April 18 top stories
It is April 18. Here are today’s top stories.
Eagles QB gets record-breaking contract
Quarterback Jalen Hurts and the Eagles have agreed to a five-year, $255 million contract that will keep him in Philadelphia through the 2028 season. This contract includes a no-trade clause and over $197 million in total guarantees. The average annual salary of $51 million makes Hurts the highest-paid player in NFL history. Jalen Hurts’ agent Nicole Lynn negotiated this contract with the Eagles.
Hurts, 24, just finished his third season with the Eagles. He helped lead the Eagles to a 14-3 record and an NFC championship. Though they lost 38-35 to the Kansas City Super Bowl this year.
Young woman shot after went up wrong driveway
The local news reported a 20-year-old woman, Kaylin Gillis, was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York.
Authorities said Gillis was a passenger in a vehicle when a man fired two shots from his front porch, one of which hit the vehicle. Gillis was struck by the gunfire and later died.
It is a very rural area with dirt roads and it’s easy to get lost. That area has poor cell phone service. They drove up that driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving when the homeowner came out and fired two shots, the sheriff added.
The shooter, 65-year-old Kevin Monahan, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Southwest flight delays
Southwest Airlines reported technology issues early Tuesday morning. In their system, a firewall went down and connection to some operational data was unexpectedly lost.
Southwest has canceled nine flights and delayed a bit over 1,700 flights or 41% of its schedule according to FlightAware. This just happened four months after the carrier suffered a meltdown over the Christmas travel rush.
In a tweet at 11:35 am, Southwest said it has resumed operations. They called the problem ‘temporary’.
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Biden to expand child & elder care
President Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives aimed at advancing and expanding access to high-quality childcare and long-term [elderly and those with disabilities] care, and to better support workers in those sectors, the White House said Tuesday.
But the directives would be funded out of existing programs and that likely means their impact would be limited. Biden also has called for more money for the care economy in his 2024 budget plan, drawing a sharp line with Republicans, who are seeking limits on spending.
Susan Rice, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, told the reporters on a phone call that the order shows that Biden isn’t waiting on Congress to act. “The child care and long-term care systems in this country just don’t work well. High-quality care is costly to deliver. It’s labor-intensive. It requires skilled workers. Yet care workers, who are disproportionately women and women of color and immigrants, are among the lowest paid in the country.”
ADHD medication abuse
At some middle and high schools in the United States, 1 in 4 teens report they have abused prescription stimulants for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new study found.
Sean McCabe, professor of nursing and director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said this is the first national study to look at the nonmedical use of prescription stimulants by students in middle and high school and we found a tremendous, wide range of misuse.
Nonmedical uses of stimulants can include taking more than a normal dose to get high or taking a medication with alcohol or other drugs to boost a high.
He added in some schools there was little to no misuse of stimulants, while in other schools more than 25% of students had used stimulants in nonmedical ways. This study is a major wake-up call.
That is all the top stories for today and stay with the light!
QB Eagles:
https://www.nfl.com/news/the-first-read-five-major-takeaways-from-jalen-hurts-mega-extension
Driveway:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/kaylin-gillis-shot-and-killed-by-upstate-ny-homeowner-sheriff/
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/news-conference-planned-in-deadly-washington-county-shooting/
Southwest:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/southwest-airlines-halts-flights-faa-says-30f72bf8
Biden:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/politics/child-care-long-term-care-executive-order-biden/index.html
ADHD:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/1-4-students-misuse-adhd-drugs-study-finds-rcna80086