People gather in Jefferson Square awaiting word on charges against police officers, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Louisville, Ky.  (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a fired Kentucky police officer on criminal charges in the Breonna Taylor case — but not for her death. Brett Hankison was charged Wednesday with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing into the apartments of Taylor’s neighbors. Taylor was shot multiple times by officers who burst into her home on March 13 during a narcotics investigation.

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Post Malone leads Billboard Music Awards.

Malone is nominated 16 times over 15 categories, including Top Artist, Top Male Artist, and Top Streaming Songs Artist. He also received multiple nominations for his album Hollywood’s Bleeding and his hits “Wow.” and “Sunflower.”

Lil Nas X is the next most-nominated artist, with 13 nods, followed by Billie Eilish and Khalid, each with 12 nods.

The nominations are based on the Billboard chart period running from March 23, 2019 through March 14, 2020. That’s because the awards were originally scheduled to take place on April 29th, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kelly Clarkson will return as host for the show, which will air live from The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on October 14th on NBC.

Here are the nominations in some of the top categories:

Top Artist

  • Billie Eilish
  • Jonas Brothers
  • Khalid
  • Post Malone
  • Taylor Swift

Top New Artist

  • DaBaby
  • Billie Eilish
  • Lil Nas X
  • Lizzo
  • Roddy Ricch

Billboard Chart Achievement Award (Fan Voted)

  • Mariah Carey
  • Luke Combs
  • Lil Nas X
  • Harry Styles
  • Taylor Swift

Top Male Artist

  • DaBaby
  • Khalid
  • Lil Nas X
  • Post Malone
  • Ed Sheeran

Top Female Artist

  • Billie Eilish
  • Ariana Grande
  • Halsey
  • Lizzo
  • Taylor Swift

Top Duo/Group

  • BTS
  • Dan + Shay
  • Jonas Brothers
  • Maroon 5
  • Panic! At The Disco

Top Billboard 200 Artist

  • Drake
  • Billie Eilish
  • Khalid
  • Post Malone
  • Taylor Swift

Top Hot 100 Artist

  • DaBaby
  • Billie Eilish
  • Khalid
  • Lil Nas X
  • Post Malone

Top Streaming Songs Artist

  • DaBaby
  • Billie Eilish
  • Lil Nas X
  • Post Malone
  • Travis Scott

Top Song Sales Artist

  • Billie Eilish
  • Lil Nas X
  • Lizzo
  • Post Malone
  • Taylor Swift

Top Radio Songs Artist

  • Jonas Brothers
  • Khalid
  • Lizzo
  • Shawn Mendes
  • Post Malone

Top Social Artist (Fan Voted)

  • BTS
  • Billie Eilish
  • EXO
  • GOT7
  • Ariana Grande

Top Touring Artist

  • Elton John
  • Metallica
  • P!nk
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Ed Sheeran

Top R&B Artist

  • Chris Brown
  • Khalid
  • Lizzo
  • Summer Walker
  • The Weeknd

Top R&B Male Artist

  • Chris Brown
  • Khalid
  • The Weeknd

Top R&B Female Artist

  • Beyoncé
  • Lizzo
  • Summer Walker

Top R&B Tour

  • B2K
  • Janet Jackson
  • Khalid

Top Rap Artist

  • DaBaby
  • Juice WRLD
  • Lil Nas X
  • Post Malone
  • Roddy Ricch

Top Rap Male Artist

  • DaBaby
  • Lil Nas X
  • Post Malone

Top Rap Female Artist

  • Cardi B
  • City Girls
  • Megan Thee Stallion

Top Rap Tour

  • Drake
  • Post Malone
  • Travis Scott

Top Rock Artist

  • Imagine Dragons
  • Panic! At The Disco
  • Tame Impala
  • Tool
  • twenty one pilots

Top Rock Tour

  • Elton John
  • Metallica
  • The Rolling Stones

Top Dance/Electronic Artist

  • Avicii
  • The Chainsmokers
  • DJ Snake
  • Illenium
  • Marshmello

Top Billboard 200 Album

  • Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
  • Ariana Grande Thank U, Next
  • Khalid Free Spirit
  • Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding
  • Taylor Swift Lover

Top Soundtrack

  • Aladdin
  • Descendants 3
  • Frozen II
  • K-12 by Melanie Martinez
  • The Dirt by Mötley Crüe

Top R&B Album

  • Beyoncé Homecoming: The Live Album
  • Justin Bieber Changes
  • Chris Brown Indigo
  • Khalid Free Spirit
  • Summer Walker Over It

Top Rap Album

  • DaBaby Kirk
  • Juice WRLD Death Race For Love
  • Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding
  • Roddy Ricch Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial
  • Young Thug So Much Fun

Top Dance/Electronic Album

  • Avicii Tim
  • The Chainsmokers World War Joy
  • Illenium Ascend
  • Marshmello Marshmello: Fortnite Extended Set
  • Alan Walker Different World

Top Hot 100 Song

  • Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved”
  • Billie Eilish “bad guy”
  • Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  • Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “Señorita”

Top Streaming Song

  • Chris Brown ft. Drake “No Guidance”
  • Billie Eilish “bad guy”
  • Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  • Lil Tecca “Ran$om”
  • Post Malone & Swae Lee “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”

Top Selling Song

  • Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved”
  • Billie Eilish “bad guy”
  • Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  • Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
  • Blake Shelton “God’s Country”

Top Radio Song

  • Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved”
  • Jonas Brothers “Sucker”
  • Khalid “Talk”
  • Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
  • Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care”

Top Collaboration (Fan Voted)

  • Chris Brown ft. Drake “No Guidance”
  • Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “Señorita”
  • Post Malone & Swae Lee “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”
  • Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care”

Top R&B Song

  • Chris Brown ft. Drake “No Guidance”
  • Doja Cat & Tyga “Juicy”
  • Khalid “Talk”
  • Lizzo “Good As Hell”
  • The Weeknd “Heartless”

Top Rap Song

  • Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  • Lil Tecca “Ran$om”
  • Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
  • Post Malone & Swae Lee “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”
  • Post Malone “Wow.”

Top Rock Song

  • Imagine Dragons “Bad Liar”
  • Machine Gun Kelly x Yungblud x Travis Barker “I Think I’m Okay”
  • Panic! At The Disco “Hey Look Ma, I Made It”
  • Twenty One Pilots “Chlorine”
  • Twenty One Pilots “The Hype”

Top Dance/Electronic Song

  • Black Eyed Peas x J Balvin “Ritmo (Bad Boys For Life)”
  • Ellie Goulding x Diplo ft. Swae Lee “Close To Me”
  • Illenium & Jon Bellion “Good Things Fall Apart”
  • Kygo x Whitney Houston “Higher Love”
  • Marshmello ft. Chvrches “Here With Me”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face off on the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic and race and violence in the nation’s cities next week when they meet for their first presidential debate.

The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday announced the six topics for the first face-to-face event scheduled for Sept. 29 in Cleveland. The topics were selected by the debate’s moderator, Fox News’ Chris Wallace, and will each be the subject of 15-minute “blocks” in the debate.

The topics are: “The Trump and Biden Records,” “The Supreme Court,” ”Covid-19,” “The Economy,” “Race and Violence in our Cities,” and “The Integrity of the Election.”

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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY ELECTION IS TUESDAY, SEPT. 8. HERE ARE ARE POLLING TIMES AND LOCATIONS FOR THE ELECTION:

Albany: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at town hall.

Bartlett: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. at the fire station.

Brookfield: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. in town hall.

Chatham: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at town hall.

Conway: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the town garage in Center Conway. (Hale’s Location also votes here.)

Eaton: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at town hall.

Effingham: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at Effingham Elementary School.

Freedom: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at Freedom Elementary School.

Hart’s Location: 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Notchland Inn, then from 5 to 7 p.m. at the town hall.

Jackson: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Whitney Center.

Madison: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at Madison Elementary School in the Noyes Gymnasium.

Moultonborough: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Moultonborough Life Safety Building.

Ossipee: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at town hall.

Sandwich: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Sandwich Town Hall.

Tamworth: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the K.A. Brett School

Tuftonboro: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Tuftonboro Central School.

Wakefield: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Town Hall Opera House.

Wolfeboro: 8 a.m.-7 p.m. in the Great Hall on the second floor.

Residents can register to vote at the polls with a valid proof of residency.

(Courtesy of the Conway Daily Sun)

How do we raise “good sons”?

Being a tough guy and showing no emotion…traits we’ve long-considered masculine…are no longer the ideals we want for our boys.

As we try to raise caring, thoughtful, respectful young men, this book will lead the pack, teaching them to become humans of a higher standard who embrace their emotions and feelings.

Unlike any book out there, THE WARRIOR CHALLENGE recounts engrossing stories about courageous men across history, providing real-life examples of modern manhood, and teaching messages about compassion and authenticity.

Author, mountain climber, and youth speaker John Beede disproves the “boys will be boys” mentality and encourages boys to be, above all, good humans. And this book applies to girls too!

John Beede set out to write THE WARRIOR CHALLENGE: 8 Quests for Boys to Grow Up with Kindness, Courage, and Grit to shift our shared definition and understanding of manhood and masculinity. This is a revolutionary and must-have book for boys who want to embrace who they are and find their best path to becoming good men! This no-holds-barred, action- packed, illustrated guide teaches boys to accept their own vulnerability and trust their heads, hearts, and souls.

By undertaking “The Warrior Challenge,” boys will learn a different kind of strength and what it means to be a man. Each chapter is accompanied by a comic book-style-artwork. Part of the challenge also is to ask boys to not take this journey alone, but to share it with either their parents, caretakers, teachers, or other role models in their lives. This book’s combination of interactive storytelling, real-life stories, and challenges will teach boys to be empathetic, vulnerable, and authentically them.

John Beede joined Gino on the Magic Morning Show today to discuss the book a little deeper. Click below to listen…

 

Pick up your copy today – WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Beede is a mountaineer, global adventurer, humanitarian, and keynote speaker. He has climbed the tallest mountain on all seven continents, including Mount Everest. He’s also been struck by lightning, been attacked by a five-foot iguana, and gone swimming with great white sharks. His travels have taken him to more than seventy countries and he’s survived every classification of natural disaster. Through it all, John’s core message to the kids he speaks to and teaches is that we live by the strength of our morals and values, not our accomplishments. He has shared this message via motivational presentations and workshops to nearly one million live audience members in all fifty U.S. states and all across the world. He has given keynote speeches for national teen organizations including 4-H, FCCLA, FBLA, DECA, BPA, SkillsUSA, ScoutsUSA, FFA, Teen Institute, and the National Association of Student Councils. John is also the author of Climb On! Success Strategies for Teens and The Mini-Manual for Becoming Super Awesome. He is an Eagle Scout and he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Wheaton College.   John lives in Nevada. Find him online at www.climbonsuccess.com.

Berlin – On Thursday afternoon at approximately 3:45 p.m., law enforcement personnel from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the Berlin Police Department responded to a report of two separate All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) rollover crashes on Jericho Lake Road in Jericho Mountain State Park. Upon notification of the incident, members of the Berlin Fire Department as well as EMS personnel from Berlin Ambulance responded to the scene.

Once on scene, law enforcement personnel confirmed that two riders, each operating a separate ATV, were involved in rollover crashes in the same area within seconds of one another.  The adult operator was identified as Francisco Giron, a 30 year-old male, from Pawtucket, Rhode Island.  The second operator was a 14 year-old female youth operator.  Based on information gathered at the scene, it appears that both operators lost control of their ATV’s while traveling east and heading downhill on a paved portion of roadway. Upon losing control, both operators applied breaks, over corrected and subsequently rolled over.  The roadway was dry, clear of debris and had recently been paved. Weather conditions were clear. As a result, Giron sustained serious life threatening injuries.  The youth operator only sustained minor injuries.  Both operators were a part of the same group and were riding with other members of their family, who were operating separate OHRV’s when the incident occurred.

Both operators were treated on-scene for their injuries and were transported by Berlin Ambulance to Androscoggin Valley Hospital (AVH) for further evaluation and treatment.  Operator inexperience combined with unreasonable speed are considered to be the primary contributing factors.  Alcohol and drugs do not appear to be factors in the collision.

No further information available at this time.

NORTH CONWAY — As construction is making great progress at the North Conway Library, the library is now once again offering curbside service.

“The staff can finally enter our main reading room again and has regained access to most of our fiction collection,” said Library Director Andrea Masters. “Some areas are still inaccessible, like most of our mystery room, and our DVD and books on CD collections are still boxed up. We can reach only about half of those collections for a few more weeks but we decided to offer curbside service again since our patrons were really looking forward to checking out at least some books and DVDs.”

Library materials reserved online will be available for pickup on Tuesdays from 10 a.m.-noon, Wednesdays from 1-3 p.m. and Fridays from 10 a.m.-noon at the library’s Main Street entrance.

“We currently don’t have an active phone line at the library and our voicemail doesn’t always pick up. Therefore we ask our patrons to reserve online at ncpl.biblionix.com. If that’s not possible, you can email me at andrea@northconwaylibrary.com for your reserves,” said Masters. 

“We are terribly sorry about the limited access, both to our phone and to our library materials, but we thought it would be better to have a limited opening for our patrons than none at all,” she said.

Patrons are asked to use curbside pickup only if they are feeling well, and to wear a face mask during the pickup and keep 6 feet away from others at all times.

For more information about curbside service and how to reserve library materials online, go to northconwaylibrary.com/about-us/Library-Closed-Construction.

Construction of the library addition and renovation of the old building have been ongoing throughout the COVID-19 crisis but some suppliers and furniture companies had production delays during the pandemic which has slowed down the final phase of the renovation.

“We hope to have a soft opening during the first week of October even though we will not have any shelving by then,” Masters said. “Here, again, we think it will be better to have limited access to our collection than none at all. We are missing our patrons and want to go back to serving them in person. That’s what we love to do the most. Making the lives of our patrons and the whole community better; that’s what we are here for.”