors.
Andrew Warren, a Democrat suspended last week from his twice-elected post as state attorney in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, said in a Facebook video message and news release Sunday he plans a “vigorous defense” by his legal team but did not give specifics.
“I’m not going down without a fight,” Warren said on the video. “I refuse to let this man trample on your freedoms to speak your mind, to make your own health care decisions, and to have your vote count.”
Warren was suspended Thursday by DeSantis, a Republican seeking re-election in November and potential 2024 presidential candidate, who cited neglect of duty and other alleged violations. The governor contended that’s because Warren signed statements with dozens of other prosecutors nationwide vowing not to pursue criminal cases against people who seek or provide abortions or gender transition treatments.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Warren over various allegations. AP/Chris O’Meara
Warren contended Sunday the governor was essentially seeking to nullify the will of voters in the Tampa area who elected him in 2016 and 2020.
If today a week ago we learned about the first desktops with intel Arc graphics that could reach the international market, several systems assembled by ASUS and MSI, today we know of another of the greats that also joins the international expansion of Intel graphics adapters, so far only available in small quantities in very specific Asian markets, while the rest of the world is waiting with great interest.
Specifically, as we can read in Videocardz, lThe third technology to join this movement is Acer, with a review of the Acer N50-640a gaming system located between the entry and mid-range range that, in the most current configuration, mounts an Intel Core i5-12400F, 16 gigabytes of DDR4 RAM, 500 gigabytes of SSD storage and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, although it is also possible to find another version that mounts a GeForce GT 1030.
And it is that, as we can read on said website, Acer already accepts advance orders for new configurations of the Acer N50-640 in which we can choose between an Intel Arc Alchemist A380, which we already saw in the ASUS and MSI teams, but also with an Arc A310. The team file can be found on the Acer website, but what is more interesting is that this Acer N50-640 with the Intel A380 has appeared on the list of the French retailer Boulanger.
It will still be necessary to wait, yes, because according to the retailer’s website this team will not be available until between the 8th and the 12th of October, depending on the store chosen for this purpose. However, customers who want it can already book it and, if you’re thinking about it, its price is €949.99which does not seem like a bad price, considering that we are talking about the top-of-the-range graphics card of this first generation of Intel Arc.
Over the past few weeks we have been able to hear quite a bit of noise about the status of the Intel Arc Alchemist project, with voices even suggesting that Intel would have canceled the project due to unsolvable technical problems (at least in this first generation). It is indisputable that, for whatever reason or reasons, there are some delays, but in my opinion (which is just that, an opinion) I have a hard time believing that major manufacturers such as ASUS, MSI and Acer are already pointing at the arrival of the expected Arc if there really is so much sea in the background.
It seems, therefore, that September and October will be key months to know what this first generation of Intel Arc is about. I think that some problems may have indeed arisen, but I also have the impression (and I hope I’m not wrong) that the situation is not as extreme as some paint it and that, therefore, Alchemist will debut globally in the short term , thus enriching the market for graphics adapters.
The White Lotus has a premiere window for its highly-anticipated second season.
Variety has revealed that the HBO series will be back for a second run beginning in October, one month after the Primetime Emmy Awards, in which the first season is nominated in 20 different categories.
The publication also has an exclusive first-look image of Jennifer Coolidge, the only returning cast member from season 1 (beyond a guest appearance from Jon Gries), dressed all in pink and rocking a scarf around her head.
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Coolidge recently appeared on The Jess Cagle Show on SiriusXM where she revealed that filming recently wrapped in Italy, stating: “It’s finished, but that was a long shoot. Everyone survived and especially, like, Mike White, you know, like he survived it. Can’t believe it.”
The actress stated that she’d love to reveal more about the upcoming season, but she knows she’d get in trouble for it.
Joining Coolidge for the second season are Grand Budapest Hotel‘s F Murray Abraham, Pirates of the Caribbean‘s Tom Hollander, Happy Season‘s Aubrey Plaza, Diverging‘s Theo James, Giri/Haji‘s Will Sharpe, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Adam DiMarco, The SopranosMichael Imperioli, The Edge of Seventeen‘s Haley Lu Richardson, The Bold Type‘s Meghann Fahy, and Cherry‘s Leo Woodall.
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“I do think people will like [season 2]based on the scenes that I’ve witnessed of other people,” Coolidge previously teased. “I think people are really going to be riveted.”
The White Lotus will return in October for its second season. Season 1 airs on HBO Max or HBO Go in the US, while viewers in the UK can watch it on Sky Atlantic, Sky Go and NOW.
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NRL rising star Manase Fainu has denied plunging a steak knife into the back of a church youth leader, saying he backed away from a wild brawl after he heard someone yell “knife, knife”.
Mr Fainu, 24, is standing trial in the Parramatta District Court where he has denied stabbing Faamanu Levi in his back near his shoulder during a bloody brawl outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Wattle Grove on October 25, 2019.
Fainu has pleaded not guilty to one count of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and he on Monday took the witness stand as he fights the allegations.
The court has heard that Mr Levi had earlier in the night spoken to two men who were involved in an altercation on the dance floor.
Mr Levi and his friends were later attacked by a group of men inside the church parking lot in a brawl in-between two parked cars but Mr Fainu said he played no part.
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NRL star Manase Fainu has told the court he did not stab a church leader in the back. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian GillesSource: News Corp Australia
The Manly Sea Eagles hooker on Monday told the jury he went to the dance with his friends, including Uona “Big Buck” Faingaa, who the court heard was attempting to recover money he was owed from a man.
Mr Fainu said he saw two of his mates including “Big Buck” being escorted off the church grounds and followed them, apologizing to a security guard for his friend’s behavior on the way out.
CCTV played during the trial has shown Mr Fainu jumping the fence from a Coles car park back into the church grounds shortly before the brawl.
Mr Fainu has told the court he told his friends he would go inside to collect Big Buck’s money by himself, however his friends followed him over the fence.
Faamanu Levi has told the court he did not know who stabbed him in the back. Picture: Shannon TonkinSource: Supplied
He said he was walking through the car park to the chapel when he saw a brawl erupt about 10 to 15 meters away.
“I just saw something, like a brawl going on,” Mr Fainu said.
“I started, like, back-pedaling and walking backwards,” he said, arguing he knew he couldn’t defend himself.
The court has heard he had undergone shoulder surgery and his arm was in a sling at the time.
Asked by his barrister Margaret Cunneen SC if he had a knife that night, he said “no, mam”.
He said he never saw a knife in any of his friends’ possession and ran away when he heard someone yell “knife, knife”.
“I just saw (the brawl) for, like, a minute or two and then I ran away; I was scared for myself,” he said.
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Manase Fainu is standing trial in the NSW District Court. Picture: AAP / Brendon ThorneSource: AAP
He said he took his sling off to jump back over the fence and while in the parking lot, he talked to his friends about the brawl.
Mr Fainu told the court he heard “Big Buck” say he “dropped someone” and none of his friends told him about someone being stabbed.
Mr Levi has previously told the court he did not see who stabbed him.
Witness Tony Quach last week told the court he saw Mr Fainu stab Mr Levi in the back during the brawl and could identify him from his sling.
“Sir, you were the one who plunged the knife into the back of Faamanu Levi on the 25th of October, 2019, weren’t you?” crown prosecutor Emma Curran asked
“No, mam,” Mr Fainu replied.
Manase Fainu has told the court he went back into the church to collect money owed to a friend. Picture: John Grainger.Source: News Corp Australia
CCTV played to the court showed Mr Fainu in the parking lot with a white towel on his head.
He denied it was an effort to hide his identity, saying he had soaked it in cold water because he had a headache, adding it was a common practice at Manly training
The video showed him scaling a fire hydrant to get over the fence about 11.20pm.
He said he climbed the fence because it was the quickest way to get back into the church, despite telling Ms Curran he could have walked back in via the front gate because he wasn’t kicked out of the dance.
He said he thought he was going by himself but after he had got over the wall he realized his friends had followed.
“Why did you jump over?” Mr Fainu claimed he told his friends about him.
He said he told “Big Buck” and his other friends to “wait there” but “Big Buck” was angry and said “f*** that, I’ll go get it.”
“Why did you feel such a responsibility to Big Buck to go and get the money for him?” Ms Curran asked.
“Because I was the driver, I was just a good friend,” Mr Fainu said.
NORTHFIELD, NH – The father who lost his wife and two young sons in a shooting at their home in New Hampshire last week said “things will never be ‘normal’ again.”
Sean Sweeney made his first public comments about the horrific incident in a Facebook post Sunday.
His wife, 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney, and their 4-year-old son Benjamin and 1-year-old son Mason were found dead in their home on Wethersfield Drive in Northfield August 3.
Autopsies showed each died from a single gunshot wound and the medical examiner ruled all three deaths as homicides.
There have been no arrests and no one has been charged yet. However, Attorney General John Formella said Friday they have identified everyone involved in the shooting.
“Thank you to everyone who has spent the last few days ensuring that the random idiots online are properly informed and while I still am unable to confirm anything as to what happened and who is responsible I’m beyond words to those who just know better and are stopping my name from being dragged through the mud and for making sure the rest of the world knows that my beautiful wife was the most amazing, caring, sweetest all around good person that anyone could ever meet and just how much she loved our boys, Sweeney said in his post Sunday.
“It is our job now to keep their memories alive,” he added. “They will be forever loved and missed and forever in my heart.”
Formella said Friday investigators had spoken to Sean Sweeney.
“The father is somebody we have been in contact with who has been very cooperative and helpful in this investigation. Our victim witness advocate is working with him and his family in providing services. He’s obviously beyond devastated as a result of these crimes,” Formella told reporters.
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There was some troubling news for Activision Blizzard this week after it was confirmed that the number of monthly active users had decreased to less than 100 million. Microsoft has also revealed that the game developer has no must-have titles recently.
“There is nothing unique about the video games developed and published by Activision Blizzard that is a ‘must have’ for rival PC and console video game distributors that give rise to a foreclosure concern.”
Activision Blizzard will have to change this image soon or be left in the dust by other game developers. It’s banking on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 to do that this year. Blizzard’s reputation has also taken a hit, but manages to keep their loyal fanbase. However, player numbers are continuing to deteriorate.
Here was a recent statement from the developers in a press conference, following the news regarding the number of monthly active users in:
“The fourth quarter will usher in a new era for the Call of Dutyand franchise. Anticipation is high for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, planned for release on console and PC on October 28. The sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare, the most successful Call of Duty title to date, will lead the most ambitious rollout yet across the franchise . An all-new Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 experience, tightly integrated with the premium game, will launch as an extension of the Modern Warfare universe later this year.”
The exact figures were also presented during the press release with only 94 million monthly active users in June. Just as concerning were the quarterly figures, which had dropped to 361m from last year’s 408m for this quarter. There hasn’t been such a drop since 2019 but this should definitely go up before the end of the year because of the releases of the two titles mentioned earlier.
The issue here is that this can’t be a temporary upswing and the statement from Microsoft suggests that there are larger issues at hand. There also seems to be a trend here with last season’s figures for this quarter also seeing a drop from the year before that. The increase in 2020 was perhaps due to the pandemic forcing everyone indoors.
Setting up for fall releases
Most game developers do see periods of such dips, with Microsoft themselves having gone through it in the past. There are still some exciting projects coming up from Activision Blizzard that should see more monthly active users. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is set for a Beta in September, and an October release. Overwatch 2 and World of Warcraft: Dragonlight are also pretty massive games, both with large fanbases and releasing this fall.
All three games will likely bring a large enough user base to boost Activision Blizzard above the 100M mark, just in time for a per-acquistion investor call. The acquisition from Microsoft is yet to take place, and judging by recent comments, they have big plans for the developer and want to tap into some new ideas.
