Caitlin Clark had 28 factors and 12 assists and the Indiana Fever overcame a record-tying 9 three-pointers from Arike Ogunbowale in a 100-93 victory over the Dallas Wings on Sunday.

Kelsey Mitchell scored 36 factors, together with a 3 that gave the Fever a four-point lead with 1:58 remaining in a gathering of groups that entered with matching three-game successful streaks.

Ogunbowale completed 9 of 16 from lengthy vary – beating her earlier profession better of seven – and scored 34 factors. The All-Star Sport MVP missed two makes an attempt at a document tenth 3-pointer, together with one with the Wings trailing by six within the remaining minute.

Ogunbowale, who tied a profession excessive with eight rebounds, matched the league document for 3s held by Mitchell (2019) and Seattle’s Jewell Loyd (2023).

“I salute individuals like Arike as a result of off the courtroom, we’re actually nice associates,” Mitchell mentioned. “We are likely to work out and practice collectively within the offseason. I wasn’t anticipating another approach coming from an individual like that.”

Clark and Mitchell hit 5 deep-shots apiece, combining to go 10 for 18 because the Fever shot 50% from lengthy vary and 53% total.

“When you may have two guards which might be each making performs, it places the opposite workforce within the robust place of what to remove, who to placed on who,” Clark mentioned. “We’re positively taking pictures it nicely. We’re taking part in off one another nicely. We’re in search of one another, and we’re getting downhill, too. I believe it’s been an excellent steadiness of all the pieces.”

Clark was coming off a career-high 31 factors in a win over fellow rookie of the yr contender Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky. She set a WNBA document with 19 assists in her first regular-season go to to Texas within the sport earlier than the Olympic break, a 101-93 Indiana loss when the Fever had been on the sting of the playoff image.

Now, Indiana (17-16) is above .500 for the primary time with Clark and solidly within the playoff combine whereas the Wings (9-23) are nonetheless hoping to get well from a sluggish begin triggered by accidents to a number of key gamers. Dallas, who gained their first playoff collection final yr, are two video games out of the ultimate postseason spot with eight remaining.

The Fever are 6-1 for the reason that Olympic break with three of these victories on the street. The reward is six consecutive house video games beginning Wednesday in opposition to the last-place Los Angeles Sparks earlier than the regular-season finale at Washington.

“They’ve laid it on the market. We simply hold speaking about emptying our tank,” Indiana coach Christie Sides mentioned. “The arrogance that they’re taking part in with, I’m pleased with the street video games. The street video games have been robust. We simply hold speaking about momentum, maintaining our foot on the fuel.”

After making her eighth three-pointer within the third quarter, Ogunbowale was referred to as for a foul for not giving Kelsey Mitchell a touchdown space on a 3.

The Wings challenged, and misplaced, which led to Ogunbowale getting a technical foul. The Fever scored 5 factors on that possession, chopping their deficit to 67-64 after Dallas had taken its largest lead at 64-55 lower than two minutes earlier.

Mitchell added two free throws after her essential three because the Fever scored eight consecutive factors for a 99-91 lead with 39 seconds remaining.

Satou Sabally scored 25 factors, and Natasha Howard had 18 factors and 9 assists for the Wings. NaLyssa Smith had 14 factors and eight rebounds for Indiana.

As the autumn semester will get underway, LSU college students and college can not help however discover a number of main campus development initiatives scattered all through campus.

One of the vital outstanding initiatives is the renovation of Fieldhouse Drive, which has been beneath development since final 12 months. In line with Dennis Mitchell, LSU’s panorama architect, this venture, estimated to price round $1.2 million, is now in its remaining levels. 

Mitchell emphasised the venture’s significance in enhancing pedestrian and vehicular entry round campus. “The highway is full, and plenty of sidewalks are additionally achieved. Our major aim is to make sure that college students can safely stroll via the world,” Mitchell mentioned. In line with Mitchell, the subsequent steps embody remaining landscaping touches, that are anticipated to be accomplished inside the subsequent few weeks. 

The development on Fieldhouse Dr. has additionally resulted within the short-term relocation of the Lockett Tigertrails bus hub. The bus pickup and drop-off has been moved to the entrance of Cox Auditorium till development is accomplished. 

In line with Broty Stelly, the LSU Parking and Transportation Providers communication specialist, these short-term modifications shouldn’t have an effect on bus occasions and pedestrian foot visitors. Nonetheless, some bus routes noticed delays earlier this week. 

One other main venture underway is the Our Girl of the Lake Well being Interdisciplinary Science Constructing, situated on the nook of South Stadium and Tower Drive. This $148 million venture is ready to grow to be a state-of-the-art facility designed to advance analysis and schooling within the well being sciences. It is not anticipated to be accomplished till the autumn of 2025. The constructing will characteristic trendy laboratories, collaborative areas and superior know-how to help interdisciplinary research and innovation.

Along with these initiatives, vital work is being achieved within the Enchanted Forest, a well-liked inexperienced house on campus. The development on this space focuses on bettering walkways and the world’s total look. 

“I’ve labored right here for 20 years, and I can say that the enhancements we’re making now may have a long-lasting constructive affect on everybody who makes use of this campus,” Mitchell mentioned.

With the primary dwelling soccer sport quick approaching, the college is making each effort to make sure that the campus is able to welcome the inflow of scholars, school and guests. “We’re excited to see how these enhancements will improve the general expertise for everybody on campus,” Mitchell mentioned.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the Nineteen Sixties browsing craze as a charismatic seashore boy paired off with Sandra Dee within the hit movie “Gidget,” died Monday at 88.

Darren died in his sleep at a Los Angeles hospital, his son Jim Moret informed information shops.

Moret informed The Hollywood Reporter that Darren was supposed have had an aortic valve alternative however was too weak for the surgical procedure. “I at all times thought he would pull by means of,” his son informed the leisure commerce, “as a result of he was so cool. He was at all times cool.”

In his lengthy profession, Darren acted, sang and constructed up a profitable behind-the-scenes profession as a tv director, helming episodes of such well-known sequence as “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place.” Within the Eighties, he was Officer Jim Corrigan on the tv cop present “T.J. Hooker.”

However to younger film followers of the late Nineteen Fifties, he can be remembered greatest as Moondoggie, the dark-haired surfer boy within the smash 1959 launch “Gidget.” Dee starred because the title character, a spunky Southern Californian who hits the seashore and finally falls in love with Moondoggie.

“I used to be in love with Sandra,” Darren later recalled. “I assumed that she was completely excellent as Gidget. She had large attraction.”

The movie was based mostly on a novel {that a} California man, Frederick Kohner, had written about his personal teenage daughter and helped spur curiosity in browsing — one which influenced pop music, slang and even vogue.

For Darren, his success with teen followers led to a recording contract, because it did with many younger actors on the time, amongst them Tab Hunter and Annette Funicello. Two of Darren’s singles, “Goodbye Merciless World” and “Her Royal Majesty,” reached the High 10 of the Billboard Scorching 100 chart. (“Goodbye Merciless World” additionally appeared in Steven Spielberg’s 2022 semi-autobiographical movie, “The Fabelmans.” ) Different singles included “Gidget” and “Angel Face.”

Darren was the one “Gidget” forged member who appeared in each its sequels, 1961’s “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” and 1963’s “Gidget Goes to Rome.” Dee was changed by Deborah Walley within the second movie and Cindy Carol within the third. (“Gidget” later turned a tv present, launching the profession of Sally Discipline. )

“That they had me below contract; I used to be a prisoner,” Darren informed Leisure Weekly in 2004. “However with these beautiful younger women, it was the very best jail I believe I’ll ever be in.”

As a contract participant at Columbia Studios, Darren appeared in grown-up movies, too, together with “The Brothers Rico,” “Operation Meatball” and “The Weapons of Navarone.”

By the mid-’60s, when Darren appeared in “For These Who Suppose Younger” and “The Energetic Set,” his big-screen performing profession was nearly over. He appeared in only a handful of films after the Nineteen Sixties ended, final showing in 2017’s “Fortunate,” directed by John Carroll Lynch.

However he remained energetic on tv, showing as a lead on the sci-fi present “The Time Tunnel” within the late Nineteen Sixties, and doing visitor spots and small recurring roles in TV exhibits equivalent to “The Love Boat,” “Hawaii 5-O” and “Fantasy Island.”

Darren was a sequence common for 4 seasons of the William Shatner-starrer “T.J. Hooker” within the Eighties. Whereas showing on the present, he seen that no director was listed for an upcoming sequence and requested if he may check out for it.

“When it was proven, I acquired a number of provides to direct,” he informed the New York Each day Information. “Quickly I used to be getting so many provides to direct, I sort of gave up performing and singing.”

For nearly two years, Darren directed episodes of “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “Hunter,” “Melrose Place,” “Beverly Hills 90210” and different sequence. He returned to performing within the Nineties with small roles in “Melrose Place” and “Star Trek, Deep House 9.”

Darren was born James Ercolani in 1936 and grew up in South Philadelphia, not removed from such fellow teen idols of the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s as Fabian and Frankie Avalon. Singing got here straightforward to him, and at 14 he was showing in native nightclubs.

“From the age of 5 or 6 I knew I needed to be an entertainer, or well-known perhaps,” he stated in a 2003 interview with the Information-Press of Fort Myers, Florida. He famous that such luminaries as Eddie Fisher and Al Martino had lived in the identical space as he did, “an actual neighborhood. It made you are feeling you possibly can achieve success, too.”

In accordance with a 1958 Los Angeles Instances profile, he acquired a break when he went to New York to get some photos taken and the photographer’s workplace put him in contact with a expertise scout.

He was quickly signed by Columbia Footage, and the newspaper stated that after a number of appearances, his fan mail on the studio was working “second solely to Kim Novak’s. … The studio now feels that the younger man is able to hit the jackpot.”

Darren married his first spouse, Gloria, in 1955 and collectively had Moret, an “Inside Version” correspondent and former CNN anchorman. After a divorce he married Evy Norlund, who got here to the U.S. because the Danish entry within the Miss Universe contest. That they had two sons, Christian and Anthony.

He was additionally the godfather of Nancy Sinatra’s daughter A.J. Lambert. Sinatra, his “For These Who Suppose Younger” co-star, posted The Hollywood Reporter obituary on her X web page, with a damaged coronary heart emoji.

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Bob Thomas, a longtime Related Press journalist who died in 2014, was the principal author of this obituary.

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom at the moment issued a proclamation declaring September 2, 2024, as Labor Day within the State of California.

The textual content of the proclamation and a replica might be discovered under:

PROCLAMATION

 
On Labor Day, we acknowledge and thank all of the working individuals who maintain our state and nation and gas our prosperity.
 
California is dedicated to defending and supporting our various and dynamic workforce. In recent times, our state has taken historic motion to guard warehouse staff from unsafe manufacturing quotas, finish decades-old, exploitative pay practices within the garment trade, give fast-food staff a voice in setting office requirements, and be sure that staff with disabilities are paid a good wage.
 
Working to develop entry to good jobs and sort out earnings inequality, my Administration has launched a plan to dramatically develop apprenticeship applications in California, creating extra alternatives for folks of all backgrounds to earn as they develop worthwhile expertise and expertise for the roles of tomorrow.
 
The state can also be growing a brand new Grasp Plan on Profession Schooling that may information efforts to prioritize hands-on studying for college students and staff and bolster pathways to high-paying and fulfilling careers, together with these that don’t require a university diploma.
 
California is dedicated to constructing an financial system that works for working folks. This Labor Day and each day, we proceed our work to develop entry to good jobs, safe secure and wholesome workplaces, and create new pathways for upward mobility. Collectively, we will ship the promise of Labor Day for all hardworking Californians and their households.
 
NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim September 2, 2024, as Labor Day.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I’ve hereunto set my hand and prompted the Nice Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 30^th day of August 2024.
 

GAVIN NEWSOM
Governor of California

ATTEST:

SHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.
Secretary of State

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ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (FOX 9) – Park Tavern in St. Louis Park is closed till additional discover after a lethal crash on its patio Sunday evening left two folks useless and three others injured.

What we all know 

The Minnesota State Patrol was on the scene investigating because the mangled furnishings could possibly be seen within the grass on Monday morning. A makeshift memorial with flowers and shirts draped over chairs was arrange outdoors the restaurant as group members got here to pay their respects.

“Following the tragic incident on our terrace Sunday evening, Park Tavern will probably be closed till additional discover as we help and look after our workers and neighbors. Thanks on your understanding and kindness throughout this extremely troublesome time.”