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Friendship between Marcus Stroman and former Duke teammate-turned-rapper mike. grows over the years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Way back in the beginning, when Mike Seander started making music, he used a closet in his apartment as a makeshift recording studio. There was a cheap microphone, and some towels were hung up for sound proofing.Seander had no idea where it might go, but he was backed by a supportive friend, a fellow pitcher on the Duke University baseball team named Marcus Stroman.“Really he was the first person who ever heard it and just was like ‘Dude, you’re pretty good at this,’” Seander said. “I remember him being a fan. … I think in hindsight he kind of instilled a confidence in me when I didn’t know what the hell I was doing at all.”That friendship grew over the years, as Stroman found success in the major leagues and Seander — stage name mike. — continued to evolve with his music, which he describes as a hybrid of hip-hop and country. Stroman, 32, made the All-Star Game for the second time this year, while Seander, 34, has been playing live shows and working...

How David Bowie, long thought ambivalent to country music, became a writer on a Chris Young song

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country star Chris Young’s latest single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” is a vivid love letter to summertime weekends, old trucks, dive bar bands, and crushes. And it might sound immediately familiar: The guitar lick that opens the track is lifted directly from David Bowie’s 1974 hit “Rebel Rebel.” Bowie is credited posthumously as a songwriter on the track, making it one of the genre-melding icon’s few forays into country music — noteworthy, because Bowie himself was not quite a fan of the genre.“I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day,” Bowie told NPR’s Terry Gross in 2002. “It’s much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn’t listen to was pretty much that.”So how did Bowie, who died in 2016, end up on the track?Warner Chappell Music became the custodian of Bowie’s musical legacy — acquiring the worldwide rights to over 400 of his songs, including “Rebel Rebel” ...

South Korea says North Korea fired ballistic missile into sea

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea fired ballistic missile into sea.Source

Grains higher, Livstock lower.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were higher Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sep. advanced 43.50 cents at $7.5250 a bushel; Sep. corn rose 19.75 cents at $5.5225 a bushel; Sep. oats gained 21 cents at $4.4950 a bushel; while Aug. soybeans was up 18.75 cents at $15.1825 a bushel.Beef and pork were lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.Aug. live cattle fell .48 cent at $1.7952 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle lost 1.50 cents at $2.4392 a pound; Aug. lean hogs was off .48 cent at $1.0037 a pound.Source

Police investigating possible armed robbery aboard yacht on Miami River; rapper Quavo onboard during incident

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

Police are investigating reports of a possible armed robbery aboard a yacht along the Miami River.7News cameras captured a heavy police presence and several City of Miami Police cruisers with their lights on parked in the area of Southwest North River Drive and Second Street, near The Wharf Miami, just after 10 p.m., Sunday.The owner of the yacht said they chartered the vessel earlier in the day, and between 13 and 17 people were on board. The people who they chartered the yacht to paid for the service, but at some point, when it came time to bring the yacht back to its proper dock, they held up the captain of the boat at gunpoint and demanded their money back.The captain told police that one of the men who held him at gunpoint threatened to kill him and throw him off the boat. The suspect then removed the captain’s wallet and phone from his pocket before threatening another crew member. According to a police report, rapper Quavo, whose real name is Quavious Marshall, was also...

Challenge to Florida drag shows law won’t go to trial until next spring

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A trial to determine if a new Florida law targeting drag shows is constitutional won’t start until next spring.A filing posted in federal court in Tallahassee late last week shows that the trial won’t start until the beginning of June 2024. It is scheduled to last two days and will be decided by a judge instead of a jury.The law, championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is on hold for now. A federal judge last month issued a temporary injunction preventing it from being enforced until the trial is held. The state of Florida has appealed that decision.Last week, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell issued an order clarifying that the injunction applied to all venues in Florida, not just the restaurant that had sued the state challenging the law’s constitutionality.The new law punishes venues for allowing children into “adult live performances.” Although it does not specify drag shows, the sponsor of the legislation said it was aimed at those per...

Investigation underway after human remains found in suitcases along Delray Beach Intracoastal Waterway

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

DELRAY BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – The Delray Beach Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting a suspicious item in the water along the intracoastal waterway near the 1000 block of Palm Trail in Delray Beach, Friday afternoon. Upon arrival, officers made a grim discovery – a suitcase containing human remains. Subsequently, two more suitcases were found at nearby locations along the intracoastal, both also containing human remains.As the investigation unfolds, authorities have determined that the human remains belong to one unidentified adult female. The three suitcases were located at separate sites, with one at the initial location on Palm Trail, and the others found near SE 7th Avenue and Casuarina Road.Picture of the floral tank top the victim was wearing (Courtesy Delray Beach Police Department)According to police, the victim is a white or Hispanic middle aged woman with brown hair and stands approximately 5’4″ tall. She may have had tattooed eyebrows a...

North Korea fires 2 short-range ballistic missiles after US submarine arrives in South Korea

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, South Korea’s military said Tuesday, adding to a recent streak in weapons testing that is apparently in protest of the U.S. sending major naval assets to South Korea in a show of force.In its third round of launches since last week, North Korea fired the missiles consecutively between around 11:55 p.m. local time Monday and midnight from an area near its capital, Pyongyang, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. It said both missiles traveled around 400 kilometers (248 miles) before landing in waters off the Korean Peninsula’s eastern coast and that the South Korean and U.S. intelligence agencies were analyzing the launches.Japan’s Coast Guard urged vessels in affected areas to watch out for falling debris but there were no immediate reports of damage.The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff in a statement condemned North Korea’s missile launches as a “grave provocation” tha...

3 injured after SUV driver crashes into senior living facility in Groveland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

At least three people were injured after authorities say a driver struck part of a senior living facility in Groveland.The Groveland Fire Department said emergency crews were called to Nichols Village late Monday morning where a vehicle ended up embedded in the wall of a building.Officials said the driver, an 83-year-old man, and two occupants of a multi-family unit were injured as a result of the crash. One of the occupants was treated at the scene while the other, an 84-year-old woman, and the SUV driver were taken to a hospital for further treatment.Details on what led up to the wreck have not yet been released.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Oklahoma Senate overrides GOP governor’s vetoes on Native American compacts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:33 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate met in a special session Monday and overrode GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt’s vetoes of two bills to extend existing agreements with Native American tribes for another year.The overrides were the latest development in an ongoing dispute between Stitt and several Oklahoma-based tribes. Stitt, himself a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, wants to renegotiate tribal compacts on the sale of tobacco products and the issuance of motor vehicle tags by tribes. Several of the state’s most powerful tribal leaders were in the gallery during Monday’s debate and praised the Senate for overriding the governor’s vetoes.Stitt has raised concerns that the existing compact language needs to be rewritten in light of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that led to the reservation boundaries of several Oklahoma-based tribes being upheld.“I am trying to protect eastern Oklahoma from turning into a reservation, and I’ve been working to ensure thes...