Month: May 2023

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Browns linebacker Tony Fields is entering his third season in the league and is ready to roll. The team has been back in Berea for the past month participating in offseason volunteer activities. It may be voluntary, but there has been a very good turnout. Most of the team is there, including key defensive players like Myles Garrett, Dalvin Tomlinson, Denzel Ward, Greg Newsome and Martin Emerson. “The atmosphere is great,” Fields told TheOBR.com in an exclusive interview. “Everybody has been prepared and they’re chasing each other. I feel like all the coaches and everybody have…

Ryan Lewis, East Ascension’s head coach the past two seasons, is the new softball coach at Denham Springs High. Photo courtesy of Ryan Lewis Denham Springs High stayed within District 5-5A by selecting a new softball coach. Ryan Lewis, formerly the East Ascension coach, was announced as the DSHS coach Thursday morning. He takes over from Leslie Marien. Lewis said he has several reasons for taking the Denham Springs job. “I think it was a combination of a lot of things,” Lewis said. “I think, first of all, that the school itself academically is a very good school. In addition,…

London, England – Tunisia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition leaders and critics is putting society at risk and risking a return to autocracy, years after demonstrations in the North African country were credited with sparking a revolutionary chain reaction throughout the region, a group of experts, activists and relatives of those arrested warned. On Monday, Rached Ghannouchi, the chairman of Ennahdha who was arrested in April, was jailed in absentia after being found guilty of incitement. His party, a self-styled “Muslim Democrat” movement, had emerged in 2011 as the largest group in the first parliamentary elections after the ouster of protest-hit…

The FBI targeted pro-life groups, Catholics and parents attending school board meetings with investigations in an effort to “inflate” the perception that they were a domestic terrorism threat, according to new whistleblower reports. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, detailed the reports at a news conference Thursday morning just minutes before three FBI whistleblowers were scheduled to testify before the committee. Jordan detailed whistleblower allegations that the FBI’s Washington, DC office pressured the rest of the organization toward a political agenda. “If you’re a parent attending a school board meeting; if you’re a pro-lifer praying in a clinic, or if…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A bill that would do just that ban almost all diversity and inclusion training Requirements for Ohio’s public colleges and universities, banning faculty strikes and barring public universities from taking positions on “controversial” issues, cleared the GOP-dominated Ohio Senate on Wednesday in a 21- to 10. What You Need to Know SB83 would ban nearly all diversity and inclusion training requirements at Ohio’s public colleges and universities, ban faculty strikes and prevent public universities from taking positions on “controversial” issues. Republican Sen. Jerry Cirino of Kirtland, the bill’s sponsor, and other supporters have described it as…

Komatsu has just unveiled a literally groundbreaking concept machine. Ready to begin proof-of-concept testing, the newly developed excavator concept combines a Toyota hydrogen fuel cell system with Komatsu’s latest comprehensive control and performance technology. Photo Komatsu Hydrogen has a high energy density and can be refueled in a shorter time than recharging batteries, an attractive option for “carbon neutral” conscious customers. “Innovative operability, co-creation with pioneering technology, sustainability without sacrificing performance – this concept machine is a concrete step on Komatsu’s path to creating a future where we all thrive together,” the company said. For the new machine concept, Komatsu…

Alimera Sciences Inc. announced today the acquisition of additional marketing rights for fluocinolone acetonide 0.18 mg intravitreal insert for the treatment of chronic noninfectious uveitis. (Image courtesy of Adobe Stock) Alimera Sciences Inc. today announced the acquisition of additional marketing rights to Fluocinolone Acetonide Intravitreal Insert (YUTIQ) 0.18 mg for the treatment of chronic non-infectious uveitis affecting the posterior segment of the eye from EyePoint Pharmaceuticals Inc. The transaction was finalized at the close of business on Wednesday. The fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal insert is the same as Alimera’s current commercial product ILUVIEN for DME, although the name and labeling indication…

HONG KONG (AP) – Hong Kong’s leader said Thursday that the city’s public libraries would not recommend books with “bad ideologies” to residents after they removed titles related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and certain political figures , further reducing the city’s freedoms. CEO John Lee was addressing a lawmaker’s question about dozens of books in public libraries that were removed without a clear explanation. These include posts about the bloody crackdown and others written by pro-democracy politicians and political commentators. Hong Kong is a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997, promising to retain its…