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Kadeisha Buchanan made history, by becoming the first Canadian to lift the Champions League trophy as Lyon beat PSG 7-6 in a penalty shootout in the final of the European women’s showcase event. The victory came at the expense of fellow citizen Ashley Lawrence, who played the full match for PSG and converted her own penalty in the shootout. The two 21-year-olds are best friends and have 121 caps for Canada between them....

Flat back syndrome can be present at birth. It can also happen for other reasons, including: Degeneration or traumaSpinal surgery Treatment often involves physical therapy, bracing, or surgery. This article looks at flat back syndrome, its causes, and diagnosis. It also discusses treatment options. Symptoms of Flat Back Syndrome Your spine normally has two curves. Your lumbar spine in your lower back and your cervical spine in your neck curve inward....

Australia thrashed England at the Lord’s cricket ground on Sunday to square the five-match series 1-1. England were bowled out on Sunday for 103 in their second innings in less than three hours of a spectacular batting collapse. “We’ve got no control over what the wickets are like, but certainly a flat wicket plays into the Australians’ hands,” Bayliss was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au on Monday. The coach also said he hoped to have livelier wickets for the rest of the series....

King, 16, was pointing what turned out to be an air rifle at passing cars in Tarpon Springs when police officers were called. King pointed the rifle at the first police responder, and he repeatedly refused officers’ orders to put down the weapon. The airsoft rifle appeared to be a deadly weapon except for a “faded orange tip” that officers could not distinguish from a distance, according to Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney Bruce Bartlett....

Mark Johnson, 61, was walking his golden retriever Rex close to the bank of a canal in Port St. Lucie last Sunday when the gator lunged from the water and took him by surprise, clamping down on the bottom of his right leg, TCPalm reported. According to the victim, the animal’s powerful jaws grabbed hold of his leg after his foot slipped on a muddy bank. He said it tried to drag him under the water and only loosened its grip after he made the split-second decision to gouge its eye....

According to investigators, Herbig allegedly drove from Florida to his estranged wife’s home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In the front seat of his vehicle, which was found in front of the victim’s house, was a journal that detailed Herbig’s plan. Herbig carried no cellphone to avoid GPS tracking. He used only cash, stayed away from toll roads and only shopped in small stores so security cameras wouldn’t record him. Investigators say Herbig also had with him, among other things, disguises, garbage bags, zip ties and a large wrench....

The scheme capitalized on the worst aspects of Cuban life. In a regime so repressive, ordinary citizens have learned how to act like secret agents-a skill on which the success of the exodus depended. Cancio settled on flight engineers Rolando Herrera and Jaime Estevez, believing they’d be discreet coconspirators. (The same instincts warned him not to trust copilot Rolando Vila.) With Cuba’s transportation system near collapse, Cancio had a pretext for the great escape....

Saunders, the team’s president of basketball operations, had also served as head coach of the T-wolves, Pistons and Wizards during his career. He left the team in early September after suffering a setback while battling cancer. Saunders, who is also a minority owner of the Timberwolves, was diagnosed in June. MORE: Remember those the sports world lost in 2015 | Players pay respects to the late Flip Saunders The team anticipated that Saunders would be away from basketball for months once he started experiencing complications from chemotherapy....

Arsenal slammed on Twitter Florenzi was forced to undergo surgery after sustaining the injury in the closing stages of the 3-1 victory over Sassuolo on October 26. The Italy international has stepped up his rehabilitation this week, running for the first time as part of an individual training programme. Centre-back Kostas Manolas has been ruled out for two weeks due to a hamstring sustained in the 1-0 defeat at Juventus on Saturday, meaning he will miss Thursday’s meeting with Chievo....

Pictures and videos posted on social media showed a bright white light soaring into the twilight sky around 6.30 p.m. from north of Miami to West Palm Beach. One sighting was reported as far away as the Bahamas, according to WPTV’s chief meteorologist Steve Weagle who shared a clip filmed in Hobe Sound, Florida. Another video, by Craig Levins, captured the object from a few miles down the coast in Lake Worth....

Miami-Dade police were alerted of the threat made on Wednesday, and arrested the child Thursday at Leewood K-8 Center, according to the Miami Herald. The student was charged with a felony charge of writing a threat to kill. The story begins last week on a group chat in which the eighth grader said minorities complained too often, and that he had enough “military training” to kill them, according to the report....

The two men from Palm Beach County in Florida were convicted on December 6 of stealing fishing gear in federal waters. The captain and mate, 56-year-old John R. Moore Jr., and 29-year-old Tanner J. Mansell, each face up to five years in prison, as well as fines of up to $250,000, a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Moore and Mansell run a business taking tourists to swim and dive with sharks in the waters off Jupiter, Florida....

Seminole County Sheriff’s Office charged Steven R. Brandenberger, 38, with eavesdropping illegal interception of oral communication and sex offense video voyeurism of a victim over 19 years of age, according to Click Orlando. “This suspect used his considerable technical expertise to break the law again and again by violating this victim’s privacy,” Bob Kealing, a public information officer with Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, told Newsweek. “We’re also concerned she may not be the only one victimized....

On Monday, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled that the federal mask mandate on airplanes, trains and buses, “exceeded” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) authority. The ruling comes just a few days after the CDC announced that it was extending its mask mandate on planes and other mass transportation methods due to the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant....

Joshua Schlotmann, 28, was detained on Sunday afternoon by deputies from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office after footage surfaced showing him pinning the animal to the ground in his neighbor’s front yard and hitting it at least three times with “closed-fisted blows.” The incident occurred in Lehigh Acres at approximately 11:40 a.m., according to timestamps on video footage first obtained and published by media outlet WBBH. The video was captured by a Ring camera and came to the attention of law enforcement after being uploaded to the Neighbors app, which provides users with real-time crime and safety alerts uploaded by residents of local communities and regional police departments....

The suspect, who has not been named, was “immediately captured by deputies” after stealing the slow-moving cart from golfers who were playing at Hammock Creek Golf Course in Palm City, the sheriff’s office said in a press release that was also posted to social media. The person was one of three or four individuals who fled on foot after allegedly bailing from a car which had been stolen from a Palm City gas station....

Angelica Vences-Salgado called police on September 2 saying she had been contacted on social media by a woman claiming to be her daughter, Jacqueline Hernandez, the Clermont Police Department said in a news release on Monday. The woman who contacted Vences-Salgado said she was in Mexico and wanted to meet her at the border in Laredo, Texas, on September 10, the police department said. Detectives later learned that both women were at the Point of Entry in Laredo that day....

The Florida Department of Transportation, according to records posted online, paid Vertol Systems Company Inc. state funds on September 8 to fly men, women and children—many seeking asylum from Venezuela—to the upscale Massachusetts vacation enclave. As records of the transaction are released, questions remain after their surprise arrival in Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. The number of transported migrants has been reported as around 50, with the Tampa Bay Times putting the number at exactly 48....

These no-heel styles range from demure pale-pink numbers from MARC by Marc Jacobs to Prada’s torpedolike silver metallic version, with black grosgrain ribbon–as easily paired with denim as elegant evening wear. Though flats have been around for a couple of seasons, this year they are everywhere. And they’ve taken on a more playful attitude–mesh textures or ribbon lace-ups–to counterbalance the dominatrix-style sexiness proposed by many designers this season, says Gabriella Cherubini, senior fashion editor at Grazia magazine in Milan....