The Circle

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Circle K 'coming soon' to Continental Road (Green Valley News)

A six-acre plot of land between Interstate 19 and Continental Road was sold to Circle K Stores Inc. in May 2022. Mary Glen Hatcher | Green Valley News.

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Roadrunners' Michael Carcone comes full circle with first AHL All ... (Arizona Daily Star)

Tucson Roadrunners forward Michael Carcone heads to the AHL All-Star festivities as the leading scorer in the league after essentially being cast off by his ...

It was the longest in the AHL this season. Carcone, who plays a ton of minutes at full strength and on special teams for Tucson, won’t get the same days off other players will since he’s actually taking part in the All-Star festivities himself. “Obviously if we’re up in the games and we don’t need more goals and our team is playing the right way … “Yeah, I’ve got a lot of people coming,” he said. He’s now eight points back of Carcone, thanks to the two-time reigning AHL Most Valuable Player’s streak of 19 points in his last seven games. Saturday — Carcone leads the AHL with 61 points in 37 games played, a torrid pace of 1.65 points per game. He entered the weekend on a 15-game point streak — one that still counted even though it has been interrupted twice by call-ups to the Coyotes. That led the Predators to strike a deal to send their prospects to the Chicago Wolves, whose team was split that year with up-and-comers from both Nashville and the Carolina Hurricanes. Carcone doesn’t explicitly define where “here” in that statement actually is; it could be the state of Arizona as a whole, where his pro career has taken shape. That per-game rate, according to research by the Roadrunners’ communication department, is the highest the AHL has seen at this point in a season dating back at least 15 years. “But I’ve been fortunate to have (a) good staff to work with me and help me improve over the past two years. But not Carcone and a handful of others whom Nashville seemingly didn’t see in its long-term plans.

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Circle of Brotherhood holds police training days after Miami reneges ... (Miami Herald)

Events like Friday's training are part of why Miami Mayor Francis Suarez presented the Circle of Brotherhood with an oversized check for $1 million in October ...

The seminar, which Muhammad called “the only training like this in the country,” has been deemed so successful that it has become mandatory for both Miami-Dade and the City of Miami police cadets. “This is an important part of their journey,” said Troy Walker, Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agent in charge of the Miami regional field office. A retired Key Biscayne Police Chief who’s spent more than four decades in law enforcement, Press posed a simple question to the group. The Circle of Brotherhood is an organization primarily comprised of Black men who are committed to crime prevention, economic empowerment and mentorship. Despite the swirl of emotions inside his head, he still managed to lead a police training session with at least two dozen Miami-Dade cadets Friday morning in Brownsville. Then came the horrific video of Memphis police officers bludgeoning Tyre Nichols to death.

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Powerball: Central Florida woman wins $2 million on ticket bought at ... (FOX 35 Orlando)

Chuwee Gaiwan, of Palm Bay, claimed a $2 million prize from the Powerball drawing held on Sept. 28, 2022. Lottery officials said the winning ticket matched all ...

Gaiwan bought her $2 million-winning Powerball ticket with Power Play from a Circle K convenience store, located at 4950 Babcock Street Northeast in Palm Bay. Chuwee Gaiwan, of Palm Bay, claimed a $2 million prize from the Powerball drawing held on Sept. Lottery officials said the winning ticket matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Power Ball number.

ANG brings childhood friends full circle as top achievers (DVIDS)

RICKENBACKER AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ohio - Michael Zinsmeister and Lance Perone were just two boys from a small town near Zanesville, Ohio, ...

"I hadn’t found that on the civilian side." "It's almost like a family reunion every drill weekend," said Zinsmeister. “Seeing this family atmosphere at the base is what always kept us there." "For ten years, there were a lot of qualified people and we just kind of waited it out," said Perone. "I don't really look at it as waiting it out, though, because I really like what I do. "It was just that spontaneous," said Perone. "We battled through, and we supported each other." They shared a hotel room and completed roughly eight weeks of training together during the summer. "This was right around 1989. "I was on one side of the dorm, and he was on the other," said Zinsmeister. Michael Zinsmeister and Senior Master Sgt. Little did they know, their paths would cross again.

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Jahlil Okafor joining Delaware Blue Coats, what a wild full circle (Liberty Ballers)

The former Duke star is heading for the 76ers G League Affiliate club Blue Coats. Can you even imagine if they called Big Jah up to play some backup five ...

The Sixers need a backup five at this deadline and while Sixers fans comb the trade rumors looking for possible fits, we get this news story. But a slimmed down version of Okafor resurfaced with the Mexico City Capitanes this year, appearing in 15 games, dropping a robust 20.5 points, and 8 rebounds in 29 mpg. The team opened that season 1-18, and apparently this incident was some final straw for “The Process.” Jerry Colangelo was brought on just five days after the TMZ video of the bar incident leaked. And there were the fights outside a Boston nightclub in November, moments captured on video and posted online for everyone to see.” “In early October, there was the argument outside a Philadelphia nightclub where a gun was pulled and the cops showed up. It makes you wonder what the Sixers’ plan is here. Nets GM Sean Marks gave up nothing of value, yet somehow got Colangelo to kick in that second-rounder Marks would use to one day select Nic Claxton. But because of their health concerns, the perceived offensive talent of Okafor at the time, plus his apparent market value around the NBA, Hinkie, and his inner-circle of Sachin Gupta and Ben Falk, made the controversial and fateful decision to select Okafor. Think again wrote “Tanking to the Top” author Yaron Weitzman. Many began to label the former college standout a bust well before his 22nd birthday. This is information that has never been publicly reported.” The Fort Smith, Arkansas, native averaged 17.5 points, 7 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks in 53 games for the Processing 76ers.

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Peabody's Heather MacLean comes 'full circle' with meaningful win ... (Boston Herald)

February 5, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.. When The Track at New Balance – the new state-of-the-art indoor track and field facility that opened last ...

So, it only made sense that McLaughlin-Levrone became the second track and field athlete and first since Usain Bolt in 2010 to be featured in a “This is SportsCenter” ad on ESPN, which was released this week. Anything is on the table at this point.” MacLean led for most of the race – which was admittedly not her plan, “but it happened, and I’m happy it did,” MacLean said – before Stafford took the lead on the final turn. “I was like, ‘Do I have it in me to keep going?’” MacLean said. For the first time in her career, McLaughlin-Levrone competed in the women’s 60-meter dash at Saturday’s meet but failed to qualify for the final. Just cool to kind of have track and field in that realm of other sports in the U.S. After finishing and realizing he won, the charismatic and Adidas-sponsored Lyles appeared to yell, “This is my house!” before going into a lively celebration. He said his 60-meter win at last year’s New Balance Indoor Grand Prix helped him figure out a difference that paid off in the outdoor 200m, and he had a similar feeling after Saturday’s win. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has effectively become the face of American track and field. She knew that the New Balance Grand Prix – one of the marquee events on the indoor circuit – would be coming there since it was being built. It was helping build the new track facility that MacLean – the Peabody native and UMass alum who became an Olympian in 2021 and has blossomed into an American star in the sport – would soon call home. That was the union that her late father, Robert, worked for.

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Vicious circle: The Urban Loop has come at a price. Some say they ... (Greensboro News & Record)

GREENSBORO — The Urban Loop looms large — nearly 30 feet tall — over Barbara Chauvigne's house on Old Stage Coach Road. And, she said, it figures ...

Brown said he was made aware of plans for the road when he built his house in 2001. Many adjoining neighborhoods don’t qualify for noise walls because the homes were built after 1995, according to NCDOT. The noise travels through the Whitehall neighborhood and a wooded area before it even reaches Brown’s home on Holly Springs Lane. when you're outside your home, it would interrupt the conversation.” And, she said, it figures prominently in the flooding and noise issues she's endured. And while some residents were

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Circle K on Northside Drive robbed at gunpoint (13WMAZ.com)

MACON, Ga. — A man robbed a Circle K at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office. He was described as wearing a black ...

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New acupuncturist joins Open Circle Acupuncture & Healing (Community Advocate)

Open Circle Acupuncture & Healing has welcomed new acupuncturist Quinci Sprague, who has been a licensed acupuncturist since 1996.

Sprague is devoted to helping people overcome conditions that can be the result of excessive stress, such as chronic headaches, neck and shoulder pain, anxiety and gastrointestinal disorders. Quinci Sprague has been a licensed acupuncturist since 1996. Sprague is licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

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Gunman robs Northside Dr. Circle K (wgxa.tv)

MACON, Ga. (WGXA) -- Bibb County deputies are searching for a man who robbed the Northside Dr. Circle K convenience store. At 4:30 A.M. on Sunday, ...

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Spin the Black Circle: 'GTR' and the era of rock supergroups (Yakima Herald-Republic)

There's a great scene in the 1984 “mockumentary” movie “This Is Spinal Tap” where Rob Reiner, portraying a documentary filmmaker, asks band members about ...

He listened to “GTR,” then watched “Spinal Tap” on a VHR, then wrote about both in the YH-R. But critics like Considine and other magazines (including Rolling Stone, which called the album “pointless, pompous guitar wank-o-rama”) weren’t totally wrong in their criticism. (We’ll get to a Gabriel-era Genesis album in this column soon enough.) With a glowing review like that, no wonder 14-year-old me had to run out and buy the record! They picked up relatively unknown musicians for lead vocals (Max Bacon), bass (Phil Spalding) and drums (Jonathan Mover) and voila — a major-label rock band was born. Considine summed up the self-titled 1986 album by supergroup GTR with three other letters: “SHT.”

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'The Banshees of Inisherin,' 'Tár' Lead London Critics' Circle Awards (Variety)

“Tár” won three major awards, with Todd Field named Director of the Year and Cate Blanchett Actress of the Year. Blanchett is no stranger to this award, having ...

Not on love, not on kindness, and most of all, never on family.” New sponsors this year included Wild Idol, Gattertop Drinks Co, Black Crowned Gin, Wahooti, Excel Executive and JWP.tv, which livestreamed the ceremony on the Critics’ Circle YouTube channel. The Technical Achievement Award went to Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” for animation, which was collected by Gregory Mann who voiced Pinocchio. And it was full of ambiguity and the stuff that we as a species, find so hard to unpack and discuss and and pin down, not only the stuff inside the systems that we work within, but inside ourselves.” Bairéad collected the award alongside the film’s young star Catherine Clinch and producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoí, while Park thanks the Critics’ Circle via a video message. McDonagh collected his award in person.

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Florence Pugh leads stars attending the London Critics' Circle Film ... (Daily Mail)

The actress, 27, led the stars attending the London Critics' Circle Film Awards at The May Fair Hotel in London on Sunday.

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