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Devastating news for Nikolai Knyzhov. The San Jose Sharks announced today that Knyzhov recently ruptured his right Achilles tendon while practicing off the ice. He had successful surgery on August 10 and will be out for approximately six months. What an exciting way to start the day for Sharks fans: Knyzhov, 24, has already missed all of last season with groin injuries and an infection following surgery. And the popular defender will continue to sit until Valentine’s Day. Knyzhov was named the San Jose Sharks Rookie of the Year in 2020-21, as the free agent out of the KHL rose…

Mopping up continues along the perimeter of the fire with crews looking to “find and destroy method hot spots.” Alpine Wildfire Services conducts a cleanup on the McKinney Fire along Mill Creek Road. [Courtesy Klamath National Forest] The McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County was 90 percent contained Saturday, but that “doesn’t mean the work is done,” said Dennis Burns, fire behavior analyst for the Fire Management Team. ‘California Interagency Incidents II, during a fire briefing Saturday. Standing in front of a map of the fire, Burns pointed to a red segment on its west side that crews are still working…

A gunman who died in a shootout Thursday after trying to breach the FBI office in Cincinnati has ties to Tampa Bay and was registered to vote in Hillsborough County as recently as 2021, records show. Ricky Walter Shiffer, 42, was armed with a nail gun and an AR-15-style rifle when he tried to break into the visitor screening area at the FBI office, authorities said. Shiffer fled when officers confronted him. A state trooper later spotted Shiffer along a road and engaged in a shootout that ended with the police being killed, authorities said. Shiffer has lived at several…

Public servant Jim Lewis died this week Jim Lewis [© David Gibb Photography] Jim Lewis [© David Gibb Photography] Jim Lewis, longtime Jacksonville City Council member, former mayor and chairman of the Rogue Valley Council of Government Jim Lewis, died Aug. 8, ending a nearly four-decade run of public service, leaving behind countless members of the community who remember a consummate gentleman and a kind and devoted leader. . Lewis left this world looking like the beloved public servant and former mayor that people always knew, said Gayle Lewis, his wife of 51 years. Lewis, 77, suffered a catastrophic event…

For months, it was unclear whether the House Select Committee investigating on Jan. 6, 2021, would be able to overcome his obstruction and penetrate his West Wing. Baffled critics complained that the Justice Department was not drilling into his inner circle to examine whether his efforts to steal the 2020 election broke the law. But now critics who, through two impeachments, a Russia investigation and multiple scandals, have come to share Trump’s belief that he could shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Avenue and get away with it that his impunity may be in question for the first time. A…

State police recommend Hadi Matar, 24, be charged with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at a talk show in West New York . [Original story, published at 11:09 a.m. ET] Later in the day, Rushdie was put on a ventilator and unable to speak, his agent, Andrew Wylie, he told the New York Times. He will probably lose an eye, Wylie said. “The nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged. The news is not good.” A suspect was arrested a short time later and authorities are…

From Kyiv Independent: 2 in the afternoon Governor: Russian army command leaves Kherson. According to the governor of Mykolaiv, Vitaliy Kim, the command of the Russian army has moved to the left bank of the Dnipro River. Earlier, Ukraine reported that it hit a bridge over the Nova Kakhovka Dam in Kherson Oblast, preventing Russian forces from easily crossing the river and splitting the occupied Kherson Oblast in half. If Kos is still there [and not in the pool]I like to hear your opinion on this. Also from Kyiv Independent: Podolyak: Russian troops bomb a nuclear power plant to cut…