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Parker won championships with Los Angeles Sparks, Chicago Sky, Las Vegas Aces Monday, April 29, 2024 3:48AM Candace Parker, a former Chicago Sky star, three-time WNBA champion and two-time league MVP, has announced her retirement. Three-time WNBA champion Candace Parker announced Sunday she’s retiring. Parker, a two-time league MVP, announced in a social media post on Sunday she’s ending her career after 16 seasons. Parker played her first 13 seasons in the league with the Los Angeles Sparks. She then joined the Chicago Sky for two seasons.. She became the first player in WNBA history to be named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season when she averaged 18.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 3.4 assists while helping the Sparks to a 10-win improvement in 2008. After winning a title last season with the Las Vegas Aces, Parker became the first player in league history to win a championship with three different teams. She had previously won titles with the Sparks (2016) and Sky (2021). “I promised I’d never cheat the game & that I’d leave it in a better place

HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — Tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma and flattened buildings across one rural town killed at least four people, Gov. Kevin Stitt said Sunday. Nearly 30,000 people remained without power after tornadoes that began late Saturday night and left a wide trail of destruction. The damage was extensive in Sulphur, a town of about 5,000 people, where some downtown buildings were reduced to rubble and roofs were sheared off houses across a 15-block radius. Stitt said about 30 people were injured in Sulphur. Dozens of reported tornadoes have wreaked havoc in the nation’s midsection since Friday, with flood watches and warnings in effect Sunday for a handful of states. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) – Tornadoes that tore across Oklahoma left a wide trail of destruction Sunday, leveling homes and buildings and knocking out power for tens of thousands of residents. At least three people were killed, including a child. Dozens of reported tornadoes have wreaked havoc in the nation’s midsection since Friday, with flood watches and warnings in effect Sunday for Oklahoma and other

Sunday, April 28, 2024 7:08PM The Food Vendor Throwdown in Madera invites families for a free event. MADERA, Calif. — A free family fun event is happening in Madera on Saturday. The Food Vendor Throwdown goes from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on 930 Gateway Drive. There will be several food vendors, craft vendors, informational booths, and more. A horse tournament is taking place. There is a special kid zone packed with fun activities. Kids can enjoy the bounce house, paint their faces with their favorite designs, and even take pictures with a Despicable Me minion.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 6:43PM A man is in custody after allegedly shooting and killing another man in a Northeast Fresno home on Sunday morning. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A man is in custody after Fresno police responded to a Northeast Fresno home and found a man shot and killed on Sunday morning. Officers received a call about a man suffering from a gunshot wound at a home on Pryor Drive and Richelle Avenue around 1:00 a.m. The call was from a witness at the home. Fresno Lt. Steve Card says once officers arrived at the scene, they got everyone out of the house and conducted a search for a victim. Card says a man in his 30s was found in the backyard with a gunshot wound and pronounced dead at the scene. Several people were at the home and cooperated with officers. Statements and evidence pointed to a suspect who was detained. Police say the suspect and victim knew each other and say both had been drinking and involved in a physical altercation leading up to the shooting. It’s unclear what triggered the altercation.

Candace Parker, a three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist, announced Sunday that she is retiring after 16 seasons in the WNBA.

Pope Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy See’s pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show and meet with the people who created it.

SANTA CLARA – Time to swipe the NFL Draft board and clean out my notebook with 10 items learned in the 49ers’ bunker at Levi’s Stadium. 1. TACKLE FOOTBALL It’s neither shocking nor problematic that the 49ers did not draft an offensive tackle. Not many come ready to start, and eight were gone by the 49ers’ original spot at No. 31. Guess what: the 49ers shouldn’t be drafting much higher in future years by staying in Super Bowl contention. Thus, Trent Williams and Colton McKivitz are the certified bookends protecting Brock Purdy, for at least 2024, maybe ‘25. 2. NO DEFENSIVE LINEMEN For only the second time in 12 years, the 49ers did not select a defensive lineman. This, the same franchise that selected one with its top pick in six of the previous nine drafts. Sure, they added Leonard Floyd and Yetur Gross-Matos in free agency, but this puts 2022 top pick Drake Jackson on notice to produce and feast — for a full season. Same goes for Robert Beal Jr. and Austin Bryant. Keep that “Help Wanted” sign in the window. 3. CONTACT

By CHRIS BIDERMAN | Sacramento Bee The grass berm beyond the right field wall at Sutter Health Park was spattered with a bright green armada on Saturday night as Oakland Athletics fans made the trip to the team’s future home to continue voicing their disapproval of the team’s ownership. It was another protest event put on by the fan group Last Dive Bar and the first in the capital region ahead of the A’s temporary move to West Sacramento. It was a quiet protest that gained its voice in the top of the fifth inning of the game between the River Cats and Las Vegas Aviators. “Sell! The! Team! Sell! The! Team!” a couple of hundred fans chanted, donning their green “Sell” shirts while unfurling their matching flags. Many of the fans participating made the drive northeast up Interstate 80 from the Bay Area while others were from the Central Valley, some of whom attended the game after pondering A’s owner John Fisher’s decision to move the team out of Oakland. In the meantime, of course, the A’s will play at Sutter Health Park for

On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell join Margaret Brennan.

This week on “Face the Nation,” Hanna Siegel, the niece of American Keith Siegel, who is being held hostage by Hamas, joins Margaret Brennan one day after Hamas released a “proof of life” video featuring her uncle. Plus, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he stands by “everything” he said in the days and weeks after the Jan. 6 attack about former President Donald Trump’s actions related to that day.

UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell tells “Face the Nation” that she recently visited the Israeli-occupied West Bank and saw firsthand the devastation from the uptick violence, while she also met with the Israeli families of those held hostage by Hamas. “I came back feeling like, there’s just so much pain and misery everywhere you look,” she said.

Israel’s war on Hamas has a new frontline — campus protests and free speech battles at colleges in the U.S. Mark Strassmann reports.

The Duke of Sussex will attend the thanksgiving service for the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games Foundation in London on May 8.

Nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen is set to resume its aid work in Gaza, weeks after seven aid workers were killed.

Warriors beat writer Danny Emerman gives his thoughts on the NBA playoffs and beyond. Pascal Siakam made a handful of big plays down the stretch before Tyrese Haliburton’s overtime game-winner gave the Pacers a 2-1 series lead over the Bucks. He’s now averaging 30 points, 11 rebounds, and four assists through three playoff games. Sounds like a guy the Warriors would’ve liked to have. The Pacers acquired Siakam before the trade deadline for two bench players and three first-round picks — two of which will be in the 20s of this year’s weak draft. Golden State could have beaten that. The Warriors need to get bigger and more athletic. They need more two-way players who can create their own offense against mismatches next to Steph Curry. Siakam is that kind of player. Siakam is what even the biggest Jonathan Kuminga believers hope Kuminga becomes in three or four years: an All-Star-level player who can give you 30 on the biggest stages. Mike Dunleavy Jr. said after the season that there wasn’t anything on the table at the deadline that he wished he’d done in hindsight.

Trent Williams isn’t going anywhere. In the weeks leading up to the NFL Draft, the 49ers were telegraphing that they would take a tackle — the successor to Trent Williams, it was presumed — with the team’s first-round pick. But when the top of the first round featured seemingly nothing but quarterbacks, receivers, and offensive tackles, taking some presumed viable options for the 49ers off the board well before the team went on the clock, San Francisco pivoted. And when the Niners didn’t trade up to select Washington tackle Roger Rosengarten in the second round, the message it sent was unmistakable. Williams, 35, has flirted with retirement in recent seasons, but he is under contract to play for three more seasons with the Niners. By not taking his heir apparent in this draft, San Francisco has told the league they believe they’re getting at least two of those seasons from Williams. Otherwise, they would have taken a tackle and given him a season to learn from the master before taking over in 2025. This is not a team that messes around in the draft regarding

He’s been painting for more than 50 years, but artist Stanley Whitney – whose bold, colorful canvases offer vibrant hues and deliberately ferocious brushstrokes – is just now getting his first major retrospective (including many works never before exhibited publicly), at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y. Correspondent Alina Cho talks with Whitney about the breakthrough that came during his artistic journey.

More than 100 tornadoes were detected in six states in the Midwest over the weekend.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in an interview with “Face the Nation,” weighed in on Trump’s broad immunity claims.

2024 marks the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Louisville’s Churchill Downs, the longest continuously-held sporting event in America.

An official at the home of the Kentucky Derby calls an independent investigation into horse racing fatalities “a wake-up call for the industry,” and talks of initiatives to better protect equines and humans at the track.