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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Devin Askew had 28 points in Long Beach State's 76-68 victory over Hawaii on Saturday night. Askew also had six rebounds, seven assists, and seven steals for the Beach (3-8, 2-0 Big West Conference). Austin Johnson scored 14 points and added 10 rebounds. TJ Wainwright went 5 of 9 from the field (2 for 3 from 3-point range) to finish with 14 points. The Rainbow Warriors (5-3, 0-1) were led in scoring by Marcus Greene, who finished with 17 points. Gytis Nemeiksa added 14 points, seven rebounds and two steals for Hawaii. Akira Jacobs also had 11 points. Long Beach State takes on San Diego on the road on Tuesday, and Hawaii hosts Texas A&M-CC on Sunday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from .Bear Clan is the newest club in the Winnipeg School Division, joining the ranks of extracurriculars ranging from basketball teams to LGBTTQ+ alliances. None of the lunchtime or after-school activities at R.B. Russell Vocational School had stood out to Kaylan Wellwood before the spring. It was then the now-Grade 12 student first joined a North End patrol, alongside peers, teachers and community advocates clad in high-visibility vests. The smiles of neighbours who accepted their food and water bottle donations stuck with him, the 18-year-old said. “Things I’ve learned is just: help those who need support, care and love,” added Wellwood, who has become a full-fledged member of Bear Clan, both at R.B. Russell and after the bell. WSD and the Indigenous-led organization, which has a peacekeeping mission using a non-confrontational and harm-reduction approach, are partnering to help more students find a sense of belonging at school and volunteer in their community. R.B. Russell, located at 364 Dufferin Ave., is running daytime patrols every other Tuesday afternoon. Children of the Earth High School launched a similar collaboration last week that will see teens invited to craft upcycle mittens and patrol on Thursdays for the remainder of the academic year. “It’ll be almost like a chess club or a drama club or a dance club or a music club,” said Kevin Walker, executive director of Bear Clan Patrol Inc., following an introductory assembly at the Salter Street high school that simultaneously delivers academic and cultural education. “It’s important that kids have some pride in the community, pride in being together as a group, all working together, and getting them introduced to some of the challenges and some of the struggles in the community.” Walker said he and his colleagues from the charity want to be more visible in schools on a regular basis, serving as mentors and older-sibling-like figures students can lean on for advice. The goal is to show local youth how to be compassionate and empathetic, and empower them to make a difference, he said. “They’re going to be the next generation to fix the problems. Why do we have relatives freezing in bus shacks? We should be able to figure that out,” the executive director said. Bear Clan, initially started in 1992 by community-minded residents who led group walks in the inner city for several years, has grown exponentially since it was restarted in 2015. There are now about 25 paid employees who oversee everything from fundraising to leading land-based education programs, per the latest report from the Canada Revenue Agency. The charity collects individual donations and annual government funding. In 2022, it raised upwards of $900,000. Teacher Will Jones inquired about formalizing a relationship between R.B. Russell and Bear Clan in the 2023-24 winter term after participating in a patrol with his rotary club. Jones sought advice from a former teacher at the school who’d introduced students to Bear Clan during her tenure, and proceeded to make some calls. More than 200 students took part in a patrol in June. Attendance fluctuates, but there have been about 10 regulars showing up this autumn to make sandwiches to distribute, talk to residents and walk around. “Students are now coming to me and saying, ‘Will, can I go out with you?’ As long as they’ve got a signed consent form from their parents or guardian, then they can come,” said the teacher supervisor who has been seeking donations wherever possible. Local workwear brand Tough Duck donated 200 vests. The vocational school’s graphics department is working on a custom R.B. Russell-Bear Clan crest for each one. Manitoba’s largest school division and Bear Clan are leveraging each other as community organizations with similar interests, superintendent Matt Henderson said. “We’re both committed to creating just, sustainable and healthy societies and part of that is through education and experiential education,” he said, noting Elmwood High School is preparing to join forces with Bear Clan. As for their neighbours in the community, many of whom are experiencing homelessness and food insecurity, Jones said he’s seen firsthand the gratitude for simple conversations sparked by students. “There’s a lot of people that will just walk past the people (accessing social services) on Main Street and don’t give them the time of day,” said Jones, a supported education teacher at R.B. Russell. “Our kids are stopping. They’re saying, ‘Hi.’ They’re talking with them, and they’re learning that they are people, people with their own stories.”7xm in inches 。

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Jasleen Kaur Wins 2024 Turner PrizeNederland Middle/Senior’s parent-teacher association is trying crowdfunding this year to help the small school restore library services for its students. Along with money for the school library, the fundraiser could help cover the cost of scholarships for students to travel to competitions, for teacher grants for projects and for school events that include Homecoming, Harvest Feast and a Valentine’s Day ice cream social. “The library is the big need,” Nederland parent and PTA secretary Stacie Beaber said. Nederland Middle/Senior Principal Gavan Goodrich said the school, which has close to 100 students in the middle school and close to 115 in the high school, has focused on other areas for its allotted teaching positions instead of the library. Those areas include an outdoor leadership career and technical education program, as well as advanced placement classes. With teaching staff allocated based on enrollment, he said, it can be challenging to provide all the classes students want — and need to take to meet district graduation requirements. “Every school has to make priorities,” he said. “We have a lot of different needs we need to cover. We have to make some hard decisions.” He said many of the library books were redistributed to language arts teachers. For research, students have the option to use digital resources. Without a staff member to supervise, he said, students generally can only use the library as part of a class when a teacher uses the library as a classroom space. “We don’t have a functioning, traditional library,” he said. Hearing the desire from the school community for more library services, he said, he would like to work with the PTA to potentially hire a part-time paraeducator to run the library and potentially coordinate parent volunteers who could assist with checking out books. Other ideas for the money include updating the library’s collections. “I do think we can fund some creative solutions to make it a library kids can use,” he said. So far, the school has raised $6,500 toward its $10,000 goal. The fundraiser ends Dec. 13. For more information or to donate, go to app.givebacks.gives/nmshspta . Beaber said Nederland’s students deserve the same library services as the district’s other middle and high schools, adding it’s challenging to operate as a rural school in an urban school district. The school draws from a large area that’s generally sparsely populated, while open enrollment from outside the mountain area is limited by distance and the challenges of driving up Boulder Canyon in the winter. The school’s enrollment declines, coupled with Boulder Valley’s need to “right size” school staffing numbers because of a tighter budget, meant the school lost close to two full-time teacher positions last school year. Plus, Beaber said, raising money can be a challenge itself. For the current fundraiser, the PTA set up a competition between the middle schoolers and the high schoolers to encourage donations. The PTA treasurer, who works for Southwest Airlines, also was able to donate two roundtrip tickets as a prize. Business sponsors include Boulder Therapeutics, Nokian Tyres, Waldron Custom Coatings and Tadasana Mountain Yoga. While local businesses are generous in supporting the school, Beaber said, there are fewer businesses to appeal to than in other areas of the school district. The school also is competing with many nonprofit organizations in need of support. “They all work really hard to support us, but we’ll be lucky to get to the $10,000,” she said.Rigetti Computing: Could This Be The Next Quantum Multibagger?

AP Sports SummaryBrief at 6:06 p.m. ESTGREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning this summer and left his wife and three children has been located in Eastern Europe and is communicating with law enforcement, but he has not committed to returning home, authorities said. Ryan Borgwardt began communicating with authorities Nov. 11, after they tracked him down, Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said Thursday. The sheriff showed a video that Borgwardt sent police that day from an undisclosed location. The sheriff said no charges have been filed and that he doesn't think they will be necessary while authorities “keep pulling at his heartstrings” to come home. Here are some things to know about Borgwardt and his disappearance: Who is he? Borgwardt, who is in his mid-40s, lived with his wife and children in Watertown, a city of about 23,000 people northwest of Milwaukee that is known for its German heritage, parochial schools and two dams on the Rock River. When did he disappear? The sheriff has said his department was told Aug. 12 that Borgwardt had not been heard from since the previous day, when he traveled about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from home to Green Lake to go kayaking. Borgwardt’s wife said he texted her at 10:49 p.m. to say he was heading to shore. How was the search conducted? Deputies found Borgwardt’s vehicle and trailer near Green Lake. His kayak was discovered on the lake, overturned and with a life jacket attached to it, in an area where the water is about 200 feet (60 meters) deep. An angler later found Borgwardt’s fishing rod. The search for his body continued for more than 50 days, with divers scouring the lake on several occasions. How did authorities find Borgwardt? Clues — including that he reported his passport lost or stolen and obtained a new one a few months before he disappeared — led investigators to speculate that he made it appear that he had drowned to go meet a woman he had been communicating with in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan. Podoll declined to comment when asked what he knew about the woman, but he said law enforcement contacted Borgwardt “through a female that spoke Russian.” His identity was confirmed through asking him questions that the sheriff said only Borgwardt would know and by a video he made and sent them Nov. 11. He has spoken with someone from the sheriff's department almost daily since. However Podoll said Thursday that Borgwardt's exact location in Eastern Europe was not known. Why are U.S. authorities struggling to pinpoint his location? Podoll said Chief Deputy Matt Vande Kolk has been the one communicating with Borgwardt and their conversations have all taken place via email. Vande Kolk told The Associated Press in an email Friday that authorities are trying to determine Borgwardt's exact location. But that might not be easy even with modern surveillance technology. Scott Shackelford, executive director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, said authorities should be able to locate Borgwardt through his device's internet protocol address, a unique number assigned to every device connected to the internet. But he said it's very easy to mask an IP address and make it appear as if the device is in one country when it's really in another. Software exists that can route your IP address across the globe, Shackelford said. Police may not have the expertise, the manpower or any interest in digging through multiple layers of cyber deception, he said. What was in the video Borgwardt sent to law enforcement? Wearing an orange T-shirt, Borgwardt, unsmiling, looks directly at the camera, apparently filmed on a cellphone. Borgwardt says he is in his apartment and briefly pans the camera, but mostly shows a door and bare walls. “I’m safe and secure, no problem,” he says. How did he fake his death? Borgwardt has told authorities he overturned his kayak on the lake, dumped his phone in it and paddled an inflatable boat to shore. He told authorities he chose Green Lake because it is Wisconsin's deepest at 237 feet (over 72 meters). He then rode an electric bike stashed by a boat launch about 70 miles (110 kilometers) through the night to Madison, the sheriff said. From there, by Borgwardt's account, he traveled by bus to Detroit and then Canada, where he boarded a plane. Police are still verifying Borgwardt’s description of what happened, Podoll said. Why did he do it? Borgwardt faked his death and fled because of “personal matters,” thinking it was the right thing to do, the sheriff said. Investigators found that he took out a $375,000 life insurance policy in January for his family. “He was just going to try and make things better in his mind, and this was the way it was going to be,” Podoll said. What's next? Borgwardt has not yet decided to return home, and if he does it will be of his own free will, according to Podoll. Deputies are stressing to him the importance of returning home and cleaning up the mess he made. The sheriff suggested that Borgwardt could be charged with obstructing the investigation into his disappearance, but so far no counts have been filed. The search for Borgwardt, which lasted more than a month, is said to have cost at least $35,000. Borgwardt told authorities that he did not expect the search to last more than two weeks, Podoll said, and his biggest concern is how the community will react to him if he returns. This story was updated to correct the spelling of Scott Shackelford’s last name, which had been misspelled “Shackleford.” Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Stay up-to-date on what's happening Receive the latest in local entertainment news in your inbox weekly!

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COLUMBUS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 3, 2024-- The board of directors of Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV) has declared the following quarterly dividends: $0.38 per share on the company’s common stock, payable on Jan. 2, 2025, to shareholders of record as of Dec. 19, 2024. $0.52874 per share on the company’s Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series D, payable on Dec. 23, 2024, to shareholders of record as of Dec. 15, 2024. $0.52481 per share on the company’s Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E, payable on Jan. 2, 2025, to shareholders of record as of Dec. 15, 2024. Synovus Financial Corp . is a financial services company based in Columbus, Georgia, with approximately $60 billion in assets. Synovus provides commercial and consumer banking and a full suite of specialized products and services, including wealth services, treasury management, mortgage services, premium finance, asset-based lending, structured lending, capital markets and international banking. Synovus has branches in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee. Synovus is a Great Place to Work-Certified Company. Learn more about Synovus at synovus.com . View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241203093023/en/ CONTACT: Audria Belton media@synovus.com KEYWORD: GEORGIA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: BANKING ASSET MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FINANCE SOURCE: Synovus Financial Corp. Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/03/2024 05:00 PM/DISC: 12/03/2024 05:01 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241203093023/en

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