New this week: 'Day Shift' and 'Five Days at Memorial'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include music from the union of The Rootsโ Black Thought and super-producer Danger Mouse, a PBS โFrontlineโ investigation into womenโs rights in Afghanistan a year after the U_S_ withdrawal and Jamie Foxx playing a vampire hunter in โDay Shift.โ.
Family, friends hold celebration of life for two people gunned down in southeast Bexar County
During a celebration of life event, family and friends remembered the lives of two people who were gunned down in Southeast Bexar County early August. Sareena Kay Bain, 28, and Jonathan Fann, 38, are the victims of a shooting Bexar County Sheriffโs deputies say was started from a domestic dispute that escalated.
โYou ripped her away from meโ: Grandmother addresses accused killer of 6-year-old
The family of a 6-year-old girl who was gunned down during a car club gathering held her final viewing Saturday afternoon. Saryah Perez died on the night of Motherโs Day after an altercation broke out that led to shots fired.
Did you lose a friend or family member to COVID-19? Share your loved oneโs story
It almost seems impossible, but weโve been living with COVID-19 in our lives for almost a year, and tragically, some of us have lost grandparents, parents, siblings and friends to this unforgiving virus. As the United States is approaching 500,000 deaths since early 2020, it seems that many of us have experienced a COVID-related loss. So, in honor of your loved oneโs memory, weโre asking that you share a photo of them and tell us their story. Weโve all dealt with grief in our lives, but losing a loved one to the COVID-19 pandemic is especially hard, since we all canโt celebrate their lives like we normally would. Hopefully sharing your loved ones with others virtually can bring you the tiniest bit of comfort in these uncertain times.
Rahm's wild day ends with Memorial win and No. 1 ranking
Jon Rahm, of Spain, celebrates after the 18th hole to win the Memorial golf tournament, Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Dublin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)DUBLIN, Ohio Jon Rahm won the Memorial to join Seve Ballesteros as the only Spaniards to reach No. Replay of Rahm's chip appeared to show the ball moved ever so slightly when he placed his lob wedge behind it. The chip was similar but from a different angle to Tiger Woods chipping in from behind the 16th green when he won the Memorial for the fifth time in 2012. Norlander and Hughes tied at 3-under 285, but the spot went to Hughes because he had the better world ranking.
Finau, Palmer share early lead at Memorial as Tiger hangs on
Tony Finau hits from the second tee during the second round of the Memorial golf tournament, Friday, July 17, 2020, in Dublin, Ohio. That kind of score isn't happening at Muirfield Village, where the greens are getting faster by the hour. The way Muirfield Village is playing, both are impressive. Woods, a five-time winner at Muirfield Village, has never missed the cut in 17 previous times at the Memorial. But I battled back well.Palmer played the Workday Charity Open last week at Muirfield Village and missed the cut.
Shane Lowry playing golf this week, but not where he thought
It will go to Royal St. Georges next summer. Its just very strange times for us at the minute, isnt it?Lowry said he has never seen the lunar landscape of Royal St. Georges. Id love if we were playing in front of 40,000 or 50,000 people this week in St. Georges, he said. For the week of the U.S. Open, golf was in its second week of returning from the pandemic, at Harbour Town. So everything that I miss or that I wont get to do this week, Im sure Ill get to do next year.
Tiger Woods to return next week at Muirfield Village
DUBLIN, Ohio The PGA Tour returned five weeks ago with some of its strongest fields. He chose not to go to Mexico City for a World Golf Championship, then skipped three straight tournaments in Florida before golf was halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That will give him at least one start, and possibly two if he plays a World Golf Championship in Tennessee, before heading into the first major of a reconfigured year. The PGA Championship is Aug. 6-9 at Harding Park in San Francisco, where Woods won a World Golf Championship in 2005. Woods has played only three times this season on the PGA Tour, starting with his record-tying 82nd victory at the Zozo Championship in Japan.
Chairman of Israel's Yad Vashem to step down after 27 years
JERUSALEM The chairman of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Memorial said Sunday he will be stepping down after 27 years. Shalev guided a period of dramatic transformation at one of the world's foremost Holocaust remembrance institutions. He also oversaw the creation of an international school for Holocaust studies and an institute for Holocaust research. Yad Vashem is an almost sacred institution in Israel, where students, soldiers and company outings tour regularly and where the country holds its annual Holocaust remembrance day ceremony. In 2015, Yad Vashem challenged the accuracy of a claim by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader persuaded the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate 6 million Jews.
Live coverage: George Floyd set to be buried next to mother after thousands mourned his death in Houston
HOUSTON After thousands of people paid their final respects to George Floyd, he is set to be buried next to his mother during a private funeral in Houston on Tuesday. Floyds family has planned a private celebration of life at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Houston Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Related coverage:7:30 a.m. -- Final preparations are being made for a private funeral for George Floyd, whose death has sparked a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality. Greg Abbott, Mayor Sylvester Turner, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, Jackson Lee, Sharpton, attorney Benjamin Crump, rapper Bun B, and more. San Antonio buildings lit to honor George Floyd
Live coverage: Celebrities, leaders join thousands in Houston for George Floyd memorial
HOUSTON 7 a.m. -- Houston is preparing for hundreds of mourners with a six-hour viewing of George Floyds casket on Monday. The viewing, which is open to the public, will be held at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston, Floyds hometown. Al Sharpton, Attorney Benjamin Crump, Slim Thug, Leela James, Paul Wall, Floyd Mayweather, Congressman Al Green, Bishop James Dixon, and more. It is the final public memorial before Floyd will be buried Tuesday at the Houston Memorial Gardens cemetery. Floyd, 46, died after a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee on his neck for several minutes exactly two weeks ago.
Second memorial will be held for George Floyd after another night of protests
NORTH CAROLINA George Floyd's second memorial will take place Saturday in the state where he was born after the 11th night of protests ignited by his death. "The memorial is about the life that Mr. George Floyd lived, and this is a time to embrace the family with expressions of love and kindness," Peterkin said. The remembrance of his life follows a night of de-escalation for protests in many cities across the US. "We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response," City Council member Jeremiah Ellison tweeted. Responses to demonstrations shiftA sign of the change in the tone of protests and police response has been the change in arrests.