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Beth and Steve Valentine When Steven “Steve” W. Valentin ’83 reflects on his time playing club volleyball at Syracuse University, he speaks of the fun, camaraderie and deeply satisfying sense of belonging. He also speaks of the challenges: “Club sports were not funded by the university at the time. I remember that each member of our team had to chip in $5 to play at the University of Rochester. When we went to Philadelphia, we would take sleeping bags to my parents’ house and sleep there.” These memories helped lay the foundation for the latest donation from Steve and his…

a The German aristocrat who hosted Samuel Alito at his castle in 2023 has revealed new details about his friendship with the right-wing Supreme Court justice, including that they have a mutual friend who played a key role in J.D. Vance’s conversion to Catholicism.Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a one-time party girl turned traditionalist Catholic activist who has come under fire for defending Germany’s far-right politicians, told the Guardian that she first met Alito in Rome (she couldn’t remember what year) and that the two were friends of Dominic Legg, a Washington-based priest and Yale Law graduate. Vance, the Republican…

September 14, 2024 STEUBENVILLE — The Big Red returned home after a few weeks on the road and came away with a win. The team ranked No. 5 in the Ohio State AP Division III first-round poll scored five touchdowns in the first half and led three quarters to en route to its most lopsided victory to date, 38-8… September 14, 2024 WINTERSVILLE — The Indian Creek football team had reason to celebrate Friday night against Weir. The Redskins scored touchdowns the first eight times they had the ball…

The Boar’s Head plant, which produced deli meat in Virginia, will cease operations after a deadly Listeria outbreak spread across multiple states.The company announced Friday that it was closing its Jarratt, Virginia, plant and taking several steps to strengthen the food safety of its products.”Following an investigation, it was determined that the root cause of the contamination was solely present at the Jarratt plant and was due to a specific manufacturing process that was only used for liverwurst. As a result of this discovery, the company has decided to permanently cease manufacturing liverwurst,” Boar’s Head said in a press release…

President Donald Trump repeated his racist claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, on Friday, doubling down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric as town residents detailed horror stories of facing bomb threats and being harassed.”In Springfield, Ohio, 20,000 illegal Haitian immigrants came into a town of 58,000 people and destroyed people’s lives. They destroyed the town,” Trump said at a lengthy news conference at a Los Angeles golf course. “People don’t want to talk about it. Even the townspeople don’t want to talk about it because it sounds too bad for the town. They lived there … and it was a…

President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia would enter a “state of war” if the United States and its allies lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western long-range weapons.Putin’s vow to respond to such moves with “appropriate decisions” was his latest and perhaps most drastic attempt to draw a line at NATO allies’ support for Kiev, and came on the eve of a meeting in Washington where the issue is expected to rise to the top of the agenda.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday afternoon amid a standoff between London…

Observer Photo: Patty Hammond There are home plates like this one and there are home plates like the one featured in today’s column.I loved traveling with my dad when he went on basketball and baseball scouting trips in the 1950s and 1960s.For example, my brother Tom and I accompanied him to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium to watch the Queen City Invitational Basketball Tournament, an annual, two-night, four-team event featuring host Canisius College and three other teams. After watching NBA games on our new black-and-white TV and learning how to score shots and the statistics for rebounds and assists, we sat…

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, debates Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on Sept.10, 2024 in Philadelphia. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images Eight years ago this month, Donald Trump announced that he had personally laid to rest the controversy about President Obama’s country of origin. He gave himself credit for clearing up any questions that may have arisen because of something, he claimed, Hillary Clinton had said years earlier. Those familiar with the facts were stunned.…

Calling all sports fans! Do you like gambling and placing bets on your favorite sports teams? Well, a lot has changed in the past year when it comes to betting and the rules surrounding it. Alex Tonievich, 34, spends his days buying and selling sports and concert tickets. “I went to a concert and realized I could sell them for more, so I just kept selling them,” said Toniewicz, who enjoys taking risks to make money and whose Instagram page, @WeGamblin, chronicles his love of casinos. But he also has a passion for sports and was an avid Florida sports…

Give someone a diamond and they have diamonds. Give someone a machine that makes diamonds and they have diamonds for the rest of their life. There is an old Jewish Parable A story about an island where diamonds are so plentiful they are worthless. The reality is getting a little closer to this imaginary island. The rise of diamond-growing laboratories has made these precious stones increasingly affordable, with consumers now able to buy the machines to grow their own diamonds for roughly the same price as a luxury sports car. Chinese e-commerce marketplace Alibaba We sell synthetic products Diamond Manufacturing…