The Hornets’ starting lineup also boasts the highest offensive rating among all starting lineups, per the NBA’s advanced stats — and that group, in fact, has the highest offensive rating of all lineups employed across the NBA that have logged at least 172 minutes together.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Apr. 2026
Witzburg, who is set to leave office later this month as her term expires, declined to identify the staffer or the mayoral administration that employed them.
In New Orleans, one of the earliest slammers was a jovial fellow named Damian Labeaud, who, starting in 2010, recruited passengers from the local community with the promise of insurance payouts, then took them hunting on the freeway for a truck.
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
In the film, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is recruited to help save Earth because of his history as a cell biologist with some iconoclastic ideas about life in the universe.
Athena's parents, Jacob Strand and Maitlyn Gandy, then filed a lawsuit against Horner and the contractor who hired him, per NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
But evidence is mounting that applicants with questionable histories were either not fully vetted before they were brought on or were hired in spite of their past, an investigation by The Associated Press found.
Eventually, the pilots were told that Guinean authorities had determined that the Gulfstream IV aircraft the pilots were contracted to fly was likely stolen, and that its owner had a suspect background.
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Adrian Elimian,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
Placer County has contracted with Wellpath — through subsidiary California Forensic Medical Group — since 1989 to provide medical care at the jails, according to previous Bee reporting.
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