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The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office this week awarded all of the state’s 77 counties with grant funding through a new program created by the state Legislature this year to enhance law enforcement services. House Bill 2914 created the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Office Funding Assistance Grant Program during this year’s legislative session and appropriated $18 million to the fund to bolster law enforcement services. Counties were invited earlier this year to apply for grants from $150,000 to $300,000, depending on their total tangible property valuation. Grant awards were based on assessed total tangible property valuation of the county, and will be awarded to counties in three tiers in the following amounts: $150,000 for the 26 counties having the lowest gross assessed total tangible property valuation. $250,000 for 26 counties ranked higher than the counties described in tier one but lower than the counties described in tier three. $300,000 for the 25 counties having the highest gross assessed total tangible property valuation. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said the funds will positively impact all areas of the state. “These grants will help strengthen public safety for all Oklahomans,” Drummond said in a release announcing the funding. “I appreciate the work of the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association and sheriff offices to ensure that every county has extra support this year.” According to the AG’s Office, the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office received a $300,000 grant. Pittsburg County interim Sheriff Frankie McClendon previously told the News-Capital the grant money is earmarked for several things. McClendon said his department will use the grant money to replace consoles in the department’s communications department, software, and patrol vehicles. “We are in dire need of that,” McClendon said about the consoles for the dispatchers. According to the AG’s Office, Coal, Latimer, Pushmataha, and McIntosh Counties will receive $150,000 with Hughes County receiving $250,000. According to the AG’s Office, grants can be used for department operations including training, technology, equipment, capital improvements and more.
Pitt sophomore Olivia Babcock stands 6-foot-4, with a right arm that can be intimidating when she moves purposely from the back row and swings it with all her strength. It’s almost as if she’s trying to deflate the volleyball with one massive blow. A sophomore All-American and ACC Player of the Year, Babcock used that right arm Thursday to help lead the Panthers (32-1) to a 3-2 victory (25-19, 24-26, 25-16, 21-25, 15-12) against Oregon (24-8) in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 at Petersen Events Center. Afterward, when she was asked about the origin of her aggressiveness, she boiled down her volleyball skills into a couple of simple sentences. “Hit the ball as hard as you can,” she said, all but shrugging her shoulders. “We practice that. (Coach Dan Fisher) throws me a lot of deep balls. (He says), ‘Hit it,’ and I do.” She did make a concession to the team’s mental makeup, indicating it carries as much weight as one of her back-row bombs. “Our mindset gets stronger every single day,” she said. “We know our mindset matters just as much as how we perform on the court.” Senior setter Rachel Fairbanks, who collected a season-high 54 assists, said players cleared their heads before the fifth set in the most natural way possible: screaming in the locker room. “There was a scream, but the scream is literally to get our brains to stop going,” she said. “Scream, reset, move on. We just needed to find a way to get back to Pitt good.” Of course, there’s much more to Pitt’s fourth consecutive Final Four quest than Babcock’s simplification. The game — and Pitt’s season, hopes and dreams — hung in the balance and could have crashed to the floor. The Ducks served several slick deep balls, often confusing Pitt’s players who weren’t sure if they would clear the end line or not. “It rattled us. Good on them,” Fisher said. “(Oregon) gave us a ton to deal with.” As a result, the fifth set — only Pitt’s fourth of the season — was tied at 8-8 and 9-9 before Babcock recorded two of her 31 kills (a school record for the NCAA Tournament ) to give the Panthers a 12-9 advantage on the way to a 15-12 victory. “We’re probably among the top three in the country in how much we set the back row, and we’re pretty efficient with it,” said Fisher, noting that Torrey Stafford is also pretty good at swinging a big arm. Stafford recorded 14 kills and Bre Kelley 12. The victory lifts the Panthers, who are seeking their fourth consecutive Final Four berth, into an Elite 8 match against Kentucky (23-7) at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Pete. The winner earns a ticket to Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center for the national semifinals scheduled for next Thursday. Kentucky defeated Missouri, 3-1 (25-20, 25-20, 16-25, 25-13), in the first match Thursday at the Pete. First priority for Fisher’s team is to get some rest, with the most intense games of the season coming in the middle of final exams. “The priority is recovery,” Fisher said. “We need to use that wisely and get some good sleep and get some good treatment and probably go a little lighter (in practice Friday), obviously, after a five-setter. Just allow ourselves a break. We just had a pretty intense battle.” Fisher was proud of his team but especially its 71 digs. “That’s pretty relentless defense by us,” he said. “Just nothing but positive thoughts on my team and the heart we showed. It’s going to be tough. It’s going to be ugly at times, and sometimes you need your B and C game. Just an incredible, gritty effort by our team to find a way to persevere when it wasn’t always going our way. “I hope the fans liked it. It wasn’t always the cleanest, but I thought it was a helluva battle, probably a good game to be at, I’d imagine.” Pitt hasn’t faced much adversity this season, and Fisher hopes this game provided enough to help if more difficult moments arise Saturday or in the Final Four. “Time will tell,” he said, “but it’s just one more feather in our cap knowing we can be in those type moments. We can be down. “You can’t just be a team that can play when you’re up. That doesn’t work at this level anymore. There are eight teams left.”
Avior Wealth Management LLC reduced its position in Repligen Co. ( NASDAQ:RGEN – Free Report ) by 68.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 826 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock after selling 1,812 shares during the period. Avior Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Repligen were worth $123,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in RGEN. Andra AP fonden acquired a new stake in shares of Repligen during the second quarter worth $25,000. International Assets Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Repligen during the second quarter worth $33,000. UMB Bank n.a. grew its stake in shares of Repligen by 138.3% during the third quarter. UMB Bank n.a. now owns 224 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $33,000 after purchasing an additional 130 shares during the period. Lazard Asset Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Repligen by 206.1% during the first quarter. Lazard Asset Management LLC now owns 202 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 136 shares during the period. Finally, Blue Trust Inc. grew its stake in shares of Repligen by 113.4% during the third quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 239 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 127 shares during the period. 97.64% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Repligen Stock Performance Shares of Repligen stock opened at $142.58 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $7.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -385.34, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.27 and a beta of 0.96. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $140.26 and its 200-day moving average is $143.44. Repligen Co. has a one year low of $113.50 and a one year high of $211.13. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a current ratio of 10.44 and a quick ratio of 5.56. Analyst Ratings Changes A number of equities research analysts recently commented on the company. Wolfe Research initiated coverage on Repligen in a research note on Thursday, November 14th. They set a “peer perform” rating for the company. Stephens reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $170.00 target price on shares of Repligen in a report on Tuesday, July 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on Repligen from $190.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 31st. UBS Group reduced their target price on Repligen from $205.00 to $185.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, July 31st. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $205.00 target price on shares of Repligen in a report on Thursday, September 26th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $190.25. Read Our Latest Stock Report on RGEN Insider Activity at Repligen In related news, Director Anthony Hunt sold 22,191 shares of Repligen stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.37, for a total value of $3,225,905.67. Following the sale, the director now owns 139,840 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $20,328,540.80. The trade was a 13.70 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website . 1.20% of the stock is owned by company insiders. Repligen Company Profile ( Free Report ) Repligen Corporation develops and commercializes bioprocessing technologies and systems for use in biological drug manufacturing process in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It offers Protein A ligands that are the binding components of Protein A affinity chromatography resins; and cell culture growth factor products. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding RGEN? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Repligen Co. ( NASDAQ:RGEN – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Repligen Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Repligen and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Greene scored on a 7-yard run with 12:55 remaining, and after Tigers’ Will Middleton intercepted a Mike Chandler II pass, he broke loose for a 30-yard touchdown that stretched the Towson lead to 35-16 about 30 seconds later. Green also had a 3-yard TD run in the second quarter and finished with 41 yards rushing on nine carries. Matthews carried the ball 15 times and scored on a 54-yard run for Towson (7-5, 5-3 Coastal Athletic Association). Seth Brown completed 10 of 15 passes for 156 yards with a touchdown and Christopher Watkins added a late TD run. Mark Biggins had a 1-yard touchdown run for Campbell (3-9, 1-7). Chandler was 13-of-27 passing for 135 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. Connor Lytton made 3 of 5 field goal attempts for the Camels. The Tigers secured their second winning season in three seasons and its first seven-win season since 2019. It was the first meeting between the teams. __ Get alerts on the latest AP Top 25 poll throughout the season. Sign up here ___ AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
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MCNEESE 76, ILLINOIS STATE 68NoneOil company Phillips 66 faces federal charges related to alleged Clean Water Act violations LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oil company Phillips 66 has been federally indicted in connection with alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in California. The Texas-based company is accused of discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater containing excessive amounts of oil and grease. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment on Thursday. Phillips is charged with two counts of negligently violating the Clean Water Act and four counts of knowingly violating the Clean Water Act. An arraignment date has not been set. A spokesperson for the company said it was cooperating with prosecutors. US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department calls for Google to sell its industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions designed to prevent Android from favoring its search engine. Regulators also want to ban Google from forging multibillion-dollar deals to lock in its dominant search engine as the default option on Apple’s iPhone and other devices. What you need to know about the proposed measures designed to curb Google's search monopoly U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled that Google maintained an illegal monopoly. The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday could radically alter Google’s business. Regulators want Google to sell off its industry-leading Chrome web browser. They outlined a range of behavioral measures such as prohibiting Google from using search results to favor its own services such as YouTube, and forcing it to license search index data to its rivals. They're not going as far as to demand Google spin off Android, but are leaving that door open if the remedies don't work. SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who led US crackdown on cryptocurrencies, to step down Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler will step down from his post on January 20. Since taking the lead at the SEC, the commission has been aggressive in its oversight of cryptocurrencies and other regulatory issues. President-elect Donald Trump had promised during his campaign that he would remove Gensler, who has led the U.S. government’s crackdown on the crypto industry and repeatedly called for more oversight. But Gensler on Thursday announced that he would be stepping down from his post on the day that Trump is inaugurated. Bitcoin has jumped 40% since Trump’s victory. US intelligence warns defense companies of Russian sabotage threat WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials are warning American defense companies to increase their security after a wave of sabotage in Europe blamed on Russia. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center issued a public bulletin Thursday advising companies that work in the defense industry that Russia may seek to carry out acts of sabotage as part of its effort to undercut Ukraine's allies and their ability to support Ukraine in its defense against Russia. Western authorities say they believe Russian intelligence is behind several recent acts of sabotage targeting European defense companies. Russia has denied the allegations. Elon Musk's budget crusade could cause a constitutional clash in Trump's second term WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has put Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of finding ways to cut government spending and regulations. It's possible that their efforts will lead to a constitutional clash. This week, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would encourage the Republican president-elect to refuse to spend money allocated by Congress, which would conflict with a 1974 law that's intended to prevent presidents from blocking funds. If Trump takes such a step, it would quickly become one of the most closely watched legal battles of his second administration. Musk and Ramaswamy also aim to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce. Bitcoin is at the doorstep of $100,000 as post-election rally rolls on NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin is jumping again, rising above $98,000 for the first time Thursday. The cryptocurrency has been shattering records almost daily since the U.S. presidential election, and has rocketed more than 40% higher in just two weeks. It's now at the doorstep of $100,000. Cryptocurrencies and related investments like crypto exchange-traded funds have rallied because the incoming Trump administration is expected to be more “crypto-friendly.” Still, as with everything in the volatile cryptoverse, the future is hard to predict. And while some are bullish, other experts continue to warn of investment risks. Stock market today: Wall Street rises with Nvidia as bitcoin bursts above $99,000 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed after market superstar Nvidia and another round of companies said they’re making even fatter profits than expected. The S&P 500 pulled 0.5% higher Thursday after flipping between modest gains and losses several times in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite edged up by less than 0.1%. Banks, smaller companies and other areas of the stock market that tend to do best when the economy is strong helped lead the way, while bitcoin briefly broke above $99,000. Crude oil, meanwhile, continued to rise. Treasury yields inched higher in the bond market. What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News? Two television networks with “NBC” in their names — MSNBC and CNBC — will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News once a spinoff formally takes effect in about a year. Comcast is cutting loose several of its cable companies into a separate company in order to improve its bottom line. It leaves several questions, particularly for MSNBC. Will the news network geared to liberal viewers continue to use NBC News personnel? Will it have to leave its offices and studios at the NBC News headquarters in New York's Rockefeller Center? Will they even keep the same names? The biggest remaining unsanctioned Russian bank hit with U.S. sanctions, nearly three years into war WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s third largest bank, Gazprombank and its six foreign subsidiaries were hit with U.S. sanctions on Thursday. The action is intended to curtail Russia’s ability to evade the thousands of sanctions imposed on the nation since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the sanctions targeting Russia’s largest remaining non-sanctioned bank would further diminish Russia’s military effort and “will make it harder for the Kremlin to evade U.S. sanctions and fund and equip its military.” In addition, more than 50 internationally connected Russian banks 40 Russian securities registrars, and 15 Russian finance officials were hit with sanctions.While a company's past performance is no guarantee of its future results, history is one of the few reasonable things we can use to guide our predictions. Particularly for cyclical companies, it can be a pretty good indicator of what's to come. I'm seeing a situation that looks extremely promising for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ( TSM -0.70% ) as its setup is similar to the scenario it saw in 2020. The last time Taiwan Semi had a setup similar to its current one, the stock doubled in the year that followed. So could it repeat that performance in 2025? A revenue tailwind is emerging Taiwan Semiconductor is the world's largest third-party chip manufacturer. It contracts out its chipmaking capacities to clients like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , meaning a significant chunk of the world's most powerful devices contain chips originating from TSMC's foundries. Taiwan Semi also has the ability to produce chips using the most advanced process currently available -- the 3nm process node. Node sizes used to refer to the smallest distance in nanometers between specific features on a chip; while they don't anymore, each successive reduction in node size represents a meaningful improvement in the density and processing power of the chips it produces. The 3nm node packs a lot of processing power, but Taiwan Semi is already working on a 2nm process, and expects to start using it to make chips for its clients in late 2025. All of this is reminiscent of how the company looked as it entered 2020. Back then, Taiwan Semiconductor was just launching its 5nm chips, which were an improvement from its previous best 7nm chips. Additionally, a huge wave of chip demand was about to hit TSMC (although it didn't know it) when COVID-19 shut down the world, driving many people to upgrade their computers and other digital devices so that they could more effectively work, and learn remotely, and make use of video chat services to stay in touch with those outside their home. As we enter 2025, there is massive demand for AI chips, and TSMC will roll out 2nm chips later this year. Back in Q3 2023, management forecast that sales of AI chips would grow at a compound annual rate of 50% over the following five years, and predicted that at the end of that period, they would account for a percentage of its revenue in the low teens. However, that growth has so far been even faster than management expected. AI revenue is projected to triple in 2024, and make up a mid-teens percentage of revenue. Management indicated there were no signs of that growth slowing down heading into 2025, so the types of secular trends that prevailed in 2020 should also be apparent in 2025. The valuation level is similar to 2020's One might point out that the stock nearly doubled in 2024, but that's partly because the stock was undervalued heading into the year. At the start of 2024, TSMC traded for around 19 times earnings. For comparison, supermarket chain operator Kroger , a low-margin, low-growth business, traded for 18 times earnings. Those greatly different businesses should not have been priced the same. Investors who recognized that and acted on it made good money as the stock's valuation rose throughout the year toward a level where it should have been all along. Now, though, TSMC is trading at a valuation level only a bit above where it did at the beginning of 2020. TSM PE Ratio data by YCharts. Although the stock is slightly more expensive now than it was entering 2020, it's in a close enough range that a comparison makes sense. After the initial dip in the market as COVID-19 reached pandemic status, TSMC stock quickly rebounded and proceeded to nearly double that year. It was powered by strong revenue growth that lasted into 2022. However, that period was preceded by weaker sales conditions in 2018 and 2019. TSM Operating Revenue (Quarterly YoY Growth) data by YCharts . Taiwan Semi enjoyed a run of impressive growth from 2020 through mid-2022, and today's situation parallels how that period began. Although the current trend started in mid-2024, the first part of its share price rise was getting the stock back to its usual valuation levels. Now, investors are focused on how it will sustain growth. The massive AI-related demand still on the horizon looks likely to take care of that. Will Taiwan Semiconductor's stock double next year? I'm not sure. However, conditions today appear similar to those under which it achieved that feat in the past. Even if it doesn't double, I think TSMC is a great investment and will likely beat the market in 2025.
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