Secondary coach Perry Ferrell will serve as interim head coach for the rest of the 2019 season, per the team. Offensive coordinator Norv Turner will be special assistant to the head coach, and his son Scott Turner will serve as offensive coordinator. “I believe this is the best decision for the long-term success of our team,” Tepper said. “I have a great deal of respect for Ron and the contributions he has made to this franchise and to this community....

The league sent its top draft prospects to all the tourist areas for photos and interviews, from the Rocky statue, to the baseball stadium, and, yes, the obligatory cheesesteak stand. But much like the fictional fighter who conquered the odds, only one standout can stand tall as the No. 1 overall pick. And with the first pick of the 2014 draft, the Florida Panthers select … Well, unlike some of the recent drafts, this one remained a mystery heading into Friday night’s draft at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center....

There are two seeds we know Carolina will not get: No. 1, which belongs to Philadelphia, and No. 6, which will belong to either Atlanta or Seattle. The Panthers are the only team that has a chance to steal the No. 2 seed away from the Vikings. The No. 3 seed will belong to the Rams, Saints, Panthers or Vikings. The No. 4 seed will be the Rams, Saints or Panthers....

If you can’t figure it out, you’ll find out soon. It’s about to happen this season. The Florida Panthers are doing exactly that this season in the upper deck at BB&T Center. The NHL team finished second-to-last in league attendance last season and team ownership does not expect bigger crowds this year despite having a decent team on the ice. The club has eliminated the free tickets and deep discounts on tickets campaign that upset season ticket holders last year....

The No. 2 player in his recruiting class, Banchero shined in his one and only season at Duke. He appeared in 39 games with the Blue Devils and posted averages of 17.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.1 steals on 47.8 percent shooting from the field. Banchero was a consensus second-team All-American and was named the ACC Rookie of the Year. TSN’s draft expert Kyle Irving has Banchero in the No....

Franky’s is also a bellwether: soul and funk are back. The market is flooded with reissues, and new bands are copping old styles. While the charts trumpet Natalie Cole or Van Halen, real men and women are holed up with old rhythm and blues: Ike and Tina, James Brown or the magnificent “Soul Hits of the ’70s: Didn’t It Blow Your Mind!” series, which documents the impact of loud flares and big fedoras on our culture....

The protester was flying over the match between Germany and France with a motor-powered paraglider but accidentally ran into camera wires on the stadium roof and lost control of the equipment, the Associated Press reported. The pilot then landed on the field, while debris from the crash rained over the turf and grandstand, nearly hitting France coach Didier Deschamps. Greenpeace spokesperson Benjamin Stephan apologized Wednesday for the incident, saying the protester wouldn’t have entered the stadium if he hadn’t encountered a technical problem with the paramotor hand throttle....

As a man, Yeltsin had moments of greatness. The best of these came when he stood on a tank outside the Moscow White House, defying the Communist hardliners who attempted a putsch in August 1991—and in the process toppled the Soviet Empire. But he was also a deeply flawed man. He brought moral clarity and personal bravery to his crusade against the Soviet Communist Party, but in office quickly lost both as he lapsed into recurrent alcoholism and allowed a small group of cronies to run the country in their and their friends’ interests....

Types of Paralysis The severity of paralysis can vary depending on how many parts of the body are affected. The main types of complete paralysis are: Quadriplegia (tetraplegia): Paralysis of both arms and legs Paraplegia: Paralysis of both legs Hemiplegia: Paralysis of one side of the body Paresis: Partial paralysis that causes extreme muscle weakness. Depending on the underlying cause, paralysis can either be temporary or permanent. Paralysis Symptoms The main symptom of paralysis is the inability to move parts of your body....

Published to Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole forum, a parent under the anonymous username u/aitafeedingneighbors shared their story for feedback from the “AITA” community. The viral post has over 8,000 upvotes and 1,000 comments. The Redditor began their post by explaining how a young pregnant woman and her daughter recently moved into the apartment across the hall from them. The day they moved in, the original poster (OP) wrote that the woman was on a lot of sites including Nextdoor, Facebook Marketplace and other groups asking for supplies for babies, furniture, toys and clothes for her daughter....

The most important principle may be the finding–consistent in the research for at least 60 years–that parents have a profound effect on their children’s emotional, social and intellectual development (No. 1: what you do matters). This is still true today, Steinberg says, despite an avalanche of new cultural influences. In fact, says Steinberg, who has also written books on teenagers and school reform, “all these other influences make parents even more important” as guides through conflicting messages that kids get from the media and friends....

Daniel, 38, and Davy Macias, 37, from Yucaipa, were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) within days of each other after contracting COVID-19. The married couple were parents to five children, all aged under seven, with the youngest daughter being delivered late last month while Davy was receiving treatment. But, Davy died on August 26 after losing her fight with the variant, according to a family statement shared on the crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe....

Trapped in Treatment will be based on Hilton’s and other survivors’ experiences at Provo Canyon School in Utah, a boarding school for so-called troubled teenagers. The podcast promises to “expose the dark secrets and controversial practices” at similar facilities. Every year thousands of young people are sent to congregate care facilities—sometimes known as boot camps—designed to modify their behavior, according to civil rights group National Youth Rights Association. In a YouTube documentary last year titled This Is Paris Hilton, the hotel heiress and influencer detailed her alleged mistreatment when she was a teenager at the facility, which remains open....

Julien Lenglet, a hospital director at Anthony Hospital in the Paris region, told RMC Radio on Thursday that Christmas and New Year’s Eve parties could cause cases to surge further. Lenglet said that celebrations could end as “giant, intergenerational clusters that could be at the origins of a potential new third wave” of the coronavirus pandemic. “I would say, without any hesitation, that we ought to cancel Christmas and Saint-Sylvestre,” Lenglet continued....

Are those naughty French at it again? Air France categorically denies that it has condoned or conducted any espionage. But NBC says there is an “elaborate industrial espionage campaign” run by the French government to steal secret information from U.S. companies. The report was not particularly new to U.S. intelligence officials. Over the last 10 years, officials say, the French intelligence agency has tried to infiltrate U.S. companies abroad with a grab bag of spy tricks that include planting bugs and copying secret documents....

SkyUp’s flight PQ0902 from Madeira, the Portuguese island, landed in the Moldovan capital, Chișinău, on Saturday after the plane’s owner denied requests to let it continue into Ukraine. It comes as several Western countries, including the United States, have called on their citizens to leave Ukraine while commercial airline services are still running, amid the fear of invasion by Russia. A SkyUp statement translated from Ukrainian to English said the plane’s owner informed the airline of an “immediate ban” on the flight entering Ukrainian airspace....

Diplomatic sources say that Tokyo and several Western European capitals privately want Bush to reject the treaty because it would allow them to continue making greener-than-thou speeches blasting the United States without fearing stringent standards that could seriously disturb their economies. In fact, NEWSWEEK has learned that one European government that condemns the U.S. position in public has quietly urged the White House not to cave in. A possible exception: Germany, which wants a strict treaty partly because it can meet emission targets at little cost by closing inefficient former East German factories....

While these deals are necessary, they are nothing to celebrate. After all, Americans are simply selling off assets to satisfy our debts and to fuel consumption. This is known as selling the cow to buy milk. Meanwhile, foreigners investing and selling into the U.S. markets over the past year have themselves pulled a short straw. The U.S. stock market lagged behind foreign markets in 2007, as it has for much of the decade....