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COSTA PALMAS DEVELOPERS INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

Two Mexican entities, Desarrolladora La Ribera, S. De R.L. De CV and Administradora de Desarrollos Costa Palmas, S.A. de C.V., along with their America parent Company, Irongate, have come under scrutiny both in the United States and in Mexico in connection with their development and sales of luxury homes in Costa Palmas, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  Irongate, through these Mexican affiliates, owns and operates the 1,500 acre resort, which includes the Four Seasons Restort & Residences, the Amanvari Resort & Residences and Casa Blake. Costa Palmas is marketed, primarily to wealthy Americans, as Mexico’s premier destination for luxury travel and paradise living.  Several home buyers in Costa Palmas, however, have found the opposite of paradise.Rumors are legal proceedings are underway in both the United States and in Mexico. Sources with knowledge about Costa Palmas, Irongate and its Mexican subsidiaries repeatedly lied to buyers of multi-million properties in Costa Palmas about I...

Fantasy Billboard: Top picks for the breakout players for the 2023 NFL season

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

Bill Reinhard | New York Daily News (TNS)Welcome back to the third season of Fantasy Billboard! We kick off the pre-draft analysis with a list of players that are ripe for exploding stats that your competitors may overlook. Last year I gave you Daniel Jones (9th in QB scoring) and encouraged you to keep the faith with oft-injured Christian McCaffrey (2nd in RB scoring) as breakout players. Let’s look at my choices for 2023.Jordan Love, Packers QB — Now that his love-hate relationship with Aaron Rodgers is over, all you need is Love. Rodgers took Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb with him to New York, but he left some pretty good receivers behind in Green Bay. The triumvirate of Christian Watson, Romeo Doubs (Love’s favorite target in camp thus far), and rookie Jayden Reed should ease Love’s learning curve to put up some solid stats in the weak NFC North. And don’t forget his pedigree. He was the 26th pick in the 2020 draft after throwing for 6,969 yards and accounting for 59 TDs in his ...

Stanford and Cal join the ACC: The third newcomer, SMU, could be the key to reducing travel demands on the West Coast schools

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

Any Cal and Stanford fans planning to travel with their teams starting next fall will experience the big cities and storied  college towns of the ACC, from Chapel Hill, Tallahassee and Charlottesville to Miami, Atlanta and, err, Dallas.SMU joined the league on Friday, along with the Bay Area duo. The Dallas-based university not only brings a massive media market but a campus with workable geography for schools on both coasts.It could be the destination of choice for the Cardinal and Bears if the ACC eventually implements a creative scheduling plan for its Olympic sports.“There were countless hours of discussions about how we can schedule in the future,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said Friday. “It was an amazing exercise. We want to eliminate as much of the burden on the student-athletes as we can. We have to be creative.”One option under consideration: Turn SMU’s campus, or the Dallas-Fort Worth area in general, into a neutral-site hub for intra-conference matchups, meets and eve...

Want to be a fantasy football champ? First you need to learn the lingo

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

Bill Reinhard | New York Daily News (TNS)If you’re confused about some of the most common Fantasy Football terms, here’s a list to clip and save.Fantasy Football — Owners select players from the NFL to create their teams. As their players score every week, the points get added to each team’s score. Highest score wins.Strength of Schedule — The difficulty or ease of a team’s opponent as compared to other teams based on won/loss records. Good news Giants fans: the Eagles have the toughest 2023 schedule.ADP — The Average Draft Position of players taken in a Fantasy draft. For example, an ADP of 28 represents the 28th player taken in a draft. Aaron Rodgers has a 104 ADP. Daniel Jones has an 85.DFS — Daily Fantasy Sports is a game where entrants draft a Fantasy Football team, usually for one weekend of games, using a salary cap format and compete for cash prizes.Fantasy Guru — See Jeff Mans.Sleeper — An underperforming player you think will “wake up” with good stats this season. The best...

Police investigating shooting in Oakland Friday,1 person with critical injuries

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

(KRON) -- There was a shooting Friday morning in the 300 block of 14th street that left one person with critical injuries, according to the Oakland Police Department. OPD officers responded to the area just before 5:30 a.m. on a report of gunshots heard.At the scene, officers located a victim who'd sustained a gunshot wound. Paramedics arrived and provided medical attention to the victim who was transported to the hospital. They are currently listed in critical condition, according to OPD. Oakland mayor ‘frustrated’ over efforts to find new police chief OPD Felony Assault Unit investigators arrived at the scene to take over the investigation. The victim's identity is being withheld, pending notification of next of kin. Photos from the scene showed yellow police caution tape cordoning off the area with officers and police vehicles on the scene.An investigation into the incident is ongoing, police said.

Leonardo Bonucci joins Union Berlin and Bayern Munich left empty handed on final day of transfers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Italy captain Leonardo Bonucci joined Union Berlin on the last day of the transfer window in Germany while Bayern Munich’s deal for Portugal midfielder João Palhinha broke down at the final minute on Friday.German media reported English Premier League club Fulham called off Palhinha’s transfer even after the player underwent medical tests and posed for photos in Munich. Bayern was reportedly ready to pay 65 million euros ($70 million) for the defensive midfielder, a position coach Thomas Tuchel identified as a priority. But Fulham was unable to find a replacement.Eintracht Frankfurt star Randal Kolo Muani’s expected move to Paris Saint-Germain was in doubt despite the France forward’s best efforts to force through the transfer. Frankfurt said on Wednesday the 24-year-old was refusing to train.Kicker magazine reported the clubs agreed on a 90 million euro ($97 million) fee for Kolo Muani, but that Frankfurt balked at the wage demands of his poten...

Casino developers ask Richmond voters for a second chance, promising new jobs and tax revenue

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two years ago, voters in Virginia’s capital city narrowly rejected a referendum that would have opened the door for a proposed casino. Now, the developers behind a retooled project are hoping to change their minds. Richmond officials have opted to bring the matter back to the ballot this fall for a second shot, and backers of the project held a news conference Thursday evening to formally unveil plans for the latest iteration of the proposed $562 million gambling and entertainment complex. “We’ve been on quite a journey with this project, and we are excited that we are entering a new phase, a phase of reimagining, redesigning and rethinking and reinvigorating the opportunity here,” said Alfred Liggins III, CEO of development partner Urban One, Inc.The project — this time branded the Richmond Grand Resort and Casino — would be located on the same former tobacco company site just off Interstate 95 in south Richmond that was identified in the first proposal. ...

Spain opens case against soccer chief for World Cup kiss. Luis Rubiales breaks week-long silence

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government began a move to oust suspended soccer chief Luis Rubiales, who ended a week of silence on Friday by insisting he was the victim of a smear campaign.Rubiales has come in for a storm of criticism and calls for his resignation for his behavior during and after Spain’s recent Women’s World Cup triumph in Sydney. He kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips without consent and grabbed his crotch in a lewd victory gesture.On Friday, a Spanish government legal panel handling sports issues opened a formal case against Rubiales — president of the Spanish Football Federation and a vice president of UEFA — over his conduct that was televised globally, making him a national embarrassment.Spain is hoping to remove him independently of a FIFA process that has already suspended him provisionally. The government panel will decide if Rubiales abused his authority by kissing Hermoso or damaged the image and reputation of Spain at a sporting event, as the gov...

Medicines360’s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth control

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market.One of them is Medicines360, which in 2015 became the first nonprofit to introduce a medical device — an IUD. The genesis of the device came from an anonymous foundation that saw one of the most effective and reversible birth-control methods, the hormonal IUD, was too expensive for most women. Even insured women could be billed copays of up to $1,000.In 2008, the foundation (which Bloomberg reported was the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation) partnered with pharmaceutical scientist and MacArthur fellow Victoria Hale and decided to make a six-year, $82.2 million investment to develop a low-cost hormonal IUD through a nonprofit company.“The real goal of the donor and of Medicines360 was to provide this product to safety net clinics at a very, very affordable price,” said Medicin...

An explosion in Ecuador is seen as gangs asserting power after inmates take hostages and free some

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:35 GMT

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Criminal groups in Ecuador used explosives to damage a bridge in Ecuador on Friday, authorities said, demonstrating their grip on a South American country where prison inmates took dozens of law enforcement officers hostage less than two days earlier. Government officials described the violent acts as the response of criminal groups with a significant prison presence to inmate relocations, weapon seizures and other steps authorities took to try to regain control of several large correctional facilities.Four car bombs and three explosive devices went off across the country in less than 48 hours. The latest explosion with dynamite happened early Friday on a bridge linking two cities in the coastal province of El Oro, National Police commander Luis García told The Associated Press.Hours earlier, a domestic gas tank with wads of dynamite attached exploded under a different bridge in Napo province of Napo, located within Ecuador’s portion of the Amazon rainfor...